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ChinaBeautiful
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Feb 2, 2001
12:55 am
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As most of Yue Fei's poems, this one is also very patriotic (Alfred may comment on the word patriotic ...
sllee19
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Feb 2, 2001
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sllee19
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This is specially for Rudy, our I Ching expert. <br><br>A year ago, I mentioned that while I was climbing up a hill overlooking the West Lake in Hangzhou, I ...
timink
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Feb 2, 2001
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Dear Tin-Kay,<br><br>I missed this spot!I never even heard of it after being in Hangzhou 3 times. I read your post a year ago but did not pay much attention to...
sllee19
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Feb 2, 2001
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Tin-Kay and friends:<br><br>Qilin is more than just an obscure mystical animal in people's imaginations.<br><br>Have you forgotten that it is among the stone...
ChinaBeautiful
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Feb 2, 2001
10:31 pm
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Dear Yoon-Ngan,<br><br>Yes. Thank you very much.<br><br>Julian....
yiukwokwai
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Feb 2, 2001
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ynchungau
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ynchungau
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Feb 3, 2001
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Emperor Jingtai [Daizong] was denied imperial burial at the 13 Ming Tombs site which is 50 km outside of Beijing....
ChinaBeautiful
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Feb 3, 2001
2:59 am
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Thanks for the unique photo! It's the first time I have seen or heard about it!<br><br>According to the alignment of the yin and yang and the tadpole, the...
rudy8k
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Feb 3, 2001
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ChinaBeautiful
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Feb 3, 2001
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I am always confused with the titles of Chinese Emperors so much so that I always put their real names before their reigning titles. In this case it was Zhu ...
ynchungau
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Feb 4, 2001
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Dear Rudy:<br>If the photo shows hou-tian BaGua , then Tin-Kay's camera would be pointing to the West.<br><br>How do you know that this is...
ChinaBeautiful
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Feb 4, 2001
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timink
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Feb 4, 2001
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Dear Rudy, Tin-Kay SL:<br><br>Thanks to Rudy for the diagrams from SKQS, whcih confirm exactly with what I have from Wilhelm/Baynes and others. I feel that...
ChinaBeautiful
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Feb 4, 2001
10:20 pm
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Thanks for the clarification Tin-Kay !<br><br>I have psoted 3 diagrams:<br><br>1. A map of Hanjou showing West Lake and the location of Baguatain. The name of...
rudy8k
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Feb 5, 2001
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Everyone knows about the Yin Yang Symbol.<br>Do you know the correct way to draw it?<br><br><a href=http://www.chinapage.org/astronomy/yinyangsymbols.html...
ChinaBeautiful
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Feb 5, 2001
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Dear Rudy<br><br>Thanks for posting the map. I have called the old Daoist temple wrongly as FuXingMiao ´_¿³¼q, thinking that it is the same name as ...
timink
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Feb 5, 2001
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Looking at Tin-Kay's beautiful photograph, I remembered the unique impression I once tried to convey into German, now more than ten years ...
aolung
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Feb 6, 2001
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Dear All,<br><br>Ming got there first about the orientation of the trigrams. <br><br>My question now is why two Bagua? Was there evidence that the xiantian ...
sllee19
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Feb 6, 2001
3:33 pm
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Fantastic! <br>I marked up Rudy's map and posted it in the same photo folder, showing the line of sight from <br>FuXingGuan to BaGuaTien.<br><br>I am updating...
ChinaBeautiful
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Feb 6, 2001
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Please find 3 more diagrams on this subject. <br>The probable origin of the taijit circle can best be illustrated by Mengxi's 12 month hexagram chi diagram ...
rudy8k
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Feb 8, 2001
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Dear SL Lee,<br><br>The Chinese dictionaries call the swastika,<br>the German one and the Taoist one, <br>WAN or ten thousand.<br><br>Yoon-Ngan...
ynchungau
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Feb 8, 2001
1:27 pm
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Ever since I saw an artist in Chengdu (Sichuan) changing his face masks no less than six times, I have been very intrigued and impressed by this art. An ...
timink
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Feb 8, 2001
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Dear Tin-Kay,<br><br>The movie, The Mask Man King, was shown<br>in SBS recently. My wife was in eyes whe she<br>saw his adopted daughter accidentally burned...
ynchungau
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Feb 8, 2001
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Dear Yoon-Ngan<br><br>I have missed that film. Can you please elaborate more so that I can borrow it from the shops. Was it in Mandarin or Cantonese? SBS ...
timink
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Feb 8, 2001
2:14 pm
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Dear Tin-Kay,<br><br>It is in Mandarin. The story happened <br>in the 1920s somewhere in Sichuan, I think.<br>Mask Man King desperately wanted a son so...
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