Learn Chinese L18: What’s your opinion on this issue?
Li Mei and Dachuan are seeing a horrible movie. Li Mei feels sick, and Dachuan falls asleep from boredom. After the film ends, Li Mei asks Dachuan what he thought about the film.
Liezi 列子 “Master Lie”
The Liezi 列子 "Master Lie" is a Daoist book attributed to Lie Yukou 列御寇 (also written 列圄寇 or 列圉寇, also called Lie Zhoukou 列周寇) from the Warring States period 战国 (5th cent.-221 BCE). He is said to have been from the state of Zheng郑. His thoughts are very similar to that in the book Zhuangzi 庄子, which often mentiones him. He is said to have been able to ride the wind (yu feng er xing 御风而行) in perfect non-action (wuwei 无为)． His first teacher was a certain Huqiuzi 壶丘子, later Bogaozi 伯高子. For Liezi the bad kings of antiquity had lost their realms because they dispised the true way and only esteemed richness and their own profit (zhong li, shi yi wang 重利，是以亡). During the Tang period 唐 (618-907), in 742, Liezi was elevated to a Daoist saint and was given the honorific title of Chongxu zhenren 冲虚真人 "Perfect Man of Serene Tranquillity". During the Song period 宋 (960-1279), in 1007, he was even further elevated to one of the four great Daoist Masters (the others being Zhuangzi, Wenzi 文子 and Kangcangzi 亢仓子) and bestowed the title of Chongxu zhide zhenren 冲虚至德真人 "Perfect Man of Serene Tranquillity and Highest Virtue".
Tianjin University 天津大学
****************************************************** Tianjin University（天津大学：Tiānjīn Dàxué）, established in 1895 with the name of “Peiyang University”（北洋大学：Běiyánɡ Dàxué）, is the first educational institution of higher learning in China. Over a hundred years, more than 150,000 students have graduated from Tianjin University and made great contributions in every way of life. At present, Tianjin University has grown into a National Key University directly under the administration of the Ministry of Education of China. With the tradition of diligence and modesty, Tianjin University is prepared to meet challenges in the 21st century.
Tianjin University was the first to fully adopt western university system in China. Upon its beginning, it ran according to American model, where western learning was mainly taught. Moreover, as to the school system, it was stipulated, as soon as the university was established, that the undergraduate program is the first class and prior the second and that either of them last four years.
Learn Chinese L20: Have you ever been to the Jiuzhaigou Valley?
Dachuan and Sun Dawei are watching TV. The program "World View" is being broadcast. They discuss the program while watching it.
Lantingxu 兰亭序 “Analysis of the Essay of the Orchid Pavilion”
The Lantingkao 兰亭考 "Analysis of the essay of the Orchid Pavilion" is a critical study to Wang Xizhi's 王羲之 famous calligraphy Lantingxu 兰亭序 from the Jin period 晋 (265-420). The 12 juan "scrolls" long book was compiled by the Song period 宋 (960-1279) scholar Sang Shichang 桑世昌. The original title of the book was Lanting boyi 兰亭博议 and had a length of 15 juan, but the title was later changed by the publisher Gao Sisun 高似孙, who also abbreviated the study. The calligraphy of the short essayLantingxu that was compiled in 353 CE had for centuries served as a model calligraphy of the running script (xingshu 行书). The calligraphy is 324 characters long and written in 28 columns, and the text describes the opportunity in which a meeting of poets and scholars met at a banquet. The Lantingkao investigates the history of the the calligraphy, its preservation by Wang Xizhi's descendant Wang Zhiyong 王智永 and later by Emperor Taizong 唐太宗 (r. 626-649) of the Tang dynasty 唐 (618-907) who ordered Zhao Mo 赵模 to produce copies of the calligraphy that were to serve as models for practicing calligraphy. The original has vanished, but Zhao Mo's copies helped preserving the style of Wang Xizhi. According to another tale, the calligraphy had been cut into a mountain cliff, where the early Song scholar Li Xuejiu 李学究 detected it and preserved the copy. His son sold this copy to the famous historian Song Qi 宋祁, Marshal Dingwu 定武帅. Song Qi cut it into stone as the so-called Dingwu version 定武本. Sang Shichang also tried to find out the age of Wang Xizhi in the year 9 of the Yonghe reign (Yonghe jiu nian 永和九年, the first words of the calligraphy), when the text was compiled. Wang must have been 51 years old and not, as other scholars say, 33. The Lantingkao had disappeared for some time after Sang Shichang entered a monastery.
Overseas WeChat Users Reach 100 Million海外微信用户达到一亿
据报道，微信现在有超过一亿的海外用户。It's being reported WeChat now has more than 100 million overseas users.
Learn Chinese L21: Excuse me. Is there any vacant room?
Sun Dawei, Dachuan, Li Mei and Hu Man go to Jiuzhaigou. They are very tired when they arrive. They go to a hotel to book rooms but find that there are no rooms available.
Li Bai: How Could He Buy Liquor?李白：何来买酒钱?
李白是一位唐代大诗人,他的一生可以说是始终与酒相伴。他自己在《襄阳歌》中说："百年三万六千日，一日须饮三百杯。"这虽是夸张之词，但也看出"诗仙"的酒量，一天喝半斤八两，恐怕不在话下。Li Bai is a great poet in the Tang Dynasty。 He spent his whole life with liquor. In his poem Song of Xiangyang, he said, "During the 36,000 days in 100 years, I must drink 300 cups of liquor every day." This is a kind of exaggeration, but we can also see that he was a heavy drinker. It must be a piece of cake for him to drink 50 gram of liquor a day.
Learn Chinese L22: How delicious the mooncakes are!
Dachuan is reading books in the library when Sun Dawei approaches Dachuan and tells him that today is a traditional Chinese holiday.
Terror attack in Kenya
A casual morning at the mall today turned into a siege of terror for unsuspecting shoppers in Nairobi, Kenya, when attackers dressed in black and wearing facemasks and vests loaded with grenades sprayed the unsuspecting crowds with bullets from AK-47s.
肯尼亚首都内罗毕西门购物中心21日发生枪击事件。一群身着黑衣和防护服的蒙面枪手在购物广场投掷了手榴弹，并用AK47式突击步枪对人群进行扫射。毫无预料的恐怖袭击使购物中心的顾客们措手不及，惊恐万分。
"They just came in and threw a grenade. We were running and they opened fire. They were shouting and firing," said Jay Patel who was on an upper floor of the mall when the shooting began.
枪击案发生时，目击者杰·帕特尔位于购物广场二楼，他回忆称，“枪手们走进广场就投掷了手榴弹。他们对逃跑的人群射击，不断的射击和扫射人群。”
Frightened shoppers fled the mall crying and clutching their small children. At one point mall guards used shopping carts to wheel out wounded children.
受惊的游客带着孩子四下奔逃，可以看到保安用购物车疏散受伤儿童。
The gunmen were still holed up in the mall late this evening, along with an unknown number of hostages.Two Kenyan army special forces units moved inside as the stand-off stretched into its ninth hour, while police and military surrounded the huge shopping complex.
至21日夜间枪手们仍聚留在广场内，扣留人质人数不明。目前恐怖分子聚留广场时间已经长达9个小时，肯尼亚警方和军队已经将广场包围，两支肯尼亚陆军特种部队已经进入广场。
Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, speaking in a nationally televised address today, said that at least 68 people were killed and at least 175 others were injured in the terror attack.
肯尼亚总理乌胡鲁·肯尼亚塔在21日的全国电视讲话中称，此起恐怖事件已经造成至少68人死亡，175人受伤。
"The despicable perpetrators of this cowardly act hope to intimidate, divide and cause despondency amongst Kenyans," Kenyatta said. "We have overcome terrorist attacks before. In fact we have fought courageously and defeated them within and outside our borders. We will defeat them again."
肯尼亚塔在电视讲话中说，“这些卑鄙的肇事者企图以这种怯懦的行径恐吓、离间、打击肯尼亚人民。我们曾经战胜过恐怖袭击，我们众志成城，粉碎过国内外的恐怖袭击事件。这一次我们一定能再次战胜他们。”
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