In Chinese, face refers to 2 separate but related concepts in social relations. One is Mianzi and the other is Lian, which are commonly used in everyday speech. Lian is the confidence of society in a person’s moral character, while mianzi represents social perceptions of a person’s prestige. “Losing one’s Lian” means your behavior violates […]
Chinese people are noted for their discerning eating habits. Prior to the 1980s, straitened financial circumstances prevented access of the majority to their epicurean heritage, but an improved diet was of primary importance for opening up and reform. The problem of “feeding the stomach” was, therefore, resolved 20 years ago. There is more concern now […]
Lao Zi, a thinker during the late Spring and Autumn Period, had a famous saying: “Pretending not to know when you know, how superb.” He meant that it was superb tactics to pretend not to know when one in fact knows. Chinese people follow an important rule in handling complex personal relations: be intelligent about […]
In Chinese, there is a special dream called the golden miller dream. It is from The Dream on the Pillow by Shen Jiji of the Tang Dynasty. A discontented poor scholar named Lu Sheng yearned all day long for an official position and a distinguished career. He met an inn in Handan a Taoist priest […]
Colorful painting is one of the most original designs in Chinese building. It is originally for protecting wood structure against dump and corrosion and insect-eating, afterwards the press of it is just the adornment. After Song Dynasty, the colorful paintings have become the indispensable adornment of palace. It is divided into 3 grades. The highest […]
If you come to China, you should go to taste Chinese various hot-pots. They are really great. On a cold winter’s day nothing can be more desirable and pleasing than sitting down with family and friends around a hot-pot. A hot-pot is a charcoal with a central chimney and an outer ring filled with hot water for […]
Clapper Talk or Chinese Kuaibanr is a traditional Chinese performance style in the north China. It is popular with its free style, lively language and simple rhythm. It is a kind of rhythmic talk or monologue to the accomplishment of specially made bamboo clappers and “sanxian”, a traditional Chinese three-stringed plucked instrument. It was invented […]
A Chinese dinner host will not expect a visitor to know all of the traditions associated with a Chinese meal. But the visitor who knows some of them will “gain” face and give “face” to his host. Chinese table manners include: 1. Don’t “jump the gun”—always eat after your host. 2. When the host proposes […]
A traditional and genuine Chinese marriage should follow a basic principle of the “Three Letters and Six Etiquettes” in the past. Even now some customs are still followed. The “Three Letters” include the Betrothal Letter, Gift Letter and Wedding Letter. The Betrothal Letter is the formal document of the engagement. The gift letter would be […]
Before the wedding, a “good lick woman” who has a nice family will arrange the bridal bed and scatter symbolic fruits on the bed. Nobody can touch the bed until the couple enters the bridal chamber after the wedding ceremony, except the children who are invited onto the bed to bless the couple with fertility. […]
V šoli sem imel res čudovito izkušnjo. Učitelji so zelo, zelo prijazni. V mojem razredu vadimo govorjenje, poslušanje, branje in pisanje. Igramo igre in druge zabavne dejavnosti. Imamo izlete po mestu. Osebje v Keatsu je fenomenalno. Moja učiteljica je ena najboljših učiteljic, kar sem jih kdaj imel v svoji izobraževalni izkušnji. Vsak dan pride z nasmehom.
Keats se mi je zdel zelo dober, učitelji so odlični in učence jemljejo resno. Kunming je najboljše mesto za učenje mandarinščine na Kitajskem. Okolje je čudovito, ni onesnaženja. Kakovost zraka je odlična, lepo vreme. Ljudje tukaj so zelo prijazni. Vsak dan hodim na tečaje. Pri učenju kitajščine se v Keatsu počutim udobno. Naučil sem se toliko stvari, čeprav sem v Keatsu študiral le 2 meseca. Z učiteljem sem res zadovoljen. Za nas tujce je Keats najboljša kitajska šola na Kitajskem. Zato bi Keats vsem toplo priporočil.
Zelo priročno je priti v Kunming iz Tajske. Zelo mi je všeč tečaj kitajščine in moja kitajščina se je v nekaj mesecih zelo izboljšala. Učenje kitajščine ima veliko prednosti. Najboljše, kar mi je všeč pri Keatsu, je to, da je v Kunmingu, mestu večne pomladi. V Kunmingu je toliko za videti in to mesto boste vzljubili, ko boste prišli tja.
V Kunming prihajam, ker se mi zdi okolje v Kunmingu boljše, in slišal sem, da je tudi šola Keats boljša. Všeč mi je tečaj kitajščine v majhnih skupinah, ker se moji sošolci pridno učijo in so naši učitelji zelo dobri. Všeč mi je metoda poučevanja Keatsa, ker so mi všeč dejavnosti v Keatsu. Mislim, da je Yunnan še posebej lepa kitajska provinca.
Sem podiplomski študent, ki dela doktorat na Univerzi Columbia. Osredotočili smo se lahko na govorjenje, še posebej na govorjenje v slogu intervjujev, in izboljšali smo moje znanje branja in pisanja kitajščine, tako da se bom lahko, ko se vrnem na Columbio, udeležil formalnih tečajev kitajščine. To je bila res dobra izkušnja in resnično imam rad svojega učitelja.
Prvi semester sem študiral na drugi šoli in tam je bil pritisk precej velik, ure v razredu so bile dolge, domače naloge pa precej dolgočasne. Odkar sem prišel na Keats, sem ugotovil, da imam veliko več priložnosti za govorjenje v razredu. Vsi moji sošolci tekoče govorijo in radi govorijo ter sodelujejo v razredu. Imamo odlično dinamiko v razredu.
Resnično uživam v obiskovanju tega kraja, ker je zame kot nekakšen dom. To je odlično okolje za učenje mandarinščine na Kitajskem in srečanje s čudovitimi ljudmi z vsega sveta. Vsi tukaj so izjemno prijazni. Kunming ima res lepo podnebje. Je zelo dobra mešanica sodobnega mesta in tudi veliko zgodovinske kitajske kulture. Verjetno ima najčistejši zrak na Kitajskem in morda tudi najčistejšo vodo. Vabim vas, da pridete učit kitajščino v Kunming.
Učitelji na Keatsu znajo brati učence in jim pomagati, da se z lahkoto naučijo kitajščine. Poznajo raven učencev. Sam se učim počasi, vendar so se uspeli prilagoditi mojemu učenju. Pouk so naredili zelo zabaven in zelo razburljiv. Vesel sem, da sem se ne le naučil kulture in jezika, ampak sem si tudi pridobil čudovite prijatelje, resnično neverjetne, kitajske prijatelje, evropske prijatelje in ameriške prijatelje z vsega sveta.