#school chinese

[classic-asian-art]

Chinese art: flowers and birds. 18th century silk painting. Paris, B.N. by School Chinese (Undated, oil on canvas)

[hood-ex]

All the Americans on RedNote/Xiaohongshu that are interacting with Chinese people for the first time and are realizing that our governments hate each other but that we can build community/friendship with Chinese people reminds me of a conversation I had with a student of mine.

For context, I taught kids from China how to speak English for 4 years. I had one student named Rain (his English name) from Guangzhou. He was about 9 years old, and I'd been teaching him since the very beginning of his English journey when he only knew very basic vocabulary like vegetables. He got to the point in his language learning where he could use simple words and sentences to talk about more complex subjects.

There was one class we had that I still think about to this day.

"What classes did you have at school today?" I asked. "Math? English? PE?"

"Math yes. English class yes. And... history," he said.

"Oh history? Nice," I said.

"Teacher, I don't like USA a little bit," he said.

"You don't like it? Why?" I asked.

"Because..." he tried to explain before realizing that he didn't have the words he needed to express himself. He switched to miming and drawing the USA fighting with/being mean to China.

"So you don't like the USA because the USA fights China? Hurts China?" I asked for clarification.

"Yes, yes, I don't like it a little bit," he nodded.

"Do you like USA people? I like people from China," I said.

"You like China people?" he asked.

"Yes, I love Chinese people," I said. "I don't like when the USA and China fight, but I love Chinese people."

"Me too!" he said. "Kind of don't like USA, but I like USA people."

In that moment, I was amazed that even with a language barrier, and even with our age difference, we could come to the same conclusion that we didn't like what our countries did to each other, but that didn't mean that he had to hate American people or that I had to hate Chinese people.

"USA people and Chinese people are kind of different," I said, referring to our cultural differences. "We are the same too."

"Yes, kind of the same," he agreed.

That's what many Americans on RedNote/Xiaohongshu are starting to understand better.

[sggredtikokpek]

[corpsentry]

a glass sun 1/2

[optimistwithdepressivetendencies]

the juxtaposition of koreans turning bl into bromance cause this genre “doesn’t guarantee financial success” and chinese doing everything they can to bypass censorship in order to produce bl is so funny to me

[asiangirls-sexy]

Model Name - 年年

Original Photo Source - Coser@年年Nnian - 月刊少女

(Photos are AI-Edited)

[xinyuehui]

Hidden in the final episode's credits 👀

Love Game in Eastern Fantasy · 2024

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

chinese school uniform fashion: tracksuit, sports polo shirts, water proof jacket, jogging shoes, sportswear, oversize, convenient, suitable for most movements, resistant to dirt and easy to clean, pockets are deep and can hold a lot of things, and girls do not have to wear a skirt

[strangekaleidoscopesewing]

Just wanted to share a hanfu I completed recently!

It consists of four pieces: a long overcoat, a sheer pink inner coat, a solid pink top inside the inner coat, and a black mamianqun (pleated skirt). The overcoat has patterned cuffs and a patterned collar made out of the same fabric as the mamianqun (if you look closely, you can see the pattern on the collar and sleeve cuffs on the mamianqun itself). On the back of the coat, I hand-painted a dragon and phoenix that was based on the design of the front panel of the mamianqun. (I do Chinese painting and calligraphy, so I just used fabric paint and some Chinese painting techniques.) The sheer inner coat is made of a sheer pink fabric with blue bias tape finishings on its collar and sleeves. The pink top inside the collar has an embroidered collar (jiaolingyouren, closes on right as per traditional Chinese garments) and ties on the inside and outside (not visible here because they are covered by the skirt and by the shirt itself). The mamianqun arguably took me the longest to complete: it has seven front-facing pleats and seven back-facing pleats on each side, which took me way too long to iron lol. It has ties that wrap around the back and tie in the front. All fabric except from the pink and blue solid colors is from Taobao, and the bias tape is from Joanns.

This is a pretty untraditional combination of garments; I've seen the mamianqun worn primarily with a square-neck top (not sure what this is called, but I think it was from the Ming dynasty period?), and never with a top with a jiaolingyouren. I modified patterns from the book "Traditional and Modernized Hanfu Pattern Making" by TT Duong, which I highly recommend :) The entire project took a total of 30-40 hours (conservative estimate) and the fabric painting took 7 hours.

Overall I'm really proud of the entire project! I created this so that I could enter it into the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards under Fashion (I'm a high schooler) and I had a lot of fun making it :) I'm thinking of making a green one next!

[wigglybunfish]

Astronaut Chang'e stranded on the moon. Luckily she found the moon bunny for company

[yingsuji]

Clothes Study 🪻

[tra-muah]

I was just on the bus and a dog ran infront of it (the driver stopped and the dog moved) and then the driver continued on a turn and stopped because another bus was there and the dog ran infront of the bus again while it was stopped, immediately after a 7th grader half screamed half sang 'I need a hero!' (From "I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero till the end of the night") and said another thing, this is what he said (rough translation) "I need a hero~! Is there anyone Chinese here?"

I know I shouldn't laugh but I hear much more racist things on the daily both from him and others in my school, so I am gonna laugh

[3nderart]

happy snake year :D

[ginkashino]

make-believe family

[lele5429]

Comfort character with his service bird

I got a diagnosis for something I’ve been suspecting for a long time.

Here’s my comfort character with his emotional support bird. Character design by 枭柏, the same artist who did the Chinese regional stereotypes LU AU.

She’s also doing a Chinese high school AU with the same characters (her original design below! ⬇️). And I suggested making Ravio a character with hidden disabilities, and that’s why he has his service bird Sheerow at school!

(In the drawing below he’s showing his phone hahaha)

[domokunrainbowkinz]

One thing that caught me off guard about guardian was how thirsty zyl was, like for 90% of volume 1 he was a thirsty little flower begging for just 1 chance with sw 😭