Chinese Culture (Philosophy): Numbers, Orientation, Five Elements (Wuxing)

Learn Chinese Philosophy through interesting presentations and fun activities!

 

This product is useful to students who are interested in Chinese culture and Asian studies.

 

Contents:

- 1 presentation file in PPT format (54 slides)

- 1 presentation file in PDF format (54 slides)

- 2 printable game card files for activity (both PPT and PDF format)

 

Teachers can use the slide for introducing Chinese Philosophy directly. There are 3 easy-organizing activities and some short cultural discussions in the presentation slides, which is helpful to make students understand the content.

 

The outline of the presentation slides is as follow:

1. Chinese Numbers

- Implicit meaning of numbers 1-10

- Numbers Chinese people like and dislike in daily life

- Numbers with special meaning (e.g., 520, 666, 1314.)

2. Chinese Orientation Words

- Direction words

- Position words

3. The Five Elements

- Relation between five elements and orientation

- Relation between five elements and season

- Interaction between five elements: "Generating and Overcoming."

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Thank you so much and I hope you enjoy this lesson.