Chinese Culture Chinese culture has many aspects to it’s culture, spreading all throughout China many different groups belong to the Chinese culture, each similar to each other. The Chinese culture is extraordinarily different compared to my family and I’s culture in many ways. Three out of the numerous differences are clothing, religion, and language. All of these things make up only a small portion of the unique Chinese culture. My cultures clothing, religion, and language is almost opposite in most ways compared to the Chinese. Clothing to the Chinese culture is something they take extreme pride in. A group belonging to the Chinese, called the Tu, have lots of exquisite embroidery. They have very unique embroidery on their festival wear. …show more content…
The Chinese have many branches of religion in their culture, all different in their own ways, especially from my religion. A huge part of a few of their religions is the Dalai Lama, a being that they say chose reincarnation over nirvana. A snip-it from the book talks about the Dalai Lama and it’s story of how it came to be. “The Dalai Lama is believed to be bodhisattva, a compassionate being who has chose reincarnation over nirvana, deliverance from the cycle of birth, suffering, and death, in order to serve people.” (Page 74,The People of China). The Dalai Lama is extremely different from what I believe in my culture, I’ve grown up to be a part of the Christianity community, which has become part of my culture. In my religion I believe in one god, whereas, in Chinese religions they believe in multiple gods or somewhat of a being to them, such as, the Dalai Lama. In various parts of China there are some people who practice Christianity, but, that portion of people is very minuscule compared to the other religions they …show more content…
An obvious feature is that the Chinese speak Chinese, but, what’s not obvious, is that there are numerous languages that are in the Chinese culture. Languages such as the Zhuang, Tibetan, Uighur, Miao, Yao, Dong, Mongolian, and many more, the list is never-ending. My language is so extremely different, especially since I only speak one. The one language I speak fluently is English, it has always been taught to me ever since I’ve been able to speak. Many people in the Chinese culture are taught traditional Chinese, but, few are taught the other languages in the culture. Our cultures languages don’t sound the same, nor, are written the same, both very unique. A sentence from “The People of China”, talks about one of the language branches of the Chinese culture. “The Miao language belongs to the Miao-Yao branch of the Chinese-Tibetan language family.” (Page 103, The People of
of acceptance of Buddhism within China, one must look at each class individually and see
(Doc 1: Buddha). “Whosoever in China. serves the Buddha and correctly. makes a vow to be reborn without ever abandoning his sincere intention. behold Buddha.... ...
Since Canada and China have two diverse cultures language would be another contrasting feature. As a Canadian, I mostly speak in English and many people around me speak English as well, French. Since Canada is comprised of many other subcultures there are other languages that are spoken. In China the language differs with Canada, several of Chinese dialects are used, although the majority of the population speaks
The First trait that the Dalai Lama has that is much like the Popes is his popularity Buddhism is one of the most popular religions in the world. “The number of Buddhists in the world is estimated at around 350 million (6% of the world's population). This makes Buddhism the world's fourth largest (in terms of number of adherents) religion.” (Arthur)This quote shows the Buddhist religion is growing and how the Dalai Lama is teaching all of these people the peaceful Buddhist
There are many different ways of looking at and understanding the large and multi faceted country of China. From looking at things like its history, economy, politics, philosophies, and other aspects of the Chinese people, it is difficult to really describe China as one specific thing. Instead of there being one true face of China, it seems there are a variety of different people and faces to represent this diverse country. In some cases, what might be representative of one group of people in China, is completely different for another. Take for example the difference between people that live in rural areas, and people that are living in the city. As seen in the documentary, Young and Restless in China, the poor people in rural areas live very
In ancient India, many members of lower casts wanted to come back as members of higher casts. While this is an important goal of reincarnation, the main goal is to reach either moksha (Hinduism) or nirvana (Buddhism). In other words, the goal is to reach a point of spiritual enlightenment that removes the person from the reincarnation process. Geoff Childs, an anthropologist, examines the views of the Buddhist religion by studying the lives of the people in Tibetan villages. He looks at issues that adversely affect these people, such as infant mortality.
The idea of finding peace and a better life in Nirvana served as the fundamental cause of Buddhism’s spread in China, which is outlined in documents 1 and 2. Document 1 explicitly explains how one could enter Nirvana, defined as the absence of all desire (doc 1). Chinese scholar and author Zhi Dun writes how one should serve and obey the Buddha, but also promise to not forget the main goal in life, that obviously being to achieve Nirvana (doc 1). It is important to note the historical context of this document. In addition to his career as a scholar and author, Zhi Dun served as a confidant of Chinese aristocrats and high officials in a time when northern China was being invaded by central Asian steppe nomads. Therefore, this was a time on conflict and fear, so Buddhism offered the means to escape the violent world and enter into Nirvana after seeing and being enlightened in the Buddha. Furthermore, written 56 years later, document 2
Buddhism was brought to China approximatly 600 years after it’s creation. Buddhism recieved many mixed responses to its expansion that constantly were changing as time went on. With Buddhisms height during China’s period of instability and disunity, people found comfort in its practices and preachings. Despite Buddhisms expansion into all of Chinas nine provinces, influencing and captivationg the intrests of inumerable amounts of people, there was still countless mumbers of people who had deeply rooted detestation for the religon that increased as time passed, and peole who discussed of its conflictions with long used confucious beleifs.
As we can know, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islamism are the three largest religions all over the world. They all play a very significant role in our life. Nonetheless, Christianity and Buddhism are the largest population around the world. Through our religious distribution map around the world, there are seven billion followers who believe in Buddhism while twenty billion followers who believe in Christianity around the world. Moreover, Christian population are the 31.5% of the world population, in the meantime, Buddhists are the 7.1% of the world population around the world. In China, there are lots of people who believe in Buddhism because they think that Buddhism which can bring their fortune and safety. That is a only one reason Buddhism which plays a large population in China's population. Historically, Buddhism are largely distributed to some Asian areas like China, Thailand, and Japanese.
In China, the citizens' inclination of Buddhism varied from that of other states. There was a plethora of mental outlooks on how Buddhism was changing the Chinese society as it expanded from India, where it was founded in the sixth century BCE. The responses are organized depending on their acceptance, rejection, or encouragement of a combination of Buddhism with other religions. These categories are illustrated by the following documents; the acceptance by documents two and five, the rejection by documents four, six, and three, and last, the encouragement by documents two, five, and three. Additional documentations that would be helpful in classifying the reactions of the Chinese people would be a testimony or statement of a Chinese woman, or group of women, and of peasants. These would be helpful as we'd be able to examine exactly how the Chinese were affected by Buddhism's grasp. We would be able to see how Buddhism affected their daily lives and what they thought about the sudden religion.
Buddhism places a high value on finding the truth. This fundamental principal allows for an acceptance of science, as it is seen as a modern truth to most. Furthermore, Buddhists believe in the evolution of human consciousness—this evolution, along with the truth presented from science, allows for an over arching acceptance of biological evolution. Even more interesting is that in the Agganna Sutta, a sacred Buddhist text, Buddha explains the world as having evolved over time. Though there is no mention of biological evolution, there is still an emphasis of evolution as a whole—both physically and spiritually. Tibetan Buddhism is known as the branch of Buddhism that has the largest emphasis on reincarnation, which is the most relevant to this research. Reincarnation is driven by the decisions made in each life and is basically the knowledge that one’s spirit travels between material beings over different lives. The spirit evolves as one becomes closer and closer to Nirvana, or perfection. Karma, too, influences the lives of the reincarnated as this idea causes the consequences of both good and bad deeds from each past life to be brought over to the current life. Overall, Tibetan Buddhism and evolution flow very well together as various Buddhist beliefs in spiritual evolution and karma, and the search for truth lead to the acceptance of science and evolution.
“The whole character of Chinese popular religion flows in the direction of plethora of rituals and obligations without much discernable doctrinal underpinning” (Corduan, 2012, p.410). The Chinese popular religion has gravitated away the gods of Buddha and Daoism and captured the philosophy of luck and materialism (Corduan, 2012), while it “is less concerned with philosophical issues and
China is a high context culture. “In high context cultures, information is either in the physical context or internalized in the person (Iowa State University, 2015).” In China they depend more on understanding each other’s meanings rather than having to speak to communicate. “In these cultures, members tend to use a more indirect style of communication (Iowa State University, 2015).” This is probably due to the strong accents that the Chinese have.
Comparison of American and Chinese Cultures Cultural differences are apparent from one group of people to another. Culture is based on many things that are passed on from one generation to the next. Most of the time, people take for granted their language, beliefs, and values. When it comes to the cultural differences of people, there is no right or wrong. People should be aware of others culture and respect the differences that exist between them.
All in all, the Chinese culture is vastly different than the culture we have in the west. Although that may be the case, we still have to learn and maintain a connection with the Chinese culture since we are so heavily involved in their economic system. Not only are we involved in theirs, they are greatly involved in ours. There are thousands of factories in China that make products to export to the United States. This means that we need to maintain a good connection with the Chinese culture in order to keep our “guanxi” positive with