If you learn Chinese language without knowledge about Chinese cuisine, it is like you got a coin with one side.
Chinese cooking is a very important part of Chinese culture and language. In this post, I share some basic Chinese cuisine knowledge with you.
We will appreciate a Chinese ancient poem: painting (画 ) (hua4).
It was said the title “painting” was not the original title of this poem . People found this poem on a painting, so they gave the poem the title “painting”.
Before we talk about basic rules for reading Chinese characters, we have to know a bit about how Chinese characters are formed.
Generally, there are four main forms of Chinese characters.
We will sing a song in Mandarin Chinese: ten little friends (十个小朋友)(shi2 ge4 xiao3 peng2 you3).
If you don’t know how to count numbers in Mandarin-Chinese, you have to learn number song first, then come back to learn this song.
A frog in the well (井底之蛙) (jing3 di3 zhi1 wa1) is a very famous Chinese idiom story.
It tells a story about a frog that lived in a well, he thought he knew everything, however, after a conversation with a turtle passing by the well, he realized that he only knew well of a small world: the well where he was living.