Category: Chinese Culture

Happy Chinese（快乐汉语） is an entertaining, fun and easy Chinese series. In Season II, we will focus on typical Tourist Chinese by famous tourist spots in China. It helps the learners form a solid foundation for their further studies.快乐汉语系列二《旅游汉语》主要教授在中国旅游途中的实用汉语。我们将以情景剧的方式把中国最有代表的旅游胜地串联起来，展示中国的秀美山川、人杰地灵。

进京列车实名验票All IDs to be checked on trains to Beijing

Train travelers will have to take along their identification cards when heading toward Beijing, Xinjiang or Tibet.乘坐火车的乘客从今天（10月23日）起必须凭身份证才能乘坐所有开往北京、西藏、新疆方向的列车。

Chinese Culture: Beijing Lao She Teahouse 中国文化之北京老舍茶馆

Lao She Teahouse, built in 1988, is a unique place in Beijing showing the entertainments of old Beijing people in old times. It was named after the famous writer — Lao She.

中国第九届少林武术节开幕9th Int’l Shaolin Wushu Festival opens

Artists perform during the opening ceremony of the 9th Zhengzhou International Shaolin Wushu Festival in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, Oct. 21, 2012. More than 1500 athletes all over the world took part in the 5-day festival, which kicked off here Sunday.第九届中国郑州国际少林武术节21日在郑州开幕，本届武术节共有来自73个国家和地区的195个团队1500余名运动员报名参赛。

Travel to Souzhou Garden苏州园林之旅

　　 the Humble Administrator's Garden Covering 51,950 sq.m,the Humble Administrator's Garden is the largest of all classical gardens in Suzhou. It is centered upon the broad expanse of a lake, making up about one fifth of the total area. With well spaced buildings, the garden landscape and water scape are simple, extensive and natural, possessing the traditional appearances of the Ming Dynasty. It is divided into three parts; the eastern, middle the western parts. The house lies in the south of the garden.

2053年中国将临重度老龄化China’s aged population to the top

China had 190 million people at or above the age of 60 at the end of last year, according to the China National Committee on Ageing (CNCA). It is estimated the number of Chinese senior citizens is expected to skyrocket from the current 185 million to 487 million, or 35 percent of the population, by 2053.去年，根据全国老龄办统计，中国60岁以上的老人有一亿九千万。据估计，中国老年人口将由目前的1.85亿递增到2053年的4.87亿峰值，人口老龄化水平将由目前的13.7%逐年增加到世纪中叶的35%左右，人口老龄化形势愈发严峻。

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NE witnesses 2012 first snowfall中国东北见证2012年第一场雪

Oct. 22, 2012, most parts of Jilin witnessed snowfall on Monday. The cold front sweeping north China will also reach into central and eastern China while bringing snowfall to northeast regions, China's meteorological authorities said here Sunday.
Strong winds and temperature drops will spread to regions along the Yellow, Huai and Yangtze rivers and bring heavy rainfall to some of the regions, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) said on its website.
Parts of north and northeast China, as well as central and east China, will see a temperature drop of six to eight degrees Celsius, or even 10 degrees Celsius in some regions, on Sunday and Monday, said the NMC.
Meanwhile, parts of Xinjiang, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Jilin and Heilongjiang will witness snowfall and sleet on Sunday. Snow will continue to fall in Jilin and Heilongjiang on Monday, with snowstorms in some northeastern areas, it said.
The NMC also warned of foggy weather in parts of Jiangsu, Hebei and Shandong provinces on Sunday, urging drivers to pay more attention to travel safety in these places.
In Beijing, the temperature on Sunday fell 10 degrees Celsius from the previous day, and the city was cloudy and hit by drizzles in the afternoon, according to the municipal meteorological center.
Winds of up to 38 kilometers per hour are expected to sweep through the city on Sunday and Monday, bringing the low temperature down to 3 degrees Celsius on Monday, according to the municipal center.This is the first snow in NE China in autumn of 2012.

Travel in Chinese ：Xiaozhou Village in Guangzhou中国旅游之行：广州小洲村

With the opening of the 16th Asian Games around the corner, Guangzhou, the host of the games, is drawing an increasing amount of attention from sports fans and tourists around the world. However, besides its well known modernity, the city has much more to offer. Xiaozhou, a tranquilvillage in Guangzhou's suburbs, has all the allure of a southern water town.

Ornamental hen gives birth to tiny egg 重庆惊现世界最小鸡蛋

An ornamental hen gave birth to an egg that is 2 centimeters long on Oct. 15, 2012. The egg weighs 2.58 grams and it is smaller than a coin of 1 Jiao. He Daiyou, owner of the ornamental hen, said that he would try to apply for the Guinness World Record for the world's smallest chicken egg.2012年10月15日，重庆沙坪坝区歌乐山正街，一颗特殊的鸡蛋引起路人热议。记者走访发现，这个蛋长度两厘米，重2.6克，比吉尼斯世界纪录目前记载的最小鸡蛋还要小、还要轻。这只鸡蛋的主人将为这只鸡蛋申报最小鸡蛋的吉尼斯纪录。