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Xiajiadian Site in China

Introduction of Xiajiadian  The Xiajiadian(夏家店Xiàjiādiàn) Site is the ruins of the early era of the Bronze Age in north China. The Xiajiadian Culture includes the Lower Xiajiadian and the Upper Xiajiadian. Large quantities of relics including stone pottery, wares, bronze wares, jade and bone wares were unearthed, among which the bronze ware discovered in the Lower Xiajiadian enjoys the same technical level with the Central Plain of the nearly same period.

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Dumpling

The dumplings(dumplings are small lumps of dough that are cooked and eaten, either with meat and vegetables or as part of a sweet pudding) are a food that consists of small pieces of dough, either cooked alone or wrapped around a filling. They can be based on flour, potatoes or bread, and may include meat, fish, vegetables, or sweets.

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Melody from exotic land – talk about folk musical instruments of Hui people

In western China, Ningxia(宁夏Níngxià) is located on the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River. It is known for its lush fields(lush fields or gardens have a lot of very healthy grass or plants) and also for being beyond the Great Wall. The local culture of Ningxia developed through the assimilation(when people such as immigrants assimilate into a community or when that community assimilates them, they become an accepted part of it) of the cultures of the central plain and western regions. There have been many unique musical instruments developed in Ningxia. In the last century it was found that the wawu, mimi and kouxian, all Ningxia instruments, had evolved from the qiangdi (a kind of flute) and the huang (a kind of reed instrument).

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Fried Flour Cakes

The Youxiang(油酥烧饼yóusū shāobǐng) is a traditional snack(a snack is something such as a chocolate bar that you eat between meals) of China’s Hui minority. To make youxiang, you need to make dough mixed with brown sugar water, and then deep fry the dough. When it’s done, the cake is Bordeaux in color and sweet and soft in taste.

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About Yazhou Folk Song

The Yazhou folk song(崖州民歌Yázhōu mín'gē) is one of the ancient styles of Hainan folk song. It is popular in Sanya, Huangliu Village of Ledong County and the affiliated territory to ancient Yazhou. The old Yazhou folk song is still popular nowadays. It is a kind of Chinese ballad intonated in Hakka dialect. The folk song has extremely precise rhythm and is an independent integration(if someone integrates into a social group, or is integrated into it, they behave in such a way that they become part of the group or are accepted into it), originating from countryside of "West Six Kilometers" in ancient Yazhou and spreading all around.

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Cool Herbal Tea of China

The Cool herbal tea(凉茶liángchá) is a drink made from decocted Chinese herbal medicines that are cool in property or capable of removing internal heat from the human body. The drink is made to drive away the heat inside the human body in summer or to cure the sore throat caused by dryness in winter and other illnesses. Actually, cool herbal tea is not “tea” in the general sense, but the decocted Chinese herbal medicine soup. And cool herbal tea may not be cool; it works better when taken hot. The tea is for heat-clearing, detoxifying, lung clearing, dryness moistening and reliving heat.

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