Five Famous Symbols of Chinese Culture Chinese martial artsChinese martial arts are a culture with Chinese characteristics. Chinese martial arts include a number of areas: self-defense (fighting), health (medical), heart repair (philosophy). Combined, the three Chinese martial arts are. This is simply fighting with other big difference between patients and therefore can be said that unique. Chinese martial arts has over time become a formal branch of study in the performing arts by the Chinese. It is the most popular national sport in the country of China, and is practiced by people of all ages. It's emphasis has shifted from combat to performance, and it is practiced for its method of achieving heath, self-defense skills, mental discipline, recreational pursuit and competition. Chinese martial arts is characterized by it dynamic and fluid motions along with its Arial kicks and rolling techniques. Chinese martial arts is the Chinese word for all the styles of Chinese Martial Arts. These arts can be Tai Chi, Shaolin Boxing, Wing Chun, and many other martial styles.TeaTea is the nation's national drink. It first appears in Shennong period, now has become fashionable in the world's three major non-alcoholic drinks (tea, coffee and cocoa), and will be the king of the beverage of the 21st century.The Chinese people, in their drinking of tea, place much significance on the act of "savoring." "Savoring tea" is not only a way to discern good tea from mediocre tea, but also how people take delight in their reverie and in tea-drinking itself. Snatching a bit of leisure from a busy schedule, making a kettle of strong tea, securing a serene space, and serving and drinking tea by yourself can help banish fatigue and frustration, improve your thinking ability and inspire you with enthusiasm. You may also imbibe it slowly in small sips to appreciate the subtle allure of tea-drinking, until your spirits soar up and up into a sublime aesthetic realm. Buildings, gardens, ornaments and tea sets are the elements that form the ambience for savoring tea. A tranquil, refreshing, comfortable and neat locale is certainly desirable for drinking tea. China is the birthplace of tea, known as "tea of the motherland." Tea is the pride of the Chinese nation! Great WallThe Great Wall was built in the Spring and Autumn period, which lasted up to more than 2,000 years, with a total length of more than 10,000,000 m 5. Today, we referred to the Great Wall, referring to the construction of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall. It west China's Gansu Province, Jiayuguan in the western East, Northeast China Liaoning Province of the Yalu River, while 6,350,000 meters long as it is a powerful dragon through steep mountains and the more cross-desert grasslands through ups and downs in the top of mountains on the other side of the Yellow Sea and Bohai all times and in all who have visited the Great Wall were all amazed that it's Bang Bo Momentum of the grand scale and difficulty of the project is a rare treasure of the Great Wall is an extraordinary artistic heritage symbolizes the Chinese nation in the world forever indestructible strength and the will of the Chinese nation is proud of is the pride of humanity as a whole.National Palace MuseumNational Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, located in the center of Beijing, today, people called her the National Palace, which means the Imperial Palace in the past. East Palace 750 meters wide, 960 meters long from north to south, covering an area of 720,000 square meters to reach for the world. From which twenty-four emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties ruled China for some 500 years——from1420 to 1911. The Ming Emperor Yong Le, who usurped the throne from his nephew and made Beijing the capital, ordered its construction, on which approximately 10,000 artists and a million workmen toiled for 14 years from 1406 to 1420. At present, the Palace is an elaborate museum that presents the largest and most complete ensemble of traditional architecture complex and more than 900,000 pieces of court treasures in all dynasties in China. Now the Forbidden City is no longer forbidding, but inviting one to visit to the Palace Museum will enrich the visitors' knowledge of history, economy, politics, arts as well as architecture in ancient China.The DragonThe dragon is commonly called Lóng in China. As a primitive totem of the Chinese people it can date back to the Neolithic period. This sacred animal in the ancient Chinese legend, it is referred to as the divine mythical creature that brings with it ultimate abundance, prosperity and good fortune. Its benevolence signifies greatness, goodness and blessing; it symbolizes excellence, valiancy and boldness, heroism, perseverance, nobility and divinity.In China, the dragon permeates through the great Chinese civilization because the people have special worship to the dragon. In the old dynasties, the dragon was the emblem of the emperor and the imperial power. It was referred to something about the emperor, such as, the royal court was called dragon court, the imperial robe was called dragon robe, the son of the emperor was call dragon son, the face of the emperor was called dragon face, emperor’s head was calle d dragon head…very interesting. S ome Chinese people even take the character of dragon (Lóng) as their family name; nearly all the Chinese parents hope their sons become dragons (means become a useful person) when they grow up and possess the energetic, decisive, optimistic, intelligent and ambitious like the dragon.Dragon has been comparable as the symbol of the Chinese nationality itself from time immemorial. Currently, the Chinese people around the world proudly proclaim themselves the “Descendents of the Dragon”. But now when people mention the Chinese dragon it is usually associated with China and the Chinese culture.。