{"id":8651,"date":"2013-03-31T03:04:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T07:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2013-03-31T03:10:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T07:10:23","slug":"all-things-sichuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/all-things-sichuan\/","title":{"rendered":"All Things Sichuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8653\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/all-things-sichuan\/sichuanmap-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8653\" aria-label=\"Sichuanmap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8653\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8653\"  alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"219\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/sichuanmap.png\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sichuan province in China.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chances are you&#8217;ve probably munched on a dish labeled &#8220;Szechuan&#8221; in a Chinese restaurant at some point. Where does that delicious, spicy chicken come from? Well, it&#8217;s from <strong>Sichuan province<\/strong> (\u56db\u5ddd &#8211; s\u00ec chu\u0101n), located in southwest China. Famous for its mouth-numbing food, cute and cuddly pandas, and stunningly beautiful landscapes, Sichuan is a fascinating place. There&#8217;s been a lot of talk about Sichuan here on the blog in the past, so in case you&#8217;ve missed any of it, here are the links to all related posts as well as brief descriptions. Read through them all and you&#8217;ll feel like you&#8217;ve visited Sichuan yourself. Plus, you&#8217;ll learn a ton of new Chinese vocabulary at the same time! I believe Charlie Sheen referred to that as, &#8220;bi-winning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/better-know-a-province-part-one\/\">Better Know a&#8230; Province (Sichuan)<\/a>: We&#8217;re going all around China one province at a time here at the Chinese blog. Start the journey with us by diving into Sichuan province. Learn about the history, culture, famous places, and more here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/jiuzhaigou-ecotourism\/\">Jiuzhaigou Eco-tourism<\/a>: In this post, learn about an amazing adventure travel opportunity just outside of the Jiuzhaigou national park. While the park itself is a great place to visit, the hordes of tourists can be overwhelming at times. Cue the recently launched eco-tourism hike, which can be done for either one, two, or three days. Hike up a sacred Tibetan mountain, sleep in wooden huts, and watch yaks run free.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/my-last-vacation-part-one\/\">My Vacation to Sichuan (Part One)<\/a>: Challenge yourself and try to get through this post about my trip to Sichuan that is written all in Chinese. If you don&#8217;t know characters very well, there&#8217;s also pinyin and English.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/my-last-vacation-part-two\/\">My Vacation to Sichuan (Part Two<\/a>): Learn a lot more about Sichuan and learn a lot of new Chinese in this post.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinas-great-culinary-traditions-western-cuisine\/\">Sichuan Cuisine<\/a>: Sichuan cuisine is famous around the world, and for good reason. It is also one of the Four Great Culinary Traditions of China. Get introduced to it and learn about some of its most notable dishes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, I also put together a handful of videos about our trip there. All of them can be found on our YouTube channel, but here are two of my favorites:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZ0X0efzi6Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen title=\"Embedded video\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Get up close and personal with the pandas in Chengdu.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SiYnprcrRy8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen title=\"Embedded video\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Explore the natural beauty of Jiuzhaigou national park in this video.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To get you practicing your Chinese, take a few minutes and try to answer these questions!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Have you been to Sichuan?<\/strong> (\u4f60\u53bb\u8fc7\u56db\u5ddd\u5417\uff1fn\u01d0 q\u00f9 gu\u00f2 s\u00ec chu\u0101n ma)<\/li>\n<li><strong>If you&#8217;ve been &#8211; where did you go?<\/strong> (\u5982\u679c\u4f60\u53bb\u8fc7 \uff0d\u4f60\u53bb\u4ec0\u4e48\u5730\u65b9\u4e86\uff1fr\u00fa gu\u01d2 n\u01d0 q\u00f9 gu\u00f2 &#8211; n\u01d0 q\u00f9 sh\u00e9n me d\u00ec f\u0101ng le)<\/li>\n<li><strong>If you haven&#8217;t been &#8211; would you like to go? Why?<\/strong> (\u5982\u679c\u4f60\u6ca1\u53bb\u8fc7\uff0d\u4f60\u60f3\u53bb\u5417\uff1f\u4e3a\u4ec0\u4e48\uff1fr\u00fa gu\u01d2 n\u01d0 m\u00e9i q\u00f9 gu\u00f2 &#8211; n\u01d0 xi\u01ceng q\u00f9 ma? w\u00e8i sh\u00e9n me)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do you like eating Sichuan food?<\/strong> (\u4f60\u559c\u6b22\u5403\u56db\u5ddd\u83dc\u5417\uff1fn\u01d0 x\u01d0 huan ch\u012b s\u00ec chu\u0101n c\u00e0i ma)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"275\" height=\"219\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/sichuanmap.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Chances are you&#8217;ve probably munched on a dish labeled &#8220;Szechuan&#8221; in a Chinese restaurant at some point. Where does that delicious, spicy chicken come from? Well, it&#8217;s from Sichuan province (\u56db\u5ddd &#8211; s\u00ec chu\u0101n), located in southwest China. Famous for its mouth-numbing food, cute and cuddly pandas, and stunningly beautiful landscapes, Sichuan is a fascinating&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/all-things-sichuan\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":8653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[94600,272690,127524,127555,9386,127528,127534,2328,69377,255928,2685,127313,255705],"class_list":["post-8651","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-adventure-travel","tag-backpacking","tag-chengdu","tag-eco-tourism","tag-hiking","tag-huanglong","tag-jiuzhaigou","tag-national-park","tag-pandas","tag-ping-le-ancient-town","tag-sichuan","tag-sichuan-food","tag-sichuan-province"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651","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=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8656,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions\/8656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}