"Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition“汉语桥”中文比赛 The "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition is a large-scale international contest sponsored by Hanban, and is well-known in the cultural and educational exchanges worldwide. It consists of 3 events: "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students, "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign High School Students and "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign Students in China. The competition is held yearly, organized and carried out by the Organizing Committee.“汉语桥”中文比赛是国家汉办主办的大型国际汉语比赛项目，是世界人文交流领域的知名品牌活动，共分为“汉语桥”世界大学生中文比赛、“汉语桥”世界中学生中文比赛和“汉语桥”在华留学生汉语大赛三项比赛。每年一届，由汉语桥比赛组委会进行项目的具体组织和实施。
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11th Chinese Bridge Competition opens in C China
11th Chinese Bridge Competition in Changsha To encourage young people from across the world to study Chinese and strengthen their understanding of Chinese language and culture, the 11th Chinese Bridge opened Monday evening in Central China's Hunan province.为了世界上的年轻人加强对中文的学习以及对中国文化的了解，星期一晚上第十一届汉语桥中文比赛在湖南省会长沙盛大开幕。
Chinese to be made compulsory in Sindh schools
The government in Pakistan's Sindh province has decided to make the Chinese language a compulsory subject in schools from 2013, sparking a debate in the educational and political circles over the reasons behind such a move.
Chinese Slang — 色狼 color wolf
The phrase 色狼 (sèláng) literally translates as “color wolf”. This has no real meaning in English but most closely means “womanizer” or “sex maniac”. There is also a female version of this – 色女 (sènǚ), which can be used to refer to a femme fatale. To understand where these phrases come from, we need to take a closer look at the characters.
Chinese Traditional Women
Confucian philosophy and doctrine still very much influence values and beliefs in current day China. According to Confucius, relationships among family members must follow a hierarchy of status according to generation, age, and gender. The elder family members hold a higher position than do younger members and men are absolutely superior to women (Baker, 1979). The enormous social importance of the relative status of each family member by age, gender, and generation is reflected in the Chinese language itself: There are no less than 52 different words in Mandarin used to describe family kinship as opposed to just 17 in English (Huang and Jia, 2008).
What’s Chengyu?
What's Chengyu? Chengyu (Chinese: 成语, pinyin: chéngyǔ ) are a type of traditional Chinese idiomatic expressions, most of which consist of four characters. Chengyu were widely used in Classical Chinese and are still common in modern Chinese writing and in the spoken language today. There are about 5,000 chengyu in the Chinese language according to the most stringent definition, though some dictionaries list over 20,000. They are often referred to as Chinese idioms or four-character idioms; however, they are not the only idioms in Chinese.
Legacy of The Three Kingdoms
The Three Kingdoms period was one of unparalleled bloodshed and turmoil in Chinese history, as the three states in question, the Wei (魏), Shu (蜀) and Wu (吴), waged decades-long war for control of China.
Chinese Ethnic Groups：赫哲族（Hèzhé zú ）The Hezhe ethnic minority
Population: 4,300 Major areas of distribution: Heilongjiang Language: Hezhe and Han Religion: originally Shamanism
Chinese Ethnic Groups：东乡族（Dōngxiāng zú ）The Dongxiang ethnic minority
Population: 373,700 Major areas of distribution: Gansu and Xinjiang Language: Dongxiang and Han Chinese
Chinese Ethnic Groups：黎族（Lí zú ）The Li ethnic minority
Population: 1.11 million Major area of distribution: Hainan Language: Li Religion: Polytheism
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