祝大家新年快乐

感恩节快乐！！！

Welcome

http://www.chinahighlights.com/video/one-long-noodle.htm

Happy Chinese New Year!

 

Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. February 10th is the beginning of Chinese New Year in 2013. It is the year of the Snake (蛇年shé nián).  Festivities around the world begin on Chinese New Year Eve (February 9th ) and run until February 24th (Lantern Festival 元宵节yuánxiāojié).

除夕chúxī - New Year Eve
新年xīnnián - New Year
春节chūnjié - Spring Festival
恭喜gōngxǐ - Congratulation
过年好guò nián hǎo - Happy New Year

恭喜发财! gōngxǐ fācái
蛇年吉祥! shé nián jí xiáng

新年快乐! xīnnián kuàilè

Chinese Character '福Fu'

"福Fu", one of the Chinese characters that best epitomize China's time-honored culture, is a must in Spring Festival celebrations. Nowadays, "福fu," literally meaning auspiciousness, blessing or happiness, usually appears as a cultural symbol to express people's wishes for the coming new year. Yet, in the past, the character mainly meant luck and fortune, which also represented the unanimous hope of the society.
The tradition of pasting the character "福Fu" on walls, doors and doorposts has existed among the people for a long time. According to Menglianglu, a book recording the folk customs in the Song Dynasty (960-1127), people at that time had already been practicing the tradition.
The character can either be written or printed. The accompanying patterns usually include a variety of themes like the god of longevity, a birthday peach, a carp, a dragon and a phoenix as well as other themes. The character written on paper can be pasted both normally and upside down, because in Chinese the "up-sided 福fu" is homophonic with "福fu comes (fu dao le)", both being pronounced as "福fu dao le".

Chinese Yo-Yo 空[kōng] 竹[zhú]

Kongzhu, like Chinese martial arts, is a traditional folk sport which has both athletic and artistic elements to it.

Do you know how to play it? Now it's time to watch and learn.

音乐盒

《我爱中国菜》
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              我是女生

  

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纸的艺术

Happy Moon Festival to you and your family!

九月三十日是中秋节。祝大家中秋快乐！
In order to learn more information about Mid-Autumn Festival, please click this link and enjoy it with your family and friends: http://www.chinahighlights.com/video/chinese-moon-festival.htm

Chinese famous song: 水(shuǐ)调(diào)歌(gē)头(tóu)

    

  

Ice Skin Moon Cakes

http://www.chinahighlights.com/video/how-to-make-ice-skin-moon-cakes.htm

The video shows steps of how to make ice skin moon cakes and also share a popular Chinese says on the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Recipe in detail:
1).Mix glutinous rice flour, rice flour and protein-free wheat starch, water, sugar and vegetable oil together until ingredients form paste. (You can add food essence and/or food coloring while mixing the ingredients. Here we use cocoa powder.)
 2) Set aside the paste for 5 minutes, and then steam the paste with high temperature for about 15-20 minutes.
3) Mix round the paste until it becomes smooth, then cool it. Ice-skin is served.
4). Divide filling into 15g each and roll it into a ball.
5). Divide dough into 30g each. (Need some flour to dust hands)
6). Flattened the paste ball and place the filling ball in the middle, close the flattened paste ball.
7) Use some flour for dusting your moon cake mold. Put it into the mold and press it out.
8). Serve moon cakes chilled.
For more information about Mid-Autumn Festival, check it out:http://www.chinahighlights.com/festivals/mid-autumn-festival.htm

Dragon Boat Festival: 端午节 duān wǔ jié / 划龙舟huà lóng zhōu

Chinese Traditional Musical Instrument: The hulusi ( 葫芦丝 húlusī) or cucurbit flute

The Hulusi, or the cucurbit flute, is free-reed aerophone who is played amongst the Dai (Thai) and the Yi minorities in Yunnan China. Other minorities in the same area, the Chinese side of the Golden Triangle area, use the instrument to communicate when working in the fields. The Dai people call the instrument a "Bilingdao". Composed of a gourd, main pipes, reeds and auxiliary pipes, the cucurbit flute sounds beautiful and heartwarming. It is ideal for expressing soft and tender feelings. As the sounds are as soft and graceful as shaking silk, the flute is also called "Bottle Gourd Silk".

There is a folklore in the Dai nationality: Long ago,the mountain torrents broke out, a young man of Dai nationality picked up a large gourd to put it in the river, broke through the stormy river and rescued his sweetheart, his faithful love moved the Buddha, the Buddha fitted the gourd with tubes, the young man blowed a wonderful music, and calmed the mountain torrents, he saved all people and restored his hometown. From then on cucurbit flute was passed down from generation to generation in the Dai people.

学拼音

A beautiful Chinese children song: 妈妈和我

  

The Moon Festival: 水(shuǐ)调(diào)歌(gē)头(tóu)

    

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Free Chinese for kids 

The website http://www.poissonrouge.com/schoolofchinese/ offers free online Mandarin Chinese vocabulary activities for children.  Click the towers  of the castle to go to the different rooms - number (shu zi), toy(wan ju), kitchen (chu fang), music (yin yue) animal (dong wu) etc.  Each room has a number of objects to click. Listen to the pronounciation and read the word in Chinese characters and pinyin on the black board. Some objects will launch cute animations when you click them.

Have fun!

Let's sing together! 卡(kǎ)加(jiā)布(bù)列(liè)岛(dǎo)

Please click on the thumbnail to enlarge the picture.

Final Test on Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Part1：时(shí)间(jiān)

年 月 日(号）星期
星期一 星期二 星期三 星期四 星期五 星期六 星期日/天 星期几 昨天 今天 明天 前天 后天 今年 去年 明年
早上 上午 下午 晚上
点 分 刻 半 几点 差 零

Part2：季节和天气

春天 夏天 秋天 冬天
晴天 阴天 多云 下雨 下雪 刮风 打雷 闪电
天气 气温 度 左右 怎么样
冷 热 暖和 凉快
为什么 因为 所以
喜欢 不喜欢 最喜欢


Part3：颜色

红色 黄色 黑色 白色 灰色 橙色 粉红色 蓝色 绿色 紫色 金色
银色 棕色=茶色=咖啡色 浅绿色 深绿色


Part4：衣服

衣服 夹克 裙子 短裤 衬衫 长裤 T恤衫 雨衣 雨伞 雨鞋 穿


Dialogue 1:

学生A：现在几点了？
学生B：现在九点了。


Dialogue 2:

学生A：请问，今天几月几号？
学生B：今天三月二十八号。
学生A：今天星期几？
学生B：今天星期一。


Dialogue 3:

学生A：今天天气真不错。
学生B：是啊，今天多少度？
学生A：七十二度， 很舒服。
学生B：不冷也不热，我想去爬山。
学生A：我也想去。


Dialogue 4:

学生A：你最喜欢什么颜色？
学生B：我最喜欢蓝色。你呢？
学生A: 我喜欢紫色。
学生B: 紫色很好看。


Dialogue 5:

学生A：今天天气怎么样？
学生B：今天天气非常好。你可以穿裙子和T恤衫。
学生A：明天天气怎么样？
学生B：明天有点儿冷，别忘了穿夹克。


Dialogue 6:

学生A: 你喜欢这里的夏天吗？
学生B：不喜欢。
学生A：为什么？
学生B：因为太热了。

Dialogue 7:

学生A：今天天气怎么样？
学生B：今天天气非常好。（不好、很好、不错、不太好）
学生A：明天天气怎么样？
学生B：明天有大雨，别忘了带雨伞。