the origins of Chinese moon cake

Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival : Moon Cake,Traditions and Legends

Chinese Mid-Autumn festival ( the Moon Festival ) Chinese mid-autumn festival (中秋节, Zhōngqiū jié) is the second biggest festival a the Chinese New Year. It is held on the 15th of August according to the Chinese Lunar calendar. Lasting 3 to 7 days, depending on the year and where it falls in the calendar. In[…]

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Interesting Chinese Culture Facts

Are You Interesting Chinese Culture Facts? Are you curious about interesting Chinese culture facts? You may know that China has the world’s largest population, about 1.38 billion people, followed by India and US. For the record, one in every five people is Chinese. As the most-populated country, China owns a wide variety of cultures, traditions[…]

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Tourists Must Know – Useful Chinese Sentences for Traveling

Before going abroad, we usually try to learn the basic foreign language phrases in order to communicate more efficiently with locals. The following are some useful Chinese sentences that tourists must prepare when going to Chinese-speaking countries. From food, clothes, housing, transportation, and entertainment, we will show you the sentences and phrases you may use in[…]

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You Are How You Eat – Chinese Table Manners

Chinese Table Manners When visiting your Chinese friends, it’s very likely to have a meal with them, or even with their family! There are some rules in Chinese table etiquette. Although Chinese would not be strict on you because you are from different cultures, you should know some dos and don’ts to prevent any embarrassment.[…]

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Chinese Medicine Treatments You Must Know

Chinese Medicine Treatments Scorching summer’s coming, and that means ice cream, beaches, sports, and, unfortunately, heat stroke! More people got heat stroke when they were active under high temperature for long hours and lack of water. The treatments for heat stroke can simply drink more water and move to a cooler place. While in Chinese[…]

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Pinyin Table for Beginners

When you are occupied with Chinese language learning and begin to learn Chinese language, you most likely discover that there are two diverse phonetic letter sets you can take in the dialect. One is through the Pinyin framework and the other is Zhuyin framework. We will reveal to you why a solitary dialect can have[…]

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How to bargain in Chinese + How to haggle in China

How to Bargain in Chinese In China, it is all about “bargaining”! Everything is negotiable! Therefore, besides shopping in supermarkets or malls, you should try to bargain with Chinese vendors in markets. The first price is always too high and especially if a foreigner asks for. Therefore, people should know some basic Chinese phrases to[…]

China Emergency Number

China Emergency Number You Need to Know

    China Emergency Number You Need to Know Accidents don’t follow any rules. Most of them happen in moments when we don’t expect it at all. Although most of us aren’t willing to encounter ones, we must handle some emergent situation or troubles during our trips to foreign countries. We already learn the most[…]

Greetings friends in Chinese

Learn Chinese Greeting Words – Meeting People in Mandarin

Learn Chinese Greeting Words! Greeting friends in the Chinese language is not as hard as you think. It’s always nice to start a relationship with “greeting”. And you are required to have a basic concept of it in order to ask Chinese locals for help or express your needs. This post is totally what you[…]

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Chinese Numbers 1-100 | Learn to Count to 99 in Chinese

Chinese Numbers 1-100 Let’s learn how to count in Chinese today. Good news, the numerical system in Chinese language learning is very straightforward and simple! Different from English, it doesn’t require you to count multiples of ten such as twenty, or forty in unique way, and it doesn’t require you to add “-teen” after numbers[…]

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Thank You in Chinese

How to say thank you in Chinese When starting to learn Chinese there are certain necessary phrases you need to learn first. And isn’t it better to start with the polite ones? So we’re going to start with a word second in importance only to ‘Ni Hao!’. A word you will hear frequently throughout your[…]

how to ask name in mandarin

How to Ask Name in Mandarin?

How to ask name in Mandarin? Getting to know someone else isn’t always that simple — especially when it is in another language. Trying to speak even just a few sentences in the native language of a foreigner you want to get to know, always shows your interest and respect to that person. And as we[…]