Chinese Family - Grandfather and Grandmother - Chinese ...
Family is an important part of Chinese culture. It is very important to understand the relationships between you and another person as it often determines what level of respect and honor you should pay. In Chinese culture, calling someone a ... [... more]
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Chinese Family - Brothers and Sisters - Chinese Culture
Family is an important part of Chinese Culture. Where you sit within the family determines what level of clout you have and say in things that occur. Because of its importance, there is a whole language created to emphasis this. In the English ... [... more]
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Basics of Chinese Calligraphy - Chinese Culture
Chinese Calligraphy is not only an art form, it is the basis for writing that cannot be ignored. Unlike in the West, where one can get away without knowing the basic strokes of calligraphy as long as the letters look correct, it is very difficult ... [... more]
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Chinese Language and Dialects - Chinese Culture
Chinese is made up of many dialects that exemplify the cultural diversity of the country. In fact, some have argued that there really is more than one language contained under the umbrella of Chinese. Even the Chinese people distinguish the ... [... more]
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Simple Chinese Phrases - Chinese Culture
One of the very first phrases that most people pickup when studying or trying to learn Chinese is "How are you?" This simple phrase shows quite a bit about the Chinese grammar and structure that makes it so different from Latin based languages . [... more]
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Chinese Character for Country - Chinese Culture
Understanding how the Chinese have named various countries around the world lead to an interesting understand of their beliefs. To understand this, we begin with the Chinese word for "country": Looking closely at this image and it looks almost . [... more]
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Chinese Character for Faith - Chinese Culture
In Chinese, there are several words that equate to the Western term of "faith". Which word you use depends a bit upon the context of what you're referring to. What makes this character interesting is that it is formed from two symbols. On the [... more]
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Chinese Character for Happiness - Chinese Culture
There are a few characters representing the concept of "happy" in the Chinese language. Each one is slightly different to be placed in context with what one is speaking about. For instance, the "happy" that is used often with holidays, [... more]
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Chinese Character for Love - Chinese Culture
The Chinese written language is based on ideograms, meaning symbols originally derived from ideas. Within this language, there are over 50,000 distinct combinations of characters that make up the Chinese language. Most people commonly only know a ... [... more]
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Chinese Character for Strength - Chinese Culture
The Chinese Character for strength is an interesting word to study and understand. The image is supposedly derived from a pictograph of a tendon. I've always equated it somewhat to the bending of an arm or a tree, the ability to flex without ... [... more]
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Chinese Character for Woman - Chinese Culture
The Chinese Character for woman looks much like the symbol of a man with a womb. There are many derivations that can come from this character. The more obvious ones involve different words that can represent women. For instance, if you combine ... [... more]
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Counting in Chinese - Chinese Culture
Once you learn the basic numbers from one to ten, you can literally count up to almost one hundred. Part of the reason counting is made so easy has to do with the use of the abacus in the Chinese Culture. The abacus is made up of two portions. ... [... more]
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