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Peiligang Site in Henan

Geographical Location: Xinzheng, Henan Province Period: 5,500-4,900 BC Excavated in 1977 Significance: Peiligang Culture is named after the Peiligang Site. The site has provided an important clue for the study of the development of the early Neolithic cultures in the Central Plains, as well as their relationships with the Yangshao Culture of the Central Plains.

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Talk about Horse-head Fiddle of the Mongolians

The Horse-head fiddle(马头琴mǎtóuqín) is a bow shaped musical instrument usually used by the Mongolian people(蒙古族Ménggǔzú), one of the ethnic minorities of Chine. The musical instrument is named like this because its head is usually carved like the shape of a horse head. It is also called "Chaoer", "Molinhuer", "huqin (Huqin is a general term for certain two-stringed bowed instruments, such as erhu, jinghu)", "horse tail huqin" and so on. It is popular among the Mongolian people in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Xinjiang and the northeastern part of China. The horse head fiddle of Mongolian has a long history. It is evolved from Xiqin, a kind of string instrument of the Tang and Song Dynasties. During the reign of Genghis Khan, the musical instrument was popularized among the people.

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Chinese grammar: Comparing 再zai and 又you

Both 再 (zài) and 又 (yòu) express the duplication of an action and can be roughly translated in English to "again". However, 再 is used to express actions that have not yet occurred (the "future again") and 又 is used for actions that have already occurred (the "past again"). They're not interchangeable.

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Chinese phrase translation: 团购 (tuángòu) group purchase

团购 (tuángòu) group purchase Usage: 团购的字面意思是团体购物,指认识的或者不认识的人一起买东西,这样可以求得最优价格。团购时,商家一般会给出低于零售价格的团购折扣和单独购买得不到的优质服务,这样就可以卖出更多的产品,从中获利。现在团购的主要方式是网络团购,也有某单位集体购买。“团购”is a type of purchasing behavior that a group of people use to obtain discounts from vendors using their collective buying power. The vendors always offer a lower price as well as additional qualified service in group purchase. They can sell more products and get more profit. Nowadays, the most common way of group purchasing lies on the internet. There are group purchasing such as a company buys goods for it’s employees as well.

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The Buluotuo Scriptures of the Zhuang ethnic group

The Buluotuo Scriptures(布洛陀经诗Bùluòtuó Jīngshī) is the primitive religious scriptures of the Zhuang ethnic group of China. It is also the creative epic(a long book, poem, or film, whose story extends over a long period of time or tells of great events) and folk literary work of the Zhuang ethnics in China. The scriptures are the five-word style poem that takes the language and form of poem to sing and praise the feat of creating the earth and the heaven, initiating all the things, arranging the orders of the universe and constituting ethic of Bulongtuo, the ancient god of the Zhuang people. The scriptures tell about the formation of the universe, the origination of human beings and various farm crops and domestic animals as well as the living customs of people in the primitive ages. They also enlighten people to pray, eliminate evils and pursue a happy life. The whole body of the scriptures is as long as ten thousand lines, which can generally be divided into three parts, i.e., creative myth, ethics and religious taboo. Since ancient times, Buluotuo Scriptures had been handed down by oral means. Later, while sang and transmitted among people, the scriptures were also conserved by the help of written language of the ancient Zhuang ethnics.

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