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Chinese Reader for adult learners – Wan Jun 婉君 [6] (Elementary to Intermediate)

周母担心嫣红带着孩子会拖累婉君,要婉君 舅母来周家向嫣红提亲。   嫣红和婉君坚决不答应。   这时传来老三和苗家少女结婚的喜讯。   周家父母得知后很欣慰。   婉君和嫣红为了避开提亲,又一次离开了周家。   她们俩一起带着孩子来到江南谋生。   结果意外遇到最先出走的老大伯健。   最终婉君和伯健还是走到了一起。   – 完结 –

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The Legend of Torch Festival

Torch Festival is an important and long-standing traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jino and Lahu nationalities. It’s famed home and abroad as a festival of profound folk cultural connotation, and is called an "Eastern Carnival". The Torch Festival is celebrated on a different day by different nationalities, which is usually on the 24th of the sixth lunar month of each year featuring the major activities of bullfight, sheep-fight, cockfight, horse race, wrestling, singing and dancing performance and beauty contest. What’s more, different place features varied versions of the legend of the Torch Festival, which is also a huge treasure in our folk custom.

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Chinese allegories Lesson 28

lín dài yù de xìng zi – duō chóu shàn găn
林黛玉的性子 – 多愁善感
Like Lin Daiyu, one is excessively sentimental. [Lin Daiyu is a principal character (one of the heroines) in the Chinese classic novel "Dream of the Red Chamber."]

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