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Last is the KLOMPEN
To visitors, the Dutch klompen is just a handicraft, but in fact, klompens have important practical values for many inhabitant from ancient times. The land being too wet, klompens becomes the favorite choice to wear . Due to its easy-cleaning and cheap materials to make, almost every Dutch can make klompen. In the Netherlands , klompens have gone through hundreds of years. Local farmers also use woods to make a boat-shape shoes with straw in it which can not only resist coldness but also bring comfort, . Even today, many Dutch farmers and fishermen arestill wearing the special shoes. In the Netherlands, after the child is born, the parents will prepare a pair of klompens for baby , to say that klompen is the lifelong companion .When young men fall in love, he will try to measure his girlfriend’s feet, and then hand-delivering her a pair of klompens. engraved with her name. When he get married, the husband will wear his wife this klompen. In Netherland , if someone gives you a pair of klompens which exactly fit you, that means you are his most precious friend.
Windmills form an important element in the Dutch landscape with its wide horizons, its glittering waters and big clouds floating overhead; without them we can hardly imagine this landscape, which is unique in the world.The wind blows where it lies, and though hearest the sound thereof, but cannot not tell where it comes, and where it goes: so is every one that is born of the Wind.. And love is just like the wind. We cant see it, but we can feel it. Maybe that is why windmill has become the spirit of Holland.
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Du Tulip
Four treasures of Holland
• Cheese • Klompen
Here comes the WINDMILL
Holland is famous for its windmills.Windmills have always played a great part in the lifeof Holland and its inhabitants. While at first they served to grind corn, to remove excess water from the low-lying districts, and to saw timber, thus making the country fit for human habitation and adding to habitable area, they developed - especially in the seventeenth century - into a most important factor in the social structure of those days.
• Social etiquette
• Dress etiquette
Dutch Etiquette Culture
• Food and beverage etiquette
• Business etiquette
Social etiquette
A.Clean and orderly
Work in an orderly and planned way
B.Straight and fast
Next is the TULIP
In Holland, tulips are a symbol of beauty, solemnity, luxury and success. Although the Dutch tulip is famous around the world, the tulip is actually native to Turkey. Turks prefer tulips. The biological name of the Tulipa comes from TUber1d, a Turkish word for tulip flowers as beautiful as turbaned islamic maidens. Tulips became the national flower of Turkey before the Netherlands. Tulip brings colorful and happy life to people who love it. Hungary, Iran and New Zealand also have tulips as their national flowers.
Next is the TULIP
In 1593 tulips were brought from Turkey and introduced to the Dutch. The tulip nonfatal virus known as Mosaic, which didn't kill the tulip population but caused them to come in a wide variety of situations, Increasing the rarity of the an already unique flower. Thus, tulips, which were already shot at a premium, began to rise in price, "according to how their virus get alterations were valued. The or desired. Everyone began to deal in bulbs, essentially speculating on the tulip market, which was believed to have no limits.It was the turks who first introduced their famous tulips to the Dutch, and then led to tulip fever in England and Holland. Tulip bulbs shipped from Istanbul to Vienna in the 16th century were so popular that in 1634 the Dutch called them "tulip mania." At that time, people invested their money in tulips just like modern people invested in stocks. In 17th century Turkey, this is an elegant and interesting history, known as the "tulip age".
language of flowers (red) : declaration of love, joy, and love (powder) : beauty, love and happiness (yellow) : noble, treasure, wealth (purple) : endless love, love (white) : pure (double color) : you are beautiful, reunions (feathers) : love
Now is about CHEESE
Dutch cheese - the jewel of the cheese kingdom
Dutch cheese industry began in the 9th century, the early Dutch cheese storage especially good, they are not easy metamorphic and easy to transport, so by road to Germany, even by sea the Mediterranean to the Baltic sea and beyond.For centuries, the Dutch cheese exports has been uninterrupted, farthest to the west Indies and South America, east to check blue cheese but very successful, the Netherlands has the reputation of "vegetable basket" in Europe, for many Dutch is synonymous with cheese. The Netherlands is the real cheese kingdom, with more than 400,000 tons of cheese exported each year, ranking first in the world.Besides being a daily necessity, cheese is also a great way to learn about traditional Holland. Even Dutch people Say "Say Cheese! . The cheese culture has left its mark in cities such as akoma, gouda and Eden.