国庆(节) Guoqing (jie), National Day
Can you recognize the two characters on the red lattern? Red lattern is often used for celebration, which indicates “红红火火 hong hong huo huo, prosperous”. And the words on the two latterns here are GUO (国 nation, country) and Qing (庆 celebration), together it means “(Celebrate )the National Day”, sometimes two other […]

The first Chinese characters were created to depict objects like ”人 human”, “手 hand”, “足 foot”, “山 mountain”, “日 sun”, “月 moon” and “木 tree”. The next step was to build logical combinations of the simple characters. Some of these simple characters and logical combinations still remain clear enough to allow you to see what they […]

孔子 Kongzi, Confucius, born in 551 BC, was a great philosopher whose thought held sway as orthodox ideology in China for some 2,000 years.
JINAN, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) — Visitors to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games may be greeted by quotes of ancient Chinese sage Confucius if a proposal from his hometown is adopted by the […]

The Spring Festival is the oldest and most important festival in China, celebrating the earth coming back to life. It is a day filled with special events, foods, and festivities. People from north and south have different habits about the food they eat on this special day. Among the food most popular in the south […]

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Have you noticed the pictures and the proposed characters I present here to you? Is it fantastic to learn Chinese characters in this way? Chinese language is a tonal language, each character is independant in stucture and meanging, so it is very smart to make a new characacter with a root of one character. The […]