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| nciku |
 Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 10:32 am |
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Joined: 03 Feb 2008
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四川 Sìchuān is famous for its delicious spicy Sichuan Cuisine and scenic spots most of the time, but this week the 7.8-magnitude earthquake made all the world astonished because of the big death toll. All the people come to support 四川 Sìchuān Province. Look at this earthquake relief advertisement , it writes “CHINA” with “川 chuān” inside it. Isn’t it creative?
Sichuan Province, located in southwest China, is one of the largest and most inaccessible provinces in the nation. This province covers an area of 485,000 kilometers (187,000 miles) and boasts the largest population in China, with 87 million people.
Do you know the character meanings for the name? It is easy and interesting. ChineseHour is telling you now.
四川 Sìchuān, 四 Sì — FOUR, 川 chuān — RIVER.
See? It means FOUR RIVERS there.
Sichuan is bordered by the Tibetan Plateau in the west and by the Three Gorges and the Yangtze River in the east. The eastern part of the Sichuan basin is ringed by lofty mountains and experiences a subtropical and humid climate. The western part is considered the highland area and experiences frequent fog with intense sunlight, but low temperatures. The annual rainfall in this province is 1000 millimeters and the average annual temperature is 16.5C.
If you look carefully at this characters “川 chuān”, it is a pictographic two strokes on both sides resembles two banks of a river, and the central stroke resembles the river. Do you understand what it means now? |
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