Someone says that we Chinese are clever, Chinese overseas usually gained full marks in the examination, I don’t agree full marks equals clever, I think clever means the comprehensive ability.

The most Chinese believe examination is most important for students, so Chinese pupil lack of physical exercise in the school often.

I asked my little brother for his sixth-grade curriculum, there has three sport classes per week, two music classes per week, and only one art class per week.

Chinese pupil lack of physical exercise in the school.

Look at the curriculum, the classes of Chinese, English and Math are the major classes everyday, my little brother just a kid, he should be filled with sports, music and arts in his life. How painful it is.

Another suprise is the Polity Class, pupil, can little boy (ten or thirteen years old) understand what is polity? Why there is no history and geography of our motherland, but two polity classes per week, I am afraid I can not accept that true.

Do you want to know your Chinese zodiac? Here is a tool to help you find your Chinese zodiac. Click here to find out your Chinese zodiac now.

I blogged The 12 Chinese zodiac animals and got a lot of questions about it. So I am blogging the part II of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals.

The Chinese zodiac follows the Chinese calendar, the switch over date is the Chinese New Year, not January 1 as in the Gregorian calendar. Therefore, a person who was born in January or early February has the sign of the previous year.

For example, if a person was born in January 1970, his or her element would still be Yin Earth, not Yang Metal.

Similarly, although 1990 was called the year of the horse, anyone born from January 1 to January 26, 1990 was in fact born in the Year of the Snake (the sign of the previous year), because the 1990 Year of the Horse did not begin until January 27, 1990.

For this reason, many online sign calculators (and Chinese restaurant place mats) will give a person the wrong sign if he/she was born in January or early February.

The start of a new Zodiac is also celebrated on Chinese New Year along with many other customs.

1948-01-31(Pig): Chinese year animal for born on 31st january 1948
1959-04-01(Pig): april 1 1959 Chinese animal
1960-05-12(Rat): may 12 1960 Chinese birth animal
1961-04-12(Ox): april 12 1961 in Chinese zodiac
1961-09-11(Ox): sept 11,1961 Chinese zodiac
1965-12-24(Snake): Chinese animal sign+december 24, 1965
1969-03-02(Rooster): the zodiac animal for march 2 1969
1970-09-04(Dog): Chinese zodiac 1970 sept 4th
1970-12-01(Dog): Chinese zodiac december 1 1970
1973-01-10(Rat): what is my Chines zodiac jan,10 1973
1973-03-12(Ox): 12 march 1973 Chinese zodiac
1973-12-24(Ox): Chinese zodiac, december 24 1973
1974-11-08(Tiger): Chinese zodiac born 8th november 1974
1977-08-30(Snake): Chinese animal for the 30 august 1977
1978-05-05(Horse): I was born on may 5 1978, what is my zodiac animal?
1978-09-30(Horse): september 30th 1978 Chinese zodiac
1982-12-11(Dog): Chinese zodiac, december 11 1981
1983-09-24(Pig): Chinese zodiac 24 september 1983
1983-12-12(Pig): 12 dec 1983 + Chinese zodiac
1984-12-12(Rat): zodiac december 12 1984
1985-01-02(Rat): what is my Chinese zodiac for january 2nd 1985
1986-04-04(Tiger): april,4th,1986 Chinese zodiac
1986-07-04(Tiger): july 4th 1986 Chinese zodiac
1986-08-11(Tiger): august 11, 1986 Chinese zodiac
1986-08-15(Tiger): august 15th 1986 Chinese zodiac
1987-03-02(Rabbit): march 12, 1987 - Chinese zodiac
1987-12-30(Rabbit): december 30th 1987 Chinese zodiac
1988-12-12(Dragon): what Chinese zodiac is decemeber 12 1988
1988-12-15(Dragon): Chinese zodiac december 15 1988
1990-03-12(Horse): Chinese zodiac march 12 1990
1990-07-04(Horse): Chinese zodiac 4th of july 1990
1990-12-02(Horse): 1990 december 2 Chinese zodiac
1991-01-04(Horse): january 4th 1991 Chinese animal
1992-04-08(Monkey): Chinese zodiac april 8th 1992
1993-03-15(Rooster): Chinese zodiac march 15 1993
1993-07-08(Rooster): what is my Chinese zodiac sign? july 8th 1993
1996-12-04(Rat): Chinese zodiac december 4th 1996
2007-12-24(Pig): Chinese zodiac dec 24th, 2007
2012-12-12(Dragon): Chinese zodiac on december 12 2012

Hundreds of visitors come to my blog from google everyday, their keywords are interesting and funny. These keywords touch on a wide range of Chinese, the most of my blog’s subjects grow out of them.

Some keywords and my answers be showed here today:

april,4th,1986 chinese zodiac - This day’s Chinese zodiac is tiger. There are a lot of questions about the special day of Chinese zodiac, I will developed a tool for it, like the weather tool on this blog’s sidebar.

attributes chinese zodiac cat - There are 12 animals of Chinese zodiac, there is no cat. The 12 animals are rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, pig.

nc 17 and r rated lust caution differences - There are no differing pictures on these versions. Lust caution is a good movie, strong recommendation.

olympus camera u760 waterproof? - Yeah, I think the biggest characteristic of u760 that is waterproof. I like this digtal camera very much, it in my pocket everyday.

temperature at beijing march 2008 - No one can answer this question, now date is February 2008. The answer will be answered in 10 days at least.

jie jie hao (assembly), movie - I never heart about “jie jie hao”, the assembly named “ji jie hao” in Chinese pinyin spell. It is not a good movie in my view. CJ7 (chang jiang 7#) is a low rank movie in my view too.

birthday tail chinese culture - Birthday tail? I never heart about it, I don’t know what is the birthday tail of Chinese culture.

Viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans. But in fact, they are very delicious, I like them very much.

In China, a lot of snacks are made in the viscera, for examples, Quick-Fried Tripe, Fried Liver, etc.

The duck liver and sheep viscera are two delicious too, people would like relish them and drink firewater in winter.

Duck Liver: The geese or ducks are forced-fed until their livers expended to 20 times their normal size. Many of them died during forced feeding.

It is a very cruel way of obtaining the livers of these animals.

Sheep Viscera: Sheep’s intestines, liver and the other viscera with soy sauce, mashed garlic, starch, aniseed etc as seasonings. These foods really delicious and expensive.

Last weekend I looked up L.Jianyong, we were roommates when we were students in the university. He is post graduate student in Beijing University of Chemical Technology.

We talked a long time, because it is donkey’s years since we have seen each other. Then, jianyong asked my blog, I opened computer and run FireFox, typed the URL… I found the blog can not be opened.

Night, I search about the survey of China Internet network bandwidth, the study surprised me:

There are 5 major internet service providers, China Telecom and CNC are most commonly used of all, CERNET for special educational institutions. CMCC and China unicom specially serviced for mobile devices. Their network bandwidth are:

- China Telecommunications Corporation (China Telecom): 135,321MB
- China Netcom Group Corporation (CNC): 89,665MB
- China Education and Research Network (CERNET): 4,796MB
- China Mobile (CMCC): 5,750MB
- China unicom 3,652MB

So, it’s not difficult to understand that why I can’t open my blog in the university.

Comparison between The rank of most popular softwares from guge.com (China) and The rank of most popular softwares from download.com (Foreign), concluded these facts:

Sameness:

1. Every one likes chatting: Chinese likes QQ and MSN, and the foreigner likes ICQ and mIRC;

2. Downloading is another important application: Chinese prefer Thunder, and the foreigner prefer BitComet;

3. You have to installing security softwares before surf the Internet: Rising, 360safe, KasperSky commonly be installed in China, and ad-aware, avg anti-virus, avast, spybot be installed in foreigners;

Unlikeness:

4. Google Earth and Great Wisdom are appeared in Chinese popular softwares: Google Earth is a science software, Great Wisdom is a stock investment analytics;

5. Chinese more like watch movies or online films in ppLive or baofeng, ppLive is a online media player, baofeng is media player;

6. Foreigners more like search and download MP3 files from internet in LimeWire;

7. Foreigners more like decompress files in WinZip or WinRAR;

Original Data:

The rank of most popular softwares from guge.com (China):
top 1. qq - instant messaging
top 2. thunder - file sharing
top 3. msn - instant messaging
top 4. google earth - science
top 5. rising.com.cn - antivirus software
top 6. 360safe.com - spyware remover
top 7. Kaspersky Lab - antivirus software
top 8. great wisdom - stock investment analytics
top 9. baofeng - media player
top 10. pplive - online media player

The rank of most popular softwares from download.com (Foreign):
top 1. Ad-Aware 2007 - spyware remover
top 2. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition - antivirus software
top 3. LimeWire - MP3 finder
top 4. ICQ Chat - instant messaging
top 5. Avast Home Edition - antivirus software
top 6. BitComet - file sharing
top 7. WinZip - file compression
top 8. WinRAR - file compression
top 9. Spybot - spyware remover
top 10. mIRC - chat room