Describe a food that is important to your country’s sense of identity. Explain how this food contributes to your country’s “food culture.”
Use specific examples and details to support your answer.
Rice is China’s sense of identity.
Foods lie at the heart of every culture. Without foods, no one can survive, both physically and spiritually. As a Chinese, rice is the food that has the most profound impact on our culture and sense of identity, as I shall discuss below.
Before the Industrial Revolution, rice is a type of crops that require high density of labor. Thus, it is not surprising that rice has become the symbol of hard work in the Chinese culture. China is a country with a large population and these people are not evenly distributed. Therefore, intensive farming serves as a solution to populated areas, and rice is the perfect staple in these regions. No matter the weather, farmers need to take care of the crops every day. They work with blood and sweat, and the rice is the proof of their hard work.
On the surface, rice does not seem special. Hence, rice is also a symbol of modesty. When cooked, it becomes white and round, and it will yield a pleasant smell. However, compared with other foods such as meat and fish, rice is not as eye-catching due to its lack of splendid colors, shapes, or flavors. Nevertheless, Chinese people tend to have rice in their every meal since rice has the function of mediating all the different flavors. Rice plays an indispensable role in our meal, but we may not notice it when we are enjoying the meal. Consequently, we often relate rice to modesty, a virtue that is most admired in the Chinese culture.
Rice also has another defining characteristic, which is the symbol of unity. Nowadays, with the advent of technology, rice has increasingly lost its hard-working characteristic due to the demise of labor-intense production. Also, with the emergence of foreign cuisines, the indispensable role of rice has greatly diminished. However, rice’s symbol as unity has become more crucial than ever. Although a lot of young people may leave their hometown in pursuit of work in big cities, the Chinese New Year is the time when all of the family members must come together and enjoy the meal. The meal at the Chinese New Year are called “unity rice.” This is a traditional Chinese meal with lots of delicious dishes and also lots of rice. This meal will take a long time for family members to chat with each other and relish in the rare moment of unity.
Although the world has changed a lot during the decades, as a Chinese, I truly believe that the spirit of rice will always live in my heart and soul. Rice is China’s sense of identity.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, hence, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, therefore, thus, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 43.0788530466 63% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2050.0 1977.66487455 104% => OK
No of words: 435.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.71264367816 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60326532559 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 212.727598566 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508045977011 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 655.2 618.680645161 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.3728027958 48.9658058833 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.0 100.406767564 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.68 5.45110844103 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88709677419 225% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.12464327322 0.236089414692 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0423930245692 0.076458572812 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.048834267929 0.0737576698707 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0858776687133 0.150856017488 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.039629561313 0.0645574589148 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 11.7677419355 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.74 10.9000537634 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 86.8835125448 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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