中国文化概况期末复习

中国文化概况期末复习

中国文化概况期末复习

一、名词解释

1、the Grand Canal

The most famous man-made canal in China is the Grand Canal between Beijing and Hangzhou,1801km in length.It Passes through the city of Tianjin and four provinces and links five major rivers.The canal was open to navigation over 1000 years ago.It played and important role in facilitating trade between the south and the north and was regarded as the country's transportation and information"highway"before the advent of the railway.

2、the White Horse Temple

The White Horse Temple,located 21 kilometres east of the Louyang City, Henan Province,was the first officially built Buddhist temple in China in the Eastern Han Dynasty.It was named after the white horse that carried the Buddhist scriptures from India to Luoyang, then the capital of the country.

3、the Book of Songs

The Book of Songs is a collection of China's 305 oldest poems from the early Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle Spring and Autumn Period, and is regarded as the earliest realistic literature in China.

4、the Four Literary Eminences

The Four Literary Eminences refer to the four pre-eminent poets of the early Tang Dynasty, Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Luo Binwang, and Lu Zhaolin, the pioneers of Tang poetry.Their poems, in a refined language, boast beautiful tonal patterns and rhyme schemes.

5、Beijing Opera

Beijing Opera is regarded as China's national opera.Singing, recitation,acting, and acrobatic fighting are the four artistic means and the four basic skills of Beijing Opera.

6、Shaanxi Opera

Shanxi Opera，the oldest of all the Chinese operas that are still in existence today, is the typical opera popular of Shaanxi Province.

7、Yue Opera（越剧）

Yue Opera is one type of traditional local operas that originated in Shengxian County,Zhejiang Province, but it is popular throughout Zhejiang Province and Shanghai as well as in many large and medium-sized cities throughout the country.

8、Yue Opera(粤剧）

Yue Opera is one type of traditional local operas,popular in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces and in Chinese communities in South Asia and America.

9、Private Schools

A private school refers to a school set up by a family, generally with just one teacher who gave inpidual tuition, and with neither set textbooks nor specified time span of study.

10、Official Schools

Official Schools began during the Western Zhou Dynasty, and were sponsored by the official constitution called xiangxue.Only children of nobles were admitted.The official schooling system included a central school and local schools in different administrative regions.The teaching materials were centered on The Four Books and The Five Classics.

11、Ping-Pong Diplomacy

In April 1971, at the 31st World Table Tennis Tournament in Japan, the Chinese team

中国文化概况期末复习

invited the United States table tennis(Ping-Pong)team to visit China.In 1972, the Chinese table tennis team accepted the invitation to pay return visit to the United States.The friendly exchange between the table tennis players of the two countries opened the door to warmer relations between the table tennis players of the two countries opened the door to warmer relations between the Chinese and American nations, and become known as "Ping-Pong Diplomacy".

12、Spring Festival

Spring Festival, also called the Chinese New Year,is China's most important festival that falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month each year.Family members gather just as they do for Christmas in the West.

13、Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival, celebrated on the 15th day of the first lunar month, is closely related to the Spring Festival.It marks the end of the New Year celebrations, following which life returns to normal.

14、the Silk Road

The Silk Road was the main trade route running through Asia in ancient times.It started from the Weishui Valley in the east and ended on the east coast of the Mediterranean,from where it led to various places around Europe.From the Western Han Dynasty on,China and the West was formed, and cultural exchanges and friendly visits were promoted.

15、Chinese batik

Batik is a traditional Chinese folk art, which combines painting and dyeing.It presents a variety of ethnic styles and is most popular among the Buyi, the Miao and the Yao ethnic group.

16、Huabiao

Huabiao are paired ceremonial columns erected in front of palace or tomb, usually carved with dragon and phoenix patterns, with a transverse-engraved stone slab on its top.

17、the Bund

The 1.5 km belt along the Huangpu River between Waibaidu Bridge and East Yan'an Road is called the Bund.Here, those European-style buildings, once housed foreign consulates,banks ,commercial firms and newspaper offices, are still in use today.When evening comes, the banks of the Huangpu River are busy with strolling young couples and throngs of foreign tourists.

二、填空

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3、Of the many Buddhist and

4、Dynasty.

5、6、

中国文化概况期末复习

literature.

7、Undergraduate studies cover courses, courses, and every institution of higher learning has a student association practicing "self-management,self-education,and self-service."

8、includes medicinal prescriptions, and translated into various languages and circulated throughout many countries.

9、10、The "five-animal exercise"is a set of health-building exercise imitating the movements of 11、Generally speaking, there are three essential factors by which Chinese cooking is judged, 12、of "honored south,humble north"is closely related with Chinese traditional etiquette.

13、14、15、三、翻译

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