User Comments - ezweig

Posted on: Two Poems about Music -- 弹琴 and 听筝

thanks for the poems - I really enjoy these podcasts...

A friend of mine, John Thompson, has a great site on the guqin:

http://www.silkqin.com/

(sorry I couldn't figure out how to make this a link)

Posted on: Dreams of the Departed 陇西行

metonomy (also synedoche) both types of metaphor so there's no problem with calling something both a metonomy and a metaphor.

Posted on: Food Regions of China

That list of eight that didn't get finished intrigued me, so

This from Wikepedia -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cuisine

There are eight main regional cuisines, or Eight Great Traditions (八大菜系): Anhui, Cantonese, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Sichuan, and Zhejiang. Among them, Cantonese, Sichuan, Shandong, and Huaiyang cuisine (a major style and even viewed as the representation of the entire Jiangsu cuisine) are often considered as the standouts of Chinese cuisine and due to their influence are proclaimed as the Four Great Traditions (四大菜系). Occasionally, Beijing cuisine and Shanghai cuisine are also cited along with the aforementioned eight regional styles as the Ten Great Traditions (十大菜系). There are also featured Buddhist and Muslim sub-cuisines within the greater Chinese cuisine, with an emphasis on vegetarian and halal-based diets respectively.

Posted on: Lesson

This lesson has nothing in it. And it seems like it's in the wrong channel as well.

Posted on: A Startled Friend

confused here - the pinyin reads "hesi" but the sound is "xiasi" - is this an error? thanks, ez