Is your girl friend really jiao2 qing in life?

Mr. Tony, a crazy Chinese learner online from Britain, has studied Chinese language and culture in mandarin hanbridge learning online platform for years. Since he had come to China, and lived here for a long time. He had a Chinese girl friend whose English is really poor and does not have much leisure time to learn. There has been a problem that Tony always has difficulty in conversing with her girl friend due to language distinction. Tony just does not understand a daily Chinese phrase jiao2 qing. In today’s article, our Chinese teachers of hanbridge Chinese online learning class will present and share something about the phrase.

Jiao2 qing1 should be written as 矫情. Each word has different major meaning respectively, such as being argumentative, unreasonable, dishonestly, and posturing at some times. The word jiao2 means the pretence and dishonesty. The other word qing2 means the true emotion of oneself. Therefore, the jiao2 qing means idea that someone wants to reach his or her own aim thus to behave innocent, indifferent and even tricky. Chinese Girl friend is always pretended to pose as liar who usually does not like to expose her real feelings or ideas. This kind of situation can be described as jiao2 qing. So, Tony, be smart and do not misunderstand her by accident.

Let us turn your attention to the phrase’s origin in the course of Chinese history in today’s Chinese hanbridge class. During west Han Dynasty, the famous Confucian believer dong3 zhong4 shu1 are old and sad. He always felt so regretful that his political opportunity was a too short time for his intelligence and capability could not be used to the full. He often sighed with a deep breath and wrote an article called fu4, a form of literature in ancient times, which was named 士不遇shi4 bu2 yu4. In this way, he wanted to express his sadness and disappointment. At the end of the article, he wrote a few sentences indicating that dong3 zhong4 zhu1 had always observed principle of justice and fairness, willing to live along to give help to other people.

Those sentences’ meaning went like this: he would like to be himself with honesty and integrity rather than be dishonest for a few benefits. Nowadays, people used the phrase jiao2 qing1, to express someone who is argumentative and spoiled.  

After learned this phrase of jiao2 qing, Mr. Tony felt very surprised and happy. In the first place, his girl friend always played trick on him. What is more, the meaning of jiao2 qing stands for two opposite sides with critics and compliments. Its meaning can change along with speaker’s tone and emotions. Let us take a good purpose of a case for an example, if you consider a girl’s speech to be jiao2 qing in a warm-hearted mind, this demonstrates that this girl is very lovely and smart in personality.

Via this vivid case, we hope that most of you as Chinese learners studying in hanbridge mandarin lesson will master how to use this phrase and when to use it in Chinese daily conversations.

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