NCHS Moments
NCHS’s Instagram handle.
What is @elkins.nchs?
This Shanghai dish includes pork-belly braised in soy sauce and sugar until carmelized.
What is Hong Shao Rou (Red Braised Pork)?
The app TikToks users migrated to after the ban. (Chinese name)
What is 小红书 (xiao hong shu)?
The capital of China.
What is Beijing?
This holiday marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year calendar.
What is Chinese New Year?
Our original hour requirement per semester.
What is 6 hours per semester?
This dish is from Sichuan and includes spicy chicken, peanuts, dried chili peppers, and Sichuan peppercorns.
What is Kung Pao Chicken?
IShowSpeed sang with this guy in China.
Who is Super Idol?
The two great rivers of China.
What are the Yellow River and Yangtze River?
You eat mooncakes during this holiday.
What is the Mid-Autumn Festival?
Name 2 of the 4 teas introduced during February’s tea tasting meeting.
What is Longjing (green), Tieguanyin (oolong), chrysanthemum, jasmine?
This region is known for its light seasoning and dim sum.
What is Guangdong?
Something John Cena enjoys eating.
What is bingqiling/laoganma?
The cardinal direction (North, East, South, West) in which most of the Chinese population lives.
What is east?
This summer holiday has zongzi and boat races.
What is the Dragon Boat Festival?
Name 3 meeting activities we did this year.
What is moon cakes, language skits, this or that, gingerbread houses, origami, tea tasting, paper fans, potluck/jeopardy?
Name 5 popular Chinese desserts.
What is (ex: tangyuan, mooncakes, egg tarts, mango pudding, red bean buns, sesame balls, almond tofu, steamed sponge cake, and sweet soup)?
Name a Chinese song and sing a part of it.
What is (depends on song)?
Name five of the top 15 largest cities in China.
What is Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Chengdu, Nanjing, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Xi’an, Harbin, Suzhou, Qingdao, and Zhengzhou?
A poet honored during the Dragon Boat Festival through eating Zongzi.
Who is Qu Yuan?
Name a performance one of our NCHS officers did for Elkins Diversity Fair.
What is traditional Chinese dancing, boy group dancing, and singing?
Name 5 popular Chinese spices.
What is (ex: Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, cloves, fennel seeds, Chinese cinnamon, ginger, garlic, chili peppers, white pepper, and five-spice powder)?
Recite the Chinese Rapping Dog meme.
What is Laotiān baoyòu jīnshān yínshān qián lù you Laotiān jiàosuo bié guan jiānghú lónghu dòu?
Name any 3 Chinese Provinces.
What is Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Qinghai, Shanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang?
Name 4 Chinese holidays.
What is (ex: Chinese New Year, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day, Labor Day, Children’s Day, Qingming Festival, Lantern Festival, Teachers’ Day, and Army Day)?