The Taiwanese culture

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The Taiwanese culture
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Chinese culture

• If this is your first visit to Taiwan, you will
  most certainly be amazed at the diversity of
  things this island has to offer, as a rich
  historical background has provided Taiwan with a
  multifaceted culture.

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Chinese New Year

• Chinese New Year is the most important festival
  for Chinese.
• It means not only the end of the year but also a
  new beginning.
• So Chinese people always sweep the whole house
  before it.
• During this time, people who live away from home
  return to be with relatives and friends. On
  Chinese New Year's Eve, everybody sits around the
  table, eating a big feast and talking to each
  other.
• Certainly, it's a merry time for children. They
  can eat candy and cake and set off firecrackers.
  As red is a propitious color to the Chinese,
  parents put money in red envelopes. They give a
  red envelope to all of their children and hope
  that everything will be wonderful for them in the
  coming year.

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• Traditionally, Chinese New Year is a time for
  families to reunite. Everyone visits relatives
  and friends and exchanges best wishes with them.

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Married Women Visit their Natal Home

• Long a custom of the New Year season, married
  women traditionally go home to visit their
  parents on the second day on the first lunar
  month.

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Dragon Boat Festival

• Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth
  day of the fifth lunar month .
• Today is highlighted by the dragon boat races, in
  which competing teams drive their boats forward
  rowing to the rhythm of pounding drums. This
  lively and colorful tradition has continued
  unbroken for centuries to the present day.

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Folk Art and Culture-Taiwanese opera

• Taiwanese opera combines local opera and music
  into one performing art.

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Folk Art and Culture-Glove Puppetry

• Before the advent of television to Taiwan in the
  early 1960s, glove puppet shows were one of the
  island's primary forms of entertainment.

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