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Chinese Culture
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culture
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. China is the ______largest country in the world (area).
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
Fourth
Pinyin
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
2. A handshake in China often is ...
Inflate your prices
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
1.3 Billion
limp and brief
3. Which of these should you try and have on your business cards?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
Black ??
title
people's money
4. What is China's currency called?
Beijing
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
cat
Renminbi Yuan
5. What is a very popular food?
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
15
4
white rice
6. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
scare away the evil spirits
Dessert (Small Heart)
her own last name
Red and Yellow
7. How should one receive business cards?
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
Most senior ranking attendee
Han
with both hands
8. What building in China can be seen from Space? (a myth)
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Great Wall of China
Most senior ranking attendee
Black ??
9. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
Gong Xi
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
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
10. What does 'radical' means?
Parts of Chinese characters
Mandarin Chinese
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
11. And the traditional form of characters is used in
Gong Xi
4
Taiwan - Hong Kong
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
12. What the three common Chinese greetings?
Most senior ranking attendee
Hin Jintao
Nihao! Zenme y
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
13. What determines when the Chinese New Year starts and stops?
56 (including Han)
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
14. _________ was a British Colony recently reabsorbed by China.
2
Hong Kong
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Atheism
15. What do Chinese people use 'Name Chop'(y
15
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
Signature
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
16. How many pieces of cannon are there in each side of the Chinese chess?
Yangzi
2
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
2500
17. There are often what main courses?
Yangzi
Hin Jintao
multiple
15
18. What are the five official religions of China?
4
Peach (T
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
19. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
Inflate your prices
Peach (T
the Shaolin Monks
Black ??
20. The Republic of China is located on...
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
Chinese Americans in USA
Han
Taiwan
21. Where is the Great Wall?
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Most senior ranking attendee
NE quadrant
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
22. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?
xu Sh
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Parts of Chinese characters
23. Which of these things did not originally come from China
Dessert (Small Heart)
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Television
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
24. What color is considered lucky?
greeting you
Most senior ranking attendee
red
Bamboo leaves
25. What is the name of the tray with eight compartments that is offered to guests?
Tray of Togetherness
Taiwan
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
greeting you
26. How many minority nationalities are there in China?
Dragon Boat Festival
1.3 Billion
True
55
27. Which of these should you not do during a business meeting?
Atheism
Mandarin Chinese
Show emotion
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
28. ____________ were not invented in China?
Parts of Chinese characters
Emperor and Empress
Fortune cookies
Great Wall of China
29. It is acceptable to answer phone calls in meetings.
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Noodle (Mi
2
True
30. Aggressive negotiation tactics are recommended.
Han
Mao Zedong
false
Great Wall of China
31. What is the national drink for Chinese?
Tea (Cha)
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Red and Yellow
32. Gifts within the business context in China are often seen as bribes?
cash
False
Tea (Cha)
Bamboo leaves
33. What fruits are brought to the homes of family and friends? What do they symbolize?
oranges and tangerines - abundant happiness
the lantern celebration
greeting you
Great Wall of China
34. The top three most population cites in China
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Television
False
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
35. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
cat
October 1st
Signature
Pinyin
36. The population in Mainland China is
Taiwan - Hong Kong
Tea (Cha)
the Spring Festival
1.3 Billion
37. The largest ethnic group in China is called
Noodle (Mi
Beijing
Han
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
38. When a Chinese friend says: 'Have you eaten yet?' to you (in Chinese) - what is the meaning?
wife or husband
greeting you
communist
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
39. When is China's National Day?
October 1st
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
Fourth
Chong Qing - Shanghai - Beijing
40. What does renminbi mean?
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41. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
Parts of Chinese characters
2
cash
Mao Zedong
42. Where does the Giant Panda live?
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
15
Beijing
43. When did the first Chinese New Year customs start? How?
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44. What was the Great Wall originally built?
1600
Black ??
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Gong Xi
45. How many days is the Chinese New Year celebrated?
15
Mao Zedong
just over 8
white rice
46. Who would you expect to make decisions from negotiations and meetings?
Most senior ranking attendee
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Gong Xi
cat
47. What flower represents courage and hope?
greeting you
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
2500
Dragon Boat Festival
48. How did Kung Fu start?
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
55
adult content
Parts of Chinese characters
49. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
4
Red and Yellow
Dragon Boat Festival
Peach (T
50. What happens at midnight on New Year's Eve?
False
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
yuan - renminbi in Chinese