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changye
Posted on: Getting to Know the Beauty Pageant Judges
October 23, 2007 at 8:11 AMWhen I click on the link to a new lesson in this series, I always expect a bikini photo, and then I learn the world does not revolve around me. Cpod never fails to give a good lesson to us. You can’t miss an episode
Posted on: Opinions on Poetry
October 23, 2007 at 3:19 AMHi marcuche! > One of the last chapters in the book proposes > that the modern Japanese are descended > from South Korean settlers. This description is only partly true. The problem of the origin of Japanese people is not so simple. The mainstream theory assumes that our ancestors came long, long time ago mainly from North(Tungus, North China, Korea, etc.) and South(Polynesia, South China, etc.), therefore you can say Japanese blood is a complicated mixture of those of many ethnic groups just like Japanese culture is. There is a lot of evidence for the theory in Japanese language and genetic/biological traits of modern Japanese people. Recent researches also indicate that Korean are biologically more akin to northern Chinese than Japanese are, and Japanese people are more close to Polynesian than Korean are. This is understandable considering the history and geographical locations of the two countries.
Posted on: How many people are in your family?
October 22, 2007 at 12:49 PMIn addition to Rich’s post, The ”口” measure word is also used as follows. 猪, 井, and 缸 have a mouth, but why 口 for 刀? Is it because a sheath has a mouth? Just a shot in the dark! A. 一口猪(yi4kou3zhu1)…………..………a pig B. 两口井(liang3kou3jing3)…...……..two wells C. 三口缸(san1kou3gang1)...three crocks/jars D. 四口刀(si4kou3dao1)….four swords/sabers
Posted on: 休闲游戏
October 21, 2007 at 11:28 AM我年轻的时候当然没有在线游戏、 所以每次失恋后只好一个人流泪。 但是如果那个时代有互联网的话、 我一失恋就能开始在网上找对象。 中国当代男人很难找女朋友可是 现代有那么好的手段你们加油吧！
Posted on: Gymnastics
October 20, 2007 at 8:37 AMA great lesson! I am not reluctant to learn lessons about sports if only Cpod always provides us with a brilliant photo just like today’s.
Posted on: Opinions on Poetry
October 20, 2007 at 3:15 AMHi LostInAsia, Thanks for a great website. I’ve just finished listening to that. JFYI, the picture shown in the article is famous 蒙古袭来绘词, which represents a failed invasion of Japan by China and Korea allied forces in the late 13th century. What a relief!
Posted on: Pricey Beer
October 19, 2007 at 10:56 AMSixty yuan for a glass of draft beer? If you pay the same amount of money in a local city here in China, you can drink ten to twenty glasses of tasty domestic brands 扎啤! Beers are sold in a very wide range of prices in China. I must say this is a reflection of a fact that the gap between rich and poor is wide.
Posted on: Opinions on Poetry
October 19, 2007 at 7:18 AMHi Bill and tangmoo, Your postings are very interesting to me. Now, please let me post another a-little-off-the-point comment. I think it is a fact that China, Korea, and Japan, on the whole, failed to fully develop modern scientific spirits over the past several hundreds years, which was probably mainly because of conservative Confucianism and de facto closed-door policies adopted by those countries at that time. Japan opened the door in the latter half of the 19th century. Japanese people started to build their nation into a modern state faster than any other Asian countries by diligently learning and imitating European culture and technology. South Korea also began to move ahead with spontaneous modernization after Korean War (1950-1953) mainly through copying American and Japanese modern culture. China finally started to modernize less than thirty years ago. For good or bad, the later you start, the less you need to invent new technology at your expense, because owing to other advanced countries, almost everything you need has been readily available. What you have to do is to learn and imitate desperately. Under such circumstances, unfortunately you don’t have enough time and incentive to nurture creativity. Chinese conservative Confucianists had been very busy studying the heritage of the past, and ironically, progressive intelligentsia in modern China have been busy learning the heritage of science and technology cultivated by other countries. But, of course, the situation is changing gradually. Just like Bill said in his post, “who knows where the major revelations will have come from” in the not-so-distant future.
Posted on: Opinions on Poetry
October 18, 2007 at 9:03 AMHi aert, Great website! Thank you very much.
Posted on: Opinions on Poetry
October 23, 2007 at 11:47 AMHi tangmoo, The Chinese folk legend, what is called “徐福传说(xu2fu2chuan2shuo1)”, is very famous in Japan too. There is a lot of the same folklores around Japan, which say 徐福, who was a legendary necromancer, brought many kinds of technology to Japan more than 2,200 years ago. Japanese people, me included, love those kind of exotic legendary stories very much. Japanese culture owes much to ancient China, and the legend of徐福 simply symbolizes/represents a lot of Chinese people who immigrated to Japan with Chinese culture and technology at that time. JFYI, the followings are the numbers of Google Japan hits: 徐福 547,000, 毛泽东 786,000, George Bush 705,000. You can see how徐福 is popular in Japan.