I have been asked several times, “How do Chinese people eat with chopsticks? Do they drink soup with chopsticks too?” Well, chopsticks are the cutlery in China, Chinese people also use other cutlery such as spoons.
photo credit: Huey Yoong
For Chinese people it is easy to eat with chopsticks, but for people who are not [...]
If you don’t understand Chinese, making orders in Chinese restaurants can be difficult. If you want to order meals in a local Chinese restaurant, that can be mission impossible. Luckily, a visual Chinese menu appeared on internet. Since its appearance, it has become really popular among foreigners.
All the characters have the basic shape of the [...]
Chinese New Year, also called Spring Festival, will start on Feb. 03 this year. We will say goodbye to Tiger and say hello to Rabbit — yes, the new year will be Year of Rabbit! In China, people are traveling back home to have the biggest family reunion festival. Abroad Chinese people will celebrate it [...]
Again, MandMX did a great job visualizing a Chinese festival. What is spring festival about? The cartoon says FAMILY, SPRING ROLLS, LUCKY MONEY AND FIREWORKS! Right, family reunion is the festival about. People travel from everywhere of the country back home to get together with their family. Food, lots of food, delicious food will fill [...]
Found a great webpage. Everything about Spring Festival from customs in different cities, common food, to temple activities can be found on this page. The page is however only in Chinese.
Here is the address: http://zt.hudong.com/xisu/?hf=wxcct&pf=wxctf
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Mooncake, 月饼(yuè bǐng ), is the traditional snack for Mid Autumn Festival in China. This year, the mid autumn festival is on Oct. 03. in the previous years, we featured the mid autumn festival history and a theme song, this year, I am glad to share some great comics of mooncakes — MandMX remade [...]
Chinese characters are like drawings. Here are some examples showing how artistic they can be:
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I found a series of very interesting pictures describing the difference between Chinese and German culture. The pictures are from hellishhumor.com . Here I take some examples to share with you.
note: the blue side is German, red side Chinese.
1. Opinions (Meinung / 意见
So, Germans are direct when expressing their opinions while Chinese tend to take [...]
