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Niu talks about her memories of growing up in a small town with her older brother and his best friend.

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Niu explains how her brother, Dun, and "Four Eyes" started to get hooked on video games.

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Niu talks about the favorite place Dun and "Four Eyes" loved to spend their time.

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Micro-film Wan Da De Part 4

"Four Eyes" usually avoids confrontation- until one day.

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Micro-film Wan Da De Part 5

"Four Eyes" leaves his friends behind and finds a girlfriend in the city. Refusing to work for his father's company, he begins an unfruitful job search.

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After failing to find work and watching his girlfriend drive off with her director, "Four Eyes" decides to work for his father's company.

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"Four Eyes" is now a manager at his father's company while his best friend, Dun, is still hot and heavy into video games, working at a game shop and commentating on games as a hobby.

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Dun is gearing up for his first television appearance as a commentator for Supreme Entertainment.

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Dun is devastated when his very own script is given away and his lines delivered by someone else.

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By a stroke of luck, Dun reunites with long-lost "Four Eyes."

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Dun and "Four Eyes" catch up at a local restaurant and reminisce about old times.

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Unable to find their favorite game anywhere in town, Dun and "Four Eyes" decide to take matters into their own hands.

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Dun is looking for new challengers while "Four Eyes" has his eye on the future. Niu is now teaching young children.

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Listen to this make-believe story about how the twelve animals were selected to be the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. What terrible thing did the rat do to get its bad reputation and why do cats hate rats?!

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This story is about Han Prime Minister Cao Cao's six-year-old son, Cao Chong (196 to 208 B.C.). The theory this little boy used to weigh an elephant is similar to Archimedes' Principle (287 to 212 B.C.), which is that the weight of an object submerged in fluid is equal to the weight of the displaced fluid.

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This well-known story commonly used to educate children on the values of courtesy and fraternal love involves four-year-old Kong Rong giving up some larger pears to his older and younger brothers. Still employed in current times, this text has been used for elementary education since the Song Dynasty.

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This idiom indicates that something seemingly bad may turn out to have been a good thing in the end, a blessing in disguise. The story in the video explains it quite well. And, while the idiom can also have the opposite meaning (a good thing becoming something bad), the former is more frequently used.

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There are many different Chinese idioms out there that people use today in modern Chinese. "Dui Niu Tan Qin" literally means, "Playing the Zither for a Cow." It means that some people will just never understand or appreciate certain things.

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This video concerns one of the stories from the very famous Chinese novel, "Journey to the West." It informs us from where the idiom, "to wolf down your food," originates.

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This Chinese legend sheds light on the origin of the famous saying, "How you treat others is how you will be treated." It involves the famous and influential Chinese philosopher, Mencius, giving sage advice to a king during the Warring States period.

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This idiom is used as a metaphor for the punishment of a person to alert others to correct their behavior.

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Learn the story behind the saying, "To kill two birds with one stone."

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Hear the story from which the saying, "Hun Shui Mo Yu" came about. It means to take advantage of a chaotic time or deliberately create confusion to obtain benefits.

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Learn the story of Bole and the idiom derived from his tale.

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