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唐诗 · 静夜思
Twenty characters every Chinese child knows by heart, and almost all of them are HSK 1.
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静夜思jìng yè sīQuiet Night Thoughts — Li Bai, 8th century
全诗 · THE WHOLE POEM
Chuáng qián míng yuè guāng,床前明月光，Before my bed, the bright moonlight —
yí shì dì shàng shuāng.疑是地上霜。I took it for frost on the ground.
Jǔ tóu wàng míng yuè,举头望明月，I lift my head and look at the moon;
dī tóu sī gù xiāng.低头思故乡。I lower my head and think of home.
明, 月, 上, 头, 是, 前: most of this poem is HSK 1 vocabulary. You can read a Tang poem earlier than you think.
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A one-page Chinese lesson from the HSK 2 set, filed under 文 · Culture. Twenty characters every Chinese child knows by heart, and almost all of them are HSK 1.
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- 问 · 怎么 How, and what do you think — 怎么 asks the manner of doing something; 怎么样 asks for an opinion or a state.
- 问 · 能…吗 Could you — 能 + verb + 吗 is a request, not an order. It is the polite way to ask someone to keep going.
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