I’m def gonna get a massive amount of hate from canto peeps here but I just want to get this off my chest. Lowkey anything about Cantonese is so annoying to me, everyone says it sounds nice including both the speakers and non speakers but to me whenever I hear it, my ears just wants to bleed. And the thing that pissed me off the most is when Cantonese people be like “everyone should speak Cantonese, it’s the original/ ancient Chinese, what people once all spoke” “Cantonese sounds better so it should be the national language of China” “Cantonese kept all of those old Chinese sounds” “Cantonese is a dying language we must protect it”

Like first of all, yes Cantonese is an older Chinese language when COMPARED to mandarin. Just a little background information, all the Chinese language/dialect spoken today all derived from Middle Chinese and so no Chinese language spoken right now are so on called “original Chinese”. The only thing old about canto is that when compared to mando, it’s more closely related to Middle Chinese than mando is. But that does NOT make it the oldest, because there’s actually evidence that shows Hokkien is much older and is way more closely related to the Middle Chinese than Cantonese is. So according to canto speakers, if the national language should be decided by how old the language is, shouldn’t it be Hokkien?

And each language sounding good or bad depends on personal preference, I hate how just because they’re the one speaking it they think it sounds so good, when in fact it sounds like a bunch of chickens squabbling, like I just hate their goddamn pride they have, it’s lowkey annoying

Whilst Cantonese did kept those ending syllable sounds such as k p t well, which mandarin has lost, it should be known that Cantonese did not preserve their vowel system well. Like look at other Chinese the words for 心 米 運氣 in mando, Hokkien it’s read as “xin/hsin, sim” “mi,mi” “yunqi/yuntsee, unki (pronounced as woonki” u see how both had kept the vowels well? Look at how canto pronounced those characters “sam” “mai” “wanhei” like the fk happened to their vowels? Heck even Korean reading of those characters kept the vowels well and they’re read as “shim” “mi” “unki/woonki” I hate how they just talk about the goods but never admit to their goddamn flaws

What pisses me off the very most is when they always say “protect Cantonese it’s a dying language, mandarin is taking over” like bro open ur goddamn eyes and look at other regions in China that doesn’t speak mandarin, you have Shanghai where Shanghainese is dying, u have fujian where Hokkien, Puxian, Hokchiu/ Fuzhounese, Hokchia/Fuqing, Hakka are dying at an even faster rate to the point where literally no one speaks them now amongst the young generation. Like yeah canto is also in decline but not as fast as the ones I mentioned, they literally have Hong Kong and Macau a region/ country, that provides entertainment and education in Cantonese to promote the language. Like stop complaining when other regions language are in huge decline and with you’re tiny amount of decline, you guys are already complaining like babies, when have u ever seen us complain about our languages decline? Canto is literally the second most spoken Chinese language right behind mandarin, like fucking stop being ignorant y’all canto speakers out there. Literally stop spreading and going on a delusional, pseudo historical bullshit about how Cantonese is the “purest, most traditional, most ancient” Chinese language that ever existed, when in reality, it’s NOT! It’s non of the current Chinese languages, and if you must pick one that’s the closest to the Middle Chinese, IT’S MINNAN/ HOKKIEN!

Some people use 🇨🇳 and other people use 🇹🇼 and some people use other flags too like 🇭🇰 if they’re from Hong Kong or even other flags like the Qing flag or the 5 striped flag, and others don’t really use a flag at all!

So for people here who are ethnically Chinese, what flag do you use to represent your culture and heritage?

I'm curious about what options exist/are being used when referring to a person who doesn't want to be associated with a gender (for example, pronounce or possible gender occupations (eg. Actor/actress in English))

I also what to know how frequently words/terms are gendered? Would you say that being non-binary in Chinese is relatively hard or easy.

I've been studying Chinese for a couple of months now in school and I think this is very interesting :)

I’m brown and when I try to ask a Chinese girl out they get upset. They want to go for white dudes or their own. Makes me angry. Like what about other races? I swiped right on a girl who was also in my group and she told me to stop messaging her privately. Like why? Is it cuz I swiped right on her? She would react with funny emojis to this one foreigner but since I’m brown no reaction. And I wanted to ask her out. Like they don’t go for brown or black guys. Also some people told me that according to the culture dark is seen as dirty.

I’m getting tired of this “traditional Chinese is better” propaganda from Taiwanese and Hong Kong people and I am getting tired of being accused of not learning real Chinese culture from using simplified so I feel like I should make my case here. I know I’m learning simplified Chinese for weird reasons that no one else would do so here we go: I’m a Chinese American molecular biology student who is looking to teach in my field and as a side project I’m more interested in translating my field of study in Chinese instead of reading ancient texts. In other words, I’m studying on the side to get to the point where I can translate my college textbooks into Chinese. No I’m not planning on teaching abroad, but I do want to explain my field in Chinese just because. Simplified Chinese as the name implies is simpler to write and it makes much more sense to go with easier words to write when expressing academic terms in my field. Take for example the word mitochondria: Simplified - 线粒体, Traditional - 線粒體. If I’m going to lecture in my field in Chinese especially when writing on the board, of course I’m going to write simplified. People will argue that simplified Chinese is not real Chinese culture but guess what: neither is biology. No person in Chinese history has ever made significant contributions to what we know about DNA or genetics so it’s not like there is a traditional Chinese word that is going to depict the molecular structure of a protein anyway or a steroid anyway. Using simplified Chinese will never take away the essence behind the word anyway because there has never been any essence anyway at least in my case. Yes I do realize no one will ever think about doing academic stuff in Chinese but I’m weird like that and I do hope people especially Taiwanese and Hong Kongers will respect my reason for going with simplified and stop with the “simplified Chinese is a bastardization of Chinese nonsense.”

Is this considered cultural appropriation?

I read that i was something like "love" but i would likte to confirm

Wouldn't call myself a 中国通 but I'm fascinated by both the language and culture. I've always found that XHS is a great way to learn new vocab and to immerse oneself in Chinese current affairs etc.

I fear this is all about to change. It'll just become another globalized sludge of dances we've all seen a million times before, trashy short-form content etc. We already have IG reels, YouTube shorts etc. If you're not making China-focused content, or coming at it from a Chinese perspective/ trying to learn about things from said viewpoint, please just leave XHS alone...

I 'm a Chinese man and live in china.i want to know how do you think Chinese

No app, no website, no youtube videos will get you very far.

I am the proof

I have been taught Acupuncture by a teacher who got in conntact with some taoist masters. They showed him, how to properly understand the Qi transformation in particular patients, so he is often able to make a sudden relief just by using one needle.

Before that, he studied in China, but it was dissapointing for him, because the “official” learning wasn’t actually working, or it was like a coin flip - it might work or it might not work. Some of the teachers were showing a better understanding of the Qi, but it was a mystery, they didn`t want to share their knowledge. This situation lasted till he met the mentioned Taoists and everything changed making acupuncture real effective.

Why the REAL teachings are so hard to get? Why this wonderful knowledge, which can help a lot of people and indulge their pains is so hardly guarded?

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How do I read the characters "ジュリアはとても可愛い、 そして彼女は赤い口紅を塗っている。" in Chinese Pinyin?

I can only transcribe it as "ジュリアはとても kě' ài い、 そして bǐ nǚ は chì い kǒu hóng を tú っている," but I don't know the rest. How do I pronounce the other Chinese characters?