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...
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Choosing an English name from your Chinese name, by sound or meaning
Research describes three ways people come by an English name: one that sounds like their Chinese name, one chosen for me...
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...
How Chinese generation names work, and how to find your family's poem
A generation poem belongs to a branch, not a surname, and its character is usually the first of the given name rather th...
What dim sum names mean, and why menus translate them so many ways
Har gow is a shrimp dumpling, cheung fun a rice-noodle roll, and Singapore's carrot cake is really white radish. We copi...
How hot, how much and how long to brew each Chinese tea
Green tea near 80 °C, oolong near 95 °C, ripe pu-erh at a boil, and black tea anywhere between. We compared 11 published...
The Chinese words Singapore and Malaysia use that the mainland does not
In Singapore you shop at the 巴刹, live in a 组屋 and wear a 大衣 that is a suit, not an overcoat. Here are the everyday...
Why your traditional Chinese age is one or two years higher
In the traditional count, 虚岁, you are one at birth and gain a year at Lunar New Year. Whether that puts you one or two...
Singapore's humidity swings thirty points a day without the water changing
Relative humidity is a ratio whose denominator moves with temperature, so 70% at 31°C holds two and a half times the wat...
Singapore's cooling-off period covers almost nothing you buy
The five-day cancellation right reaches four kinds of contract — chiefly a sale made during an uninvited visit to your h...
Singapore's Safety Mark covers 33 kinds of product, and power banks are not one
The SAFETY Mark is required only on 33 categories of Controlled Goods. Power banks are not among them and are never issu...
Indonesia prints one food date and bans selling past it
Indonesian labelling law prescribes a single phrase, "Baik digunakan sebelum" — best used before — and defines it as a q...
Best before and use by are the same date in Singapore
Most shoppers read one as a quality suggestion and the other as a safety deadline. Singapore's Food Regulations say in o...
Your air conditioner's seasonal rating is mostly extrapolation
The CSPF on labels across Southeast Asia is computed against a reference season defined in ISO 16358-1, where the machin...
Four different electricity prices are printed on appliance labels in one shop
US regulations fix a refrigerator's running cost at 14 cents a kilowatt-hour, an air conditioner's at 13, a ceiling fan'...
New air conditioners clear a global-warming limit on 2013 figures
Singapore bars household air conditioners whose refrigerant exceeds a global warming potential of 750. The regulator pub...
Two poison services disagree about how much chocolate your dog can eat
Britain's Veterinary Poisons Information Service answers in grams of chocolate per kilo of dog. The ASPCA and Merck line...
How Many Bags of Concrete Do You Actually Need?
Ask this site and you get 80 or you get 7. Both are right: one tool counts bags of ready-mixed concrete, the other count...
One Checkbox Multiplies Your Ink Bill by Thirteen
Cartridge yields are rated against test pages averaging about 5 per cent ink coverage. We printed five of our own pages...
How Many Ounces in a Cup? Eight — and That Is Why People Get It Wrong
Eight is correct, for one specific cup out of six in ordinary use. The largest is 57.9% bigger than the smallest, the cu...
How to Work Out How Much to Feed Your Dog or Cat
Almost every feeding mistake starts with the weight you type in. Use the animal in front of you and the sum returns the...
House Calculations for a Tropical Climate
Ask this site how much air-conditioning a Petaling Jaya bedroom needs and, until this week, you got two different answer...
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