70 traditional cultural truisms Chinese people need to know

The Chinese need to know 70 traditional cultural common sense

Five elements wood, fire, earth, gold, water.

Into the trigrams Qian, Zhen, Kan, Burgundy, Kun, Xun, Li, Tui.

Five tones: Gong, Shang, Jiao, Zheng, Yu.

Nine palaces: Qian Palace, Kan Palace, Burgundy Palace, Zhen Palace, Zhong Palace, Xun Palace, Li Palace, Kun Palace, Tui Palace.

Six Arts: Rites, Music, Archery, Royalty, Books and Numbers.

Six meanings: wind, elegance, ode, fugue, comparison, rise.

Five colors: green, yellow, red, white and black.

Ten evils conspire against the state, conspire against the state, conspire against the state, evil against the state, unethical, great disrespect, filial piety, disharmony, unrighteousness, and civil strife.

The twelve Chinese zodiac signs are Zi Rat, Ugly Ox, Yin Tiger, Mao Rabbit, Cinnabar Dragon, Si Snake, Noon Horse, Wei Sheep, Shen Monkey, You Chicken, Hundred Days Dog, and Oh Pig.

The Five Classics: The Book of Songs, The Book of Changes, The Book of Rites, The Book of Changes, The Spring and Autumn Annals.

The Six Books of Chinese Characters: Falling Brush, Turning Brush, Hidden Front, Hidden Head, Protecting Tail, Snappy Potential, Swiping Brush, Shibboleth Potential, and Horizontal Scale and Vertical Strangulation.

Nine Calligraphy Stances: Drop Stroke, Turn Stroke, Hidden Front, Hidden Head, Protect Tail, Snappy Stance, Swipe Stroke, Shibboleth Stance, Horizontal Scales and Vertical Leaves.

Dispensing seven prescriptions: large square, small square, slow square, urgent square, odd square, even square, compound square.

The Four Great Folk Legends "The Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden", "Meng Jiangnu Weeping at the Great Wall", "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" and "The Legend of the White Snake".

The Four Great Masterpieces Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shi Naiyan's Water Margin, Wu Cheng'en's Journey to the West, and Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber.

The four major cultural heritages are Ming and Qing Dynasty Archives, Yinxu Oracle Bones, Juyan Han Jian, and Dunhuang Scrolls.

The four major condemnatory novels of the late Qing Dynasty: Li Baojia's The Story of the Officialdom, Wu Cornu Ren's Twenty Years of Eyewitnessing the Strange Present Situation, Liu Osprey's The Journey of the Disabled Old Man, and Zeng Park's The Sinful Sea Flower.

The Four Famous Embroideries: Suzhou Embroidery, Hunan Embroidery, Cantonese Embroidery and Shu Embroidery.

The Four Famous Flowers: Peony, Chrysanthemum, Camellia and Narcissus.

The Four Famous Fans: Sandalwood Fan (Jiangsu), Fire Painting Fan (Guangdong), Bamboo Silk Fan (Sichuan), and Damask Fan (Zhejiang).

The Seven Sons of Jian'an (建安七子) Kong Rong (孔融), Chen Lin (陈琳), Wang Ch'an (王粲), Xu Gan (徐干), Ruan Yu (阮瑀), Ying (应) and Liu Zhen (刘桢).

The Four Great Inventions: papermaking, compass, gunpowder, and printing.

The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove Jikang, Ruanji, Shantao, Xiangxiu, Liu Ling, Wang Rong, and Ruan Xian.

The Eight Monsters of Yangzhou: Jin Nong, Zheng Xie, Huang Shen, Li, Li Fangying, Wang Shishen, Luo Jie, and Gao Xiang.

The Eight Great Men of the Tang and Song dynasties: Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Ouyang Xiu, Su Xun, Su Shi, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi, and Zeng Gong.

The Eight Immortals of Drinking Li Bai, He Zhizhang, Li Shizhi, Li last night, Cui Zongzhi, Su Jin, Zhang Xu, Jiao Sui.

The Four Famous Dancers: Mei Lanfang, Cheng Yanqiu, Shang Xiaoyun, and Xun Huisheng.

Three mountains: Mount Huangshan in Anhui Province, Mount Lushan in Jiangxi Province, and Mount Yandang in Zhejiang Province.

Five mountains Henan Songshan (Zhongyue), Shandong Taishan (Dongyue), Shaanxi Huashan (Xiyue), Hunan Hengshan (Nanyue), Shanxi Hengshan (Beiyue).

Five Lakes: Poyang Lake, Dongting Lake, Tai Lake, Hongze Lake and Chaohu Lake.

Four Seas: Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East Sea and South Sea.

Five Ridges: Dagengling, Riding Field Ridge, Dupang Ridge, Mengzhu Ridge, Yuecheng Ridge.

Six animals: cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, chickens and dogs.

The four famous bridges are Guangji Bridge, Zhaozhou Bridge, Luoyang Bridge, and Lugou Bridge.

The Four Great Grottoes Mogao Grottoes (Dunhuang, Gansu), Yungang Grottoes (Datong, Shanxi), Longmen Grottoes (Luoyang, Henan), and Maijishan Grottoes (Tianshui, Gansu).

The Four Great Monument Forests Xi'an Monument Forest (Xi'an, Shaanxi), Confucius Temple Monument Forest (Qufu, Shandong), Nanmen Monument Forest (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Earthquake Monument Forest (Xichang, Sichuan).

The Four Great Pagodas Songyue Temple Pagoda, Feihong Temple, Shijiazhuang Temple, and Qianxun Pagoda.

The four famous Taoist mountains Hubei Wudang Mountain, Sichuan Qingcheng Mountain, Jiangxi Longhu Mountain, Anhui Qiyun Mountain.

The four famous pavilions Huxin Pavilion (Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province), Drunken Master Pavilion (Chuzhou, Anhui Province), Tao Ran Pavilion (Beijing), Ai Evening Pavilion (Changsha, Hunan Province).

Four famous temples Qixia Temple (Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), Guoqing Temple (Tiantai, Zhejiang Province), Lingyan Temple (Jinan, Shandong Province), Yuquan Temple (Dangyang, Hubei Province).

Five famous kilns Jun kiln, Ru kiln, official kiln, Ding kiln, brother kiln.

Five Dynasties Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, Later Zhou.

Ten Kingdoms: Wu, Southern Tang, Wu-Yue, Chu, Former Shu, Later Shu, Southern Han, Jingnan, Min, Northern Han.

The four great Yuan composers Guan Hanqing, Bai Pu, Ma Zhiyuan, and Zheng Guangzu.

The Four Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty: Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, and Luo Binwang.

Seven ancient capitals: Xi'an, Nanjing, Beijing, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Hangzhou and Anyang.

The seven major bookcollecting pavilions of the Qing Dynasty, Wen Yuan Ge, Wen Yuan Ge, Wen Jin Ge, Wen Su Ge, Wen Zong Ge, Wen Hui Ge and Wen Lan Ge.

The four divine beasts Green Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird and Xuanwu.

The four paintings of the four gentlemen Plum, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum.

The four great ancient Chinese dramas: The West Wing, Peach Blossom Fan, Peony Pavilion, and The Palace of Eternal Youth.

The five grains usually refer to rice, millet, jasmine, wheat and beans.

The Three Emperors usually refer to Fuxi, Suiren and Shennong.

The Five Emperors usually refer to Huangdi, Zhuanxu, ?àcu, Tang Yao, and Yu Shun.

The three collections of sutras, laws, and treatises.

The six roots eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind.

The six internal organs Stomach, Gallbladder, Sanjiao, Bladder, Large Intestine, Small Intestine.

The eight strands are breaking, undertaking, starting to speak, starting, starting, middle and back.