Are Chinese Characters really difficult to write? We give you 4 tips to make learning Characters not only effective, but also more fun. Tip 1 Memorize the most common used radicals Radical is the logic in characters. It partly explains why a character is as it is. Even if you don’t recognize a character,…
Red – is related to positive energy. It symbolizes fortune, joy and luck. Red is the color in celebrations, for example, the Chinese New Year and marriage ceremony. It’s tradition to give red envelope on New Year’s day. The red envelope is called: hóng bāo 红包。 In marriage, costumes for both grooms and brides are predominantly red. White –…
No facebook, no twitter. What are the social media platforms used by Chinese? In this article, we will present 5 most popular social channels: Tencent QQ ( 腾讯 téng xùn QQ) [qq] It started with an instant messaging software service, and also offers a variety of other services, including online social games, music, shopping, micro blogging,…
By principle you dislike big cities. They are crowded, noisy and polluted. You live in a small town in southeastern China and you’re very happy because of that. Once in a while however, you feel the need to see something more – to see, so called ‘big world’. Weather it is out of curiosity, or…
Generally speaking, picking a gift is an acquired skill. This is especially true in Chinese culture. As a country carrying a long heritage of courtesy (礼lǐ), gift-giving in China is certainly a gesture of art. Presents, 礼物（lǐwù） in Chinese, literally means “a courtesy item”. While courtesy is a cultural construction, if one does not know…
Coincidentally this year’s Valentine’s Day is also the Chinese Lantern Festival. In Chinese we call it “yuán xiāo jié”(元宵节). It is on the fifteenth of the first month in the lunar calendar. “yuán” stands for the first month of the year, and “xiāo” means “night”, thus it is “The Night of the First Month”. Why is this night so…
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