Chinese Ancient Custom Folklore Stories: The Second Collection: Full Pinyin Annotations. English Summary

Author: Zhao Junhui
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Publish Date: 2002-11-01
Features: Learning a language is learning a tool. If combined with relevant cultural knowledge, it not only avoids monotony but also makes learning faster and more solid. This set of "Chinese Ancient Culture Stories" is compiled and published for readers who have initially mastered Chinese to continue their in-depth study, allowing everyone to learn Chinese while understanding some aspects of ancient Chinese culture. It can be used for self-study, and teachers can also select stories for classroom instruction. Each volume includes several stories. The selected ancient stories are narrated in modern colloquial language and annotated with Pinyin for easy reading. The Pinyin is marked character by character, without tones for neutral tones, and with tonal changes for "yi" and "bu." It is not written in a continuous form and is not capitalized. After each story, there is an English introduction to the plot summary. This set of books can be used by foreign readers learning Chinese, readers in ethnic regions within the country, and is also suitable for primary school students in Han Chinese areas as a Pinyin reading material.