Learn Chinese L10: Can you play pingpong？
Dachuan is strolling through the athletic fields on campus. Many students are doing sports. Suddenly a guy asks him to play ping pong. Dachuan happily agrees. To his surprise the guy is a master ping pong player.
Dizigui 弟子规 “Rules for Young Boys”
The Dizigui 弟子规 "Rules for young boys" is a textbook of elementary learning written by the Qing period 清 (1644-1911) writer Li Yuxiu 李毓秀. The original title was Xunmengwen 训蒙文 "Elementary text on compliancy". It was compiled according to the essay Tongmeng xu zhi 童蒙须知 "What small kids have to know" by the Southern Song period 南宋 (1127-1279) Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi 朱熹. In four chapters, Li explains the comportment of a Confucian scholar: Filial piety at home, brotherly obeisance outside, reverential and trustful, broad-minded and kindhearted to all people. "The rest of his physical and mental forces are dedicated to learning." (Xing you yu li, ze yi xue wen. 行有余力，则以学文). After revision, the book was renamed Dizigui. It is 360 sentences long, with 1080 characters. The text is written in three-word verses and thus easily to memorize.
Necessary travel documents in China
Passport, valid for at least 3 month after your visit China and necessary visa or permits. The visa should be approved prior to entering China and a permit for Tibet must be obtained 15 days before entering Tibet. If you only plan to travel and stay in Hong Kong you are exempt from applying for a China visa.
New Panda Baby Boom in China
The Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu displays the 14 panda babies born at the center this year. The centerin the capital city of southwestern Sichuan Province was opened in 1987 with just three male and three female pandas. Itnow has 51 male and 63 female giant pandas. The endangered animal is not passionate about courtship, mating or nurturingits babies, which is part of the reason the base was founded to carry out research to solve breeding problems. About 1,600pandas live in the wild, mostly in the mountains of Sichuan, while more than 300 are in captivity.
Learn Chinese L9: I like swimming.
Dachuan and Sun Dawei are strolling on the seaside, talking about hobbies. Dialogue One
wǒ xǐ huɑn yóu yǒnɡ nǐ yǒu shén me ài hào
我 喜 欢 游 泳。 你 有 什 么 爱 好？
I like swimming. What are your hobbies?
wǒ bù xǐ huɑn yóu yǒnɡ wǒ xǐ huɑn liàn tài jí quán
我 不 喜 欢 游 泳。 我 喜 欢 练 太 极 拳。
I don't like swimming. I like practising Taiji.
Exemplarious translation of Daxue 大学The Great Learning
The Daxue 大学 "Great Learning" is a Confucian Classic. It is part of the canon of the Sishu 四书 "Four Books", to which it was added as integral Confucian writing on the order and harmony of society.
Temple of Heaven （Tiantan–天坛）
The Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven, is a complex of Taoist buildings situated in southeastern Beijing. The Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties visited the complex annually when they prayed to Heaven for good harvests. It is regarded as a Taoist temple, although Chinese Heaven worship, especially by the reigning monarch of the day, actually pre-dates Taoism.
Wet and Cooler week in South of China
A COLD front is expected to arrive on Wednesday and bring the temperature down to the mid 20s along with some rain and strong winds, the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau said yesterday.
Learn Chinese L4: How many people are there in your family?
Dachuan, Wang Jun and Li Mei are having a picnic by the lake. Seeing many happy families, Wang Jun asks about Dachuan's familiy members.
Daxue 大学 “The Great Learning”
The Daxue 大学 "Great Learning" is a Confucian Classic. It is part of the canon of the Sishu 四书 "Four Books", to which it was added as integral Confucian writing on the order and harmony of society. It was originally a chapter of the ritual classic Liji 礼记. The Northern Song period 北宋 (960-1126) Neo-Confucian scholars Cheng Hao 程颢 and Cheng Yi 程颐 were the first to regard it as a separate treatise. The Southern Song period 南宋 (1127-1279) Neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹 divided it into a classic (jing 经) and a commentary (zhuan 传), wrote a philological study (zhangju 章句) to the Daxue and made it part of the canon of the "Four Books". Zhu Xi believed that the part he called "classic" had been compiled by Zeng Shen 曾参, a disciple of Confucius, while the the "commentary" was compiled by followers of Zeng Sen. This dispartment of the text is rather arbitrary and not based on scholarly evidence. The Qing period 清 (1644-1911) scholar Chen Que 陈确 therefore contradicted this assumption and brought forward, on the base of textual evidence, that the Daxue must have been compiled only during the Former Han period 前汉 (206 BCE-8 CE), and not during the age in which Confucius and his disciples lived (5th cent. BCE).
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