Notes and Tools on Chinese Language and Culture

Are you interested in learning Chinese language and culture? These notes and tools may help you:

Online Chinese Calendar - Mobile Version This is the first mobile version of Online Chinese Calendar in Chinese. It offers a monthly Chinese calendar well designed for mobile browsers. The layout is fixed at 320x480 pixels to match most commonly used mobile device screens. Try to use it to find out when is the next Chinese New Year day.

Chinese-English On-line Dictionary This Chinese-English Dictionary allows you to search entries by Chinese words or English words. Each matching entry is displayed with 4 fields: simplified characters, traditional characters, pinyin presentations, and English definitions. It is a great tool for Chinese people to learn the English language and Westerners to learn the Chinese language.

Chinese-Pinyin On-line Translator This Chinese-Pinyin Translator allows you to convert a short Chinese character string into Chinese Mandarin pinyin presentations with sound clips of pronunciations. It's a nice tool to help you to read Chinese characters with correct Mandarin pronunciations.

Best Chinese Music This is a collection of best and well-known Chinese music works selected by the author based on popularity ratings. Many of them are available on the Internet for free download and online play/view.

Best Chinese Movies This is a collection of best Chinese movies selected by the author. Most of them are award winners of film competitions and film festivals. Many of them are available on the Internet for free download and online play/view.

Best Chinese TV Series This is a collection of best Chinese TV series selected by the author based on popularity ratings. Many of them are available on the Internet for free download and online play/view.

GB2312 Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples This book describes the GB2312 character set. It provides a mapping table of all GB2312 characters, native codes, corresponding Unicode codes and UTF8 codes. The Java program source code that produces the mapping table is also included. Topics include character set, Chinese, encoding, Java, GB2312 to Unicode, Unicode to GB2312, UTF8.

GB2312 Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples (with GB2312 Encoding in Simplified Chinese) 本书开始部分介绍了国标2312GB2312字符集和它的几种编码，其余部分列出了GB2312编码和Unicode编码相互转换的表格制作程式。本书还同时收录了GB2312编码到Unicode编码的转换表，以及Unicode编码到GB2312编码的转换表。

Building Chinese Web Sites using PHP This PHP tutorial book is a collection of notes and sample codes on building Chinese Web sites with PHP scripts. It can be used as a tutorial guide for beginners. Topics include installing PHP and Tomcat; creating PHP pages; displaying pages in Chinese; saving Chinese characters to MySQL database; fetching Chinese characters from MySQL database.

Chinese Calendar Algorithm - Year 1901 to 2100 This book introduces you the Gregorian calendar and the Chinese Calendar. A Java program is provided to convert dates from the Gregorian calendar to the Chinese calendar. This program can also be used to print out Chinese calendars for 200 years between 1901 and 2100.

Chinese Calendar Algorithm - Year 1901 to 2100 (in Simplified Chinese) 本书开始部份简单地介绍了日历的基本原理，一些天文数据和公式，同时也介绍了目前中国使用的公历和农历的基本推算规则。中间部份列出了一个中国农历推算原程式。这个程式采用了压缩数据，可以用来推算二百年农历日期。本书的其余部份收录了由这个程式制作的二百年年历。

Chinese Calendar Algorithm - Year 1901 to 2100 (in Traditional Chinese) 本書開始部份簡單地介紹了日歷的基本原理，一些天文數據和公式，同時也介紹了目前中國使用的公歷和農歷的基本推算規則。中間部份列出了一個中國農歷推算原程式。這個程式采用了壓縮數据，可以用來推算二百年農歷日期。本書的其余部份收錄了由這個程式制作的二百年年歷。

Chinese Festivals Introduction to Chinese traditional festivals like Chinese New Year, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Laba Festival, etc.

Lucky Wedding Dates Calendar Wedding calendars to help you finding your lucky wedding date.

Chinese Calendars in PDF Nicely formatted Chinese calendars in PDF in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters.