Preface
Asia, with its vast territory, long history, and multitudinous tries, stands as an important cradle of civilization. Asia has created splendid histories and cultures, presenting rid remarkable cultural heritages. With unique lifestyles, ideas, art and food in each try and region, this marvelous ti bees a place where diverse s and pluralistic cultures coexist and thrive.
As the Hangzhou Asian Games approaches, we hope to exhibit the ex traordinary cultures of A
sia and enhance publiderstanding of the histories and cultures of Asian tries and regions. Targeting 45 participating tries and regions in the Hangzhou Asian Games, we have collected, selected and sorted out relevant knowledge ing their natural geography and cultural styles, especially iic architectures, s, sports, etbining pictures with bilingual texts, this book introduces the main cultural features of relevant tries and regions, promote mutual respect
, mutual learning and on development among different civilizations.
The format of this book is arranged acc to geographical areas, dividing 45 participating tries and regions into five categories: East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, tral Asia a Asia. In terms of overall layout, the tent of each try ion sists of two parts: the first part is a cise bilingual introdu of the plad the sed part is an illustration refleg its natural geograph
y, architecture, sports and cuisine.
Ri pictures as, this book be enjoyed by both experts and general readers. Together with brief interpretations, the long-standing cultures and folk s of Asian tries and regions are vividly presented in a graphid visual manner, inviting readers to prehend the cultural charac teristics of 45 participating tries and regions in a leisure way. This picture book be utilized both as a popular sce book for the Asian Games an
d as extracurricular reading material for primary and sedary school students.