Chinese Culture

By Aw Xin Wei,
Karen Kong Sin Yun
Wong Hui Choo
Yap Jing Wen
Chan Shear Lie
 Introduction
1. What is Chinese Culture ?
• Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest cultures, tracing back to
thousands of years ago.
• Important components of Chinese culture includes ceramics, architecture,
music, literature, martial arts, cuisine, visual arts, philosophy and religion.
2. The topic of the Chinese culture that we would like to present are
traditional cloths, foods, festivals, games and arts.
 Food
Cloths
Game

CHINESE
CULTURE

Festival
Art
 The Social Functions Of Food
 Types Of Chinese Meal
 Festival Food
 Types Of Chinese Tea
 Types Of Chinese Breakfast
• Chinese Clothing During Qin and Han Dynasties
• Chinese Clothing During Song, Yuan, Ming Dynasties
• Chinese Clothing From 1930s Till Modern Era
• Types Of Chinese Clothing
• Colour & Elements Of Chinese Wedding Dressing & Decoration
Settings
• Calligraphy
• Chinese Buddhist Sculpture
• Painting • Types Of Jade
• Types Of Chinese Seal • Chinese Puppetry
• Chinese Lantern
• Types Of Chinese • Types Of Chinese Fan
Pottery • Chinese Traditional Dance
• Embroidery • Kites
• Knot
• Chinese Paper Cutting • Silk
• Chinese New Year
• Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Festival)
• Winter Solstice Festival
• Dragon Boat Festival
• Yo-yo
• Jianzi
• Mahjong
• Xiangqi
 Source of Information
Chinese Wedding Dress
-https://culture.followcn.com/2017/03/11/chinese-wedding-dress/
Chinese New Year
-https://chinesenewyear.net/21-things-you-didnt-know-about-chinese-new-year/
Chinese Xiangqi
-https://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articles/brief-history-chinese-chess/
Chinese Lantern
-https://www.travelchinaguide.com/essential/holidays/lantern/
Chinese Tea
-https://www.chinatravel.com/facts/chinese-tea.htm
 Significance and Learning of Chinese Culture

❖ In order to build communities that are powerful enough to attain significant

change, we need large numbers of people working together.
- When we are working with the Chinese people and building relationships with them, it
helps to have some perspective and understanding of their cultures to reaching common
goals.
❖ Chinese cultural groups has unique strengths and perspectives that the larger
community can benefit from.
- We must have a level of understanding about each other in order to facilitate
collaboration and cooperation.
❖ Understanding cultures will help us overcome and prevent racial and ethnic
divisions.
- Racial and ethnic divisions result in misunderstandings, loss of opportunities, and
sometimes violence. Racial and ethnic conflicts drain communities of financial and
human resources; we distract cultural groups from resolving the key issues we have in
common.
 Conclusion
• Chinese culture which include Chinese food, Chinese traditional cloth, Chinese game,
Chinese art and Chinese festival.
1. Chinese art
• Chinese fan, lantern, puppetry, jade, Buddhist sculpture, paper cutting, embroidery,
pottery, seal, painting, calligraphy, lion dance and dragon dance.
2. Chinese festival
• winter solstice festival, mid-autumn festival (moon cake festival) and Chinese new year.
3. Chinese food
• Chinese tea, soya milk and deep fried dough stick, steamed bun, tofu pudding, wheat
noodle, rice noodle, steamed glutinous rice, rice porridge, wontons and dumpling, dim
sum, niangao, zongzi, moon cake and chongyang cake
4. Chinese traditional cloth
• Chinese wedding dress (longfenggua), pienfu, changpao and shenyi.
5. Chinese traditional game
• yoyo, jianzi, and mahjong.