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• Chinese Culture – Eight Ridge Mountain Tomb Group

  Date: 2009.01.31 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese Tutor, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

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  Eight Ridge Mountain Tomb Group

  The Eight Ridge Mountain (Balingshan) Tomb Group is located 12 kilometers northwest of Jiangling County, Hubei Province.

  The group is a concentration of noble tombs. Located in the mountain, the Chu Kingdom tombs are most common, followed by tombs from the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD) and lastly, tombs from other dynasties. There are 300 to 400 large tombs in the area with an abundance of antiques, including the famous
  sword of Goujian, King of the Yue Kingdom, and a colored wooden sculptural screen.

  The Eight Ridge Mountain has many tall pines and historical relics, among which are the well-known Luomao Platform, Huanmao Platform, and Mapao Spring, etc. The pine trees in the cloud of the Eight Ridge Mountain is one of the top eight sights in Jiangling and a famous tourist spot.

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• Learning Mandarin – Pumi

  Date: 2009.01.14 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese Tutor, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

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  Pumi

  The Pumi ethnic minority mainly lives inYunnanProvincein southwestChina.

  Pumis live on maize. They usually have three meals a day. Breakfast usually includes wheaten snacks and buttered tea or salty tea, and lunch and supper are dinners.

  The meat usually comes from the livestock and domestic fowls they raise. Pumis often boil and roast meat, seldom fry it. Lute Meat is the most well known. The way of cooking is to remove the viscera and all bones from a killed live pig, cast salt and prickly ash into the belly, stitch it, and
  preserve it as a whole salted pig, which looks like a lute, hence the name Lute Meat. It is a special delicacy to entertain guests.

  Pumis plant many walnut trees. Apart from eating walnuts raw, they use most walnuts to press oil which can be used to fry rice cake, and light up, etc.

  Pumis are very respectful for the seniors, and take good care of them. In Pumi villages, seniors of 70 and above usually have a food cabinet at the bedside, which contains various foods. On festive occasions, all households in the village will send a gift to the seniors in the village.

  Pumis cannot live without tea. They usually drink three times a day: once in the morning, atnoonand in the evening respectively.

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• HSK Exam – Dongxiang

  Date: 2009.01.13 | Category: Chinese Mandarin, Chinese Online Class, Chinese School, Chinese Tutor, Chinese language, Learn Chinese Class, Study Chinese, learn Chinese, learn Chinese online, learn Mandarin online, learn mandarin | Response: 0

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  Dongxiang

  Dongxiang women usually wear embroidered broad-sleeved clothes with a neckline around the collar, buttons down the front and embroidered lace on the cuffs. They wear trousers with two embroidered laces at the end of them and on the lower back of the trouser legs there is a small split sewn with a
  small string to fasten the trousers. When in special occasions, they wear embroidered shoes with a heel over 1 inch. Women wear kerchiefs, and adorn the hair bun and the breast with silver accessories. Young women wear colorful woven silk cap or embroidered cloth cap and veils as well.

  Men wear robes with buttons down the left and broad waistband, with knives, small bags and snuff bottles decorating the waist part, etc. They often wear a soft flat cap in white, black and brown, white shirt topped with black waistcoat, and black or blue trousers. In winter, they put on sheepskin
  coat for warmth.

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