What is “heaven” that ancient Chinese worshiped?
The word “worship” is very misleading here because it has religious connotations. The Chinese don’t “worship” their ancestors; they have ceremonies where they pay respect …
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Why most of African living in China can speak Chinese very well?
Technically speaking, most real African people come from Africa came to China to live in the real life here. By real African people I mean …
Why did “Virgin Mary”（圣母）become a derogatory term in slang Chinese, meaning “a hypocrite who urges others to have empathy but doesn’t act with it”?
This is a misunderstanding. 圣母 in Chinese internet slang means “A person with the purest virtues and highest sense of honor, a paragon of mankind”, …
What are some funny Chinese names?
When Nissan introduced the Bluebird model in Malaysia, the Chinese name picked for advertisement in Chinese language press was 蓝鸟, which literally means Bluebird. However, …
Why do Chinese use a character that is a combination of the characters for “moon” and “city” to mean “lung”?
Just like English or it’s presuccessor, the Latin language system, uses prefix to indentify a word. 肉 means meat and in ancient symbolic characters, it …
Is Chinese a backward language?
TL;DR From an anglophone POV, Traditional Chinese is indeed a backward language! [Pages 16 {right} – 17 {left} of the Chinese version of Holes, by Louis …
Is there a reason why Chinese characters are written vertically?
In the past Chinese has been written on rolls of bamboo sticks which made it easier to write the characters vertically and from left to …
Is Chinese writing in China inferior to English since English is easier to read and write?
I don’t know about “inferior”, but I would expect that it is harder. When I lived in Hong Kong a lot of my ethnic Chinese …
What does 番菜館 mean in Chinese?
Although the first Chinese character in this term, 番, could mean foreign, the term in the question, 番菜馆, referred to restaurants which served Western food. …
Why does Chinese grammar seem easier and more concise than Japanese and Korean?
Thank you for the request. That’s because Chinese grammar is objectively easier than Korean or Japanese grammar. Now, don’t get me wrong, for an English …