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喝白开水 - drinking boiled water (hot water)

饮茶 - tea drinking

抚琴（古琴）- Guqin playing

静坐/打坐 - sitting meditation

艾灸 - moxibustion

针灸 - acupuncture and moxibustion

推拿 - Chinese therapeutic massage (tuina)

食疗 - food therapy

用筷子 - using chopsticks

佩玉 - wearing jade

香囊 - sachet (xiangnang)

投壶 - pitch-pot

曲水流觞 - winding stream cup

雅集 - elegant gathering (Yaji)

书院讲学 - academy lecturing

私塾 - private school (Sishu)

书法 - Chinese calligraphy

焚香 - incense burning

插花 - flower arrangement

国画 - traditional Chinese painting

拔罐 - cupping therapy

刮痧 - guasha (scraping therapy)

喝粥 - congee eating

穿中式服饰 - wearing traditional Chinese clothing

束发 - hair-binding (men)

用团扇/折扇 - round fan / folding fan

植物染（扎染/蜡染/蓝染）- botanical dyeing (tie-dye / batik)

刺绣 - embroidery

缫丝 - silk reeling

剪纸 - Chinese paper-cut

珠算 - Chinese Zhusuan (abacus)

写家书 - writing family letters

贴福字 - pasting the character Fu

挂灯笼 - hanging lanterns

养金鱼 - keeping goldfish

赏石 - stone appreciation

作揖 - bowing with hands folded

请安 - paying respects

睡火炕 - sleeping on a heated kang

用油纸伞 - oil-paper umbrella

穿布鞋 - cloth shoes

泡脚/足浴 - foot bath

沐汤/泡温泉 - hot-spring bathing

用铜镜 - bronze mirror

荷包 - pouch

长命锁 - longevity lock

蹴鞠 - cuju

捶丸 - Chuiwan (ancient golf)

藏书/晒书 - book collecting / sunning books

工夫茶 - Gongfu tea ceremony

盖碗茶 - bowl-covered tea (Gaiwan tea)

点茶 - whipped tea (Diancha)

斗茶 - tea competition (Doucha)

盆景 - bonsai (penjing)

养鸟/逗鸟 - bird keeping

睡子午觉 - taking noon/night naps by TCM

盘扣 - Chinese frog buttons (Pankou)

缠足（历史习俗）- foot-binding (historical)

篆刻 - Chinese seal engraving

围炉煮茶 - stove-side tea brewing

晨练（太极/八段锦）- morning exercise (taiji/baduanjin)

养蟋蟀 - keeping crickets

逗鸟/遛鸟 - walking birds

品茗对弈 - tea and board games

焚香品茗 - incense and tea

抄经/习字 - sutra copying / calligraphy practice

养花种草 - flower gardening

蓄须/留发（传统发式）- traditional hairstyles

用算盘记账 - keeping accounts with abacus

吃斋/礼佛 - vegetarian diet / Buddhist devotion

火塘文化 - hearth-side gathering

毡房/蒙古包生活 - yurt living

竹楼生活 - stilt-house living

酥油茶/奶茶 - butter tea / milk tea

织锦 - brocade weaving

蜡染日常 - batik in daily life

春节 - the Spring Festival

除夕 - Chinese New Year's Eve

元宵节 - the Lantern Festival

重阳节 - the Double Ninth Festival

冬至 - the Winter Solstice Festival

中元节 - the Zhongyuan Festival

上巳节 - the Shangsi Festival

社日（春社/秋社）- the She Day (community sacrifice)

贴春联 - paste Spring Festival couplets

守岁 - staying up on New Year's Eve (Shousui)

压岁钱 - red envelope / lucky money

舞龙 - dragon dance

舞狮 - lion dance

放鞭炮 - setting off firecrackers

拜年 - paying New Year visits

踏青 - spring outing

登高 - climbing mountains

插茱萸 - wearing dogwood

吃饺子 - eating dumplings (jiaozi)

行拱手礼 - cupped-hand salute (Gongshou)

清明节 - Tomb-Sweeping Day / Qingming Festival

中秋节 - the Mid-Autumn Festival

七夕节 - the Qixi Festival

龙抬头 - the Dragon Head-Raising Festival

浴佛节 - the Buddha Bathing Festival

花朝节 - the Huachao Festival

赏月 - admiring the full moon

吃月饼 - eating mooncakes

扫墓 - sweeping tombs

放风筝 - kite flying

端午节 - the Dragon Boat Festival

腊八节 - the Laba Festival

寒食节 - the Cold Food Festival

小年 - the Little New Year

天贶节 - the Tiankuang Festival

妈祖诞 - Mazu's Birthday

逛庙会 - temple fair

赛龙舟 - dragon boat racing

包粽子 - making zongzi

猜灯谜 - guessing lantern riddles

喝腊八粥 - eating Laba porridge

送灶王 - offering sacrifice to the Kitchen God

迎财神 - welcoming the God of Wealth

饮雄黄酒 - drinking realgar wine

挂艾草 - hanging mugwort and calamus

填仓节 - the Tiancang Festival

泼水节 - the Water-Sprinkling Festival

那达慕 - the Nadam Fair

火把节 - the Torch Festival

三月街 - the Third Month Fair

藏历新年 - the Tibetan New Year (Losar)

望果节 - the Ongkor Festival

雪顿节 - the Shoton Festival

羌年 - the Qiang New Year Festival

古尔邦节 - the Corban Festival

开斋节 - the Eid al-Fitr

达努节 - the Danu Festival

跳花节 - the Jumping Flower Festival

歌圩（对歌）- the Antiphonal Singing Day

盘王节 - the Panwang Festival

目瑙纵歌 - the Munaao Zongge

阔时节 - the Kuoshi Festival

刀杆节 - the Knife-Pole Festival

赶年 - the Tujia New Year

沐浴节 - the Bathing Festival

祭敖包 - the Aobao Worship

三月三（壮族）- the Third Day of the Third Lunar Month

牛王节 - the Ox King Festival

尝新节 - the Taste-New Rice Festival

元宵节游灯 - lantern parade

行花街 - visiting the flower fair

打春牛 - whipping the spring ox

祭孔 - Confucius worship ceremony

游神 - Youshen (parade of the gods)

傩舞 - Nuo dance

赛马 - horse racing

摔跤 - wrestling

射箭 - archery

斗牛 - bullfighting (folk)

斗鸡 - cockfighting

蹴鞠 - cuju (ancient football)

投壶 - pitch-pot (Touhu)

武术 - Chinese martial arts

气功 - qigong

围棋 - Go (weiqi)

踢毽子 - shuttlecock kicking

荡秋千 - swinging

击缶/击鼓 - drumming

踩高跷 - stilt walking

舞龙灯 - dragon lantern dance

皮影戏 - Chinese shadow puppetry

木偶戏（提线/布袋）- puppet show

杂技 - acrobatics

象棋 - Chinese chess (xiangqi)

斗蟋蟀 - cricket fighting

放河灯 - floating river lanterns

社火 - Shehuo (folk street performance)

跑旱船 - land-boat rowing

灯会 - lantern show

相声 - crosstalk

评书 - pingshu (storytelling)

秧歌 - Yangge dance

跳绳 - rope skipping

抖空竹 - diabolo (kongzhu)

英歌舞 - Yingge Dance

打铁花 - Da Tiehua (iron-flower fireworks)

飘色 - Piaose (floating-color parade)

抬阁 - Taige (shoulder-borne pavilion)

川剧变脸 - face-changing (Bian Lian)

五禽戏 - Wuqinxi (Five-Animal Exercises)

八段锦 - Baduanjin (Eight Pieces of Brocade)

捏面人 - dough figurine making

糖画 - sugar painting

草编 - straw weaving

吹糖人 - sugar-blower figurine

拉洋片 - peep-show (layanpian)

太极拳 - Taijiquan

扭秧歌 - Yangge (twisting) dance

花鼓灯 - Huagudeng (flower-drum lantern)

傩戏 - Nuo opera

莲湘 - Lianxiang (bamboo clapper dance)

跑驴 - donkey dance

大头娃娃 - big-head doll dance

舞火狗 - fire-dog dance

跳竹竿 - bamboo-pole dance

抬花轿 - sedan chair carrying

唱大戏 - opera performance

闹元宵 - celebrating the Lantern Festival

打腰鼓 - waist-drum dance

抢孤 - Qiang Gu (pole-climbing contest)

抓周 - Zhuazhou (first-birthday grab)

围炉 - round-the-stove gathering

行花街 - visiting the flower fair

打春牛 - whipping the spring ox

舞龙船 - dragon-boat dance

打陀螺 - spinning top

锅庄 - Guozhuang (circle dance)

芦笙舞 - lusheng dance

摆手舞 - Baishou dance

长鼓舞 - long-drum dance

孔雀舞 - peacock dance

马头琴演奏 - Morin khuur playing

呼麦 - throat singing (Khoomei)

象脚鼓 - elephant-foot drum dance

踩街 - street parade

高台狮子 - high-pole lion dance

三书六礼 - the Three Letters and Six Rites

说媒 - matchmaking

冠礼 - capping ceremony (Guanli)

及笄 - hair-pinning ceremony (Jiji)

坐月子 - sitting the month (postpartum confinement)

报丧 - announcing a death

守灵 - wake (keeping vigil)

吊唁 - offering condolences

出殡 - funeral procession

守孝 - mourning observance

五服 - the five degrees of mourning

祭祖 - ancestor worship

宗族 - clan system

本命年 - zodiac birth year (Benmingnian)

择吉 - choosing an auspicious day

看风水 - fengshui (geomancy)

算命/占卜 - fortune telling

红白喜事 - red and white happy events

随礼 - giving gift money (suili)

座次礼 - seating etiquette

待客敬茶 - serving tea to guests

劝酒 - urging guests to drink

筷不插饭 - no chopsticks upright in rice

不翻鱼 - not flipping the fish

分家 - family division

添丁报喜 - announcing a newborn

定亲（纳征）- betrothal (Nazheng)

迎亲 - wedding procession

跨火盆 - stepping over the fire pan

拜堂 - performing the wedding bow

交杯酒 - drinking cross-cupped wine (Hejin)

闹洞房 - wedding chamber frolic

回门 - returning to the bride's home

哭嫁 - crying marriage song

入赘 - uxorilocal marriage

童养媳（历史）- child bride (historical)

满月酒 - full-month celebration

百日 - hundred-day celebration

剃胎发 - shaving the baby's first hair

抓周 - Zhuazhou (first-birthday grab)

做寿 - birthday celebration for elders

长寿面 - longevity noodles

做七 - the seven-seven rites

纸扎 - paper burial objects

挽联 - funeral couplets

祠堂 - ancestral hall (citang)

修族谱 - compiling genealogy

乡约 - community compact (Xiangyue)

敬老 - respecting the elderly

拜师 - taking a master

结拜 - sworn brotherhood

取名/取字 - given name and courtesy name

避讳 - naming taboo

上梁 - raising the beam

乔迁/暖房 - housewarming

四合院 - siheyuan (courtyard house)

风水镇宅 - house-protecting talismans

汤饼宴 - tangbing feast (birthday noodles)

义庄/善堂 - charitable estate

冥婚（历史）- ghost marriage (historical)

及笄礼（完备）- hair-pinning ceremony

敬老乡饮 - community feast for the aged

上墓（清明）- tomb visiting at Qingming

哭嫁歌（成熟）- crying marriage song

家礼（朱子家礼）- family rites (Zhuzi Jiali)

义庄制度 - charitable estate system

家谱纂修 - genealogy compilation

茶礼待客 - tea etiquette for guests

六礼完备婚书 - complete marriage documents

丧服五等（定式）- five-class mourning attire

祠堂祭祀（盛）- ancestral hall sacrifice

族规乡约（成文化）- written clan rules

抓周添仪 - added first-birthday rites

冥器纸扎（盛）- paper funeral goods

暖房贺居 - housewarming visit

添箱/压箱底 - bridal trousseau customs

回门礼 - return-visit gifts

丧家守制 - mourning seclusion

傣族拴线礼 - thread-tying ceremony

彝族换裙礼 - skirt-changing ceremony

藏族成年礼 - Tibetan coming-of-age

高山族黥面（历史）- facial tattooing (historical)

蒙古族骑马迎亲 - horse-riding bride escort

白族三道茶礼 - three-course tea ritual

羌族成人礼 - Qiang coming-of-age

苗族姊妹节 - Sisters' Festival

朝鲜族抓周（周岁宴）- Korean first-birthday feast

回族起经名 - giving a Muslim name

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