Child Laws
Traditions
Child Marriages
Superstitions
Family Members
100
These people can pay a fine to have more than one child.
What are wealthy families?
100
Yarrow and tortoiseshell are considered this in most Chinese tradition.
What is lucky?
100
The youngest age a girl in China can be engaged.
What is 2?
100
Considered unlucky to wear in Chinese superstition.
What are mustaches and beards?
100
A father is referred to as this in Chinese tradition.
What is baba?
200
Children that only count as one or don't count at all.
What are twins or children with chronic diseases?
200
Associated with good fortune, this color symbolizes things like happiness, wealth, and fame.
What is the color red?
200
Getting married at such a young age, according to the government, but not enforced.
What is illegal?
200
The unluckiest number in Chinese superstition because it sounds like the Chinese word for death.
What is 4?
200
Up to this many generations of family members could be expected to live in a wealthy household.
What is 5?
300
Areas where you can have as many children as you want without facing fines and jail time.
What are rural areas?
300
This color signifies bad luck and must not be used in decoration or worn to weddings or festivals.
What is the color black?
300
Often given to the groom's family by the family of the bride; usually including money, jewels, or other valuables.
What is a dowry?
300
The luckiest number in Chinese tradition.
What is 8?
300
Valued much less than boys, mostly because the parents want a son to carry on the family name.
What are girls?
400
The punishment faced in urban areas for having more than one child.
What are heavy fines and jail time?
400
In China it is considered rude to call a person older than you by their ________ name.
What is first?
400
A 10 year old girl in China wrote a book about walking all the way to the city to get one of these from her mean husband.
What is a divorce?
400
An animal that is believed to have the ability to see supernatural beings (in Chinese superstition).
What is a dog?
400
A grandma is commonly referred to as this in China.
What is Nai Nai?
500
Most families want boys so that they will carry on the family name, so there are lots of these.
What are orphanages for girls?
500
A greeting used commonly and often in the US, but rarely used in China.
What is a handshake.
500
Where more people get away with early marriages.
What is the countryside.
500
Forbidden to be clipped at night, and carefully collected and hidden.
What are finger and toenail clippings?
500
When a daughter does this, she is no longer considered part of her family, but part of her ________'s family.
What is married?
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