End of High School with the Scolding for Being Stupid
This was the year 杨丕源 Yang Piyuan completed high school. He had achieved results that enabled him to be enrolled both in Malaysian and Singaporean universities. Yang Piyuan had, since young, a passion for education. He was very inclined to apply to pursue a course in that field. However, on the day the collected the results slip of his Higher School Examination, he was beckoned by his Math teacher. Interestingly, among the other teachers of his school, the Math teacher was one who seemed less concerned about his students. He was a very good Math teacher, but was not known to be close with students. He was the kind of teacher who we know as good at providing knowledge to students but does not "befriend" his students.
The Math teacher asked Yang Piyuan what course he would pursue with the results he had achieved. Education, answered Yang Piyuan. And he was in for a shock. Never in his 13 years of schooling was he ever called "Stupid". Here at the end of his school years, he was told he was one - for choosing a course that he wanted.
The Parting and the Flip of the Coin
The other decision that made 1982 CE a decisive year for Yang Piyuan was that he did not follow Yang Xiaoling to Singapore. Xiaoling's results only qualified her to be enrolled in a university in the country south of 马来西亚 Malaysia that is 新加坡 Singapore. If the relationship between them was greater than his filial piety and patriotism for his country, Yang Piyuan would have had his tertiary education on the island nation.
So in the end, with the decision he made - not without the unsaid pressure by his parents - Yang Piyuan was enrolled in the Science University of Malaysia. The university was located in Penang. He would graduate from the university and work in the Free Trade Zone established there in the 1970s. Many American multi-nationals had set up assembly plants there. 杨丕源 Yang Piyuan would land himself a job at one of the factories assemblying silicon chips onto Dual-In-Line packages.
China had since become a republic a little over half a century ago. In other words, it had been 52 years since the last Emperor, Puyi 爱新觉罗·溥仪, abdicated his throne.
Jump to the year 1911CE.
1963CE was the year that China had developed into a nation strong enough to contribute scientifically to Africa (非洲). It was then in the position to provide medical assistance to some countries in that continent.
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The Chinese Character 汉子
The photo of the rabbits 兔 below was taken at the Centipede Hill 蜈蚣山 in Malaysia 马来西亚.
Jump to the year 1864 CE - the year when the 天师宫 temple was established on the Centipede Hill 蜈蚣山.
兔
兔 is a 象形字 pictogram. There is a great similarity between the 甲骨文 oracle bone character and the character 兔.
It originated in the Shang 商 Dynasty during which a lot of oracle bones were used.The photo shows the oracle bones character 甲骨文 of the rabbit..
It is estimated that there are about 50,000 Chinese characters. However, some say the acquisition of about 1,000 characters should be enough for communication purposes. It is also estimated that only about 5% of chinese characters are pictograms. Most are 形声字 phonosemantic compounds where part of the character indicates meaning and another part suggests pronunciation.
Check out the animation of the evolution of the character here:
兔
