神笔马良(shén bǐ mǎ liáng)
A Magic Paint Brush is a story of greedy and desire. Once upon a time, there was a young man called Ma Liang. He was poor but kind. He helped …
Read MoreChinese characters—–中国汉字 历史
The Chinese characters constitute one of mankind’s oldest systems of writing with the most users in the world. There are many Chinese characters, totaling about 60,000, with about 6,000 basic …
Read MoreTop 10 Chinese Cultural Symbols
As the biggest developing country in the world and the popular travel destination for numerous foreigners, China has a long history of more than 5000 years, which brings up the …
Read More“感动” VS”激动”(gǎn dòng / jī dòng)
Both 感动 and 激动 can show a person’s change of emotion after he/she is stimulated. They all have two structures. 1 A 使B 感动/ A 使B 激动 他的话使我非常感动——-What he …
Read More指鹿为马—-point at a deer, call it a horse
You may know “马鹿” in Japanse is stupid in English. But do you know this phrase from a Chinese idiom “指鹿为马”? 指鹿为马(zhǐ lù wéi mǎ)——-point at a deer, call it …
Read More草船借箭—-Borrowing Your Enemy’s Arrows
草船借箭,出自中国四大名著之一的三国演义。讲述的是诸葛亮和周瑜之间的小故事。 一起来看看丞相大人的谋略吧! This is an interesting story from the Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in ancient China when the Wei and Wu kingdoms joined together to fight against the …
Read More歪果仁的中国游记 Foreigners’ travel blog in China
With the development and modernization of China, more and more foreigners come to China and live here for a long time. That is not only because of the good environment …
Read More怎么分辨 “的” “地” “得” How to distinguish “的” “地” “得” in Chinese?
This is a big problem in the most of foreigners’ Chinese language studying. Actually, they are not so complex, all you should do is to remember such three sentence patterns. …
Read More你适合喝什么茶? What kind of Chinese tea should you drink?
Everybody knows Chinese tea. In the ancient China, tea is a symbol of your statement. The most expensive tea is Longjing which can only be drunk by the emperor. Nowadays, …
Read More“不”和”没”的区别 The difference between “不”and”没”
In Chinese learning, you may see these two characters very often. “不” and”没”. They are the meaning of “not” in English but have some little difference in their using. 1 …
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