@sndef888 bro as a regular Hokkein speaker, Mandarin when spoken sound nicer and apologies to those Cantoneses speakers, it's the worst.
Chinese tradition, ceremony,culture
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I sound sexy when speaking any Chinese language
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To those of us raised in the PRC, Mandarin is the vanilla flavor dialect: neither bad nor particularly nice.
The nicest sounding dialects:
Suzhou:
Sichuan:
Funniest dialect:
As many people may know, every Chinese imperial dynasty had a seal.
The original seal was the Imperial Seal of China, created by Qin Shihuang himself.
This was kept throughout the Qin, Han, 3 Kingdoms, Jin, North South Dynasties, Sui, and Tang. By the Ming Dynasty, it was confirmed lost.
Ming created a new seal, the Seal of the Great Ming.
Qing followed, the Seal of the Great Qing.
You might be surprised that the ROC and PRC still followed imperial tradition!
Seal of the ROC:
Seal of the PRC:
The original seal was the Imperial Seal of China, created by Qin Shihuang himself.
This was kept throughout the Qin, Han, 3 Kingdoms, Jin, North South Dynasties, Sui, and Tang. By the Ming Dynasty, it was confirmed lost.
Ming created a new seal, the Seal of the Great Ming.
Qing followed, the Seal of the Great Qing.
You might be surprised that the ROC and PRC still followed imperial tradition!
Seal of the ROC:
Seal of the PRC:
Is the seal of Qing Shihuang real though? To me that looks like 鸟篆 which is known as the common calligraphy style in 楚, 吴, 越. I'd expect that Qing Shihuang had used 秦小篆 on his own seal.As many people may know, every Chinese imperial dynasty had a seal.
The original seal was the Imperial Seal of China, created by Qin Shihuang himself.
This was kept throughout the Qin, Han, 3 Kingdoms, Jin, North South Dynasties, Sui, and Tang. By the Ming Dynasty, it was confirmed lost.
Ming created a new seal, the Seal of the Great Ming.
Qing followed, the Seal of the Great Qing.
You might be surprised that the ROC and PRC still followed imperial tradition!
Seal of the ROC:
Seal of the PRC:
It is 100% a guess, because it has been lost for 1000+ years.
Not sure where to ask this, but does anyone know why are largers cars more popular in China?
In most developing countries you quite often see A to B segment sedans (~4.2 to ~4.5m) and hatchbacks dominating the top seller lists, like the Hyundai Solaris and Lada Granta/Vesta in Russia, Hyundai HB20 and Chevy Onix in Brazil, Perodua Myvi/Axia/Bezza in Malaysia etc
But in China (other than Wuling mini ev) it's mostly C segment (~4.6m to ~4.7m) and above cars like VW Lavida/Bora, Toyota Corolla/Levin, Nissan Sylphy, Buick Excelle GT or SUVs like Haval H6, Changan CS75
Smaller cars seem like they would make more sense in China, given the urbanisation (easier to park), availability of HSR (no need to drive for too long) and expensive fuel prices.
In most developing countries you quite often see A to B segment sedans (~4.2 to ~4.5m) and hatchbacks dominating the top seller lists, like the Hyundai Solaris and Lada Granta/Vesta in Russia, Hyundai HB20 and Chevy Onix in Brazil, Perodua Myvi/Axia/Bezza in Malaysia etc
But in China (other than Wuling mini ev) it's mostly C segment (~4.6m to ~4.7m) and above cars like VW Lavida/Bora, Toyota Corolla/Levin, Nissan Sylphy, Buick Excelle GT or SUVs like Haval H6, Changan CS75
Smaller cars seem like they would make more sense in China, given the urbanisation (easier to park), availability of HSR (no need to drive for too long) and expensive fuel prices.
just a guess but I think it's because cars are a status symbol in China, and not useful. There's only something like 2 parking spaces per vehicle in most Chinese cities (vs 8 in the US) so there is literally nowhere to park other than home and maybe a few central garages that you have to walk from. Then in some cities you can only drive half the time.
