Background
Capital of China
What is Beijing?
The most famous Chinese tradition where they welcome the new and good to be rid of the old and bad.
What is Chinese New Year?
These songs are usually focused on love, traditional literature, and historical events.
What are traditional Chinese songs?
This is the most popular Chinese instrument!
What is the guzheng?
Two most commonly practiced religions in China
What is Buddhism and Taoism?
The color that symbolizes joy, good fortune, and luck in Chinese culture.
What is the color red?
The singing method commonly used in Chinese songs
What is falsetto?
This membranophone is also known as a Chinese gram drum and it is played by beating bamboo sticks.
What is Bangu?
National food of China
What is peking duck?
An elegant writing style frequently used in Chinese works as an art form.
What is calligraphy?
These are necessary to be able to distinguish the meaning of certain words in Chinese songs
What is tone?
This is a classification of aerophones where the vibrating air is not enclosed inside the instrument.
What are free aerophones?
National animal of China
What is the giant panda?
The official dialect of China
What is Mandarin?
This is a type of Chinese traditional theater that makes use of dialogue, singing, dancing, and other forms of expression.
What is the Beijing Opera?
classification of instruments is also known as String instruments, some examples are the Guqin, which is a 7 string zither with a history of over 3,000 years, and the Erhu, a 2 stringed bowed instrument sometimes referred to as the “chinese violin”.
What is a chordophone?
Term for the traditional costume or clothing of China
What is Hanfu?
These numbers are considered unlucky due to Chinese beliefs.
What are the numbers 4 and 13?
Type of Chinese folk dance that is usually performed in festivals, arising from the Chaoshan region.
What is the Yingge dance?
These are also known as percussion instruments, and create sound through vibration.
What are idiophones?