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If you have caught the Olympics opening ceremony, you would have seen the Chinese characters formed by the moving blocks display. The word displayed was 和 which is pronounced as he2 (second tone).

This character is actually composed of two characters, on the left is 禾 which means grain, and on the right 口 which means mouth. Both characters taken all together forms the 和 character.

We can say that harmony 和 results when everybody has enough (禾 grain) to eat (口 mouth).

Tea is a common drink throughout the world. It is thought that drinking tea originated from the China. There are a whole lot of tea categories. In China tea are classified like black, green, red and white tea. In addition there is the Pu Erh (普洱) tea. Tea classifications based on the processing that they have gone through,i.e. fermentation, semi-fermentation, etc. Pu Erh is unique due the action of the microbes that enriches the tea, and make it very healthy. Like wine, it ages well and older Pu Erh is well regarded and more expensive.

Hello. We are going to a start a blog aimed at beginners of Mandarin. We hope to publish regularly articles on learning Chinese (Mandarin) by introducing Chinese Characters one at a time. We hope you will enjoy it. Thanks.