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China has developed a Green Food program where produce is certified for low pesticide input. [24] This has been articulated into Green food Grade A and Grade AA. This Green Food AA standard has been aligned with IFOAM international standards for organic farming and has formed the basis of the rapid expansion of organic agriculture in China. [24]
Rice is the staple food in all of East Asia and is a major focus of food security. [42] People who have no rice are often seen as having no food. Moreover, in East Asian countries such as Japan (御飯; gohan), Korea (밥; bap), and Vietnam (cơm; 𩚵 or 粓), the word for "cooked rice" can embody the meaning of food in general. [40]
The lives of Central Asian people revolved around the nomadic lifestyle. Thereby most of the Central Asian arts in the modern times are also inspired by nomadic living showcasing the golden era. As a matter of fact, the touch of tradition and culture in Central Asian art acts as a major attraction factor for the international art forums.
Asia's various modern cultural and religious spheres correspond roughly with the principal centers of civilization. West Asia (or Southwest Asia as Ian Morrison puts it, or sometimes referred to as the Middle East) has their cultural roots in the pioneering civilizations of the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia, spawning the Persian, Arab, Ottoman empires, as well as the Abrahamic religions of ...
Printing in East Asia originated in China, evolving from ink rubbings made on paper or cloth from texts on stone tablets, used during the sixth century. [1] [a] A type of printing called mechanical woodblock printing on paper started in China during the 7th century in the Tang dynasty. [3] [1] The use
The technique may have spread from China or been an independent invention, [35] but had very little impact and virtually disappeared at the end of the 14th century. [36] In India the main importance of the technique has always been as a method of printing textiles, which has been a large industry since at least the 10th century. [37]
It seems to have been based on the development of small-scale cultivated areas, which, according to A. Bogaard, were a kind of cereal and vegetable garden, where the land was worked by human power alone ('Garden agriculture'). [170] [171] Simple tools were used, such as the hoe for working the soil and the flint sickle for harvesting cereals.
The Mal'ta culture culture, centered around at Mal'ta, at the Angara River, near Lake Baikal in Irkutsk Oblast, Southern Siberia, and located at the northeastern periphery of Central Asia, created some of the first works of art in the Upper Paleolithic period, with objects such as the Venus figurines of Mal'ta.