{"id":40,"date":"2010-01-17T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T16:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/studying-abroad\/2010\/01\/17\/%e7%ac%ac%e4%ba%8c%e5%91%a8-chinese-wedding\/"},"modified":"2010-01-17T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T16:15:58","slug":"%e7%ac%ac%e4%ba%8c%e5%91%a8-chinese-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/2010\/01\/17\/%e7%ac%ac%e4%ba%8c%e5%91%a8-chinese-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"\u7b2c\u4e8c\u5468: Chinese Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">During the second week of my stay in Beijing, I had a chance to discover a part of the Chinese culture not available to every study-abroad student. Apart from my efforts to learn Mandarin and get to know the city, I did something very unique: I had the pleasure of participating in a traditional Chinese wedding celebration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This event took place in Zhuozhou City (<span lang=\"ZH-CN\" style=\"font-family:SimSun\">\u6dbf\u5dde\u5e02<\/span>) just outside of Beijing. In the company of my Beijing friends, I arrived in Zhuozhou on Saturday afternoon. We had a fantastic dinner with many Beijing dishes and I got to know the wedding couple as well as some of the guests. The actual celebration took place on Sunday morning. I was fascinated by all the different customs I was observing, but also a little bit nervous: my role at the ceremony was to read the official Chinese marriage certificate in front more than 200 wedding guests. Considering I&rsquo;ve been learning Mandarin for just two weeks, this was a very interesting task. My friend Li Xin (<span lang=\"ZH-CN\" style=\"font-family:SimSun\">\u674e\u6b23<\/span>) wrote the text in pinyin (a Romanized system for Mandarin pronunciation) the evening before the wedding. I practiced doing the best I could to get all the tones right (Mandarin is a tonal language.) The result can be seen in the video below. The wedding guests said that they were able to understand me, which I consider a huge success \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Overall, the wedding celebration was very different from the western weddings I attended, but it was very interesting and everybody was extremely friendly and hospitable. So far my time away from the Wabash campus has been eye-opening and truly unpredictable. Beijing as the capital of China is a great environment to learn the language. I am very thankful to Wabash for this opportunity and am also looking forward to all the things I will experience in the months to come, especially as my semester at Fudan University and my BD Medical internship start in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"427\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/wedding2(4).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/wedding2(2).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/wedding2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the second week of my stay in Beijing, I had a chance to discover a part of the Chinese culture not available to every study-abroad student. Apart from my efforts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-abroad","tag-china-filip-lempa"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/studyingabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}