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The Mandate of Heaven was created during the Zhou Dynasty. This mandate was created as a means to explain their overtaking of the Shang Dynasty. The Mandate stated that there was only one legitimate ruler of China and that this particular ruler had also been blessed by the gods. The Duke of Zhou, the ruler of Western Zhou was a great defender and powerful ruler. It was during this time that China moved away from Shangdi and moved toward Tian, or Heaven. While the SHangdi dynasty was filled with a religion that put faith in ghosts and believed in many spirits who represented both good and evil force, the Zhou Dynasty welcomed in a different sort of religion. I am living during a time where religion is taking a very different form. We believe that there are heavenly spirits, earthly forces, and also the power of our ancestors. Our highest priests are; sacrificers, astrologers, diviners, and prayers. Something I enjoy the most as well is that fact that our religious writing has changed. We are now allowed to express ourselves more openly through our poetry and other means as a way to display our feelings about our systems of…

The Chinese peoples lives, government and economy circled around the Mandate From Heaven. The Mandate from Heaven was created by the Zhou Dynasty in 1046 BC to get rid of the Shang Dynasty, the point of it was to have the idea that only one person could rule over China and they had the permission and right from the gods if they ruled correctly. If the Dynasty did not rule right the Gods would send signs such as natural disasters to show that they don't approve of they way the dynasty is being…

1.Introduction In retrospect, the Chinese motion pictures industry has been growing exponentially from 2012 to 2015.Drived by the integration of the whole cultural industry, penetration of financial capital and participation of Internet economy, the Chinese movie industry has been stepping into an era with vigor and vibrancy. The overall box office reached to 5.1 billion in 2014 from 2.2 billion in 2010 and the trend of national box office is still upward as shown in Fig.1.1.below.…

Cultural Factors: The success of ecommerce is contingent by the well adoption of ecommerce, which resulted in the consumers’ preferences and behaviours on e-procurement (Pavlou and Chai, 2002). Consumers’ values that reflected from their behaviours could help business executives to understand the reasons of customers’ choices so that corporates could improve their products more specifically. However, culture factors are principally a combination of values and behaviours with a group of people,…

Tian-tai Buddhism and Hua-yan Buddhism are debatably two of the most philosophically powerful schools of thought in Chinese Buddhism. The Tian-tai school was founded by Zhi-yi (Chih-i) in 538-597 A.D. The founder of the Hua-yan school was a Chinese monk named Du-shun in 557-640 A.D. However, people who study Hua-yan Buddhism typically give credit to Fa-zang in 643-712 A.D. This is because he more thoroughly developed the philosophy. Tian-tai Buddhism and Hua-yan Buddhism have similar basic…

A few weeks ago I went and visited a "retired" Buddhist Temple here on Oahu. It was only ten minutes from my house and as I drove through the gates, I realized it was part of a much larger plot of land. A portion of it was a cemetary that was categorized by different faiths. I thought it really interesting that while there might be strong differences between the religions that they may be laid to rest right next to on another. A roman catholic lay boardering the buddhist. The aura of the entire…

“Thanks for giving us such a memorable trip,” a group of school mates came to me and said. Seeing their happy faces, I knew that I was right. (right about what?) The adventure began an outdoor education class. The teacher asked us to propose a school trip as the final assignment. We came up with a camping trip idea which attracted interest from many schoolmates. From the point where the staff of Mt.Yunmeng, the only developed camping site in Beijing, told us that we were not allowed to camp…

twentieth day of the month of Lunar New Year is a day called 天穿节 (tiān chuān jié), one of the important festival for Hakka ethnic. [Malaysian Chinese and Culture Investigative Group, 2015.] Tian Chuan Jie in China and Taiwan actually are Hakka grand festival. Taiwan also had put it as the global Hakka Day. [Liang, 2013.] This festival origin an ancient China legend which is about Nüwa mends sky. Nuwa is a goddess who created the human. One…

Parents always have a favorite child even if they don 't admit it. In Lan Samantha Chang 's short story "Hunger" Tian and Min have a favorite child. Tian is a musician who moved from China to start his career in New York. Min is from Taiwan but moved to New York to receive an education. They met up one day and eventually got married and had children. Their first daughter was Anna she was nothing special to either of her parents, but she behaved and cared about her parents culture. Ruth, the…

Designs and Personal Dietary Behaviors on Young Millennials’ Restaurant Menu Choice” written by Yuan Tian is an analysis of an on-line study conducted among 505 Millennials to assess the association between Millennials’ Calorie choices on food menus and a number of factors to include menu design, personal dietary behaviors and demographic characteristics. As of 1980, the worldwide pervasiveness of obesity has increased, causing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to enforce the Menu Calorie…