Monday, February 8, 2016

Chinese Loanword to Expand Your Vocabulary




Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Chinese New Year is the grandest traditional festival with many legends, traditions, taboos and festival food.
Feng shui
[fuhng shwey]
Feng shui is the Chinese art of creating harmonious surroundings that enhance the balance of yin and yang, or negative and positive forces in the universe. This term comes from the Chinese words literally meaning “wind” and “water.” Architects and designers have been using the principles of feng shui to help situate buildings and graves and arrange rooms since ancient times, though the word did not enter English until the late 1700s.

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