Monthly Archives: August 2011
Beijing climate
Climate Extremely diverse, from tropical in the south to sub-arctic in the north. Beijing has a continental monsoon climate with clear-cut seasons. Spring is dry and windy. Summer is hot and humid. Autumn offers the best weather, with generous sunshine. …
Chinese Home Cooking
Chopped Cold Cucumbers Ingredients: cucumber 300g, garlic 10g, coriander 10g Seasonings: salt 2.5g, sugar 0.5g,vinegar(to taste) Chicken essence seasoning 味精 鸡精 1.5g, sesame oil 芝麻油 a drizzle Cooking steps1. Chop cucumbers length ways or across, as preferred2. Put them in …
Beijing Silk Figurines
Made of thin silk, gauze, damask silk, etc, silk figurines produced in Beijing are a Chinese traditional handicraft. Folk cloth-pinpricked and color-pricked toys and other handicrafts are all closely connected with handcrafting silk figurines. The trade of silk and knit …
Learn Chinese Written styles
There are numerous styles, or scripts, in which Chinese characters can be written, deriving from various calligraphic and historical models. Most of these originated in China and are now common, with minor variations, in all countries where Chinese characters are …
Old Beijing Zhangjiangmian
Zhajiang mian (“fried sauce noodles”) is a northern Chinese dish consisting of thick wheat noodles topped with a mixture of ground pork stir-fried with fermented soybean paste. In Beijing cuisine, yellow soybean paste ( pinyin: huángjiàng) is used, while in …
Traditional Chinese musical instruments
Suona–Chinese oboe 唢呐suǒ nà The instrument often popular called laba (trumpet), firstly appeared in the Wei and Jin period (200-420). Yet it has found great favor ever since the Zhengde period (1506-1520) of the Ming dynasty. Owing to its large …
Popular New Words and Phrases
hūyou 忽悠/Hoodwink ” hū you ” lái zì dōnɡ běi fānɡ yán, běn yì shì ” huànɡ dònɡ “, xiàn zài tōnɡ chánɡ zhǐ ɡuò fèn dì chuī pěnɡ, huò zhě chuī niú, shuō dà huà shǐ rén shī qù …
Context dialogue for learning Chinese
zū lù yǐng dài 租 录 影 带 Renting Video Tapes kǎ luó ： wǒ xiān sheng hé wǒ gāng bān lái zhèn shàng 。 卡 萝 ： 我 先 生 和 我 刚 搬 来 镇 上 。 lì …
Chinese Pots
Pots evolved from ancient wares with large bellies and narrow pouring holes, most of which were used for holding water or liquid food.Todays pots are water vessels with handles, spouts, pouring holes, large bellies and lids. Many are similar to …
Dragon and Tiger in folk art
The tiger is a popular theme in chinese folk art.One may encounter numerous images of tigers in almost all forms of folk artaper-cuts. embroidery sculptre. new year prnts and others.The earliest image of the tiger was discovered iv an ancient …