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The language and ancient culture of China includes not just the world's most enormous country but spreads across various countries of Asia - and increasingly, well beyond. Here we explore all aspects of that culture.
Here, too, is your spot for asking questions, finding resources, and/or just hanging out & chatting in Chinese (mostly Mandarin, but Cantonese and others welcome, too!).
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Hung Chung Chih When I first witnessed a performance of Peking opera (the best-known form of Chinese opera, with Peking by the way being the traditional English spelling of Beijing) years ago in Beijing’s ornate, early-19th-century Huguang Guild Hall, I admit I was mesmerized by the gestalt of this elaborate art form. Unlike Western opera, it’s even more stylized, with exaggerated gestures, vocalisations, and heavily symbolic costume and makeup (and in some cases obviously extremely fakey…
Read more…RootOfAllLight Lunar New Year 2024 has just ended, landing us in the year of the Dragon, and it got me to thinking: there´s quite a bit out there on where/how to travel according to Western star signs, aligning destinations with your astrological characteristics, but you don´t hear much of anything on the subject when it comes to Chinese astrology. As someone who´s studied Chinese and Sinic culture, I looked into it a bit, and here´s what I came up with, with a couple of destination…
Read more…A slightly long (just over 24 minutes) but interesting documentary about the evolving culture of contemporary China from the ENDEVR channel of business-oriented documentaries. A great leap forward, indeed!
Read more…You might wonder why this is even a question. But in fact, the Chinese-speaking world has its own big Lunar New Year celebration (in 2021, it's 12 February), and so while much of the rest of the planet makes a big deal out of New Year's Eve tonight, for many of the nearly 1½ billion inhabitants of this vast country, it simply isn't all that much of a thing. There are of course exceptions, and that's what I'm here to talk about. read post
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BTW, would the creation of threads be facilitated by use of the "start a discussion" module that appears above? It only just occurred to me now!
And you thought translating legal documents was hard!
Thanks for the song, it's beautiful as music and as poetry. You can embed the YouTube video right on the comment here, you know: just copy the code where it says "Embed" to the right of the video on YouTube, and paste it here in the comment. The result:
Not bad, but I'm a purist. I still prefer the original!
The Chinese lyrics follow. When I have time, I'll attempt a translation, but it's poetry--REALLY difficult!
夢田
每個人心裡一畝 一畝田
每個人心裡一個一個夢
一顆啊一顆種子
是我心裡的一畝田
用它來種什麼
用它來種什麼
種桃種李種春風
開盡梨花春又來
那是我心裡一畝一畝田
那是我心裡一個 不醒的夢
3 times needs to be fixed somehow. Or it will become one time yesterday, or one time in the past, but that doesn't reflect it..
But you guys are great..
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