Do you know Chinese used to have a drink called Tusu Elixir on the Chinese New Year day? It was a very old tradition from the ancient China. We don't know exactly how to make Tusu Elixir now but there have been many legends about who invented this drink. This story is a legend about this drink and a famous doctor Sun Xi Miao in the Tang Dynasty. Sun Xi Miao was worshipped as the King of Medicine in old China and is still admired by doctors until today. The story takes place on the Chinese New Year Eve. Little Bean and Big Tom welcome Grandpa Sun for New Year. He shows them how to make a special herbal drink to keep them healthy all year. Grandpa Sun is so clever that even the Emperor wants him to be his own doctor. But Grandpa Sun is a good kind man and he prefers to use his skills to help poor people.
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Snowflake Books makes beautiful picture story books that are based on old Chinese legends, specially re-written in English for young children. The stories are warm and sympathetic and aim to introduce traditional Chinese life and wisdom to Western children. The stories are also shown in Chinese and special features help to introduce children easily to the Chinese language. These books are beautifully illustrated with water colour or traditional paper cutting style in English-Simplified Chinese format. All the books includes full pinyin text, an audio CD for the story to be read in both English and Chinese and an English-Chinese-pinyin vocabulary at the end.
