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Posted on: Chinese Hospitality and Finding Vegetarian Food

mikeinewshot,

Totally agree on that, I've heard Tailand is good too

Posted on: Chinese Hospitality and Finding Vegetarian Food

snater,

I asked one of my Chinese friends if he knew any Chinese word for vegan, we ended up looking in the dictionary and not finding anything but "严格的食素主义者" (yan2 ge2 de5 su4 shi2 zhu3 yi4 zhe3) the meaning is close to "a strict vegetarian", He said most likely no one would know what you were talking about unless you said "我不吃肉" (wo3 bu4 chi1 rou4) (I don't eat meat)

Posted on: Chinese Hospitality and Finding Vegetarian Food

You can get humus in Shanghai?? please give the address! 

I have to say when I first got here I was a strict vegetarian... and I have had to lower my standards after coming to China, (mostly because of living with a non-vegetarian.) I went to 枣子树 (Zao3 Zi Shu4) but the food was very oily... For the most part Chinese food has a lot of vegetables in it, so if you can get past the little bits of meat you should be fine, and of course this is the home of tofu.

Posted on: Learning the Lei Feng Song

I agree with jingdezhen comment I would love to learn some Tang poetry!

I also think if you are learning Chinese all Chinese history is worth studying, whether you agree with what took place or not, it still happened, it still affects the culture today, even if you only care about the way in which it affects speech. Celebrate the good and remember the bad so that way the same mistakes wont be made again.

Posted on: The Person Component

Boy.. they ripped you guys apart...

I personally found this pretty funny especially when Pete and (don't know how the other guy is,) pulled the arms up of the man writing 人, his reluctance was hilarious! There where actually quite a few funny things in this video, whats wrong with all the Cpod users? No sense of humor???

But to be honest this really reminds me of something a high school class could have done (if they were studying Mandarin.) I'd say its not bad for a first version but needs some work, and more content, it was funny but maybe making the humor more relevant to the subject would be better received. But I am really glad you guys are trying more things! Thanks!

The thing I am most annoyed by is why wasn't this automatically added to my subscription? I am subscribed to everything so I never look at the channels. I almost didn't see this.

Posted on: Learning the Lei Feng Song

This is one of my favorite periods to study in Chinese history, 谢谢 Cpod!

Pearltowerpete, I cant get your song link to work

Posted on: Surviving Winter and Singles Scene for Expat Girls

rjberki,

My thoughts exactly..

Glad everyone enjoyed it!

Posted on: What's your (animal) sign?

wjefferys and Changye,

That's is fascinating, actually I always thought the Chinese calender was strictly lunar, but I got confused after reading that book, I didn't even know it was possible to have a "luni-solar calender." Thanks so much Changye and wjefferys!

Posted on: Surviving Winter and Singles Scene for Expat Girls

maoxian, thats halaroius! I would never have come up with that 

Posted on: What's your (animal) sign?

wjefferys,

I know little about astronomy (your use of the terminology makes it obvious you know a lot) but from what I"m reading I thought the Chinese zodiac was built (largely) around the Moon and other stars....

"The twelve year cycle. The system of the yearly cycle was built from observations of the orbit of Jupiter. Chinese astronomers divided the celestial circle into 12 sections to follow the orbit of 歳星 Suìxīng (Jupiter, the Year Star). Astronomers rounded the orbit of Suixing to 12 years (from 11.86)." -Source: The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes by Theodora Lau