Culture OF Pakistan

Identification. As part of India's independence from Great Britain in 1947, a partition took part of their land and created Pakistan as a separate Islamic nation. It is estimated that about 95 percent of the population are Muslim, but members of several minority religions live there, including some Hindus, Christians, Parsis, Sikhs, and Buddhists. Although the modern nation of Pakistan was but fifty-three years elderly in 2000, it's territorial areas and tribal populations whose histories date back plenty of centuries; thus Pakistan has both an ancient and a comparatively new identity.Location and Geography. Pakistan is in South Asia and is 339,697 square miles (879,815 square kilometers) in area. It was created from what had been the northwest side of India. All of the country except the southern portion is landlocked, with Afghanistan to the northwest, Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast, India to the east and southeast, and Iran to the west. In the southern portion, along the shores of the city of Karachi, which was the original capital when the nation was formed in l947, is the Arabian Sea. Karachi is widely known for its shorelines. Most of the northern section of the country consists of mountains and also the famous Khyber Pass, whose history goes back several thousand years. It is in this northern section where most of the ancient tribes still live and where plenty of ancient tribal cultures and customs still exist.Pakistan consists of several provinces, including Punjab, Sind, North-West Frontier, Baluchistan, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).The city of Islamabad, which is centrally located in the country, was officially named the capital of Pakistan in 1961, and construction began on government buildings in addition to others. Islamabad became the active capital in 1966. In addition to modern government buildings it also features a wide range of modern hotels, an international airport, and the nearby famous ancient city of Rawalpindi.In addition to being known for a lot of mountains, including K-2, which is the second-highest mountain in world, Pakistan also has several lakes and rivers, including the Indus River, which is 1,800 miles (2,896 kilometers) long. Pakistan also has several deserts, in Punjab and Sind. Pakistan is also home to Taxila, the oldest known university in the world. In the north, leading from China, through Tammu and Kashmir, is a famous ancient silk road.Pakistan is diverse. There's snowcapped mountains in the north, sunny beaches in the south, and a wide range of geographically and culturally fascinating sites elsewhere.Demography. The population of Pakistan is estimated to be 135 million. An estimated 40 million live in urban areas, with the balance in rural areas. In addition to the residents of the major cities of Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, and Peshawar, which is the city at the fringe of the Kybher Pass gateway, a lot of tribal residents live in valleys. These include Chitral Valley, at an elevation of 3,800 feet (1,158 meters), where all of the people are Muslims but that is also home to the Kafir-Kalash (wearers of the black robe), a primitive pagan tribe. In Swat Valley, which was six times the cradle of Buddhism, Muslim conquerors fought battles and residents claim to be descendants of soldiers of Alexander the Great. In the Hunza Valley, people are noted.
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A Brief Introduction About Chinese Food Culture

The history of Chinese food is perpetual in Chinese culture. Chinese food also can be as an art for its extensive connation. Unlike some western countries’ food, Chinese foods pay more attention on perfect harmony with the color, flavor, taste and shape.
First, it should be choose the high quality material for cooking. Then adding proper main ingredient and seasoning.
What’s more, Chinese cooking is not only emphasized its taste but put a high premium on its shape. This must ask cutting skill and plenty of imagination on cookers.
In addition, the foods are mainly hot and cook food. Therefore, food culture have developed many Chinese cuisines which include braising, roasting, sauting, quick-frying, simmering, deep-frying, roasting, steaming, boiling, stewing, smoking, mixing and so on. Different cooking methods will show different taste styles. And each cooking method has variety famous dishes, such as “Beggar Chicken” which is popular for baking with mud.
Due to China is a large country and the different weather, customs of areas, it forms so many styles on foods. Like the staple foods in north are mainly millet, wheat, and sorghum, but in southern China mostly eat rice, the first grain that was farmed in China and should be cooked by boiling it in water, and people like to say “south people like sweet things, north people tend salty, east prefer sour foods and west like spicy.
Chinese people are not only dainty about the food tastes but care about food functions on people health. Maybe it can also be called the health food culture now.
As we all know, Chinese people like eating food with chopsticks which are very difficult for some western people who usually use the spoons and knives as food tools. Chinese people also like to putting the dishes in the centre of the table and eating together to make lively atmosphere. It is very interesting.   
Some of delicious foods are recommended here, meat shreds with fish seasoning, chicken cubes with chili peppers, and spicy braised crucian carp are the famous Sichuan dishes, blanched chicken is famous in Guangdong, roast lamb is famous in XinJian and so on.
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