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Peaking Opera is the most popular form of Chinese opera that can be seen in Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing. It is a vocal and acting performance most notable for the masks used which establish the personalities of the ones acting in the Opera.

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Peking opera | An introduction (Hello China #13)

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Lian Pu represents the various face masks used in the opera from their design to the colors used on the masks they all represent something about the characters acting. Some colors can represent something positive and some negative like black on a mask is bravery while a color like white is ferociousness.

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Jian Zhi is a form of paper cutting in china it is known for its distinctive art form and is very popular around the world.

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This is an alto fiddle.  It is a musical instrument, similar to the American violin.

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This came from tang dynasty china and uses black ink the same black ink that is used in eastern Asian calligraphy which was overturned earlier for more realistic techniques

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Chinese Calligraphy is the writing of Chinese characters as an art form traditionally written in black ink and is a very popular practice in east Asia

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This is a zither.   This is a musical instrument that has many different types and variations of it.

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The spring festival also known as Chinese new year is celebrated yearly in china and is celebrated around the world.This festival has a series of events and every year 1 of 12 animals is celebrated. The events consist of dragon dances, fire works, and more.

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This is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated by East and Southeast Asian people. It is commonly known as the moon festival around the globe and celebrates the end of the autumn harvest.

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This festival takes place on the 5th day of the 5th month on the Chinese calendar and and is observed by Chinese people but celebrated globally. This festival most notably celebrates by racing dragon boats throughout china.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Lute, is a instrument that is similar to the American banjo.

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This festival is the comparative study of both Chinese and U.S. culture and celebrates the traditions of both of these cultures by comparing them. This celebrates the value of culture and the great things both of these countries have developed.

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The four cuisine are the 4 most notable and popular cuisines from each region of china with each cuisine representing a region being north south east and west and shows off the best each of them have to offer.

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China produces many famous dishes that can be enjoyed in not only china but throughout the world and are known for their great taste and history his some notable foods being hotpot and Sichuan Pork.

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The sport of acrobatics, a type of gymnastics and dancing. This is a physical activity created and started in 2000 BC.

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This was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the emperor in its time he became china's first emperor at the age of 38 and conquered many states to expand the country.

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Kong Zi was a chinese philosopher and founder of Confucianism a very popular and widespread ideal practiced throughout the world and that was practiced in ancient china which shaped china today.

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Zhuang Zi is another Chinese philosopher like Kong Zi but he founded the practice of daoism. Daoism is another very popular practice in china and this ideal also lead to how china thinks today.

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This was an ancient chinese poet who was very known for wiriting pieces of patriotism for ancient china. His poems were able to inspire poets globally and he shaped the modern day poem.

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Comic sketch, this a form of story telling through big pictures and text bubbles.

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This was a former NBA basketball player who was known as one of the tallest and best players in the leauge being able to outplay many of his competitors with his skill in basketball.

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Jackie Chan is a very famous movie actor but also known for his skill in martial arts. He has appeard in many chinese and american movies being known by both countires as a great actor.

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Lang Lang is a famous chinese piantst who is known globally for his famous peices and music that is commonly listened to by people around the world

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Jeremy Lin is a very popular NBA player similar to yao ming and is very good at basketball being selected to play for the new york knicks and still plays for this team today.

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The Liu Ga Du Gu are known as the 6 ancient capitals of china being 6 anicent cities that no longer exisit but used to be great cities like modern day beijing consisting of huge buildings and lots of people.

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This is a large chinese city and the capital of shaanxi this city marks the silk roads eastern end which is why it is so large as in ancient china it would see millions of traders every year trading chinese goods to people around the world.

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Shanghai is the globes largest city and is on the central coast of china it is known for its futuristic advancements and huge amounts of buildings and people that live in the city which experiences thousands of people daily.

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Beijing is chinas largest city and the capital of all of china. This city is known for all of its advancements large amounts of people and ancient architecture that resides there. It is most known for its forbidden city and ancient city that only the emperor was allowed in and no one knew what was inside of.

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The great wall of china is the largest structure in the world and was a wall created in ancient china to keep out invaders this wall is 13,000 miles long being the largest structure ever

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Made for qin shi huang the terracotta army is sculptures depicting what the military of Qin dynasty china looked like and is an underground sculpture that showcases thousands of soilders built of terracotta.

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The forbidden city in beijing is an ancient chinese city that features a city that only the emporer and those he allowed inside to see. The city is now known by the public but in ancient china no one knew what was inside of this forbidden city.

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The shaolin temple is a large buddist temple found in china and is a very common place for buddist worship this is an ancient temple that is today seen as a peice of chinese history due to its complex architecture and is also a common place buddist martial arts is taught.

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Courtyard House, this is type of Chinese home in which there is a yard or patch of land in the middle and the house is build around.  The land is also not covered but there are walls on each side of the house that comes in contact with the land.

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Alley or lane,  this is a road or path for walking or driving that divides two builds. This are found most often in big cities and downtown areas.

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Garden, park or landscape, all places people will go to have fun or look and admirer things. All of these things though and used to take up some open piece of land.

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Originating in 5th century BC this game was made in ancient china with the objective being to kick a shuttle without letting it hit the ground and without using your hands.

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Hua Long Zhou is traditonal dragon boat racing and is very common in china in ancient times it is still widely popular today with teams racing boats across rivers.

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This in English is known as tai chi and is one of the most popular martial art styles it is most notable for its fluid form being slow but full of movement.

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QI gong is another form of martial arts that is much slower but has very fluid movements its very similar to yoga and is where it originated from.

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This is a very widely known story as a women who disquied herself as a man to join the chinese military and became a war hero in china this story is known globally.

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This is a love story where a man got a elixar for longer life but his wife secretly drank it and began to float to the moon to forever live there and she is known as the women on the moon

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This is the story about a what people called a foolish old man who lived on the side of 2 mountians but wanted them gone so tried to dig them up but couldn't but impressed with his work the gods seperated them

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This is the story of a women who drowed in the sea and after death tired to fill the entire sea so no one would drown again and she was willing to work for millions of years.

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Originating from 16th century china sun wukong is the monkey king and is known for his immence strength and power as the monkey king knowing to have saved many animals and people with this strength

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This is the story of a boy who wanted to capture the sun and on his journy he drunk 2 rivers in order to hydrate himself however this was not enough and he died of dehydration.

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This means to give someone something and get a reward because of your selfless action.

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This means that all medicine that are good for you taste bad but are very good and beneficial for your sickness.

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望子成龙、望女成凤 Wang Zi Cheng Long、 Wang Nu Cheng Feng

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望子成龙、望女成凤 Wang Zi Cheng Long、 Wang Nu Cheng Feng

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This is the hope that ones child is successful in life. Along with that they have accomplish all they want and can live well and comfortably on there own.

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This is a form of art in which string yarn and other rope like materials are tied and woven to make a cool designs or shape. These shapes can be or represent anything.

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This means wishing of good fortune.

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This is an art form practiced by many. This is used in many ways such as expressing yourself, decoration and many more.

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This something that used so often in China as lighting, for design, decoration and many more.

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This is a creature used in many old story's as a villain and something to scare the kids. Along with that it know as a big myth all around the world.

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Bagua map or a form of diagram that show pictures word and means in different colored boxes.

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Tea is a liquid you drink just like water, but flavored.

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This is Chinese game played with glass or wood blocks or tiles on a felt table. It is played by 4 people with either 136 or 144 pieces.

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Square dancing is a form of dance practiced by many people, it usually happens at jigs with country folk.

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The Dragon and Lion Dance are both forms of Chinese and they are usually done in celebration.

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Martial Arts is a form of self-defense consisting of karate, judo, jujutsu, taekwondo and many more.

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The game of go is an ancient Chinese board game using black and white pieces that is still very commonly played today and can be found around the world.

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This is a game called badminton played that involves a net, a shuttlecock and rackets.

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Flying a kit is fun way to exercise and make use of a windy day. Along with that you can do it anywhere like at the beach, your yard and many other places.

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Tai Chi short for T'ai chi ch'uan or Taiji quan is a form of shadowboxing that is a way of self-defenses. health benefits and mediation.

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This is a question phrase meaning what to bring, which just saying what is needed or what do you think is needed.

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Who gets to pay is a question usually asked when there a group of people and the purchase something and they don't know who is going to pay for it.

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This is a red envelope with gold writing that that is give to kids during celebration. This envelope usually has money in it.

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These are gift that should not be given to someone because they have bad meanings, some of these gift are sharp objects, umbrellas, clocks, shoes, candles and many more.

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These are colors with meaning either good or bad, some colors are white, black, red and much more.

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These are number seen numbers seen as unlucky, some of those numbers are 4 or 13.

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Confucian thought, this is a religion studied by many. He is a god that has been around sense ancient China. Along with that he is also known as Ruism.

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Taoism or Daoism is a philosophical and spiritual tradition that is from Chinese organs. This is believed that is the source of everything that exists.

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Buddhism is a religion that started in India and is now practiced all over Asia.

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Origami or paper folding is a very popular Chinese tradition that is practiced all around the word

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Gunpowder is dust used about 200 years ago in guns and other firing weapons

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This is a very popular Chinese movie about a girl who risks her life to revive someone she accidentally killed in the human world and is known globally for its story and animation.

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Xiao Bie Li is about parents sending their yound children out of china for learning while this gives them an early perspective on the world and teaches them many things but due to this seperation they grow away from their parents and have a very weak bond with them.

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This is chinas problem with population regarding the one child rule making it so that familes may only have 1 child each this is due to chinas large population making it hard for the population to not grow unless this rule is enforced. But due to this law many children are very spoiled as one child has about 6 grand parents all focused on them leading them to become very spoiled.

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This is chinas national college entrance exam and is an exam similar to the SAT in american which is 1 test that has a lot of weight on which college you end up going to. The problem people have with this is it is 1 test that determines your whole future

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Asian education is considered much harder and stressful then western education this is due to asia having much longer time in school much more hours in school and much more subjects learned compared to western schools. This leads to very stressed asian children which leads to asia having a higher suicide rate leading to many problems with asias stressful education.

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This is one of chinas most well known animals being the giant panda which is currently on the edge of extinction being endangered this is due to chinas large human population giving the pandas no where to live and leading lots of them to die.

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Written in the 16th century ming dynasty this is a story about a jouney to the west and is a very popular and beloved chinese story around the world

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Written in the 19th century this is a story also known as the story of stone which was written during the qing dynasty known as china's golden age and similar to journey to the west is a very popular and loved Chinese story