Taiwanese people are proud of the way they have preserved traditional Chinese culture. Butshort-term visitors might wonder if thats little more than boasting.
After all, you dont see people playing Chinese instruments like the two-stringed erhu or the bamboo flute or writing beautiful calligraphy with brushes dipped in water, like you do in Beijing.
In Taiwan, its more common to see people drinking bottled tea rather than the traditional way -loose leaves steeped in a porcelain cup. Tea served in tiny clay or porcelain teapots is called old peoples tea here.
The classical courtyard mansions and other ancient buildings are much more common in Chinas capital than Taiwans capital.
So other than the 650,000 pieces of Chinese treasures brought over from China and stored at Taipeis National Palace Museum, where is the traditional Chinese culture in Taiwan?
Festivals and feasts
But visitors who stay a little longer will see that centuries-old religious and cultural festivals that have died out on the mainland are still celebrated by millions of Taiwanese.
These include the annual Mazu pilgrimage to honour the Goddess of the Sea. She was worshipped a millennium ago by fishermen in southeastern China, but the Communists banned the practice during the Cultural Revolution. Chinese immigrants brought belief in her to Taiwan in the 17th Century. Statues of her are widely seen in homes and businesses here.
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