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Language points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Normally people would greet each other by saying \u4e2d\u79cb\u8282\u5feb\u4e50 (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival). However, in this special time of facing pandemic threat, we can add \u5b89\u5eb7 (\u0101nk\u0101ng), meaning peace and healthy, after \u5feb\u4e50 (ku\u00e0il\u00e8), which becomes “\u4e2d\u79cb\u8282\u5feb\u4e50\u5b89\u5eb7 (Zh\u014dngqi\u016b ji\u00e9 ku\u00e0il\u00e8 \u0101nk\u0101ng)”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- \u4e2d (zh\u014dng) – middle, centre<\/li>
- \u79cb (qi\u016b) – autumn<\/li>
- \u4e2d\u79cb (Zh\u014dngqi\u016b) – mid-Autumn<\/li>
- \u8282 (ji\u00e9) – festival, day<\/li>
- \u5feb\u4e50 (ku\u00e0il\u00e8) – happy<\/li>
- \u5b89\u5eb7 (\u0101nk\u0101ng) – peace and healthy<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\nCulture Quiz <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Please submit your answers in the comment box below.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Q1. Mid-Autumn Festival is the time for people to ______ in China.
A. travel for sightseeing
B. have dragon boat races
C. worship family ancestors
D. have family reunion<\/p>\n\n\n\nQ2. When is the Mid-Autumn Festival due, according to the Chinese lunar calendar?
A. the 1st<\/sup> day of the 8th<\/sup> month
B. the 8th<\/sup> day of the 8th<\/sup> month
C. the 15th<\/sup> day of the 8th<\/sup> month
D. the last day of the 8th<\/sup> month<\/p>\n\n\n\nQ3. What particular dessert do Chinese people like to eat on Mid-Autumn Festival?
A. pan cake
B. moon cake
C. pork pie
D. jiaozi dumpling<\/p>\n\n\n\nQ4. What do Chinese people, home and abroad, particularly do on this particular occasion?
A. watching TV and playing cards
B. making moon cakes and pies
C. watching the moon and thinking of family
D. going to pubs and eating out<\/p>\n\n\n\nQ5. In which year did the Mid-Autumn festival become an official holiday in China?
A. 2008
B. 2004
C. 2010
D. 2001 <\/p>\n\n\n\nQ6. What kinds of Chinese mythology are closely related to Mid-Autumn Festival?
A. The Monkey Myth
B. The Moon Goddess Chang’e
C. Yu, the hero who rebuilt the Earth
D. Yi, the hero who shot suns <\/p>\n\n\n\nQ7. How many suns did Yi shoot down from the sky?
A. 10
B. 9
C. 8
D. 1<\/p>\n\n\n\nQ8. Why did Chang\u2019e leave Yi?
A. Yi could not afford the cost of living
B. Chang\u2019e\u2019s parents did not allow her to be with him
C. Chang\u2019e did not love Yi anymore
D. In order to keep the elixir, Chang\u2019e swallowed it and ascended to the moon<\/p>\n\n\n\nQ9. What does this radical part \u2018\ud856\uded7\u2019 mean in the character of \u2018\u7b5d (zheng, or Chinese zither)\u2019?
A. bamboo
B. wood
C. Stone
D. Grass<\/p>\n\n\n\nQ10. What is normally written on the surface of a mooncake?
A. Greetings and wishes for the festival celebration
B. The company trademark\/logo\/slogan which made the mooncake
C. Instructions of how to taste the mooncake
D. The ingredients of the mooncake<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year the Mid-Autumn Festival, \u4e2d\u79cb\u8282 (Zh\u014dngqi\u016b ji\u00e9) in Chinese, falls rightly on the 1st October, which coincides the Chinese National Day. At Queen’s we are hosting an online celebration including a culture talk with language taster session, cultural performances, … Continue reading →<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-language","category-chinese-lig"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa93ff-fp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","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=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/mandarinchinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}