{"id":791,"date":"2023-07-26T22:51:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/?p=791"},"modified":"2023-07-26T22:51:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T14:51:37","slug":"chinese-new-year-is-not-over-yet-join-the-fun-cai-dengmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/?p=791","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year Is Not Over Yet, Join the Fun C\u0101i D\u0113ngm\u00ed!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Spring Festival holiday has passed for most of people. However, Chinese New Year is not over yet! According to tradition, it is until the\u00a015th day of the first lunar month\u00a0(\u6b63\u6708\u5341\u4e94 zh\u00e8ng yu\u00e8 sh\u00ed w\u01d4<\/strong>) that Chinese New Year is fulfilled, which is also known as\u00a0Lantern Festival\u00a0(\u5143\u5bb5\u8282 yu\u00e1n xi\u0101o ji\u00e9<\/strong>).\u00a0Yu\u00e1nxi\u0101oji\u00e9<\/strong>\u00a0is the first festival after Chinese New Year when people\u00a0light up lantern(\u70b9\u706f di\u01cen d\u0113ng<\/strong>),\u00a0eating sweet dumplings(\u5403\u6c64\u5706 ch\u012b t\u0101ng yu\u00e1n<\/strong>) and\u00a0guessing lantern riddles(\u731c\u706f\u8c1c c\u0101i d\u0113ng m\u00ed<\/strong>).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 You must have heard of the tradition of having dumplings because Chinese people are foodie, but do you know the history of lantern riddles? The activity first appeared in the capital of Song Dynasty (960-1279), Lin\u2019an, where some people wrote riddles on \u201cnote paper\u201d and pasted them on colorful lanterns for others to guess. Since this activity can inspire people and arouse their interest, it has become popular among all walks of life.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Chinese character is quintessence of the language. If you want to learn Chinese, then learning the characters will help you to better understand and memorize this pictograph. Here we have prepared some puzzles of Chinese characters if you want to get in the holiday spirit. Confident of the Chinese character you have learnt? No worries, we are beginner friendly. \ud83d\ude42   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u4e00<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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HINT: What is the Chinese character for “one biting off ox’s tail”? What is the “tail” of the Chinese character “ox”?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u4e8c<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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HINT: What is the Chinese character for \u201dA family that has eleven people.\u201cThink of the structural combination of Chinese characters “eleven” and “measure word for number of people in family”.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u4e09<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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HINT: What is the Chinese character for \u201dBIG head, MIDDLE heartless and SMALL for the whole\u201c?  Put the head, middle and whole part together from the Chinese characters “big”, “middle” and “small”.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u56db<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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HINT: What is the Chinese character for “Four little men carry wood.”   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u4e94<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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HINT: What is the Chinese character for “A PEARL in the PALM.” If you put a “pearl” on the upper part of the character “palm”, what would you get?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u516d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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HINT: What is the Chinese character after you delete A DOT from “\u7389”? Don’t say “\u738b”, not that easy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 <\/strong>\u4e03<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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HINT: What is the idiom for this little poem? You can get one character from each line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u516b<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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HINT:\u00a0Add one more stroke to the character “\u767d”, what character can you get?\u00a0Answer is not limited to only one!
Can you figure out all the Chinese characters?\u00a0I am sure this won’t be\u00a0too difficult for you with the hints given.\u00a0Leave your guessings in the comments below!\u00a0The answer will be published in\u00a0Wechat on the Lantern Festival, this Friday.<\/strong>\u00a0Looking forward to know your\u00a0answers. Do not cheat!<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Spring Festival holiday has passed for most of people. However, Chinese New Year is not over yet! According to tradition, it is until the 15th day of the first lunar month (\u6b63\u6708\u5341\u4e94 zh\u00e8ng yu\u00e8 sh\u00ed w\u01d4) that Chinese New Year is fulfilled, which is also known as Lantern Festival (\u5143\u5bb5\u8282 yu\u00e1n xi\u0101o ji\u00e9). Yu\u00e1nxi\u0101oji\u00e9 is the first festival after Chinese New Year when people light up lantern(\u70b9\u706f di\u01cen d\u0113ng), eating sweet dumplings(\u5403\u6c64\u5706 ch\u012b t\u0101ng yu\u00e1n) and guessing lantern riddles(\u731c\u706f\u8c1c c\u0101i d\u0113ng m\u00ed). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[7,5],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.mandarininn.cn\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}