Djen_sinchau

Nihao, world! 你好:-D

I'm Chen 陳 (family name, or Djen pronounced in Wu dialect) from CHINA. My first name is Xingchao (or Sinchau) and it is interesting to find that "Xin chào" in Vietnamese just means Hello.

I live in Wuxi or Nankin in Jiangsu Province in East China.
I opened the account during junior high and now I'm for my master degree on Chinese ancient culture.
I am kind of asexual meanwhile homoromantic. My boyfriend and me now study in Tokyo.

*Of course, any postcards are welcome. And what really matters is the words u write down.
You can tell me about ur life, ur story, or recommend something to read. Who is ur favourite writer?
If u don't know what to say, just introduce the card, write down some traditional food u cannot live without, birds u can see, or sayings of wisdom in ur mother tongue.
Besides, u are welcome to ask me something about Chinese culture.
Thank u for sharing~

I don't mind handmade cards (but no ads), like the photo u took.
If you don't know what to send, some suggestions:

-Birds. Fish. Butterflies. Rabbit cards are welcome, since my parents and I all were born in the year of rabbit (solar-lunar calendar).
For users from Russia, though 5 years have past, I am still a fan of Zabivaka, the mascot of 2018 FIFA.
-Artifacts, clothes, vintages, old items. Museum cards.
-Recipes.
-Cards of any kind of art works, oil painting, sculputure, collage, photography, etc.
-Modernistic architecture / Historic buildings (The local church & temple & mosque and so on.) / Domestic residential buildings.
-Combination of nature and human creation.
-Upcoming Festival. I would love to get birthday cards / wishes in January, and Halloween, Christmas, etc. cards in their respective months.

Also I collect used stamps, bookmarks, feather and coins.
If u collect Chinese stamps, hold a UV flashlight, and the hidden beauty will be found.

Have a nice day.

I love reading. 【Something about Chinese modern literature】
-If u want to know something about China, books by Lin Yutang are great (written in English and aimed at telling stories to introduce Chinese culture), like Moment in Peking or The Gay Genius: The Life and Times of Su Tungpo.
-If u have an interest in Japan, the Chinese writer Yu Dafu is a good choice. You can get to know the complex Sino-Japanese relationship (and how the history influenced the writing of a foreign student) in early 20th century through his fiction. His prose, like Autumn in Peiping, shares the same aesthetic essence with Chinese paintings.
-Fortress Besieged by Ch’ien Chung-shu and Eileen Chang's works explore deep into the mind of Chinese petty bourgeois in Shanghai.
-Meanwhile the Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan writes more about rural areas in a style similar to magical (hallucinatory) realism.
-I also recommend the authoress Xiao Hong, who died young. Her works narrate birth and death like a child, purely but also crulelly.

(4/1/2024)