
CHINESE
CULTURE
In Focus
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Key Terms You Should Know
Hanzi:
Mandarin Chinese characters elevated to art through calligraphy; also popular as decoration on clothing, artwork, & tattoos.
Jade:
A stone popularly used in jewelry and art as a symbol of prosperity, preciousness, beauty among other meanings.
Hongbao (Mandarin), Lai See
(Cantonese), Ang Pow (Hokkien):
Red envelopes with money symbolizing best wishes & good luck traditionally given to friends & family for celebrations, most familiarly Lunar New Year.
Feng Shui:
Ancient Chinese art of arranging space, buildings, & objects in an environment to achieve harmony & balance.
Dim Sum:
Traditional Chinese meal made up of
small plates, dumplings, and snack
foods, usually served with tea.
Sometimes imprecisely used to refer to
the dumplings themselves.

Moments In History
2100-1600 B.C. - Chinese history begins with the Xia Dynasty, the 1st dynasty in China.
1882 - The Chinese Exclusion Act was the first and only law to essentially forbid an entire ethnic group from entering the United States.
11/17/2022 - Sherry Chen, a Chinese American hydrologist, won a settlement of $1.8M against the U.S. government for wrongful prosecution & dismissal from her job at the National Weather Service.
770 B.C. - A key period in Chinese Civilization, the age of Confucius, Daoism, and legalism, marked by war and advances in philosophy, science, agriculture, and literature.
1990 - President George H. W. Bush designates May as Asian American month.
Statistics
20%
of all Chinese/English Dual Language Immersion Programs in the United States are in Utah.
3.5 million
households in the United States speak Chinese at home.
77% increase in hate crimes against Asian people living in the U.S. from 2019 to 2020 documented by the FBI. From 3/2020 - 3/2022 the # of self-reported anti-AAPI hate incidents in the U.S. was 11,500
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different methods of Chinese cooking. The 8 most popular are Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Szechuan,
& Zhejiang.
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Kung Fu traditionally did not have belt levels. Modern Kung Fu now often includes ten belt levels.
Values
Harmony
Filial Piety

Confucianism
Collectivism
Benevolence
Notable Names





Vera Wang
Eric Yuan
Xiong Yan
Gary Locke
Bowen Yang
Symbols
