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Article · 1 min audio雨后的气味从哪里来？Why rain has a smellA familiar smell. A tiny bubble. A closer look at the ground beneath your feet.HSK 6
Story · 2 min audio嫦娥奔月The legend of Chang’eTen suns in the sky. One elixir. And the woman China looks for on the moon every Mid-Autumn.HSK 6
Article · 3 min audio什么是春运？What is Chunyun, China’s Spring Festival travel rush?Over nine billion trips in forty days. One train ticket everyone wants. And a suitcase that goes home half full and comes back stuffed.HSK 6
Story · 3 min audio牛郎织女The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl: the story behind QixiA cowherd with nothing but an old ox. A weaver girl from heaven. A river of stars between them, and one night a year to cross it.HSK 6
Story · 3 min audio木兰从军The real story of MulanA girl at her loom. Her father’s name on every army list. Twelve years at war, and no one guesses.HSK 6
Article · 3 min audio在太空能看见长城吗？Can you see the Great Wall of China from space?A famous fact, older than spaceflight itself. Then China’s first astronaut went up, looked down, and didn’t see it.HSK 6
Article · 3 min audio汉字没有字母，中国人怎么打字？How do Chinese people type without an alphabet?Thousands of characters. The same twenty-six keys as English. How Chinese gets typed, looked up and put in order, and why so many people forget how to write it by hand.HSK 6
Article · 3 min audio世界上的“茶”为什么有两种叫法？Cha or tea? Why the world has two words for teaA latte whose name says “tea” twice. One Chinese character, two sounds, and the trade routes that carried them round the world.HSK 6
Article · 2 min audio兵马俑是什么？What is the Terracotta Army?In a dry spring in 1974, farmers dug a well and found a clay face looking back at them. Behind it stood eight thousand more.HSK 6
Story · 3 min audio桃花源记The Peach Blossom Spring, retold in modern ChineseA fisherman rows into a peach grove and comes out in a village that has never heard of the Han dynasty. He marks the way home. No one ever finds it again.HSK 6
Article · 3 min audio《红楼梦》到底讲了什么？What is Dream of the Red Chamber about?A stone that wanted to see the world, a garden full of cousins, a girl who repays a debt with tears, and a great family that loses everything. Here is China’s most argued-over novel in one reading.HSK 6
Article · 2 min audio李白是谁？Who was Li Bai? China’s poet of the moonEvery Chinese child can recite his twenty-character poem about moonlight, yet the words they learn are not quite the ones he wrote. Meet Li Bai, the Banished Immortal.HSK 6
