Table Of contents中国传统节日Traditional Chinese Festivals5The Spring Festival 春节5The Spring Festival Eve 除夕5The Spring Festival Eve Dinner 年夜饭5Spring Festival Couples 贴春联5Gift Money 压岁钱5Setting off firecrackers 放鞭炮5Paying New Year Calls 拜年5Vising Temple Fairs赶庙会6The Lantern Festival 元宵节6Eating Yuanxiao 吃元宵6Watching Painted Lanterns 赏花灯6Solving Lantern Riddles 猜灯谜6The Dragon Boat Festival 端午节6Qu Yuan (339BC? 278BC?) 屈原6Dragon Boat Racing 赛龙舟7Eating Zongzi 吃粽子7Hanging Moxa 挂艾蒿7The Moon Festival 中秋节7The Moon Cake 月饼7The Double Ninth Festival 重阳节7Climbing the Heights to Keep Away Troubles 登高避灾8Appreciating the Chrysanthemums 赏菊8Offering Sacrifices to the Goddess of the Sea 祭海神8中国服饰Chinese Costumes9Silk 丝绸9The Silk Road 丝绸之路9The Maritime Silk Road 海上丝绸之路9Cheongsam tsm (Qipao 旗袍)9The Making of Cheongsam tsm 旗袍的制作9Modern Cheongsam 现代旗袍10Modern Garments 现代服饰10Chinese food中国饮食11Beijing Cuisine and Snacks 北京菜与小吃11The Roast Duck 北京烤鸭11Instant-boiled Mutton 涮羊肉11Manhan Quanxi 满汉全席11Beijing Snakes 北京小吃11Cantonese Cuisine and Snakes广东菜与小吃11Seafood Dishes 海鲜菜12Cantonese Snakes 广东小吃12Sichuan Cuisine and Snakes 四川菜与小吃12The Zhangcha Duck 樟茶鸭12Mapo Doufu 麻婆豆腐12Chinese Liquor 中国酒12Yellow Wine 黄酒13White Liquor 白酒13Maotai Liquor 茅台酒13Chinese Tea 中国茶13The Home of Tea 茶叶的故乡13Varieties of Tea 茶叶的品种13Tea Ceremony 茶艺13中国书法绘画 Chinese calligraphy and painting14The Four Treasures of the Study 文房四宝14The Writing Brush 毛笔14The Ink Stick 墨（块）14The Ink Slab 砚14Traditional Chinese Paintings 中国画14Landscape Paintings 山水画14Flower-and-bird Paintings 花鸟画15Figure Paintings 人物画15New Years Painting 年画15中国文物16The Terra-cotta Warriors 秦始皇陵兵马俑16The Underground Army 地下军阵16Dunhuang Grottoes 敦煌石窟16Cave Relief Murals 石窟壁画16The Dunhuang Academy China 敦煌研究院16中国民居Chinese Folk Residence17Cave Dwellings in Shaanxi 陕西窑洞17Brick Caves and Stone Caves 砖窑和石窑17Fujian Tulou 福建土楼17The Ancestral Temple 祠堂17Modern Private Houses 现代民居17中华医药Chinese Medicine19Traditional Chinese Medical Science and Medicine中医中药19The Diagnosis Method of Traditional Chinese Medicine 中医诊病19Treatment of Diseases by Traditional Chinese Medicine中药治病19Acupuncture and Moxibustion ,mksbst()n艾灸Therapy 针灸疗法19Acupuncture Therapy 针法治病19Moxibustion Therapy 灸法治病20Massage ms therapy 按摩疗法20中华武术The Chinese Martial Art21The Shaolin Martial Art 少林功夫21Taiji Boxing太极拳21The Origins of Taiji Boxing 太极拳源流21中国文字The Chinese Character22The Evolution of Chinese Characters 汉字的演变22The Origin of Chinese Characters 汉字的起源22Standardization and Promulgation (,promlen 宣传,普及) of Chinese Characters 汉字的规范与传播22The Simplified Chinese Characters 简化汉字22Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) 北京语言大学22Confucius Institutes 孔子学院23中国历史文化名城Famous Chinese Cities with Historical and Cultural Relics24The Ancient City Walls 古城墙24Pingyao City in Shanxi 山西平遥24Shaoxing City in Zhejiang 浙江绍兴24Shaoxing: the City of Bridges 桥都绍兴24The Black-awning Boat in Shaoxing 绍兴乌篷船24Luxun Memorial Museum at His Former Residence 鲁迅故居纪念馆25Fenghuang Town in Hunan 湖南凤凰25Miao Ethnic Wax Printing 苗族蜡染25Lijiang Town in Yunan 云南丽江25The Ancient Streets 古街25中国传统节日Traditional Chinese Festivals The Spring Festival 春节The Chinese Spring Festival falls on the very first day of the Chinese Lunar year. The celebration of the Spring Festival, otherwise known as the Chinese New Year, starts from the first day of the first lunar month and ends on the Lantern Festival, that is, the fifteenth of the month. The Spring Festival to the Chinese is what Christmas to the Westerners (中国人过春节相当于西方人过圣诞节). The Spring Festival Eve 除夕The Spring Festival Eve, or the Chinese New Years Eve, is call the Danian Sanshi （大年三十）in Chinese. It is a time of jubilance, with eyeful of Spring Festival couplets, earful of loud firecrackers, and the kitchen full of yummy stuff cooking on the stove. Wherever they are, people will hurry back home for their family reunion on the eve. The Spring Festival Eve Dinner 年夜饭The Spring Festival Eve Dinner is known as the Dinner of Reunion. On the Eve, children away from home will all come back to enjoy a tableful of delicacies together with their parents. People in the north prefer jiaozi, the southerners like tangyuan, sweet round dumplings to indicate family reunion, and niangao, which means “going higher and higher in the coming year”.Spring Festival Couples 贴春联It has been a tradition for the Chinese to paste Spring Festival couples on the doors during the Festival. Words of auspiciousness are written in the couples, which are called duilian对联, or the Pair Couplets, because the words on both couplets should be equal in number, parallel in form, and attuned in meaning. Sometimes people also paste