Mandarin Culture Revision

Question 1

what happens in Chinese New Year (the spring festival)?

Answer 1

This is the most important festival, marking the beginning of the lunar year and is celebrated with family reunions, feasts, laterns, and traditional customs like giving red envelopes filled with money.

Question 2

what happens in the mid-autumn festival (moon festival)?

Answer 2

Also known as the Moon Festival, this festival celebrates the harvest season, the story of Chang’e (the moon goddess) and the reunion of families, often with the consumption of mooncakes and admiring the full moon.

Question 3

what happens in the dragon boat festival?

Answer 3

Celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, this festival commemorates the death of the poet Qu Yuan and involves eating zongzi (sticky rice dumplings), dragon boat races, and the display of willow branches.

Question 4

which numbers are lucky?

Answer 4

8, 2, 6, and 9

Question 5

which numbers are unlucky?

Answer 5

4 and 13

Question 6

what are the five biggest Chinese ethnic groups?

Answer 6

Han, Zhuang, Uyghur, Hui, and Manchu

Question 7

what are the luckiest Chinese colours?

Answer 7

red, yellow, green and gold

Question 8

what is the traditional Chinese family structure?

Answer 8

the 4-2-1 family structure - patrilineal, patriarchal, and extended