Food and art combine cultures
The idea of the International Food Night is that people get to know each other, can enjoy good food and drink together and be inspired by live music and other performances. We encourage everyone to bring food and invite new people. We encourage artists to share their passion with us, to inspire the community. In this way, human, culinary, artistic and very varied, interesting and beautiful parties, to which everyone is invited. Curious? Then come on over.

When? Every last Saturday of the month, from 19.30 clock

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Shanghai is situated at the mouth of the Yangtze River on the Huangpu River to 31 ° 14 ‘north latitude and 121 ° 28′ eastern longitude. The neighboring provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the northwest to the southwest. The area of the province is flat. The average height above sea level is four meters. The highest mountain is the She Shan with a height of 100 meters (with lift).

In 1949, the administrative area of the city had a total area of 636 square km. 1958 ten counties were located with an area of 5274 km ² (Baoshan, Chongming, Chuansha, Fengxian, Jiading, Jinshan, Nanhui, Qingpu, Shanghai, Songjiang, all in the province of Jiangsu affiliated) to Shanghai.

Today the city has an area of 6340.5 km. Of these totals, 1928.13 km ² (30.4%) as a core city (Puxi) and the inner suburbs (Minhang, Baoshan, Jiading and Pudong), 4412.37 km ² (69.6%) consist of outer suburbs and rural areas with settlement . The entire management area is more than twice as large as the Saarland and has an area of about 120 km north-south direction and 100 km east-west direction. located within the city limits, the Chongming Island (the third largest island in China: 1041.21 km ²) and other islands such as Changxing and Hengsha.

The administrative area of Shanghai has numerous rivers, canals and lakes full of water (122 km ² water), including the Jiangnan area, such as the flood plain of the Yangtze Delta is known. Jiangnan, which includes parts of east China’s Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, is characterized by a dense river network in Shanghai and has an area of 697 square kilometers, representing a share of 11% of the total area of Shanghai.

The main rivers are the Huangpu River in Shanghai, Suzhou, and the Chuanyang Dingpu. The 113-kilometer-long Huangpu (its origin of the Tai Lake), divides the city into two halves (Puxi and Pudong), he is 300-700 meters wide, 360 meters on average. The ice-free river is the main waterway in Shanghai.

The Suzhou River flows through Shanghai for a length of 54 kilometers and is on average 45 meters wide. Most lakes are located in the western part of Shanghai, the largest is the Dianshan with 62 sq km area. Other urban areas in the administrative area of Shanghai include Anting, Baoshan, Jiading, Jinshan, Qingpu and Songjiang.

The local dialect (Shanghainese) is one of the variants of the eastern Chinese Wu dialect.

The Kenting National Park covers the southern tip of Taiwan, and hence the only tropical coastal strip of the island. On three sides of the park is surrounded by water: in the east from the Pacific Ocean, the south by the Bashi Channel and the west of the Taiwan Strait. The area of the park covers over 177 square kilometers of land and 149 km² Ocean. Particularly well known is the Kenting National Park for its coral reefs, natural monsoon forests and tropical rainforests.
The Kenting National Park is the oldest and southernmost national park in Taiwan. In 1984, he was set up. It extends over a total area of 180 sq km (land) and 152 sq km (lake). The park is separated by the north-south Hengchun Valley in two areas. On the west coast of the park there are many coral reefs, while the east side is more marked by mountain ranges. In the shallow part of the park is the Longlyuantan lake. On the east coast there are characteristic sand or sand rivers waterfalls configurations means these forms adopted by wind incidence or river. During the typhoon season, the beaches for swimming due to strong waves are blocked. Otherwise, besides swimming and surfing and jet-skis is possible. The park can be reached mainly through the 90 km from Kaohsiung (airport, train station). From Kaoshiung from there the bus line 88, which passed the road to Kenting 24 hours per day.

Taipei is located in a basin at the confluence of the rivers Danshui, Xindian (Sindian) and Jilong (Keelung). While limiting the Danshui River and the Taipei Xindian River in the west and south, divides the Jilong River to the center of the northern districts of Zhongshan and Neihu. In the north of the basin rise the mountains of Yangmingshan National Park, with the Qixing Shan (Shan Cising) as the highest elevation (1120 m). There you can enjoy the cherry blossom, butterflies, grassland and volcanic activity. In the south, pulling the zoo, temples and teahouses Zhinan-the-mountains Maokong the visitors. Smaller mountains, such as Xiang Shan range, up to the city center. Central is also the Da’an Park.

Taipei is the Urland the Ketagalan, which had not yet settled there before the Chinese immigrants who arrived to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644. Between 1626 to 1642 and then Spain began to occupy parts of Taiwan, particularly the north. Later came the Dutchman and expelled the Spaniards. 1662 Dutchmen were defeated by Koxinga.

Thus the first great Chinese immigration to Taiwan began. Most Chinese were living in Tainan. Up to the Qing Dynasty, the country was as wild and undeveloped.

Gradually moved the Chinese to the north. The Danshui River was the most important center in northern Taiwan and the Chinese settlements Mon-Jia, Da-Long-Don, Da-Dao-Chen developed into commercial centers. These three settlements presented with their development, a model for the developing Taipei.

In Japan, several religious beliefs have always coexisted and mixed to form a syncretism. The most important are the Shinto and Buddhism, Japan in the 5th or 6 Century reached. In addition, there were influences of Chinese Taoism and Confucianism, which were taken from Shinto and Buddhism and integrated. Today, most Japanese are at least statistically, to two main religions.
Christianity plays in the history of Japan only a minor role. Since the end of World War II there is a very high religious tolerance in Japan, which has led to a sharp increase in new religious sects.

With about 127 million speakers, and a share of 2.4% of world population, Japan is in the list of the most widely spoken languages in 9th place Outside of Japan it is mainly in the U.S. (about 200,000 speakers in the North American mainland, about 220,000 speakers in Hawaii) and South America (about 380,000 speakers, mainly in Brazil). This is mainly due to three major waves of emigration from the end of the 19th Century to the mid-20th Century due.

It is estimated that approximately 4.9% of all websites are in Japanese (4th place behind English, German and French). Despite this high proportion of speakers is one of Japanese do not as a world language, since the 127 million speakers almost without exception, are native speakers (Compare German native speakers: 105 million, second language but up to 80 million), the Japanese language has thus relative to the other world languages a few second language and remains localized to Japan.

The origin and classification of the Japanese language is still disputed among researchers. generally accepted is only the relationship between the spoken Japanese and the Ryukyu Islands Ryukyu languages. They are classified by many linguists as dialects of Japanese. A genetic relationship between Japanese and Koguryo Although recent studies of Ch Beckwith very likely, but needs further basic research.

The first problem is that the oldest surviving Japanese writing testimony, the Kojiki, the first from the 8th Century after Christ comes, that is about the time of the earliest written documents Altaic (Orkhon runes, Khitan script). All knowledge about the Japanese language history before that date are therefore linguistic reconstructions or transfers from archaeological or genetic studies.

The second problem is that although the Japanese phonetic, morphological and syntactic striking similarities to the Korean and the Altaic languages has (only the nordtungusischen languages behave syntactically different) is. This Old Japanese, however, has the field of phonetics and morphology in addition to the similarities (including the Old Turkish as the most westerly and earliest inscriptions occupied Altaic language) also features. While this leaves some linguists doubt the principle of genetic relatedness. However, by most Altaizisten the Korean and Japanese language than previous spin-offs from a common proto-language (Macro-Altaic) seen as the subsequent fragmentation of the Altai in the Turkic, Mongolian and Tungus languages. All these languages have the most important common feature that they are agglutinative languages.

Genetically, the Japanese are the descendants of two different groups who immigrated both at different times over the Korean peninsula to Japan, the Jomon people from the Jomon period from about the 10th Millennium BC and the Yayoi people from the Yayoi period from about the 9th Century BC. Both groups have genetically and probably mixed and linguistically.

On the language of the Jomon people, there is no hard evidence, as neither written documents nor speakers are completely preserved and it is unclear which elements of this language have been preserved in modern Japan, the Ryukyu languages or the Ainu language. Proposed theories link this language among others, the Ainu language, but also with Austronesian languages here.

The Yayoi language is better established, in a study, Riley (2003) Proto-Japanese and the language of the historical reconstruction of Goguryeo Korean government and establish a relationship. One hypothesis now states that the languages of the countries were at that time politically allied with Japanese Korean Baekje and Gaya states even closer relationship, but are not yet sufficient evidence to present.

The break between Japanese and Korean was then later than the 7th Century after Christ instead, when the Korean government Silla the other kingdoms on the peninsula defeated and thus asserted his language while began to develop in Japan in the Asuka period a distinct culture.

By today’s political differences between Japan and the two Koreas North Korea and South Korea is the question of the relationship between the two languages, however, not only linguistic, but also a political issue, which is why Japanese and Korean sources are colored in the topic often.
The Ainu language of the same indigenous people of Hokkaido, however, is neither the Japanese nor related to any other known language and is therefore expected with other isolated languages of the region to the Paleo-Siberian languages.

Some hypotheses arrange the Japanese language because of superficial similarities to other language families, the phonetics of modern Japanese is similar to the Austronesian languages (see, eg, Murayama in 1976 and Benedict 1990), while the morphosyntax also shows similarities with Dravidian languages. Both hypotheses are not however supported by human genetic or cultural-historical documents. Also as of date is the classification of the Japanese as a language isolate.

The geisha profession has its origins in the taikomochi or Hokan (most comparable with solo entertainers at court) and was initially practiced only by men. The first women, the 17th from about the practice the geisha-century career began, were still onna geisha (女 芸 者, Geisha women “) called.
The heyday of the geishas in the 18th and 19 Century, during which time their services were in demand as entertainers and affordable, too, were trendsetters in fashion. After the Meiji Restoration, their role changed to keepers of the traditional arts.
In most Japanese cities there were in the past called hanamachi (Flower District “; hana is also a euphemism for prostitutes). In these pleasure quarters were living in Okiyas geisha (female extended family or their house) together.
Now, there are only a few hanamachi, the most famous of them in Kyoto, the center of the Japanese geisha culture. The largest and best known hanamachi is Gion. The number of geishas is falling steadily, and their services are expensive and exclusive.
It also debuted in December 2007 in Tokyo for the first time a Western woman as a geisha, under the name Sayuki.

The island of Shikoku (Japanese: 四 国, en. Four countries) is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan. She is tall about 18,000 km² and has a population of about 4.5 million inhabitants. It is divided into four prefectures: Ehime, Kagawa, Kochi and Tokushima. The island is a region of Shikoku (四 国 地方, Shikoku-Chiho) has a region of Japan.

The name four countries for the island comes from the fact that it existed since the time of the provinces of four provinces, namely, Awa, Sanuki, Iyo and Tosa. The boundaries of this ancient provinces are similar to those of today’s prefectures

Andong (kor. 안동) is a town in the South Korean province of Gyeongsangbuk-do. It is just under 185 000 inhabitants the largest city in the northern part of the province. The Nakdonggang flows through the city. Andong is a market center for the surrounding area, which is dominated by agriculture in particular.

Since the 1970s, the Andong has developed rapidly, though the population has fallen by almost 70,000 residents, as many have moved to Seoul and other major cities. End of the 1990s it became a center for tourism and culture. In the surrounding area are many ancient traditions maintained, we find in mid-October, the annual Andong Folk Festival. One of his most famous aspects are the Andong masks.

The Andong National University, specializing in education and Korean folk tradition, has grown significantly since the 1970s. Other tertiary institutions include the Andong Institute of Information Technology, Andong Science College and the Catholic Sangji College.

Randers was in the 11th Founded century, traces of a population-rich but back to the time of the Vikings. Canute IV (ca. 1043-1086), also known as Knut characterize the saint and patron saint of Denmark, had coins in the city. Farmers stopped in a rebellion against Randers Knut and his plans to attack England. In this uprising, the king was killed.

A chronicle of Essenbækklosters tells of a fire that devastated the city. The city was during the 12th Century destroyed three times, including the fire of 1246, when the city IV during the uprising against King Erik was burned down by troops of his brother Abel.

Randers in 1302 was awarded its town charter.

In the city center is the house where, according to legend, Niels Ebbesen Count Gerhard III. 1 April 1340, which killed during kingless time. At that time all was Jutland and Funen in the hands of the count. Gerhard’s death led to a rebellion against the Germans. Ebbesen came in the same year in a battle near Skanderborg killed. Today it is in honor of a statue outside the Town Hall of Randers.

1350 the city the city under the rule of King Valdemar Atterdag was attached. Seven years later the fort was occupied by discontented nobles. In 1359 the city was recaptured by Valdemar.

In 1534 a peasant uprising failed in the attempt to storm the city as massive grave developments in the reign of King Christian III. been (1536-1559) were built.

The port of the city was not particularly large, but he had a good yard and a few road connections, making it the 18th and 19 Century came to a trade boom. To highlight this revival, there were nearly 170 dealers in the area and a considerable fleet, which sailed around the world. Some old timber-framed buildings and property dealers of that time can still be seen in the city. Randers gained importance and so increased in this period the population of the city dramatically.