Today marks the first day of the Lunar New Year, which is celebrated by nearly a fifth of the world’s population. Family members gather, connect, exchange red envelopes, and play lottery games in Vietnam. In China, people customarily prepare by buying new clothes and cleaning their homes (to ward away bad spirits). Let’s not forget [...]
Entries from January 2012
Happy Lunar New Year 2012!
Posted January 24th, 2012 by Peter · 6 Comments
Tags: Activities · Culture · Customs · People
Chinese English Blocks by TinyNewPlanet
Posted January 12th, 2012 by Peter · 9 Comments
January 12th, 2001 — TinyNewPlanet has just released their Chinese English Blocks, a simple but effective means of teaching children Chinese Mandarin. China is increasingly becoming an economic power in the world, so learning Chinese is more important now than ever. This 12 block set features numbers and animals of the Chinese zodiac in simplified [...]