中国特词汇英语翻译
1.  元宵节： Lantern Festival          2.  刺绣：embroidery  3.  重阳节：Double-Ninth Festival      4.  清明节：Tomb sweeping day    5.  剪纸：Paper Cutting                6.  书法：Calligraphy    7.  对联：(Spring Festival) Couplets    8.  象形文字：Pictograms/Pictographic Characters  10.  四合院：Siheyuan/Quadrangle
11.  战国：Warring States              12.  风水：Fengshui/Geomantic Omen  16.  黄土高原：Loess Plateau  17.  红白喜事：Weddings and Funerals  20.  儒家文化：Confucian Culture  24.  元宵：Tangyuan/Sweet Rice Dumpling   26.  火锅：Hot Pot                   
27.  四人帮：Gang of Four    28.  《诗经》：The Book of Songs  30.  《史记》：Historical Records/Records of the Grand Historian
31.  ：Great Leap Forward (Movement)    32.  《西游记》：The Journey to the West  33.  除夕：Chinese New Year’s Eve/Eve of the Spring Festival  34.  针灸：Acupuncture  35.  唐三彩：Tri-color Pottery of the Tang Dynasty/ The Tang Tri-colored pottery
37.  偏旁：radical      38.  孟子：Mencius    39.  亭/阁： Pavilion/ Attic    41.  火药：gunpowder    42.  农历：Lunar Calendar    43.  印/玺：Seal/Stamp    45.  京剧：Beijing Opera/Peking Opera    46.  秦腔：Crying of Qin People/Qin Opera
47.  太极拳：Tai Chi          49.  天坛：Altar of  Heaven in Beijing  53.  春卷：Spring Roll(s)          54.  莲藕：Lotus Root
56.  故宫博物院：The Palace Museum  57.  相声：Cross-talk/Comic Dialogue  59.  北京烤鸭：Beijing Roast Duck
61.  烟花爆竹：fireworks and firecracker  62.  敦煌莫高窟：Mogao Caves    63.  电视小品：TV Sketch/TV Skit  65.  文化大革命：Cultural Revolutionspring4四合院论坛    67.  门当户对：Perfect Match/Exact Match    68.  《水浒》：Water Margin/Outlaws of the Marsh
70.  文房四宝（笔墨纸砚）："The Four Treasure of the Study"  "Brush, Inkstick, Paper, and Inkstone"
Dragon
• Chinese dragons are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology and folklore.In Chinese art, dragons are typically portrayed as long, scaled, serpentine creatures with four legs. In yin and yang terminology(术语), a dragon is yang and complements a yin fenghuang “Chinese phoenix(长生鸟)".
• In Chinese daily language, excellent and outstanding people are compared to the dragon while incapable people with no achievements are compared with other, disesteemed creatures, such as the worm. A number of Chinese proverbs and idioms feature references to the dragon, for example: “Hoping one‘s son will become a dragon” (望子成龙).
• Many Chinese people often use the term “Descendants of the Dragon” (龙的传人) as a sign of ethnic identity, as part of a trend started in the 1970s when different Asian nationalities were looking for animal symbols for representations.The wolf was used among the Mongols(蒙古), the monkey among Tibetans(西藏).
Fenghuang
• Fenghuang are mythological birds of East Asia that reign over all other birds. The males are called Feng and the females Huang. In modern times, however, such a distinction of gender is often no longer made and the Feng and Huang are blurred into a single feminine entity so that the bird can be paired with the Chinese dragon, which has male connotations.
• In ancient and modern Chinese culture, they can often be found in the decorations for weddings or royalty, along with dragons. This is because the Chinese considered the dragon and phoenix symbolic of blissful（极幸福的） relations between husband and wife, another common yin and yang metaphor.
• “Dragon and Phoenix infants” (龙凤胎) is an expression meaning a set of male and female fraternal twins(异卵双生).
The Great Wall
• The Great Wall of China is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in northern China, built originally to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire against intrusions by various nomadic groups.
• Several walls have been built since the 5th century BC that are referred to collectively as the Great Wall, which has been rebuilt and maintained from the 5th century BC through the 16th century. One of the most famous is the wall built between 220–206 BC by the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang. Little of that wall remains; the majority of the existing wall was built during the Ming Dynasty.
Kung Fu
• China is one of the main birth places of Eastern martial arts.
• The names of martial arts were called Kung Fu or its first name Wushu.
• China also includes the home to the well-respected Shaolin Monastery and Wudang Mountains. The first generation of art started more for the purpose of survival and warfare than art. Over time, some art forms have branched off, while others have retained a distinct Chinese flavor. Regardless, China has produced some of the most renowned martial artists including Wong Fei Hung(黄飞鸿) , Bruce Lee(李小龙)and many others
Chopsticks
• Chopsticks are small tapered sticks used in pairs of equal length as the traditional eating utensils(用具) of China. Generally believed to have originated in ancient China, they can also be found in some areas of Tibet and Nepal that are close to Han Chinese populations. Chopsticks are most commonly made of bamboo or plastic, but are also made of metal, bone, ivory, and various types of wood. The pair of sticks is maneuvered in one hand, between the thumb and fingers, and used to pick up pieces of food.