Below is a playlist with 16 videos. To watch them on Youtube window with sidebar, click here.
Full-length videos are blocked in Youtube. So I uploaded them in Vimeo.
(1) China From Above-The Living Past:
(2) China From Above-The Future is Now:
I only uploaded Shanghai and Chinawood from this video.
Saturday, January 30, 2016
Monday, January 25, 2016
Learn Chinese the easy way
The year of monkey is almost here (Feb. 8). I have presented some ancient Chinese characters for friends. I thought one can actually learn Chinese very easy by looking at how they were originated. I picked 5 simple characters and our last names: Woo and Hsia.
There are reports recently about rock pictograms by American Indians being 3300 year old writings of Shang people. I consider it's a mistake. The reason is that in ancient scripts the king and ordinary person stretch their arms out differently (see below).
Big - front view of a person
Sky - a person under a top
Stand - a person on floor
King - a person with arms stretched out straight
Woo - a tilted head person, later a mouth was added
Hsia - a monkey (false); a graceful or dancing person
Person - side view of a person
Notes:
Shell-bone scripts - more than 3000 years old, unearthed ~100 years ago
Bronze scripts - less than 3000 year old, mostly recently unearthed
Cantonese: one of oldest Chinese; Mandarin: newest Chinese
* Woo without mouth is thought to be a variant of 吳 by more and more scholars.
If true, the name King Woo (王吳) appeared 3300 years ago written on shell-bone.
Wu nation: ~1100(?)-473BC (called Woo King like now); Wu (of 3 kingdoms): 229-280AC.
Simplified Woo is 吴, confused with ancient Sky (see above, empty rectangle is not a mouth).
** Hsia's shell-bone script as a monkey was implied in China's 1st dictionary (~1900 year ago).
I consider it's a mistake. This is a big deal because Hsia means Chinese people (Hua Hsia 華夏).
Hua and Hsia were interchangeable in ancient scripts. Hua is part of the name of China today.
There are reports recently about rock pictograms by American Indians being 3300 year old writings of Shang people. I consider it's a mistake. The reason is that in ancient scripts the king and ordinary person stretch their arms out differently (see below).
Big - front view of a person
Sky - a person under a top
Stand - a person on floor
King - a person with arms stretched out straight
Woo - a tilted head person, later a mouth was added
Hsia - a monkey (false); a graceful or dancing person
Person - side view of a person
Notes:
Shell-bone scripts - more than 3000 years old, unearthed ~100 years ago
Bronze scripts - less than 3000 year old, mostly recently unearthed
Cantonese: one of oldest Chinese; Mandarin: newest Chinese
* Woo without mouth is thought to be a variant of 吳 by more and more scholars.
If true, the name King Woo (王吳) appeared 3300 years ago written on shell-bone.
Wu nation: ~1100(?)-473BC (called Woo King like now); Wu (of 3 kingdoms): 229-280AC.
Simplified Woo is 吴, confused with ancient Sky (see above, empty rectangle is not a mouth).
** Hsia's shell-bone script as a monkey was implied in China's 1st dictionary (~1900 year ago).
I consider it's a mistake. This is a big deal because Hsia means Chinese people (Hua Hsia 華夏).
Hua and Hsia were interchangeable in ancient scripts. Hua is part of the name of China today.
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