Chinese Culture
This holiday is the most important traditional festival in China and is also called the Lunar New Year.
What is Chinese New Year/Spring Festival 春节?
This ancient Chinese structure was built to protect against northern invasions and stretches thousands of miles.
What is the Great Wall?
This is the most widely spoken language in China.
What is Mandarin Chinese（普通话）?
This is typically given by older people to younger people, and are filled with money.
What are red packets 红包？
This ancient trade network connected China to the Middle East and Europe, helping spread silk and other goods westward.
What is the Silk Road?
This romanization system is used to write Mandarin pronunciation using the Latin alphabet.
What is Pinyin(拼音）？
This traditional Chinese performance, often seen during Lunar New Year, features performers manipulating a long, colorful creature to bring good luck.
What is the dragon dance (舞龙)?
Discovered in 1974 near Xi’an, this massive underground army of clay soldiers was built to guard China’s first emperor in the afterlife.
What is the Terracotta Army?(兵马俑）
What does the phrase 新年快乐 mean in english?
Happy New Year!
This traditional Chinese holiday on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month features dragon boat races and the eating of zongzi.
What is the Dragon Boat Festival (端午节, Duānwǔ Jié)?
This Chinese invention from the Tang and Song periods originally developed for alchemy later revolutionized warfare and fireworks worldwide.（Hint: 四大发明）
What is gunpowder?
This Mandarin sound system marks pitch differences that distinguish word meanings, such as mā, má, mǎ, and mà.
What is tone (声调)?
This traditional Chinese art form uses brush and ink to create expressive writing that is also considered a visual art.
What is calligraphy (书法, shūfǎ)?
This civil service examination system, used for over a thousand years, selected government officials based on education and knowledge of Confucian texts.
What is the imperial examination system科举制度 (kē jǔ zhì dù)?
In Mandarin phonology, this tone(Of the 4 tones) is characterized by a falling-rising pitch contour.
What is the third tone (第三声)?