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Family Ties

Family Ties
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ID: 2394 Upper Intermediate
For centuries, Chinese families maintained a pattern of names for each generation according to a 家谱 (jiāpǔ), or family tree. Today this practice of naming has become less common, but there are still some families which continue the tradition. In this lesson, a husband and wife discuss the name for their future child only to discover that the husband's family still keeps to this tradition.
Greg,Dilu
Family Ties
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
家谱 jiāpǔ family tree, ancestry
辈 bèi generation
只不过 zhǐ bùguò just, only to be
平民百姓 píngmín bǎixìng common people
老公我们给肚子里的宝宝取个名字吧
lǎogōng 老公wǒmen 我们gěi 给dùzi 肚子lǐ 里de 的bǎobao 宝宝qǔ 取gè 个míngzi 名字ba 吧
Honey, let's give our baby in my belly a name!
是该想想了这第二个字肯定是定
shì 是gāi 该xiǎngxiang 想想le 了zhè 这dì èr gè 第二个zì 字kěndìng 肯定shì 是dìng 定
That's something we should think about. The second character should definitely be “Ding”.
为什么啊
wèishénme 为什么ā 啊
Why?
家谱里规定的呀我们宝宝应该是定字辈的
jiāpǔ 家谱lǐ 里guīdìng 规定de 的ya 呀wǒmen 我们bǎobao 宝宝yīnggāi 应该shì 是dìng 定zì 字bèi 辈de 的
It's a rule in our family tree! Our child should be in the “Ding” generation.
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