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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This is a quiz about China, its history and culture from Timesonline. Try it and test your knowledge about China!
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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 [...]
It is a famous 宋词(sòng cí ) written by a great poet, 苏轼(sū shì ) Su Shi, also commonly known as 苏东坡(sū dōng pō ) Su Dongpo (1037-1101). It is a poem about moon, about love, about life.
In 1983, 梁弘志 (liáng hóng zhì ) Liang Hongzhi composed this poem into an song entitled [...]
Olympic Games is coming. I think introducing the mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games is not only interesting, it is important for the children to know more about them. The choice of the design, the names convey the Chinese traditional and culture. The official Mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, instead the usual one or [...]
It is not exactly the original version of “Happy Birthday to you” in Chinese, but it is good video for this topic. Hope you all enjoy it.
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