Chinese opera is a popular form of drama and musical theatre in China with a history of over 1000 years. It evolved from early simple forms of Chinese drama that incorporated music, song, dance, martial arts and acrobatics. By the 13th century during the Song Dynasty, Chinese opera had reached its mature form. Different regional operas also developed, such as Beijing Opera and Sichuan Opera. Ancient Chinese used a sundial-like instrument called a "rigui" to divide the day into 12 hours represented by 12 animals.

1. 汉语和中国文化
Hànyǔ hé zhōngguó wénhuà

2. 天 tiān sky, day 昨天 今天 明天
zuó tiān jīn tiān míng tiān

3. 北京
běi jīng

4. Chinese opera
Chinese opera is a popular form of drama and musical
theatre in China with roots going back to the early
periods in China. It is a composite performance art that
is an amalgamation of various art forms that existed in
ancient China, and evolved gradually over more than a
thousand years, reaching its mature form in the 13th
century during the Song Dynasty. Early forms of Chinese
drama are simple, but over time they incorporated
various art forms, such as music, song and dance,
martial arts, acrobatics, as well as literary art forms to
become Chinese opera.

5. 京剧
jīng jù
Beijing Opera
川剧
chuān jù
Sichuan Opera

6. Ancient Chinese people use
"rigui" to measure detail time in
a day.
According to the direction of
the shadow of the huge needle,
one day is divided into 12 hours
which are represented by 12
animals. The 1st hour is from
11pm to 1am----the hour of
mouse. The last hour known as
pig is from 9pm-11pm .
China Millennium
Monument

7. 12 Chinese zodiac animals

8. 时 (shí)
什么时候 ?
shén me shí hou
A: 你什么时候来？
nǐ shén me shí hou lái ？
B: 我现在来。
wǒ xiàn zài lái .

9. A: 你什么时候去？
nǐ shén me shí hou qù ？
B: 我现在去。
wǒ xiàn zài qù .

10. Question Prenouns
什么？ What?
谁？ Who?
哪儿？ Where?
什么时候？ What time?(When?)

11. 太（ tài ） too;extremely
tài+Adj+le!
太 +Adj+ 了 !
很好。 他很忙。 我很高兴。
太好了！ 他太忙了！ 我太高兴了！

12. making suggestions
我们 ······ ，好吗？
Let's ······ ， OK?

13. A: 明天我们去 ______, 好吗？
míngtiān wǒmen qù hǎo ma ？
B: 太好了！ _______ 很有意思。
tài hǎo le! hěn yǒu yì si.
游泳
yóuyǒng
打板球
dǎ bǎn qiú
看京剧
kàn jīng jù
打篮球
dǎ lán qiú

14. Achievement
1. Master some basic strokes.
2. Master Hanzi:
去、昨天、今天、明天、太、时
3. Question Prenoun ：什么时候？
4. How to make a suggestion?
...... 好吗？ 可以吗？
5.How to say Great! interesting.
6.Know about Chinese Opera and ancient
Chinese time system.