Miss China crowned Miss World 2007 中国小姐

Miss China crowned Miss World Pageant 2007 中国小姐获世界小姐冠军 

Chinese beauty Zhang Zilin takes the crown in the final round of contest of the Miss World Pageant 2007 Saturday in Sanya, a tourist resort of south China’s island province Hainan.

Today ChineseHour will help you learn the characters for “Miss China” and “Miss World” . Most young girls dream to become Miss World or Universe.

“Miss” — in Chinese, we say “xiao jie“, literally it means Little –Sister, xiao — little, small or young, and jie — sister. Say? If you want to say “I have an ELDER SISTER.” In Chinese, we say “Wo you yige JIEJIE.”  And  ”xiao jie” is a common title to call a girl in a formal way with her family name placed in front, just the same as “Ms …”, such as “Zhang Xiaojie — Ms Zhang“, “Wang Xiaojie — Ms Wang“. How to say “Miss China” and “Miss World” in Chinese? Here you are:

中国小姐 zhōngguó xiǎojiě, Miss China

世界小姐 shìjiè xiǎojiě, Miss World
 
SANYA, Hainan, Dec. 1, 2007 (Xinhua) — Chinese beauty Zhang Zilin took the crown in the final round of contest of the Miss World Pageant 2007, which concluded Saturday in Sanya, a tourist resort of south China’s island province Hainan.

Miss Micaela from Angola and Miss Carolina from Mexico came in the second and the third place in the Pageant, respectively.

As one of the three most prestigious world beauty contests, the57th Miss World Pageant came to China for the fourth time. Beauties from 106 countries and regions took part in this year’s contest.

This event was judged by a penal chaired by Miss World chairwoman Julia Morley.

Miss World pageant is an international beauty pageant founded in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. After Morley died in2000, his widow, Julia, succeeded him and is now executive chairwoman of the organizing agency.