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Why Chinese people do not hug? A short treatise about Chinese rituals

Publication date: 09.06.2015

Gdansk Journal of East Asian Studies, 2015, Issue 7, pp. 81 - 91

https://doi.org/10.4467/23538724GS.15.006.3604

Authors

Fu Haifeng
Faculty of Languages, University of Gdańsk, 80-952 Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 55
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Why Chinese people do not hug? A short treatise about Chinese rituals

Abstract

Many foreigners who know Chinese people are surprised by the fact that the Chinese express their feelings in a completely different way than the Westerners. For example, Chinese people do not hug when they meet, even if they are close family members who haven’t seen each other for a long time. Obviously kissing is even more problematic. Why is that? Is it because Chinese people do not have any feelings? Of course not. The reason originates in a few thousand years of history of the feudal society and its traditional ethical code, which still infl uences or even shapes the behavior of the contemporary Chinese. As a result Chinese people choose the conservative way to express their feelings.

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Information: Gdansk Journal of East Asian Studies, 2015, Issue 7, pp. 81 - 91

Article type: Original article

Titles:

English:

Why Chinese people do not hug? A short treatise about Chinese rituals

Polish:

Dlaczego Chińczycy nie lubią przytulania? Krótka rozprawa na temat chińskich rytuałów

Authors

Faculty of Languages, University of Gdańsk, 80-952 Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 55

Published at: 09.06.2015

Article status: Open

Licence: None

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Fu Haifeng (Author) - 100%

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