ARTS AND CRAFTS IN ASIA
NIPA BASKET Weaving communities are found
all over the country, especially among the
indigenous peoples such as the Ifugao, Kalinga,
and Ibanag in Northern Luzon down to the
Bilaan in Southern Mindanao, and the Tausug
and Sama in Tawi-Tawi, Sulu.
Calamba Claypot also known as the Calamba
Jar and The Banga, is a landmark in Calamba,
Laguna, Philippines which is the largest claypot
in the world. It is located at the City Plaza near
Calamba Church and Rizal Shrine.
The word mandala itself simply means
"circle" in Sanskrit. Definitions of
mandala. any of various geometric designs
(usually circular) symbolizing the universe;
used chiefly in Hinduism and Buddhism as
an aid to meditation.
Folk architecture is the living environment
people have created for themselves. We can
define local architecture as an architecture
formed in the process of anonymous design
which later becomes traditional under the
influence of various factors.
The Ornament Collection covers the Neolithic
Period from around 4000 years ago until the
late colonial period. The collection of
ornaments come in various forms such as
beads, necklaces, bracelets, rings, earrings,
funerary masks, and encompass a wide range
of material including shell, bone, clay, stone,
glass, and metal.
Ethnic Groups in Asia
The Brahui Brahvi, or Brohi are an ethnic group of
pastoralists principally found in Pakistan, and to a
smaller extent in Afghanistan and Iran. They
speak Brahui, which belongs to
the Dravidian language family. Part in South Asia.
Hmong, ethnic group living chiefly
in China and Southeast Asia and speaking
Hmong, one of the Hmong-Mien
languages (also known as Miao-Yao
languages).
The Aranadan of India, numbering 350, are
Unengaged and Unreached. They are part of
the Other Tribal people cluster within the South
Asian Peoples affinity bloc.
The Nuristani tribes are located in small river
valleys and highlands along the Alingar
(Laghman) and Pech (also known as Presungul
or Kamah or Komar) rivers in the Laghman
province, and along the LanDai Sin, Bashgul,
and Kunar rivers in the Konar province.
The Duan (Chinese: 段; pinyin: Duàn) was a
pre-state tribe of Xianbei ethnicity during the era
of Sixteen Kingdoms in China.
FOOD PRESERVARTION; Pickled radish
HOW TO MAKE PICKED RADISHES
1. Cut the radish into small cubes (about 2.5 cm / 1 inch) and put
them into a sterilized glass jar.
2. Combine water, sugar, vinegar and salt in a sauce pan and bring
them to boil over low to medium low heat until the sugar
dissolves (about 2-3 mins). Stir often.
3. Pour the brine over the radish and close the lid. Leave at room
temperature for 3-4 hours then refrigerate. It should be ready to
eat in 1 – 2 days.
4. Serve with your favorite main meal. (e.g. Korean fried chicken). It
can be refrigerated in an air tight container for a few weeks.
Sustainability: Water dam
A Water dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface
water or underground streams. Reservoirs created by dams not
only suppress floods but also provide water for activities such
as irrigation, human consumption, industrial use, aquaculture,
and navigability. Hydropower is often used in conjunction with
dams to generate electricity. A dam can also be used to collect or
store water which can be evenly distributed between locations.
Dams generally serve the primary purpose of retaining water, while
other structures such as floodgates or levees (also known
as dikes) are used to manage or prevent water flow into specific
land regions.
HONESTY
Main Idea
“Honesty is the best policy”
that’s the common saying we always heard.
Honesty is practice first at home.
Honesty should be practiced in many aspects,
when in school or outside school.
Honesty should be thought when they are
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still young for them to practice it and will be
used to it when they grow up.
Honesty that adults show may let be a
good model specially to youngsters.
Honesty a very important virtue a
person might have.
In short all of us must be honest in all aspects for
us to be good person in school or in the office or
even at home.
Concluding
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Character: Mouse, Frog, and Hawk
Setting: Stream
Problem: The Frog started to get wicked thoughts of eating the mouse.
The frog dive in and the mouse realizing it late that frog betrayed him.
Solution: The hawk picked the mouse in the water and fly high and the
frog realized that it’s not good to eat the mouse, his friend.
HUMAN RIGHTS
1. The right to life
This right means that no one – including individuals and the government- can kill you.
Because it is the government’s responsibility to protect human rights, they must create
laws that safeguard human life and protect you if your life is in danger. The right to life is
often invoked in discussions surrounding war, police brutality, capital punishment, and
self-defense.
2. The right to freedom from torture and inhumane treatment
This right is one of the “negative” rights in the UDHR, which means freedom from
something. It states that no one should be subject to “torture or to cruel, inhuman, or
degrading treatment or punishment.” This applies to medical and scientific
experimentation, meaning that no one should be subjected to it without consent
3. The right to equal treatment before the law
The right to equal protection, which is present in documents like the US Constitution,
means that individuals must be treated the same as others in similar conditions.
Different treatment under the law based on things like race or gender violates a
person’s human rights. In the UDHR, equal protection is described in Article 7: “All are
equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of
the law.”
4. The right to privacy
Over 150 national constitutions include the right to privacy. It protects citizens from
government or corporate overreach and surveillance. In Article 12 of the UDHR, this
right is described as freedom from “arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home,
or correspondence.”
5. The right to education
All human rights are interdependent, but many consider the right to education a top
priority for the world. The UDHR states that education must be free through elementary
school. Later education, as well as technical and professional education, should be
available and accessible
THE STORY ABOUT HOW THE DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL STARTED
There are many competing explanations for Duanwu Jie, the Dragon Boat
Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar
calendar—this year, May 28. All involve some combination of dragons,
spirits, loyalty, honor and food some of the most important traditions in
Chinese culture. The festival’s main elements now popular the world over—
are racing long, narrow wooden boats decorated with dragons and eating
sticky-rice balls wrapped in bamboo leaves, called zongzi in Mandarin, and
jung in Cantonese.
“Usually, Chinese festivals are explained by the traumatic death of some
great paragon of virtue,” says Andrew Chittick, a professor of East Asian
Humanities at Eckerd College in Florida.
And so the story goes with Qu Yuan, an advisor in the court of Chu during
the Warring States period of ancient China who was exiled by the emperor
for perceived disloyalty. Qu Yuan had proposed a strategic alliance with the
state of Qi in order to fend off the threatening state of Qin, but the emperor
didn’t buy it and sent Qu Yuan off to the wilderness. Unfortunately, Qu Yuan
was right about the threat presented by the Qin, which soon captured and
imprisoned the Chu emperor. The next Chu king surrendered the state to
their rivals. Upon hearing the tragic news, Qu Yuan in 278 B.C. drowned
himself in the Miluo River in Hunan Province.
In the first origin story of zongzi, told during the early Han dynasty, Qu Yuan
became a water spirit after his death. “You can think of it as a ghost, a spirit
energy that has to be appeased. There are a variety of ways one might
appease a ghost but the best and most enduring is to give it food,” explains
Chittick.
For years after Qu Yuan’s death, his supporters threw rice in the water to
feed his spirit, but the food, it was said, was always intercepted by a water
dragon. (Master Chef Martin Yan, author and host of the pioneering Yan Can
Cook TV show, suggests there may have been truth to this: “Some fresh
water fish—like catfish—grow so huge that the Chinese considered them
dragons.”) After a couple of centuries of this frustration, Qu Yuan came back
to tell the people to wrap the rice in leaves, or stuff it into a bamboo stalk, so
the dragon couldn’t eat it. It was only generations later that people began to
retroactively credit Qu Yuan’s erstwhile lifesavers with starting the rice-balltossing tradition.
To make sense of how the water dragon gets into the story, or indeed of the
boats carved with dragons on them, we need to go back further in time—
more than 6,000 years ago, the earliest dated figure of a dragon found within
the boundaries of modern China. “One of the most important mythical
creatures in Chinese mythology, the dragon is the controller of the rain, the
river, the sea, and all other kinds of water; symbol of divine power and
energy…. In the imperial era it was identified as the symbol of imperial
power,” writes Deming An, Ph.D., a professor of folklore at the Institute of
Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in Beijing, and co-author
of Handbook of Chinese Mythology. “In people’s imaginations, dragons
usually live in water and are the controllers of rain.”
HOW TO MAKE GINGER TEA
Step 1. Wash and scrub the ginger.
Step 2. Peel ginger and sliced thinly.
Step 3. Pour two cups of drinking water into a pot.
Step 4. Place the ginger slices into the water and boil for
about 10 to 20 minutes.
Step 5. Remove fron heat, then add lime or lemon juice
and honey to taste(optional).
Female reproductive system
Fallopian Tube- Your fallopian tubes are an important passageway for an
egg and a sperm to meet and for a fertilized egg (embryo) to make its way
to your uterus. The health of your fallopian tubes impacts your fertility.
Ovary- hormones play an important role in female traits, such as breast
development, body shape,
Cervix- The lower, narrow end of the uterus (womb) that connects the
uterus to the vagina (birth canal).d body hair. They are also involved in the
menstrual cycle, fertility, and pregnancy.
Vagina- The muscular canal that goes from the uterus to the outside of the
body. During birth, the baby passes through the vagina. Also called birth
canal.
Uterus- The hollow, pear-shaped organ in a woman's pelvis. The uterus is
where a fetus (unborn baby) develops and grows. Also called womb.
The penis consists of the root (which is attached to the lower abdominal structures and
pelvic bones), the visible part of the shaft, and the glans penis (the cone-shaped end).
The scrotum is the thick-skinned sac that surrounds and protects the testes.
The testes are oval bodies that average about 1.5 to 3 inches (4 to 7 centimeters) in
length and 2 to 3 teaspoons (20 to 25 milliliters) in volume.
The epididymis consists of a single coiled microscopic tube that measures almost 20
feet (6 meters) in length.
vas deferens is a firm tube (the size of a strand of spaghetti) that transports sperm from
the epididymis.
The urethra serves a dual function in males. This channel is the part of the urinary tract
that transports urine from the bladder and the part of the reproductive system through
which semen is ejaculated.
The prostate lies just under the bladder and surrounds the urethra. Walnut-sized in
young men, the prostate enlarges with age.
The seminal vesicles, located above the prostate, join with the vas deferens to form
the ejaculatory ducts, which travel through the prostate. The prostate and the seminal
vesicles produce fluid that nourishes the sperm.
TRADITIONAL COSTUMES IN ASIA
The Baro't saya is an ensemble that traditionally
consists of four parts: the blouse (baro or
camisa), a long skirt (saya or falda), a kerchief
worn over the shoulders (pañuelo, fichu, or
alampay), and a short rectangular cloth worn
over the skirt (the tapis or patadyong).