Fans of Chinese and Mandarin
Because people try to read it like modern Chinese. Modern Chinese is written to be read quickly: read it as quickly as you can and go on to the next article. Classical is written to be read slowly, out loud, sung, chanted (and not recited). Words were chosen with great care. You have to slow … Read more
The spoken Mandarin used today is based on the official pronunciation used in imperial court of the Qing dynasty during the 17th-19th century and sounds very different from those spoken in ancient China. In 1953, the PRC government dispatched a group of linguists to locations nationwide to record speech patterns, trying to identify dialects that … Read more
It’s an OK name, a bit lowbrow, but a perfectly fine name. It shares the same name with a cult, the White Lotus – Wikipedia. But I don’t think it’ll be an issue. What’s your last name? Because Bai Lian is an actual thing (white lotus), your last name might make it sound weird. For … Read more
The following is a bit of a troll/famous meme. Jackie Chan has often been credited with being “the only celebrity who has invented a new Chinese character with his name,” and that is the character DUANG. (People even made a written character for it; it is actually “Cheng Long” (Jackie’s Chinese stage name) written together.) There is an infamous shampoo … Read more
The Malaysian-Chinese kind: Cantonese, Minnan, and Mandarin. I am alright with these languages/dialects spoken in Hong Kong, Macau and parts of Southern China such as Guangdong and Guangxi provinces. I am at home with Malaysian Cantonese – Chinese: 馬來西亞廣東話; Hanyu Pinyin Mǎláixīyà Guángdōnghuà – it is the local variety of Cantonese spoken in Malaysia; the … Read more
You gain access to the secret Chinese menu. What do I mean by that? Allow me to explain. I believe all of us here who lived in an area with a local Chinese restaurant has had the occasional cravings for Chinese food. You know what I am talking about. Those amazing dishes like fried rice, lemon chicken, fried … Read more
No, Mandarin is a northern dialect that has emerged only over the last five or six hundred years. If you transported a Mandarin speaker to the Sung, we would probably be able to understand court language only with difficulty; to the Tang, not very much. Let’s make a sweeping generalization: south of the Yangtze China … Read more
In amongst the simplified characters, there are a few ancient forms, such as 无 where traditional generally uses 無. Now, 无 appears in Shuowen as 奇字 an odd form of 無, but 無 appears in the bronze inscriptions, and 无 does not. Actually, in the oracle inscriptions they used 亡（兦), which you still see in … Read more
All languages in the world are priceless. Because it carries the culture of various ethnic groups. But when you expect to make a lot of money just by writing a few words, Chinese characters are the only option. 陈佩秋 Chen Peiqiu （1922-2020）草书八屏 final price：￥8,625,000 =$1,216,264 《送瘟神》 created by 成忠臣(1964-) Cheng Zhongchen in 2019 final price：￥1,830,000=$ … Read more
Well, if the Chinese characters you refer to are these two Chinese characters circled out in the red color in the following picture, then the reason why they appear on that box is that 尼康, which is pronounced in Pinyin as ní kāng, is the official Chinese name of Nikon. And the Chinese character 尼 … Read more