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• Chinese Education – Shandong Cuisine

  Date: 2009.01.14 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

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  Library>Culture ABC>Food & Drinks>Cuisines

  Shandong Cuisine

  Sweet and sour carp

  As an important component of Chinese culinary art, Shandong cuisine, also known asLu Caifor short, boasts a long history and far-reaching impact. Shandong cuisine can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period (770-221BC). It was quickly developed in the South and North Dynasty (960-1279), and
  was recognized as an important style of cooking in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Shangdong cuisine is representative of northern China’s cooking and its technique has been widely absorbed in northeast China.

  Shandong is a large peninsula surrounded by the sea, with the Yellow River meandering through the center. As a result, seafood is a major component of Shandong cuisine. Shandong’s most famous dish is the sweet and sour carp. A truly authentic sweet and sour carp must come from the Yellow
  River.

  Shangdong cuisine is famous for its wide selection of material and use of different cooking methods. The raw materials are mainly domestic animals and birds, seafood and vegetables. The masterly cooking techniques includeBao(quick frying),Liu(quick frying with corn flour),Pa(stewing), roasting,
  boiling, using sugar to make fruit, crystallizing with honey.

  Condiments such as sauce paste, fistulous onion and garlic are freely used, so Shangdong dishes usually taste pungent. Soups are given much emphasis in Shangdong dishes. Clear soup (or thin soup) features clear and fresh while milk soup (or creamy soup) looks thick and tastes strong, both of which
  are often choicely made to add freshness to the dishes. The dishes are mainly clear, fresh and fatty, perfect with Shandong’s own famous beer, Qingdao Beer.

  In addition to sweet and sour carp, typical courses in Shandong cuisine include braised abalone with shells, fried sea cucumber with fistulous onion, fragrant calamus in milk soup, quick-fried double fats (a very traditional Shandong dish consisting of pork tripe and chicken gizzards), and Dezhou
  stewed chicken.Dezhou stewed chicken is known throughout the country; the chicken is so well cooked that the meat easily separates from the bone although the shape of the chicken is preserved.

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• Chinese Pinyin – Drung

  Date: 2009.01.14 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

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  Library>Culture ABC>Folk Way>Ethnic Food

  Drung

  The Drung ethnic minority mainly lives in theDrungValley,GongshanMountain,YunnanProvince in southwestChina. The Drungs are mainly engaged in planting, hunting and collection. Their dietetic customs are usually determined by the natural conditions of the areas where they live, and their ways of
  production and living. The Drungs living in the middle and lower reaches of theDrungRiverplant some paddy rice, while those in the upper reaches mainly plant upland field crops and food grains other than wheat and rice.

  Their staple food includes maize, millet, barnyard grass, buckwheat, highland barley, potato, taro and soybean, supplemented by paddy rice, wild plants and animals.

  The Drungs have two meals a day. The breakfast usually consists of highland barley flour or toasted potatoes. The supper is usually rice cooked with maize, paddy rice or millet, or cakes and porridges made of the starch ground from the roots of wild plants.

  The Drungs still keep many ancient ways of cooking, of which the most common one is to cook cake on stone slates.

  Bee pupa is one of the most precious dishes of the Derungs. The fact that there are many old Drungs exceeding 100 years old are said to have something to do with eating bee pupas.

  The Derungs are fond of wine, tea, and tobacco. They have a special way of brewing wine. They dig an underground cellar, enclose it with banana leaves, put cooked maize or rice mixed with distiller’s yeast into the cellar, cover it with a layer of banana leaves, seal it with soil, and heat it by
  making a fire over it. A few days later, they drill a small hole in the cover of the cellar. If strong fragrance of wine comes out, it means the wine is ready. They then remove the seal, take out the maize or rice, and distill liquor from it.

  No matter wine, meal or meat, it is the hostess who allots the food to the family members.

  The Derungs have a special way of invitation. They usually send a wooden chip to the guest’s home as the invitation card, which shows the number of the days before the feast by the number of gaps carved on the chip. The invited guest should carry food to dinner in return. After entering the door,
  the guest drinks a tube of wine together with the host, and takes a seat, dining while watching singing and dancing performances. When the night falls, the male will drink wine and say eulogy at the fire pit, and throw the bowl to the bamboo stands over the pit. If the bowl rests mouth to the sky,
  it is believed to be an auspicious sign.

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• Learning Chinese – Bijiachang Menhuan

  Date: 2009.01.10 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

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  Library>China ABC>Religion>Islamism in China

  Bijiachang Menhuan

  It is a branch of Khufiyya Menhuan, one of the four main Chinese Islamic sects. Its Qubbah (a domed building) is located in Bijiachang in western Linxia City, Gansu Province, hence the name of this sect.

  The founder of this sect is Ma Zongsheng (1639-1719), who was of Persian ancestry. He spent his childhood learning Arabic in a mosque in Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province. When he grew up he became an Akhund there and later imam of the mosque. Then he moved to Linxia of Gansu Province and became a
  senior Akhund in a mosque. He went to Xining City of Qinghai Province in 1673 to learn from Apāg Khwaja, a famous Islamic scholar and leader of the Xinjiang White-Mountain Muslims, and obtained the creeds of Khufiyya. Upon returning to Linxia, he began his missionary work, advocating that the
  various sects of Islam should respect each other no matter how different they are and that they should not refute each other at will and should not have fights with other believers.

  This sect has never collided with other ones and it even allows its believers to build mosques with believers from the other sects and have services together. In terms of succession, the sect practices the hereditary. Believers of this sect are scattered mainly in Linxia, Hezheng and Lintan of
  Gansu Province, Songpan of Sichuan Province and Xiji of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

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