China ABC book Rachel Frey
Dec 27, 2015
A- Acupuncture
A system of complementary medicine that involves pricking the skin or tissues with needles, used to alleviate pain
B- Buddism
a religion, originated in India by Buddah, (Gautama) and laterspreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeastAsia, holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and thatthe way to end this suffering is through enlightenment thatenables one to halt the endless sequence of births and deaths to which one is otherwise subject.
C- Calligraphy
East Asian calligraphy is a form of calligraphy widely practised and revered in the Sinosphere.
D- Daoism
philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events
G- Great Wall of China
A fortified wall in northern China, extending some 1,500 miles (2,400 km) from Kansu province to the Yellow Sea north of Beijing
H- Han Dynasty
imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy
K- Korea
A region in eastern Asia that forms a peninsula between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea
M- Mountains
A large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level
N- Nomad
A member of a people who have no permanent abode and travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock
O- Oracle Bones
An animal bone with cracks (due to heating) or other markings, used to foretell the future
Q- Qin Dynasty
the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall
S- Silk Road
An ancient caravan route that linked Xian in central China with the eastern Mediterranean so they could trade with others
W- waterwheel
A large wheel driven by flowing water, used to work machinery or to raise water to a higher level.
Y- Yangtzi River
the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai