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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Monday, 19 August 2019 09:01
On the morning of August 13, several staff members were carefully examining the damage of crops in the landscape farmland area of Daren Village in Jiangbei. After repairs, the affected area in the scenic area was basically restored and opened.
“During the typhoon, more than 300 acres of landscape farmland were damaged and flooded in the scenic area. They are mainly in agricultural boutique areas, rice fields and picking areas. Since these farmlands are mainly used for tourists to visit and pick, we are busy investigating these crops and replant crops on damaged farmland as soon as possible these days.” Gu Chaoqun, a staff member of Daren Village Scenic Area, said.
Read more: Daren Village scenic area reopened...
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Monday, 19 August 2019 08:55
“People would rather listen to Suzhou people quarrel than listen to Ningbo people talk." This proverb says that Ningbo dialect is not so gentle and difficult to understand. As early as more than 160 years ago, the founder of Ningbo No. 3 Middle School and the British sinologist, Bob Yi, wrote a magical book. It is said that foreigners can learn to speak Ningbo dialect in six months. This is the earliest Ningbo-dialect text in Roman alphabet "Yinyi Dialect" collected by Zhenhai District Archives.
It is reported that the museum has collected the electronic version of the book. The whole book consists of 7 pages. Except for the first line which is the Chinese character “Yin Yi Dialect”, the rest are all Romanesque words, a total of 753. They are arranged in the rhyme order: a, ia, ang, iang, ao, iao, etc, with a total of 48 rhymes. Foreigners can learn all the Ningbo dialect syllables by reading them. Therefore, this book can be said to be the earliest existing lectures on the teaching of Pinyin in Ningbo.
The writer is probably the founder of Ningbo No. 3 Middle School Bob Yi.
In modern history, Ningbo was influenced by the West earlier, and the missionaries had a certain influence on Ningbo’s education, publishing,
Read more: Zhenhai District Archives collected...