Ancient Chinese Fashion
What item is used to cool oneself, express individuality, or as a decorative item?
What is a fan?
What is the name of the wall that was built to prevent northern barbarians from invading China?
What is the Great Wall of China?
This girl is originally from an Ancient Chinese folktale called the "Ballad of (name)". It was made during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period. (Hint: She's the main character in a Disney movie.
Who is Hua Mulan?
This religion promoted respect for elders and ancestors.
What is Confucianism?
What stone was very valuable in Ancient China, being valued for symbolizing purity, the virtues, and morality? (Hint: It comes in many colors, but the most well known are green and white.)
What is jade?
What item has many uses such as arranging hair, holding flowers, a writing utensil, or a weapon? (Hint: It can be made with many different things like jade, gold, and silver. It was later used in the West to hold hats.)
What are hairpins?
What is the landmark that features many stone statues protecting a tomb?
What is Emperor Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum/the Terracotta Soldiers?
Who is the famous Ancient Chinese general and strategist who lived during the Zhou Dynasty? (Hint: He wrote "The Art of War".)
Who is Sun Tzu?
What is the name of the practice where young women (usually between the ages of 5 and 7) would have their feet broken by cloth to achieve "lotus feet"?
What is foot binding?
Name two Ancient Chinese inventions.
What is paper money, gunpower, porcelain, silk, paper, compasses, woodblook printing, kites..
What is the traditional clothing of Manchu women that is still worn today, just in a different form?
What is the qipao/cheongsam?
What landmark was the home of the Imperial Family, servants, guards, and many other people during the Ming and Qing dynasties? Leaving it was highly restricted, hence it being called "forbidden". (Hint: It's museum today.)
What is the Forbidden City?
Who was the first and only female emperor of Imperial China? (Hint: She ruled during the Tang Dynasty, but kinda made her own dynasty so to speak..?)
Who was Wu Zetian?
What is the name of the exam that scholars studied their whole lives to ace, as it could turn a peasant into an emperor's advisor or a minister?
What is the Civil Service Examination?
What is the name of the moon goddess in Ancient Chinese mythology?
Who is Chang'e?
What traditional attire were worn by the Ancient Chinese up until the Qing Dynasty, when it's popularity began declining through the years?
What is hanfu?
What were the palaces of the Forbidden City broken up into?
What are the Six Eastern Palaces and the Six Western Palaces?
Who was the famous consort of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang? (Hint: She is also said to be the reason for his reign's decline, as he spent so much time with her that he began withdrawing from his duties.)
Who is Yang Guifei?
This religion promoted meditation, the natural order of the universe, self cultivation, and the martial arts.
What is Daoism?
What traditional shoes were worn by Manchu noblewomen during the Qing Dynasty? (Hint: They were so unstable, they often had to hold their maidservant's arm while walking.)
What are flowerpot shoes/Manchu platform sheos?
What is the name of the collar that originally was used to decorate mirrors in the Zhou Dynasty, but eventually was used as an actual collar or accessory for clothing during the Sui and Tang Dynasties? (Hint: It got really popular during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.)
What is a Chinese cloud collar/Yunjian?
What garden was used as a Summer Palace for emperors and noble women and men that was destroyed during the Second Opium War? (Hint: It was built during the Kangxi Era of the Qing Dynasty.)
What is Yuanmingyuan Park?
Who is considered to be the greatest emperor of the Qing Dynasty?
This was a status symbol in Ancient China, as it meant that you didn't have to cut them to do hard labor. (Hint: In modern times, this is considered really disgusting.)
What is keeping really long fingernails?
Why can't you drink out of the Forbidden City's wells?
What is because people were often pushed down them and the water was often poisoned?