The traditional Chinese painting "River of Wisdom" has been carefully animated (and music added) and was on display at the Shanghai Expo for months. The video showing the animations is terrific!  So many lesson plans & activities for teaching Chinese could be designed around this video showing daily life in ancient China!  Clothing, transportation, places: what would you use it to teach?

 

In case the video doesn't play, here is the link: River of Wisdom