{"id":48,"date":"2010-09-06T15:24:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T15:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2010-09-06T15:24:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T15:24:40","slug":"finding-true-meaning-in-classic-chinese-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/06\/finding-true-meaning-in-classic-chinese-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding true meaning in classic Chinese literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I was young, I learned these classic Chinese literatures. One of them is the famous Dang dynasty poem from Wang Wei \u201cA Song at Weicheng\u201d and another one is one of the four Chinese classic novels \u201cJourney to the West\u201d from the 16th century. My trip to the Silk Road three weeks ago made all these literatures into reality.<\/p>\n

\u738b\u7ef4Wang Wei wrote\u300a\u9001\u5143\u4e8c\u4f7f\u5b89\u897f\uff08\u53c8\u540d\u201c\u6e2d\u57ce\u66f2\u201d\uff09\u300bA SONG AT WEICHENG
\n\u6e2d\u57ce\u671d\u96e8\u6d65\u8f7b\u5c18\uff0cA morning-rain has settled the dust in Weicheng;
\n\u5ba2\u820d\u9752\u9752\u67f3\u8272\u65b0\u3002Willows are green again in the tavern dooryard….
\n\u529d\u541b\u66f4\u5c3d\u4e00\u676f\u9152, Wait till we empty one more cup —
\n\u897f\u51fa\u9633\u5173\u65e0\u6545\u4eba\u3002West of Yang Gate there’ll be no old friends.
\nI was able to see the so called Yang Gate\u9633\u5173 at Jiayuguan \u5609\u88d5\u5173and the nearby Jade Gate \u7389\u95e8\u5173. These gates together marked the boundaries between ancient China \u4e2d\u56fd and the surrounding barbarians. West of the gates was desert while east of the gates was the civilized China in old days. Making the geographic connection allows me to fully understand the true meaning of \u201cWest of Yang Gate there’ll be no old friends\u201d.<\/p>\n

One of the most famous characters in Journey to the West \u897f\u6e38\u8bb0was the Monkey King\u5b59\u543e\u7a7a. In one of the episode, the Monkey King had to pass the Flaming Mountain\u706b\u7130\u5c71with his crew. The only way to pass the Mountain was to borrow a super fan from a powerful person. I thought the Flaming Mountain\u706b\u7130\u5c71was existed only in literature when I was young. But there is the real Flaming Mountain in Xinjiang province that I saw this time. The red sandy mountain under the sun is breathtakingly beautiful. Not only did we find the real Flaming Mountain, we also went to Guazhou \u74dc\u5dde. In Journey to the West, the Monkey King also went to Guazhou \u74dc\u5dde. We tasted sweet melon at Guazhou, maybe that is why it is called Guazhou because melon in Chinese is Gua\u74dc.<\/p>\n

By the way, if you don\u2019t know what Four Chinese Classic Novels are, they are: Romance of the Three Kingdoms \u4e09\u570b\u6f14\u7fa9, Water Margin \u6c34\u6ef8\u50b3, Journey to the West \u897f\u904a\u8a18 and Dream of the Red Chamber \u7d05\u6a13\u5922. Happy learning because what you have learned could be true.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was young, I learned these classic Chinese literatures. One of them is the famous Dang dynasty poem from Wang Wei \u201cA Song at Weicheng\u201d and another one is one of the four Chinese classic novels \u201cJourney to the West\u201d from the 16th century. My trip to the Silk Road three weeks ago made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-and-adventure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daileytravelservice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}