... 我想重新开始学方言 谁能帮我。中国很多方言特好玩儿。 哎，不想多说，其实我想多去几个地方，雷倒很多人，希望大家能帮忙

Kanji and Chinese characters Today I had a weird conversation with a person who could not understand that Kanji (hanzi) are Chinese characters, that the Kan in Kanji is the same character as Han, which refers to the main chinese character users of China, the Han Chinese. I agree that there are variations in writing chinese characters and Kanji sometimes and some Kanji in Japanese have different meanings from their Chinese counterparts, but I thought it was strange that someone could get so pissed that I used Chinese pronounciation to read the Kanji in her name. Yes, they are pronounced differently, I know, but they clearly come from China... Denying that is just as ridiculous as pretending that 2+2=5.... And swearing at me to put one`s point across is not that mature. So, Can anyone give me proof that Kanji and Chinese characters are different?

000cloud's notebook entry: Feb 14, 2011 some lines I came across by chance: 沙门不持戒，道士不服药。自古多少贤，尽在青山脚。 　　有人笑我诗，我诗合典雅。不烦郑氏笺，岂用毛公解。 　　不恨会人稀，只为知音寡。若遣趁宫商，余病莫能罢。 　　忽遇明眼人，即自流天下

cool english expression 英语也很多希奇古怪的东西 Flogging a dead horse (alternatively beating a dead horse in some parts of the Anglophone world) is an idiom that means a particular request or line of conversation is already foreclosed or otherwise resolved, and any attempt to continue it is futile; or that to continue in any endeavour (physical, mental, etc.) is a waste of time as the outcome is already decided. The first recorded use of the expression with its modern meaning is by British politician and orator John Bright, referring to the Reform Bill of 1867, which called for more democratic representation in Parliament, an issue about which Parliament was singularly apathetic. Trying to rouse Parliament from its apathy on the issue, he said in a speech, would be like trying to flog a dead horse to make it pull a load. The Oxford English Dictionary cites The Globe, 1872, as the earliest verifiable use of flogging a dead horse, where someone is said to have "rehearsed that [...] lively operation known as flogging a dead horse".[1]

Is Chinese culture converging or diverging? 中国文化越来越大同小异还是相反？ Originally China had thousands of dialects and the road system was so bad in the country side lots of different cultures developed inside China proper. Some even say that to learn the names of all the divinities in China would take forever. However, ever since the communist took over and with the advent of television throughout China, one could say that most people now tend to speak mandarin and have some kind of culture that is getting more and more unified. At the same time, generation gaps are building inside China and the degree of openness to other countries varies from place to place. Therefore: is China's culture converging (becoming more and more similar) or diverging (becoming more and more different)