One of my favorite sights in the spring and fall. All the students bring out their blankets and air them out. A little dorm ‘freshening up’. So fun to see – all the different colirs and styles on the bushes alongside the roads. β€
#Traditional Storefront
#ChineseArt ~ Ceramic Design
One of the beautiful art pieces decorating the ceramic walls of the Chinese Summer Palace in Peking.
Pagoda #Park
Wanna climb the pagoda? π The beautiful sight greeted me on the way to classes. It’s a lovely pagoda up on the hill and part of a park in the middle of our campus. I love all the #colors!
**Just don’t go up there at night. π It’s pretty much destined to live as a kind of ‘kissing kastle’ sort of place at night. When all the students have 7 other kids in their rooms, couples find privacy here π
Finding #Love over the Magpie Bridge
XiΔn yΓΊn nΓ²ng qiΔo, fΔi xΔ«ng chuΓ‘n hΓ¨n, yΓn hΓ n tiΓ‘o tiΓ‘o Γ n dΓΉ
JΔ«n fΔng yΓΉ lΓΉ yΓ¬ xiΔng fΓ©ng, biΓ n shΓ¨ng quΓ¨ rΓ©n jiΔn wΓΊ shΓΉ
RΓ³u qΓng sΓ¬ shuΔ, Β jiΔ qΔ« rΓΊ mΓ¨ng, rΔn gΓΉ quΓ¨ qiΓ‘o guΔ« lΓΉ
LiΔng qΓng ruΓ² shΓ¬ jiΕ chΓ‘ng shΓ, yΓ²u qΔ zΓ i zhΔo zhΔo mΓΉ mΓΉ
As Clouds float like works of art;Β
Stars shoot with grief at heart.
Across the Milky Way the Cowherd meets the Maid.
When autumnβs Golden Wind embraces Dew of Jade
All the love scenes on earth, however many, fade.
Their tender love flows like a stream;Β
This happy date seems but a dream.
Can they bear a separate homeward way?
If love between both sides can last for aye,
Why need they stay together night and day?
(Translated by Xu Yuanchong)
In a magical world in a century so long ago it has faded into dream and myth, there lived a tragic, poor, lonely manΒ named Niu Lang. Most of his family had all died several years before, and those who remained had thrown him out on the street. So to stay alive, he found a small job taking care of some cows. Β
Imagine his surprise when he found out that one of those cows was somethingΒ special. It actually had once belonged to the God of the Heavens, and it could talk to Niu Lang! They had some lovely conversations, and the cow came to like Niu Lang.Because although he was poor and his life was not good, his heart was still rather cheerful and he had a knack for finding joy in even the difficult times. Β So the cow decided to give Niu Lang a little bit of advice. (more…)
The Cultured Muse 