Saturday, December 30, 2006 11:37:46 AM
When here a dewdrop comes in morn
A shiny teardrop in bright sun
Rolling in a rose without thorn
Spring green is blooming hope and fun
A rose is withering in pain
Shriveled petals longing for care
Like umbrella in sudden rain
Summer breeze is blowing fresh air
Whirling is the yearning in chill
Lonely petal’s dancing in still night
Flying is the snowflake on rill
Gentle smile warms up winter sight
Tough is the autumn without gold
Blue fantasy world is to unfold
Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:45:33 PM
Alone in cold land
Reaching out my hand
As tender as your caress
Chilliness is kissing my fingers
Looking for sunshine
Goldenness is my shrine
Regardless of severe chilliness
I am chasing after my happiness
Snowflakes are dancing
Mountains afar are glittering
Flying over the mountain
Flying to my heaven
Your chest is my cozy harbor
Rainbow is held in heart forever
Sunday, November 5, 2006 10:36:18 AM
Dead leaves rustling in autumn wind
The last leaf on the tree fluttering to the ground
Golden season drawing to the end
Seeking my love, I’m exhausted
In spring breeze I’ll back to your chest
Sweet memories are kept in my mind
Rose without thorn outward
Tears rolling when you step into my world
Love for you is the very thorn inward
Your voice is still echoing around
Attached to you by predestined fate
In your love I have been deeply involved
Check what I’ve harvested
Sigh and lonesome night
Why I am still lingering in dreamland
Winter is close at hand
Chilliness will freeze a crazy heart
Kiss to say good bye, my beloved
But never can I leave you behind
You are now cherished deeper in my heart
Tomorrow our hands will again tightly hold
Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:00:34 AM
雨夜
在这样冷的下着雨的晚上
在这样暗的长街的转角
总有人撑一把
黑色的旧伞 匆匆走过
雨水把他的背影洗得泛白
恍如岁月 斜织成
一页又一页灰蒙的诗句
总觉得你还在什么地方静静等待着我
在每一条泥泞长街的转角
我不得不逐渐放慢脚步
回顾 向雨丝的深处
Rainy Night
With an old black umbrella
You are walking out of my sight
Around the gloomy street corner
On such a cold rainy night
Your figure is receding in rain bit by bit
Flying days are twined into misty verse
You seem to be still awaiting me somewhere
Unconsciously slowing down my footsteps
At every muddy street corner
I am gazing back into the depth of raindrops.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/font][/FONT]
Thursday, October 5, 2006 11:57:28 PM
Fall in love with blue one day
As light as the clouds flying
As light as the waves caressing
As light as the melancholy sweeping
I don’t know why
Dolefulness holds me tight
Against soliloquy I have to fight
Lonesomeness is permeating my night
Like a lost child
Standing on the top of the world
I can find nobody around
To show me the road to heavenly world
Hurt so much so that
I have forgot what is heartache
Again I remind myself not to weep
I should have been strong-minded
Wind is dancing in silence
I love staying alone in darkness
With thought floating away to distance
How much I am longing to be in your embrace
Rose is in blossom
Beautiful but short-lived
Intoxicating moments
Slip into sweet yet bitter memories
Left alone on the stage
Singing merrily and dancing dolefully
Tasting joyance and tasting gloominess
I’m alone tasting solitude.
Thursday, October 5, 2006 11:50:24 PM
The 15th day of the 8th lunar month
The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox（秋分）. Many referred to it simply as the "Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon".
This day was also considered as a harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grain had been harvested by this time and food was abundant. Food offerings were placed on an altar set up in the courtyard. Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, pomegranates（石榴）, melons, oranges and pomelos（柚子） might be seen. Special foods for the festival included moon cakes, cooked taro（芋头）and water caltrope（菱角）, a type of water chestnut resembling black buffalo horns. Some people insisted that cooked taro be included because at the time of creation, taro was the first food discovered at night in the moonlight. Of all these foods, it could not be omitted from the Mid-Autumn Festival.
The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resembled Western fruitcakes in taste and consistency. These cakes were made with melon seeds（西瓜子）, lotus seeds（莲籽）, almonds（杏仁）, minced meats, bean paste, orange peels and lard（猪油）. A golden yolk（蛋黄） from a salted duck egg was placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust was decorated with symbols of the festival. Traditionally, thirteen moon cakes were piled in a pyramid to symbolize the thirteen moons of a "complete year," that is, twelve moons plus one intercalary（闰月的） moon.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festivity for both the Han and minority nationalities. The custom of worshipping the moon can be traced back as far as the ancient Xia and Shang Dynasties (2000 B.C.-1066 B.C.). In the Zhou Dynasty(1066 B.C.-221 B.C.), people hold ceremonies to greet winter and worship the moon whenever the Mid-Autumn Festival sets in. It becomes very prevalent in the Tang Dynasty(618-907 A.D.) that people enjoy and worship the full moon. In the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279 A.D.), however, people send round moon cakes to their relatives as gifts in expression of their best wishes of family reunion. When it becomes dark, they look up at the full silver moon or go sightseeing on lakes to celebrate the festival. Since the Ming (1368-1644 A.D. ) and Qing Dynasties (1644-1911A.D.), the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival celebration becomes unprecedented popular. Together with the celebration there appear some special customs in different parts of the country, such as burning incense（熏香）, planting Mid-Autumn trees, lighting lanterns on towers and fire dragon dances. However, the custom of playing under the moon is not so popular as it used to be nowadays, but it is not less popular to enjoy the bright silver moon. Whenever the festival sets in, people will look up at the full silver moon, drinking wine to celebrate their happy life or thinking of their relatives and friends far from home, and extending all of their best wishes to them.
Moon Cakes
There is this story about the moon-cake. during the Yuan dynasty (A.D. 1280-1368) China was ruled by the Mongolian people. Leaders from the preceding Sung dynasty (A.D. 960-1280) were unhappy at submitting to the foreign rule, and set how to coordinate the rebellion without being discovered. The leaders of the rebellion, knowing that the Moon Festival was drawing near, ordered the making of special cakes. Backed into each moon cake was a message with the outline of the attack. On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attached and overthrew the government. Today, moon cakes are eaten to commemorate this legend and was called the Moon Cake.
For generations, moon cakes have been made with sweet fillings of nuts, mashed red beans, lotus-seed paste or Chinese dates（枣子）, wrapped in a pastry. Sometimes a cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting dessert. People compare moon cakes to the plum pudding and fruit cakes which are served in the English holiday seasons.
Nowadays, there are hundreds varieties of moon cakes on sale a month before the arrival of Moon Festival.
Friday, September 15, 2006 4:59:01 AM
Lijiang is an old town in the Northwest of Yunnan. It was built 800 years ago. It is a state-level ancient cultural city.
The main minority groups are the Naxi, Yi, Lisu, Bai and Pumi. Lijiang has beautiful landscapes and has a year-around warm climate.
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The Old Town
This town was built about 800 years ago during the Southern Song Dynasty. Owing to it's unique ethnic culture and urban layout, this old town (including Baisha and Shuhe housing clusters) was enlisted to be one of World Cultural Heritage in 1997.
The Clear Water Stream
The crystal water that flows into the Old town originated from the Jade Spring. The stream of water is then further divided into other smaller streams to provide the Town with water.
Bridge:
There are more than 300 bridges of various designs, shapes and sizes in the Old Town. Big Stone Bridge is a two-arched bridge built about 500 years ago during the Ming Dynasty.
Square Market
This is located at the center of the Old Town, which was once the most significant market for business and trading.
Jade Spring Park
In Jade Spring Park you can find several traditional structures with their own unique and fascinating stories.
Along the side of the hill, there are a also a number of new springs that flows out of the pool. To the south of the pool is a small waterfall where the water also flows into the Old Town. On a clear day, you could take many scenic pictures with the beautiful Jade Dragon Snow Mountain as the background in this park. You can also enjoy the traditional Naxi music at the Opera Platform.
Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:48:40 PM
Dali features a magnificent sensry, with Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake as its representatives. Since ancient times, Dali has been known as a “land of wind, flowers, snow, and moonlight and a city of mountains and waters.”
Built between 823 and 1108, the three pagodas at the Chongsheng Temple is 1.5 kilometers north of the ancient town of Dali. The main pagoda has 16-stories, which is quite different from pagodas in other parts of China. We usually have pagodas with odd stories. The Chongsheng Temple was the Buddhist center of Nanzhao State. The three pagodas have survived more than 30 strong earthquakes in the past 1,000 years and stand intactma marvela marvel of architecture.
Situated in Dali city of western Yunnan Province, Erhai Lake and Cangshan Mountain are gifted with green mountains, exquisite waters, and myriad scenic spots, plus unique customs of the national minorities.
Dali is a multi-ethnic autonomous prefecture, where various minority groups live in compact communities. The Bais make up the majority.Colorful ethnic customs and habits can be seen everywhere.People of the Bai ethnic group love white color, and their clothing is of lively colors with sharp contrast.
The 1,000-year-old town of Dali is known as a shining pearl inlaid in the southwestern highland. The town is located between Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake.A poet praised the ancient town in a verse, “Pavilions and towers appear above the cloud and the town spreads between the mountain and the lake.”
Tuesday, August 29, 2006 3:59:27 AM
Stone Forest is located about 120 kilometers southeast of Kunming. Due to erosion and brushing along the crevices of limestones over aeons by sea waters, the sea bottom was broken up and moulded into a multitude of stone pillars, V-shaped gorges and eroded cracks. A myriad of grotesque pinnacles shot up and formed a spectacular stone forest.
As soon as one enters the Stone Forest scenic area, a crystal-clear lake comes into focus. By the east lakeside, rise from the water a good array of fantastic stone pinnacles, pillars, shoots, and stalactites, resembling a natural potted scenery. A few hundred steps beyond the lake, there is a pool with a huge boulder in the shape of a squatting lion. Hence it's given the name of "Lion Pool". Further on, a couple of tall limestones block the way like a green screen.
Greater Stone Forest--Inside the sea of Stone Forest, one feels as if were in a bizarre fairyland. The stone formations standing still resemble a variety of things such as ancient fortresses, birds, beasts, flowers, trees, human beings, and whatever else one can imagine.
Smaller Stone Forest adjoins the Greater Stone Forest, and has large lawns, lush growth of bamboos and trees as well as mountain flowers in Spring and Autumn. Most fantastic are "The Cluster of Pinnacles Propping up the Sky" and "The Stone Singing Praises of Plums".[/FONT]
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