The chinese

This video is all about the Sinitic language family, also known as Chinese! Special thanks to Bing Chao and Liyang Ye for providing the Mandarin,

 

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This video is all about the Sinitic language family, also known as Chinese! Special thanks to Bing Chao and Liyang Ye for providing the Mandarin, Shanghainese, and Cantonese audio samples! Han Chinese people, the largest ethnic group in China, are often referred to as Chinese or ethnic Chinese in English. The ethnic Chinese also form a majority or notable minority in other countries, and may comprise as much as 19% of the global human population. 2. a Sino-Tibetan language or language family, comprising a wide variety of speech forms, many mutually unintelligible, that are traditionally labeled dialects, and are written with identical characters. Calculating Chinese New Year. According to Helmer Aslaksen, of the National University of Singapore, there are two rules of thumb used to calculate the new year in the Chinese calendar. The first rule of thumb is that Chinese New Year should be the New Moon closest to the beginning of spring (in the Northern Hemisphere), known as Lìchūn. The Chinese zodiac, or shengxiao (/shnng-sshyao/ ‘born resembling'), is a repeating cycle of 12 years, with each year being represented by an animal and its reputed attributes. Chinese Catholics resisted the new government's move towards state control and independence from the Vatican. Later onwards, the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) involved a systematic effort to destroy religion. 2: a group of related languages used by the people of China that are often mutually unintelligible in their spoken form but share a single system of writing and that constitute a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family especially: mandarin.