The enhancement of intercultural communicative competence is emphasized as one of the objectives of Second Language Acquisition. Recognizing the cultural knowledge and spiritual values carried by the target language texts is an effective way to improve learners’ daily communicative competence and cultivate a sense of cultural identity. As a part of traditional Chinese culture, Baijiu culture and its textual carriers also have unique teaching functions. This study applies the integration of Baijiu culture stories and storytelling pedagogy in the Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) practice, for the purpose of exploring the effectiveness of Baijiu cultural story in Second-language acquisition(L2). Through theoretical analysis and teaching practice, it is found that the integrated application of Chinese Baijiu cultural story and storytelling method can comprehensively improve learners’ language skills and enable them to better engage in intercultural dialogue in an inclusive manner.

This paper focuses on the high-context cultural text “Bai Yuyu” in Liaozhaizhiyi. By comparing “The History of Woo-Tsing-Yen”, published in Fraser's Magazine in 1835, and “Bai Yuyu”, included in Zhang Qingnian's 1997 translation Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio, we explore the commonalities and particularities in how translators from different cultural backgrounds interpret the same source text. The findings show that both translations adopt the strategies of clarity and omission to transform and interpret the original text, reflecting the translators' active participation and intervention. The similarity in the use of clarity strategies also demonstrates that the translators across different periods were motivated by a common desire to introduce Chinese culture and literature in-depth. At the same time, the translators' distinct cultural identities and cognitive orientations give rise to interpretive individualities: the English native translators tend to use poetic and purified interpretations, guided by the intervention of the translators' self-consciousness and values, while the Chinese native translators favor a concise and realistic interpretation of the text, which is faithfully rooted in the historical context of the original text.