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Ashima 阿诗玛

Ashima is a traditional story of a girl from the national minority of the Yi 彝族. This story, in circulation among the tribe of the Sani 撒尼 living in the village of Azhudi 阿着底 district of Lunan 路南 in the province of Yunnan, was brought into the literary form of a poem in 1953 by Huang Tie 黄铁, Yang Zhiyong 杨知勇, Liu Qi 刘绮 and Gong Liu 公刘, which were members of the provincial Renmin gongwentuan gongzuozu 人民文工团工作组. The story was first published in 1954 by the newspaper Yunnan ribao 云南日报. The book has been translated into several foreign languages.

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Exemplarious translation of Zhouli 周礼

1.天官冢宰
惟王建国,辨方正位,体国经野,设官分职,以为民民极。乃立天官冢宰,使帅 其属而掌邦治,以佐王均邦国。
治官之属:大宰,卿一人。小宰,中大夫二人。
宰夫,下大夫四人;上士八人,中士十有六人,旅下士三十有二人;府六人, 史十有二人,胥十有二人,徒百有二十人。

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Medical Effects of Tea

It has been being widely accepted in China that tea is a good drink for preserving one's health. Researched found that the catechuic acid, cholestenone, caffeine, inositol, folic acid, pantothenic acid that tea contains can work together to prevent and restrain adiposity, and many examples have proved that drinking tea, gargling or brushing one's teeth with tea, or chewing tea-leaves are effective with problems of saprodontia and bromopnea. Also, clinical experiments discovery that people who drank three bowls of Tuo tea (a bowl-shaped compressed mass of tea leaves) had a decline of 13% in their blood fat, and their cholesterols were decreased, too. The following table is the main medical effects of green tea, black tea, white tea, and scented tea commonly accepted in China as well as some medical research results (for your reference).

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They gave divorce:Kramer vs. Kramer

For a city that gave divorce a bad name through its movie depiction of the ultimate ugly bust-up, Kramer vs. Kramer, the New York hearing of Murdoch vs. Murdoch went remarkably smoothly. There were no histrionics and no last-minute wrangles.
从《克莱默夫妇》一类电影对离婚的描绘中,我们可以看出纽约这座城市对离婚这种丑恶的最终决裂的嫌恶。然而默多克夫妇在纽约法院的离婚程序似乎格外顺利。没有做作的掩饰,也没有最后一分钟的博弈。

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Tea Set

Comprising teacup, teapot, teabowl, saucer, teaboard and some other supporting assistances, Chinese people have expanded the original function of tea set as kitchen ware into exquisite art field. Demarcated by manufacturing material and producing area, Chinese tea set can be generally distinguished as figuline ones, porcelain ones, lacquer ones, glass ones, metal ones, bamboo and other wooden ones, among all of which the red enameled pottery ones are commonly considered as a perfect one for tea making.

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Proverbs and Poems on Double Ninth Festival

TIPSY IN THE FLOWERS' SHADE 醉花阴
Li Qingzhao李清照
Thin is the mist and thick the clouds, so sad I stay.
薄雾浓云愁永昼,
From golden censer incense smokes all day.
瑞脑消金兽。
The Double Ninth comes now again;
佳节又重阳,
Alone I still remain In the curtain of gauze, on pillow, smooth like jade,
玉枕纱厨,
Feeling the midnight chill invade.
半夜凉透。
At dusk I drink before chrysanthemums in bloom;
东篱把酒黄昏后,
My sleeves are filled with fragrance and with gloom.
有暗香盈袖。
Say not my soul Is not consumed. Should western wind uproll
莫道不消魂,
The curtain of my bower,
帘卷西风,
'Twould show a thinner face than yellow flower.
人比黄花瘦。

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Zhouli 周礼 Rites of the Zhou

The Zhouli 周礼 "Rites of the Zhou" is a decription of the putative organisation of the government during the Western Zhou period 西周 (11th cent.-770 BCE). It is one of the three classics on rites (sanli 三礼) and one of the thirteen Confucian Classics. It was compiled during the Warring States period 战国 (5th cent.-221 BCE) and was known under the names of Zhouguan 周官 "The Offices of the Zhou" or Zhouguanjing 周官经 "Classic of the offices of the Zhou". Only during the Former Han period 前汉 (206 BCE-8 CE) it was given the name Zhouli by Liu Xin 刘歆. The book consists of six parts corresponding to the six ministries (liubu 六部) which, according to ancient cosmology, are correlated to Heaven, Earth, and the four seasons. There are 376 state officials in total, with subalters secretaries numbering many thousands. The Ministries, their cosmology and structure are:

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