China Climate: 5 Temperate Zones

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China being such a big country has temperature that varies greatly. Monsoon activities as well as its latitude influence the way its winter acts on its environment. Easily Mohe in Heilongjiang can be averagely in minus 30 deg Celsius! Sanya on the other hand is comfortably above 20ºC. Some parts are too hot such as Xinjiang which is 32ºC on the average.

Cold-Temperate Zone: north part of Heilongjiang Province and Inner Mongolia (Representative city: Harbin)
Mid-Temperate Zone: Jilin, northern Xinjiang, and most of Heilongjiang, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia (Representative cities: Beijing, Shenyang, Dalian, Urumqi, Hohhot, Dunhuang, Lanzhou)
Warm-Temperate Zone: area of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Hebei Province (Representative cities: Xian, Taiyuan, Luoyang, Jinan, Qingdao, Zhengzhou)
Subtropical Zone: South of isotherm of Qinling Mountain-Huaihe River, east of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Representative cities: Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Macau, Guilin, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Kunming, Dali, Lijiang, Chengdu)
Tropical Zone: Hainan province, southern Taiwan, Guangdong, and Yunnan Province (Representative cities: Haikou, Sanya)

Plateau Climate Zone: Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Representative city: Lhasa)

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Nine and the Double Ninth Festival 重阳节 Chóngyáng jié

• Significant to numerologists because the number 9 is associated with noble qualities such as forgiveness, compassion and success and ignoble qualities such as arrogance and self-righteousness. The Chinese kind of like the number nine too. 
• Nine and the Double Ninth Festival 重阳节 Chóngyáng jié is a chinese traditional festival celebrated on the 5th of October 2011 (Gregorian calendar). It is known as the 'double ninth' because the Chinese follows the Chinese lunar calendar's ninth day of the ninth month.

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Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋节

中秋节 falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar (usually around mid- or late-September in the Gregorian calendar). This year, it is celebrated on the 12th September 2011. It is a date that parallels the Autumn and Spring Equinoxes of the solar calendar. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake.

Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally, on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomeloes together. Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or regional customs, such as: Eating moon cakes outside under the moon, carrying brightly lit lanterns, lighting lanterns on towers, floating sky lanterns.

Other activities also include planting Mid-Autumn trees, collecting dandelion leaves and distributing them evenly among family members and watching fire Dragon Dances.

Mooncakes are chinese pastry traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival. 
Typical mooncakes are round or rectangular pastries, measuring about 10 cm in diameter and 4-5 cm thick. A thick filling usually made from lotus seed paste is surrounded by a relatively thin (2-3 mm) crust and may contain yolks from salted duck eggs. Mooncakes are rich, heavy, and dense compared with most Western cakes and pastries. They are usually eaten in small wedges accompanied by Chinese tea.

Here's a video to share with you of the process of how mooncakes are made, enjoy watching with a cup of Chinese tea :)


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