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This is an interesting story from the Three Kingdoms period (220-280) in ancient China, when the Wei and Wu kingdoms joined together to fight against the Wei Kingdom. Zhou Yu, the chief military commander of the Wu Kingdom, ordered Zhu Ge Liang (the chief minister of the Shu Kingdom and generally regarded as the kingdom''s top master-mind) to produce 100,000 arrows within 10 days.
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Survey shows China's '60s, '70s generations enjoy life the most

The outcome of a survey shows that Chinese people born in the 1960s and 1970s are most enthusiastic about life.

This so called "sociability survey" was carried on various major portal Web sites such as Sina.com.cn, qq.com and renren.com, attracting more than one million participants from all over China.

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Chinese Idioms or are short sayings usually consisting of  some characters. It's one thing to learn to understand such expressions in Chinese text, but a completely different thing to actively use them in your own phrases. If you don't know a large number of Chinese idioms, it can be difficult to spontaneously find suitable expressions for different occasions. We present you the Chinese idioms with English explanations, pinyin, audios and examples.

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Kids love songs and nursery rhymes. The words are usually simple and easy to be memorized. The rhyme of the music helps children to learn the song without much effort. For children,the easiest way to learn any foreign language probabaly is through learning the songs and nursery rhymes. Here is a collection of the Chinese children's songs and some nursery rhymes. Some of the songs have the words in Chinese and Mandarin Pinyin. A couple have the Enlgish meanings as well.

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China is the appellation of our country given by foreigners.

The porcelain china is the transliteration of the place name Changnan, which was the old name for the porcelain town of today's Jingdezhen (Jingde Town). In the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), people built their cave-houses and cut logs to make pottery. And in the Tang Dynasty (618-907), people combined the advantages of celadon from the southern Yue kiln and white porcelains from the northern Xing kiln, and with the high-quality earth of the Gaoling Mountain in Changnan Town they produced a kind of white & green porcelain. This porcelain was smooth and bright, and hence earned another name of artificial jade. It became famous both home and abroad and exported to Europe in large quantities since people there did not know how to make porcelain before the 18th century.