{"id":10899,"date":"2015-03-17T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=10899"},"modified":"2015-03-15T05:03:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T09:03:16","slug":"st-patricks-day-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/st-patricks-day-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick&#8217;s Day in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ask 100 Chinese people on the street what holiday today is, and chances are maybe \u00a0&#8211; and I mean <em>maybe<\/em> &#8211; one person will know about St. Patrick&#8217;s Day. This traditional Irish holiday is celebrated on March 17th in countries all around the world.\u00a0While it&#8217;s true that it\u00a0isn&#8217;t exactly celebrated or known in China, that doesn&#8217;t mean there&#8217;s nothing going on. In fact, Hong Kong just had\u00a0its first ever St. Patty&#8217;s Day parade over the weekend. Although Irish don&#8217;t even crack the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.china-briefing.com\/news\/2015\/01\/08\/nali-lai-de-overview-expats-china.html\">Top 10 in terms of expat population<\/a> in China, almost every major city here has an Irish pub of some sort. In Kunming where I currently live, there&#8217;s one just a 5-minute walk from my place &#8211; a blessing and a curse.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"St. Patrick&#039;s Day Pride in U.S., China\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gxJQIIC7grQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>St. Patty&#8217;s Day celebrations in the US and even in Shanghai (2010).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s a cultural and religious holiday in Ireland, people in other countries view it as an excuse to have a good time. On this day, people will wear green, attend a parade, and drink plenty of green beer and Irish whiskey. It&#8217;s best to drink Irish on St. Patty&#8217;s, so order up a tall glass of Guinness and a shot of Jameson. In America, a cocktail called an Irish Car Bomb is made with the above mentioned beer and whiskey plus Bailey&#8217;s Irish cream. Just don&#8217;t order this one in Ireland, though &#8211; the name evokes the country&#8217;s troubled past and is considered offensive.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10900\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10900\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/St-Pats.jpg\" alt=\"Celebrating St. Pat's in China.\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/St-Pats.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/St-Pats-350x250.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrating St. Pat&#8217;s in China.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The biggest celebration goes on in the Irish capital of Dublin &#8211; four days of traditional music, folklore, and dance. There are huge events in cities all over the world, though, including Chicago, Buenos Aires, Montreal, and even Tokyo. At a St. Patrick&#8217;s Day celebration, you&#8217;re likely to see some famous Irish symbols, such as a Leprechaun or four-leaf clover.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re not the least bit Irish, you&#8217;re welcome to join in the party. As the old saying goes, &#8220;Everyone is a little Irish on St. Patrick&#8217;s Day.&#8221; Hell, even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/great-wall-of-china-turns-green-for-saint-patricks-day-1360500-Mar2014\/\">Great Wall put on green for the holiday last year<\/a>. If you want to get your Chinese friends in on the fun, here are some useful vocabulary words for talking about this Irish holiday in Chinese:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day (<span class=\"s1\">\u5723\u5e15\u7279\u91cc\u514b\u8282<\/span> &#8211; sh\u00e8ng p\u00e0 t\u00e8 l\u01d0 k\u00e8 ji\u00e9)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>March 17th (<span class=\"s1\">\u4e09\u6708\u5341\u4e03\u53f7 &#8211; <\/span>s\u0101n yu\u00e8 sh\u00ed q\u012b h\u00e0o)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>Ireland (<span class=\"s1\">\u7231\u5c14\u5170<\/span> &#8211; \u00c0i \u011br l\u00e1n)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>Dublin (\u90fd\u67cf\u6797 &#8211; d\u016b b\u00f3 l\u00edn)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>green (<span class=\"s1\">\u7eff\u8272\u7684<\/span> &#8211; l\u01dc s\u00e8 de)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>parade (<span class=\"s1\">\u6e38\u884c<\/span> &#8211; y\u00f3u x\u00edng)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>four-leaf clover (\u56db\u53f6\u8349<span class=\"s2\"> &#8211; s\u00ec y\u00e8 c\u01ceo)<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>shamrock (<span class=\"s1\">\u9162\u6d46\u8349<\/span> &#8211; c\u00f9 ji\u0101ng c\u01ceo)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>Leprechaun (<span class=\"s1\">\u62c9\u5e03\u5217\u5eb7 &#8211; <\/span>l\u0101 b\u00f9 li\u00e8 k\u0101ng)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>rainbow (<span class=\"s1\">\u5f69\u8679<\/span> &#8211; c\u01cei h\u00f3ng)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>a pot of gold (<span class=\"s1\">\u4e00\u6876\u91d1 &#8211; <\/span>y\u012b t\u01d2ng j\u012bn)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>bagpipe (<span class=\"s1\">\u98ce\u7b1b<\/span> &#8211; f\u0113ng d\u00ed)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>bar (<span class=\"s1\">\u9152\u5427<\/span> &#8211; ji\u01d4 b\u0101)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>beer (<span class=\"s1\">\u5564\u9152<\/span> &#8211; p\u00ed ji\u01d4)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>Guinness (<span class=\"s1\">\u5409\u5c3c\u65af<\/span> &#8211; j\u00ed n\u00ed s\u012b)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>whiskey (<span class=\"s1\">\u5a01\u58eb\u5fcc<\/span> &#8211; w\u0113i sh\u00ec j\u00ec)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\">\n<h3>Jameson (<span class=\"s1\">\u5c0a\u7f8e\u9187<\/span> &#8211; z\u016bn m\u011bi ch\u00fan)<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For even more fun, why not throw a St. Patty&#8217;s Day bash with some green Chinese food? This article from About.com has <a href=\"http:\/\/chinesefood.about.com\/od\/westernhol\/tp\/green-chinese-recipes.htm\">ten great green recipes<\/a> to whip up for the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/St-Pats-350x250.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/St-Pats-350x250.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/St-Pats.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Ask 100 Chinese people on the street what holiday today is, and chances are maybe \u00a0&#8211; and I mean maybe &#8211; one person will know about St. Patrick&#8217;s Day. This traditional Irish holiday is celebrated on March 17th in countries all around the world.\u00a0While it&#8217;s true that it\u00a0isn&#8217;t exactly celebrated or known in China, that&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/st-patricks-day-in-china\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":10900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[371356,371357,6936,371358,371355],"class_list":["post-10899","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chinese-st-patricks-day","tag-chinese-vocabulary-st-patricks-day","tag-st-patricks-day","tag-st-patricks-day-chinese-vocabulary","tag-st-patricks-day-in-china"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10904,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10899\/revisions\/10904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}