http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/ For SCAdians interested in China or contact with the Far East Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:05:36 GMT Genie Barrett http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3190 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3190 Hello all, (Sorry for cross posts.) I promised the notes to my Basic Chinese Costume class that I taught about a year ago. I have finally been able to get it Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:21:48 GMT Michele http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3189 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3189 tudi - land, sounds to me like dirt. then again tudi paopao tudi gonggong are guardian spirits of a particular local area, so maybe it does work. I dunno. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:11:29 GMT JL Badgley http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3188 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3188 The following was posted to SCA-JML, and I figured I would post it here because there was more likely to be interest and possible answers for the gentleman in Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:02:49 GMT JL Badgley http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3187 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3187 I have to admit that I shake my head whenever I see some of these popping up in stores, but someone apparently has put together a website to collect all of the Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:59:10 GMT Bill Lubarsky http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3186 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3186 All I can comment on now (I'm at work, lunch time) is that #3 is characteristic of Central Asian dress. During T'ang there was a fad for things Central Asian Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:49:57 GMT JL Badgley http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3185 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3185 I just recently got back from a trip to Taipei (neither the palace museum nor the national history allowed pictures... sigh) with a TON of books. One of the Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:27:49 GMT fu_ren_zhang http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3184 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3184 As very little is showing correctly in my post, I would like to clarify the following: zh¨¨ngy¨¬ h¨¦ h¨¦p¨ªng tud¨¬ should have been: zhengyi he Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:18:04 GMT fu_ren_zhang http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3183 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3183 I am re-posting this as I think I was logged on incorrectly the first time ... Whoa! Thank you all for your replies. I apologize for not being able to reply Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:32:38 GMT urofpersia http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3182 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3182 ... Hahaha, good one! :-D It missed the Justice explicitly but is implicit in both tian and guo. Although you should perhaps post some kind of a warning... Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:38:56 GMT Marian Rosenberg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3181 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3181 ... 太平天国? ... Taiping Tianguo -M Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:50:39 GMT JL Badgley http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3180 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3180 ... I think the question is: Do you want a sentence/description or a name? I figured more along the lines of a name, like Shanghai, Xi'an, Beijing, etc... Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:42:55 GMT Olai Skjaervoy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3179 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3179 pronounced "he ping yu zheng yi de guo tu" "he ping" = peace "zheng yi de" = justice, just "guo tu" = territory, land Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:37:56 GMT Olai Skjaervoy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3178 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3178 ????????????????, according to my Chinese teacher coworker. -Olai Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:19:46 GMT JL Badgley http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3177 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3177 ... "Justice" or "Virtue"? I'm trying to think of "justice" and I'm not sure what would be good, but virtue ("de") might be good. Also, what kind of "land"? Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:13:21 GMT fu_ren_zhang http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3176 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA-China/message/3176 Ni hao all, Okay, so calling it an emergency is a bit of an exaggeration, but I am Southern so I really can't help it. Basically I need the following