Dear Ming, thanks for posting this famous motto of Dr. Sun-Yat-sen (Zongshan), which I remember having once encountered when visiting the Sun Yat-sen Memorial...
... I am only speaking about the present-day usage by the Chinese. I just checked my English-Chinese Dictionary to make sure. The English word "christian"...
Dear Lansin, Christians can be translated as Šî"Â"k . Catholics have no problem calling themselves as Šî"Â"k . However, if they would object if you say...
... Dear Alfred, I have a page on this at http://www.chinapage.org/confucius/utopia.html Long before the modern-day of socialism, democracy, etc. Confucius...
... problem ... ‹³. The ... protestant church. ... Dear Julian, Thanks a lot for your help. Unfortunately those "hanzi" couldn't be shown correctly using...
Hi everyone, I've been told the picture I just posted is a compass, coppied from a book about ancient China. I've also been told that the writing represents...
It is a compass all right. There are 24 characters on the compass, each represents a direction, with increments of 15 degrees (15 x 24= 360). The generic term...
... compass, ... Omabi: It is a compass. Probably not a very old construction. I posted two diagrams to show details. You can see that this particular one...
... Dear James: When I say Ba Gua, I should be more precise and say trigram. If you look carefully, only 4 from trigram are used in the Chinese Luo2 Pan2, for...
... A diagram showing Houtien Bagua (Later Heaven Bagua) is at, http://www.chinapage.org/astronomy/symbol/rudy2.jpg where the four directions are clearly...
These two words are written the same way, but are not the same word. One word is "chang" which means "long." The second word is "zhang" which means "to grow." ...
Please visit the phot album under the title of "Astro Charts" to view the marking of time during the day and night in the Qin and Early Han period. The info is...
Rudy posted an article on solar lighter, which is a concave metal mirror. The mirror focuses sun lights to a point in order to ignite fires. It's a bit...
ming, it reminds me to 'he shi pei feng / drink westnorth wind', a phrase out of martial art tales memories lost in my brain. when a 'hohan' run out of money...
... out ... out ... in ... any ... Herman: Yes of course. The expression 'drink westnorth wind' is generally used in daily speech, and is not restricted to...
Hello, Group, I'm your newest member saying Hello ("Hello") and passing on a link to an article from today's Seattle Times on foot binding in traditional China...
Yahoo seems to have cut the URL in half. You may have to put together http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ and html/artsentertainment/134421291_feet17.html. If...
... http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/artsentertainment/134421291_feet ... Welcome Mark to our group! Thanks for posting this article. I shall comment on...
Dear Mark, Ming and friends,
Thanks a lot for the link. I read the article just now and found it very
interesting.
I know only a little bit about foot...
Please switch to Unicode (UTF-8) to read Chinese words in my last posting
prior to this. Thanks. _________________________________________________________ Do...
Hello, Fellow Sinophiles, I'm wondering if anyone can help shed light on the characters from a chop someone has asked me to decipher. The character style is an...
China launched the third spacecraft Shenzhou on March 25, 2002 as reported by People's Daily. http://english.people.com.cn/200203/25/eng20020325_92794.shtml ...
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