Me and my Chinese-speaking white friends went to Brooklyn Chinatown to practice our Mandarin, Cantonese, and the rare dialect of Fuzhounese (also known as Fuzhou dialect or Hokchew / Hock Chew ...

I FIRST heard the Fuzhou dialect when I was posted to Yong Peng in 1978. When my landlady spoke to me in the dialect, I was stunned, stumped and struck dumb by the alien sounds that seemed to come ...

Lin Hairong performs Fuzhou Pinghua - telling stories in the Fuzhou dialect - at the Yuye storytelling theater in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian province, June 6, 2013.

In Fuzhou dialect, deng is the homonym of ding, which means family member in Chinese. The act of sending a lantern is seen as a favorable symbol of sending a newborn family member.

As the number “three” sounds like “to give birth” in the Fuzhou dialect, the betrothal money for the bride's family usually include this number in the hope of having more children in the ...

An exhibition has kicked off at a gucuo in Fuzhou, East China’s Fujian Province, which explores rural revitalization efforts through the work of modern artists. Gucuo in Fuzhou dialect refers to ...

Its plain yet emotive lyrics, sung in the Fuzhou dialect, deliver a compelling portrayal of everyday rural life. Yihuang Opera, with a history of nearly 400 years, is recognized as a national ...