Celebrating One Year in China with A Culture Series: Bizzare and Likeable

With over 2,000 years of history and traditions, Chinese culture is rich, complex, intriguing and ...

lovable.


We've now lived in China for one year! To celebrate, I'm planning to tell you about the most bizarre, likable, or bizarre and likable elements of Chinese culture. Some topics: Food, toileting, abortion, romance, language, market-shopping, tea, poverty, saving face and family life. I think you will understand our daily life in a deeper way after this series!


To kick it off, here's a list of
TEN THINGS ANYONE CAN LOVE ABOUT CHINA

1. people adore kids, even strangers' kids
   
2. people freely share food, especially fruit, with each other
3. delightful, healthy and inexpensive cuisine
4. public transportation -- so you don't need a car
5. xiu xi -- routine afternoon nap time for adults
   
6. Drew says: the fastest bullet train in the world runs through our city
   
7. it's not taboo to talk about your diarrhea issues
   
8. Drew says: spicy sheep meat on a stick
9. haggling for better prices at the market
10. calling your friends and acquaintances by familial terms -- "auntie", "older brother", "little sister", "grandpa", etc.
    

First post about Chinese culture coming soon.


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