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🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese · Intermediate Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 25 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Pressing the Cakes

Press pu'er cakes with Grandmother Yu and Yan Wen: hear the three steps, steam, press and dry in the sun, ask how heavy a cake is, hear three hundred and fifty-seven grams, and say last year's cake is both fragrant and sweet.

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THE STORY

The yard of the Bulang family's house, a sunny morning after the picking: a steaming pot, round stone weights, and rows of cakes drying on bamboo trays.

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今天 我们 压 饼。jīntiān wǒmen yā bǐngToday we press cakes.
压 饼？ 怎么 压？yā bǐng? zěnme yāPress cakes? How do you press them?
先 蒸，xiān zhēngfirst steam
最后 晒。zuìhòu shàiand last, dry in the sun
先 蒸， 再 压， 最后 晒。xiān zhēng, zài yā, zuìhòu shàiFirst steam, then press, and last dry in the sun.
晒 几 天？shài jǐ tiānDry them for how many days?
一 个 茶 饼 多 重？yí ge chá bǐng duō zhòngHow heavy is one tea cake?
三百 五十 七 克。sānbǎi wǔshí qī kèthree hundred and fifty-seven grams
三百 五十 七 克。 马帮 的 老 办法。sānbǎi wǔshí qī kè, mǎbāng de lǎo bànfǎThree hundred and fifty-seven grams. The caravans' old way.
小心， 很 烫！xiǎoxīn, hěn tàngCareful, it's very hot!

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