Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT Unit 8 Zu y u l xi ng y u d od y u w nhu y u j l de g ngm n Be have ideals have morality have culture have discipline DE citizens Be good and virtuous citizens Public sign at Kunming Teachers College 1999 Zh f gu ngr ng Get wealth bright honor To get rich is glorious A phrase that is often attributed to D ng Xi op ng and cited as the watershed between ideology and capitalism in modern China Contents 8 1 Temporal and logical sequence 8 2 Sports 8 3 Comparison 8 4 Cities population 8 5 Bargaining 8 6 Dialogue In the store 8 7 Regional languages dial narr 8 8 A narrative about Lin Mei 8 9 Jobs 8 10 Verb le O prior events 8 11 Dialogue What did you do y day 8 12 Verb Combos 2 8 13 M words revisited 8 14 Aspirations 8 15 Highlights 8 16 Rhymes and rhythms Appendix Additional measure words Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Exercise 7 Exercise 8 Exercise 9 Exercise 10 Exercise 11 8 1 Temporal and logical sequence In previous units you have encountered adverbs such as y jing ji and c i and conjunctions such as y nw i su r n and y h u both of which express temporal or logical connections This section provides additional material incorporated in longer and more complicated paragraphs Vocabulary xi n first q xi n at first originally raise first r nh u and then after that thusly after h ul i after than later on after come always retelling the past z i again go on to projected or anticipated repetition y u again went on to with an event that has happened or is destined to happen y nc because of this for that reason so because this ji gu as a result form fruit 1 Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT Examples i W men xi n q B ij ng k nw ng w q zi de q nqi r nh u q Sh ngh i k ihu B nyu d jiu hu lai First we re going to Beijing to visit my wife s relatives and then we re going to Shanghai for a conference We ll be back at the end of the month Notes k nw ng visit call on see people b nyu this month root month b nyu d at the end of the month ii J b nsh ng w men d su n d o X n n q d i j ge x ngqi c ngu n y xi Y z de n ngc n R nh u w men q M nz Xu yu n zu y ge yu de y nji Basically we plan to go to the Southwest to spend a few weeks visiting some Yi villages After that we re going to do a month s research at the Minority Peoples Institute Notes a j b nsh ng basically base root on b d i stay over c c ngu n visit tour see places d Y z the Yi people a non Han people with extensive presence in southwest China M nz Xu yu n are found in Chengdu and also in Beijing and other cities iii W men q xi n d su n sh ngw ji di n q ch ng k shi y nw i li ng ge r n d zi d u b sh fu w men xi w s di n c i n ng l k i L ji ng Ji gu d o B ish de sh hou ti n y jing h i le W men z i xi o l gu n shu le y y r nh u d r ti n z osh ng k ish sh ng sh n H ul i w men z i l sh ng p ngd o le y xi N x z de r n t men g osu le w men sh ng sh n zu h o de l Originally we had planned to start at 9 00 in the morning but because two people got upset stomachs we couldn t leave Lijiang until 4 pm As a result when we got to Baisha it was already dark We spent the night in a small inn then the next morning we started up the mountain Later on we met a group of Naxi people on the road and they told us the best way up the mountain Notes a q ch ng start off on a journey raise journey B ish a village about 15 kms north of L ji ng at the base of a chain of peaks which go under the name of Y l ngxu sh n Jade dragon snow mountain b l gu n generic for hotels but in this case more of a hostel c y y one night d p ngd o run into meet up with 2 Learning Chinese A Foundation Course in Mandarin Julian K Wheatley MIT e N x z the Naxi sometimes spelled Nahsi are a minority people with their own language and writing system who live in and around Lijiang iv W men b h o f id o le Xi ng G ng r nh u d r ti n zu hu ch d o le Gu ngzh u Z i Gu ngzh u d i le li ng ti n k n le k n r nh u sh y h o y u zu f ij d o Ch ngd q le W men z i Ch ngd d i le y ge x ngq m i d ngxi h ul i zu hu ch q le X ch ng X ch ng z i D li ng sh n z i Ch ngd x n n bi n y u w b i g ngl We flew to H ng K ng on the 8th and then the next day took a train to Canton We stayed in Canton for two days to look around and then on the 11th we flew on to Ch ngd We stayed in Ch ngd for a week to buy supplies then later on took a train to Xichang which is about 500 kms southwest of Chengdu in the Great Snowy Mountains Notes a Xichang is a city in the Great Snowy Mountains in the southern part of Sichuan It is now best known for the satellite launch and tracking facilities which are some 50 kms from the town but historically it is also an important center of the Yi people also called Nasu and Norsu v H nji w xi n hu le ji k nw ng le w ji r n D i le y ge x ngq y h u w jiu q T ib i k ihu le Z i T ib i zh d i le s n ti n m iyou sh …