武汉中商集团:帮忙写一些关于美国特色的信息好么，最好是英语，感激不尽~~

The consumption and appreciation of wine among Americans has gradually given rise to adistinctively Americans wine culture. American wine enthusiasts employ their own language, advocate their own behavioral codes and engage in ceremonies or festivals that celebrate the fine things in life.
One typical example of the emergence of a wine culture in the US is the fact that wine festivals have sprung up from coast to coast. What is distinctiveto American wine festivals is that they appear in locations and on dates having nothing to do with wine production. Most wine festivals are targeted at the wealthy and consist of hours of lectures, seminars and structured "blind tastings" whereby participants build skills at identifying wines by smell, coloration, and taste.
Various terms and phrases have emerged to denote the typical sensory experiences that are basic to the induction into American wine culture. For example, when wine tasters accentuate their appreciation of the visual appearance of a wine, they use such words as "straw-coloured, cloudy, casting amber" etc. To describe the olfactory properties of a wine, they use "fig and dough aromas, cherry and courant bouquet, rich on the nose" etc. Whenthey express the oral sensations of a wine, they say it is "very restrained but broad and soft on the palate; lean and citric but with depth to the flavors and subtle texture that carries the flavor through to an impressively long finish, smooth and harmonious with a crisp acidity and long on the finish," There are numerous other expressions of American wine culture. The "wine talk "has gained more and more popularity among the American people. And American wine culture has drawn more and more attention in America.
美国人饮酒和品酒的习俗已逐渐成为一种独特的酒文化。美国酒迷们使用他们自己的语言，提倡他们自己的行为准则，并且举行庆典或举办酒节来庆祝生活中美好的事情。\美国酒文化出现的一种典型现象是酒节如雨后春笋般在全国各地出现。美国酒节最显著的特点是：举行的地点和时间都与酒的生产毫无关系。多数酒节是为有钱人举办的。酒节的内容包括几小时的讲座、讨论会及有组织的"品味猜酒"活动。通过这些活动，参加者用嗅味、看色、品尝等方法来掌握识别酒的技巧.\美国酒文化出现了许多术语和短语，用来表达作为美国酒文化入门知识的各种品酒体验。例如，品酒人在强调他们对酒色的评价时会使用诸如："稻草色的、浑浊的、琥珀色的"，等等词语。在描述一种酒的气味特点的，他们说；"无花果香兼有生面团味、樱桃香兼育库兰特味、纯正醇厚"等等。在描述酒的口感时，他们说"不太强，但上腭感觉宽广，柔软；淡里透酸，但味道有深度，且质地醇厚，饮后令人回味无穷；平滑适度，有清新的酸度和无穷的回味。"美国酒文化还有许多其他的说法。美国人"说酒"越来越时兴。美国酒文化在国内引起了越来越多的关注。

Hip-hop History
What is hip-hop?: Hip-hop is a culture. The term is loosely used when referring to commercialized rap music, however hip-hop is more than just music. It is the hearbeat of American ghetto youth who claimed their own self-expression and used it to rise above their physical circumstances. Hip-hop culture has its roots in pride, truth, courage and self-determination. As a result it has grown to influence almost every segment of the planet.
The Elements: Composed of four subcategories, universally known as "elements." The elements are: dance (commonly referred to as breaking or breakdance), graffiti (also known as writing), DJing, and rapping. These four elements developed along different time lines and each have their own unique history underneath the umbrella of hip-hop culture. Rap music has developed at a faster rate than all the other elements and as a result can claim a number of sub-genres.
When it all began : Hip-hop culture started to develop as an entity in the early '70s in New York City, while its different elements, namely graffiti and break dance can be traced back even earlier to the late sixties. Some trace rap back to the spoken word poetry scene of the late sixties, while many go even further back to ancient African societies who boasted griots, women and men who were walking vessels of their people's history and related the various stories and histories through spoken word.
Pioneers: Afrika Bambaataa, TAKI 183, Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, VIC 156, Pete DJ Jones, Kool DJ Herc, DJ Hollywood, Eddie Cheeba, "Love Bug" Starski, Kurtis Blow, CORNBREAD and COOL EARL, Cold Crush Brothers, The Last Poets, Run DMC, the Fat Boys and Rock Steady Crew, just to name a few. There are many other notable and unsung pioneers of hip-hop, too many more to list in this brief overview.
Overview: Hip-hop music was pioneered in part by Afrika Bambaataa, aka the "Godfather of Hip-Hop culture." He started to DJ in the early seventies with wax records, mixing all genres of music, most famously funk combined with European electronic music. He would later go on to found the Universal Zulu Nation. Grandmaster Flash also pioneered the turntable technique that DJs and the world knows as the "scratch."
DJs would rock crowds in parks, at block parties and the like by playing the "breakdown" sections of funk songs, and mixing various songs together on turntablesso that the music never stopped. Accompanying the DJ was the MC, or "master of ceremonies" who would use the spoken word to hype up the crowd and praise the DJ.
How "rap" started: In the beginning, the DJ was the most prominent person in the rap music equation, but once the music industry saw dollar signs in the creative efforts of MCs, or masters of ceremonies, such as "Love Bug" Starski and Kurtis Blow, the MCs were termed as "rappers," and the music was labeled "rap." Soon, in the eyes of the public, rapping eclipsed the art of DJing, and rappers became kings and queens.
Hip-hop dance: The other elements of graffiti and dance developed at their own pace. One popular form of hip-hop dance, breakdance, grew out of a need for youth to express themselves and prove their prowess in a creative, non-destructive way. Many heads who would have been involved in gang activity or street life were able to express their frustrations through the art of a dance that was at once aggressive and poetic.
Breakdance drew from many dance styles and incorporated elements of Brazil's capoeira, other forms of martial arts, and was sometimes mixed with other hip-hop styles like popping and locking. Crews like the Rock Steady Crew, developed and "battled" other crews on the dancefloor, elevating the dance to an art form with now classic moves such as the 2 step,the Airtrack, the headspin, The Glide, and many more. Krump emerged from clown dancing in the new millennium.
Graffiti: Also known as writing, it started as underground urban art boldly displayed in public areas, usually sides of buildings or walls. It was used by citizens to make political and social commentary, as well as gangs to mark territory. Folks would leave their mark with "tags" such as TAKI 183, FRANK 207 and countless others. Eventually the art of tagging would blossom into a full-blown art form, consisting of beautiful mural art that would cover trains and buildings... and be villainized by the clueless New York Transit System.