{"id":8325,"date":"2012-12-23T10:36:30","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T14:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=8325"},"modified":"2012-12-23T10:36:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-23T14:36:30","slug":"chinese-christmas-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-christmas-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Christmas Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8329\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-christmas-vocabulary\/chinese_christmas-300x225\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8329\" aria-label=\"Chinese Christmas 300x225\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8329\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8329\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/12\/chinese_christmas-300x225.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;The Birth of a Saint Holiday&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The holiday season is upon us yet again, and while most people don\u2019t associate China with\u00a0Christmas, the holiday is becoming more and more popular in the Middle Kingdom. For the past month, the Christmas spirit has been alive and well here in Beijing \u2013 in subway stations, shopping centers, restaurants, and bars all across the city. Everywhere you go, the sounds of \u201cJingle Bells\u201d and \u201cRudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer\u201d follow you. Department stores are stocked and ready to help people \u201cdeck the halls\u201d, with Christmas trees, stockings, tinsel, ornaments, and any other Christmas trinket you could imagine prominently on display. In malls all over town, there are Christmas sales drawing throngs of holiday shoppers. While many people here do not know or understand the history and traditions of this holiday, one thing is clear \u2013 they sure love the shopping that accompanies it.\u00a0To help get you in the holiday spirit, here are some vocabulary words in Chinese that you&#8217;ll need to talk about Christmas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h2>Christmas Eve (\u5723\u8bde\u591c &#8211; sh\u00e8ng d\u00e0n y\u00e8)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Christmas (\u5723\u8bde\u8282 &#8211; sh\u00e8ng d\u00e0n ji\u00e9 &#8211; lit. &#8220;the birth of a saint holiday&#8221;)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Jesus (\u8036\u7a23 &#8211; y\u0113 s\u016b)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Santa Claus (\u5723\u8bde\u8001\u4eba &#8211; sh\u00e8ng d\u00e0n l\u01ceo r\u00e9n &#8211; \u00a0lit. &#8220;Christmas old person&#8221;)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>sleigh (\u96ea\u6a47 &#8211; xu\u011b qi\u0101o)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>reindeer (\u9e8b\u9e7f &#8211; m\u00ed l\u00f9)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Christmas tree (\u5723\u8bde\u6811 &#8211; sh\u00e8ng d\u00e0n sh\u00f9)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>gift\/present (\u793c\u7269 &#8211; l\u01d0 w\u00f9)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>stocking (\u5723\u8bde\u889c &#8211; sh\u00e8ng d\u00e0n w\u00e0)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Christmas carols (\u5723\u8bde\u6b4c &#8211; sh\u00e8ng d\u00e0n g\u0113)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>caroling (\u62a5\u4f73\u97f3 &#8211; b\u00e0o ji\u0101 y\u012bn)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Christian (\u57fa\u7763\u6559\u5f92 &#8211; j\u012b d\u016b ji\u00e0o t\u00fa)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>midnight mass (\u5348\u591c\u5f25\u6492 &#8211; w\u01d4 y\u00e8 m\u00ed s\u0101)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>gingerbread house (\u59dc\u997c\u5c4b &#8211; ji\u0101ng b\u01d0ng w\u016b)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>candy cane (\u62d0\u6756\u7cd6 &#8211; gu\u01cei zh\u00e0ng t\u00e1ng)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>snowman (\u96ea\u4eba &#8211; xu\u011b r\u00e9n)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>white Christmas (\u767d\u8272\u8056\u8a95 &#8211; b\u00e1i s\u00e8 sh\u00e8ng d\u00e0n)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>Christmas card (\u5723\u8bde\u5361 &#8211; sh\u00e8ng d\u00e0n k\u01ce)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h2>&#8220;The Grinch&#8221; (\u5723\u8bde\u602a\u6770 &#8211; sh\u00e8ng d\u00e0n gu\u00e0i ji\u00e9)<\/h2>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While you&#8217;re at it, you might as well practice singing &#8220;We Wish You a Merry Christmas&#8221; in Chinese:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We wish you a merry Christmas(Chinese Version)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NlRRnxAXquE?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>From all of us here at Transparent Chinese,\u00a0<strong>we wish you a Merry Christmas<\/strong>\u00a0(\u6211\u4eec\u795d\u4f60\u5723\u8bde\u5feb\u4e50 \u2013 W\u01d2 men zh\u00f9 n\u01d0 sh\u00e8ng d\u00e0n ku\u00e0i l\u00e8)!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/12\/chinese_christmas-300x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>The holiday season is upon us yet again, and while most people don\u2019t associate China with\u00a0Christmas, the holiday is becoming more and more popular in the Middle Kingdom. 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