Learning Chinese Language and Culture is an intermediate level textbook intended to be used throughout an entire school year and designed for students who have completed introductory courses of Chinese as a foreign language. Written in English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, this book illustrates Chinese language knowledge and introduces Chinese culture in twenty-two lessons, covering a variety of cultural content, including customs and manners, holidays and festivals, poems and idioms, calligraphy and couplets, myths and legends, feng shui and superstitions, and historical relics and sceneries and many others. In every lesson, the authors have strived to maintain a clear topic and a coherent structure. They have also endeavored to keep the contents lively and achieve a fluent writing style while closely controlling the structure and grammar of every lesson. Audio recordings of texts and vocabularies are available online to help students practise and improve their listening ability. From cover.

Chinese Valentine's Day --Knot Hair Couples Grow Old Together -- Equality of Men and Women -- Small Feet and Long Braids -- Every Family Has Their Elderly Members -- Entertainment and Exercise for the Elderly -- Special Foods for Festivals and Holidays -- Chinese Food -- Touring Around China -- Seeing a Doctor in China -- Myths and Folklore -- Love-Trees and Lovebirds -- The Origins of Chinese Idioms -- Chinese Classical Poetry -- The Implications of Colors -- Flowers and Flower Language -- "To Suffer Loss is Good Forfune" and "It's Hard to Pretend to Be Confused" -- Addressing People and Politeness in China -- Religious Beliefs of Chinese People -- Chinese People's Superstitions -- The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River -- Yellow River