Chinese Picture quiz - 2

Many of the houses of Hongcun village, Anhui date back to the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Cupping is a technique where a jar is filled with heated air and then sealed tight against the skin. The cooling air causes the skin to be forced up into the cup. It is supposed to work by drawing diseases out of the body.

The Sanxingdui culture of ancient Sichuan is little understood. It seems the people and their culture disappeared completely.

The Northern Song dynasty had extensive contacts with other peoples along the Silk Route.

Fu Shen; Lou (or Lu) and Shou (福禄寿 Fú Lù Shòu) form a trinity of deities giving good luck, respectively: Happiness; Prosperity and a Long life.

The dam is not the largest in the world, but it is the largest hydro-electric power station capable of generating 18,300MW of power.

A decorated archway was often built as a commemoration of someone important.

The Anshun bridge over the Jin River is at the heart of Chengdu, provincial capital of Sichuan.

Zhuge Liang was the strategist who masterminded the defeat of Cao Cao in 208CE.

The Buddhist stupas of Yunnan are similar to those of neighboring Thailand and Burma. It is in an area of the Dai minority people.

They are ‘tulous’ the fortified dwellings of the Hakka people in the mainly tea-growing areas of Fujian province.

The Ding was a sacrificial vessel, originally used as a cauldron for cooking and storing meat. Typically dates back to the Shang dynasty.

Some mosques in Eastern China were built in the traditional Chinese architectural style. This one in Beijing was first built about 1000CE.

A notable attraction of Anhui is scenic Huangshan (Yellow Mountains) in the south, a very popular mountain range to climb for Chinese as well as foreign visitors.

The famous bronze sculpture found at the Leitai Tomb of Eastern Han Dynasty date has the horse stepping on a flying swallow to further emphasize its speed and grace.

Spade money was used before coins came into use in China.

Black, blue, green, red, yellow and white colored make-up help an audience distinguish the type of character in a Chinese Opera. White make-up usually identifies the bad guys.

The Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, Guanyin, listens to any who will seek her help. The statues often have many (sometimes a thousand) eyes and arms apparently because the order describing the desired form was misheard.

月牙泉 Yuè yá quán (Crescent Lake) is in an oasis just south of Dunhuang, Gansu.

The 卢沟桥 Lú gōu qiáo Bridge is also called the Marco Polo Bridge because the European traveler wrote so rhapsodically about it.