Chinese For Kids

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Here is a leveled-2 Chinese reading printable book. I have been busy at creating the reading materials. More will be added to the web soon. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to share with me. Thanks in advance.

Do you know your Chinese Zodiac? Do you know, it is believed that the year you were born determines your personality, your personal life, even your career success. Want to know more? This video is definitely a good introduction.

Continuing from the previous ebook, here is another one. It will help kids know how to say the most common fruits in Chinese. If you print it in black and white, you can ask your kids to color them.

真正幸福的是使人幸福的人

zhēn  zhèng  xìng  fú  de shì  shǐ  rén  xìng  fú  de rén

He is truly happy who makes others happy.

As the kids in the Chinese club understand more Chinese, I have been thinking of introducing reading into the curriculum. I have searched for Chinese leveled reading books, but was not happy with them. So, I decided to create the reading books. Here I would like to introduce the first book I created. The title is “鱼ＦＩＳＨ”. Some simple words are included such as “one” “two” “three”"four”"five”"fish”.

Hope you enjoy it.

Welcome to let me how you like it.

Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games dropped the closing curtain today. The closing ceremony, as great as the opening ceremony, featured the theme of “Future”. As you can see from the picture, the fireworks formed the characters “未来(weì lái)” - FUTURE.

Yes, from the painting which unfolded the ancient culture of China to the letter to the future, the four cermonies of Olympic Games are splendid. Ancient and morden elements have been displayed to our amazement. Thanks to the director, Zhang Yimo, for having shown us such unbelievable visual and cultural enjoyment!

Well done, Beijing. Well done, China!

photo credit: ZhangYining

For Chinese, today is a special day. It is so called Mid-Autumn Festival or Moon Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar (Aug. 15), which is usually mid or late September of the Solar calendar.

Why Aug. 15? Because the moon is the roundest on this night in a year. For farmers, it is time to celebrate the end of the summer harvest; for common Chinese people, it is time for families and friends to gather together (roundness). On Chinese calendar, Mid-Autumn Festival, like Spring Festival, is an important family reunion festival. People gather together to admire the bright full moon, eating moon cake, grapes and pomelo.

Here is a song for today, “Wishing We Last Forever“, a song based on a famous Chinese poet, 苏轼(sū  shì ) Su Shi, also commonly known as 苏东坡(sū  dōng  pō ) Su Dongpo (1037-1101).  A great poem about moon, love and life.

中秋节快乐！

zhōng  qiū  jié  kuài  lè

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival. Enjoy the time with your family and friends!

察其友知其人.

chá qí yǒu zhī qí rén.

A man is known by the company he keeps.