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The well-known Women's Writing 著名女书法家-江永女书

The  Jiangyong Nv Shu(江永女书Jiāngyǒng nǚshū) is the only existing female characters in the world. It is a writing system exclusively used by women in the Jiangxu area of Jiangyong County of about 20,000 people in the south tip of Hunan. Nv Shu characters are rhomboid, with slim and regular strokes that look like ants and mosquitoes. As such, the characters are nicknamed(a nickname is an informal name for someone or something) "long-leg mosquito writing" or "ant writing". The characters are used only by women, so they are called "Nv Shu" (or "Women’s Writing") in academia. It is known to experts and scholars that Jiangyong Nv Shu is an age-old writing system. But there are no historical relics or records about Nv Shu, the time of its origin cannot be traced.

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Lesson 054 Asking about Jobs

Cam: Da Jia Hao. Wo shi Cam. Nice to have you again on Chinese Studio on China Radio International.
Yajie: and我是Yajie.Today we’ll learn how to ask about jobs. In fact there are quite a number of ways. But we’ll focus on one way, using the phrase 在哪儿.
Cam: Remember 在哪儿(zai4 nar3) literally means "at wher". We talked about how to use it when asking wher one lives.  But today, we tell you how to ask wher one works.  

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Nie Er 聂 耳

民族:汉 Nationality: Han nationality 出生地:云南省昆明 Birth Place: Kunming, Yunnan Province 生卒年:1912-1935 Birth and mortality: 1912-1935 相关作品:《义勇军进行曲》《毕业歌》《梅娘曲》 Works: the March of

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公共场所禁烟添新规 New bans for smoking in public places

据新华社报道,卫生部周二宣布,中国颁布了禁止在室内公共场所吸烟的新规则。这些新则将于5月1日生效,规定公共场所经营者应当设置醒目的禁止吸烟标志,应举行宣传活动告诫人们吸烟的危害,还应配备专人对吸烟者进行劝阻。 另外,室外吸烟区不应位于行人必经的通道上,公共场所不得设置自动售烟机。卫生部官员谢杨说,中国是国际卫生组织《烟草控制框架公约》缔约国,这些新则表明了中国加大烟草控制的决心。 New bans for smoking in public places The Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that China enacted new

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Grain Rain of the 24 Solar Terms 二十四节气之谷雨

谷雨是二十四节气之一。谷雨源自古人“雨生百谷”之说。“清明断雪,谷雨断霜”,气象专家表示,谷雨是春季最后一个节气,谷雨节气的到来意味着寒潮天气基本结束,气温回升加快。 Grain Rain is one of the 24 solar terms. It originated from the ancient saying that “rain gives life

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