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Chinese Culture

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1. What are lion dances believed to do?
Year. These 12 animals represent the rotating 12-year cycle that is the basis of the Chinese Zodiac.
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
scare away the evil spirits
October 1st

2. What are the six working languages of the United Nations
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
Nihao! Zenme y
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
4

3. About how much does a Giant Panda weigh?
learned skill
Red and Yellow
Hin Jintao
about 275 lbs.

4. What fruit does the Chinese believe to give you a long life?
wife or husband
55
China - Signapore
Peach (T

5. What is the official romanization system for the language of China?
Great Wall of China
Pinyin
False
56 (including Han)

6. What is 'Hong boa' or 'Lai see'?
in the misty mountains of SW China - nowhere else on Earth
with both hands
xu Sh
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money

7. What are dragon dances believed to do?
Bamboo leaves
bring in good luck and prosperity
Sun Zi ??
Most senior ranking attendee

8. Who complied the earliest Chinese dictionary?
xu Sh
title
borrowing - trading - cleaning - using knives or scissors - cutting noodles
Chinese Americans in USA

9. ____________ were not invented in China?
false
Fortune cookies
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money

10. About how many Giant Pandas remain in the world today?
1600
greeting you
red envelopes given to children - they contain lucky money
October 1st

11. What is the national drink for Chinese?
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Dessert (Small Heart)
Tea (Cha)
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans

12. In order of population - what are the top five ethnic groups in China
white rice
just over 8
learned skill
Han Zu - Zhuang Zu - Man zu - Hui Zu - Miao Zu

13. What economy does China have?
communist
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
wife or husband
Mao Zedong

14. Which of these should you try to do when negotiating in China?
Han
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Gong Xi
Inflate your prices

15. What are the four treasures of the study (w
1.3 Billion
Pen Brush - Ink - Paper - Ink Stone
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping

16. How many Chinese characters are there
55
About 50 -000. Frequently used 3 -500.
Renminbi Yuan
Taiwan

17. The greatest majority of people in China belong to what nationality?
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Mt. Everest
Han
Taiwan

18. What is the state religion in China?
Atheism
Bamboo leaves
Mao Zedong
Mandarin Chinese

19. How many players does it take to play Ma-Jiang
Hin Jintao
4
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
the lantern celebration

20. Who is President of the People's Republic of China?
yuan - renminbi in Chinese
cash
Hin Jintao
Red and Yellow

21. Name a public holiday that China has.

22. If a woman's name is Zhang Xiaomei - Zhang is :
Fourth
her own last name
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
with both hands

23. How should one receive business cards?
noodles
with both hands
Signature
Atheism

24. The population in Mainland China is
China - Signapore
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Mandarin Chinese
1.3 Billion

25. List some Chinese foods.
Fried Dumplings (pot stickers) - Kung Pao Chicken - Hot and Sour Soup - Fried Rice - Mushu Pork - Beef with Broccoli - Spring Rolls/Egg Rolls - Szechuan Chicken
Dragon Boat Festival
Red and Yellow
Chinese Americans in USA

26. Common greeting used during Chinese New Year
starts on the first lunar month - ends on the full moon
the plum blossom - they bloom year round
55
Gong Xi

27. What color is considered lucky?
Gong Xi
Atheism
red
false

28. What does the word yellow imply?
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
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
adult content
just over 8

29. Which animal does not belong to the 12 Animal Zodiac?
Bamboo leaves
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
cat
people's money

30. About how many hours a day do Giant Pandas spend eating? Sleeping?
Chinese Americans in USA
14 hours a day eating - rest of the time sleeping
false
Shuo W

31. Some animals that make their homes in China.
with both hands
snow leopards - elephants - wild yaks - reindeer - moose - giant panda - etc.
Great Wall of China
True

32. When you receive a red envelope from a Chinese person - what do you get inside?
Nihao! Zenme y
1.3 Billion
15
cash

33. Martial Arts/Kung Fu was invented by who?
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
NE quadrant
the Shaolin Monks
Taiwan - Hong Kong

34. There are often what main courses?
paper - printing - silk - ice cream - wheel barrow - anagrams - magnetic compass - porcelain - gunpowder - bow and arrow
Fourth
Arabic - Chinese - English - French - Russian - Spanish
multiple

35. What colors are on the Chinese flag?
Red and Yellow
4
with both hands
False

36. What is a very popular food?
Mt. Everest
white rice
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
1.3 Billion

37. What do people that live in the northern part of China - eat as their main food?
Inflate your prices
wife or husband
noodles
Dragon Boat Festival

38. How many year ago was the Great Wall built?
2
Peach (T
title
2500

39. And the traditional form of characters is used in
title
Renminbi Yuan
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
Taiwan - Hong Kong

40. _________ founded the People's Republic of China in 1949
4
Mao Zedong
Tea (Cha)
NE quadrant

41. What does a panda eat and how much of it do they eat?
Dragon Boat Festival
to get rid of the bad luck and the old
bamboo - up to 40 lbs. a day
NE quadrant

42. What happens at midnight on New Year's Eve?
East
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Pinyin
the Shaolin Monks

43. A handshake in China often is ...
Hong boa or Lai see
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
limp and brief
scare away the evil spirits

44. Simplified Chinese character system is used in
Fourth
China - Signapore
Most senior ranking attendee
Han

45. What is China's currency called?
Taiwan - Hong Kong
1600
fireworks go off; doors and windows are left open to let out the old and evil
Renminbi Yuan

46. Where was the fortune cookie original from?
Erhu - Guzheng - Yang Qin - Pi pa - Di zi
Fourth
Chinese Americans in USA
limp and brief

47. Which of these things did not originally come from China
the Shaolin Monks
with a guy meditating in a cave for 9 years and studying the movements of animals and humans
Han
Television

48. Most people live in the_______of China
56 (including Han)
Signature
Face to Face
East

49. What was the Great Wall originally built?
Noodle (Mi
to protect China from invasion or attack by tribal enemies
Buddhism - Islam - Taoism - Catholicism - Protestantism
learned skill

50. The largest ethnic group in China is called
learned skill
Han
Black ??
Tray of Togetherness