{"id":16383,"date":"2019-11-13T07:30:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T07:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/teaching-examination\/lesson-169-happy-spring-festival-1-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T07:30:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T07:30:22","slug":"lesson-169-happy-spring-festival-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/lesson-169-happy-spring-festival-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 169 Happy Spring Festival! (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  \t<script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/res.hjfile.cn\/pt\/vendor\/hjplayer.js'><\/script><script type='text\/javascript'>HJPlayer.init(\"hjptype=song&player=1&son=https:\/\/f1.w.hjfile.cn\/file\/201107\/lesson169.MP3&autoplay=no&caption=false&lrc=&autoreplay=1&bgcolor=FFFFFF&width=200&height=20\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p>  \tYajie:&nbsp; It&rsquo;s time to perfect Chinese your way in only five minutes a day.&nbsp; Welcome to Chinese Studio everyone.&nbsp; And Cam, this is a very special week.<br \/>  \tCam:&nbsp; It sure is Yajie&hellip; it&rsquo;s spring festival.. and I feel so bad&hellip;<br \/>  \tYajie:&nbsp; Why?<br \/>  \tCam:&nbsp; Because I want to wish you happy spring festival in Chinese, but that is one of the few things we haven&rsquo;t learned yet!<br \/>  \tYajie:&nbsp; Well, you are in luck&hellip; this is spring festival week, so we&rsquo;ll learn all about it on Chinese Studio.<\/p>\n<p>  \t<strong>Key words of the day<\/strong><br \/>  \tSpring festival\u6625\u8282, have the spring festival \u8fc7\u5e74 lunar new year&rsquo;s eve\uff0c\u9664\u5915, lantern festival. \u5143\u5bb5\u8282, This year is the year of the dog. \u4eca\u5e74\u662f\u72d7\u5e74 All in today&rsquo;s Chinese Studio<\/p>\n<p>  \tC: Yajie, I know the Chinese New Year is also known as the Spring Festival. I&rsquo;d like to know why and how to say it in Chinese.<br \/>  \tY: it&rsquo;s called Spring Festival because it starts at the beginning of Spring. Cam, do you remember we learned the four seasons in our previous show.&nbsp; Do you remember the Chinese for spring?<br \/>  \tC: Ah&hellip; it&rsquo;s chun1 tian1.<br \/>  \tY: Yes, chun1 tian1 means spring, or just chun1 for short. And festival is jie2 in Chinese.<br \/>  \tC: jie2.<br \/>  \tY: then spring festival is chun1 jie2.<br \/>  \tC: chun1 jie2.<br \/>  \tY: you may also hear people say &ldquo;guo4 nian2&rdquo;.<br \/>  \tC: guo4 nian2, what is that?<br \/>  \tY: guo4 in Chinese has both the meaning of &ldquo;pass-over&rdquo; and &ldquo;celebrate&rdquo;<br \/>  \tC; guo4.<br \/>  \tY: and the word &ldquo;nian2&rdquo; means &ldquo;year&rdquo; in Chinese.<br \/>  \tC: nian2<br \/>  \tY: In the Chinese legend, nian2 was a terrible monster, and nian2 was afraid of red, flames and firecrackers. So when it&rsquo;s spring festival, many people put red couplets on their front doors, and set off firecrackers to make loud noises. We&rsquo;ll mention more about it later.<br \/>  \tC: Interesting.<br \/>  \tY: guo4 nian2, to have the spring festival<br \/>  \tC: guo3 nian2.<\/p>\n<p>  \tConversation1:<br \/>  \t1\uff09A\uff1a\u6625\u8282\u9a6c\u4e0a\u5c31\u8981\u5230\u4e86\u3002<br \/>  \tB\uff1a\u662f\u554a\u3002\u6211\u8981\u56de\u5bb6\u8fc7\u5e74\u3002<br \/>  \t2\uff09A\uff1a\u8fc7\u5e74\u4f11\u606f\u51e0\u5929\uff1f<br \/>  \tB\uff1a\u4e00\u822c\u4f11\u606f7\u5929\u3002<\/p>\n<p>  \tC: Yajie, I&rsquo;m wondering how long will chun1 jie2 last? Then I can work my schedule to suit the festival.&nbsp;<br \/>  \tY: Chun1 jie2 lasts 15 days from lunar new year&rsquo;s eve until the lantern festival.<br \/>  \tC: what is the Chinese for lunar new year&rsquo;s eve,<br \/>  \tY: it&rsquo;s called chu2 xi1, chu2 literally means remove or change,<br \/>  \tC: chu2,<br \/>  \tY: xi1 means night,<br \/>  \tC: xi1.<br \/>  \tY: chu2 xi1, implies that the old year ends at this night, and the new one begins tomorrow.<br \/>  \tC: chu2 xi1. the lunar new year&rsquo;s eve. And when is it?<br \/>  \tY: it varies from year to year. This year chu2 xi1 is on January 28th of the Gregorian Calendar.<br \/>  \tC: then when will it end?<br \/>  \tY: it ends on the lantern festival, which is yuan2 xiao1 jie2.<br \/>  \tC: yuan2 xiao1 jie2.<br \/>  \tY: It is customary to eat special sweet dumplings called yuanxiao, which symbolizes family reunions and people will watch lanterns during this festival. So it can also be called &ldquo;deng1 jie2&rdquo; since the word &ldquo;deng1&rdquo; means lantern.<br \/>  \tC: deng1 jie2. Lantern Festival.<\/p>\n<p>  \tConversation 2<br \/>  \t1\uff09A: \u4eca\u5e74\u7684\u9664\u5915\u662f\u4ec0\u4e48\u65f6\u5019\uff1f<br \/>  \tB: \u516c\u53861\u670828\u53f7\u3002<\/p>\n<p>  \t2\uff09A: \u4eca\u5e74\u7684\u6b63\u6708\u5341\u4e94\u5143\u5bb5\u8282\u6709\u706f\u5c55\u5417\uff1f<br \/>  \tB: \u5f53\u7136\u6709\u5566\u3002\u54b1\u4eec\u5230\u65f6\u5019\u4e00\u8d77\u53bb\u770b\u82b1\u706f\u628a\u3002<br \/>  \tA\uff1a\u597d\u7684\u3002<\/p>\n<p>  \tC: Yajie, I heard that the Chinese animal signs are used for dating the years.<br \/>  \tY: Exactly. And it&rsquo;s based on a 12-year cycle.<br \/>  \tC: Then what&rsquo;s the animal for this year?<br \/>  \tY: it&rsquo;s the year of the dog.<br \/>  \tC: ah, I love dogs.<br \/>  \tY: Same here. So we can say jin1 nian2 shi4 gou3 nian4. This year is the year of the dog.<br \/>  \tC: jin1 nian2 shi4 gou3 nian4.<br \/>  \tY: jin1 nian2, this year,<br \/>  \tC: jin1 nian2,<br \/>  \tY: shi4, is<br \/>  \tC: shi4,<br \/>  \tY: gou3 means dog,<br \/>  \tC: gou3,<br \/>  \tY: nian2 means year,<br \/>  \tC: nian2<br \/>  \tY: jin1 nian2 shi4 gou3 nian4.<br \/>  \tC: jin1 nian2 shi4 gou3 nian4. this year is the year of the dog<\/p>\n<p>  \tConversation 3:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>  \tA: \u4eca\u5e74\u662f\u72d7\u5e74\uff0c\u795d\u60a8\u8d22\u8fd0\u4ea8\u901a\u3002<br \/>  \tB: \u795d\u60a8\u72d7\u5e74\u5927\u5409\u3002<\/p>\n<p>  \tYajie:&nbsp; We&rsquo;ve run out of time, but there is still much more to learn about the Spring Festival tradition!<br \/>  \tCam:&nbsp; I will wait until tomorrow.&nbsp; Until then, here&rsquo;s our question of the day.<br \/>  \tYJ:&nbsp; How do you say, &ldquo;lunar new year&rsquo;s eve&rdquo; in Chinese?<br \/>  \tCam:&nbsp; Send your answer to Chinese@crifm.com, and you might win a prize from us.<br \/>  \tYJ:&nbsp; Mingtian jian!<\/p>\n<p>  \t(Written by Cam &#038; Yajie)<\/p>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3009352699\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yajie:&nbsp; It&rsquo;s time to perfect Chinese your way in only five minutes a day.&nbsp; Welcome to Chinese Studio everyone.&nbsp; And Cam, this is a very special week.<br \/>\n  \tCam:&nbsp; It sure is Yajie&hellip; it&rsquo;s spring festival.. and I feel so bad&hellip;<br \/>\n  \tYajie:&nbsp; Why?<br \/>\n  \tCam:&nbsp; Because I want to wish you happy spring festival in Chinese, but that is one of the few things we haven&rsquo;t learned yet!<br \/>\n  \tYajie:&nbsp; Well, you are in luck&hellip; this is spring festival week, so we&rsquo;ll learn all about it on Chinese Studio.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[370,98],"class_list":["post-16383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-examination","tag-chinese-for","tag-chinese-studio"],"views":171,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}