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
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