Setting off firecrackers to drive away bad luck and welcome the new year is a centuries-old Chinese tradition.
"Respecting and caring for the elderly is not only a Chinese tradition, but also a symbol of national civilization and progress, " he said.
Taking care of parents is part of Chinese tradition but the country's one-child policy and the trend of people moving away for work have put strains on the traditional family structure.
The "8City" project, so named because the development's eight districts will resemble the number eight when viewed from above, also plays to the Chinese tradition that eight is an auspicious number.
Acknowledging the contribution made to the current foment in China brought on by increasing popular exposure to Western values and liberties and by the Chinese tradition of student leadership in reforming society, it is modern communications, not commercial relations, that have been the largest single influence on and enabler for the popular demonstrations in Beijing.
It is an impulse with deep roots in Chinese architectural tradition, dating back thousands of years.
Before Russian Socialist Realism took over as the new dogma in the early 1950s, the language of Chinese propaganda art drew its inspiration from folk tradition, an inexhaustible reservoir for Chinese art throughout the centuries.
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Another problem is that Chinese peasants have no democratic tradition.
It is also a reminder of an itinerant merchant tradition of the ancient Chinese caravans.
" Mr. Wagener notes that the 3, 000-year-old Chinese culture has a long and fabulous tradition of luxury, "an even more natural relationship to luxury than Europeans.
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In the tradition of Sun Tzu, Chinese analysts of IW assert that knowledge can be assembled together in a rational and coherent manner that would produce inevitable victory.
So the conclusion is that Chinese people in the mainland are the victims of tradition loss, communist political chaos, and the rudeness and lack of self-cultivation are the consequences of the above.
As the Chinese start preparing for the lunar new year by ancient tradition a time for debts to be settled the money may grow tight.
Young people celebrate Christmas more than Chinese New Year not because they are Christians, but because Christmas is a Western tradition, considered modern and trendy in China.
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What struck me, though, was how resilient the New Year's tradition is--even if it cost at least 33 lives, according to Chinese media reports, of people blown up by errant fireworks.
On the flip side, Chinese business people generally respect cultural differences and won't expect westerners to be fully customized to their tradition, analysts say.
For this reason, viewed from Taiwan, where a robust democratic tradition has taken firm root in just two decades, Hong Kong is not an advertisement for life under Chinese sovereignty.
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