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Essay on China Traditions
China, a land of beauty and fascination, tempts adventurous travelers all over the world. She is a massive country, covering 6,000,000 square miles and spanning 60 longitudinal degrees. She has such an infinite variety of people, enchanting natural landscape, brilliant history, a culture that is among the most ancient in the world and fascinating destinations that a visitor can be almost as bewildered as he is bewitched.
Full Country Name: The People's Republic of China
Area: 9,600,000 sq km
Population: 1.24 billion
Capital City: Beijing (pop 12 million)
People: Han Chinese (93%), plus Mongolian, Zhuang, Manchu and Uighur ethnic groups
Language: Putonghua (Beijing dialect mandarin)
Religion: Officially atheist; Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism (no stats available); Muslim (14 million), Christian (7 million)
China, representing one of the earliest civilizations in the world, has a recorded history of about 3,600 years. It possesses rich historical documents as well as ancient relics.
Like other nations, China, in its development, passed through the stages of primitive society, slave society, and feudal society. During the middle decades of the 19th century, capitalist forces of foreign countries invaded China, and China was slowly transformed into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The founding of the People's Republic in 1949 marked China's entry into the socialist stage.(Ross,1997)
During the long period of historical development, the industrious, courageous, and intelligent Chinese people of all nationalities collectively created a great civilization.
They made great contributions to all of mankind.
In October 1999, the People's Republic of China (PRC) celebrated its 50th birthday. But for the Chinese, 50 years may not mean that much-for while the PRC was officially established after China's 1949 Communist revolution, China has the oldest continuous surviving civilization in the world. Archaeologists have found evidence of Neolithic man in China as far back as 3400 B.C., although historians....
