9 Article 'bizarre' In Asia

In many different ways, Asia has influenced and influenced the West in many fields. Here are what Westerners find the most novel and interesting in this continent. Asia has been influenced by the West in all fields, however, it has also left many unique traditional values and formed the distinct identity of each nation.

9 something 'strange' in Asia

In many ways, Asia has influenced and impacted the West in all fields. Here is what people in the West see the strange and the most interesting in the continent.

1. Birthday General for everyone

Tet in Vietnam is considered the birthday of everyone shared. Traditional New Year Vietnam, also known as the Lunar New Year according to the lunar calendar, takes place every year in late winter and lasts for several days. New Year begins on the first day of the lunar calendar, usually falls in late January or early February western calendar.

Among the beliefs and customs of the Lunar New Year, new year is also considered the birthday for everyone. As measured in the traditional age of Vietnam, the lunar year that an experienced person corresponding to their own age. Therefore, a child can officially entered the age of first birth, although only a few days before the New Year. Also from this concept, the Vietnam can continue to celebrate old age and young children for good luck. Not only Vietnam, Koreans also similar notions.

2. splashing Festival in Thailand

Traditional New Year's New Year called Songkran Thailand. From Songkran comes from Sanskrit, meaning "at the time shift, the sun away from the region to region Zodiac Taurus in the universe" and people celebrating the New Year by spraying water on each other. Etiquette is meant to wash out the old year sorrow and wish good things to come in the new year. During the Songkran Festival, people will take advantage of all the widgets to splash up including buckets, pots, squirt guns, ball ...

The more people are falling much water as lucky. Thai New Year water splashing community nature than traditional Tet of Vietnam and China - often family-oriented. Songkran Festival Day was held from 13/4 to 15/4 days. In addition, similar splashing Festival is also held in Laos and Cambodia and of course, in each country to include a few different traditions based on the cultural characteristics of their own.

3. Center the world's largest shopping abandoned

In 2005, the Chinese billionaire Alex Hu Guirong splash the construction of large shopping centers in the world in Dongguan. The project is built on an area of 650,321.28 m2 in width. Accordingly, Mall New South China is expected to accommodate 2,350 stores.

However, no one unexpected problem is, no one wants to open stores in the largest mall in the world. From 2005 to present, people only use about 1% of premises belonging to the new shopping mall. The rest of it is always in a state covered by the dusty canvas.

There are many reasons why shopping malls China's billionaires become project failed miserably. In particular, the Dongguan area has a population of only about 10 million people but they are mostly poor workers is one of the core causes.

4. Christmas Special Korea

Christmas celebrations of Korean and Western different course entirely. Unlike the West, Christmas is an occasion when people celebrate the day Jesus was born, on June 24/12, Koreans celebrate the birthday of the great mother of President Kim Il Sung.

Also anniversary of the birth mother of the founder of the Korean nation today, people in this country also celebrated Constitution Day on 27/12 and every new year comes, they flocked to the visiting President Kim Sung in his resting place in the capital Pyongyang.

5. China has only one time zone

Stretching approximately 5,200 kilometers in width, China is big enough to cover five separate time zone (US timezone 4). However, in fact, it only has a single time zone since the Chinese civil war in 1949. The reason that the Beijing authorities to resolutely maintain this comes from the political perspective of the leadership China to ensure the feeling of unity for the people of the country after 20 years of bloody civil war.

However, this creates an interesting fact is, people in Beijing will welcome the true dawn at 6 Hsang whereas, in the western region of Xinjiang as, the dawn will come later than 2 hours they. Although a time zone system is maintained in the country, to facilitate the production and living, Xinjiang also set its own time zone in informal within steps.

6. Obesity is taboo in Japan

Japan is considered the national industry "lean" in the world. At sunrise the country even has a rule to prevent people in the country should not become too fat. Accordingly, men over 40 years old are not allowed to exceed 85 cm waistline. Women also can not exceed 90 cm waistline.

The reason is, the Japanese scientific notion that skinny fat healthier. Thus, eating their scientific efforts reduce cholesterol and high blood pressure. People who are obese or have exceeded defined waistline to have nutrition counseling center and dining under scientific diet health authorities for approval.

In addition, a number of Japanese companies even apply policies overweight employees who must pay fines to prevent obesity in the industrialized nations.

7. The population of China and India in third world population

Everyone knows China is the most populous country in the world. Only China's Sichuan Province has a population larger than the total population of the countries Greece, Portugal, Netherlands, Guatemala, Austria, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia and Canada combined. However, Sichuan province is only the 4th most populous of China.

In addition, there is the Indian Asia is the 2nd most populous country in the world. In fact, the population of India and China combined have total greater than 1/3 of the world population, according to figures in 2012. However, the entire 2.5 billion people in India and China just living in an area with an area no bigger than the area of the United States is how.

8. Throwing children for good luck

This ritual is believed to shiver comes from centuries ago and are widely spread in India, mainly in the communities of Muslims and Hindus. This ritual gives children the meaning of courage, good luck and good health. According to this ceremony, children were thrown from the top of the tower height of about 15 meters down. Below the base of the tower, the monks prepared a thick blanket big enough to support the baby.

While many people around the world feel appalled at this ceremony, many people in rural India is still very revered and maintain it to this day. These people said that this ritual has never caused any unfortunate accidents.

9. Use the right hand to left hand used to eat for hygiene

One of the interesting customs of the Indians is that they eat with the right hand only. The reason stems from a strange habit in a country other countries. It was the Indians do not use toilet paper, but after going to the toilet, they use water and left to wash hands. Which can custom make it difficult for many Westerners as they are not provided toilet paper at many hotels or restaurants across India. In addition to eating, Indians as well as the use of the left hand to do many things that insult, such the money or shaking hands.