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[Daily News]
Leftover Woman in China
A "leftover woman" (or "shengnv" in Chinese,) officially defined as an urban, educated woman over age 27 who is single. But upon reading feminist websites, she came to believe the term existed to
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[Customs]
The 24 Solar Terms: Autumn Equinox
“Autumn Equinox” is the beginning of autumn and thisday is just at the middle point between “Autumn Begins” to “Hoar-Frost Falls”.
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[Characters]
The Most Strange & Hardest Characters Of All Time
HK Newspaper Mingpao News (明报) found the 23 hardest Chinese characters selected from Kangxi Dictionary (康熙字典, the chinese dictionary edited in Qing dynasty). Few Chinese have seen these cha
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[Songs]
The Moon Represents my Heart
This article talks about The Moon Represents my Heart by Deng Lijun.
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[Grammar]
Usage of Chinese Number
Chinese grammar requires the use of classifiers (measure words) when a numeral is used together with a noun to express a quantity. For example, "three people" (三个人sān ge rén),
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[Customs]
Chinese Numerals汉语数字
Chinese numerals(汉语数字hànyǔ shùzì) are words and characters used to denote numbers in Chinese. Today speakers of Chinese use three written numeral systems
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[Customs]
Lucky Number(2)
The number 5 (五wŭ) is associated with the five elements (Water, Fire, Earth, Wood, and Metal) in Chinese philosophy, and in turn was historically associated with the Emperor of China.
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[Customs]
Lucky Number(1)
Zero The Number 0 (零líng) is a whole number and it is also an even number for the money ends with 0.
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[Customs]
Combinations with Chinese Number(2)
7456: In Mandarin, 7456 (七四五六qī sì wǔ liù) sounds marginally like "氣死我了" (qì sǐ wǒ le, "to make me angry," "to piss me off"), and is sometimes used in internet slang.
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[Customs]
Combinations with Chinese Number(1)
28, 38: As eight means prosperity, twenty eight equates to 'double prosperity', though most Chinese people will typically just read this as "easy to have luck",
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[Customs]
Eight八
The word for "eight" (八bā) sounds similar to the word which means "prosper" or "wealth" (發fā)– often paired with "發財" during Chinese New Years, but is used alone or paired with numerous ot
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[Customs]
Four四
The number 4 is omitted in some Chinese buildings. Number 4 (四/肆; sì) is considered an unlucky number in Chinese because it is nearly homophonous to the word "death" (死sǐ).
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[Customs]
Nine九
The number 9 (九jiŭ), was historically associated with the Emperor of China, and the number was frequently used in matters relating to the Emperor
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[Customs]
Five五
The number 5 (五wŭ) is associated with the five elements (Water, Fire, Earth, Wood, and Metal) in Chinese philosophy, and in turn was historically associated with the Emperor of China.
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[Customs]
Seven七
The number 7 (七qī) symbolizes "togetherness" in Chinese. It is a lucky number for relationships. It is also recognized as the luckiest number in the West, and is one of the rare numbers that is
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[Pronunciation]
2015各大高校对外汉语考研科目
一、暨南大学 1. 邵敬敏《现代汉语通论》 2. 叶蜚声、徐通锵《语言学纲要》 3. 刘珣《对外汉语教育学引论》 4. 程裕祯《中国文化要略》 5. 张岱年《中国文化概论》
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[Brief Intro]
对外汉语考研的几大误区
随着“汉语热”,很多人通过新闻媒体了解到了对外汉语这个专业,以虽然对外汉语专业的知名度很高,但人们对它的了解还不是很多,灿烂的阳光周围,还有着重重迷雾,现在让我们拨开迷雾,一起探寻“对外汉语”的
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[Brief Intro]
对外汉语专业的就业前景及相关要求
据教育部一项最新统计资料显示,汉语教学在世界各地呈现出蓬勃发展的趋势,世界各国中学习汉语的总人数已超过2000万人。汉语教学正越来越多地走进国外的大、中、小学课堂。
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[Brief Intro]
如何利用语言共性实施对外汉语教学
语言共性是隐藏于各个语言差异性背后的相近或相同的特性,即人类语言和思维的普遍性,是人类语言所共同具有的“共知范畴”(孙德金,2006),语言共性研究可以成为第二语言教学或习得的接口之一。
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[Brief Intro]
对外汉语学科建设领军人物
上世纪70年代末,改革开放的春风吹遍了神州大地。各种新生事物如雨后春笋,层出不穷。教外国人学汉语作为一个专门事业,再也不能依附于外语或母语教学之中了,时代要求建立一个适应形势需要的新型学科。