Saturday, May 25, 2024

How to remember a Chinese name--

Chu--clan name or family name
Teh-Chun first or given name--
so in Chinese I would be
Kong Qi Mei.
Look up the meanings of each name online.
Differentiate Wade-Giles spelling/transliteration fromnew Pinyin spelling--
e.g--Mao Zedong from old spelling-
5-25-2024

Highly recommended--I had a friend, young woman who said "Aunty, so you believe people evolved from monkeys?"

I was so shocked I was speechless. I didn't even bother explaining. This woman did not even recognize the tree of the flower from which ...