Taiwan status

Since the Taiwan localization movement of the 1990s, Taiwan's cultural identity has enjoyed greater expression. Identity politics, along with the over one hundred years of political separation from mainland China has led to distinct traditions in many areas.
The status of Taiwanese culture is debated. It is disputed whether Taiwanese culture is part of Chinese culture or a distinct culture. Speaking Taiwanese as a symbol of the localization movement has become an emblem of Taiwanese identity.

Taiwan

The island of Taiwan lies in a complex tectonic area between the Eurasian plate and the philippine plate. The upper part of the crust on the island is primarily made up of a series of terranes, mostly old island arcs which have been forced together by the collision of the Eurasian and Philippine plates. These have been further uplifted as a result of the detachment of a portion of the Eurasian Plate as it subducted beneath the Philippine Plate, a process which left the crust under Taiwan more buoyant.

The major seismic faults in Taiwan correspond to the various suture zones between the various terranes. These have produced major quakes throughout the history of the island.

Traditional puppet

Put hand inside
Glove puppetry (POJ: pò͘-tē-hì; Chinese: 布袋戲; pinyin: bùdàixì), also known as budai mu'ouxi, shoucao kuileixi, shoudai kuileixi, chang-chung hsi (pinyin: zhǎngzhōngxì), xiaolong, or zhihuaxi is a type of local opera using cloth puppets that originated during the 17th century in Quanzhou or Zhangzhou, in China's Fujian province, and has been historically practiced in Quanzhou, Zhongzhou, Chaozhou in Guangdong, Taiwan, and other parts of southern China. The puppet's head uses wood carved into the shape of a hollow human head, but aside from the head, palms, and feet, which are made of wood, the puppet's torso and limbs consist entirely of cloth costumes. At the time of the performance, a gloved hand enters the puppet's costume and makes it perform. In previous years the puppets used in this type of performance strongly resembled "cloth sacks," hence the name, which literally means "cloth bag opera."

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popular place for the puppet

perfomance
Glove puppetry (pò͘-tē-hì) performances, similar to those other types of Chinese opera, are divided into a first half and a second half show. During the first half, known as the "show platform" (戲台), the audience is shown a demonstration by a master puppeteer on the stage. The second half consists of the puppet master, the orchestra, and the spoken parts. Several key points of a show to be appreciated include: the dexterity of the master puppeteer's manipulation of the puppet, the accompaniment of the orchestra, and the poetic spoken parts of the voice actors. With few exceptions, from traditional pò͘-tē-hì to modern performances, human vocal music and operatic singing is rarely heard.



the most popular puppet


full of a lot of people

Taiwan Beer

taiwan beer is sweet.

Taiwan_Fruit

Taiwan's climate is marine tropical. The entire island succumbs to hot humid weather all. There are not so much different between the seasons. raining season is in May. Because of the weather, the fruit is variety and sweet and juicy.

people use the fruit to make different kind of beverages and ice-cream.

Hot pod

Taiwan Hot pod is different frome Japanese shabu shabu. People usually eat in the cold weather. People let the center hot pod boiling and keep put food inside. There are different kind of flavor soup,such as nomal , miso, spicy and chinese herbal. The reason of this kind circle shape display means reunion. We share the food and life through the hot pod. it is health for human.

Taiwan_food

Taiwan is a island country. People are influenced by different culture that around the ocean. Food is the best way to keep different culture together and have fun with it. Night market is the most popular culture in Taiwan. Chinese people treat the food as their primary. People can share the good experience and culture through the food.