Winter Solstice Food
According to Chinese custom, the time between the beginning of the winter to the winter solstice is the best period of time for nourishing the human body. People call it “winter nourishment”. The correct tonic methods can strengthen body and keep people slim.
Chinese grammar: If…, then… with 如果ruguo…,就 jiu…
One of the benefits of Chinese is that the grammar is often very logical and concise. In this article, we look at the "如果…,就…" (rúguǒ…, jiù…) structure. We will also look at uses "的话" (dehuà).
Chinese Cuisine——Introduction
Staple food in China generally includes rice, wheat, buckwheat, corn, potato, sweet potato, beans and varieties of vegetables. Besides, wheaten food such as Mantou (steamed bun), noodle, Youtiao (deep-fried dough stick), Xiaolongbao (steamed pork-stuffed dumpling in bamboo basket), and many other local snacks, are commonly seen on the table in China.
Regionally, a general feature of spicy east food, sweet south food, sour west food and salty north food can be summarized, but flavors of food in places differ from each other as a matter of fact. Generally, people living in South China pay more attention to nutrition and prefer delicate, tasty and refreshing food such as rice porridge and soup; however, spicy hotpot is always people’s favorite in the southwest areas due to the humid and rainy climate. And, people living in North China prefer wheaten food such as Jiaozi, noodle, while all kinds of streamed bun and beef and mutton are most popular in northwest areas.
In the past thousands of years, Chinese has had tried countless cooking ways and has successfully developed many cooking styles, e.g. steaming, stewing, braising, simmering, frying, quick-frying, stir-frying, roasting, sauting with starch extract.
Winter Solstice Customs
The Origin of Having Dumplings on Winter Solstice During Winter Solstice of the traditional Chinese calendar, dumplings become the essential festival food. Every one in China will eat dumplings in Winter Solstice, so supermarkets and store are quick to sell out of the festival favorite. But why do people eat dumplings in midwinter? It is said this custom is to commemorate the great medical sage Zhang Zhongjing.
Chinese grammar: Expressing actions in progress (full form)
You may have learned that 在 (zài) and 正在 (zhèngzài) can be used before verbs to express that an action is ongoing or in progress. They are used to create the Mandarin equivalent of present continuous in English. But that pattern is actually a part of a longer, fuller pattern. It's rarely used in its full form, but bits and pieces of it are frequently used in everyday speech, so it's important to know the full form, even if you don't use it regularly yourself.
Lunch Buffet at Cathay Chinese Restaurant of Sheraton Guilin in China
The Sheraton Guilin(桂林Guìlín) Hotel, one of the best 5-star hotels in Guilin, is the hotel we always recommend this hotel to our clients, and I myself have also been there for meals for several times. The hotel is located on the bank of the Li River in the heart of the enchanting city of Guilin, and different restaurants in the hotel provide different tastes of food.
What is the weather in Winter Solstice?
Winter Solstice is the 22nd solar term, and the most important one. It was set according to astronomy, called “short day (ri duan)” or “the shortest day” in ancient times. On that day, the sun reaches 270 degrees of longitude, and shines directly on the Tropic of Capricorn. The day time turns shortest on that day. The ancient people recorded their knowledge of the day in some books. In the Collection of the Seventy-two Hou, it says, “on the 15th day of the Eleventh month, the hidden qi reaches its peak.” “The Winter Solstice comes on the fifteenth day after the Major Snow. It is in the middle of the eleventh month. The yin goes comes to an end and the yang begins. The sun goes to the south. From then on, the days become longer.” (Tong Wei of Qing Dynasty)
Chinese grammar: Separable verb
"Separable verbs," called 离合词 (líhécí) in Chinese, get their name from their ability to "separate" into two parts (a verb part and an object part), with other words in between. Separable verbs are an important concept to master in Chinese, and are also the source of many beginner mistakes. Mastering separable verbs is an essential objective of the intermediate (B1) level learner of Chinese.
About Eat Pray Love: find you own destination
I think everyone wants to take a real Eat Pray Love adventure across the world and finally probably would find themselves are the final destination just like the woman in the film. I always puzzle for the reason why this movie is so inspiring, surely it not just simply tells a journey story that a woman spent a year searching for everything taking her to eat, pray and love and meantime give us, the audience so many ideas about amazing different recommendations of where to eat, pray and love around the world, just like a commentator said that, this movie brings us that feeling of wanting to let go, self indulge and take the time to really figure out, who am I? Sorry, in this case, Eat Pray Love(食色性也Shísè Xìngyě) is really a philosophic(of or relating to philosophy or philosophers) course that I definitely can't handle, as a travel advisor, all I can do for you is to share with you some good experience, and here is the one about Eat.
What is the Winter Solstice?
On the Winter Solstice, the Northern hemisphere experiences its shortest day and its longest night. From then on, the days become longer and the nights become shorter. According to ancient Chinese thought, the “yang,” referring to masculine or positive things, will become stronger and stronger after this day. The weather in China will also enter its coldest phase.
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