When you come to study Chinese in Schools that teach intensive Mandarin course in China, you may hear a famous place named Ru Yi Street in Yunnan province. It is a beautiful street located in Wu Hua District of Kunming. If you come to learn intensive Mandarin course in China, you can have a look at the famous Ru Yi Street. Walking on the street, you can feel a kind of comfort and pleasance, and you may also forget your busy hours of having intensive Mandarin course in China.
The process of how Ru Yi Street came into being would be a main topic on your intensive Mandarin course in China. Many years ago, Kunming was called as Tuo Dong City, and it was located at the east coast of Pan Long River. With the prosperous of industrial and commercial activities, more and more people came to live in Tuo Dong City, and the city decided to expand to the west coast, which formed the basic structure of the city of Kunming you see know while studying intensive Mandarin course in China. Ru Yi Street under the Wu Hua Mountain used to be a wild land with trees, so Tuo Dong City must cut down those trees before building the street.
An interesting story happened during the process of cutting down those trees to expand the city, and the story was the reason why the street you knew from intensive Mandarin course in China was called Ru Yi Street. There was a man named Ru Yi living in the old Kunming city, and he was sent to cut down the trees. He saw a nest on a tall tree when he tried to chop the tree. Three little birds were waiting in the nest, and Ru Yi brought the nest home and put it on a tree near his house. After keeping those three little birds safe, Ru Yi went back to the forest and kept his chopping job on.
Chinese teachers in intensive Mandarin course in China would tell you that at night, mother bird came and thanked Ru Yi for the reason that he had saved the lives of her babies. Mother bird gave Ru Yi a grain of golden paddy and said, “Brother Ru Yi, you are a kind man and you deserve this golden paddy. If you eat it, everything in your life will go smoothly.” Ru Yi ate the paddy, and he felt he was full of strength immediately. He did not recognize a word before, but now he could read and write.
Students from intensive Mandarin course in China may ask what happened next. Ru Yi made a reconstruction plan of the street and was appointed as the host to reconstruct it. After his continuous efforts, the street was so clean and there were many houses built on the street. In order to honor the kind Ru Yi for what he had done to restore the street, local people called the street as Ru Yi Street. Later on Ru Yi worked as a teacher around Ru Yi Street, and he married with a good wife and had babies. Ru Yi’s life became more and more smooth. If you come to learn Mandarin Chinese in intensive Mandarin course in China, you should never miss the chance of experiencing the past story of Ru Yi Street.
Ru Yi means “getting good fortune as one wish” in Mandarin Chinese. Some local Kunming people agrees that if you are an honest and hard working person, Ru Yi Street will bring you good luck and bless you if you live on Ru Yi street. The story about Ru Yi has been passed down from generation to generation, and there are more and more people get to know the story about Ru Yi Street.