{"id":8366,"date":"2019-10-23T03:33:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T03:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/earthquake-what-does-si-chuan-sichuan-mean\/"},"modified":"2019-10-23T03:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T03:33:51","slug":"earthquake-what-does-si-chuan-sichuan-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/de\/earthquake-what-does-si-chuan-sichuan-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake: What does \u56db\u5ddd S\u00ecchu\u0101n mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u56db\u5ddd Sìchu\u0101n  is famous for its delicious spicy food and scenic spots, but this week the 7.8-magnitude earthquake made all the world asto<\/em>nished because of the big death toll. All the people come to support \u56db\u5ddd Sìchu\u0101n Province. Look at this earthquake relief advertisement , it writes “CHINA” with “\u5ddd chu\u0101n” inside it. Isn’t it creative?<\/p>\n

Sichuan Province, located in southwest China, is one of the largest and most inaccessible provinces in the nation. This province covers an area of 485,000 kilometers (187,000 miles) and boasts the largest population in China, with 87 million people.<\/p>\n

Do you know the character meanings for the name? It is easy and interesting. ChineseHour is telling you now.
\u56db\u5ddd Sìchu\u0101n, \u56db Sì — FOUR, \u5ddd chu\u0101n — RIVER. <\/p>\n

See? It means FOUR RIVERS there.<\/p>\n

Sichuan is bordered by the Tibetan Plateau in the west and by the Three Gorges and the Yangtze River in the east. The eastern part of the Sichuan basin is ringed by lofty mountains and experiences a subtropical and humid climate. The western part is co<\/em>nsidered the highland area and experiences frequent fog with intense sunlight, but low temperatures. The annual rainfall in this province is 1000 millimeters and the average annual temperature is 16.5C.<\/p>\n

If you look carefully at this characters “\u5ddd chu\u0101n”, it is a pictographic one, see? Two strokes on both sides resembles two banks of a river, and the central stroke resembles a river. Do you understand what it means now?<\/p>\n

Let’s learn two common idioms with “\u5ddd chu\u0101n”:
\u540d\u5c71\u5927\u5ddd míngsh\u0101n dàchu\u0101n<\/p>\n

Meaning\uff1a \u6cdb\u6307\u6709\u540d\u7684\u9ad8\u5c71\u548c\u6e90\u8fdc\u6d41\u957f\u7684\u5927\u6cb3\u3002
English: famous mountains and great rivers
Example: I love China’s \u540d\u5c71\u5927\u5ddd (míng sh\u0101n dà chu\u0101n).
\u5ddd\u6d41\u4e0d\u606f chu\u0101n liú bù x\u012b<\/p>\n

Meaning: \u5f62\u5bb9\u884c\u4eba\u3001\u8f66\u9a6c\u7b49\u8c61\u6c34\u6d41\u4e00\u6837\u8fde\u7eed\u4e0d\u65ad\u3002
English: flowing past in an endless stream; never-ending
Example: Passengers at the railway \u5ddd\u6d41\u4e0d\u606f (chu\u0101n liú bù x\u012b).<\/p>\n

Chengdu is the capital of Sichuan and is the cultural and industrial center for the agricultural Chengdu Plain. Chengdu was one of the first centers of printing in China and has been famous for its luxurious satins, brocades, and lacquer ware since the 13th century.<\/p>\n

Chengdu is also home to the Chengdu Giant Panda Research ba<\/em>se, one of the most im<\/em>portant centers in the world for the captive co<\/em>nservation of the Giant Panda. The Research Centre has evolved into China Panda City. Panda City encompasses a museum, as well as the Chengdu Zoo.<\/p>\n

Sichuan is known as the ‘\u5929\u5e9c\u4e4b\u56fd Land of Abundance’ and has three places on the World Cultural and Natural Heritage List: \u4e5d\u5be8\u6c9f Jiuzhaigou Scenic Area, Huang Long Valley (Yellow Dragon Valley) and Mount Emeishan including Leshan Giant Buddha. Visitors to this province can experience a wide variety of beautiful landscapes including plateaus, mountains, ravines, basins, hills, plains, rivers, lakes, hot springs, waterfalls and limestone caves. In addition, tourists can visit im<\/em>portant historic relics and taste the delicious spicy Sichuan Cuisine. Learn Chinese at www.chinesehour.com today with native Chinese teachers, you can have a better understanding of the local culture in Sichuan Province.<\/p>\n

Sichuan Cuisine is one of the Eight Great Cuisines in China and is famous all over the world for its richness and variety. Characterized by spicy and pungent flavors, Sichuan Cuisine, with a myriad of tastes, emphasizes the use of chili, red hot peppers and garlic. Sichuan food is known for being ’spicy’ hot! It’s said that one who doesn’t experience Sichuan food has never reached Sichuan.
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