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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
Confucius
The people may be made to follow a path of action, by may not be made to understand it.
Confucius
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that do not know it. - this is knowledge.
Confucius
A journey of a thousand miles started with a step.
Laozi
A person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
Xun zi
During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream.
Zhuangzi
80,000 victims
May 12th, a powerful earthquake, M7.2,happaned around Sichuan in China. It killed about 80 thousand of people in China, and 375 thousand people were injured. Now, the 73 % of the water purification plant and 84 % of the water pipe got retrieved. The 85 % of the electricity in the blackout area recoveried. A economist in China caluculated that the whole economical damage by the earthquake will be worth 75 billion dollars which include business, public buildings and infrastructure.
Donnation
The international aids to China were really active. For example 1.05 million tents, 4.76 million futons, 13.97 million clothes, 80 thousand temporary housings (this will be a million temporary housings by the end of August.). The sum of the aids are worth 6.66 billion dollars. Jackie Chan donnated 1.5 million dollars with his friend of businessman. Yao Ming who is a professional basketball player for Houston Rockets gave 2.4 million dollars as an aid. The foundation of Li Ka Shing in Hong Kong, one of the richest person around the world, sent 4.5 million dollars of donation.
Panda of treasure
Some pandas were also injured. A panda is the national treasure of China, and they only live around the north of SIchuan now. The number of panda in China is 1500 - 1600, and is decreasing.
The olympic in Beijing will begin from August 8th, and continue to 24th.
I hope we won't see the troble anyway. Human beings are much more valuable than philosophy and thought, I think.
The problem between Taiwan and China is one of the biggest assignment in the world, but Taiwan hadn't belonged to the present China untill 17th century. Untill 15th or 16th century Taiwan had been the independent country, and the Japanese pirate, Wakou, came there to occupy the country. The naitive citizens escaped to the mountain. From the end of 16th century to 17th century Holland governed the country, and built their castles. Eventually Chinese army won the battle with Holland in 17th century, and China captured Taiwan. This is why China insists now Taiwan belongs to her country like Taiwan have been in China for about 2000 years
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It is not true that Qin Shi Huang, 259 B.C - 210 B.C, who was the king of the Chinese state of Qin burned the books and scholars of confucianism. At the era many books were written by a lot of citizens in the various way of chinese. Qin Shi Huang tried to unify the language of the books, and removed the books written in inappropriate way. It means the purpose of burning the books was not for the restriction on the philosophy. He even regarded highly of the classical chinese of some books of confucianism
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At the begining of the 20 century a man who made a new spoken language in china is Lu xun, one of the major chinese writer of the 20th century. During his time the classical chinese is about losing its posion in china. He also did't use the classical chinese in his books, and wrote a new type of a spoken language in his short stories.
His works were welcomed by the chinese people. His famous stories are 'A madman's diary', 'The true story of Ah Q' and 'Kong Yiji
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Chinese people think much of their family, friends and the close persons to them. On the other hand they don't trust the other people at all. They have the strong bond with their company, and try to live just in the comunity. This is why chinese who emigranted abroad definitely make the chinese city in any country
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I have many japanese friends, and they don't have the good feelings to the chinese government,but have the chinese friends and like them. Many chinese students visit japan as an exchange student, and the relationships give Japanese the better understanding about china and chinese.
The point is most of Japanese people do not know the chinese history, and simultaneously chinese people do not the japanese one. Maybe that works for the misunderstanding with each other. The reason is, of course, the education by the public, I think
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