Japanese and Chinese Traditions

Japanese Tea Ceremony

• Originated in China
• Promote physical and spiritual
health
• Consumed for enjoyment
purposes
 Japanese Theatre
• Noh plays short dramas
combining music, dance, and
lyrics with highly stylized
presentation.
• Kabuki drama combined
elements of Noh drama and folk
theatre.
Japanese New Year (January 1-15)
• Most significant and important
holiday
• Kimono
- made of silk, very expensive
- worn at formal occasions such as
funerals, weddings, or tea ceremonies
• Yukata
– Informal leisure clothing.
• Sumo
–Japanese style of wrestling
–Japan’s national sport
– performance to honor
Shinto gods.
• Tatami mats
–Luxury item for nobility
• Japanese Haiku
–Started as Hokku, an opening
stanza of an orthodox
collaborative linked poem.
 Chinese Tea Ceremony

• Considered as one of their

seven necessities – firewood,
oil, salt, soy sauce, and
vinegar.
• Chopsticks
- Symbolize kindness and gentleness
 Chinese New Year
• One of the most prominent festival if
the Chinese calendar.
• About getting together
• Red is believed to abolish bad luck.