故宫初雪,来了

下雪啦! 11月21日,北京迎来2020年冬天的首场降雪 已达初雪标准 其中,城区降雪量最大 今年的初雪来得早一些 较常见平均初雪日偏早8天 紫禁城的初雪如约而至↓   It’s snowing! On November 21, Beijing ushered in the first snowfall in the winter of 2020. The first snow this year came […]

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The Art of Chinese Mahjong

This woman adopted the ancient Chinese game of mahjong to create a popular club in New York that draws hundreds of players every week. Source: SCMP More on overseas Chinese: sc.mp/567d2 […]

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Do you know? Some fact about “Mandarin”

The English word “mandarin” (from Portuguese mandarim, from Malay menteri, from Sanskrit mantrin, meaning “minister or counsellor”) originally meant an official of the Ming and Qing empires.Since their native varieties were often mutually unintelligible, these officials communicated using a Koiné language based on various […]

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