Capturing Life in Beijing
Here are pictures of Beijing taken from the mid 80s to the beginning of 90s.
A boy enjoying the ride.
“There are 9 million bikes in Beijing…”
And a lot of taxi cabs, too.
College students dancing at a public square, some were bare foot.
Girls sailing at Beihai park.
While others were talking about love.
The tallest building…
before this.
Roads seemed wider.
Bridges [...]
Thirty years ago, the communist party under Deng Xiaoping’s leadership initiated the Opening and Reform. All forms of media across the nation are now going full force to report changes happened during these years. The whole nation seems to be immersed in memories.
The following pictures were taken in Beijing during the time between 1978 to [...]
You must be thinking, why are you teaching us how to say “buy soysouce”? What does that have to do with the fun of the new Chinese vocabulary? Well, you will re-consider this question after reading the post.
“Da” as a verb originally means “beat and hit”. But we normally use it with the meaning “buy [...]
Hey, we are going to continue our vocabulary lessons with a few more interesting words and phrases.
If you are learning Chinese, you must understand what “dai” means. Have a look at the character, can you imagine a person standing straight, not saying anything and not doing anything? Yes, that’s what “dai” means, dumb, logi, and [...]
Pirated movies vanished all of a sudden from video stores before the Olympic Games. Life became more suffering and dull, until 2 days ago, I found they are now all coming back. Life is full of hope again. You may say this is wrong, I should not buy pirated movies. But please hear me out [...]
Hey, I know the topic is a little tricky. I’m from Beijing, the city just hosted the latest Olympics, and I’m here to ask you the question, which one is the best… I know it sounds a little promotional and all… but trust me, I don’t think the 29th Beijing Olympics is necessarily to be [...]
OK guys, we are going to continue our vocabulary lessons. Today’s word is:
Yes, it does not have a corresponding Chinese word, just the pinyin (phonetic alphabet). It was created by the sponsor of the 2008 Modern Sky Festival, the brains behind Modern Sky Records, one of the leading rock labels in China.
They set up a [...]
OK, guys, today we are going to learn another extremely popular new word, “ning ba”.
In traditional Chinese, these two words are never used together. No one knows when and where the new combination originated, but all of a sudden, everybody is using it.
“Ning” is a verb meaning tweak, twist, and wrench. “Ba” is a tonic [...]
Hi, today we are going to learn another fun and powerful word-”lei”.
“Lei” means thunder. It used to be a simple noun, but now it’s being mostly used as an ajective meaning stupid, insane, and ugly in a surprising and powerful way like a thunder strike.
A person can be described as “lei” for his or her [...]
Morning my students, today we are going to learn a new word, “Da Pa”.
“Da” means big. “Pa” means proning on the ground. “Pa” has nothing to do with party apart from that the pronunciation is similar to the first syllable of “party”.
If you are going to a party in Beijing, don’t say “I’m going to [...]
