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You may already know 2018 is the year of the dog. You may also know the Chinese animal zodiac is a repeating cycle of 12 years, with each year being represented by an animal. People believe that the 12

Using ‘mouth luck’ to reverse a taboo may be done through associating words with their homophones (homo=same; phone=sound). It may also be done through the use of antonyms (anti=opposite; onym=name) of

Using a good luck word/expression (like the idiom 有始有终 ‘accomplishing a task from the beginning to the end’ in the earlier story) to name or describe a regular situation or behavior is called 口彩 ‘month

In our global village, more and more attention has been given to cross-culture communication. More and more people realize that learning a foreign culture is as important as, if not more important than,