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Chinese Corner Chinese Corner is a language tutoring service devoted to providing quality private and small group lessons, AP Chinese Prep, Business and Travel Chinese.

Fen Vega is an experienced and enthusiastic Chinese language teacher who has been teaching Chinese for 11 years and received a B.S. in Business at CSUMB. She began teaching in San Francisco at Hip Wo Chinese School, and received the Excellent Teacher Award from the Chinese American Citizens Alliance in 2000. Since 2006, Fen started mentoring and teaching as Lead Teacher at Salinas Chinese School.

Fen won high praise from York School’s faculty, parents, and students from teaching Chinese at York School as an interim teacher (2008-2009) and a substitute teacher (2012-2013). She is the founder of Chinese Corner, which is a service devoted to providing quality Chinese language and culture since November 2013. Chinese Corner provides private lessons, small group tutoring, after-school classes, AP Chinese Prep, Business Chinese, Travel Chinese, and Chinese cultural presentations. Languages include both Mandarin and Cantonese.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the 2nd-most-significant traditional Chinese holiday. It’s also known as the ...
09/15/2016

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is the 2nd-most-significant traditional Chinese holiday. It’s also known as the Reunion Festival or the Lunar Festival.

On the lunar calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival always falls on August 15th. However, when looking at the solar calendar, the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on a different date every year. This year it's on September 15th, 2016.

Typically, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a day for the entire family to spend time together, enjoy a great dinner feast, eat moon cakes, and appreciate the lunar view. The full moon symbolizes reunion and happiness.

Several classic stories tell the origin of this holiday. Here are just a few:
- "Chang E Flies to the Moon”
- "Wu Gang Chopping the Osmanthus Tree"
- "Jade Hare Pounding Medicine in a Mortar"

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China's Women Volleyball just won a gold medal in the 2016 Olympics.The last time Chinese women’s volleyball won the Wor...
08/21/2016

China's Women Volleyball just won a gold medal in the 2016 Olympics.

The last time Chinese women’s volleyball won the World Champion was 12 years ago—at 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Go China!
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08/19/2016

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08/18/2016

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08/16/2016

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"qǐng wèn" literally means, "Please, let me ask."[Google Translate Pronunciation]https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab...
08/11/2016

"qǐng wèn" literally means, "Please, let me ask."
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Chinese Valentine's Day LegendThe story began with the good-looking but poor orphaned boy living with his elder brother ...
08/11/2016

Chinese Valentine's Day Legend

The story began with the good-looking but poor orphaned boy living with his elder brother and sister-in-law. After his parents passed away, his brother inherited the house and the land. The boy owned an old ox. He needed to work on the farm's field with the ox everyday, so he was called a cowherd.

The 7th daughter of Emperor is good at handcrafting, especially weaving clothing, so she was called a Weaving Maid. The Emperor likes when she uses her skill to weave clouds and rainbows to beautify the world.

Originally, the ox was an immortal from the Heaven. He made mistakes in the Heaven and was punished by being sent to Earth to live as an ox. One day, the ox suddenly said to the cowherd, "You are a nice person. If you want to get married, go to the brook and your wish will be come true." The cowherd went to the brook and saw all 7 pretty daughters of Emperor came down from Heaven and took a bath in there. Fascinated by the youngest and also the most beautiful one, he took away her fairy clothes secretly. The other six fairies went away after bath. The youngest couldn't fly back without her fairy clothes. Then the cowherd appeared and told her that he would not return her clothes unless she promised to be his wife. After a little hesitation and with a mixture of shyness and eagerness, she agreed to the request from this handsome man. So they married and had two children two years later.

One day, the old ox was dying and told the cowherd that he should keep his hide for emergency purpose.

The Emperor found the sky's not that beautiful as before without the 7th daughter weaving clouds and rainbows. He wanted his daughter's grandmother to find the missing daughter and to bring her back. While the 7th princess was flying to the Heaven with her grandmother, the cowboy wore the ox hide, took his children in two bamboo baskets with his wife's old fairy clothes and chased after his wife in the sky. The grandmother made a milky way in the sky with her hairpin, which kept them separated. The 7th princess was moved to the star Vega (The swooping - Eagle) in the Lyra (Harp) constellation. And the cowherd with his two children stayed in the star Altair (Flying one) in the Aquila (Eagle) constellation. The star of Vega is also known as the Weaving Maid Star and the star of Altair is also known as the Cowherd Star in China.

Magpies were moved by their true love and many of them gathered and formed a bridge for the couple to meet in the evening of the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, which is the day the Emperor allowed them to meet once a year.

They said that it's hard to find a magpie on Chinese Valentine's Day in China, because all magpies fly to make the bridge for the Weaving Maid and Cowherd. The one thing to prove this is that the feathers on the head of magpies are much lesser after the Chinese Valentine's Day. If it rains on the evening of Chinese Valentine's Day, the rain are the tears of the Weaving Maid and Cowherd.

Chinese Valentine's Day is on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month in the Chinese calendar. The Weaving Maid and the Cowherd are allowed to meet only once a year on the day of 7th day of 7th lunar month.

Source: http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/77a.htm

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