Crossword Puzzle 1

3. What the ambassadors to the Chinese court were expected to perform.
4. A method of treating pain by piercing the skin at vital points with needles.
5. Enclosed yards with many buildings, in homes with tiled roofs, court yards, and gardens.
8. Allows the "painter," or calligrapher, to express ideas and reveal inner feelings.
9. Reverence for parents and ancestors.
11. Major forces of life.
12. Bureaucracy in which officials were hired on the basis of examinations rather than birth.
15. Generally treeless grasslands.
16. Uncivilized people.
19. Government officials.

1. Political philosophy.
2. Number of people per square mile or square kilometer.
6. The right to rule from heaven, supreme ruler.
7. Foretelling of the future.
10. The study of moral principles.
13. People of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture.
14. Fertile, yellow soil carried by the wind from the Gobi makes the plain a rich farming area.
17. Ruling families.
18. Wealthy landowning families.
20. Wise teachers.