Tag: Chinese Language

Chinese Language 中国的语言

The Han people have their own spoken and written languages, namely Chinese. It is the most commonly used language in China, and one of the most commonly used languages in the world. All China's 55 minority peoples have their own languages except the Hui（回族，Huí zú） and Manchu（满族，Mǎn zú） , who use Chinese; 21 minorities have their own scripts, in which 27 languages are written. Classes in schools in predominantly national minority areas are taught in the local language, using local-language textbooks, as well as in Putonghua（普通话，Pǔtōnghuà） or Mandarin — the official national standard spoken language of China, based on the principal dialect spoken in and around Beijing.

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Dragon & Phoenix

The dragon and the phoenix are the principal motifs for decorative designs on the buildings, clothing and articles of daily use in the imperial palace. The throne hall is supported by columns entwined by gilded dragons, the central ramps on marble steps were paved with huge slabs carved in relief with the dragon and phoenix, and the screen walls display dragons in brilliant colours . The names in the Chinese language for nearly all the things connected with the emperor or the empress were preceded by the epithet "dragon" or "phoenix"; thus, "dragon seat(龙椅lóngyǐ)" for the throne, "dragon robe(龙袍lóngpáo)" for the emperor's ceremonial dress, "dragon bed(龙床lóngchuáng)" for him to sleep on, and "phoenix carriage", "phoenix canopies" and so on for the imperial processions. The national flag of China under the Qing Dynasty was emblazoned with a big dragon. The earliest postage stamps put out by China were called "dragon-heads" because they showed a dragon in their designs. Even today the dragon is sometimes adopted as the symbol of Chinese exhibitions held abroad or the cover designs of books on China printed by foreign publishers. "The Giant Dragon of the East" is becoming a sobriquet for the country.

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Number gestures in China中文数字的手势

Number gestures is various from all over the world. If you know Chinese number gestures, you can live better in China and communicate with Chinese. Chinese number gestures 汉字数字手势 refers to the Chinese method of using one hand to signify the natural numbers one through ten. This method may have been developed to bridge the many dialects in spoken Chinese– for example, the numbers 4 (Chinese: 四; pinyin: sì) and 10 (Chinese: 十; pinyin: shí) are hard to distinguish in some dialects. Some suggest that it was also used by businessmen during bargaining (i.e. to convey a bid by feeling the hand gesture in a sleeve) when they wish for more privacy in a public place. 

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Chinese brands Top 10: Baidu 百度

China's massive search engine Baidu controls 79% of China's search engine market. Baidu owes much of its success to the familiarity of Chinese language nuances that other foreign search engines cannot match and from this success has even launched a Japanese search engine, it's first major project outside China.

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