How to tell the upper line of a Spring Festival couplet from the lower
How to tell the upper line of a spring couplet (春联, 春聯) from the lower, which side each goes on, why the Mandarin to...
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Writing a xiangqi move in Chinese, WXF and ICCS notation
How Chinese chess (象棋) moves such as 炮二平五 are written, why Red and Black number the files differently, when 前 and...
How Chinese internet slang is made, and what the annual word lists keep
How Chinese internet slang is built, from yyds and 520 to 内卷 and 躺平, and what China's three annual 网络流行语 lists...
Fan Tai Sui 2027 and why the lists of signs disagree
Four of five counting schemes name the same four animals for 犯太岁 in the 2027 Goat year: the Goat, Ox, Dog and Rat. Wh...
Bride price in mainland China has no legal cap, but a court can order it returned
No law caps a bride price in mainland China, but court rules say when it must come back, and in six model cases the shar...
What to call your relatives in Chinese, and why one in five has more than one answer
Of 1,195,740 family relationships up to six steps, about 53% have one standard Chinese term, 20% could be several people...
How accurate is the Chinese gender chart, and why versions disagree
A test on 2.8 million Swedish births found the Chinese gender chart no better than a coin toss, and simply guessing "boy...
How many poems are in 300 Tang Poems, and how many Tang poems survive
The Three Hundred Tang Poems holds 320 poems in the editions we counted, and its preface only ever promised "three hundr...
What a lucky 8 adds to a Hong Kong car plate, and what a 4 costs
Across 2,679 plates sold at Hong Kong's online auctions, each extra 8 went with a price about 51% to 65% higher and each...
Who wrote the Zhou Gong dream book, and why copies disagree
No dream book can be traced to the Duke of Zhou. His name most likely came to the genre through a line of Confucius. The...
What colours mean in Chinese culture, and which meanings have a source
Red means luck, and at a Singapore funeral it also means protection. But the oldest Chinese text on colour names six col...
Chinese character riddles, and how to solve them
一口咬掉牛尾巴 — one mouth bites off the ox's tail. Bite the tail off 牛, put 口 underneath, and you have written 告. Th...
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