This is a narration of a passage in the book 《符子》 which told us how the universe was kept in order through the endeavors of great heroes. The original title 后羿射日 is commonly used to denote great acts of benevolence and courage.
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漫天飄雪在深冬
白絮林中松鼠動
寧餐寒風宿冷樹
不住人間寵物籠
本叢書依作者半世紀的半世紀的國際經驗用現代語文寫中華智慧，兼寫在後現代一個世界格局的今天, 我們怎樣做一個中國人，自足安泰而高貴。 中華文化的起點是人，即人的天性（human nature）和人心（mind）。其終點仍是人，即人在自強不息的畢生奮鬥中圓滿平和，安祥歸宿。
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Our friend Henry Zee (now residing in Las Vegas who just attended the Consumer Electronics Show) is excited that 2017 will be the Year of Technology. It may well be true that technology will shape the narrative of not only 2017 but many more years to come. But instead of sharing his excitement, I am fearful. Having lived and worked in the Silicon Valley virtually all my adult life, I have turned from being a cheerleader to a critic (or at least a skeptic) of technology.
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Dave’s is what Americans euphemistically call a family restaurant, meaning to which you could take the family without having to renegotiate with your banker about the next mortgage payment. It was where one could order basic fares at a price not too far above McDonald’s. Needless to say, one also had to adjust one’s culinary expectations, south.
Last Saturday I spent the whole day by myself and went to vigil mass at 5. After that I went home and found it dark and quiet. Then I remembered my wife had told me to take care of my own dinner. She had gone to a class of some sort on the use of her new toy — the iPhone 6S.
(3) Fuxi: Creator and Emperor
After Pangu opened the universe, and Gun-Yu (鯀禹) channeled the flood into the sea, the earth became a suitable habitat for the ancient Chinese. Gods and human beings intermingled in heaven and earth in all kinds of activities, sometimes in harmony, sometimes in conflict. Events in the universe were not as defined as we know them today.
Legends were described in many classic books, like Lie Zi 《列子》and Boshu 《帛書》, a piece of cloth unearthed from an ancient tomb.
Fuxi (伏羲) was one important legendary god-man figure. His birth was an unusual event, and his life a signal contribution to Chinese civilization.
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《閱古匡昌兄郵輪遊記有感》
白雲藍天碧海漾
千里波濤萬浪揚
惘然懷鄉赤子意
僑老居定尚悒怏
12/20/2016
「東方紅，太陽升，中國出了個毛澤東，他為人民謀幸福。
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「西方殘，太陽落，美國出了個克林頓，他為男人謀籍口。」
吾三生有幸，娶得旺夫益子妻，湖北女強人。
女強人王曾經是共青團團長。自從移民美國，下嫁陳家，她就完全回歸女性本我。不問政治，只看孩子。
( 1 ) Influence of a Single Ci
In the Ci (long and short verse poems) of the Song Dynasty, the apex of achievement is in the expression of wide and deep emotions in a clear simple song. The poet Wang Yu Cheng (954-1001) 王禹偁 had left us with a single Ci only. But he was acclaimed as a very influential master, the forerunner of Xin Qi Ji 辛棄疾, a dominant Ci master who arrived a hundred years later.