Present by:
- Maria Fernanda Aguilar Camacho
- Felipe Villar Martínez
- Armando Botero
Felipe Villar Martinez: I am student of Marketing, this career is really amazing and I want to be the best in that, I like to ride bicycle, I was born in Bogotá. I am convinced that this Blog will be interesting for you.
Maria Fernanda Aguilar Camacho: I was born in Bogotá 18 years ago. Currently, I am a student of Physiotherapy in Sabana University. This career is the way to build my dreams. I hope that in some years I can achieve be a professional. About my hobbies, I like sports specially the soccer and I like draw, too. Hopefully, this blog will be to your liking.
Armando Botero Vila: I'm a System Engineering of a Javeriana University and I have a Master degree in Carlos III University of Madrid Spain. Actually I'm a project manager of the SIGA project in the Sabana University. I like travel and know new places and cultures, in each journey I have learned history, I have known new people and I have tasted new food, and I would to continue traveling.
Maria Fernanda Aguilar Camacho: I was born in Bogotá 18 years ago. Currently, I am a student of Physiotherapy in Sabana University. This career is the way to build my dreams. I hope that in some years I can achieve be a professional. About my hobbies, I like sports specially the soccer and I like draw, too. Hopefully, this blog will be to your liking.
Armando Botero Vila: I'm a System Engineering of a Javeriana University and I have a Master degree in Carlos III University of Madrid Spain. Actually I'm a project manager of the SIGA project in the Sabana University. I like travel and know new places and cultures, in each journey I have learned history, I have known new people and I have tasted new food, and I would to continue traveling.
CHINA
THE COLOR IN CHINA
The
colour is very important in our lifes, this allows us to express our state of mind, can reflect your
personality and in the cultures as China, represent symbols and traditions.
BLACK
Black is a neutral colour that represent the depth
of thought. It was considerate as sky colour by I Ching ( Book of
changes), because the northern sky was black for a long time. It is
also the colour of the knowledge, confidence, power and will.
In ancient China, Ying and Yang uses black and
white in order to symbolize harmony
and balance. In modern China, black is used in daily clothing. This colour has
different meanings: water (element), north (orientation), winter (season), cold
(condition), listen ( action) and ear (senses).
RED
Red is considerate as the colour of good luck and happiness. It represent fire, force o and heat. In Chinese traditions, this colour is found during Chinese New Year when people send messages in red papers symbolizing economic prosperity. Some of the red meanings are: fire ( element), south ( orientation), summer ( season), heat (condition), view (action) and touch (sense).
In the flag, red represents the revolution of the people.
QING
Qing is the grouped most shades of blue together with green, whose represent plant life, vegetative life, renewal, vigour and vitality.
WHITE
White symbolizes metal, gold and brightness, purity, and fulfilment. . Chinese people wear white in funerals because this colour is associated with death .
YELLOW
Yellow is considered the most beautiful and prestigious colour. It signifies neutrality and good luck.
Yellow was the emperor's colour in Imperial China and is held as the symbolic colour of the five legendary emperors of ancient China.
TRADITIONAL CHINESE FESTIVALS AND EVENTS
The Chinese people have a lot of festivals and celebrations in the year. Each of these festivities defines the culture and activities of every month. Most of the festival are based on the lunar calendar.
The most well know festivals are the Chinese New Year, the Lantern Festival, the Qingming (Tomb Sweeping) Festival, Double Seven Festival, and the Winter Solstice. Furthermore, many of these festivals attract people from different places, cultures and religions, becoming these into a major tourist attraction around the world. Below are some important festivals celebrated by the Chinese people:
SPRING FESTIVAL
This is the most important festival among Chinese people, because it's like Christmas for Western culture. Besides, at this time all people return home to spend this time with family.
The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the Gregorian calendar. It originated in the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600 BC-c. 1100 BC) from the people's sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one.
Many activities are performed at this event, as wear costumes, decorate the rooms where the predominant colour is red, make parades with dragons and other important symbols of Chinese culture. However, the most important part of this celebration is when the new year begins, where it's received with a fireworks explosion wearing colours all Chinese sky.
This celebration, starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year. Of them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days. The Chinese government now stipulates people have seven days off for the Chinese Lunar New Year.
THE LANTERN FESTIVAL
The lantern festival is very important for Chinese people because is celebrate in the last day of the spring festival. Moreover, this festival is also the first moon night in the Chinese Calendar. Owing to this, the family seeks together to celebrate this date.
In this festival, the people wear different folk customs that including several kinds of lanterns and lights. The people come out to the streets and enjoy the fireworks, the full moon and the party. Also, the experts make the most wonderful lanterns with different sizes and shapes, such as dragons, balloons, tigers, horses, stars and abstract forms.
On the other hand, in this celebrations are also famous make ask and answer riddles, witch are know as Guessing lantern riddles. The lantern owners paste papers in the lantern with the riddles, people can catch the paper and aswer the riddle. If the answer is correct the owner will give you a gift.
In this festival, the people wear different folk customs that including several kinds of lanterns and lights. The people come out to the streets and enjoy the fireworks, the full moon and the party. Also, the experts make the most wonderful lanterns with different sizes and shapes, such as dragons, balloons, tigers, horses, stars and abstract forms.
On the other hand, in this celebrations are also famous make ask and answer riddles, witch are know as Guessing lantern riddles. The lantern owners paste papers in the lantern with the riddles, people can catch the paper and aswer the riddle. If the answer is correct the owner will give you a gift.
DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL
The Dragon Boat Festival is a important holiday in China, it is occur on the fifth day of the month five of lunar calendar, about June 2 of gregorian calendar.
This celebrations have many customs like eating different dishes such as rice dumplings, hanging calamus, Chinese mugwort, smoked herbs and Chinese Angelica. Moreover, the most important evente in the festival is the racing drangon boats.
The racing boats held around the country and start with the sound of a shot. The boats are allusive decoration dragons, where different colors, claws, teeth, scales and personality of each team are printed. The predominant colors are red, yellow and Green that denoting the strength of dragons and speed in the wáter to win the race
GLOBALIZATION
Economic globalization can be compared to a two-blade sword or a coin with two sides. Advantages and disadvantages exist side by side. It can also be likened to swimming in the sea in summer. One can enjoy the cooling feel of the water and swimming can improve the physique; but one also runs the risk of catching cold or even drowning.
The developed countries are good swimmers, while the developing countries are less strong in physical strength and poorer in swimming technique of swimming, or even just beginners. It is only natural that they feel very differently about swimming in the sea.
Globalization offers China opportunities as well as challenges. How should it strive to profit from the advantages and avoid the harm brought about by the disadvantages? Attention is demanded to the following aspects.
First, making better use of foreign investment to promote the industrial uplifting. China welcomes medium and small overseas entrepreneurs to invest and also sets great store by investment from foreign transnational corporations and big foreign enterprises. Capital is encouraged to exploit underdeveloped regions in western China, and further develop labor-intensive industries using China's rich resource of relatively cheap labor.
An even greater amount should be used to speed up the development of high and new technological industries, so that China's industrial standing can be raised and its international competitiveness strengthened.
Second, speeding up the reform of the financial system and improving the risk-prevention system. The setting up and improvement of the central bank, organized to carry out specific polices, the commercial banks and non-banking financial institutions, should be continued. The state-owned banks should be commercialized and genuinely run in accordance with the demands of a market economy.
In financial macro-control, the principle of sectoral operation and management should be implemented, a centralized and unified supervision system promoted, and the mechanism of supervision over foreign banks in China should be worked out and improved as soon as possible, so that an effective financial safeguard and security mechanism can genuinely function.
Third, in order to optimize the export structure and fully participate in international trade, China must seize the opportunity presented by admission to the WTO to actively optimize its export structure and increase the export of famous-brand and good-quality products. It must not rest content with the fact that manufactured goods make up 87 percent of its total exports, for most of these goods are products with low added value and low technological content. Readjusting and optimizing China's export structure remain an arduous task.
Fourth, Deepening the reform of enterprises and improving their competitive edge. Instituting and improving the modern enterprise system, optimizing the enterprise grouping structure so that it reaches a certain scale and acquires the abilities of independent creation, and strengthening their competitive muscles in the domestic and international markets----these are still severe tasks confronting most of China's state enterprises.
Fifth, taking an active part in regional economic cooperation. China has always attached great importance to the activities of APEC, the Asia-Pacific official economic cooperation forum, and put forward many positive proposals to promote trade and investment liberalization, and economic and technological cooperation. China has also actively supported the consultation and cooperation of the "Three (China, Japan and ROK) plus 10 (the 10 Asean countries)" mechanism in East Asia.
Sixth, China must actively take part in the revision of the international financial system and global trading rules. After entering the WTO, China must first of all revise its own rules in accordance with the organization's requirements. However, as a developing country, it should be also take an active part in the revision of the existing rules of the WTO and other international economic organizations, so that it can reflect the demand of all the developing countries, reduce the negative effects of economic globalization to the minimum and make its own contribution in setting up a new international economic order.
