Dear members, as usual, I will be teaching one famous Chinese Tang Poem on our Monthly Mega event. I hope our members who're interested both in the language and in the culture can benefit a lot from Tang Poem --- the precious treasure from the ancient China. This month, the poem I'm teaching is one of the most famous ones that almost every Chinese know, the whole theme is to teach us to cherish the food (one of the traditional virtue in China):

mǐn nónɡ
悯 农

tánɡ cháo lǐ shēn
唐 朝 李 绅

chú hé rì dānɡ wǔ
锄 禾 日 当 午，
hàn dī hé xià tǔ
汗 滴 禾 下 土。
shuí zhī pán zhōnɡ cān
谁 知 盘 中 餐 ，
lì lì jiē xīn kǔ
粒 粒 皆 辛 苦。


The Pity for farmers


Farmers weeding at noon,
Sweat down the field soon.
Who knows food on a tray，
Thanks to their hard-working day.

Please RSVP on http://chinese.meetup... and I will see you all next monday!!!


Minnie


Location
Heavenly Bamboo Pavilion
10 E. 39th St. (5th Ave. & Madison) New York, NY 10016

Time:
Nov 2nd, 2009, Chinese Buffet from 7 p.m. till 9 p.m, and FREE Karaoke from 9 p.m. till 12 a.m.

*Admission is FREE with a suggested donation of $3
*$10 gets you a pair of chopsticks for the most genuine Chinese buffet outside of Chinatown representing (to gain admission to sit-down area inside, $10 for buffet is not necessary but purchasing at LEAST a drink IS, even if it's a soft drink!)
* FREE Karaoke afterwords upstairs