Comments for The Great China Quest

Comment on Challenge 14: ACCOMPLISHED! by Belinda

Belinda — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:58:05 +0000

you know, this kind of programs are very popular in China in that Summer, my family are the faithful fans for it. It seems that it first appeared in HNTV, and then widespread to other provinces. i really appreciated both of you cuz you really caught the lattest thing in that summer. Bravo!

Comment on Challenge 5: ACCOMPLISHED! by Belinda

Belinda — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:17:40 +0000

“These included waking up at 5am to chant prayers, playing drums and horns and visiting a local family who had recently suffered a bereavement.”
you mean you join the monks to chant for the one who died? Amazing! you must really experience the ritual custom of the chinese, and i think that local family are really surprised to see both of you, isn’t it?

Comment on Challenge 4: FAILED! by Belinda

Belinda — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:37:45 +0000

good guy! but i also want to know why another try in other cities?

Comment on Challenge 1: ACCOMPLISHED! by Belinda

Belinda — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:57:19 +0000

Funny!Indeed, Chinese people like to tell their fortunes. Just for me, sometimes i couldn’t decide what i will do or confuse what i want, i will go to temple and find some fortune teller outside to predict my fortune. some predict according to your birth, and some predict according to your hand. i think you can consult their words, but don’t believe in all the words. But some fortune teller is very bad, they will ask for very expensive fee, in that way, keep them away.

Comment on Challenge 15: FAILED! by Lloyd Lofthouse

Lloyd Lofthouse — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 03:06:03 +0000

I think by north, they mean where the people grow and eat wheat and other grains than rice probably north of the Great Wall.

I’ve heard or read that eating grain and oats seems to have helped the northern people to be taller.

Can you find out where the wheat and oat crops begin

Comment on TV Broadcast of the Obstacle Course Show by Laowai Chinese 老外中文 » Blog Archive » Stuff You Might Be Hearing: On the Bus

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:36:13 +0000

[...] to get a better recording in the future (although this one is from Changsha when we were doing our ridiculous challenge 14 and I don’t know when I’ll be back there again). If anyone else has an audio recording [...]

Comment on Challenge 10: FAILED! by Yi

Yi — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 07:24:05 +0000

It’s nice to see your videos here!

Comment on Challenge 13: ACCOMPLISHED! by Nick from ChineseTeachers.com

Nick from ChineseTeachers.com — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:51:40 +0000

I am so impressed by what you have done! Well done!

And you clearly experienced 缘分 [yuánfèn] when you met the same truck a second time.

Amazing!

Comment on Challenge 13: ACCOMPLISHED! by Andy

Andy — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:26:34 +0000

In fact, a lot of foreigners have tried hitch-hiking in China and even succedeed in their undertakings. For example, here are some phrases used by russian-speaking travelers: http://muhranoff.ru/411/ and here is a topic where people discuss how to communicate with a driver when your calligraphy teacher is not within reach: http://www.bpclub.ru/index.php?showtopic=8271&st=80 I’m not sure if you can read russian, but chinese should be a piece of cake for you

Comment on TV Broadcast of the Obstacle Course Show by Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:14:48 +0000

Well done! Now you’ve just gotta see if you can get a spot on “非成无扰”.;)