{"id":7840,"date":"2019-10-05T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T11:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/a-foolish-affair-from-my-childhood\/"},"modified":"2019-10-05T11:17:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T11:17:20","slug":"a-foolish-affair-from-my-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/a-foolish-affair-from-my-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"A Foolish Affair from my childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"
Chinese Title: \u7ae5\u5e74\u50bb\u4e8b
This essay a<\/em>bout a kid who takes his father’s advice a little too literally (with amusing results) is almost as beginner as a five-paragraph read can get. You’ll find very few intermediate-level words, and extremely basic sentence structure.
Beginner Simplified Chinese Essays: Learn to Read Mandarino<\/em>nly thing intermediate a<\/em>bout this read is the very first sentence, which we’ll talk a<\/em>bout here. After this it’s pretty easy going. The essay starts out \u7ae5\u5e74\u4eff\u4f5b\u662f\u4e00\u6761\u5c0f\u8239\uff0c\u91cc\u9762\u88c5\u6ee1\u4e86\u751c\u871c\u7684\u7cd6\u679c\uff0c\u4e5f\u88c5\u6ee1\u4e86\u8bb8\u591a\u5fe7\u4f24\u3002 Let’s break this one down word by word:
\u7ae5\u5e74 – tóng nián – Childhood
\u4eff\u4f5b – f\u01ceng fú – seems like
\u662f – shì – [it] is
\u4e00\u6761 – y\u012b tiáo – a (literally: the word “one” plus the classifier for boats, which is \u6761)
\u5c0f\u8239, – xi\u01ceo chuán – boat,
\u91cc\u9762 – l\u01d0 miàn – inside
\u88c5\u6ee1\u4e86 – zhu\u0101ng m\u01cen le – is full (of)
\u751c\u871c\u7684 – tián mì de – sweet
\u7cd6\u679c, – táng gu\u01d2 – candy,
\u4e5f – y\u011b – also
\u88c5\u6ee1\u4e86 – zhu\u0101ng m\u01cen le – is full (of)
\u8bb8\u591a – x\u01d4 du\u014d – much
\u5fe7\u4f24 – y\u014du sh\u0101ng – distress.
Pretty straightforward when you look at it that way. A quick note on that: though the word \u7cd6\u679c (which appears a lot in this text) means “candy”, it does not mean “candy fruit” or “sweet fruit”, as you might guess from the character \u679c. This is just a general word for candy, though the Chinese don’t co<\/em>nsider chocolate a “candy” – it’s in its own category.<\/p>\n

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\u70c8\u65e5 – liè rì – Scorching sun
\u708e\u708e – yán yán – Scorching
\u62b1\u4e0a – bào shàng – Pick up (the way one picks up a child, encircling them with both arms)
\u7cd6\u679c – táng gu\u01d2 – Candy
\u79cd – zhòng – To plant (eg. vegetable seeds)
\u79cd\u5b50 – zh\u01d2ng zi – A seed
\u5fc3\u60f3 – x\u012bn xi\u01ceng – Think to oneself
\u5228 – páo – To dig
\u5751 – k\u0113ng – Hole
\u57cb – mái – To bury
\u9ed8\u9ed8 – mò mò – Without speaking
\u5b9d\u8d1d – b\u01ceo bèi – “Baby”, “Darling” – term of endearment
\u5982\u4eca – rú j\u012bn – Nowadays
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Childhood seems like a boat that is full of sweet candy, but is also laden with grief.
I was born into a happy six-person family. There’s father, mother, grandpa, grandma, my elder sister and myself.
[The story begins] when I was four, on a scorching afternoon. Grandpa, grandma, mother and my elder sister were all busy doing their own thing. Dad picked me up and carried me to the store, and bought me lots of candy. On the way back to the house, dad put me down, and went to our house’s back garden to plant apple trees. I went with him, and asked him ‘what are you doing’? Father said: “I’m planting apple trees, when autumn arrives you’ll have apples to eat.” Father continued: “Whatever seeds you plant will grow.” Father finished speaking and went back into the house to drink tea. Then I thought to myself if I take the candy I just bought and plant it in the earth, in autumn I should have lots of candy!
I did just that, I dug a hole, took my left over candy and put it all in the hole, using dirt to bury it. In silence I fervently hoped: “Candy, grow quickly! Candy, grow quickly! Grow into a big tree, and sprout lots and lots of candy.” I told this wish to my father, and he listened. Laughing heartily he said: “Candy can’t grow into a big tree, and it definitely can’t sprout more candy.” I heard my father’s words and I sat down on the grass and started sobbing, my candy, my candy. Father quickly ran up to me, embraced me and said: “Oh, don’t cry little darling, daddy will buy you lots and lots of candy.” I listened to him and stopped crying.
Nowadays I’ve already grown up, and I won’t try foolishly planting candy again.
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