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Explainer: The Story of Qixi, AKA Chinese Valentine's Day

The timeless tale of the weaving girl and the cowherd

by Ella Wong, 25 August 2025

Explainer: Why Dragon Boat Festival Means a Feast in Guangdong

In South China, Dragon Boats mean it's time to eat!

by Billy Jiang, 22 May 2025

Explainer: Women's Day's Revolutionary Roots

The origins of March 8, or China's 'sanba.'

by Daniel Plafker, 04 March 2025

Explainer: How China Got its Flag

How the PRC got its stars – and almost a stripe

by Erik Crouch, 29 September 2024

Explainer: The History Behind National Day Holiday

Why you are off work for a week

by William Lee, 29 September 2024

Explainer: Everything You Need to Know About Mid-Autumn Festival

What's with all those mooncakes?

by Jonty Dixon, 11 September 2024

Explainer: How May 1 Became International Workers' Day

Let's go back to the 1880s...

by Ryan Kilpatrick, 26 April 2024

Explainer: Why China Celebrates Christmas with Apples

Ever wonder why you've been receiving apples from Chinese friends and co-workers for Christmas?

by Bridget O'Donnell, 19 December 2022

Recent Comments

Totally agree, Aspire Vapina has really top notch juices, Moon Mountain etc. and awesome mods, Purge are pretty cool.

CommanderJameson

May 2, 2018 at 22:54 pm

Sounds awesome. That's a ski area the size of the Gillette Stadium in Mass, but with 220 ft of total vertical drop. It'll be like putting the whole McIntyre Ski Area of New Hampshire indoors! That's pretty cool.

Endless

February 12, 2018 at 10:07 am

A few mistakes! In my opinion, you should hold yourselves to a higher standard of quality if you wish to publish 'teaching' materials. Lack of consistency in educational material was one of the hardest aspects of learning Mandarin for me personally. -气质 the zhi is the fourth tone -微信 the wei is the first tone -在那 the na should be the fourth tone. The third tone na (哪）works in the sentence also, but it doesn't match the chinese character written. 我想吻你- this sounds exactly like 我想闻你 (I want to smell you)! weird! probably don't want to teach people to say this, instead just say 我想亲吻你

tomB

September 6, 2018 at 1:00 am

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