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Chinese Culture

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1. And the traditional form of characters is used in
the Spring Festival
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.

2. How should one receive business cards?
200 B.C. - people feared 'Nien' the mythical - evil monster - so they would make loud noises bright lights - and big dragons to scare it off
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
with both hands
Tray of Togetherness

3. What is the name of the tray with eight compartments that is offered to guests?
2500
about 275 lbs.
Hong boa or Lai see
Tray of Togetherness

4. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
Mao Zedong
Tea (Cha)
noodles
Gong Xi

5. What festival ends the Chinese New Year?
Han
Mandarin Chinese
the lantern celebration
False

6. What are the four treasures of the study (w
Afghanistan
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
wife or husband
title

7. What does the Chinese eat on birthday to symbolize long life?
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
scare away the evil spirits
Noodle (Mi
Yangzi

8. How did Kung Fu start?
Television
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Tea (Cha)
March 8th is International Women's Day - on this day women will get a paid day or half day off - while all men must still go to work; May 1st is International Labor Day; May 4th is Youth Day - in memory of the first mass student movement in 1919; Jun

9. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
Mt. Everest
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
1.3 Billion
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness

10. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?
xu Sh
Dragon Boat Festival
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
greeting you

11. When you hear a person mention my 'Ai Ren' (Ai means love - and Ren means person) - the meaning of the word 'Ai Ren' is:
wife or husband
4
200 B.C. - people feared 'Nien' the mythical - evil monster - so they would make loud noises bright lights - and big dragons to scare it off
Inflate your prices

12. What is 'Hong boa' or 'Lai see'?
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
56 (including Han)
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Show emotion

13. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
False
Show emotion
Most senior ranking attendee

14. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
wife or husband
4
with both hands

15. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
China - Signapore
Signature
bring in good luck and prosperity
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu

16. List some Chinese inventions.
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
just over 8
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu

17. What are the ancient rulers of China called?
false
Han
wife or husband
Emperor and Empress

18. 'Dim Sum' means
Pinyin
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing
Dessert (Small Heart)
Red and Yellow

19. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
East
Red and Yellow
Most senior ranking attendee
with both hands

20. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Tray of Togetherness
15
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth

21. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
55
with both hands
200 B.C. - people feared 'Nien' the mythical - evil monster - so they would make loud noises bright lights - and big dragons to scare it off
bring in good luck and prosperity

22. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
Mao Zedong
Han
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
the Shaolin Monks

23. The Republic of China is located on...
Bamboo leaves
cash
Taiwan
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone

24. A handshake in China often is ...
limp and brief
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
False
Inflate your prices

25. It is acceptable to answer phone calls in meetings.
False
True
Emperor and Empress
people's money

26. When people playing 'Go'game - which color stone goes first?
Mao Zedong
Fourth
Black ??
multiple

27. There are often what main courses?
Mandarin Chinese
multiple
xu Sh
Face to Face

28. In China people prefer business communication by which of these methods?
the Shaolin Monks
Face to Face
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.

29. About how much does a Giant Panda weigh?
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
red
about 275 lbs.
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans

30. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
false
Hong Kong
4
Mao Zedong

31. What are the red envelopes called?
Hong boa or Lai see
multiple
Taiwan
15

32. When is China's National Day?
the Spring Festival
NE quadrant
Show emotion
October 1st

33. How many ethnic groups are there in China?
56 (including Han)
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
her own last name
Red and Yellow

34. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
Mao Zedong
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
1.3 Billion
4

35. What economy does China have?
NE quadrant
Yangzi
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
communist

36. What is the state religion in China?
1600
1.3 Billion
March 8th is International Women's Day - on this day women will get a paid day or half day off - while all men must still go to work; May 1st is International Labor Day; May 4th is Youth Day - in memory of the first mass student movement in 1919; Jun
Atheism

37. What is a very popular food?
white rice
October 1st
just over 8
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish

38. Which of these things did not originally come from China
Chinese Americans in USA
2
Television
multiple

39. What are the four great invention of China?
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu
wife or husband
Yangzi
Paper making - Gunpowder - Compass - Printing

40. What are the five official religions of China?
false
limp and brief
Pinyin
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism

41. What is the 12 zodiac sign?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
Hong Kong
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
communist

42. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
China - Signapore
Nihao! Zenme y
2
with both hands

43. Some animals that make their homes in China.
Han
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Most senior ranking attendee
Bamboo leaves

44. Which of these should you try and have on your business cards?
adult content
title
15
4

45. What does Kung Fu mean?
Gong Xi
with both hands
learned skill
the plum blossom - they bloom year round

46. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?
people's money
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Mt. Everest

47. Who is President of the People's Republic of China?
Great Wall of China
Hin Jintao
Atheism
Tea (Cha)

48. The author of 'The Art of War' is
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Mandarin Chinese
Sun Zi ??

49. What are dragon dances believed to do?
1.3 Billion
Yangzi
bring in good luck and prosperity
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day

50. What fruits are brought to the homes of family and friends? What do they symbolize?
Atheism
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
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