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[king qq]

Hi! I� m student of university of Macau. Chinese have five thousand of history. So Chinese have a lot of different custom. Some of the ancient customs have different meaning in today. SO some of the behaviors are talked with some people in sometime who have different understand with the custom.
Now I just say my view with some custom of Chinese.
If you take the dinner with your friends in the restaurant, your will be share to pay the bill in the foreign country. But in Chinese they may be fight to pay the bill. Anther people may be don�t know this behavior, they think this behavior have problem, even though this is the culture in Chinese.
Some people don�t like the foreigner call �Chinese man� because it will be impolite if the tone or manner of speaking is different. You may call �Chinese people�, it is polite then �Chinese man�.
Some of the foreign country �touch somebody shoulders� is the friendly meaning. But in Chinese this will be make people very unlucky if he take a gamble.

[RedRose]

[dylan8765]

if you are in chinese ,you should know
Do not speak too loudly in the restaurant.
when you are talking to the other, you should keep a distance.
it is a good manner of stopping smoking when people around you do not like,and say "sorry" to him or her.

[echo leong]

Hi!I'm a student of Macau University. There are many culture in China. I think we should know this chinese culture. There are a lot of culture about Chinese New Year. For example, we should clean all the things such as the house and the car before Chinese New Year. We should say some lucky words in the new year. We can't sweep with a broom on the first day of Chinese New Year because it is very unlucky.

[RedRose]

[allen_chan]

Hi, I�m a student from Macao. I want to tell you something about the Chinese�s culture. When you in a Chinese�s restaurant, you must learn a little bit Chinese�s Habit. Chinese people likes quietly eat their foods. Don�t like say anything. And they also use chopsticks to eat foods. Don�t use hand to eat. You use hand to eat foods mean�s you are poor people.
When you after dinner or lunch, not to beat the bowl and plate.
That�s impolite because it can make some noise influence other people. when I was young I always do this. And my parent always teach me don�t do this. I think it is important when you are eating Chinese�s food in restaurant.

[alvin12345]

Hi, I am a student in Macau.
There are many Chinese cultures these are interesting.
First, when Chinese go to casino. They don�t want other people touching their shoulders. Because Chinese feel that is unlucky. Second, in china�s Lunar year, father and mother give the red packets to their children. The third, Chinese like to fire the firework when there is the Lunar year.

[element105]

WoW,is Macau the most populated place of China?

[sam_kit]

hello~~
I'm a student of University of Macau.I have heard many customs of China.
For example, A chinese student will take his pen to the temple to pray to God for help while he is going to have a examination.
Second, The man will prepare thirty three grain of glutinous rice and the man's hair, and put them into a red pocket, then bring the red pocket far away form home and put it on the road while he want to drive out misfortune.
Third, the man who want to earn more money form job will put a one hundred dollars paper money under the carpet near the door.

[<soukenghoi>Roy]

hello,I come from macau.
I found that chinese people do not like asking people how much money
that they earned,they think that this is impolite.And chinese people usually like to invite their friend having dinner at their home,this culture is the same as many different countries' culture. :)

[Teen]

Hi! I�m a student of Macao University too. I would talk about Chinese cultures of having a meal. When you have a meal with a Chinese who is a fishmen. Don�t turn around the fish after you have finished the one side. Why? In their culture, the fish on the meal table which is like their fishing boat. Turning around the fish that seems to turn their boat. They would feel unlucky.
The other one is about the first dinner in a company at 1 st of January. There is a part of meal is chicken. Then, the chicken head would show which one would be fire. And the guy would knew how to do. When there is no chicken head in it. It means no one would be fire.

[toninho]

[RedRose]

Hmmmm, China is a large country, which consists of many places, each place has her own characters. so it is hard to tell which place is the best.

Personally, I like BeiJing, because there are so many famous old buildings and Chinese Cultural heritages in BeiJing, and BeiJing people's Mandarin sounds like romantic music. I often go to BeiJing to attend some conferences, I enjoy listening to BJ people's speaking. even when they are quarrelling, their Mandarin is still artistic and interesting. and they are mostly humorous.

several years ago, I once went to BeiJing for a conference, in order to learn BeiJing more, I hired a bicycle and rode it to stroll around BeiJing City. in a busy street, I carelessly tripped an middle-aged man over, and then I said soooo sorry to him. he said, with a friendly smile, "I guess you are learning to drive, but you just chose the wrong place to practice, what about TianAnMen square? that would be nice."

[juhainah]

[Dinah]

I live in Beijing .It's so so.The environment is not very good.When it's rain,my mother's car will be so dirty.The weather is not normal.For example ,it rains on the Great Heat.Whole days rain!!!But I like the old buildings.They are symbol of Beijing.I like Forbidden city ,Summer Palace,
Beihai Park and so on.
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