Chinese Culture, Economy and Society

Culture, Language and Traditions

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Which festival, based on the lunar calendar, is the most important family holiday in China?
Which food is traditionally eaten at the Mid-Autumn Festival?
The Dragon Boat Festival remembers which ancient poet and official?
How many animals appear in the Chinese zodiac cycle?
What is the standard spoken form of Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect?
What is the system called that writes Mandarin sounds with the Latin alphabet?
Which four novels are called the Four Great Classical Novels of China?
Which traditional performing art mixes singing, speech, acrobatics and painted faces, and developed in Beijing?
What are the Four Treasures of the Study?
Which martial art, linked to a monastery in Henan, is famous around the world?
Which colour is traditionally linked with good luck and celebration in Chinese culture?
Which festival, held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, features lanterns and riddles?
Which festival is also called Tomb-Sweeping Day, when families honour their ancestors?
Which Tang poet, called the Poet Immortal, wrote about the moon and wine?
Which collection of sayings and ideas is the basic text of Confucian teaching?
Which religion reached China from India during the Han dynasty?
Which city of Jiangxi province is known as the porcelain capital?
Which cuisine, from Sichuan, is famous for the numbing and hot sensation of its sauces?
Which board game of surrounding territory, called weiqi in Chinese, is thousands of years old?
Which instrument, a long zither with moveable bridges, is a classic Chinese instrument?
Counting the zodiac cycle as Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig, which animal comes five years after the Horse?
The sexagenary cycle combines 10 heavenly stems with 12 earthly branches. After how many years does a given pairing repeat?
Which statement about written Chinese is correct?
Which pair matches a festival with its traditional food?
Which classic, built on sixty-four hexagrams, is used for divination and philosophy?

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