This is a podcast that reads a stories in Mongolian. Some of them are world famous novels, essays and some of them are just simple stories. 

Listening for Mongolian learners

in this episode, we continue to talk about number culture. As we all know, number six and number eight are favored by Chinese people, but why? you will know the answers from this episode. I believed if you visited  the forbidden city you must noticed there are rows of nails on the gates. how many are them? let the episode tell you the answer!  

Learning Chinese culture with Miss Zhang

Number Culture（6，8，9）

Number culture is an important part in Chinese culture. In this radio, I will briefly introduce number one, number three and number 4. After listening this radio, you will know why Chinese people dislike number 4 in daily life.

Number Culture（1，3，4）

《礼记》说：“入竟而问禁，入国而问俗，入门而问讳。”这句话的意思是，到某个地方，要了解那个地方的禁忌；去某个国家，要了解那个国家的风俗习惯；上某家做客要了解那户人家的家讳。除了”避名讳“这一禁忌，中国还有很多禁忌与崇拜有关，与语言有关。本篇简单介绍了古时候的讳名和禁忌语，希望大家对此有所了解。

汉语禁忌语

This episode is talking about taboos in Chinese. From ancient times, Chinese culture has incorporated a large number of taboos. Many ancient taboos were related to religion and worship. Other taboos were related to the solar eclipse. Also, Chinese people believed that language had a mystical inherent power that could influence certain things to happen. We call it "言灵".   

Taboos in Chinese

中国文化中的谐音文化不仅是人们用来趋吉避凶，也可以在学习中去记忆一些枯燥无味的数字，比如，圆周率。故事中的老师要求学生背诵圆周率小数点后30位，这可难倒了学生。有的学生唉声叹气，死记硬背；有的学生则跑出了教室，去山上玩耍。玩耍的学生来到山上，却看见老师正在和一和尚喝酒聊天，于是学生们……