User Comments - changye
changye
Posted on: 盛唐风气
January 6, 2009 at 12:07 PMHi wchan,
如果山口百惠真的是杨贵妃的后裔就好了! 许多日本男生，当然也包括我，肯定高兴得很！但是很遗憾，说不定这个耸人听闻的信息就是在中国有人炒作的假新闻。山口百惠1980年发表引退宣言，离开文艺界以后一次都没上过电视节目，甚至一直拒绝任何采访。她已经成为一位日本传说中的神秘明星。所以万一山口百惠亲自声明她自己和杨贵妃有血缘关系，我保证这条消息一定会震撼全日本。不过，据我所知，在日本媒体历史上还没出现过这个令人愉快的报道，太遗憾了！
Posted on: Outrageous Power Bill
January 6, 2009 at 11:18 AMHi calkins,
Regarding 这么 and 那么, hehe, this is a rather tricky issue. Hitokiri and I discuss it before in the following thread, although still not enough to clarify the usage.To be honest, I still don't understand well how to use them properly.
http://chinesepod.com/community/conversations/post/3688#comment-98728
Posted on: Outrageous Power Bill
January 6, 2009 at 10:57 AMHi calkins,
瓦斯 is a Cantonese transliteration of gas, as is often the case with foreign words in Mandarin. 瓦斯 is pronounced as "uga-si" in Cantonese. That said, actually 瓦斯 is also used in Japanese to mean "gas" (ga-su in Japanese), so it's highly possible that 瓦斯 is one of those Japan-made Chinese words, which were mainly invented by Japanese inteligencia during the latter half of the 19th century and later introduced to China.
Posted on: 盛唐风气
January 6, 2009 at 6:55 AMHi miantiao,
你说的很对。中国历史的精粹确实在于春秋战国时代，也可以说中国历史越古越精彩。与此相反，我个人对明清以后的历史不太感兴趣， 新中国的历史就不用说了，还是觉得它们不如先秦人物和故事。但仔细想想，我这么想也是不是中老年人特有的一种“怀旧情绪”， 还是所谓的“美化历史”？日本有一句俗话：女人从远处看显得最漂亮！说不定历史也跟女人一样。
Posted on: Outrageous Power Bill
January 6, 2009 at 5:07 AMAnyway, it's a rather tough job for me to write the same thing both in Chinese and in English, hehe, so I will just keep writing basically in English and sometimes use a few Chinese words (with pinyin) in my comments here.
Regarding today's topic, I never pay my electricity bill by automatic draft in China. This is partly because I don't trust it, but mainly because I have no confidence to powerfully negotiate with bank clerks when trouble happens.....
Posted on: Instant Noodles
January 6, 2009 at 4:47 AMHi sballa,
As you may already know, the names of some major banks in China are worth noting, namely 农业银行 (Agricultural Bnak)，建设银行 (Construction Bank)，and 交通银行 (Bank of Communications).There is even 土地银行 (Land Bank). The names all represent major functions of these banks when they were established several decades ago in China.
Posted on: All the Things You Can Hit: 打 (dǎ)
January 6, 2009 at 4:17 AMHi sushan,
打错了 - knocked on the wrong door
Really? I think it should be 敲错门 (qiao1cuo4men2)!
Posted on: 盛唐风气
January 5, 2009 at 1:01 PM日本古代朝廷从公元630年到838年向唐朝一共派遣了十多次外交使节团，这就是在日本历史上很有名的所谓《遣唐使》。这些朝贡使节团的成员除了外交官之外主要是留学僧和留学生。他们跨越大海冒死入唐的目的当然就是向中国“取经”，也就是说积极吸收当时世界最先进的科学技术，文化和律令制度。
《遣唐使》从中国带回来的东西不仅是这些，而是在唐朝被视为正统官话的《长安话》。当代日本汉字一般都有几个读音，可是其中最常用的基本都来源于《长安话》。现代普通话和古代长安话的音韵系统有很大差异，但是日本现用汉字和中国古汉字的读音却很相似。这是我对汉语音韵学感兴趣的主要原因。
Posted on: 盛唐风气
January 5, 2009 at 9:08 AM中日民间流传着《杨贵妃东渡日本》的传说。玄宗皇帝逃离长安的时候下令谋杀杨贵妃，但是她幸亏有人帮助逃脱暗杀，死里逃生之后东渡到日本山口县。很可惜，这位倾国美女到了日本后不久就去世了。我相信当时很多日本男人为杨贵妃悲伤！现在山口县有一所纪念杨贵妃的公园和塑像，甚至有杨贵妃的坟墓。大家信不信？
Posted on: Lost in the Desert
January 7, 2009 at 2:47 AM用不着担心，世界上到处都是便利店，他们两个马上就能找到一个！