General Knowledge
Spring Festival: Activities
Shangyuan Festival
Food
Other Festivals
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The alternate name for Chinese New Year, relating to a season.

Spring Festival

100

A major activity now banned in much of Mainland China

Setting off firecrackers
100
What is written on lanterns and completed for prizes?

Riddles

100

What popular food item is eaten during Chinese New Year?

Dumplings

100

What Chinese festival can be compared to Thanksgiving?

Mid-Autumn Festival

200

The period many believe the Spring Festival began

Shang Dynasty

200

What kind of pictures may accompany couplets on doors?

Pictures of gods

200

What kind (material) of lantern is commonly carried around by kids?

Paper

200

What festival are mooncakes especially eaten on?

Mid-Autumn Festival

200

What is the Qingming Festival about?

Honouring dead people, mostly ancestors.

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How old is advanced Chinese civilization?

About 4000 years old

300

What god is worshipped on Preliminary Eve?

The Kitchen God

300

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300

What is the northern Chinese equivalent of Tangyuan?

Yuanxiao

300

The season with the least popular season-related festival

Summer

400

If x=241 what is the square root of (321x+591)2 divided by pi, using this shape in an triangle with the Pythagorean theorem with the second side being 310cm2 how many rutabagas does it take to walk your fish?

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400

Green envelopes based on Chinese ones are given out on what major Muslim holiday by Malay peoples?

Eid al-Fitr

400

What mythological emperor is this festival linked to in Taoism?

Jade Emperor

400
I mentioned someone from folklore who has a food named after her; What was her profession?

A maid

400

Why did Dragon Boat Racing originate?

To honour an ancient Chinese minister's death.

500

What holiday is δΈŠε…ƒθŠ‚?

Shangyuan / Lantern Festival

500

Various religions and regions have different envelopes. The ones mentioned were: Red, Green, Purple, and . . .

Yellow

500

Tangyuan sounds like another Chinese word which means what?

Union

500

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500

What dynasty did the Qingming Festival originate from?

Zhou Dynasty