UNIT #2 – EAST ASIA
Lesson #3
Traditional Culture of China
Chinese Art
• Dragons
• Jutting mountains
• Bubbling brooks
Marriages
• Arranged by ___________
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Chinese are VERY
Superstitious…
Timing of wedding
is vital
• She’s wearing ______for good luck…
Foot Binding
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Purpose:
Queue
(The long braid)
Purpose:
Chinese Pride
• Based on years of feeling superior
– ____________(deep bow – forehead to ground)
– Saving ____________
(avoid embarrassing self)
Chinese Writing
• Ideographs
• Top to bottom, right to left
• ________characters
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Chinese Language
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__________
Hello: _________
Thank You: ___________
Your Welcome: ____________
Good Bye: ___________
Health care
“Eastern Medicine”
Based on the idea that your body
has “wisdom”
Your body can heal itself of most
sickness
If in balance, you will NOT get
sick.
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“CHI” – _______________
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Energy found _____________
Energy found _____________
Rivers of energy in our bodies
If out of balance – you’ll be sick
Order can be recreated – help body to
restore (CHINESE MEDICINE)
– ____________
– ________________
– Muscle kinesiology
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Tai-Chi
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_____________________
Flowing
Usually done in _________________
Many older Chinese still do in open public
places
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Chinese History
(why they came to be so ethnocentricitic)
1. They controlled all trade
until 1800s
2. They saw themselves as
the _________________
3. All others would kow tow
to them
4. They had defeated all
others
Temple of Heaven
Temple of Heaven
Temple of Heaven
The Ming defeated the Mongols
• Mongols had created __________
empire in world
• Built _______________for Emperor
• Built huge fleet
– 62 ships
– 25,000 sailors
• “Ming” = __________
Entrance to Forbidden City
Sedan Chair of the Emperor
(this road is in the movie “The Last Emperor”)
The Ming were eventually
defeated by the Manchus
• Manchus created the _____Dynasty
• Qing lasted until ______
• The Last Emperor was ________
– crowned at age ____in 1908
– ____ wives
– Eventually was forced from
the Forbidden City
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Pu Yi, the Last Emperor of China