Ancient Chinese drama is called "opera" because of the main factors of "opera" and "Qu". Chinese opera mainly includes southern opera of song and yuan, Zaju of yuan and Ming, legend and legend of Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as the traditional repertoire of modern Beijing Opera and ...
the Monkey King was bornout of a rock and acquired supernatural powersthrough instruction of Taoist master.He cantransform himself into seventy-two different images.Using clouds as a vehicle, he can travel108,000 miles with a single somersault.Sun Wukong...
lit. (may the) five blessings descend upon this home (namely: longevity, wealth, health, virtue, and a natural death) (an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year) Example Usage 第二春 dì èr chūn (lit.) second spring (fig.) falling in love for the second time a new lease o...
Word list: (Please use the search function of your browser (CTRL-F) or switch to full text search) Pinyin (simple) Pinyin (with tone marks) Chinese characters English main meaning ...zhiyi ...zhīyī 之一 one of... A ↑ go to top ↑ a a 啊 modal particle a ā 阿 initial ...
The vernacular style later developed into the great novels of the Ming period that followed. Both the drama and the novel proved immensely popular. Thus the 13th cent. witnessed the emergence of the resources of the living language of the people. The vernacular novels, although they had their ...
Fortune, Prosperity, Longevity forty; number 40 foster; cultivate; train up foxy; crafty foul up; spoil something foul-smelling; stinking found foundation; base fountain; spring four; number 4 fox fragrance; aroma fragrance; sweet smell
Sometimes, the lucky money is also given to the elderly to wish them longevity(长寿) and health.【1】According to the passage, red envelopes are ___ in China.A.necessaryB.difficultC.popularD.strange【2】What did a monster-Sui do on Chinese New Year's EveA.It came to touch a sleeping...
of the highest order. His “majestic” (or stately) body (zhuangyan ti,莊嚴體) is said to have the “same age as heaven” (yutian tongshou, 與天同壽), a phrase used in the novel to denote the endless longevity of such divine beings (see here). The last line notes that he is a...
Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping, and Sanmao’s Stories of the Sahara, tr. Mike Fu. The Sanmao was also shortlisted. In the Poetry section, Yi Lei’s My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree, tr. Tracy K. Smith and Changtai Bi, and The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, tr David Hinton, were...
s Eve, Chinese people will enjoy the reunion dinner with their family members. In the north, people will cook all kinds of delicious dishes, hand-wrapping dumplings are the norm. Except for dumplings, long noodles are also popular in some regions, with good meanings of longevity and ...