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Originating from eastern Inner Mongolia, this Mongolian folk song, characterized by its gentle, drawn-out melody, which (often) arouses i...
As mentioned in my last journal entry, the post-80s were born after the "reform and opening-up" but the country was still exper...
打酱油
Before 2008, this word had a very ordinary word which literal is "to buy a bottle of soy", but one day when a journalist...
篆书（zhuàn shū） is the general term of 大篆 and 小篆. 大篆 was used in Zhou Dynasty (1046BC-256BC). Broadly speaking，甲骨文(Oracle bone inscriptions...
Today is Dec.8 in Chinese lunar calendar, we called it 腊月初八, also "腊八" for short.
It's a traditional sacred day for reward the...
During 1966 to 1976, China was at "Cultural Revolution" period, which is a completely chaos times, but for post-70s, they just ...
Time goes fast, year 2010 will end at today. The world is changing every day, we changed ourselves every day too. In this year, maybe we ...
China has a large terrain, and a variety of ethnos and region cultures. There are many local classical folk songs spreaded, but which one...
generation of Chinese people 中国人的世代归类
In my opinion，there are 3 evident generations existed in Chinese society, usually Chinese people...
Today is a busy day, at the end of a year, there always many many things to be thorough evaluation
今天是非常忙的一天，每到年末，总是有许多事情要进行全面总结
Eggs contain ample nutrition, such as protein, fat, amino acid, vitamin and kalium, ferri, calcium etc, especially the lecithin can impro...
金文Bronzeware script
It's means "characters on metal vessel",they were found on bronze wares, so that get the mame. It was us...
According to Chinese legends, the Chinese Characters were created by 仓颉(cāng jié), who was the historiographer of 黄帝 (Yellow Emperor), th...
祝大家圣诞快乐！新年快乐！
Though in China people didn't high on Christmas, I decide go out for find some delight, oh it's too cold outside!
One day a little white rabbit went to a bakery and asked:"have you 100 cake bread?"
The boss answered:"sorry we have not ...
Today is the "winter solstice" on Chinese lunar calendar, which is the 22nd solar term of all 24.
Today the sun shoot at r...
静夜思 李白
床前明月光，
疑是地上霜，
举头望明月，
低头思故乡。
Mind In Silence Night
author Li Bai(701-762AD)
Moonlight shine before bed,
Like frost on g...
Beijing was convening agency hearing about traffic Jams recently. It's a problems lasted for years. It's said now Beijing has more than ...
画蛇添足（hua4 she2 tian1 zu2）draw a snake add feet
This idiom come from the story of 《战国策》(Intrigues of the Warring States), the author of...
4）会意 associative compounds，using pictogram or self-explanatory characters compose a new meaning, for example “明”，means "bright"...
