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The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars: Yu Qianlou 二十四孝:庾黔娄

As one of the cores of Chinese culture, "filiality" is not only the moral code for maintaining family relationships in Chinese society for thousands of years, but also the traditional virtue of Chinese Nation. A Yuan-dynasty(元朝Yuáncháo) writer Guo Jujing(郭居敬Guō Jūjìng) compiled the stories of 24 filial exemplars in ancient times and finished the Stories of Filiality. Let me introduce the 16th story to you.

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The Twenty-four Filial Exemplars: Lao Laizi 二十四孝:老莱子

As one of the cores of Chinese culture, "filiality" is not only the moral code for maintaining family relationships in Chinese society for thousands of years, but also the traditional virtue of Chinese Nation. A Yuan-dynasty(元朝Yuáncháo) writer Guo Jujing(郭居敬Guō Jūjìng) compiled the stories of 24 filial exemplars in ancient times and finished the Stories of Filiality. Let me introduce the 17th story to you.

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Write 求(qiú)(demand) in Chinese character

求(qiú) Origin: 甲骨文“求”字像一件皮衣的样子,可以看出它是用带毛的兽皮做成的,是“裘”的本字,后来“求”字借为“寻求”、“乞求”等意思。
On ancient oracle bone inscriptions, “求” looks like leather clothing. As we can see that the clothes are made of animal skin, one can infer that it is the original version of “裘” (fur coat). Later, it was used to represent ideas like “to search” and “to beg.”

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Chinese food: noodle (miantiao)

Noodles are made of a flour of grains or beans, after adding the water into the flour, mixing until a dough with no lumps forms, and then cut it into strips. There are varieties of noodles in China, like Fried Sauce Noodles in Beijing, Shaved Noodles in Shanxi and Plain Noodles in Shanghai.

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Chinese food:Dim Sum Dishes

As for the food part of the experience, the dim sum chefs' artistry and ingenuity is astounding, for some dim sum dishes seem to defy all the laws of physics and gravity. Even the standard shrimp dumpling—har gau—is a minor culinary miracle whereby a wafer-thin rice-flour wrapping cloaks a baby shrimp and some minced meat. The skin of rice-flour is so translucent that the ingredients can be clearly seen. Soup dumplings are another marvel of culinary engineering in which a portion of soup is magically sealed inside a gossamer skin, and steamed without a drop of leakage.

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