Chapter One Brief History and Traditional Culture of China

Unit 1 A Brief History of China

Unit 2 Traditional Chinese Culture

Chapter Two Traditional Chinese Ideology

Unit 1 Chinese Traditional Way of Thinking

Unit 2 Reflections on the Limitations of Chinese Traditional Ideas

Chapter Three Interchange Between Oriental and Occidental Culture

Unit 1 Spreading of Oriental Culture to the West

Unit 2 Introduction of Western Culture to China

Chapter Four Ancient Science and Technology

Unit 1 Scientific and Technological Achievement of Ancient Chinese

Unit 2 The Four Great Inventions

Chapter Five The Silk Road and Zheng He’s Voyages

Unit 1 The Silk Road

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

Chapter Six Ancient Chinese Education

Unit 1 Confucius’ Educational Ideas

Unit 2 History of Ancient Education

Chapter Seven Well-known Chinese Idioms and Great Works

Unit 1 Selected Chinese Idioms and Fables

Unit 2 Well-known Ancient Chinese Literary Works

Chapter Eight Three Treasures of Chinese Culture

Unit 1 Traditional Chinese Painting

Unit 2 Beijing Opera

Unit 3 Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM)

Chapter Nine Chinese Calligraphy and Four Treasures of the Study

Unit 1 Chinese Calligraphy

Unit 2 Four Treasures of the Study

Chapter Ten Chinese Festival Culture

Unit 1 Origin of Chinese Festivals

Unit 2 Traditional Chinese Festivals

Chapter Eleven Chinese Tea,Wine and Culinary Culture

Unit 1 Chinese Tea Culture

Unit 2 Chinese Wine Culture

Unit 3 Chinese Culinary Culture

Chapter Twelve Folk Arts and Sports

Unit 1 Folk Handicraft

Unit 2 Folk Performance and Entertainment

Unit 3 Folk Sports

Chapter Thirteen Traditional Chinese Clothing and Hair Style

Unit 1 Development of Chinese Clothing

Unit 2 Evolution of Ancient Chinese Hairstyle

Chapter Fourteen Chinese Gardening and Architecture

Unit 1 Ancient Chinese Gardening

Unit 2 Traditional Chinese Architecture

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