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Do Chinese people believe in God?

There are expressions that include references to some kind of god, like “老天爷” or “我滴神啊” (Old Heavenly Father, My God), but they’re used the same way English speakers would say “Jesus Christ” or “My God”. China is largely atheist. It has religious adherents, but the majority of people are atheist or believe loosely in a set of supernatural folk concepts that might include polytheistic “gods”, ghosts, and spirits. Religion as it is known in western countries is much less an important part of people’s lives in China, and tends to serve utilitarian purposes before spiritual ones (EX: asking Daoist priests to banish ghosts from your home and not visiting a temple otherwise, or buying charms for their supposed effect and not as a reminder of faith).Tl;dr: There is no God here

Why are most ancient Chinese roofs curved upward?

It’s called fly eaves(飞檐), a very light and wonderful name. This is a traditional Chinese architectural style.①Indoor lighting②Architectural AestheticsAncient Chinese large-scale buildings are wooden structures. In order to protect the buildings from rain, the house usually has a very large roof.This is the architectural style of the Qin Dynasty (207 BC), a huge roof, but it did not bend.However, this kind of roof causes the interior to be dark. So it was improved into two parts to form a polyline.In the Han dynasty(202-220 BC), architects found new ideas: Curving the roof upwards, the building began to "smile." It can get more light while having a sense of beauty .This smart design is preserved.wrong ideas：【Temple roofs were curved because Buddhists believed that a curved shape could ward off evil spirits, which were thought to only move in straight lines. 】China’s power has been controlled by the king and the emperor. Their ability to control the entire country is very strong and they do not need religious authorization.Not only that, including Islam, the religion in China tries to imitate the royal architecture to gain authority.As a Chinese, I have to correct this completely wrong answer .What is your basis?Absolutely no Chinese would agree with this statement. Because for the Chinese, find this mistake is very simple.1.Buddhism,straight lines, evil ? Completely wrongBhutan Buddhist templeNepalese Buddhist templeMyanmar Buddhist temple①Taoism(China):How do you interpret Taoist temple architecture? All of China's Taoist buildings are such a style.【Temple roofs were curved because Taoist believed that a curved shape could ward off evil spirits, which were thought to only move in straight lines. 】:D②Chinese style mosque【Temple roofs were curved because Muslim believed that a curved shape could ward off evil spirits, which were thought to only move in straight lines. 】:DNiujie Mosque - WikipediaGreat Mosque of Xi'an - WikipediaDongsi Mosque - WikipediaTongxin Great Mosque - Wikipedia

Why do the Indonesian people believe in conspiracies that China will rule Indonesia?

Some of the richest Indonesians are ethnic Chinese, despite making up less than 2% of the overall Indonesian population. With money comes power, so they’re afraid if the Chinese are going to monopolize the country’s economy, much like the Jewish bankers in Europe. Also, like most parts of the world, the wealthy ones are often blamed for the economic problems of the country, and in this case it’s those “wealthy Chinese”.There was also a threatening communist party during the Cold War, which people associate with communist China. Even though the Cold War is over and modern China is now capitalistic, many Indonesians are still suspicious of “communist” Chinese.Although the Chinese-Indonesians have no connection with the modern China other than ancestry, many Indonesians believe that the Chinese-Indonesians are secretly trying to take over Indonesia with the help from China. China’s recent foreign investment in Indonesia is seen as one of the signs. It seems that they have failed to realize that China is not the only foreign country that is investing in Indonesia. There are many countries in Europe and Asia (including Muslim countries) that are investing in Indonesia, but they somehow get sensitive when it comes to China.They also use Singapore as an example of a “native land took over by the Chinese”, even though Singapore itself was kicked out by Malaysia intentionally.

As a native Chinese speaker, do you like writing characters and do you believe it influenced your development?

Of course yes.As one of the most sophisticated writing systems in this world, the Chinese characters have their own unique charm. They not only are visually balanced and pleasant to look at, but also have lots of interesting stories behind each and every one of them. Take a look at John Renfroe's answer to this question: What are some Chinese characters with a great story or interesting etymology behind them?Back to the question. As for my self, my level of handwriting is not worth bragging about, but anyways, this is some reading notes I made in class recently:As you can see, my writing is nothing of any beauty; but nevertheless, I prefer taking notes in Chinese to in English, not because I'm not fluent enough in English, but for that Chinese writing is concise and space-efficient. Though to a foreigner they might look extremely difficult to write, in fact it's not the case. Writing in Chinese is pretty easy and fast as long as you know the rules of stroke ordering and arrangement. Thus, this has allowed me to take notes more efficiently over the past nine years or so of school life, saving me a lot of time - up to half an hour a day - to do my own stuff, such as programming.

Which language should I learn, Chinese or Japanese? I’m from India and want to learn a language for business purposes.

Let’s do a cost-benefit analysis.Chinese (Mandarin)Costs:-difficult language (2000 hours for decent proficiency)-materials for learning, which are quite inexpensive since most of them are available free onlineBenefits:-access to work within a nearly 1.5 billion people market worth over $20 trillion USD PPP ($11 trillion in nominal terms)-desireability as a candidate to some of the biggest companies (which are Chinese), these are to be companies in most sectors, although the largest would be in primary goods (hydrocarbons) and manufactured goods-short, medium and long term utility (since China has an enormous potential for future growth)-current trade between India and China was around $71 billion USD last year (India’s #1mtrading partner), lots of potential for growth as wellJapaneseCosts:-difficult language (2000+ hours for decent proficiency)-materials for learning, which, like for Chinese, isn’t that difficult to find online for freeBenefits:-access to work within a 130 million people market worth $5.5 trillion USD PPP ($5 trillion in nominal terms)-desireability as a candidate to some of the biggest companies, these would mainly in the manufacturing and tech industries-there may not be that many benefits in terms of future utility for Japanese as Japan’s population is set to shrink by one-third by the end of the century (it's already in population decline btw), and because Japan is already highly developed, there’s less space for growth in the future-current trade between India and Japan is around $15 billion USD last year (India’s 15th largest trading partner), and there doesn't seem to be too much potential for growthAll in all, it seems to me that, for business strictly, Japanese has slightly more costs with a good amount less benefits. If you have no preference or your circumstances are neutral (I.e. you’re not living in Japan and have a degree in some high-level tech-sector specific field, in which case you'd be better off with Japanese), I'd say stick with Mandarin Chinese. Of course, I myself don't actually know Japanese so perhaps my judgement of its difficulty is inaccurate, though my brother is currently learning it and it seems that it's both more difficult and harder to find resources online (still easy though compared to most other languages). Keep in mind, however, that he's mainly learning it because he likes anime and manga.Conclusion: learn Mandarin Chinese!