Drum Tower tourist sign, Beijing: "As a cultural relice touring place, it opens to the domestic and foreign visitors." |
Billboard ad in Beijing: "Pocari Sweat" - mmm, tasty! |
Warning sign in the Forbidden City, Beijing: "Don't fall down" |
Street ad in Beijing: "That person is according to the clothing." |
Sign at the Great Wall: "Forty Topping Tourist Attractions of China" |
At the Ming Tombs (a treasure trove of Chinglish): "The age were surpass advanced the building years of Dingling." |
Warning sign at the Ming Tombs: "Thunder storm weather / Do not use mobile phone" |
Warning sign at the Ming Tombs: "Please according to priority for visitace" |
Warning sign at the Ming Tombs: "Luxuriant grassland please don't trample" |
Warning sign at the Ming Tombs: "Policman's cue please takes care of your own property prevent to lose" |
At Beijing's airport: "Congratulations to the recovery use of Terminal 1" |
Communist slogan on a billboard in Xian (and it's bilingual, too!): "Treasure our land resources, construct our beautiful homeland" |
At the Terracotta Warriors museum - clearly the result of communist 5-year plans: "Continuing excavation / The excavation of No. 1 vault is still going on as planned" |
At the Terracotta Warriors museum - attempt #1: "Fire exting atsher box" |
At the Terracotta Warriors museum - attempt #2: "Fire extingaisher" |
At the Hot Springs in Xian: notice the curious placement of the exit sign... |
At the Banpo Museum in Xian: "The detailed and lively portrayal of the rural life is a window to know the farmer's here." |
On a trash can at Guilin's airport: "Recycling / Unrecycling" |
Sign at Guilin's airport: "P for airport" (obviously meant to indicate airport parking) |
Store in Yangshou: "Spider Man Climbing - The name you can trust" |
Sign at a massage parlor in Yanghsou: "Masassage" (Cute girl!) |
Sign at the Elephant Trunk Hill Park in Guilin: "Life calls green, Human needs blue sky / Environment protection / Everyone is responsible" (Beautiful!) |
On a stone at a park in Guilin (2nd variation): "Life calls green, human needs blue sky / Environment protection / Everone is responsible" |
Sign at a hill in Guilin: "Danger! Cameras forbid to climb up an orer" |
Sign at a hill in Guilin: "This clace dangerou snes strictly Trohibit stan" |
At a park in Guilin: the Ten Don'ts |
At Guilin's airport: "Bookstore for sale IC card" |
Store ad near the Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai: "Be priced in gram" |
Sign in the Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai: "Bi Grockery" (Push the 'G' next to 'Bi' and you'll get it.) |
On a store near the Yuyuan Garden, Shanghai: "Old City Foodstuff" |
At a vendor in Shanghai: "Fresh water pearl and sea water pearl / Wholesale retails fake penalizees thousand" |
On the back of the almond snack we received on a domestic flight: "Consume before: 365 days", also: "Address: in the middle section of Anfeng Road" |
WARNING! Not everything that looks Chinglish is Chinglish! For example, you'd think that this news pamphlet has blatantly misprinted its own title "Changing Times". The truth is, this pamphlet was published in the Changning district. (However, this didn't stop the editors to add plenty of Chinglish text inside.) |
The magazine published by China Eastern airlines (passenger edition No. 144) was another treasure trove of Chinglish that helped
make the 13 hour cross-Pacific flight from LAX to Shanghai more enjoyable. Some examples:
- page 118: "He was ever a painter in the army and flied for a period as a pilot. He has a very sensible sense to colors the same as to flight. [...] He is an old hand at fishing. When wind blows gently and water ripples, it is the good time for fishing that he will never lose. His skill of angling is terrific, he lifts the fishing rod if only the lotus leaf moves slightly and angles a fish. So his beloved dog 'baby' on waiting will have a nice meal."
- page 64: caption for a picture of a flower: "Girls more beautiful in green leaves."
- page 40: picture caption: "The leaves of tree are becoming yellow from green, with boundless cycle of life."
- page 138: article about fashion: "The dress release was quite magnificent and unique full of extravagant atmosphere, which greatly shocked and attracted you."
- page 128: about traveling: "Maybe travel is just a kind of experience, in which there are various feelings that fun is only the general description of them. Each traverel may have his own opinion on in what way it is funny."
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