Fans of Chinese and Mandarin
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
Well, in my humble opinion, for many foreigners whose native languages are quite different from the Chinese language, learning the Chinese language means undergoing a totally new learning experience. It’s like going on a journey where what they have learnt in their native languages or other foreign languages could not help them very much. I … Read more
Well, let’s use the latest version of a textbook teaching the Chinese language to Chinese students who are in their first year at primary schools as an example. This book was first published by People‘s Education Press, or 人民教育出版社 in Chinese, in 2016. And it has been used in the first semester of the first … Read more
In general, Mandarin Chinese is not as difficult or impossible as you might think, but not easy to become fluent in, either. Some reasons that Mandarin Chinese is easier than you think: Pinyin is an intuitive and simple way for English speakers to learn spoken Chinese. It negates the obstacle of written Chinese Verbs are … Read more
Ancient India has many records in ancient Chinese documents There are also many names “Yindu” is the one that is used more often, so it has been passed down to this day and has become the official name. Let me give a brief introduction to the names of India in ancient China: 1. Shendu, Xintou, … Read more
Chinese characters are basically a language of pictures, which contain within them subtle relationships, images, and memories that cannot be captured by alphabetic language. Imagine if all the movies in the world disappeared, and in their place were written summaries and descriptions of those movies. Imagine only being able to “experience” those movies through these written summaries, … Read more
For most of ancient China, chopsticks were called “箸zhù”(Evidence can be found in a large number of ancient documents), and Chinese neighbors learned this name. Later, due to some customs changes, Chinese people changed their chopsticks to “筷kuài”, while their Asian neighbors still used the old name箸. In some parts of China today, some dialects … Read more