Photo taken on Aug. 8, 2008 shows the art performance of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, titled "Beautiful Olympics", in the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in north Beijing, China.
Since this had the positional element lǐ (里), I like to request some more lessons on describing the position of things (example: when an object is on top of, beneath, nearby, across from etc.). I always get confused on these - not so much the vocabulary but on using the correct word order.
I tried to see if there were any more lessons that described an object's position by searching the archives using the "location" tag but that didn't seem to return what I was looking for. -- Joseph -- More>>>
In my city here in China, I sometimes see a woman shouting out “旧衣服换鸡蛋 (jiu4 yi1 fu huan4 ji1 dan4)! 旧衣服换鸡蛋!” on the street. I didn’t understand what she was saying when I heard it for the first time.
And later one of my Chinese friends explained me that those women would give you some eggs in exchange for your old clothes. I think it is a very reasonable system. China is really a recycling-oriented superpower. -- rjberki -- More>>>