老北京人：weather forecasts

New Beijingers: 天气预报 is Chinese for "weather forecast," when the guy on the news tries to guess whether it will rain or shine the next day.

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老北京人：天气预报 is Chinese for "weather pronouncement," when the guy on the news calls over to the military dudes shooting photodecomposing silver iodide missiles into the atmosphere to hear when and how much rain will happen.

老北京人："Old Beijing Folks"

Driving home tonight in pelting rain on top of a motorbike that seemed to be disintegrating underneath me, I had an idea for another thread. 老北京人 lao beijing ren is Chinese for "old Beijing folks," folks who know how it really is in the North Capital of China. Hopefully, LBJR posts can shed some light on how your perceptions about things in China change as you spend more and more time here.