Shan Ting!

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!
Name:Xin Hui =]
Currently in ngee ann poly
Under skul of life science and chemical technology
Gender: Female
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Day 3, reflection

-Firstly, I found that china kids are all very smart!! Also, something funny I would like to share is that all the kids between 1 years old to 3 years old here (in china) have a hole (at their butt) in the jean which they are wearing! From the China student, I found out that it’s because of convincing sake for the children there to use toilet. Strange, then isn’t their butt cold?

-Secondly, I found that their flooring is horrendous! It can just break and you can fell anytime! I only got one comments, walk consciously, or you will regret, like me (whom fell on the first day)

-Thirdly, today we have learnt about china history in a four hours lecture!! It’s a very long lecture, I did fell asleep half way for a few minutes, but I told myself to ENDURE till the end, at least to give some respect to the teacher, she is, Xiao ling lao shi (Miss xiao ling) I find that she speaks in a rather understandable English accent (at least better than a lot of people in china)
Introduction
Firstly, she give an introduction of Hubei/Wuhan, geography, history and culture. Hubei has 7 air port which we alighted from Wuhan. Hubei has a population of 60.161 million. Which is 12.53 times BIGGER than Singapore (4.8million). It humongous!! Also, when compare to the world population (7billion), it is 3/350 which mean out of 350 people, 3 are from china!! China is really a giant as compared to Singapore. Also, the 3 province in Hubei is Wuhan, Nanjing, and Chong Qing. In Wuhan, there are all season. Sometime the spring can be colder than winter which will last at least for 10 days. Also, the summer can be as hot as 40degree Celsius!!! It is very hot!! Singapore weather hottest is already 32 degree, imaging 40 degree, it CRAZY!! Okay, now let say about Wuhan. For Wuhan urban population, it’s about 33.883 million. The nationalities in Wuhan are, han, Tujia, Hui Manchu, Miao and Mongolian. The area of Wuhan is 185900km square and the hottest period lies on july. Wuhan is divided into three different capital, they are, Wu Chang, Han Yang, and Han Kou. Usually, Industrial estate lies in Hang Yang. Business and shopping area are in Han Kou while Wu Chang,(where are are staying) is the education hub.Wuhan frequently use some common words, like we commonly use short form in Singapore. For example, Yan Huang Zi Shun. From what I know, yan comes from the word yan di(the god of farming) and huang come from the word Huang Di. They are both extraordinary whom they care of the bai xing (commoner) very much. However, when huang di fought with yan di, he defeated Yan di, but, although huang di become the emperor, the bai xing still respected yan di and thus, children who are smart and carining are call, yan huang zi shun. Another 1 is nine-headed bird (jiu tou niao). In positive way of saying, it mean smart, in negative way, it mean cunning.
The famous people
The Famous people in Wuhan are Qu yuan, Zhu Ge Liang, Wang Zhao Jun, Lu Yu and Li Shi Zheng.
For Qu Yuan, he is related to our dragon boat festival (zhong zi jie). He is a great poet and born in western hubei province. He was a minister in the government of the state of chu in warring state period. Due to some misjudgment by the king, the trust between the kind and Qu Yang has broken and as he was to depressed over the matter, he jumped mi Lou jiang(a river) and dead on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calander. Also, as he was respected by a lot of people over there, they threw dumplings into the river to prevent his body from eaten by the fishes, thus, his death is traditionally commemorated on dragon boat festival.
For Zhu Ge Liang, he was a famous politician also known as Kong Ming. He went to visit 3 times in person to Sun Quan, the ruler of Eastern Wu, as he wanted an alliance with Sun Quan. Also, he is also recognized as the greatest and most accomplished strategist of his era.
For Wang Zhao jun, she was classified as one of the “four beauties” The another three Xiong Nu, Shan Yu, Huhunye. They each have a compliment for their beauty which is, Xi Shi(沉鱼) is so entrancingly beautiful that fish would forget to swim and sink away from the surface when she walks by, Wang Zhao Jun (落雁) so beautiful that her appearance would entice birds in flight to fall from the sky. Diaochan(闭月) so luminously lovely that the moon itself would shy away in embarrassment compared to her face, Yang Gui Fei (羞花)said to have a face that puts all flowers to shame Thus, when people are refereeing to the four beauties, they will usually say羞花. 沉鱼落雁之容，闭月之貌.
For Lu Yu, he is popular as he is the founder of tea and improved the tea by many ways and mean.
Lastly, for Li Shi Zheng, he is famous as he is one of the greatest physicians.Also, I have learnt the three kingdom.
Story: (The warlord Liu Bei harbored in the neighboring city Xiangyang under his distant relative and the governor of the Jing Province (荊州), Liu Biao. Zhuge Liang joined Liu Bei in 207 only after Liu Bei visited him in person three times. Zhuge Liang soon presented his famous Longzhong Plan before Liu Bei, travelled in person to Eastern Wu and formed an alliance with its ruler, Sun Quan.
In the Battle of Red Cliffs of 208, the allied armies of Liu Bei and Sun Quan defeated Cao Cao, thus enabling Liu Bei to establish his own territories. The historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms described that Zhuge Liang called forth a southeastern wind to sweep Huang Gai's fire-attack throughout Cao Cao's ships. In reality, however, it was the Wu officer Zhou Yu who masterminded the fire attack. In folklore, the wind is attributed to either Zhuge Liang's magic or his ability to predict the weather.The union with Sun Quan broke down when Wu general Lü Meng invaded the Jing Province in 219 when its defender Guan Yu was at the Battle of Fancheng. Guan Yu was eventually captured by the Wu forces and was decapitated. Liu Bei, infuriated with the execution of his longtime comrade, ignored all arguments of his well-meaning subjects and turned on Eastern Wu, leading a huge army to seek revenge. He was defeated in the ensuing Battle of Yiling by Lu Xun and died in the lone fortress of Baidicheng after a hasty and humiliating retreat to his own borders. After the death of Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang became the chancellor of Shu Han under Liu Shan, Liu Bei's son, and renewed the alliance with Sun Quan.[ Despite Liu Bei's request that Zhuge Liang assume control of Shu Han should his son prove to be an incompetent leader, Zhuge did not, serving Liu Shan unwaveringly.) Summary: I do not really know how to say the story out, but however, three kingdom was formed in the battle of red cliff when Cao Cao is defeated. But however, Cao Cao called for a battle of Fancheng which this time round, Cao Cao won. Therefore, actually they are quite interesting, is just that I am too tired on that day, thus, I fell asleep. This is what I have learnt from the IS class.

-Lastly, the local students were simply AWESOME!! I know I’ve been repeating it, but I they are really good. A memorable day. Okay, so that’s all.
Tag replies:
To joyce: Yup yup, really glad to know him and the rest XP heEheh hao peng you!! hahas i noe chou dou fu is ur favorite!! here 1 very smelly, cant stand it>< To Chunhui: lolx, the bi bi fun fare, for kid to age 15, i can pretend to be 15 but don wan lars =S so nope =x
To chou huai ren: hahas yup, bo bian, everytime must post, or i stm, wil forget. u can see the time i blog everytime is always very sure late, tired ><>To shannie: hahas they okay de lars, wat u wan? u sure no request bo =b