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Saturday, 10 September 2016
Some lines of poetry from Zheng Banqiao
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Some days ago I stumbled upon a fragment of poetry, of which I knew nothing before: a friend asked me for an overall translation of the mean...
Saturday, 26 December 2015
Ma xin tang yuan
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Dajia hao 大家好! About two years ago I went to a chinese restourant near my home, and among the desserts I happened to choose a dessert th...
Saturday, 17 January 2015
The tiger-sheep approaches
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As the Chinese year of the goat is approaching this four-characters idiom that begins with the character "yang" came to my mind: ...
Saturday, 27 September 2014
Black sheep....or horses?
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If you want to say that someone is the bad person in a family or in a group you can say he or she is the black sheep, right? or ...
Saturday, 7 June 2014
Dragonboats and Zongzi
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This year, the 2nd of June wa s Duānwǔ Jié : the Dragonboat Festival, which is a traditional festivity day in C hina. It occurs on th...
Monday, 24 February 2014
Confucius says
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jǐsuǒbúyù wùshīyúrén This is a saying from the Analects of Confucius. If you want to know more about it, here's the sentence explain...
Monday, 3 February 2014
Chinese Idioms Special 4: One horse takes the lead
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The year of the horse has just begun: Happy new year of the horse to everyone ! And here it is: another Chinese Idioms Special: ...
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