{"id":1568,"date":"2021-05-04T13:19:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T12:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2021-05-04T13:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-04T12:20:52","slug":"happy-youth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/2021\/05\/04\/happy-youth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Youth Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">May the 4th be with you\uff01<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While many of you may be familiar with this pun-loaded greeting from the Star Wars, Chinese people, especially the youth, have their own special celebration on the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>May (the) Fourth<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<em>n.<\/em>\u00a0(also\u00a0<strong>4 May<\/strong>, etc.)\u00a0<em>Chinese History<\/em>\u00a0(<em>attributive<\/em>) designating or relating to a demonstration held by students in Peking (Beijing) on 4 May 1919 to protest against the Chinese government&#8217;s failure to oppose the decision by the Versailles Peace Committee to allocate Germany&#8217;s former possessions in China to Japan; (also) designating the wider cultural and intellectual revolution in China for which this demonstration is generally regarded as having been a catalyst; esp. in\u00a0<strong>May (the) Fourth Movement<\/strong>.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oed.com\/viewdictionaryentry\/Entry\/115285;jsessionid=8E2450A386CDE9181F8469BB54EB1E82\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.oed.com\/viewdictionaryentry\/Entry\/115285;jsessionid=8E2450A386CDE9181F8469BB54EB1E82\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Oxford English Dictionary<\/strong><\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>For details of its origin and impact, read the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/May-Fourth-Movement\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/May-Fourth-Movement\" target=\"_blank\">Britannica<\/a>. Today the Youth Day on 4th May emphasizes more on young generations&#8217; responsibility and role in innovating China&#8217;s sustainable development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vocabulary and expressions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u4e94\u56db (w\u01d4s\u00ec) &#8211; refers to the abbreviation of the date 4th May in Chinese \u4e94\u6708\u56db\u65e5\/\u53f7 (w\u01d4 yu\u00e8 s\u00ec r\u00ec\/h\u00e0o); \u6708 (yu\u00e8) &#8211; month, \u65e5\/ \u53f7 (r\u00ec\/h\u00e0o) &#8211; day of a month<\/li><li>\u9752\u5e74 (q\u012bngni\u00e1n) &#8211; youth<\/li><li>\u8282 (ji\u0113) &#8211; festival, a special day of recognition for a traditional or contemporary event<\/li><li>\u8fd0\u52a8 (y\u00f9nd\u00f2ng) &#8211; movement, exercise<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>At Queen&#8217;s, while we introduce this historical event to you, we would also like to invite you to join our celebration of today as we promoted our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/2020\/05\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/2020\/05\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lockdown Language Learning<\/a> programme this day a year ago! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you sign up for the Mandarin online clinics, or have you picked up any Mandarin Chinese so far? Have you identified someone, such as a language partner, to support you? What additional resources have you used and found interesting when you did your self-study? Tell us how you feel about it and what the exciting and\/or challenging moments were when you were learning the language. Just share with us your experience\/reflection\/advice by dropping a few lines in the Comment box below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"797\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2021\/05\/WeChat-Image_20210504130713.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2021\/05\/WeChat-Image_20210504130713.png 450w, https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2021\/05\/WeChat-Image_20210504130713-169x300.png 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the 4th be with you\uff01 While many of you may be familiar with this pun-loaded greeting from the Star Wars, Chinese people, especially the youth, have their own special celebration on the day. May (the) Fourth\u00a0\u00a0n.\u00a0(also\u00a04 May, etc.)\u00a0Chinese History\u00a0(attributive) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/2021\/05\/04\/happy-youth-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,13,14,38,31],"tags":[16,44,45],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-language","category-chinese-lig","category-festival","category-history","tag-lockdown-language-learning","tag-may-fourth-movement","tag-youth-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa93ff-pi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1575,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}