My name is Siyu and I'm the creator of Tiny Eyes Comics, a webcomic series that shares Chinese culture through slices of everyday life.
A year ago, I published two collections of my comics on the differences between Chinese and Western culture (you can find it here and here on Bored Panda). For this post, I'm putting together a collection of my latest comics that touch upon Chinese family life from education to superstition, from mom to grandma.
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Love
Offering Help
Grandma
Chinese
Lucky Number "6"
hahaha 666 is a chinese lucky number but we americans think its cursed
... 'we americans'!? Shouts the rest of the world, which counts Christians everywhere
Load More Replies...Theres a story behind this and i want to know it please
Load More Replies...Same with 13... ugh... in my teens people thought I was trying to be all **cringe** edgy and cool and whatever by liking the number 13... Nooooo.... it's... actually... a lucky... number...
OOOH no this month of december is friday the 13th OOh "makes ghost moans" aah,13 is my lucky number so cant say anything really negative about it gonna watch black christmas yay
Load More Replies...The reason 666 is considered the "mark of the beast" is this. Man was created on the 6th day, putting that number 3 times (3 = the Trinity), is considered the anti-Christ. 7 is a Godly number as God rested the 7th day, blessed it and made it Holy. The 7th day, the Sabbath, = the "Seal of God."
Plot twist: it turns out that 666 was not a reference to "Satan" (who wasn't yet solidified as a concept at that time), but a coded reference to the Roman emperor Nero, who was persecuting Christians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast#Nero
in chinese we have an idiom called liu liu da shun which mean things will be going smoothly, especially money
Tally Marks
Seperation
One Point
Panda
Vegetarian
Cook Like Your Mom
Noodles
"I Love You"
Thanksgiving
Michelin
Intimacy
Kiss
Getting Married
I support this. If you can't afford a roof over your head, you're in no position to be proposing marriage. The way it looks, you're putting the responsibility of that roof on your partner, and that's not cool. Key note, when I say afford, I don't inherently mean own. I rented a room in a house for years before moving in my with my wife, but the point was that I paid for my own shelter. If I couldn't afford that much, I would never have asked her to marry me. My wellbeing should *never* be her responsibility.
Bargain Queen
Chinese Name
Old Customer
Move Out, Move In
Well we Filipinos are more often be with our parents until we get married and sometimes even if we are we still doesn't move out because we can't leave our parents behind.
Black Sesame
Fish Heads
Eat More = Love
Time Perception
New Year
Luck
Declining Gift
Fry Bread
Tobacco Packaging
In the US, not so long ago, smoking was promoted to pregnant women to help them "relax", and kids were marketed to with candy (fake) cigarettes..... It's simply 2 different eras in marketing, in 2 different countries, with 2 different goals in mind. One is to make money off of cigarettes, the other is to not have the health care system pay for the repercussions of smoking cigarettes.
Baby Tooth
Is there a reason for throwing it out the window? In my culture a tooth is put under the pillow for the tooth fairy to come and take in exchange for money or a trinket. Would be interesting to know about any others, too!
Surname
Eat Fruits
Why no fruit until 2 hrs after a meal? So you’ll eat all your food I guess?
I don't care where you're from, nobody can cook like Mom! Or Grandma! The recipe never turns out the same....
Unless you are from a long line of c**p cooks and not turning out the same is a good thing!
Load More Replies...In the end, I didn't see much differences with my Serbian/French culture, here. :)
High five. As a Koreanised Italo-Croatian, I can tell you there's lots of similarities between Europe and Asia. ♥
Load More Replies...as a Chinese person, these are so true (at least for my family)! Keep it up!
I enjoyed the comics very much. Asian traditions are very nice. Americans are losing too many time tested traditions to laziness and apathy. It’s a shame.
I don't care where you're from, nobody can cook like Mom! Or Grandma! The recipe never turns out the same....
Unless you are from a long line of c**p cooks and not turning out the same is a good thing!
Load More Replies...In the end, I didn't see much differences with my Serbian/French culture, here. :)
High five. As a Koreanised Italo-Croatian, I can tell you there's lots of similarities between Europe and Asia. ♥
Load More Replies...as a Chinese person, these are so true (at least for my family)! Keep it up!
I enjoyed the comics very much. Asian traditions are very nice. Americans are losing too many time tested traditions to laziness and apathy. It’s a shame.