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Chapter One Brief History and Traditional Culture of China 1

Unit 1 A Brief History of China 1

Unit 2 Traditional Chinese Culture 11

Chapter Two Traditional Chinese Ideology 16

Unit 1 Chinese Traditional Way of Thinking 16

Unit 2 Reflections on the Limitations of Chinese Traditional Ideas 23

Chapter Three Interchange Between Oriental and Occidental Culture 26

Unit 1 Spreading of Oriental Culture to the West 26

Unit 2 Introduction of Western Culture to China 30

Chapter Four Ancient Science and Technology 34

Unit 1 Scientific and Technological Achievement of Ancient Chinese 34

Unit 2 The Four Great Inventions 39

Chapter Five The Silk Road and Zheng He’s Voyages 44

Unit 1 The Silk Road 44

Unit 2 Zheng He and His Seven Voyages to the Western Seas 51

Chapter Six Ancient Chinese Education 55

Unit 1 Confucius’ Educational Ideas 55

Unit 2 History of Ancient Education 59

Chapter Seven Well-known Chinese Idioms and Great Works 65

Unit 1 Selected Chinese Idioms and Fables 65

Unit 2 Well-known Ancient Chinese Literary Works 76

Chapter Eight Three Treasures of Chinese Culture 87

Unit 1 Traditional Chinese Painting 87

Unit 2 Beijing Opera 91

Unit 3 Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM) 97

Chapter Nine Chinese Calligraphy and Four Treasures of the Study 103

Unit 1 Chinese Calligraphy 103

Unit 2 Four Treasures of the Study 107

Chapter Ten Chinese Festival Culture 111

Unit 1 Origin of Chinese Festivals 111

Unit 2 Traditional Chinese Festivals 114

Chapter Eleven Chinese Tea,Wine and Culinary Culture 131

Unit 1 Chinese Tea Culture 131

Unit 2 Chinese Wine Culture 137

Unit 3 Chinese Culinary Culture 144

Chapter Twelve Folk Arts and Sports 153

Unit 1 Folk Handicraft 154

Unit 2 Folk Performance and Entertainment 171

Unit 3 Folk Sports 183

Chapter Thirteen Traditional Chinese Clothing and Hair Style 192

Unit 1 Development of Chinese Clothing 192

Unit 2 Evolution of Ancient Chinese Hairstyle 195

Chapter Fourteen Chinese Gardening and Architecture 200

Unit 1 Ancient Chinese Gardening 200

Unit 2 Traditional Chinese Architecture 205

References 213