Deluges feature in many traditions, from Hindu texts to the biblical story of Noah. In pre-history, floods were probably frequent as ice sheets melted after the last ice age ended … https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/05/chinas-great-flood-tests-on-childrens-bones-support-4000-year...
Though most young couples today prefer Western-style weddings to long and complicated Chinese rituals, it is still fun to have a glimpse of marriage traditions practiced in Shanghai’s rural suburbs, such as the betrothal gifts, the mother and daughter wailing before the girl leaves the family ...
Traditions for these days 1. are/have been (be)very different. Some of them may surprise you. Families in most countries have a special day to celebrate mothers. In Serbia, this day is on 2. the second Sunday before Christmas. On that day, children sneak(溜)into their 3. mother's(...
Two Christmas traditions have come under attack in recent years from environmentalists: Christmas cards and Christmas trees. Paper cards are seen as wasteful and, for some people, going card-free is another way of going green.They also argue that in a world of e-mail, Skype, Face book and...
Many New Year’s traditions that we take for granted date from ancient times. This year, ring out the old and ring in the new with a New Year tradition—or two! From singing “Auld Lang Syne” to eating black-eyed peas for good luck, discover different ways to celebrate the start of...
The Sumerian pantheon differs from the Babylonian one that is most closely recognized in the Simon Necronomicon. In the older traditions, the eldest of the Elder Gods and those most closely aligned to them are heralded the “highest in the Heavens.” With the passing of time and also the eve...
Not for the folklore traditions that a red door represents a hospitable home. Or that it is a sign of energy and vitality. Nope, red because it makes us smile. It sits nicely against the white of the house. It’s a bright colour on a grey day. And it matches the cattle grate I ...
Every country takes its development path on the basis of its cultural and historic traditions. China’s path of socialism with Chinese characteristics suits its own national conditions, and it is the choice of the Chinese people. Facts have proved that this has been the way out of poverty and...
century faded during the war period and its austere aftermath, the revival of the environmental movements from the 1960s and the more recent ideas of the nature deficit in children discussed in Chap. 4, can, in part, be regarded as the partial in- heritors of these earlier traditions. ...
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