What do you think about the Chinese civilization?

[Civvi]

So I plan to make a bunch of threads about what do you think of the following Civilization and I was wondering what do you think of the Civilization that we are talking about right now? What do you find interesting about it and what do you think about the culture,people,music,food,architecture,achievements of the following civilization and how do you compare it to other civilizations?

 

[Ajidica]

Interesting, but my lack of experiance with it makes it difficult for me to learn much about it as I don't have much structure to slot new knowledge into.

I prefer European and Near East history, so Chinese and other Asian countries have taken a bit of a back seat except when they directly involve Europeans (such as French Indochina).

 

[aelf]

So I plan to make a bunch of threads

Please don't.

about what do you think of the following Civilization and I was wondering what do you think of the Civilization that we are talking about right now?

And what would we learn from that?

What do you find interesting about it

Everything.

and what do you think about the culture,

When and where?

people,

When and which?

music,

Which?

The traditional kind is usually quite annoying.

food,

From which region?

architecture,

Generally not a fan, but which period?

achievements of the following civilization and how do you compare it to other civilizations?

Is there a scoreboard that I can refer to?

 

[Tee Kay]

^ What he said.

 

[bombshoo]

Yeah, not a good idea for a series of threads. It is simply way too vague. Trying to surmise thousands of years of Chinese culture without any specific points to hit on is not going to be a successful discussion.

I can understand the desire to learn about other cultures in a fairly brief, but intimate setting, but I recommend simply picking up a book (any era, any subject) on every one of the "civilizations" you want to discuss. After reading, find specific things you find interesting and work from there. While one book on China, Germany, Japan, etc, certainly won't be enough to even touch the tip of the iceberg, it can help you finding areas you think are worth studying more in depth.

 

[Masada]

I T'ang dynasty poetry.

A lonely swan from the sea flies,
To alight on puddles it does not deign.
Nesting in the poplar of pearls
It spies and questions green birds twain:
"Don't you fear the threat of slings,
Perched on top of branches so high?
Nice clothes invite pointing fingers,
High climbers god's good will defy.
Bird-hunters will crave me in vain,
For I roam the limitless sky."

The traditional kind is usually quite annoying.

Chinese Opera is kind of cool... when it doesn't sound like a cat is being strangled.

 

[aelf]

Chinese Opera is kind of cool... when it doesn't sound like a cat is being strangled.

When does it not sound like that?

I'd appreciate how it sounds more if it hadn't been forced on me every year by evil multi-cultural socialists

 

[Huayna Capac357]

I like China. It's so interesting 'n stuff. I particularly find its early development, the Hundred Schools of Thought, the Southern and Northern Dynasties period, and the Tang Dynasty interesting, though not exclusively.

 

[aronnax]

When does it not sound like that?

I'd appreciate how it sounds more if it hadn't been forced on me every year by evil multi-cultural socialists

The operas in China are modernizing . It still sounds like it is strangling a cat but in Mao suits.

 

[civ_king]

The operas in China are modernizing . It still sounds like it is strangling a cat but in Mao suits.

cat suits? :suicide:

 

[bob bobato]

It seems really 'Classical', if that makes any sense. It's basic culture and heritage seems fully equivalent to Western culture and Heritage, and I feel ignorant for not knowing more about it. There are dozens or hundreds of Iliads and Lacoons and Pietas and Pantheons and Sistine Chapels and War and Peaces and Chaucers and Platos and Mozarts that exist there or have existed, and I know next to nothing about them.