Chapter one How to Choose a Proper Chinese Name for Yourself 1
Section One You May Have Four to Five Chinese Names 2
Section Two Chinese Names and Their Structures 6
Section Three Hundreds of Surnames 9
Section Four To Choose a Name for Yourself 14
Chapter Two How Many People Are There in a Chinese Family 16
Section One Family Relations by Blood and by Marriage 17
Section Two Chinese Family:Family,Clan and Nation 20
Section Three Modern Chinese Families 25
Section Four Famous Families 26
Chapter Three Life Journey of a Regular Chinese 33
Section One Birth Rite 34
Section Two Grown-Up Rite 37
Section Three Marriage Rite 41
Section Four Longevity Celebration 44
Section Five Chinese Traditional Funeral 46
Chapter Four On Which Days You Don't Need to Work 49
Section One Spring Festival 50
Section Two Lantern Festival 54
Section Three Qingming Festival 57
Section Four Dragon Boat Festival 59
Section Five Chinese Valentine's Day—Qixi Festival 62
Section Six Mid-Autumn Festival 64
Section Seven Double Ninth Festival 67
Chapter Five How Many Gods Are There in Chinese Culture 70
Section One Buddhism in China 71
Section Two Chinese Taoism 77
Section Three System of Gods in Journey to the West 78
Section Four Gods That Relates to Daily Life in China 81
Chapter Six Secrets about China That You Need to Know 86
Section One Fortune Telling 87
Section Two Divination 92
Section Three Huangli 95
Section Four Mysterious Chinese Fengshui 97
Chapter Seven Chinese Table Culture 102
Section One Chinese Food Culture 103
Section Two Chinese Wine Culture 114
Section Three Chinese Tea Culture 118
Chapter Eight Featured Cultural Activities in China 125
Section One Tai Chi 126
Section Two Chinese Operas 128
Section Three Lion Dance and Dragon Dance 137
Section Four Paper Cutting and Chinese Knot 140
Chapter Nine How to Deal with Chinese People 146
Section One Communicative Etiquette of Chinese People 147
Section Two The Culture of"Face" 149
Section Three Cultural Taboos 153
Chapter Ten Representative Animals and Plants in China 157
Section One Chinese Zodiac 158
Section Two Legendary Dragon 161
Section Three Representative Chinese Animals and Plants 165