Tapestry - year 4 - week 20

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Across
  1. 2. a plot of land flooded by means of irrigation and used for growing rice or other semiaquatic plants.
  2. 4. family or ancestral descent; lineage.
  3. 7. Chinese martial arts that focus on striking an opponent’s pressure points with fluid jabs and kicks.
  4. 8. a two-wheeled carriage drawn by a human runner.
  5. 10. a court official of the Chinese Empire; or, the dialect spoken in Beijing.
  6. 13. systems or traditions of training for hand-to-hand combat.
  7. 15. a day or time of religious or other celebration, marked by feasting, ceremonies, or other observances
  8. 16. a minority ethnic group of Southeast Asia who, beginning in the eighteenth century, migrated from southern China to northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, and Burma.
  9. 17. the twelve constellational signs which divide the sun’s ecliptic and the solar year into twelve equal portions.
Down
  1. 1. a period of widespread social and political upheaval in the People’s Republic of China between 1966 and 1976, resulting in nation-wide chaos and economic disarray, initiated by Chairman Mao against the bourgeoisie.
  2. 2. the number or total body of inhabitants in a given place.
  3. 3. a hard, fine-grained, nonporous, and usually translucent and white ceramic ware formed by firing kaolin clay at low temperatures, glazing, and re-firing at very high temperatures.
  4. 4. the procedure of inserting thin needles into various points on the body along the “meridians” of the flow of qi for therapeutic purposes.
  5. 5. the male sovereign ruler of an empire who unites and rules over many lands.
  6. 6. decorative handwriting, usually in a script and often accomplished by means of a brush.
  7. 9. a material object representing something, often something immaterial.
  8. 11. the native ethnic group of China.
  9. 12. the study of the positions and aspects of celestial bodies in the belief that they influence the course of natural earthly occurrences and human affairs.
  10. 14. a Chinese martial art and form of stylized, meditative exercise, characterized by methodically slow circular and stretching movements and positions of bodily balance.