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Chinese New Year's day 2012 falls on the national day of Ming Dynasty. . On January 23, 1368, the last Chinese dynasty Ming was born when the first Ming emperor announced in Nanjing that Chinese nation regained liberation and independence after nearly 100 years under an apartheid colonial rule of the Mongols. What a great coincidence! Or is it just a coincidence? Really? By any account, 2012 the year of Chinese Dragon will be a time of amazing significance. At this special turning point, a group of young Chinese, most born in 80s, produced a new year's show to celebrate the occasion. The following are some images from the show which is recorded on a four-part video series:
Chinese Dragon Dance Chinese dragon guides the Chinese people to take up the challenges imposed by misguided beasts 炎黄子孙踏着先祖的足迹，回家
Chinese dragon guides Chinese people to face up to challenges from alien air force. 敢上九天揽F35， 敢下五洋捉美国航母
Dance of Dust Whisk (拂尘舞) Clean up your messy house before opening your gates for your guests. 拂尘不到，灰尘（以及汉奸买办满逆米线）不会自己跑掉
屈原：与秦结盟乃是与虎谋皮 It was an era of Warring States (战国) long before Jesus, the ambitious kingdom Qin (秦) in the west was a militarily advanced super power and threatened everybody with war and invasion. So the 6 small and weak kingdoms set up War-see Treaty Organization, and elected Chu (楚) as the head of the 5+1 pack, with Qu Yuan (屈原), a high official from Chu, working to ensure the alliance's relevance and effectiveness to address the border security challenges. In order to break up this united front, Zhang Yi (张仪), Qin's secretary of state, visited Chu. With generous offer of gold and silver, he secretly recruited some court officials, top consultants as his allies and constituents (线人). He also covertly presented king's wife, a professional collector of jewellery and precious stones, with a pair of white jade that worth 100,000 gold ingots at market price. Thus the greedy wife and the corrupted officials and the sinister consultants made a joint effort to persuade the king to leave the 5+1 pack and to form a strategic partnership with Qin instead. But the gang's attempt met with a strong opposition from Qu Yuan who reminded the king that Qin meant war. Yet the king was charmed by Zhang Yi's land deal that promised to reward him 600 square lis if he withdraw from the alliance. The king cried out in jubilance, allegedly, "600 lis, my Heaven's, how many luxury houses can be developed there and how many gm rice can be planted there and how many golf courses can be built there and how many GDP can be produced there ...." (oops, we get carried away a bit too far and messed up two eras .... haut!) Back to Qin. Allegedly, on his decree posted on a bamboo slip publication The Eras, the king of Qin praised the king of Chu as one of the nine top individuals, and the only non Qin citizens, made the most notable contributions to Qin's strategic military advancement, and invited the Chu King to hold a G2 summit in the middle of somewhere (the historical truth of this meeting part can be verified by any history books). The Chu King accepted. Once again, Qu Yuan urged the king not to go, and told his lord to his face (allegedly too) that "a kingdom without principle is like a man without dignity." The angry king fired Qu Yuan and evicted him from the capital to wild rural area, and it was in there the great patriot created a large volume of poems which become the first class classics in Chinese literary heritage. Before long, the kingdoms that were betrayed by Chu imposed an active military section against Chu. Instead of helping Chu to defend itself, Qin took this opportunity to mount an attack on its military partner. Eventually, Chu King was captured when he was tricked to visit Qin for peace talk and died as a war prisoner. Years later, the entire Chu kingdom was destroyed by Qin army and a quarter million lives lost. When Qu Yuan learned Chu's fate, he plunged into River Poluo (汨罗江). It was year 278BC. Hearing the news of the poet's death, the villagers sailed little boats that were decorated with image of dragon head as a way to scare away the creatures in river when they searched for Qu Yuan's body, and fed fish with rice snack wrapped in reed leaves in the hope that they would spare the poet. Later, on that particular day each year, Chinese all over the country would jump on dragon boats to find Qu Yuan's trace in any river or lake, and late later on, even Koreans joined the searching team and started to look around in Korean waterways. 2,290 years late, late, later, the annual search is still going on in full swing on Duanwu festival (端午) which is on lunar 5th day of 5th month, and the rescue effort is now extended to America, Africa, Australia and Europe ......
Sword of Wonder Gate (乙玄门剑) A dignified Chinese scholar would follow the principle of "世有道则出，世无道则隐" (When the regime is good, work with it; when the regime is corrupted, refuse to serve it); yet a dignified Chinese Daoist would follow the tenet opposite to that doctrine, which means 世有道则隐，世无道则出 - when the world is in order, vanish into seclusion to concentrate on personal cultivation; when the world is in trouble, return to community to save the situation. Throughout the recent 2,000 years of history, we see two major intellectual forces steering the course of Chinese civilization. One is of Confucius scholars who mainly stayed in public to keep the society running in good order; and another is of Daoist cultivators who usually worked in covert operations, and only showed up in time of crisis to restore the order and rescue the civilization; when the job was done, they handed the power back to scholars and disappeared again into wildness. It is a time-honoured tradition right from Zhang Liang (张良) of Han Dynasty, Li Chunfeng (李纯风) of Tang Dynasty to Liu Ji (刘基) of Ming Dynasty. About 300 years ago, Chinese civilization experienced the biggest crisis ever in its entire history. A barbaric and destructive force originated from Siberian sneaked into Beijing and occupied the Forbidden City. Like a group of wild beasts who seize the control of a big household but have no idea how to conduct a civil life apart from killing, Manchus systematically massacred Chinese intellectuals who stood by the principles of Confucius humanitarianism, and outlawed Daoist activities including martial arts practices. The invaders further forced all Chinese to change their dress code and hairdo to Manchu's pathetic monkey style. After millions more Chinese heads were chopped off for refusing to adapt a pigtail fashion, and millions more Chinese bodies were stabbed for objecting to put on a Manchu dress that made them looked like a circus clown, the general population of China resigned to their fate. Except Daoists. These courageous and clever group of people are the only Chinese who remain faithful to authentic Chinese tradition in spirit and in appearance to this very day.
A Daoist is practicing his Tiger Beat Fist (伏虎拳)
A Daoist is practicing Wudang Light Kung Fu (武当轻功)
A Wudang Daoist is walking on a wall
A Wudang Daoist is jumping off a cliff
The burning of hundreds of thousands of Chinese classic books and prohibiting the practice of Daoism and martial arts are just part of destructions that Manchus did to Chinese nation and Chinese civilization. A great number of Chinese arts and technologies were also lost during 260 years of Manchu reign. Konghou (箜篌), an elegant Chinese harp with thousands years of history was only recovered in the early last century after the Manchus were evicted from the Forbidden City.
Entering the 21st Century, a new generation of Chinese have discovered that the grand tradition can be turned into high fashion. A young Chinese man is appreciating Chinese incense in a classic way called Sensing the Scent (闻香).
A young Chinese couple are appreciating green tea in a classic way called Tea Ceremony (茶道).
This young man is living a classic martial scholar's lifestyle by reading ten thousand books and traveling ten thousand miles (读万卷书，行万里路).
Classic music: 尺八曲 And like a typical Chinese scholar/swordsman would do, he also plays traditional Chinese music.
And like the typical classic Chinese scholars, these apparent bookworms of the 21st century emerged in an archery site.
不以打败对手为目的，而以提高自身为宗旨 They set the goal, aim the target and hit the object in an unique Chinese way: the purpose of practicing martial arts is not of conquering others but to triumph over oneself.
When reviving the tradition, wicked Manchu bugs are carefully identifies and thoroughly purged. Taking Chinese wedding. It was a graceful and blissful process, but with the Manchu influence (建奴文化), it has been distorted into a noisy and wasteful public show.
So this young couple conduct an authentic Chinese wedding to solemnly exchange their vows of love ...
And to demonstrate their willingness to care for each other in good times and in bad times until the very end of their earthly lives.
At a more gradual level on the Confucius Memorial Services, Manchu's trademark "spin of the wild boar" (野猪皮) was eventually peeled off and the fishermen's bamboo cap was tossed aside, replaced with red flowing gown and black palace hat.
But the young generation of Chinese have done more than just restoring the classics: they enrich the tradition with contemporary ingredients. This is an animated ink painting created on computer by hand (without ink).
Chinese kids in traditional Chinese clothes It is expected that by 2013 when the world begins to see the emergence of a new civilization, authentic Chinese culture will start to resurrect in full aspect. The future of Chinese nation and the humanity shall be promising.
Chinese kids dance with sigh language: Forever Be Grateful While Christian God works on separating people apart and instigating the clash of civilisations, the aspiration of Chinese sages is to see humanity united as one big family across cultural, racial and language barriers, and together to build a better home on planet and to face a common threat beyond the mankind's momentary and immediate circumstance.
The resurrection of the authentic Chinese culture and the upgrade of the human civilization before the middle of the 21st century are the events pronounced by various Daoist sects since more than 2,000 year ago. It is certainly not a trend that American regime can thwart with war, that global capitalists can spoil with money, that Christian church can foil with doomsday theory, that some Manchus can avert with their farcical show of Heaven praying during Chinese New Year festival at Ming emperor's Heaven Alter in Chinese capital. They may fancy they can enlist the higher force to help them to once again condemn Chinese nation to a wretched situation as they did before, but they don't understand that by harbouring such anti-humanity ambition and by hanging on to their criminal ancestors, this group may ruin its own chance to move forward into the new era with the rest of the population in China. Those who brought calamity to themselves through harming others can be saved by no one.
On a more broad scope, there is no real division between past and future, but the difference between those who follow the Way of Cosmos and those who refuse to integrate themselves into the big progress.
It is those who are more disciplined and more self-controlled when following the universal ethic code, which is quite opposite to American style "universal value", can become more self-aware thus be able to master their own destiny.
青青子衿，悠悠我心 As the young Chinese vocally and visually celebrate the classic Chinese culture at the beginning of 2012, they are approaching and speaking to the consciousness of Chinese, of the humanity and of the universe: 绿绿是你的衣带，悠悠是我的情怀 (your cloth belt ties to my heart - we are all connected).
Classic Chinese folk dance The valued tradition is the best fashion, and the classics is embedded deep in the consciousness of Chinese.
Classic Chinese palace dance The self-confidence of China as a nation cannot be obtained by keeping changing its own identities or keeping washing its own dirty laundry in public. It can only be regained by connecting to the root of Chinese civilization.
Classic Chinese concert In the past 2,000 years, Chinese civilization has reached its peaks in four periods: during the courageous Han, during the brilliant Tang, during the intelligent Song and during the dignified Ming. Now the 5th peak is looming large on the horizon.
You can watch the whole show in four-part videos here: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Director: 秦人结 America Congress Faces Arab Spring with American twist
Thus there are calls since September last year for an Arab Spring style civil revolt, and the demonstrations and strikes are expected to regain their momentum when spring comes to America. We think, if anything that is very significant happening internally, or externally, any type of major upheaval as we saw in Libya, in Egypt, in Yemen, in former Yugoslavia is possible to repeat in the United States. Though at the moment in the minority, some Congress Occupiers have publicly expressed their desire to bury the US political system all together. One man said he wanted to burn his voter registration card. As for US regime's international policy, nowadays any being slightly more honest nd observant than a donkey would admit that the way in which it operates does pose concerns to the world community, whether its invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, or its war preparation against Iran. We would like to remind NPP winner Barack Obama, that the days when the problems with US economy could expect to be fixed through war are gone. It's time for America to play by the international rules, including the international trading system, which the 1% in the US have set up and profited so much so long. Chinese Response to Premier Wen's View on Iran"China condemned the terrorist act immediately after 9.11 incident, but America went on to support Eastern Turkestan movement after Urumqi massacre, and protects terrorist Rebiya Kadeer. China must understand that mutual respect and good will are not sort of mentality that the most American politicians are able to understand. They only know the jungle law. " "The main cause of the nuke proliferation is America's nuclear threat against the world community. For one thing, how many times America ever considered to nuke China? If not because we've already developed nuke arsenals, China may have already been wiped out from the surface of the planet or survived as the shadow of its former self under America's colonial rule." Frequently Questioned Answers
为了应对来自中国的威胁，美国空军和海军联合建立了一个部门，专门从事发展被他们称为海空一体战的策略和武器。其中的一个研究方向是利用F-35
联合攻击战斗机打击中国的外围空中防线，由此打开一条可让F-22隐形战机带着高度灵敏的监视天线深入中国大陆战区的通道，并从那里引导由海上发射的威力巨大的导弹，定向摧毁运动着的或隐蔽的目标物。 U.S.
pushing world to the brink of world war
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A: To
counter these threats, the Air Force and Navy set up an office
to develop complementary tactics and weaponry for what they are
calling air-sea battle. One idea is to attack an outer ring of
enemy air defenses with F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, opening an
alley for an F-22 stealth jet carrying sensitive surveillance pods
to fly deeper into contested territory, where it could, for example,
guide a powerful sea-launched cruise missile to a mobile or hidden
target.
