a traditional Chinese festival! :)
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a traditional Chinese festival! :)
What do people do on that day ?:)
Isn't that day, Chinese Valentine's day?Quote:
Originally posted by cntomcom
a traditional Chinese festival! :)
This year's both Valentines' days are side by side (14/2/03 & 15/2/03):D
No.
Chinese Valentine's day is in fall. :)
This festival is just after Chinese New Year.
After this festival, it means New Year Festival is over and people
will starts to work again!
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Originally posted by CBasicNet
Isn't that day, Chinese Valentine's day?
This year's both Valentines' days are side by side (14/2/03 & 15/2/03):D
On this day, people will make lanterns and hang them out at night. If you go out, you will see various of lanterns in the street.
:)
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Originally posted by Wfranc
What do people do on that day ?:)
Is it too late for me to start digging a hole to china? Sounds like fun though, hope there's mass quanities of drinking involved ;)
Drinking a lot but it's not necessary.
People eat some special foods.
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Originally posted by Mick_2002
Is it too late for me to start digging a hole to china? Sounds like fun though, hope there's mass quanities of drinking involved ;)
What do they do that for?:)
For the New Year, Chinese traditional new year, not the same as
Jan. 1st. :)
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Originally posted by Wfranc
What do they do that for?:)
I thought 15th of 8th month is festival for lanterns (Zhong Qiu Jie). I had never heard that 15th of 1st month is lantern festival. Even it is, at least in Singapore, we don't celebrate it.Quote:
Originally posted by cntomcom
a traditional Chinese festival! :)
Cntomcom: you have to understand that not all Chinese over the world share the same festivals. For example, Singaporean Chinese celebrate the 7th day of the Chinese new year which Chinese in other regions, don't do. Some Chinese of other dialect also celebrate on the 8th day. Some Chinese who are Taoists, celebrate the Birthday of some god which falls on the 9th of 1st month. But we don't celebrate the last day of Chinese New Year which is the 15th day.
Isn't that day Yuan Xiao Jie?:confused:
Oh wow, CBasicNet! You are a Chinese ! Ni hao!:D. Most of the Singaporean shi Tzong Guo ren,don't they?Quote:
I thought 15th of 8th month is festival for lanterns (Zhong Qiu Jie). I had never heard that 15th of 1st month is lantern festival. Even it is, at least in Singapore, we don't celebrate it.
Cntomcom: you have to understand that not all Chinese over the world share the same festivals. For example, Singaporean Chinese celebrate the 7th day of the Chinese new year which Chinese in other regions, don't do. Some Chinese of other dialect also celebrate on the 8th day. Some Chinese who are Taoists, celebrate the Birthday of some god which falls on the 9th of 1st month. But we don't celebrate the last day of Chinese New Year which is the 15th day.
Isn't that day Yuan Xiao Jie?
Okay you and cntomcom shin nen, wan shi ru y !!!:D
Yeah, it's Yuan Xiao Jie and in English it's festival for lanterns.
I think it's a festival shared by all Chinese all over the world.
Zhong Qiu Jie has nothing with lanterns but the moon!
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Originally posted by CBasicNet
I thought 15th of 8th month is festival for lanterns (Zhong Qiu Jie). I had never heard that 15th of 1st month is lantern festival. Even it is, at least in Singapore, we don't celebrate it.
Cntomcom: you have to understand that not all Chinese over the world share the same festivals. For example, Singaporean Chinese celebrate the 7th day of the Chinese new year which Chinese in other regions, don't do. Some Chinese of other dialect also celebrate on the 8th day. Some Chinese who are Taoists, celebrate the Birthday of some god which falls on the 9th of 1st month. But we don't celebrate the last day of Chinese New Year which is the 15th day.
Isn't that day Yuan Xiao Jie?:confused:
Ni hao! :D
Can you use or type Chinese characters?
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Originally posted by Wfranc
Oh wow, CBasicNet! You are a Chinese ! Ni hao!:D. Most of the Singaporean shi Tzong Guo ren,don't they?
Okay you and cntomcom shin nen, wan shi ru y !!!:D
Zhong Qiu Jie is when the adults admire the full moon while eating the mooncakes(Yue Bing) and the kids are carrying their lanterns. At least in Singapore it is.:p :DQuote:
Originally posted by cntomcom
Yeah, it's Yuan Xiao Jie and in English it's festival for lanterns.
I think it's a festival shared by all Chinese all over the world.
Zhong Qiu Jie has nothing with lanterns but the moon!
I am not a Chinese !Just because I like Or.culture, I learn the language.One year up to now.:D.I can type only a few because Chinese characters are difficult for me. But they are beautiful indeed.!I like to write them in old complex forms!
I think zhong qiu jie is called Mid-Autumn festival in English, after the Lunar New Year's Days there will be lanterns festival,:D Is that right ?
I have never tasted a mooncake so far.
I like Chinese food .:D Tasty !!!
Correct!:DQuote:
Originally posted by Wfranc
I think zhong qiu jie is called Mid-Autumn festival in English..
You are very right!
It seems that you are quite familiar with our cultrue!:D
Maybe we could be friends.:D
Do you use MSN or Icq?
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Originally posted by Wfranc
I am not a Chinese !Just because I like Or.culture, I learn the language.One year up to now.:D.I can type only a few because Chinese characters are difficult for me. But they are beautiful indeed.!I like to write them in old complex forms!
I think zhong qiu jie is called Mid-Autumn festival in English, after the Lunar New Year's Days there will be lanterns festival,:D Is that right ?
I have never tasted a mooncake so far.
I like Chinese food .:D Tasty !!!
Sure !!!Quote:
You are very right!
It seems that you are quite familiar with our cultrue!
Maybe we could be friends.
Do you use MSN or Icq?
I used to have one in aol, but I stopped using it long time ago, uhm if you have something to tell me, send me an email, I think I have time much enough to answer my friend's mail:)
May i ask you a question ?
A couple of days ago, I went to have meal with some of my friends in a small Chinese restaurant, I ordered a kind of yellow noodle which I now forget its name. It was spicy, hot, served with some slices of pork, bean sprout and a little kimchee on the top. This kind of food is also existed in Japan, I guess, as my father once went there on business but he now also didnot remember the name.
Do you know what it is called?
Mmm...
Since our country is so large that even I couldn't tell all foods in
my country.
Perhaps it's just a kind of noodle.
There are so many kinds of noodles in China or we just call it noodle or xxx noodle. (xxx equals what is mixed with noodle, such
as pork as you said.)
My English is not very well.:)
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Originally posted by Wfranc
Sure !!!
I used to have one in aol, but I stopped using it long time ago, uhm if you have something to tell me, send me an email, I think I have time much enough to answer my friend's mail:)
May i ask you a question ?
A couple of days ago, I went to have meal with some of my friends in a small Chinese restaurant, I ordered a kind of yellow noodle which I now forget its name. It was spicy, hot, served with some slices of pork, bean sprout and a little kimchee on the top. This kind of food is also existed in Japan, I guess, as my father once went there on business but he now also didnot remember the name.
Do you know what it is called?
I read again a post by wasted tomorrow and I got it now. It is called ramen noodle. tasty really !!!
No, it is not the problem. I can understand what you mean and you too, you can get what I mean and then we understand each other.:DQuote:
My English is not very well:)
ramon? what doest it mean? transliteration or free translation?
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Originally posted by Wfranc
I read again a post by wasted tomorrow and I got it now. It is called ramen noodle. tasty really !!!
No, it is not the problem. I can understand what you mean and you too, you can get what I mean and then we understand each other.:D
Oh it is RAMEN NOODLE, is it right ?Quote:
Originally posted by cntomcom
ramon? what doest it mean? transliteration or free translation?
Oh, I mean what does "ramon" mean?
I can't find this word in English dictionary.:)
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Originally posted by Wfranc
Oh it is RAMEN NOODLE, is it right ?
Ramen is called 'La Mian' in Chinese.
Some instant noodles come in such flavours.
One day in a japanese magazine there was a photograph about a little ramen restaurant. There was nobody in the restaurant and the owners, (chinesse) look like angry.
These men did not learnt very well japanese because when they wrote the restaurant's title they put "samen"@instead of "ramen". "samen" in japanese is semen. There was a foot note at the bottom of the photograph saying something like "Now we know why these people are always angry. How can anybody enter the restaurant with such a title?"
:p
:D:D:DQuote:
Originally posted by Doctor Luz
One day in a japanese magazine there was a photograph about a little ramen restaurant. There was nobody in the restaurant and the owners, (chinesse) look like angry.
These men did not learnt very well japanese because when they wrote the restaurant's title they put "samen"@instead of "ramen". "samen" in japanese is semen. There was a foot note at the bottom of the photograph saying something like "Now we know why these people are always angry. How can anybody enter the restaurant with such a title?"
:p
Are you a Japanese, DoctorLuz ?
No I am not
Can you speak Japanese ?:)
Yes I can
Well, cool!!!
Konichiwa !!! Nan nen kan nihon go o benkyo shitano desuka ?
I started 6 years ago . But nowadays I continue studiying
For those who can't read japanese, Wfrank has asked how many years I studied japanese.
It was completely clear! :D :)Quote:
Originally posted by Doctor Luz
I started 6 years ago . But nowadays I continue studiying
For those who can't read japanese, Wfrank has asked how many years I studied japanese.
Irona !!! Is the guy in your avatar your idol ? He looks smart and perhaps plays well I guess !!!:D:D
:) I don't have idols :p ... but that guy is one of the four best singers (for me, of course)... He is quite smart: he is professor of history and fencing :)Quote:
Irona !!! Is the guy in your avatar your idol ? He looks smart and perhaps plays well I guess !!!
a guy? oh, on seeing that photo, I thought it's a girl! :)
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Originally posted by irona20
:) I don't have idols :p ... but that guy is one of the four best singers (for me, of course)... He is quite smart: he is professor of history and fencing :)
'La Mian', yeah, it's common in China.
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Originally posted by CBasicNet
Ramen is called 'La Mian' in Chinese.
Some instant noodles come in such flavours.
Anyway, I changed my avatar... the guy named by Wfranc was other else...Quote:
Originally posted by cntomcom
a guy? oh, on seeing that photo, I thought it's a girl! :)
But ...a girl!!! He is the most handsome guy!!! :mad:
You should know some Chinese words. Isn't it?Quote:
Originally posted by Wfranc
Oh wow, CBasicNet! You are a Chinese ! Ni hao!:D. Most of the Singaporean shi Tzong Guo ren,don't they?
Okay you and cntomcom shin nen, wan shi ru y !!!:D
"Ni hao" is Chinese word spelling