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新年好!
xīn nián hǎo!
恭喜发财!
gōng xǐ fā cái
Here are some videos regarding Chinese spring festival and celebrations, some were posted before, one was a new addition:
Introduction to Spring Festival
Please have a look at my old post
Dragon Dance
Chinese Zodiac
Please have a look at this post.
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January 22nd, 2012 | Posted in Tradition and Culture | No Comments
Again, here comes the day for Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, a day for family to get together , eating moon cakes and grapes as well as enjoying the full moon.
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!
To understand more about the festival, please read this post.
There is a beautiful song “Wishing We Last Forever” you might also want [...]
September 12th, 2011 | Posted in Tradition and Culture | 1 Comment
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 [...]
March 28th, 2011 | Posted in Chinese culture in picture | No Comments
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 [...]
March 4th, 2011 | Posted in Amazing China, Chinese Basic Words, Chinese culture in picture, General | No Comments
恭贺大家新春快乐,吉祥如意,万事称心!
Happy new year!
Here is an introduction of Chinese New Year you may find interesting.
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February 3rd, 2011 | Posted in Tradition and Culture | No Comments
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 [...]
February 1st, 2011 | Posted in Chinese culture in picture, Tradition and Culture | 2 Comments
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Happy Chinees Mid-Autumn Festival! Enjoy the round moon, delicious mooncakes, grapes, and lots of family atmosphere!
To read more about this special festival, click here.
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September 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Tradition and Culture | No Comments
Two little one-eyed mascots - Olympic mascot Wenlock, Paralympic mascot Mandeville - were unveiled to the world recently. Here is the story video explaining where they came from. Of course, the video is in Chinese!
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May 25th, 2010 | Posted in Cartoons in Chinese, Chinese songs, General, life-event | No Comments
Chinese Puppet 1
Chinese puppets have thousands of history. They are beautiful, vivid, showing life on the stage. This program introduces different types of Chinese puppets, puppet show performers and puppet-making techniques in the past thousand years. This is a good film to introduce Chinese folk culture.
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March 17th, 2010 | Posted in Tradition and Culture | 2 Comments