Do you know the original Greek translation of "Apocalypse" is "lifting the veil" or "revolution"? It is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of humankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception: a revealing of the true nature of things.
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It was the first long novel describing the Yao nationality’s life in China. The book based on DuJie, which is an ancient grown-up ceremony of the Yao nationality, introduces the life, customs and habits of Yao nationality to readers.
Emperor Yao Plants the Beans was recounted by ancient children's literature writer Zhou Jing and contemporary painter Gu Zengping, the latter recarving stories and characters in the style of Chinese painting. The integration of the poetry of the text and the richness of the painting is a wonderful interpretation of ancient myths, which expresses the unique Chinese charm and Chinese spirit. This book is a mythical story about friendship. In the reenactment of this story, the author endows Emperor Yao with a great love to the world and a strong desire for talented people. Li and Yao each had their own lives and pursuits. The bean pods that Li quietly brought to Yao gave Yao a great hope to success. These two men did not impose their pursuits on each other, but respected, appreciated, affirmed, and cherished each other.
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The book studys the translation of Panwang Dage, a great Yao epic, from Chinese to English. It initially illustrates the text from linguistic level and cultural level, providing the basis for the use of translation strategies and methods focusing on oral literature of the southern ethnic minorities in China. Further, the author conducts theoretical interpretation and derivations, and puts forward some new ideas, like "dynamic equivalence of domestication and foreignization", "progressive translation based on cultural memes", etc., which can work in the translation of Chinese folk classics, especially the epics of southern China.
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When Yao was the leader of the confederation of tribes，ten suns ap-geared in the sky. The crops were scorched，and the grass and treeswere destroyed. The common people were starved to death. At the same time，the monsters and demons ran wild and did great harm to the people. Yao sent Hou Yi to kill them. Hou Yi killed the sharp teeth monster in the wilderness，slew the cruel dragon in the turbulent river，captured the storm demon in the valley of Qingqiu Mountains，cut the longest snake in Dong Ting Lake and captured the lar-gest beast in the mulberry forest. After destroying all the monsters，he shot down the nine blazing suns keeping only one in the sky. Then，the mass could live a sta-ble life again. Yi became the hero eulogized by the later generations.
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The story takes place in the early 1980s. Liu Tianzuo has a talent for playing suona, so he was recruited into a certain art propaganda team. In the army, Liu Tianzuo's talent in playing attracted Fu Yao, a nurse in the medical department of the military department. The two fell in love, but after Fu Yao's mother objected and failed, Fu Yao also married others. A few years later, Tianzuo married before the reduction and demobilization of the army, and transferred to work in a company affiliated to the Foreign Trade Bureau. After that, he resigned and went to the sea to do feed business and earned his first pot of gold. The band was recalled and the performance was very popular. Later, a performance company was formed and became the "home of veterans" for demobilized soldiers. The business became more prosperous...
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This is a parenting handbook for educating people who have experienced the whole process. The author’s career path runs through pre-school education, compulsory education, and high school teaching and research. She uses a relaxed and humorous language to explain the various situations she encountered in the process of raising her daughter; the vertical and long-term retrospect and the horizontal open reference Staggered, so that the spicy and humorous writing and the deep and flexible thinking are reflected. In the book, the author expresses the view that "not good and unsuccessful will not prevent the child from becoming a happy, sober, self-sufficient person", and believes that "in the absence of material and glory, one can still live steadily Well, this is the great wisdom of life." There is no boring preaching in the book, some are real experiences and typical cases of raising children. The text in the book contains not only the smiles and tears that make parents empathetic, but also the personal analysis and comments of children who are educated. When reading, people can't help but laugh; when aftertaste, people nod and realize.
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Flowers Blossoming is a picture book created in the context of poverty alleviation through education in China. In the Shiwan Mountain area of Guangxi where the outdated notion "women are not supposed to receive education" still prevails, Ah Mei, a girl of the Yao ethnic group, cherishes the hope that "knowledge can change fate". She leaves the mountain to receive education and work with the support of government. Having experienced a broader world outside, she returns to the mountain to plant seeds of hope for other girls. The delicate and healing pictures in this book carry great power. The stretching mountain and the lush forests trigger boundless imaginations, embodying the thirst of girls deep in the mountain for learning knowledge and exploring the outside world. While the problems with girls' education in impoverished areas as reflected by the book have great realistic implications, the book applauds selfless educators for their finite contribution to the infinite educational cause, empowering more girls to live more open and brighter lives.
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This book mainly introduces the origin of the Yao ethnic group's King Pan Festival. The King Gao rebelled. In order to encourage his people to actively fight back and win the war, Emperor Ku made a promise: Whoever can cut off the head of the King Gao will marry his beautiful little daughter -- the third princess. After hearing of the news, Pan Hu who was a dragon dog managed to achieve the goal. However, the emperor did not want to keep his promise after learning that Pan Hu was a dragon dog. The third princess found that Pan Hu was very kind and brave, and decided to marriage him. Later, the third princess learned that Pan Hu could become a human as long as he was steamed in a steamer for seven days and nights. After Pan Hu was transformed into a human, the emperor sent Pan Hu to the Kuaiji Mountain to be the king. From then on, Pan Hu was called King Pan Hu. Later, during a hunting process, King Pan Hu fell off a cliff and died. In order to commemorate him, people set his birthday October 16th in the lunar calendar as the “King Pan Festival”.
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Guest House are the hotels which are attractive to travellers. The construction of folk hostels is developing rapidly in recent years. Staying in the folk hostels, travellers have chances to talk with the masters of the hostels, learn something about the social custom in the convesation. Folk hostels told in the book make the travellers enjoy themseves so much as to forget to go away from them because of nature, the geographical situation and the natural situation. There are many fine and beautiful pictures and blueprints for project, which are good for those who are employed in the service trade.
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This book conprises two parts:one introduces the basic knowledge of Apoplexy;the other gives concrete methods to guard against Apoplexy.
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This comprehensive book covers the underlying scientific principles, state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies of plant mutagenesis. It covers historical development and commonly used terminologies, chemical and physical mutagenesis, mutation induction, mutation breeding and mutations in functional genomics research. Suitable both as a manual for professionals and a resource for students in plant breeding and research, the book includes exemplary cases of practical applications and an appendix of recommended doses of gamma and fast neutron irradiation for almost 200 plant species.
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For the purpose of spreading the culture of herbal medicine, imparting knowledge and demonstrating Chinese art, 30 stories related to Chinese traditional medicine are selected in this animation. Each story tells the audience the originality of medicines and the meanings handed down to this day.
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The Business of Plant Breeding is the result of a study on demand-led plant variety design for markets in Africa, sharing best practices from private and public sector breeding programmes worldwide that are applicable to improving tropical crops in Africa. Beginning with an overview of the principles of demand-led plant breeding, the book then discusses aspects such as understanding the demands of clients and markets in rural and urban areas, foresight in setting product profiles and breeding targets, and determining breeding strategy and stage plans. It also covers measuring success and making the business case for future investments in breeding programmes that will deliver new varieties to meet market demands. The book: - Brings together the experience of plant breeders around the world, representing universities, national plant breeding programmes, regional and international agricultural research institutes, and private seed companies, showcasing how to respond to changing market demands; - Provides educational resource materials within each chapter; - Includes templates for use as planning tools by plant breeding programs for determining priority traits that meet market demands. An important read for professionals and students of plant breeding and genetics, this book is also a useful resource for anyone interested in developing and disseminating new, market-led technologies to increase productivity and profitability in tropical agriculture. The study was sponsored by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, the Crawford Fund and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, and managed by the University of Queensland.
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The Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus, is the most destructive and invasive termite species globally. It is also the only termite species listed in the world's 100 worst invasive alien species of the Global Invasive Species Database. Annually, its infestation costs more than $4 billion in control and damage repairs in the USA alone. This book is the first comprehensive resource drawing on all the literature on C. formosanus since Tokuichi Shiraki first described the species in 1909. The book covers the worldwide distribution of this species, its biogeography, and how it has dispersed from its native range in southern China and Taiwan to different parts of the world. It describes its present taxonomic status and discusses the species' biology, ecology, foraging behavior, physiology, chemical ecology and its association with symbionts. From a practical standpoint, the authors address all of the various management options for this species, such as baits, soil termiticides, wood preservatives, inspection and detection technologies, and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approaches. Lastly, there are chapters dedicated to another important destructive species, Coptotermes gestroi (the Asian subterranean termite), and the recently discovered C. formosanus/C. gestroi hybrids. This important book is an essential and valuable reference for researchers, graduate students, pest management professionals, chemical manufacturer personnel, building and property managers, and others. It provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the biology and management of the Formosan subterranean termite and the Asian subterranean termite.
Yao, Chiao-Mei traveled with her mother to Arashiyama in Kyoto when she was 25. They lingered on the TogetuKyo Bridge, watching at the endless spring scenery. The tranquility and the solidarity view at that moment had touched Yao, Qiao-Mei, and buried the seed for her advanced studies in Kyoto. Revisiting the old place, “Mother has left the world for many years and my hair started to turn grey.”, said Yao, Qiao-Mei.Time flies through the millennium and Kyoto remains peaceful. “Love and infatuation for Kyoto” sets the ancient capital as the stage. The author, at her late age, urges the inevitably disappearing time and people to stay. Geishas glide across the new bridge with umbrellas on their hands. The seemingly light-footed steps are rather heavy. This abstinence can solely be accomplished by strict training. Around thirty articles and illustrations provide us a glimpse of the turbulent love and infatuation under the tranquility of Kyoto and Yao, Qian-Mei’s love and infatuation for Kyoto.
Written by Yang Yao, Chair Professor at the National School of Development, and his team, the book China: A New Narrative describes the legal principles, political foundations, economic achievements and management logics of China’s governance model under the leadership of CCP in an academic language that fits the international standards. It does not blindly apply western theories to the Chinese reality, like many western-trained Chinese scholars do; neither does it stay in the comfort zone of the CCP’s orthodox theory that not many people can understand. Instead, this new narrative uses western theories as a mirror and sees the Chinese reality in that mirror, thus making the China road and model become a narrative that contains global meaning. China: A New Narrative firstly is a systematic narrative that explains the the relatoinship between the party and the nation, interprets the features, as well as the political and philosophical foundation, of comtemporary Chinese political system in detail. Besides, the book is also an empirical narrative that discusses the issue of government officials selectioin and public management from the perspective of policy making and implementation, showcasing the management achievement of comtemporary Chinese system, as well as pointing out its deficiency and providing the improvement solutions.
The last human interaction a true Samurai has is his final bow to his witnesses: expressing gratitude for their bestowing him the honor of “achieving a good death” in front of their presence. He does all this at the exact moment when he is about to stab his precious sword into his own belly, then bring it across his stomach from left to right. It takes a sublime level of self-discipline that is beyond thought and carnal courage. The art of dying a good death is an artless art: a discipline imbued with a Zen spirit that penetrates all cells of the Practitioner’s mind and body. The outcome is an austere beauty for which you would have no word. You simply feel it. When given a chance to live in Tokyo for two years, the co-author, Mei Yao, had an immediate but vague desire to do Zazen (i.e., sitting meditation) with the Japanese monks, and also to find out what the word “Ikebana” is really about. And if there is no coincidence under the large scheme of things, then it is indeed fate that she would accidentally run into the person who would volunteer to take her to the “practicing field” (called a “dojo” in Japanese) where a select group of people, from as young as 28 to as old as 84 years of age, are still practicing the art in the unadulterated, ancient way that originated from a Samurai and world famous ink-painter, Shinso Soami, during the Muromachi Era some 500+ years ago. Upon arriving at the “dojo” of the Souami School, Mei was taken aback by the reverence she felt from the greetings exchanged between her guide and the 21st Headmaster, Gahou Yokochi Sensei. As she entered the space, a palpable sense of veneration silently emanated from each and every practitioner. None of them are monks. They simply come together once every other week --- to hone in their understanding of nature and technical dexterity with the floral branches, and also to quietly observe the demeanor of their master teacher and other senior disciple-masters --- with the hope to further refine their heart through the art. What she experienced there in the “dojo” is utterly different from her previous experiences in the “classrooms” of two other popularly commercialized Ikebana schools. In this book Mei Yao shares her ever-deepening understanding of the soul and principles of “living Zen” --- as explained in Souami’s handwritten scroll, The Book of Flowers and Samurai Miyamoto Musashi’s The Book of Five Rings. These ancient values are still manifesting in every corner of the Japanese society and culture today. Humanity and the Earth are both passing through a very challenging time right now, but with one ultimate reason: to raise ourselves to the perfection we are within. The way of ancient Ikebana has been a surprisingly elegant practice for Mei Yao on her personal journey towards “the Way” over the years. Readers who enjoy the beauty of Mary Oliver’s poetry and Henry Thoreau’s natural writing will have a chance to also glimpse into “the Formless Self” by immersing themselves in the original Ikebana masterpieces by one of the most disciplined Ikebana masters, Hikaru Yokochi (a.k.a. Gahou Yokochi, bestowed Ikebana heritage name), who makes a faithful living in Tokyo as a renowned fine-oil painter.
