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