This phrase is often used by Chinese housewives, because it is them who are responsible to the “Chai mi you yan” of a family. Here, “chai” means “firewood”; “mi” refers to “rice”; “you” means “oil” and “yan” is “salt”. These are the basic materials for cooking. In the agricultural city, the basic concern of a […]
Literally, the idiom “xian yue ye he” means “free clouds and wild crane”. It is not a meaningless idiom. It refers to the people who live a quite free life and have no other concerns and worries except his or her own life. In ancient times, there were many famous people who did not get […]
There was a Chinese man of the state of Qi who was worrying that the sky might one day fall down, the earth might sink, and he would not know where to hide himself. This so much troubled him that he could not eat or sleep. Someone went to reassure him about this, saying, “the […]
“Music of the Dance in Colorful Feathered Dress” is a very famous singing and dancing lyric in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) in China. It was created by Emperor Xuan after his visits to the Moon Palace. On the night of the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, Luo Gongyuan, a Taoist priest, accompanied Emperor […]
The Lord Rabbit is a typical Chinese toy for the children. In the past, the dolls of Lord Rabbit were customarily given to children on Mid-Autumn Festival. When people worshipped the moon, they would make an offering to the memorial tablet of “the Moonlight Buddha”. The offering was actually a sheet of paper. At the […]
In China, the Dragon Boat Festival is one of the most popular, traditional and important festivals. Falling on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, it was also called “Duanwu”. “Duan” means “beginning”, “wu” means five. Therefore, “Duanwu” means “the first fifth day of the fifth lunar month”. At the beginning of the War […]
The best-known story about the Dragon Boat Festival is related to the commemoration of Qu Yuan (340-278BC). He was born in the State of Chun in the Warring States Period (275-221BC), he became a minister when he was only 20. An aristocrat named Zilan and a treacherous court official named Jin Shang slandered him in […]
In recent years, archaeological studies and a number of unearthed cultural relics have proved that the festival started from a kind of totemic worship among the ancient Wu and Yue people in south China about 4 or 5 thousand years ago and the custom gradually spread to the north after the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220). […]
There were countless boats, each of which had a dragon head and a dragon tail carved its hull (borrowing the implication of “wrath” from the figure of the dragon); 20 strong men were seated on both sides of the boat, each holding big wooden oars (borrowing the implication of “bold and intrepid” from the strength […]
In ancient times, when a family got together for a reunion on the Dragon Boat Festival, served on the table were Five Yellows: soy bean sprouts, yellow croakers, rice field eels, cucumbers and realgar wine, which were thought to eradicate diseases and improve health. In some regions, realgar wine were even sprayed inside and outside […]
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.
Vsi učitelji so res prijazni. Raven poučevanja na Keatsu je veliko višja. Mesto mi je res všeč. Zelo udobno se je premikati po njem. Keats toplo priporočam. To je odličen kraj za učenje kitajščine na Kitajskem. Veselimo se, da se bomo letos spet vrnili.
Torej si v prvem tednu na Keatsu nisem upal spregovoriti niti ene kitajske besede. Ugotovil sem, da se je moja raven kitajščine od takrat hitro izboljšala. Čeprav imam na Kitajskem veliko možnosti za študij, na primer nekatere druge šole ponujajo bivanje pri družinah, sem ugotovil, da se lahko poglobim v učenje kitajščine, če bivam na Keatsu.
To je bilo opazno, ker sem spoznal veliko ljudi, ki sem jih prvič srečal lani, da so se letos vrnili v Keats. Poučevanje je bilo fantastično. Učitelji skrbno pripravijo vsako lekcijo. Mislim, da je ta individualni pristop res odličen način za hitro izboljšanje vaše ravni kitajščine ter povečanje vaše samozavesti in tekočega znanja jezika.
Imam dva učitelja in delam 4 ure na dan. Torej imam Dong Laoshija in Jin Laoshija. Oba sta zelo dobra. Zaradi njiju je bila izkušnja zame zelo prijetna. Pripravljena sta ti pomagati kadar koli, zato če imaš kdaj vprašanje, so učitelji vedno na voljo, da ti pomagajo, pa naj gre za vizume ali za prevoz po mestu. Vsi se želijo pogovoriti s tabo.
Moje ime je Sarah Fish. Stara sem 81 let. Ko sem prispela, sem znala zelo malo kitajščine. Kako naj bi preživela dva tedna intenzivnega tečaja kitajščine? Zdaj se moram smejati, ko pomislim na to. Kakšna pozitivna izkušnja je bila to! Resnično si želim, da bi lahko bili tukaj še malo dlje. Učitelji so izjemno spodbudni, najprej ocenijo, koliko nekdo zna, in nato začnejo od tam naprej.
Mislim, da je kitajsko učno okolje tukaj odlično. Metode poučevanja so tudi zelo interaktivne in zabavne. Kar mi je tukaj še posebej všeč, je dejstvo, da se moj učitelj ne drži učbenika. Veliko časa porabimo za razprave o splošnih temah, kot so kitajska kultura, svetovne novice, tipični izrazi, ki jih uporabljajo domačini. Pogovarjamo se tudi o družbenih in gospodarskih temah.
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.