Travelling with the elephants to know Yunnan Province

One of the hottest topics/news people talking about this summer in Yunnan Province is that "15 Chinese elephants are on a long march north", people are curious why the elephants are moving and where do they want to go. On 8th. August,2021, after almost 4 months, they finally finished their trip and back to where they live safely. Here is their route.

Maybe Yunnan Province and its capital Kunming is not as famous as Beijing and Shanghai, however, in China, 90 % of people are dreaming to taking vocation in Yunnan at least once. Why? Let’s have a look the magic of this province. Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture

The only place Pu'er tea (普洱茶) is produced

Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture

Yuxi

upper: Crossing-the-bridge noodles (过桥米线) , created orignally from Mengzi; lower:Cuihu Park in Kunming

@Copyright: All the photos are from Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism.

Interesting Chinese character 乐

乐 has two different pronunciation: 

1. yuè (fourth tone) : means “music“

2.  lè (fourth tone): means “happy”

Witten in simplified Chinese

Written in traditional Chinese

Here is how has the character 乐 developed from Oracle Bone script until now

痴心妄想

 Ask for the moon: To make requests or demands that are (or are perceived to be) extraordinary or unreasonable.

development of the chinese character "鱼"(fish)

Foreword:

this comes from a story about fish protection

in traditional chinese

we have four little points under the chinese character 魚(fish)

generally speaking

in chinese these points usually means water or something related to water

instead

what we have now in simplified chinese 鱼 is only a horizontal line 

some people make jokes about it:

60 years ago

most of the fishes live in the water

but now 

most of the fishes can only be seen on plates

(because this horizontal line looks like a plate)

simple is good

it makes life easy

however

everything comes at a price

we also lost something important

端午节，早安

重五山村好，

榴花忽已繁。

粽包分两髻，

艾束著危冠。

旧俗方储药，

羸躯亦点丹。

日斜吾事毕，

一笑向杯盘。

           —— 陆游 《乙卯重五诗》

when you have a roll of ancient poems in hand

执一卷古诗词在手，细细品味人生。

this is life :)

The Cultural Meanings in ZhongShan Tunic Suit 中山装知多少

The modern Chinese tunic suit is a style of male attire known in China as the Zhongshan suit (simplified Chinese: 中山装; traditional Chinese: 中山裝; pinyin: Zhōngshān zhuāng) (after Sun Yat-Sen), and known in the West as the Mao suit (because Mao Zedong weared it very often)，but chinese only know and use 中山装 as the name.

Sun Zhongshan (better known as Sun Yat-sen) introduced the style shortly after the founding of the Republic of China as a form of national dress although with a distinctly political and later governmental implication, so this cloth style is name after his name. the following foto explained in details the cultural meanings in ZhongShan Tunic Suit:

nowadays, a lot of singers and movie stars like Zhong Shan Zhuang very much:

成龙(Jack Chang)

刘德华(Andy Lau)

李连杰(Bruce Lee)