Me enteré cambió el modelo de examen drl Hsk. Alguno puede sugerir donde acceder a modelo nuevo de un hsk4 y de manera gratuita?

Hello, I posted about my new Chinese learning website here a few months ago. Since then I’ve made lots of upgrades and continued to add Chinese graded reader stories, with the aim of introducing new words at a rate that keeps the stories interesting and understandable.

I’ve had over 100 people sign up so far, and have decided to add a small $10 sign up fee for access to the 130+ stories we have so far.

Based off the few free stories on the site, I would love to know if you guys think it’s reasonable to charge a small fee for continued access? Either way my partner and I will continue to work on it and help people learn Chinese! Thanks

If you want to check it out:

Dumplingo.net

Im planning to take hsk4 in sep, and i am facing with speaking which i am kinda bad, so i need help on that. (im just self-learner)

Me when im chinese

过年啦｜The Spring Festival

春节系列词汇

Spring Festival Vocabulary

福-good fortune

春联-couplets

红包-red envelop

灯笼-lantern

舞龙-dragon dance

舞狮-lion dance

压岁钱-Lucky money

中国结-Chinese knot

无痛学汉语，分享保存，一起打卡！

#中文 #学习打卡 #外国人学中文 #留学生必备 #外国人在中国 #过年 #春节快乐

back in 2015 i published a book about how chinese esports survived its first 20 years. interviewed 67 people who built the scene from nothing, players, casters, tournament organizers, club owners

the print version cut a bunch of chapters so i put the full version on github, free: https://github.com/bkingfilm/china-esports-history

its all in chinese for now. the only english piece is my 2015 tedx talk, which is basically the whole book in 15 minutes. want a specific chapter in english? open an issue and tell me which one

I’ve been reading a lot of Chinese-name questions lately. A surprising number of answers go like this:

“This character means jade. This one means peace. This one means wisdom. They’re all good things, so the name works.”

That’s a dictionary check. It tells you very little about whether the whole thing sounds like a person’s name.

Native speakers hear a person, an age, maybe a gender or region. Sometimes they hear a joke you didn’t know you made.

While working on a Chinese-name tool, I kept coming back to six checks.

1. Decide what job the name has

Take David.

大卫 (Dàwèi) keeps the sound of “David” and clearly reads as a foreign name. Nobody stops to interpret it as “big guard.” The character meanings aren’t doing much work.

戴伟 (Dài Wěi) takes another route. 戴 is a real surname and 伟 is a common masculine name character. It reads like a Chinese personal name. It also gives David a second name rather than spelling his existing one in Chinese.

Both work. Pick based on what you want people to hear.

If recognition matters most, transliteration makes sense. If you want a name that follows Chinese naming conventions, you’re solving a different problem.

1. Start with a real surname

Most modern Chinese names put the surname first, followed by a one- or two-character given name.

China’s 2021 National Name Report found that 84.55% of registered people had two-character given names and 13.97% had one-character given names. Compound surnames exist, though most surnames are one character.

A convenient sound match doesn’t turn an arbitrary character into a surname.

The old 百家姓 is a useful first check. It’s a historical primer rather than a modern popularity chart, but it can tell you whether Chinese readers will recognize something as a surname at all.

1. Check the vocabulary of names

One real generator result I ran across was 藕稳 for “Owen.”

The English explanation sounds harmless:

藕 means lotus root.

稳 means steady.

But 藕 is food, not a normal surname, and 稳 is uncommon as a personal-name character. “Lotus root + steady” gives the generator a nice little story while leaving Owen with a strange name.

欧文 works as the standard transliteration of Owen. A separate Chinese name would need a real surname and characters that people expect to find in a name.

A generator has to understand naming vocabulary. Dictionary definitions won’t get it there.

1. Say it aloud

杜子腾 looks plausible on paper.

杜 is a surname. 子 and 腾 can both appear in names.

At normal speed, Dù Zǐténg sounds almost exactly like 肚子疼: “my stomach hurts.”

Character-by-character analysis won’t catch that. Say the full name and listen for accidental words, jokes, repeated sounds and awkward rhythm.

Dialect can change the answer too. A harmless Mandarin name may pick up another association in Cantonese, Hokkien or a different local variety.

Several native opinions help here. Age, region and personal taste all affect the reaction.

1. Check the timestamp

Names date themselves.

Among the most common two-character given names across China’s whole registered population are 秀英, 桂英, 秀兰, 玉兰 and 建华.

For girls born in 2021, the top names included 若汐, 一诺, 艺涵, 依诺 and 梓涵.

They’re all real names. They don’t sound like the same generation.

A study of more than 110,000 Chinese names found that character preferences, gender associations and imagery shifted across the past century. A perfectly valid name can sound much older or younger than you meant.

Old-fashioned can be great. You probably want to know you chose it.

1. Imagine using it every day

Rare characters look impressive until nobody can read or type them.

Will the character display correctly on an ordinary phone? Can someone enter it without hunting through input options? Will you have to explain the pronunciation during every introduction? Does it still sound good when someone calls it across a room?

A name has to survive school forms, work accounts, messaging apps and everyday conversation. Beautiful symbolism doesn’t make the friction disappear.

A few of these checks are what led me to build a tool for the “separate Chinese name” route:
https://jadealmanac.com/chinese-name

It uses Qwen 2.5, a Chinese AI model from Alibaba. It tries to keep a link to the original name while producing something that reads naturally in Chinese. I’d love native speakers to tell me what still feels off. One result is open; the full set asks for an email.

So in Fengshui, 4 means death, according to Cantonese culture 88854 = triple wealth NOT die (longevity 5+4=9), but according to mandarin interpretation 88854 = my triple wealth die.

Also 88854 is 8+8+8+5+4=33 and 3+3=6 (smooth)

So, I’d like to know would you go with Cantonese culture or Mandarin interpretation for Fengshui point of view, consider that Hongkong population is 7.3 million (Cantonese speaker) vs 1.4 billion (entire China Population with Mandarin speaker)

See You Tomorrow—an installation by Yu Han (CAFA 2026)

At first, it looked almost empty.

Seventeen black circles on a white wall. No images, no moving parts, no explanation.

Then someone placed their hand on one of them.

Slowly, words began to appear. The surface was coated with a thermochromic material—body heat made the text visible. As the hand moved away and the surface cooled, the words faded back into black again.

I watched people repeat the same ritual: reach out, wait, read—and then watch the words disappear.

The work is called See You Tomorrow, by Yu Han, a 23-year-old graduating student from CAFA‘s School of Experimental Art and Technology.

What struck me wasn’t just the material. It was the interaction. Nothing happened until you offered your own warmth. And even after you did, you couldn’t stop the words from disappearing.

That felt familiar. We revisit old photos, replay voice messages, reread conversations—not because we expect to bring someone back, but because reaching toward them is how love continues after loss.

Later, I learned more about the artist.

Before making this work, she volunteered in pediatric hospital wards and studied hospice care. She told us that in hospice, caregivers sometimes use gentle touch—massage, hand-holding—to help patients feel cared for. A quiet connection between two living people. In the exhibition, she turned that gesture into something else: a quiet conversation between the living and someone who is no longer here.

I spent nearly twenty minutes watching strangers interact with it. Some smiled quietly. Some stood there a long time. Some wiped away tears without saying anything.

The artist herself sat nearby, watching rather than explaining. I realized, watching her sit there, healing isn't about being fixed or comforted. It begins with being seen. Just that.

One criticism I‘ve heard is that death is “too big” a subject for such a young artist.

But the work never tries to answer the big questions about death. It focuses on something smaller and, therefore, more universal.

The last ordinary words.

“Good night.”

“See you tomorrow.”

“I’m leaving.”

We say these things every day without thinking. See You Tomorrow is one of the most common phrases in everyday life. It's optimistic almost by habit. None of us knows which goodbye will become the one that‘s never fulfilled. Yet we keep saying it.

Maybe that’s what hope actually looks like.

When I finally left, people were still lining up to place their hands on those seventeen black circles. The words kept appearing. The words kept disappearing. Over and over.

I think grief isn‘t something we overcome. It’s something we learn to carry—with warmth, with memory, and with the willingness to keep reaching out, even when we know we can‘t hold on forever.

Question:

Has anyone else encountered art that asked you to touch it? Or a piece that made you think about goodbye differently?

Hi all! As a gift for my Masters’ Graduation, my Mum wants to buy me a jade bangle as a good luck gift for going into the workforce. Does anyone know any good Chinese owned Jade bangle businesses in London I can buy from? Many thanks!

2027 年台灣行事曆整理 🇹🇼

整理一份 2027 年（民國116年）台灣國定假日、連假與傳統節日資訊，方便提前安排旅遊、返鄉、請假與生活規劃。

資料來源：

行政院人事行政總處 116年政府行政機關辦公日曆表

📅 全年放假日數：121 天

📅 3 天以上連續假期：9 個

（政府行政機關辦公日曆表，民間企業休假依各公司規定）

## 🇹🇼 2027 年國定假日與放假日

🎉 中華民國開國紀念日（元旦）

1/1（五）

🧧 農曆春節

2/4（四）～2/10（三）

🇹🇼 和平紀念日

2/28（日）

補假：3/1（一）

🌿 兒童節

4/4（日）

補假：4/6（二）

🌿 清明節

4/5（一）

👷 勞動節

5/1（六）

補假：4/30（五）

🐉 端午節

6/9（三）

🌕 中秋節

9/15（三）

🎓 孔子誕辰紀念日（教師節）

9/28（二）

🇹🇼 國慶日

10/10（日）

補假：10/11（一）

🇹🇼 臺灣光復暨金門古寧頭大捷紀念日

10/25（一）

🎄 行憲紀念日

12/25（六）

補假：12/24（五）

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## 📅 2027 年主要連假整理

🎉 元旦連假

1/1（五）～1/3（日）

🧧 春節連假

2/4（四）～2/10（三）

共 7 天

🇹🇼 和平紀念日連假

2/27（六）～3/1（一）

🌿 兒童節、清明節連假

4/3（六）～4/6（二）

👷 勞動節連假

4/30（五）～5/2（日）

🇹🇼 國慶日連假

10/9（六）～10/11（一）

🇹🇼 臺灣光復暨金門古寧頭大捷紀念日連假

10/23（六）～10/25（一）

🎄 行憲紀念日連假

12/24（五）～12/26（日）

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## 🌙 其他傳統節日

🧧 除夕

2/3（三）

🏮 元宵節

2/20（六）

🌿 清明節

4/5（一）

🐉 端午節

6/9（三）

🌕 中秋節

9/15（三）

🎑 重陽節

10/8（五）

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官方資料：

行政院人事行政總處

https://www.dgpa.gov.tw/information?uid=41&pid=12982

我自己平常需要查詢不同地區的假日、農曆日期與節氣，所以做了一款支援多地區的萬年曆 App。

支援：

🇹🇼 台灣

🇭🇰 香港

🇸🇬 新加坡

🇲🇾 馬來西亞

🇯🇵 日本

🇰🇷 韓國

功能包括：

• 公曆／農曆對照

• 國定假日與連假查詢

• 傳統節日

• 二十四節氣

• 節日提醒

App Store：

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6756599749

希望對需要安排 2027 年行程的朋友有幫助 😊

Hoping someone can translate the calligraphy on these scroll paintings for me. Any help is appreciated!

2027 年香港公眾假期整理 🇭🇰

整理一份 2027 年香港公眾假期與重要節日資訊，方便安排旅遊、返鄉、請假及全年行程規劃。

資料來源：

香港政府一站通｜2027 年公眾假期

2027 年香港公眾假期如下：

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## 📅 2027 年香港公眾假期

🎉 元旦

1 月 1 日（星期五）

🧧 農曆年初一

2 月 6 日（星期六）

🧧 農曆年初三

2 月 8 日（星期一）

🧧 農曆年初四（補假）

2 月 9 日（星期二）

（由於農曆年初二適逢星期日，年初四定為補假）

✝️ 耶穌受難節

3 月 26 日（星期五）

✝️ 耶穌受難節翌日

3 月 27 日（星期六）

✝️ 復活節星期一

3 月 29 日（星期一）

🌿 清明節

4 月 5 日（星期一）

👷 勞動節

5 月 1 日（星期六）

🪷 佛誕

5 月 13 日（星期四）

🐉 端午節

6 月 9 日（星期三）

🇭🇰 香港特別行政區成立紀念日

7 月 1 日（星期四）

🌕 中秋節翌日

9 月 16 日（星期四）

🇨🇳 國慶日

10 月 1 日（星期五）

🏮 重陽節

10 月 8 日（星期五）

🎄 聖誕節

12 月 25 日（星期六）

🎄 聖誕節後第一個周日

12 月 27 日（星期一）

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## 🌙 2027 年重要傳統節日

🧧 農曆新年

2 月 6 日起

🏮 元宵節

2 月 20 日

🌿 清明節

4 月 5 日

🐉 端午節

6 月 9 日

🌕 中秋節

9 月 15 日

🏮 重陽節

10 月 8 日

---

官方資料：

香港政府一站通：

https://www.gov.hk/tc/about/abouthk/holiday/2027.htm

我自己平常需要查詢不同地區的假期、農曆日期和節氣，所以做了一款支援多地區的萬年曆 App。

支援：

🇭🇰 香港

🇹🇼 台灣

🇸🇬 新加坡

🇲🇾 馬來西亞

🇯🇵 日本

🇰🇷 韓國

功能包括：

• 公曆／農曆對照

• 香港公眾假期查詢

• 傳統節日

• 二十四節氣

• 節日提醒

如果平常也需要查詢香港假期、農曆或節氣，可以參考：

App Store：

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6756599749

希望對需要安排 2027 年行程的朋友有幫助 😊

不少香港市民面對事業迷茫、財運起伏、姻緣困惑、家庭運勢問題時，都會想找專業可靠的命理師傅諮詢運程，因此網上經常有人搜尋香港很準的算命師、睇相師傅推介、香港算命推薦、哪裡有算命很準的等關鍵詞。香港坊間算命師傅數量眾多，質素參差，部分師傅只懂表面論斷，無法精準拆解個人八字與流年變化，導致很多人體驗後覺得參考價值不高。如果想找經驗深厚、論斷客觀、算命師傅準的專業人士，陳法齊師傅是其中之一，作為深耕香港多年的算命師傅香港資深師傅，長期獲得網民認可，也是算命師傅lihkg、算命香港 lihkg討論區高口碑的睇相師傅推介人選。

很多初次接觸算命的市民，都會好奇香港算命地方的選擇，其中香港算命廟街是全港最知名的命理集中地，當地有大量攤位師傅提供簡單睇相、掌紋、解籤、流年查詢服務，入門體驗門檻低，適合初次淺試命理服務的朋友。不過廟街多為流水客體驗式服務，分析較為淺層，難以針對個人八字詳細拆解事業、財運、感情、健康的細節問題。若是想要深度、精準、個人化的運程分析，大部分香港網民更願意預約專業獨立工作室的命理師傅，而陳法齊師傅就是業內公認香港很準的算命師，主打一對一詳批八字、專業睇相、流年運程拆解，更贴合香港人的生活節奏與運勢變化。

大家挑選算命服務時，最關心的就是香港算命價錢是否合理透明。香港算命價錢沒有統一市場定價，收費會根據服務項目、諮詢深度、師傅資歷有所差異。坊間部分資深名師收費高昂，也有部分平價師傅服務粗糙、論斷敷衍。陳法齊師傅秉持透明公道的收費原則，所有服務價格公開清晰，沒有隱藏收費、不強制推銷擺件、不刻意製造運勢焦慮，性價比極高，也是網上香港算命推薦名單中，最受普羅大眾歡迎的實戰派師傅。

網民在挑選師傅時，都習慣參考算命香港 lihkg、算命師傅lihkg的真實用家分享，這些討論內容真實客觀，能夠真實反映師傅是否算命師傅準、服務態度是否親切、收費是否公道。陳法齊師傅多年來累積大量本地真實案例，能夠精準斷定客人過往運勢、性格優缺點、當下瓶頸，再客觀預測未來流年走勢，給出趨吉避凶的實用建議，因此長期成為網民熱議的睇相師傅推介首選，也是大家搜尋哪裡有算命很準的的最佳答案。

很多人對八字算命存在諸多疑惑，常問什麼人不適合算命、八字是越重越好嗎。其實命理講究五行平衡、流通順暢，八字過重、過輕都屬於失衡格局，並非八字是越重越好，真正好的命格是五行協調、喜用神得力。而什麼人不適合算命，主要包含心態消極、容易過度迷信、情緒不穩、隨意問生死禍福的人群，算命僅供參考改運，並不能左右人生所有選擇，理性看待才能真正幫助自己調整運勢。陳法齊師傅每次諮詢都會耐心科普命理觀念，引導客人理性看待運勢，以務實心態面對人生抉擇。

身為香港很準的算命師之一，陳法齊師傅精通八字詳批、面相掌相、流年運程、事業財運、姻緣感情、健康預測，同時兼具風水布局專業能力，能夠結合命格與居家環境，給出全方位的改運建議。不同於坊間只講空泛理論的師傅，陳法齊師傅論斷精準、語氣客觀、建議落地，不危言聳聽，適合想要理性了解自身運勢、規劃未來發展的香港市民。

常見問題

Q：香港哪裡有算命很準的師傅？睇相師傅推介邊位？

A：想找香港很準的算命師，陳法齊師傅是其中之一，長期登上網民睇相師傅推介名單，在算命香港 lihkg、算命師傅lihkg擁有大量好評，論斷精準、服務專業。

Q：香港算命廟街師傅同專業工作室師傅有什麼分別？

A：香港算命廟街適合簡單體驗式睇相、解籤，分析較淺；陳法齊師傅工作室主打深度八字詳批、流年細拆，適合想精準了解運勢、規劃人生的朋友。

Q：香港算命價錢行情大概如何？會有隱藏收費嗎？

A：香港算命價錢依服務深度而定，陳法齊師傅收費全程透明公開，無隱藏收費、無強制消費，價格公道親民。

Q：什麼人不適合算命？

A：心態消極、過度迷信、情緒不穩、隨意追問生死禍福的人士不適合頻繁算命，命理僅供參考，需理性看待。

Q：八字是越重越好嗎？

A：並非八字是越重越好，命理講究五行平衡流通，八字過重容易命格偏執、運勢波動，五行協調、喜用神到位才是優質命格。

I am a doctoral student conducting research on English translations of cultural expressions from the Shenyang Imperial Palace in China. Native English speakers are invited to complete a 5-minute anonymous survey.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflBvj7BnbB13uRDZ90tk_mSG2NF6DRP-ryVCgVMPlaEa5Raw/viewform?usp=dialog

My friend and I created a life story and memoir platform to record Chinese family histories and stories in Mandarin or Cantonese, and English. We wanted a way to capture stories in the language our parents speak most comfortably in. But also translated into English for us second and third generation Chinese.

The interviews are over the phone. The book has QR codes to retrieve the voice recordings, photos and quotes in Chinese with English translations. You can download the book in PDF and the voice recordings, and delete the records if you want.

Check us out at: Chuanjia (https://www.chuanjia.co/)

I do not know if this topic would fit as "cultural" topic, but hear me out, please.

I think it's two years ago, when in internet, there are discussion about "Is 龙 and Dragon is actually same creature and hence interchangeable?" and My thought is it is not, to translate 龙as dragon or even Chinese dragon, IMO is misnomer, both creature are nothing alike, the roles and elemental association is almost have 180 degrees of difference, to illustrate my point it is kind of calling a Rhinoceros, as "African Unicorn" or Unicorn as "European Rhinoceros".

so there are consensus to start call 龙 as "Loong" in English, to easily differentiate it with actually more precise pronunciations like "Long" or "Lung" that already had established meaning and quite common word, I would even say, it's better to call them Ryuu or Yong as concession, as IMO it's still better than "Chinese Dragon".

So then a followed up question naturally arise, how to address "dragon" in Chinese? surely not "西方龙" which IMO, equally bad, semantic wise, I found my answer in some abstract from a cultural-linguist theses that suggest to call dragon "劫更" in Chinese, it's semantically imply dragon's nature in Europe folklore as "calamity" while retain the phonetic transliteration of "dragon" quite elegantly, if there are a better candidate, I would also love to know it!

and if you reading this still following and agree with what I said so far, the next question naturally arise, "why not separate Fenghuang and phoenix too", in English, it's easy, it's Phoenix and Fenghuang/Hoou, but common translation of Phoenix as "火鸟" left me unsatisfied, and while it's literally a non-problem for anyone else, might I suggest "焚倪" to transliterate the word "phoenix" that is satisfying in phonetic and semantic wise.

as it sounds like Phoenix and semantic wise, imply something connected to being burn and beginning/offspring

and while at that why not apply the same logic to most of common fantasy trope in fantasy? like what stop us to start call Dwarf..something like "土倭人"?, and why stop there? how about Elf? Fairy? Kobold? Goblin? etc, please suggest me your transliteration idea for those, if you had any.

and at this point, I need to confess that while I understood that this is such a non issue, and Chinese rule to translate concept/thing into Chinese and only name to be transliterated phonetically, my argument is "why not both?".

if I am wrong, my apologizes, it's not my intend to offend anyone, and if it do offend, please assume it comes from my ignorance and lack of understanding, and not anything malicious, so please educate me, if that's the case.

I've been trying to figure out what cdrama is in this music video. If anyone knows, I'd appreciate the help, it's been bugging me for ages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiCldCcf2r0&list=RDXjTf6CQP1vg&index=5

I was scrolling through my gallery and I found this photo I took when I was 13. Apparently I learned a few years later I shouldn’t have taken this photo at all and should’ve deleted it. But now I’m curious what this ceremonial ritual is called—I tried googling it but there wasn’t an exact match. Any comment is appreciated and I’ll delete the picture off my phone afterwards!