Culture can be considered as custom arts and social interactions.They also define it as the way of living your life and appreciating your life. Language is really important in culture.It’s a special way of communicating and you can identify the persons country.You should always respect the culture and religion of the other people. Culture is really important to sociologists because it plays an important role in the production of social order. Culture can be a force for oppression and domination. It is also a force of creativity
When you talk about different cultures you will get a different understanding of the world that we live in. Culture happens to become a key in our interconnected world, which is made up of so many diverse societies.
Taiwan’s culture
Taiwan has many interesting culture . Let me introduce some special culture.
Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival, also called Double Fifth Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth moon of the lunar calendar. The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. People throw bamboo leaves filled with rice into the water. This later on turned into the custom of eating rice dumplings.
Moon Festival
In this festival, many people would get together with their family or friends to watch the moon. Pomelo is coincided with Moon festival. Because of Taiwan’s pomelo is really juicy, it has become a popular fruit on Moon festival.
Sticky tofu
Sticky tofu is a kind of tofu but it smells very bad. It sold in night market. Many Taiwanese like this food, and we will also introduce sticky tofu to their foreigner friends. Most of foreigners will try it and love this taste.
CREDITS
Sarem - ICSA
Julian - ICSA
Ines- ICSA
Taiwan Information- WSHS