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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.

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Blog Language

Chinese Children’s Song: Itsy Bitsy Spider

In this post, we are going to learn a Chinese kids song based on a very popular English nursery rhyme: Itsy Bitsy Spider (小蜘蛛) (xiǎo zhī zhū ).

The interesting thing is, even though this English Children’s song is very popular, however, it is not easy to find a Chinese version of this song.

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Blog Course Culture

How to Address Chinese People — Tips You Must Know

If you read my posts: How to greet people in Mandarin-Chinese (I) and How to greet people in Mandarin-Chinese ( II), I hope you know how to say hello and good bye like a Chinese insider now.

In this post, I will show you how to address Chinese people like a native Chinese speaker does.

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How to Homeschool Mandarin Chinese

In my post: How to Raise a Bilingual Child, I shared some ideas about how to help a child learn a second language. In this post, I will talk about how to teach a kid Mandarin Chinese at home.

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Blog Culture

8 Chinese Sayings That Can Change Your Life

If you read my post: 8 Most Famous Confucius Quotes in English and Chinese , I hope Confucius’s wisdom will give you some inspiration.

Chinese culture has 5000 years long history. There are a lot of thoughtful sayings that we Chinese take as life guides.