Enjoy Chinese president Xi Jinping’s official cartoon series, as a continuing effort to promote a softer image of the country of big boss. Make sure you laugh!
So there’s two sides to this character — skills and arts — but they’re somewhat similar related.
艺术 (yì shù) is art itself, so 艺人 (yì rén) is a performing artist, 艺术品 (yì shù pǐn) is a work of art and 艺术节 (yì shù jié) is an arts festival.
When you move over to the skills, you get words like 厨艺 (chú yì) cooking skills, or 园艺 (yuán yì) gardening… but in truth, aren’t those a kind of art too?
With a bit of 才艺 (cái yì) talent and some perseverance, you can 学艺 (xué yì) learn any skill or art. :)
Recently I’m learning a lot of grammar, it’s really hard but also very rewarding! There’s so many complements in Chinese grammar, it’s really hard to remember them all! 加油！
“三人行，必有我师” means “When I walk with two others, there must be one whom I can learn from”. In the metaphorical sense, it means everybody may have some merits that we lack, so we should learn from others.
“站得高，看得远“ means the one who stands higher takes a broader view. It is also used metaphorically to indicate that we should view a problem from more than one aspect to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of it.
The adverb “从来” (cónglái) indicates something has always been like this from the past to the present. It is usually used in negative sentences. For example:
“一步走错步步错” means that in a chess game one wrong move will make all the moves after it wrong. In the metaphorical sense, it indicates if we’ve made a wrong decision, then every decision following it would be wrong. This saying tells us to be prudent when doing something so as to avoid mistakes.
