Archive for June 15th, 2008

Chinese Pinyin – dai (呆)

Sunday, June 15th, 2008
呆: [ ái, dāi ]  
[ 国标码:B4F4 部首: 笔画:7 笔顺:2511234 ]

1. stupid
2. stay
3. foolish
4. no expression

例句与用法:
1. 我一刻也不能再下去了。
  I can’t stay any longer.
 
2. 昨晚我在晚会上到很晚。
  I stayed late at the party last night.
 
3. 我宁可在家里。
  I would rather stay at home.
 
4. 乡村风光太美了,以致于他决定再多一星期。
  The rural scenery was so beautiful that he decided to stay one more week.
 
5. 在幕后为了避开公众的注意。
  He stayed in the background to escape from the public attention.
 
6. 他在一家汽车旅馆了一晚上,就又接着旅行了。
  He stayed one night in a motel and went on travelling.
 
7. 大雨迫使我们在户内。
  The heavy rain compelled us to stay indoors.
 
8. 如果你一直在家里,就永远不会有生活经验。
  You’ll never see life if you stay at home forever.

(Source: dict.cn)

Beijing Olympic – Barables Silk Shorescap Store

Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Barables Silk Shorescap Store
Barables Silk Shorescap Store

Introduction:

Barabales’ Silk Shoescap Store, an affiliate to Kuntai Group, focuses its business in clothing and retail products. Since its official opening in May 2002, the store has been one of well-known department store in Beijing by insisting a concept of standard management and quality service. There are 28,000 square meters for eleven floors (eight floors on the ground and other three underground). The business area is between the basement one to the fifth floor in 11,000m2 area. The auxiliary facilities include parking area under ground, bathing centre, billiards hall, business area and stock. The merchandises sold in this store are mainly dresses produced for export in addition to luggage, shoes and hats. On the third and fourth floor, there are exclusive zones for silk and tourist crafts and on the fifth floor are 20 local food bars.

Address: No.58, Gongti North Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing

(Source: en.beijing2008.cn)

Children Chinese – Chinese Festivals (1)

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

CHINESE NEW YEAR

Chinese New Year is a very old celebration, a time for repaying debts, enjoying feasts, giving “red envelopes” of lucky money to friends and relatives, and remembering ancestors. 
  Yan Yat  - The seventh day of the Chinese New Year is called Yan Yat, “Everybody’s Birthday.”

There are many old and delightful ancient superstitions surrounding this holiday. A wonderful school site in Holland shares some funny ones: Chinese New Year superstitions. 

Here’s one of my favorites!  Once upon a time ….

 

Long ago, in Han times, there was a monster whose name was “Nian”. This monster came once each year to a little village and scared everyone! One day, just by luck, the villagers discovered that “Nian” had a couple fears of his own. He was afraid of the color red and even more afraid of scary loud noises! The villagers prepared. When “Nian” appeared, everyone in the village ran for the red banners and noise makers they had made. They waved their banners and rattled their noise makers. This scared “Nian” so much that “Nian” ran away and was never heard from again! 

 

 

Which explains why people in China believe the color red signifies joy and luck, and why noise makers are rattled on Chinese New Year. At midnight, firecrackers, paper dragons, noise makers, the waving of red ribbons and banners all help to drive away any lingering evil spirits from the old year. (In case “Nian” is still lurking about somewhere!)

(Source: ancienthistory.mrdonn.org)