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Hie, this blog is done for my trip to Wuhan, Hubei, China! Availability 3rd march till 12 april 2009. Continuation of blogging is still unknown. Welcome to my life in China!
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009!
HandWritten on; 4:26 AM

Title: China History
Hie~ Reader, if you are interested, you can read this, it's what i learnt from xiao ling lesson. But however, please try not to expect a lot of information from me as you know, i have been falling asleep by accident then. So, below is what i known from xiao ling class and i summarised it...

History
Origin if the Name of Zhongguo
Zhong guo(China in Chinese) meant the central city or the central state. The Guo referred to city or state. After 1911 Revolution (led by Dr. Sun Yat-sen which overthrew the Qing Dynasty), Zhongguo was taken as the republic of China in 1949. The only one Zhongguo in the world is people’s republic of China with its capital in Beijing.

Introduction
It has 5000 years of recorded and tradition2 splendid projects

-The Great wall
Purpose of building:It is built of stone and maintained between the 5th century BC and 16th century to protect the norther borders of Chinese Empire from Xiongnu attacks.
Distance:6400kmLocation: Along an arc that roughly delineates the edge of Inner Mongolia
Number of people died: 2-3million Chinese died

-The Grand CanalInformation: Also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (京杭大运河) is the longest ancient canal or artificial river in the world.
Location: Beijing it passes through Tianjin and the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the city of Hangzhou.
Distance: roughly 1,770 km

Four Great Inventions
-Compass (Made during spring and autum)Model of Han dynasty, used for indicating direction.

-Gunpowder (invented 9th century) In olden days Chinese used as Fireworks, while Europe used as weapons.

-Printing (made during eastern han dynasty)Sui and Tang dynasties used as block printing

- Paper Reason for using paper to write: As olden days cannot write oh tortoise shells, animal bones and wooden plates then, they tired writing on papers. Of course, early years papers was not suitable for writing, thus improvement had been made and was credited to the Chinese

About AC and BC
BC is from biggest to smallest year, For e.g. (2070 BC, next year is 2069 BC)While AC is from smallest to biggest year. Like what we are now, we belong to the AD generation.

Now, I shall begin with what happened in each dynasty (in increasing order)

See the time line for China, there are so many dynasty!!
-Xia Dynasty (2070-1600 BC)
Came into being the 21st century BC.
Earliest Dynasty, it was known as a myth then of it existence.

-Shang Dynasty(1600-1046 BC)
The first dynasty of which we have evidence.
Developing of writing system and was defeated about 1028 BC by Zhou people from west.

- Zhou Dynasty (1046-221 BC)
China ”iron age”
Time of great philosopher: Confuscius, famous thinker and teachings and philosophy which influenced Chinese Korean and Japanese thought and life. Lao-Tse, born before Confuscius and engaged in philosophical studies and conined the term dao道(studies of sky, earth and humanity. Sunzi, an author summed up the experience and lesson of many great battles in history. The book knows as Sunzi & The Art of Warfare孙子兵法.

-Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC)
Qin destroyed the power of the feudal lords, which the name “China” came about.
Great wall began to use to keep out invader (xiong nu) from the north.
Shortest dynasty on record (15 years)

-Han Dynasty (206 BC- 220AD)
Most glorious of dynasties.
Imporatant events and people: hanwudi, an extraordinary emperor whom is able to against the xiong nu which had been a long threatened the Han Empire. He make Confucianism a state ideology and found an ancient Silk road for economic and culture exchange. Also paper and porcelain, si maqian(historian) and his shiji(records of his histories).

-Three kingdoms (220-280 AC)
After Han Dynasty, there was civil war, thus, three kingdoms were developed. (Mention in previous blog;day 3 reflection)

-Jin Dynasty
Started by Sima Yan by conquering the Wu Kingdom (one of the three kingdom)Downfall of western Jin Dynasty ethnic groups broke out. Eastern Jin Dynasty was set up by Sima Rui. Thus, period of Jin is only from 265-316 and northern and southern dynasty was formed from 317-581.

-Sui Dynasty (581-618AD)
Nation’s economy was later ruined by Emperor Yang Di’s because of this corruption and his excessive spending on military and projects. Then, China became poor and Li Yuan, a military commander took over the capital and lead to Tang Dynasty

-Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD)
The “golden age” as the country is reviving.
Foreign relations were broader by using the Silk road.
New musical instruments, song and dance introduced.
Economic and culture bloom and China was powerful and ranked among the most advanced countries in the world then.

-Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD)
Continuation of the “golden age”.
Agriculture and commerce flourished as well for science and technology. Boom in calligraphy, painting and art.
Thinkers, scholars appearing.
Trades grew as Europe was interested in gunpowder, compass, movable type printing made by China.

-Liao Dynasty (907-1125 AD)

Jin Dynasty (1115-1234 AD)

Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368 AD)
The first time that a non-Chinese controlled China, who are, the Mongols.Under the Mongol’s rule, it boost the economy and promote science and culture. Europe learned of the Mongols through travellers like Marco Polo. Thus began the first interest in China by European merchants.Dominican and Franciscan missionaries sailed to China.During the nine decades of Yuan rule, there were no end to peasant insurrection.After the death of Kublai Khan, China was again troubled by quarrels

Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 AD)
The Ming Dynasty represented the return of Chinese rule.
The Great Wall was rebuilt and became a boundary line.During the Ming Dynasty the growth of agriculture and handicraft production brought an expansion to the economy. Overseas contacts increased. A notable example is provided by Zheng He, a noted navigator, who was sent overseas as envoy at the head of a large fleet, on seven voyages, the longest of which took him to the equator on the eastern African coast.The Ming Dynasty was overthrown in 1644 by the peasant armies under the command of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

Qing Dynasty (1644-1912 AD)
The last of China’s great dynasties began.
The Manchus, as did the Moguls, ruled through Chinese officials and Chinese institutions.The Manchus absorbed the best of Chinese literature, political system, art and philosophy and its territory was extensive and production boomed.After the middle period, all kinds of social contradictions increasingly surfaced and the Qing Dynasty began to decline. In 1840 when the Opium War broke out, the Qing court was faced with troubles at home and aggression from abroad. The Revolution of 1911 led by Sun Yat-sen 孙中山broke out and overthrew the Qing Dynasty, bringing two thousand years of Chinese feudal kingdom to an end.


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HandWritten on; 3:16 AM

Title: Day 21

Good Night to all my dear readers! Sorry for the late posting as i have been packed with a lot of stuff that made me UNABLE TO BREATH (just kidding,im still alive) Okay, so here im blogging and let me start from where i have stop,

Day 21, Temp:Cold
I was having diarrhea whole night the day before! I felt so sick and tired going to the washroom as i had been visiting almost every one hour that night before!! *toilet nightmare* But luckly, im blessed with 2 roommates whom took care of me while i was sick, I would like to say a gigantic THANK YOU them!!
THANK YOU MEI YI AND FELICIA PO PO!!

So, I woke up at 12.30om that day and i was late for my class for half an hour!(don't ask us why, we are just late because we are slow) Honestly speaking, this was my 1st time being late so late for a class.
Anyway, we had our lesson from 1(which i was 1/2 an hour late) all the way till 4.30pm.

At 4.30pm,f eeling hungry then, me and mei yi lefted the classroom while the rest stayed to watch Madacasda 2. So, we went to grap some finger food, as it will soon be dinner time.

Soon dinner time arrived and all of us, decided to eat in restaurant! Now, come the interesting part of the day. As we reached the restaurant, the waiter asked how many people we had. So, we said that we have 18 of us. Guess what!! See the room the waiter brought us to...








IT WAS A PRIVATE GUEST ROOM!(Xiang fang) See how big was the room!! There were couch, television, , toilet and waiter standing outside the door all the time for us to call them anything. The standard i saw inside was as comparable to the one in Singapore! Super nice!! It was like for those CEOs and VIPs usage! Extremely Grand!!

When we first stepped into it, we was like wondering "does we need to pay extra for the usage of this room". Thus, we were like pestering the waiters there about it. All of them said no, but, the question keep on daunting. Actually, we were quite afraid that the bill come out to be frightening, but however, we still enjoy the dinner 1st, bill settle later.(Read on to find out how much this meal cost us)

So, these are the dishes we ordered:
Fish. Did i mention, the fish in China ARE FULL OF BONES!!
Salad
Pork Ribs and FRENCH FRIES!! (my favorite)
Bean Sprout
Eh? OH!! Bitter gout
Dong fen! This is super YUMMY!!! OISHI!
Octupus
Forgotten what vege is this, but is the signature dish, all of them whom tasted it give *tumb up*!



Cumber!

This meal is worth eating!It cost...... ..... ..... .... .... .... per head 22rmb oni!!(mean singapore 4 dollars plus) CHEAP Right!?!?! Also, there is no extra charges! It is very nice!(the food) But, i can only compare it with those "zhi cai". For the food and cleaness wise,for Singapore restaurant,i feel, the standard in Singapore is too high as for China restaurant to compare with.

Thus, after the SPLENDID dinner, we went to the supermarket again as our basic necessitates has gone out of stock(finished). Like toilet papers,tissue papers, shampoo etc. Total, it cost me 26rmb(cheap cheap too!). After buying, went back to dorm and do my stuff. Slept at 3pm. Dirrahea gone!

Tag replies:
To Chunhui and didi: Thanks for ur good luck!
To mag: hahas noted!
To mei: actually hor, i don noe wat u tagged, tag box filled and ur msg gone =x heHEhe anyway, don sian lars, i very busy lei, now still bloggin, no time to sleep TT
To joyce: Don envy me, u come in np, u will get to go overseas too!! maybe better than mine =]
To all! Im going to have my common test on this coming thusday! 2nd april. Thus, do wish me good luck and it will be greatly appreciated! hahas XP

Friday, March 27, 2009!
HandWritten on; 2:24 AM

Title:Day 20, Conquered WUDANG SHAN! (Cont... 2 days 1 night trip, Wudang Mountain)


Temp: Cold, no idea of the degree as i do not have internet here...
Woke up at 6am due to a phone call (Morning call). Then, got prepared and checked out of the hotel and went for breakfast(7am) at the same restaurant again.

There are somemore dishes which are, noodles, porridge and a few more others. Somehow, i felt that breakfast was nicer than the lunch and dinner we had in day 19... In China, usually, breakfast are serve like this:hard boiled eggs, white porridge, soup base noodles, buns and other vegetables. But however, in Singapore, most commonly we ate bread; sandwich, curry puff etc. Also, other breakfast in Singapore usually is those fried noodles, fried beehoon. Thus, from this trip to Wudang mountain and 3 gorges, i saw the different in the breakfast.

After filling ourselves with enough energy to climb the mountain, we were all ready to take our challenge: Climb Mount. Wudang.
As mentioned above, Mount. Wudang is 1.612km tall. But however, we did not climb from the bottom.(we are not so powerful). Look at the photo above: We took a 50 mins ride up the hill to nan yan(11) and started climbing from there. Following the yellow coloured track: The path we took was from 11 till 10, then from 10 climb up all the way till 14 and turned left to 24 and last, reached the jin ding, summit(21). So, the total distance we have climbed from nan yan(11) till summit(21) is 4km(as we climbing along the mountain, not vertically up)! We accomplished it within 2 and a half hours!!

So, when we reached Wudang mountain, we were split into 2 groups, climbing group and taking cable group. Then, repectively, we went to our destination to go up to the summit. So, now, i shall let pictures do the talking. Mainly, we climbed don't know how many THOUSANDS flights of stairs!!



The group of us that climbed the mountain!(with the tour guide)
Now, Climbing....
See clearly this picture, it's like a staris maze! Can you see where it stretch till?



Climbing!

Continue climbing



Still climbing



The 100-steps stairs which we need to climb 100 steps in a go, it will raise us 100meters up.



More climbing... Can you see where does it strech till!?



Climb CLimb CLIMB!!
Basically, we just kept climbing stairs after stairs

Finally, get settled down to take some photo. Cause you all know why? After so much climbing, we finally saw the summit!!! Can you see the red arrow i draw at the top right hand corner? That's the summit! But, we are still down there, damn tired then...



Climbing
Resting







Climbing again, this time round we took this path, instead of using the stairs. Can you see: there are stairs on the top right hand side of the photo above, but we choose to climb on the slope! As we find that this is then what we call the REAL climbing mountains. It may be dangerous, but exciting!



YEA!!! WE REACHED THE SUMMIT!! SEE THE PICTURES ON TOP!


Group photos again!
But however, we are still too early to happy, there are still some more stairss to climb. See what i mean? Still climbing...

Finally, we reached!

Actually, we are earlier than those people whom took the cable. It's not because we climbed very fast, is because there were a lot of people queuing for the cable too as it was a sunday!

Thus, we all still made a correct decision in climbing as firstly, the experience gained in climbing a mountain, as singapore only have hills(less than 600meter) not mountain(more than 600meter) and secondaly, we save cost(no need to pay for the cable to come up)!

Then, after climbing so much, we reached our summit!



This is what is available at the summit, a temple(for praying) and locks store(for locks of love) and another store?

Random photos taken...






The wind is so big! See my wind breaker, it is filled! It's SUPER COLD UP THERE!



Jin Quan, me and Ian



Hardy(one of our student leader) and me! He was the 1 who injured his ankle and he climbed the mountain together with us too! He was so STRONG and BUILT!



Felicia and meKumaran me(see how my hair fly) and ian

Then, i went to the summit, to the lock store and made a Quan jia ping an Lock!
Let me explain to my readers what is the lock about.
It is called the locks of love.Locks of love are the padlocks fixed by loving couples, on to a fence or a pole or metallic chain/string alongside some wall etc at a public place, to symbolize their eternal love.Besides lovers, often family members and close friends also put such locks at these places, to lock their relationship forever.

A very famous place for couples is the lovers lock at USA, nevada. See the picture above. This is the real version and it is on a bridge.

Okay, so back to my lock. This is the front view of it


Then, the backview of it. However, i wrote my father's name wrong!! AWw!! Don't know still will work annot for my family. But nevertheless, is the heart that counts!


My lock locked on the metal chain.

The stairs where i locked it, with many others beside it.
I shall come back next time to visit you my locks of love(family)

Then after that, we climb down and went to take the cable to go down of the mountain. Due to time constraint, we only have two choice before we came:1st, climb up take cable down. 2nd,take cable up and down. So, we took the 1st the first choice and now, we are going to take the cable

Woah! Ren shan ren hai!!so many people!!

Tour guide and me!

Going up the cable!

Now we starting our journey in our cable

Video taking while i was in the cable!

Woo! Going down le!

OMG, you see, it's so steep that i cannot see the cable car which is infront of me!
So what are we doing in the cable, we having picnic in it! Our buscuits!
Us eating
Making funny face
Me and felicia The cable car infront of us. They are MDE students who the girl is called ci min and the guy is something guan one. (sorry i forgotten your name)
As i was in the cable, there were a few moments that the cable stopped to let us to enjoy the scenery. It was rather scary at that particular time as the wind then was quite strong. It was shaking and swaying almost like in mid air! At times, i was afraid that it would just drop!

Around 20 mins or so, we are down! Then, we was informed that we will be having our lunch at a restaurant near there. Thus while proceeding to our lunch place, pictures i took.
Me and another tour guide! He is a good tour guide! Basically, the tour guides we had were excellent!



Me~
Then, we reached the restaurant and hotel? See the picture below to see what i mean
See the "fu" chinese wording? Behind that glass is actually the room for the guest!
Only curtains were used to block the inside of the room from the outside. Er... if im the one inside, i will feel lack of PRIVACY and very insercure!

After eating, took the tour bus down the hill again as the cable only send us down to a certain place only. During the trip down, we got to stop at a place where it mainly sells tea and some souvenirs.







This picture shows how they serve tea for us to taste. (The lady is washing the cups)

After reaching the bottom of the Wudang Mountain, we took our bus to go back to WUST. Our journey back lasted 4hrs. But however, it was the most difficult 4 hours for me! My motion sickness isn’t controlled after eating the motion sickness pills! Inside the bus, it was stuffy, hot, small (no space for me to move) and I felt super sick then! After being in that yucky bus ride for 4 hours, straight away after I reached my dormitory, I got diarrhea! Oh my god!!! I can swear, this is the WORST motion sickness I have ever had!

Reached back in dormitory around 9.30pm. Then, around 9.45pm, the birthday boy, kidd called and ask me to tag along in his BBQ-ing session. As I was sick then, I rejected him. But, he kept asking me to join him, so, as not to disappoint him, I agreed and went there for half an hour and left.

So, day 19 was a successful day yet a sickness day for me!