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I've always found it strange that x-mas is a holiday where you put a dead tree in your house and hang old socks in front of the fire (potentially spark prone) and stick candy in them? Why would anybody ever want to put a good peice of candy in a sock? Maybe hallmark was running out of ideas.
hi lara,Quote:
Originally posted by Lara
when I think of China, I picture rice fields with people cultivating them, wearing those wonderful big hats. What are they called? And I think of Tibetan Monks. I know there is more to it than that. Please share what ever you like about your culture. Every culture is unique, and our differences are what make the world an interesting place.
First of all, i really glad that you can have an interest in Chinese culture. I myself a Chinese and i deeply love our centuries-old culture and of course ones from other nations.
According to you, we call those who cultivate in the rice fields Å©Ãñ(Nong Min), which means peasant or farmer in English. Actually, there are about 80 hundred million peasants of a total population of 1.3 billion in China.
As far as Tibetan Monks, they are called Dalailama in China. But I don't like them at all, coz some of them are always want to make Tibet independent from our nation. This is what i can't reconcile with. Tibet is really a beautiful district of China. There are a lot centuries-old temples there, such as Lhasa Palace. It's really lofty, which i thinke should be considered as one of the greatest heritages of the World, just like the Great Wall and the Taj Mahal and so on so forth.
Do i make myself clear? If not, i'm sorry and i'm willing to spend more time to find you more materials about Chinese culture. I hope i can help!
Sunny.
Hi, EmilyQuote:
Originally posted by emily655321
As astronauts know, being able to see the Wall from space is a myth. It originated with the dream of one of the Chinese emperors (I forget who), in which he flew to the moon and could see the wall when he looked down on the earth, symbolic imagery representing the greatness of China's power and influence. Somehow it became part of the world's collective consciousness, but nevertheless it's completely untrue.
yeah, i know that legend.
It is emperor Yinzheng who ordered to build the Great Wall. He is also called Qin Shi Huang, which means the first emperor of Qin Dynasty. When he united the whole nation, he ordered to build the Great wall, half to show his greatest power and influence, half to keep China from the intruders. Then through the following thousands of years, it was destroyed partly by wars, and rebuit by several later emperors. It is really hard to imagine how to build this lofty wall in ancient.
*bites tongue and inserts 0 gauge barbell in new holeQuote:
Originally posted by Sunny
Tibet is really a beautiful district of China.
Sorry, i can't follow what you mean!Quote:
Originally posted by amuse
*bites tongue and inserts 0 gauge barbell in new hole
could you make yourself clear? I'm sorry for my poor English.
"biting one's tongue" is a phrase used to denote someone shutting herself / himself up. earrings are generally of an 18 gauge thickness (the post); body piercings are usually larger - say 14 for bellies. needles for blood draws are smaller - usually 21 to 23 gauge in thickness. a zero guage is enormous - perhaps a centimeter or so. i metaphorically punctured an big hole in my tongue trying to shut myself up.
don't worry about your english. i have a hard time with idiomatic expressions in spanish! there are too many languages in the world to be able to get them all perfectly. your english sounds fine.
To amuse:
Thank you so much for your explanation. This time i understand what you mean. It sounds very funny. It's a wonderful matephor.
But still there is an another question
Why is 23 gauge smaller than 18 gauge?
I think maybe we have different ways of measurement. In China We usually use centimeter or meter as standard measurement unit. So I've never heard gauge before and therefor can't understand what it means. Sorry for that!!
a gauge is a term normally used for piercing instuments and weapons, it has other uses but they are rarely used
*Does the same and stands blocking the poster on her wall.*Quote:
Originally posted by amuse
*bites tongue and inserts 0 gauge barbell in new hole
sunny,
i don't know why a 23 is a smaller than guage than a 22. i have always accepted that information. but i can tell you, as a diabetic, it's a lot nicer to give multiple injections daily with a 30 guage syringe than a 28! (though with my many piercings, pain seems a moot point...) and i always tell people to draw my blood with a 23 not a 21 gauge needle, with my small veins it saves both of us time.
New zealand.
I've been thinking of going to university in New Zealand, got any recomendations I could look into?
NZ is soooo awsome. I always wanted to go there, but now that its been overpopularified by LotR, its lost its draw for me.
but kik, you can see the actual sites where it was filmed, you can truly become one with the hobbits!
or the Ring. ;)
Just like ever other NZ tourist in the last three years. yay
I think it would be cool to meet a hobbit, there som small that if you offended them and they started getting mouthy you could lock them in a suitcase the same way James Bond di to that midget in the man with the golden gun.
The scenery there is nice, but that would be fun.
What's worse than a hobbit stuffed in one of Stan's suitcases?
A hobbit stuffed into many different suitcases.
LOL That was a good one!
No! No dead baby jokes! even when disguised as hobbit murder. ...Wait, "even?"...uhh....damnit you know what I mean.
Would you eat a hobbit? I think I would try it once.
Sure, Hobbit sauteed in a light shallot and garlic butter sauce with a hint of lemon tang.
To answer the original question, I'm one of the few South Easterners around. :)
USA baby!!! Americans aren't all the liberals you see in hollywood. most of the Midwest and non-coastal west, are very conservative.
Joseph Hellar was an American. So was Fitzgerald, Hemmingway, Robert Frost, Falkner and a whole bunch more.... and... for some reason the new generations can't quite figure out, beating a russian hockey team was a major accomplishment.
I'm from Adelaide Australia. We dont have that much claim to fame, except for the fact that we have the world Famous Barrossa Valley. This is were we make all the wonderful wines that rival the French and leave the Californian wines for dead. Thus we are a city filled with wino's and eggsperts on the delights of the grape!
Oh and we are the home of the Mighty Adelaide Crows! the best team in the best football League in THE ENTIRE WORLD!
a year or two ago, there was an extreme amount of australian wine for sale in sonoma county (california). really low prices. i remember the ads, now that you mention.
you got your name from the football team i take it? :)
Fool, I guess you could consider our wonderful government under the non-hollywood-liberal side. Good ol' George is very conservative. There are some great liberal places in America too. Seatle, LA, New York, Des Moines, Charlottesville VA (my hopeful final destination, also the home of Dave Matthews), Miami, New England, Boston, Pheonix, Las Vegas, ect.. infact, everywhere EXCEPT the midwest is pretty liberal, but that doesn't mean we're all hollywood bimbos.
Oh crap thats my second politics post tonight. I better stop 'fore Admin bans me ;).
*giggle* *feels naughty* (Not being allowed to discuss politics makes it pretty fun, doesn't it? :D) New England and Boston -- score two! But I'm heading to school, and hopefully settling down, in the bestest, hippiest, Deaniest place in the country -- Vermont! (No arguing! It's the best. :D)
Its up there.
Literally. :D
I Wilkiku... George bush is the biggest liberal I've ever seen with an R next to his name.
:eek: :eek: And THIS is why there is no politics in the forum. :eek: :eek:
wow. Fool I think you better stop. right now.
*in a childish voice* you started it ;-)
Now children politics causes indigestion, best to leave it be!
:D
*swerves topic back round*
I come from England. "Fish and chips, bad food, worse weather, Mary friggin' Poppins - England!"
Quote from Snatch. I love that movie.
learned to bawl and crawl there. :D :D
...that sounds wrong.
kerala, southern part of india.. some call it god's own country, cuz of the green green life around,, well india south to north you've myriads of languages, cultures, religions.. unity in diversity they say..
indian philosophy is something i wud mention here, owing to its origins into the ancient history of vedas and back.. one book i wud recommend on a much modern contemplation is 'a search in secret india' by paul brunton who travelled throughout india on the 'quest',,
itz election time now in india..
what else, february i came to sapporo, japan for my studies. is the northern most, coldest part of japan. well life in japan is really wonderful for the time being, everything is strange, sometimes looks funny as it is so different from what i have ever experienced.
tibet is one place i wud like to go,,