Portland State University Confucius Institute

10/10/2020

Join us for a virtual film screening and discussion. The format will consist of watching the video together, followed by a moderated discussion with panelists and audience engagement.
Please register with the following link: https://forms.gle/95oRHtNZTKzGEoh97
(The Zoom invite will be sent out later in October with the password to join)
Oct. 21st (Wed), 6:30-8:00 pm (Pacific Time)

08/13/2020

Check out our special concert below! This is A special concert organized by Confucius Institute at Portland State University in support of the global fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic.✊✊✊

A special concert organized by Confucius Institute at Portland State University in support of the global fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic

07/03/2020

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https://youtu.be/qNkUW4cS_tA

波州大孔院田培乐老师制作的“中文教学小妙招”短视频入围首届“中文日创新视频大赛”网络评选比赛。比赛时间为北京时间6月30日00:00-7月10日17:00。主办方将以此期间视频获赞数量排名为评选依据。

2010年，联合国新闻部宣布启动联合国语言日。这一倡议旨在庆贺多种语文的使用和文化多样性，并促进六种官方语言在联合国的平等使用。多年来，联合国中文日已经成为人们了解中国文化的一个窗口。

2020年4月，中文联盟联合汉考国际向全世界中文学习者、汉语考试考生等线上征集创意视频、中文教学小妙招，以此来庆祝联合国第十一个中文日。

创作者：美国波特兰州立大学孔子学院 田培乐

12/04/2019

Spring Festival Couplets, Chunlian in Chinese, is also known as Spring Couplets or Chinese New Year Couplets. It is the most common and important custom when celebrating Chinese New Year. This tradition is widely kept both in modern cities and rural areas of China.
With black or golden characters written on red paper, Spring Festival Couplets are composed of a pair of poetry lines vertically pasted on both sides of the front door and a four-character horizontal scroll affixed above the doorframe. Pasting couplets expresses people’s delight in the festival and wishes for a better life in the coming year.
Nowadays, English language learners try to write Chunlian in English following the antithetical pattern, which adds a touch of freshness to the traditional custom in China.

12/04/2019

Please join us for Chinese Corner on December 7, 2019. The Chinese music teachers will introduce and demonstrate a fusion style of Chinese and Western music. The Chinese Corner will feature Xingjun Yi on Er’hu, Kaining Xiao on clarinet, Xiaohan Zhang on Chinese folk song singing.

Date: December 7, 2019
Time: 16:00 - 17:00 PM
Location: Karl Miller Center 605

11/27/2019

Across Bridge Rice Noodle is the special food in the south part of China. It has become popular in Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan Province 5o years ago with a long history. Across Bridge Rice Noodle contains four parts, one part is the soup with the hot oil covered; the second part is seasonings, including chili oil, MSG, pepper and salt; the third part contains sliced pork, chicken breast, sliced fish, cooked pork loin, salmon fillet and the vegetables, such as pea tip, chives, ginger, green onion, Tofu skin and parsley; the last part is main food, hot rice noodle. You can enjoy the delicious and special food by putting the last three parts into hot soup.

11/23/2019

While Western kids dream about what Santa will bring them, as Chinese New Year approaches, Chinese kids will be getting their piggy banks ready to receive hong bao.
Hong Bao (红包) packets, literally "red envelope," are the traditional gifts that adults give children during the Chinese New Year holiday period. The general idea is that adults with income give children with no income Hong Bao during Chinese New Year. In practice, "children" can even mean unmarried young adults.
Children ask for Hong Bao by saying, "Gong Xi Fa Cai, Hong Bao Na Lai!" It means Happy New Year! Give me a red envelope! Don't be shocked though, everyone is prepared for this and the givers make arrangements in advance so that when they go visiting, they have the red packets at hand for such occasions.

11/21/2019

Chinese word of the week is “无所谓” (wú suǒ wèi), a catchword meaning “I don’t care” or “It doesn’t matter”. It is often used to show that the speaker is disinterested in something.

11/19/2019

This is a traditional dish of Sichuan cuisine with a good story. It’s named after its inventor Mapo which means pockmarked elderly woman in Chinese. Mapo ran a small restaurant in Chengdu, Sichuan, in the late 1800s. This dish was so incredibly delicious that it became famous over the place and her guests gave the name: Mapo Tofu. It’s basically braised tofu with minced pork or beef in a red, spicy, and oily sauce made from fermented broad bean and chili paste, and fermented black beans, along with hot red pepper and Sichuan pepper. It has a mix of aromatic, spicy, and numbing flavors with a soft and flaky texture that will electrify every taste bud in your mouth.

11/16/2019

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