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The first emperor of China.
What is Qin Shi Huang?
During Lunar New Year, these red envelopes traditionally contain money to ward off evil spirits and bring good fortune.
What are hóngbāo (红包)?
By population, these are China’s five largest cities.
What is Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou?
The sum of the interior angles of a polygon with 9 sides.
What is 1260?
This is the standard spoken dialect promoted nationwide in China and based on the Beijing phonological system.
What is Putonghua (普通话)?
The phrase "mandate of heaven" is first recorded to have been used by the _______ dynasty.
This ritual, most associated with weddings and funerals, expresses respect through a physical bow or kneeling gesture.
What is kowtow (叩头)?
Often called the “Roof of the World,” this plateau has an average elevation of about 4,500 meters (14,800 feet).
What is the Tibetan Plateau?
Find all integer solutions to 2x−3y=7. (It is a general solution!)
What is x=7+3k,y=1+2k, k∈ℤ ?
By indicating the pronunciation, most characters are this.
What is phono-semantic?
List all dynasties in chronological order.
What is Xia (legendary), Shang, Zhou, Qin (first empire), Han, Six Dynasties (division), Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing?
The Qingming Festival is traditionally dedicated to this act involving ancestors.
What is tomb‑sweeping?
When the Three Gorges Dam was completed, it created a reservoir stretching roughly this distance upstream along the Yangzi River.
What is 400 miles / 644 km?
Positive integers n<100 such that:
n leaves a remainder of 3 when divided by 4,
n leaves a remainder of 2 when divided by 5, and
n leaves a remainder of 1 when divided by 6.
Find all possible values of n.
Hint: Use the Chinese Remainder Theorem
What is 7 and 67?
In Mandarin, the neutral tone most commonly appears in grammatical particles and causes syllables to lose this feature.
What is lexical stress or tonal emphasis?
The change in population during the Tang dynasty.
What is 50 million to 80 million?
This coming‑of‑age rite historically marked adulthood for men at age 20 and involved the conferring of a formal courtesy name.
What is the guān li (冠礼)?
This east–west mountain range forms a major climatic and cultural boundary and separates the Yellow River and Yangzi River basins.
What is Qingling Mountains?
The number of trailing zeros in 50!.
What is 12?
This phenomenon occurs when pronunciations change based on adjacent tones, most famously affecting the word “bù” and third tones.
What is tone sandhi?
This secret 1911 mutiny in Hubei Province is widely accepted as the spark that ended over 2,000 years of imperial rule in China.
What is the Wuchang Uprising?
This traditional concept governs interpersonal relationships through reciprocity, obligation, and long‑term social debt.
What is guānxì (关系)?
This is the most recently created province of China and has the same life expectancy as Sri Lanka.
What is Hainan Province?
In triangle ABC, A,B,C have opposite sides a,b,c and sin(A) sin(B) + sin(B) sin(C) + cos(2B) = 1. If C = 2π/3, find the value of a/b.
What is 3/5?
This rhyme dictionary, compiled during the Sui dynasty, became foundational for reconstructing Middle Chinese phonology.
What is the Qieyun (切韵)?