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How to Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival

Autumn Festival (中秋节 ) (zhōng qiū jié ) or Moon Festival is coming.

In case some of you don’t know, Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on August 15 Chinese year, however the date varies on western year.

Autumn Festival is one of the most important Chinese holidays. There are various stories about the origin of this festival.

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Blog Language

Chinese Children’s Song——Row Row Row Your Boat

In my last post, we learned a well known Children’s song: Marry Had a Little Lamb.

In this post, we are going to learn another popular children’s song: 划小船. It is a Chinese version of the English kids’ song “Row Row Row Your Boat”.

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Blog Language

Chinese Children’s Song: Mary Had a Little Lamb

“Mary had a little lamb” is a very popular English Children’s song.  Actually, it is also a popular Chinese children’s song. In this post, we are going to learn this song in Mandarin Chinese.

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Blog Opinions

Your Child Doesn’t Want to Learn Mandarin Chinese? Read This.

In my post: How to Raise a Bilingual Child, I shared some ideas about how to help your child develop interest in learning a second language.

In this post, I will talk specifically about how to have your child learn Mandarin Chinese if Mandarin Chinese is the language you wish your child to learn.

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Blog Culture

Chinese Tang Poem: Weeding the Cereal Crops 锄禾

If you are my reader for some time, you might know I like introducing Tang poems on my blog for two reasons.

1, Tang poem is an important part of Chinese culture and language; 2, Reading Tang poem is a good way to learn Chinese characters.