100 Traditional Chinese English Vocabulary Today is the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which is a traditional festival of Chinese Han folk. How to say Lantern Festival in English? In addition to the Lantern Festival, embroidery, paper-cutting, calligraphy, xiao long bao, "Dream of Red Mansions"... Do these Chinese traditions meet? The following editor will help you, let's learn together! (via China Daily)
1. Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival
2. Embroidery: Embroidery
3. Double Ninth Festival: Double-Ninth Festival
4. Qingming Festival: Tomb sweeping day
5. Paper cutting: Paper Cutting
6. Calligraphy: Calligraphy
7. Couplets: (Spring Festival) Couplets
8. Pictograms: Pictograms/Pictographic Characters
9. Realgar wine: Realgar wine
10. Quadrangle: Siheyuan/Quadrangle
11. Warring States: Warring States
12. Feng Shui: Fengshui/Geomantic Omen
13. Kunqu Opera: Kunqu Opera
14. The Great Wall: The Great Wall
15. Group Dance: Group Dance
16. Loess Plateau: Loess Plateau
17. Weddings and Funerals
18. Mid-Autumn Festival: Mid-Autumn Day
19. Flower Drum Song: Flower Drum Song
20. Confucian Culture: Confucian Culture
21. Chinese knot: Chinese knotting
22. Costume Movie: Costume Drama
23. Martial Arts Movie: Chinese Swordplay Movie
24. Lantern Festival: Tangyuan/Sweet Rice Dumpling (Soup)
25. Yue Opera: Yue Opera
26. Hot Pot: Hot Pot
27.江南:South Regions of the Yangtze River
28. The Book of Songs: The Book of Songs
29. Riddle: Riddle
30. "Historical Records": Historical Records/Records of the Grand Historian
31. A Dream of Red Mansions
32. "Journey to the West": The Journey to the West
33.除夕:Chinese New Year’s Eve/Eve of the Spring Festival
34. Acupuncture: Acupuncture
35.唐三彩 :Tri-color Pottery of the Tang Dynasty/ The Tang Tri-colored pottery
36. Two people turn: Errenzhuan
37. Radical: Radical
38. Mencius: Mencius
39. Pavilion / Pavilion: Pavilion / Attic
40. Huangmei Opera: Huangmei opera
41. Gunpowder: Gunpowder
42. Lunar Calendar: Lunar Calendar
43. Seal / Seal: Seal/Stamp
44. Laba Festival: The laba Rice Porridge Festival
45. Peking Opera: Beijing Opera / Peking Opera
46. Qin Opera: Crying of Qin People/Qin Opera
47. Tai Chi: Tai Chi
48. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Compendium of Materia Medica
49. Temple of Heaven: Altar of Heaven in Beijing
50. Snack Stand: Snack Bar/Snack Stand
51. Double Happiness: Double Happiness
52. Imperial Academy: Imperial Academy
53. Spring Roll(s)
54. Lotus Root: Lotus Root
55. Compass: Luopan
56. The Palace Museum: The Palace Museum
57. Cross-talk: Cross-talk/Comic Dialogue
58. Five Elements: Five Phases
59. Beijing Roast Duck: Beijing Roast Duck
60. The Peach Blossom Fan
61. Puppet Show: The Puppet Show
62. Dunhuang Mogao Caves: Mogao Caves
63. TV Sketch: TV Sketch/TV Skit
64. Oracle: Oracle Bone Inscriptions
65. Guzheng: Chinese Zither
66. Erhu: Urheen
67. Match: Perfect Match/Exact Match
68.《水浒》: Water Margin/Outlaws of the Marsh
69. Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival
70.文房四宝 :“The Four Treasure of the Study” “Brush, Inkstick, Paper and Inkstone”
71. Terracotta Warriors: Cotta Warriors/ Terracotta Army
72. Cheongsam: Cheongsam
73. Compass: Compass
74. Water-Splashing Day
75. Wonton: Wonton
76. 花卷:Steamed twisted rolls
77. Lamb Soup: Pita Bread Soaked in Lamb Soup
78.冰糖葫芦:A stick of sugar-coated haws (or apples, etc.)
79. Eight Treasure Rice: Eight-treasure rice pudding
80. Fans: Glass Noodles
81. Tofu brain: Jellied bean curd
82. Sketch: Witty Skits
83. Filial Piety: To show filial obedience
84. Wushu: Wushu (Chinese Martial Arts)
85. Rice paper: Rice Paper
86. Yamen: Yamen
87. Kowtow: Kowtow
88.中庸:The way of medium(cf. Golden Means)
89. Archway: Pailou (pai-loo)
90. Dongpo Pork: Dongpo Pork
91. Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum: The Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum
92. Qinhuai River: Qinhuai River
93. Xuanwu Lake: Xuanwu Lake
94. Confucian Temple: The Confucian Temple
95. Duck blood fans: Duck blood and Vermicelli Soup
96.盐水鸭:Yanshuiya, or salted and baked duck
97. Big boiled dried silk: Gansi
98. Xiao Long Bao: Steamed buns
99. Ming Xiaoling: Ming Tomb
100. Cloud Brocade: Nanjing brocade