Japan Says Chinese Premier Li Ignores History in Potsdam Remarks

Japan Says Chinese Premier Li Ignores History in Potsdam Remarks
By Bloomberg News - May 27, 2013

A top Japanese official said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang “ignored history” by interpreting a 1945 allied agreement to mean Japan should hand over disputed islands to China.

In a speech yesterday in Potsdam, Germany, site of the conference where terms of surrender were dictated to Japan, Li said that agreement reaffirmed Japan should return all territory stolen from China, including “Taiwan and related islands.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-26/china-s-li-calls-to-uphold-postwar-peace-amid-japan-island-spat.html

Money, Lao-tzu (老子)


To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed.

- Laozi (老子, 604 BC-? )

Only by Facing History Squarely Can One Embrace the Future, Premier Li Keqiang Stresses

Only by Facing History Squarely Can One Embrace the Future, Premier Li Keqiang Stresses

2013/05/26

On 26 May, Premier Li Keqiang toured the site of the Potsdam Conference in the state of Brandenburg, Germany.

Endurance, Lao-tzu (老子)


There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed.

- Laozi (老子, 604 BC-? )

Vermilion Bird (朱雀)

Vermilion Bird (朱雀)

Alternative Names (異名):
朱雀, 주작, Zhū Què, Vermilion Bird, スザク(Japanese), Chu Tước(Vietnamese)


The Vermilion Bird (Chinese: 朱雀; pinyin: Zhū Què) is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. According to Wu Xing, the Taoist five-elemental system, it represents the fire-elemental, the direction of south, and the season summer correspondingly. Thus it is sometimes called the Vermilion Bird of the South (南方朱雀, Nán Fāng Zhū Què). It is often mistaken for Fenghuang, but they are two different creatures. Fenghuang is the king of birds, while the Vermilion Bird is a mythological spirit creature of the Chinese constellations.


The Seven Mansions of the Vermilion Bird

Like the other Four Symbols, the Vermilion Bird corresponds to seven "mansions", or positions, of the moon.

Well (Chinese: 井; pinyin: Jǐng)
Ghost (Chinese: 鬼; pinyin: Guǐ)
Willow (Chinese: 柳; pinyin: Liǔ)
Star (Chinese: 星; pinyin: Xīng)
Extended Net (Chinese: 張; pinyin: Zhāng)
Wings (Chinese: 翼; pinyin: Yì)
Chariot (Chinese: 軫; pinyin: Zhěn)


Nature of The Vermilion Bird

The Vermilion Bird is an elegant and noble bird in both appearance and behavior, it is very selective in what it eats and where it perches, with its feathers in many different hues of reddish orange.


Vermilion Bird in different languages

The Chinese constellations were not only used by Chinese cartographers, they were also used by Korean and Japanese cartographers as well.

Standard Mandarin: Zhū Què / 朱雀
Japanese: Suzaku / スザク
Korean: Ju-jak / 주작
Vietnam by Sino-Vietnamese: Chu Tước (Pronounced by "Tchu Tughk")


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion_Bird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mythology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chinese_mythology



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Knowledge, Lao-tzu (老子)


People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

- Laozi (老子, 604 BC-? )

Politics, Lao-tzu


He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.

- Laozi (老子, 604 BC-? )

Happiness, Lao-tzu


Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

- Laozi (老子, 604 BC-? )

Endeavor, Confucius


Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Confucius (孔子, 551BC–479BC)