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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Fluency Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 23 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Sweeping Out the Old Year

Come home to the village: be told to have a cup of tea first, say you are back, hear that on the twenty-fourth of the last month the house is swept, ask why today, hear out with the old and in with the new, hear everyone is busy with the New Year, offer to sweep, and be told tea first, then sweep.

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THE STORY

Master Chen's courtyard in Longjing village on a bright cold morning, a ladder against the wall, Mrs. Wang with a broom, Master Chen at the stone table.

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来 了？ 先 喝 杯 茶。lái le? xiān hē bēi cháYou're here? Have a cup of tea first.
师父， 我 回来 了！shīfu, wǒ huílái leMaster, I'm back!
从 哪里 开始？cóng nǎli kāishǐWhere do we start?
腊月。làyuèthe twelfth lunar month, word for word cured meat month
腊月 二十四。làyuè èrshísìthe twenty-fourth of the last month
腊月 二十四， 扫 房子。làyuè èrshísì, sǎo fángziThe twenty-fourth of the last month: we sweep the house.
为什么 今天 扫？wèishénme jīntiān sǎoWhy sweep today?
高 的 地方 你 来。gāo de dìfang nǐ láiThe high places are yours. To a friend.
辞 旧 迎 新。cí jiù yíng xīnOut with the old, in with the new.
忙 年。máng niánto be busy with the New Year, word for word busy the year

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