一、节日

1.元宵节 Lantern Festival

2. 腊八节 the Laba rice porridge festival

3. 除夕 Chinese New Year’s eve/ eve of the spring festival

4. 中秋节 Mid-Autumn Day

5. 泼水节 Water-splashing Day

6. 清明节 Tomb Sweeping Day

7. 重阳节 Double-Ninth Festival

二、习俗文化

8. 武术 Wushu (Chinese martial arts)

9. 针灸 acupuncture

10. 牌楼 Pailou (Pai-loo)

11. 太极拳 Tai chi

12. 叩头 kowtow

13. 孝顺 to show filial obedience

14. 红双喜 double happiness

15. 风水 Fengshui/ geomantic omen

16. 中庸 the way of medium (cf. golden means)

17. 谜语 riddle

18. 红白喜事 weddings and funerals

19. 古装片 costume drama

20. 门当户对 perfect match/exact match

21. 旗袍 cheongsam

22. 文房四宝（笔墨纸砚） “the four treasure of the study” “brush, ink stick, paper, and ink stone”

23. 儒家文化 Confucian culture

24. 武打片 Chinese swordplay movie

25. 印/玺 seal/stamp

26. 电视小品 TV sketch/TV skit

27. 孟子 Mencius

28. 战国 warring states

29. 五行 five phases

30. 罗盘 compass

31. 云锦 Nanjing brocade

三、传统艺术

32. 二胡 Urheen

33. 黄梅戏 Huangmei opera

34. 集体舞 group dance

35. 木偶戏 puppet show

36. 相声 cross-talk/comic dialogue

37. 唐三彩 tri-color pottery of the tang dynasty/ the tang tri-colored pottery

38. 书法 calligraphy

39. 中国结 Chinese knotting

40. 剪纸 paper cutting

41. 刺绣 embroidery

42. 二人转 Errenzhuan

43. 秦腔 crying of Qin people/Qin opera

44. 古筝 Chinese zither

45. 小品 witty skits

46. 对联 （spring festival) couplets

47. 花鼓戏 flower drum song

48. 昆曲 Kunqu opera

9. 京剧 Beijing opera/Peking opera

50. 越剧 Yue opera

四、传统小吃

51. 北京烤鸭 Beijing roast duck

52. 盐水鸭 Yanshuiya, or salted and baked duck

53. 东坡肉 Dongpo pork

54. 花卷 steamed twisted rolls

55. 冰糖葫芦 a stick of sugar-coated haws (or apples etc.)

56. 豆腐脑 jellied bean curd

57. 鸭血粉丝 duck blood fans

58. 八宝饭 eight-treasure rice pudding

59. 元宵 tangyuan/ sweet rice dumpling (soup)

60. 小笼包 steamed buns

61. 粉丝 glass noodles

62. 羊肉泡馍 pita bread soaked in lamb soup

63. 莲藕 lotus root

64. 火锅 hot pot

65. 小吃摊 snack bar/snack stand

66. 馄饨 wonton

67. 雄黄酒 realgar wine

68. 大煮干丝 Kan-ssu

69. 春卷 spring roll(s)

五、人文地理

70. 黄土高原 Loess Plateau

71. 明孝陵 Ming tomb

72. 衙门 yamen

73. 农历 lunar calendar

74. 国子监 imperial academy

75. 夫子庙 the Confucian temple

76. 兵马俑 Cotta Warriors/ Terra Cotta Army

77. 亭/阁 pavilion/ attic

78. 长城 the Great Wall

79. 天坛 altar of heaven in Beijing

80. 四合院 Siheyuan/quadrangle

81. 故宫博物院 the Palace Museum

82. 中山陵 the Sun Yat-sen mausoleum

83. 江南 south regions of the Yangtze river

84. 秦淮河 Qinhuai river

85. 玄武湖 Xuanwu lake

86. 敦煌莫高窟 Mogao Caves

六、古文名著

87. 甲骨文 oracle bone inscriptions

88. 偏旁 radical

89. 象形文字 pictograms/pictographic characters

90. 《桃花扇》 the peach blossom fan

91. 《红楼梦》 a dream of red mansions

92. 《西游记》 the journey to the west

93. 《诗经》 the book of songs

94. 《史记》 historical records/records of the grand historian

95. 《本草纲目》 Compendium of Materia Medica

七、四大发明

96. 火药 gunpowder

97. 指南针 compass

98. 造纸术 papermaking

99. 活字印刷术 movable type printing press