Do Young Chinese Still Believe in Superstitions? - Chinese Audio Podcast - Intermediate Chinese

After the opening of China to the rest of the world in 1978 and the enormous progress its economy made during the last 40 years, are old traditional Chinese superstitions still firmly ingrained in it's young people's life? Eileen and Jonas got together to discuss this issue.
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this is actually more relevant than you may know. Basically the CCP had a HUGE anti-ghost campaign in the 1960s-1970s, before you were born, to prevent murders and suicides, which appear to have stopped, thankfully. Meanwhile, most recently, Xi Jin Ping is trying to do sinicization of religions etc. i.e. to come to terms with religious ideas (they arent all about crusades jihads and witchhunts). Really looking forward to your lesson!

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[@dvdv475]

In the Netherlands (Holland); it will bring bad luck when walking under ladder, sneezing can mean tomorrow will be nice weather. Cross fingers is hoping it will turn out fine. Knock on unpainted wood if you said something and you want it to turn out right. (Do not do this on painted wood, this will have reverse effect.) Most people i know will not take this very serious, but grew up with this knowing. From your list I only knew the umbrella.

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Thanks as always!

[@JagoIndonesia]

很喜欢你们的频道，内容丰富多样。教育价值很高非常，这是学中文快速进步的频道❤

[@kantnergirl08]

我很喜歡聽你們關於迷信的博客！很有意思！非常有意思。我個人不讓迷信控制我人生。我不信。我也不讓恐懼 （fear）控制我行為，無論多大或小。我知道每一個人有自己的想法，但我人生過的很好，從來沒注意這些迷信。都是在人的頭腦裡，還有文化裡面的吧。除非證據能夠清楚證明某個迷信。。。。。迷信就是一種推測。就是人編出來的，為了紓解或解釋人生不幸的事

[@hamza-325]

Walking under the ladder, opening an umbrella inside the house, and breaking the glass of a photo frame are international superstitions that I heard from some eldery people in my country (Algeria) then I found out that many people around the world have the same beliefs!

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每晚都听你的博客啊💯

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这是我最喜欢的中文频道❤

[@whowantsusernames]

Nice to see Jonas back, and interesting topic! Please bring Gwen and Yifei back soon too!

[@karimedinburgh]

awesome share big like

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谢谢跟我们分享你的好好的视频

[@StratosFair]

Loving these podcasts as always, you always find interesting topics to discuss ! I was curious if you could make an episode about climate change ? I'm really curious to know what is the overall opinion/awareness on this matter in China

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又一次看你的博客🥺🫶🏻 又一次想说非常感谢你啊🥺

[@karogod]

你们俩真很有趣啊

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这个视频很好看，谢谢你们都努力工作，特别是字幕，视频有中文和英文和拼音字幕是比较难找到的。对于迷信我觉得很多年轻人还相信它们，说实在的，在美国有很多年轻人相信迷信。这是好不好？我不知道。

[@kollinbyrne7150]

as for the specific superstitions, there are the more religious ones I won't go into, however there are also some silly ones. like, throwing salt over your shoulder and knocking on wood to avoid bad luck. refusing to walk under ladders, thinking black cats or black animals in general are "bad omens" or signal bad luck. i have a thing about not wanting to use forks with bent tongs because i feel weird about it - could be a superstition! i don't think anyone else feels that way though lol

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[@Muniza-bh9zx]

21:03 我们巴基斯坦人也有类似的说法，不过是反过来：右眼跳财，左眼跳灾

[@silverchairsg]

I guess with the widespread popularity of bubble tea, the phobia against drinking cold water/drinks is fading. Though bubble tea's unhealthy AF actually, with all the artificial chemicals, toppings and sugar.

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又学到中文新知识又搞笑。🙏👍

[@Maranna95]

07:28 why is 分别 used here?

[@noe.arboleda]

Eileen 老师，这个视频太搞笑了😂😂😂。笑死了😂😂😂

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7:25 这是什么电影？

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您好老师🥰，我是越南人， 我碰到看看您的视频，您说到中国传统文货，真有意思！🤩，但是您可以把它翻译成越南语吗？我希望能达到完全看得懂。为了我刚学习汉语可能把我的句子让您难得懂，因为我的语法还都不准确。真不好意思🥹

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非常感谢您 ❤❤❤

[@tomigrgicevic]

To understand what this guy is saying I suppose you must be at the level HSK 6 and you don't need to watch tutorials to learn Chinese any more. But nevertheless, Eileen you are great teacher and thank you so much for the incredible job you do in general.

[@MrExasperation]

I like the more challenging speakers. Eileen rephrases what they say and asks good follow up questions that make it easy to follow the conversation - even if I don't understand everything. It's important to be exposed to full-speed native Chinese early on! You don't have to understand all of it. But you need to get used to the rhythm and speed people actually talk at, outside the classroom.

[@irene1150]

the guy pronounces certain words differently (and might sound odd in your ears) because he somewhat speaks in a dialect, which i believe had nothing to do with hsk level since they don’t teach you dialects. i can’t place what region though

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He's from Jiangxi province.@@irene1150

[@JK-ji3kl]

Probably but even at very low levels you can distinguish the words because they're all transliterated and subtitled! Good practice

[@goldreverre]

He's a mumbler and also speaks fast and colloquial. Very hard to follow. Eileen is much easier to understand.

[@williamkauffman5745]

🙏

[@user-gg4nc6hr2c]

❤

[@Jeroeny]

Is it literally the twitching of the eye? Or when I would rub my left eye. Chinese people also relate it with fortune? Maybe to a lesser extent?

[@rahulsingh7508]

Since our blood is already red, how could we be unlucky?

[@jameshickey3219]

对不起我说汉语说的很糟糕，所以我必须练习更多。谢谢给我们视频帮我们练习，非常有用！这个视频很好意思！我没听过眼皮跳的迷信，如果我的眼皮跳的话，我要注意哪边的眼睛跳着 哈哈！谢谢！

[@zjsopro]

左眼凶，右眼吉。科学来说眼皮跳是用眼过度，需要注意休息一下

[@wiikends]

I strongly feel that depending on the country some superstitions are true but wont apply to someone who didnt grow up with that countries culture

[@user-hp5bc5cy2l]

8:25 搞笑！

[@leiaheis3425]

4:15

[@laogui2425]

Nage Jonas yiding shi nanfangde, bu hui shuo 'sh'. Wo you yige pengyou changchang zai shuo 'susan suo, susan suo, susan suo' suoyi houlai zai wen ta 'nage Susan shi shei ya?' huida ‘Susan？不是名字， 是：书上说‘ 哈哈 后来明白了！我的朋友就是浙江的，来自宁波，平时在讲上海话。

[@Ben-os7pm]

我听说yige迷信，有酒窝的人真会喝酒。这个对不对？

[@alexesperanto]

之前我给中国人礼物，我用google找迷信哈哈哈

[@hy02.02]

third time 😊

[@maldoror4035]

在法国，人们开玩笑说迷信会招来厄运。

[@jimmychin8313]

关于吃鱼，可以去掉脊椎到达第二半

[@Furansowakun]

在法国如果你看到黑色的猫的话，就是倒霉，不好的意义

[@johnlopez2028]

You speak to fast damnnit! 😅. Challenging practice 👍🏻

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