How do the languages reflect the culture

How do the languages reflect the culture? Give examples.

If somebody is a doctor or has a ph.d degree, we may call them by a doctor with their last name, for example, Dr. Chen. The reason may because we respect his or her profession, or because people enjoy the title or the prefix.

We have a word “Xue Dao”, represented by two characters; we have this word, because we believe there are some points at our body that affect human health. We have a word “Qi”, represented by one character, and “Qi Gong”, represented by two characters; we have these words because we believe there is a circulating energy in our body, and the energy take a part of our living and our health.

We have ten heavenly stem or “Tian Gan”, including “Jia”, “Ji”, “Bing”, “Ding”, “Wu”, “Ji”, “Geng”, “Xin”, “Ren”, and “Gui”, used as serial numbers. We have twelve Earthly Branches or “Di Zhi”, including “Zi”, “Chou”, “Yin”, “Mao”, “Chen”, “Si”, “Wu”, “Wei”, “Shen”, “You”, “Xu”, “Hai”, used as hours in a day, for example, “Mao” represents the period of the day from 5 to 7 a.m.. We often get up at this period. And “Zi” represents the period of midnight from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. Our liver usually takes a rest at this period. And we combine Tian Gan with Di Zhi to designate years, months, and days.

We have twenty-four solar terms in our lunar calendar. At the winter solstice (“Dong Zhi”), we eat sweet dumplings or “Tian Tang Yuan” for adding a year of age. We also eat Tang Yuan at Lantern Festival (“Yuan Xiao Jie”), which observed the first full moon in a lunar year.

We have a goddess who protects the fisherman, the goddess called “Ma Zu”, to commemorate a heroine, Lin Mo Niang.

The Chinese writing brush, we call it “Mao Bi”. In the past, our ancient write something on the paper with “Mao Bi” which soaks in ink in ink stone. The method of writing with “Moa Bi” called calligraphy or “Shu Fa”, which the Cloud Gate inspired from.

There is a word, “Otaku”, originated form Japanese. This word means someone who indulges in his or her own interest, particularly comics and animations. If a male belongs to Otaku, we call him “Zhai Nan”.