Some Chinese customs

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Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People

Title
Some Chinese customs
Creator
de Leon, Cesarina L.
Language
English
Year
1940
Subject
China -- Social life and customs.
Chinese.
Rights
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
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THE YOUNG CITIZEN April, 1940 SOCIAL SCIENCE SECTION SOME CHINESE CUSTOMS By CESARINA L. DE LEON • When you visit China, you feel at first that everything is strange. Here are some of the practices and customs of the Chinese: 1. A Chinese gentleman puts on his hat to receive his visitors. He shakes his own hands instead of shaking the hands of his visitors. 2. The women wear trousers while the men wear long robes. 3. The Chinese do not wear black when a relative dies. Instead they wear white. 4. When a girl is to be married she wears red. In our country the bride wears white. 5. Dinner begins with sweets and ends with the soup. 6. Instead of using spoons, forks, and knives the Chinese use two sticks called chopsticks. 7. Thiey drink tea without sugar. 8. They do not like butter, cheese, and milk. 9. The children go to school every day of the year. Their chief vacations are the New Year, Feast of the Lanterns, and Kite Flying. 10. A Chinese book begins on what we consider the last page and ends on the first. 11. The lines are read from the top to the bottom instead of across. 12. They write in Chinese black ink and a !brush. 13. The teacher and the pupils have their caps on whil·e at school. •Teacher, Dr. A. Albert Elementary School. Cross-Word Puzzle In Philippine History By SALVADOR AGUIRRE CRUZ ·(Answers on page 157>° HORIZONTALS 1. The first American civil governor'general. 2. The first Spanish settlement. 3. Our national hero. 4. The Filipino leader of the llocos revolt. 5. The chief adviser to General Emilio Aguinaldo. 6. The most common method of trading at the time of ,the Spanish conquest. 7. The discoverer of the Philippines. 8. The Filipino chieftain who killed Magellan. 9. The first president of the Philippine s~a~ . 10. The Speaker of the first Philippine Assembly. 11. The hero of the naval battle in Manila Bay. 12. The aborigines of the Philippines. 13. The canal which shortened the sailing distance between the Philippines and Europe during the Spanish times. 14. A word from which the name MORO originated.