Integrating Chinese Cultures

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Integrating Chinese Cultures Language into
Academic Curriculum

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• Agean Kung

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Chinese Languages Cultures

• Know your trainers
• What is Chinese?
• Brainstorming
• Todays Agenda

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Chinese Languages Cultures

• Time Allocation
• 830-1000
• 1015-1145
• 1245-1415
• 1430-1600

• Agenda
• Daily Conversation
• Chinese Cultures
• Healthy Living
• Philosophy Religion
• Festivals
• Food Customs
• Cultural Activities
• Integrate Chinese into Subject Areas

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Ice Breaker

• Know your Chinese Zodiac
• design your name stand with zodiac sign.
• Design your name stand
• Name
• Zodiac sign in Chinese character
• Compatible and conflicting signs

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12 Chinese Zodiac Signs
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Triangles of Affinity
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Speaking Chinese

• Self-introduction
• Hello (How are you?) / Nín hama!
• I am (American)./ Wo Shi (Mei guó ren).
• Thank you (Thanks)./ Xiexie.
• Excuse me./ Dui bu qi!
• Advanced Conversation
• Lesson 3, 4, 5, 6 from Global Chinese Language
  and Culture Online http//edu.ocac.gov.tw/CultureE
  nglish/Englishhome.htm

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Written Languages (I)

• Composing Chinese characters
• Basic Shapes in writing
• é sun moon ë
• s mountain field Ð
• W up down U
• ¹
• dawn
• Practice Chinese calligraphy

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Chinese Written Languages (II)

• The Structure of Chinese Character
• Meaning, Pronunciation, Shape
• Six Categories
• (1) hsiang hsing
• (2)chih shih W up, down U
• (3)hui yi rest ð H integrity
• (4)hsing sheng river ªe creek
• (5)chia chieh/chuan chu back I

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Folk Songs Dance

• Folk Dance
• Chopstick Dance
• Aboriginal Dance
• Bamboo Dance
• Ribbon Dance

• Folk Songs
• White Egret
• Green Mountain
• Unveil Your Face
• Ribbon Dance Song

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Õ ÆO Åî

• White Egret Pushed a dust
  basket
• Õ ÆO Åî c
  ºß
• bay ling see cha bwen kei
• Pushed it to the harbor
• ì ä ªü
  Ãä
• cha gau gone ah been
• Felt down Found one cent
• _at_ Ë B ì _at_ À
  ú
• bah ge dao kyo dau ge cent
  jin

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Culture I Healthy Living

• Medicine
• Animal, plant, and mineral products
• Medicine boiled in soup or made into tea
• Concept of Yin Yang
• Yang masculine, active, advancing
• Yin feminine, passive, receding
• Five Centers of Body
• Heart/mind, lungs, liver, spleen, kidneys
• Seasons and Weather
• Wind, cold, heat, moisture, dryness, internal
  heat
• The Legend of Shen Nung
• Chi-Concept Acupuncture
• Tai-Chi Shai-Sho-Kong (Arms Swing Exercise)

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Culture II Philosophy Religion

• 25 official dynastic histories/13 arose
• Han nation
• Sages and Hundred Schools of Thought
• Confucian, Taoist, Mohist, Dialectician, Legalist
• Yin-yang Tai-chiChinese View
• Way of Heaven vs. Way of Man
• Unity of heaven and man
• Filial pietyfamilial ethic springing and
  clan-oriented society
• Religious Beliefs
• Confuciusethical plane
• Taoismartistic plane
• Buddhismreligious plane

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Culture III Festivals I

• Lunar New Year
• Concept Nien , Kung-hsi-fa-tsai ³ß µo
• Rituals Spring couplets, red envelops, dragon
  lion dance, new clothes,
• FoodFish, garlic chives, turnips, fish and meat
  balls, rice cake, dumplings
• Superstitions incense
• sticks, candles, joss sticks
• Taboo knives and scissors,
• bad language, sweeper

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Culture III Festivals II

• Dragon Boat (Lunar May 5th)
• Concept "Poet's Festival." in memory of Ch'u
  Yuan's death
• Rituals Dragon Boat Race, hanging branches of
  fragrant herbs, either Chinese mugwort or
  calamus, and herb-filled sachets to ward off evil
  spirits and bring good fortune.
• Food Rice Dumplings, tsung tzu, wine
• Folk Tale White Snake Lady

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Culture III Festivals II

• Chu Yuans Poem
• In summer's oppressive early heatThe trees
  and grasses flourishBut I, guarding painful
  memories,Forever grievingIn exile in this
  southern regionSee only darkness and
  obscurity.A silent loneliness pervades
  all....The confused world knows me notHaving no
  way to understand.With death inevitableThere is
  no need for reluctance.I call to those before me
  Who died for justice.I soon will join your
  ranks!

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Culture III Festivals III

• Moon Festival (Lunar August 15th)
• Concept worship the moon god, earth god (T'u-ti
  Kung).
• Rituals Moon appreciation and family gathering.
• FoodMoon cake and pomelos.
• Folk story Moon Old Matchmaker
• Taboo no finger pointing to the
  moondisrespectful.

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Culture IV Cousins Etiquette

• Food
• Northern and Southern styles
• color, aroma, and flavor
• the five flavors of sweet, sour, bitter, piquant,
  and salty for five major organ systems of the
  body (the heart, liver, spleen/pancreas, lungs,
  and kidneys)
• Table Manner
• meals must be taken while seated
• a set order of seating men, women, old and young
• main courses with chopsticks soup with a spoon
• banquets on table basis, with ten to twelve
  persons.
• four appetizer dishes (cold cut platters or hot
  hors d'oeuvres), six to eight main courses, then
  one savory snack-type dish and a dessert

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Culture IV Clothing

• Pien-fu, chang-pao,(long robe) , and shen-i.
• Darker colors for ceremonial occasions lighter
  ones for everyday and around the house
• Green for spring, red for summer, white for
  autumn, and black for winter
• traditional Chinese colors of pure red, blue, and
  green
• The ch'i-p'ao is a traditional Manchu design
  still popular today

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Culture IV Manners

• Greet people by head nodding
• Hand shakes only in business
• Show respect by bowing
• Avoid direct eye contact to elders
• Humble is a great virtue
• Gender difference in physical contact
• Hugging is a cultural taboo especially to
  strangers.

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Cultural Activities

• Art Craft
• Making Fan
• Bread dough
• Knotting bracelets
• Steamed bun

• Games
• Chess
• I-Chin
• Chopstick competitions

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Integrating Chinese into Academic Subjects I

• MathAbacus
• ScienceSilk Worm
• Language ArtsChinese Proverb
• Social StudiesChinese Map, Geography

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Integrating Chinese into Academic Subject
Mathematics

• Use of the Abacus in the Math Curriculum
• http//plato.educ.ou.edu16080/abacus/
• or
• http//www.okcps.org/curriculum/
• foreignlanguage/abacus/

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Integrated Chinese into Academic Subjects-- II

• MathMagic Square
• ScienceAstronomy and Milky way
• Language ArtsCreation of Chinese character,
  poetry (Lyric)
• Social StudiesTimeline of Chinese Civilizations,
  Footprints. p.23-24

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Integrated Chinese into Academic Subjects--III

• MathTangram
• Science Compass, Firecracker
• Language Arts
• Folk stories
• Empty pot,
• Two of Everything,
• Emperor Kite
• Social Studies
• Monuments
• Great Wall, Terra Cotta Army

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Asian Values and China Today

• Chinese Education System
• Family Values
• Creation of People's Republic of China and R.O.C.

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Questions and Discussion

• Visual Arts Music
• Tea Snacks