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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Intermediate Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 22 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Shaking the Leaves

Spend the night in Old Su's tea room in Anxi: hear that tonight the leaves are shaken, ask how, hear four times in one night, ask whether he sleeps, offer to help, smell the fragrance that has come out, and say it's like orchids.

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THE STORY

A night in late October in the tea room of Old Su's farmhouse above Anxi, the leaves of the day in bamboo drums and a bare bulb over them.

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摇青。yáoqīngshake the leaves, word for word shake green
今天 晚上 摇青。jīntiān wǎnshang yáoqīngTonight we shake the leaves.
摇青？ 怎么 摇？yáoqīng? zěnme yáoShake them? How do you shake them?
摇 四 次。yáo sì cìshake four times
这样 摇。 一 晚上 摇 四 次。zhèyàng yáo, yì wǎnshang yáo sì cìLike this. Four times in one night.
四 次！ 您 不 睡觉 吗？sì cì! nín bú shuìjiào maFour times! Don't you sleep? Politely.
不 睡。 茶 不 等 人。bú shuì, chá bù děng rénNo sleep. Tea doesn't wait for people.
我 也 不 睡。 我 帮 您。wǒ yě bú shuì, wǒ bāng nínI won't sleep either. I'll help you. Politely.
香 出来 了。xiāng chūlái lehas come out, the fragrance is out now
您 闻闻。 香 出来 了。nín wénwen, xiāng chūlái leHave a smell. The fragrance has come out. Politely.

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