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UK Reading Experience Database - Browse Database
the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...
UK RED is an open-access database housed at The Open University containing over 30,000 easily searchable records documenting the history of reading in Britain from 1450 to 1945. Evidence of reading presented in UK RED is drawn from published and unpublished sources as diverse as diaries, commonplace books, memoirs, sociological surveys, and criminal court and prison records.
TKA Names with Multiple Pronunciations
Today, I got a message about Yuan Boqing’s name and that reminded me of something: the fact that Zhang Jiale’s name could technically be pronounced as Zhang Jiayue and there would be nothing wrong with that. Then I realized that this could get hella confusing, since there are a lot of names that have characters with multiple pronunciations. So, I present to you a list of names which could be pronounced more than one way. These are ordered completely randomly btw. I might be missing some names, so checking will be appreciated. These are just the ones I see most commonly The official translation does not necessarily use the official pronunciations. We interpret these characters ourselves. Official pronunciations will have to wait until the animation gets there orz or merch (I forgot about that)
English Handwriting 1500-1700: An Online Course
libitina | KinnPorsche Rec List
Marcosticks -- Chopstick Grip Dictionary
Our mission at marcosticks.org can be summarized by our attempts to answer two questions. The first is, “why can’t you use chopsticks with french fries?” And the second is, “why can’t you use unconventional chopstick grips?”
Today’s world is one where using chopsticks at a Western, fine dining restaurant invites unwanted murmur from other tables. In today’s chopstick-using countries, folks get bullied for using chopsticks “wrong”, generally by folks who are unaware that they, too, use chopsticks with unconventional grips.
Our mission is to raise awareness globally on the use of chopsticks. We want the world to be one where chopsticks can be used, whenever they are the right eating utensil for the type of food being served. This we call #UtensilEquality. We want the world to be one where different chopstick grips can be used without shame, when unconventional grips best work for certain people. This we call #GripEquality.
no_detective | SUNGKYUNKWAN SCANDAL - a long (& long-overdue) primer
Need a safety sign? | MetaFilter
Need an ANSI Z535-compliant safety sign? Sure you do. Here's a convenient sign generator in case you need to let people know that something is dangerous.
Historic Tale Construction Kit - Bayeux
Decoding Tea Culture in the Song Dynasty | Hello Tea Cup
The Song dynasty (960-1279) features an amazingly rich tea culture. Tea during this period involves many aspects such as politics, economy, literature and social customs. With the prosperity of the tea industry, everyone – the nobles, scholars, and common people, all had access to tea.
"Every household has seven daily necessities: firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea" Wu Zimu, Song Dynasty Poet
Tea Drinking in Chinese Song Dynasty
Tea Drinking in Chinese Song Dynasty (960-1279)
In the Tang dynasty,the production,management and sales of tea or the tea culture research, tea processing skills all had progressed greatly, thus tea was also popularized. However, comparatively speaking, the development of tea culture in the Song dynasty had more changes and innovation than the Tang dynasty. For example, the way of tea drinking, the varieties of tea, the literatures of tea and the supervising organizations had all undergone great breakthroughs in the Song era.
Tribute Tea in the Song Dynasty – Umi Tea Sets
In the Tang Dynasty the habit of drinking tea spread from the imperial court to towns and the countryside; and it was the literati, hermits and Buddhists who played a leading role in the advocacy of tea culture. But things changed in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), when the influence of intellectuals on the culture of tea weakened.Although many famous literati, such as Su Shi, the great writer of the Northern Song, and Li Qingzhao, the celebrated woman poet,and Lu You, a prolific poet of the Southern Song, were fond of tea and wrote some literary pieces on tea, they contributed little to the construction of tea culture. Tea culture at that time was expanded and publicized by two polar strengths - the imperial court and ordinary people.
かわいいフリー素材集 いらすとや
japanese site that does royalty free illustrated stock images!
Fish Eyes in your Kettle – Chinese Water Temperature Methods | Zhao Zhou tea
As you probably know, different kinds of tea need to be steeped at different temperatures to ensure you are getting the best flavour out of your tea. This is particularly true of delicate whole-leaf green teas which may be most optimally steeped at temperatures as low as 70°C (155°F). But how do you know when to stop your kettle at a lower temperature than boiling? There are of course temperature-controlled kettles out there, but if all you have is a kettle or a pot in your kitchen then you can use the traditional Chinese methods of determining water temperature by paying close attention to the way the water changes as it boils.
Jim Breen's Japanese Page/Jimu.Buri-n no Nihon pe-ji
Welcome to my Japanese Page. As many readers of this page will know, I have an on-going interest in Japan, its people and language. This has led to a number of activities bringing together Japanese and my professional activities in computing and telecommunications. I have assembled this set of pages: (a) to provide information about a number of my projects in the area of Japanese computing and dictionaries, (b) to provide links to some of the resources available on the WWW on Japanese matters.
Bookbinding Tutorial by JamesDarrow on DeviantArt
Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History
Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity and popular beverage. The work traces the development of tea drinking from its mythical origins to the nineteenth century and examines the changes in aesthetics, ritual, science, health, and knowledge that tea brought with it.
The rise of tea culture in China : the invention of the individual
«This distinctive and enlightening book explores the invention and development of tea drinking in China, using tea culture to explore the profound question of how Chinese have traditionally expressed individuality. Western stereotypes portray a culture that values conformity and denigrates the individual, but Bret Hinsch convincingly explodes this facile myth. He argues that although Chinese embrace a communitarian ethos and assume that the individual can only thrive within a healthy community, they have also long respected people with unique traits and superior achievements. Hinsch traces how emperors, scholars, poets, and merchants all used tea connoisseurship to publicly demonstrate superior discernment, gaining admiration by displaying individuality. Acknowledging central differences with Western norms, Hinsch shows how personal distinction nevertheless constitutes an important aspect of Chinese society. By linking tea to individualism, his deeply researched book makes an original and influential contribution to the history of Chinese culture.»
c_ent | Resource Dump
CDramas FAQ - dramapotatoe
It has been a long time coming and we’ve received plenty of questions over the years, hence, welcome to our cdramaland FAQ page. This is in no way an exhaustive list and as things change in the ind
qinzi on Twitter: compilation thread of my "pro-tips" for chinese modern life
or what-may-come. feel free to ask questions and i'll happily elaborate. it'll get added to over time. if you've found them useful or enjoyed them, consider : my ko-fi https://t.co/05iDahLrqN"
a little about 就
就 (jìu) is an extremely useful word that is, as far as i can tell, pretty difficult for non-native speakers to use in a way that sounds natural — people put it in a Lot of places and they mean sliiiiightly different things. but i’ve seen a few posts about 就 and all of them have struck me as slightly incorrect. so let’s go over a few uses of 就 (but definitely not all), with some examples!
CHINESE HONOURIFICS
i guess this can be a RANDOM CHINESE LESSON WITH FAN TIME ???????
c_ent | Some Notes on Letter Formats based on Letters & Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China
donutsweeper | Historical Chinese Clothing (and more) Resources
Rainbow Rant: The queer time traveler's vacation guide
A guide to the past for queer and trans time travelers weary of COVID lockdowns
the_old_guard | Colorized footage of old cities
This morning I saw a tweet linking to one of my favourite videos, namely a restored and colorised short film of Paris in the late 1890s. It's amazing: the camera just rolled wherever it was put, giving you a glimpse of what the city was like at the time (you can see people looking right at the camera, too, wondering what is happening - it's both amusing and touching). It's quite fascinating for me to see those places I go to on a regular basis as they were back then... I then realised the artist, Denis Shiryaev, had restored other videos from other cities around the world and I thought some of you might find them of interest too.
Zaga Christ
Okay, this is amazing and the headline does it no justice at all: The Guardian: Revealed: the illustrious past of a mystery portrait I mean, it starts out super-cool: "the earliest-known European portrait miniature to depict a black sitter"! gorgeous picture! yet more evidence with which to browbeat the people who believe that black people weren't invented until 1940! THEN IT ESCALATES:
Nineteen_Ways_of_Looking_at_Wang_Wei.pdf
Poetry is that which is worth translating. For example, this four-line poem, 1200 years old: a mountain, a forest, the setting sun illuminating a patch of moss. It is a scrap of literary Chinese, no longer spoken as its writer spoke it. It is a thing, forever itself, inseparable from its language. And yet something about it has caused it to lead a nomadic life: insinuating itself in the minds of readers, demanding understanding. (but on the reader's own terms), provoking thought, sometimes compelling writing in other languages. Great poetry lives in a state of perpetual transformation, perpetual translation: the poem dies when it has no place to go. The transformations that take shape in print, that take the formal name of "translation, n become their own beings, set out on their own wanderings. Some live long, and some don't: What kind of creatures are they? What happens when a poem, once Chinese and still Chinese, becomes a piece of English, Spanish, French poetry? Here are 19 incarnations of a small poem by Wang Wei (c. 100-161), who was known in,his lifetime as a wealthy Buddhist painter and calligrapher, and to later generations as a master poet in an age of masters, the Tang Dynasty. The quatrain is from a series of twenty poems on various sights near the Wang River (no relation). The poems were written as par of a massive horizontal landscape scroll, a genre invented by Wang. The painting was copied (translated) for centuries. The original is lost; and the earliest surviving copy comes from the 11th century: Wang's landscape after 1000 years of transformation.
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