Culture Flashcards
What is the total area of China?
Approximately 9.6 million square kilometers.
What majority of chinas population are Han people?
94% of the population.
How many minority groups are and name the 3 largest?
55, Mongolians, the Tibetans and the Zhuang.
What does zhong guo (china) mean.
It means the ‘centeral kingdom’.
Who was qung xi huan?
He was the emperor and unified the written language.
Where where the earliest writings discoverd in China?
They where inscribed on oracle bones and turtle shells.
What is pu tong hua?
common speech and reffetred to ‘mandarin’ by westeners.
What are the three princibles of writing a chinese character?
Left to right, top to bottom, tick and a hook.
The GPRC introduced another Romanisation system named?
pinyin
Why in the number 9 a lucky number in China?
It shares the same punctuation as the word for long time.
What was a common decoration on the imperial palace?
It was nine dragons that would symbolise forever.
Why is 8 a lucky number in China?
On the cantonese dialect it sounds like fa or fa chai which means get rich.
Why is 4 regarded as a unlucky number?
It has the same pronounciation ,yet different tone as the word death.
What are the two methods of counting age in Chinese?
one called shi shui full age. And the other one xu sui function age.
What are the three most commonly known chinese inventions?
Paper, gunpowder and the compass
