YOLO

The Chinese culture has been shaped by its dramatic history and traditions over thousands of years, and the proverbs are one of those best examples, for many of these proverbs and slangs come with a story behind them, but today we are going to introduce a new phrase that might be a little bit different from what you have known about the Chinese proverb or slang according to those what are taking the Mandarin Chinese languagelessons,.

According to learning Mandarin, recently this is a new word called YOLO, that is really very popular among teenagers and learning Mandarin online says that YOLO is the acronym for "you only live once.” it means that one should enjoy life, even if that entails taking risks; you can explain it in this way, size the day, and do not think too much and just take whatever it comes. Some youth have already taken this as their lives motto. For teenagers such as hats and t-shirt this phrase and acronym are used in merchandise. The proper interpretation of this acronym is to 及时行乐ji2 shi2 xing2 le4.

What’s your opinion about this kind of life attitude? According to the Chinese traditional and modern culture, these types of attitudes are not new. The concept from Chinese culture is most similar to carpe diem and it is part of ancient Taoist thought pioneered by Laozi. He was a well-known thinker and a great philosopher. He thought that human beings should live according to their reality. The most natural path is the path of least resistance, which leads to a happy life. As you can see, the ancient Chinese Laozi was a member of the Yolo group! What do you think?

So now you have learned a new phrase, and next time when you or your friends are bummed out, you can say:”Do not be too hard on yourself, you should try to be a Yolo person”,

This is the introduction about the new phase YOLO, if you want to start learning to speak Mandarin, please follow my posts and hope you have fun in learning Chinese