Food
What is a Chinese food stereotype that we mentioned?
Lo mein, Kung pao chicken, fried rice, wonton soup, general tso’s chicken and fortune cookies.
What is the forbidden city?
It’s a palace
What religion did Confucius create?
Confucianism
What was clothing a symbol of?
Class and profession
How many provinces are in China?
22
What is an authentic Chinese food that we mentioned?
dim sum, you tiao, steamed egg, and shark fin soup.
Why is it called the forbidden city?
Only rich and invited high officials could come in.
Why did Mao Zedong make the cultural revolution?
To keep his political position and to make him more powerful.
What was the most common religion?
Buddhism
What is the purpose of the terracotta army?
To protect the emperor in the afterlife.
How many places can you get authentic Chinese food? And what are the places called?
1, China
Why was the Great Wall of China built?
To keep Mongolian invaders out
How did Empress Dowager Cixi die?
She committed suicide
Choose to answer one:
What were rich people’s clothes made out of?
What were poor people’s clothes made out of?
Poor: hemp ramie
Rich: silk
What year did Marco Polo travel to China?
1271
Why is all authentic Chinese food hot or cooked?
Because until recently, refrigeration and clean agriculture was not introduced.
How long is the Great Wall of China? And how long did it take to build?
13,170 miles, 1,000 years
What was Empress Dowager Cixi’s son’s name and when was he born?
Zai Chun, 1856
How many boys were in school during the Han times?
30,000
How many horses are in the terracotta Army
520/670
What are three major differences between authentic Chinese food and stereotypical Chinese food?
Everything in China is cooked or hot, additional soy sauce and sugar ids added, and in China, the group orders a lot of food and shares it.
Take things off of it.
What is Confucianism? (All of the things we said (partial credit if you get three or four))
Confucianism is a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or, simply, a way of life.
What were the four major jobs?
Scholars (warriors and doctors), farmers, artisans (artists and craftsmen) and merchants.
By how many people did the Chinese population rise by from the Han dynasty to today?
About 70 million to 1,130 million. Which means it went up by over 1,000 million.