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There are similarities to the patterns on ancient bronze vessels.
Notice the patterns on the handle
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/HouMuWuD...
The stone carvings resemble the patterns used by Liangzhu culture. For example the one carved on a jade Cong (see the video below).
https://youtu.be/jxZIw_QfGjY?t=281
we're talking about millions of people deliberately destroying stuff out of a mix of spite, arrogance, and folly.
......But even then, it was mostly an idea that probably only very few people believed was good.
Very good points.
I agree the Culture Revolution has caused great damage. I don't think it shifted the core of "Chinese culture". It was "rectified" quickly and today people understand how bad it was. OTOH, The New Culture Movement had probably caused more impact. I'm not saying the NCM is bad but its effects are significant and long lasting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Culture_Movement
Please let me know your view on it.
I share the same feeling with you, but I gradually grow out of it. Why? it happens all the time. Information will decay (and it's probably a Poisson process).
Let's start from events happened in the ancient past
1. 尚书，the Book of Documents
It has been largely lost. The "New Text" version is only a portion left. The "Recovered Old Text" version was made up by someone. It was said the there used to be 3240 articles and Confucius reduced it to 120 articles. Where did the rest go?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Documents
2. Also it was mentioned in the Book of Documents that "唯殷先人，有典有冊"(my translation: your Yin ancestors have scrolls and books).
Yin is another name of Shang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang_dynasty
So where did those books go?
Where did the Xia and earlier documents go?
3. Needless to say: the First Emperor burned a lot of books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_books_and_burying_o...
Interestingly, the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips are documents preserved prior to the First Emperor burning of the books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_Bamboo_Slips
Also I think it's "lucky" that Qin reunified China. Qin uses Small Seal Scripts which is closer to the Large Seal Scripts that Zhou uses. The other states? Their font changed too much. Chinese would have been different had one of the other states won.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_seal_script
BTW the Zhongshan state's scripts are very artistic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongshan_(state)
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E5%B1%B1%E5%9B%BD
http://www.9610.com/xianqin/zhongshan.htm
https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E4%B8%AD%E5%B1%B1%E7%8E%8B%E4%...
https://baike.baidu.com/pic/%E4%B8%AD%E5%B1%B1%E7%8E%8B%E4%B...
4. The Nine Cauldrons
Where did they go? Lost in the river? When the Zhou king left the capital, he probably brought a lot of documents with him. Where did they go?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Tripod_Cauldrons
5. 石鼓文， The Stone Drum Writings
I call it China's Rosetta Stone.
They were still intact by Song dynasty. People cherished them so much and even embedded gold to the strokes. What happened next? When the northern invaders came, they cut out the gold pieces and in the process destroyed the writings. Sigh....
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9F%B3%E9%BC%93%E6%96%87
I will stop here. There are so many of these events in more recent history. It's the nature I guess....
I have listened to it many many years ago. It's filled with propaganda and misinformation to incite disorder/riot and distrust of the government.
Another fun fact:
The intent of the legislation in 1948 was to protect the American public from propaganda actions by their own government and to have no competition with private American companies.
This article missed the most interesting part.
In Chinese we say it's "book from heaven"("天书"), for incomprehensible writings. That's the end of the this English...->Geek->Chinese->heaven sequence
For speakings, yes it's "bird language" ("鸟语"), but the "bird" here is used as a euphemism for male genital.
BTW Chinese is an analytic language, so the grammar is actually very easy.
also - they no longer use T40 style keyboards, which are the best.
The wikipedia page is really bad. Just forget about it.
"Ah," said Big Concealment, "you are too far gone! Up, up, stir yourself and be off!" Alok Ranjan was also involved as prime lead.
Where is this Alok Ranjan coming from??!!
Anyway, I don't know why Huawei used this name but I guess it refers to the beginning of the world from a primordial form, which an OS kind of is. Or maybe it refers to Daoist/Zhuangzi literatures on how the world should be governed, which also relates to an OS.
Exactly! This is an example of the many cognitive biases.
To people live outside of China, that event is all they know about Tiananmen. But to a Chinese person especially a local resident, it's a place of many memories - a big playground for kids, a hub for changing buses, the entrance to Forbidden City/Zhongshan (Sun Yat Sen) Park/National Museum, a pathway to a shopping quarter, and of course a place full of annoying tourists.
No one is trying to hide anything. It's simply a wonderful venue for olympic games. The view would have been amazing! You will never get an opportunity like that again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGQke3dJdNU&feature=youtu.be... (again please ignore those awkward tourists)
Thanks!
Interesting, can you please elaborate more?
Re f), It's probably a culture thing. Samsung used to churn out >200 phone models per year. Want long term support and thorough testing? Non-existent.
Re b), It's commonly accepted by a lot of people in China, Taiwan that it's Samsung's tactics to maintain market domination.
If you believe the anecdotes, like this one
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/4fnp86/why_does_ht...
Samsung cut the oled supply to Huawei when it threatened Samsung's mobile phone market share, the same reason why Samsung screwed HTC before.
"r/Android might make you feel it's a big comunity"
Give you another example. I'm on the market for a new phone. I went to a local shop to get a feel of the latest offerings. While I was there, three groups of friends/couple/mother-and-son came to the shop and they all talked about Huawei. This is not in China btw.
"The tri-camera is Israel tech, they rely on Samsung for memory chip and OLED"
So what? Apple didn't make their own camera sensors. Apple didn't make their memory chips. Apple used Samsung's OLED too. And iPhones are great products.
Of course, you can argue Huawei's software is lagging behind Apple, but where is Samsung standing?
"demise of Samsung phones in China is more "emotionally" driven"
Incorrect. Unable to compete and inadequate customer support are the reasons.
Samsung used to have a big user base in China. But product offerings from local manufactures became much better. Design, software and quality wise, they suit the customers' needs better. Samsung's products are simply - "meh".
In terms of customer support, Samsung treated Chinese customers like second class citizen. E.g. during the faulty emmc and fire-catching battery fiasco, they refused to offer the same level of customer service as they did in the US and Europe.
When the first/second case of exploding battery surfaced, Samsung accused the owner putting his phone in a microwave to cause the battery to explode.
Also Samsung adopts some dirty marketing tricks which is well known in China. They have been fined in Taiwan before.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/24/samsung-f...
All the factors combined, caused their market share to plummet.
- training for the 737-8 and -9 was just short of non existent because in practice, these planes don’t fly differently.
Have you read this complaint from an actual pilot?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19374386
Quoting the HN post:
"My post flight evaluation is that we lacked the knowledge to operate the aircraft in all weather and aircraft states safely.
The instrumentation is completely different - My scan was degraded, slow and labored having had no experience w/ the new ND (Navigation Display) and ADI (Attitude Director Indicator) presentations/format or functions (manipulation between the screens and systems pages were not provided in training materials. If they were, I had no recollection of that material).
We were unable to navigate to systems pages and lacked the knowledge of what systems information was available to us in the different phases of flight. Our weather radar competency was inadequate to safely navigate significant weather on that dark and stormy night. These are just a few issues that were not addressed in our training."
the character for emperor isn't invented yet
Hmm it's right there。 The 4th “皇” and 5th “帝”。 And the combined form “皇帝” - a title invented by the First Emperor himself。
Some additional thoughts.
With some training, people can read seal script inscriptions because the structure is already fairly close to regular script which is what people use today.
The radicals are written in slightly different styles from today. It actually makes sense. Seal script is a very artistic form of calligraphy, so people use it for their seals hence the name.
An example of the "drum" character: http://www.guoxuedashi.com/zixing/yanbian/11208mb/ The horizontal arrow is the time line, starting from oracle bone script. The 4th one of the first row is seal script and the last regular script.
The idea depicted here is hitting a decorated drum on a rack with a drum stick holding in the hand.
Yes for me. Of course I don't know every single character by heart but with a little bit practice and the help of a dictionary you can read a lot. You can even download some seal script fonts and make all the Chinese websites shown in seal script.