East Asian Culture Comparison Table

	Mainland China	Taiwan	Hong Kong	S Korea	N Korea	Vietnam	Japan
Lunar New Year	Restored in 1980	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes, but because of the time zone difference, new moon may be off by one day	Only before 1873. Okinawa Prefecture and Amami Islands of the former Ryūkyū Kingdom still do.
Chinese zodiac	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes, but with rat, ox, tiger, cat	Yes
24 solar terms	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Duanwu Festival	Restored in 2008	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes, but not a public holiday	Celebrated on Gregorian 5/5. Transformed into Children's Day
Mid-Autumn Festival	Restored in 2008	Yes	Yes, but on lunar 8/16	Yes	Yes	Yes, but not a public holiday	Yes, but not a public holiday
Pronunciation of the character "文"	wen2	bûn (Min Nan)	man4	mun	mun	văn, von	mon/bun/fumi
Is there a standalone word for 104	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Usually "mười nghìn", where "mười" means ten, and "nghìn" means thousand	Yes
Uses Chinese (Han) characters	Yes	Yes	Yes	Almost none	No	No, only visible at historical sites	Yes
1-char family names, 2-char given names are common	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Basic sentence structure (the ordering of subject, verb, object)	SVO (I eat rice)	SVO (I eat rice)	SVO (I eat rice)	SOV (I rice eat)	SOV (I rice eat)	SVO (I eat rice)	SOV (I rice eat)
Has level 1 municipality	Yes	Yes	/	Yes	Yes	Yes	No