By the way, these soft-sell ads are not without a sense of humor. For example, one who has just read through a soft-sell article would never think the real intention of the article is to sell calendars. I want to tell you. Today, the word "tear/Si1," (as in tearing off of a page of a calendar) has come to mean, 'an adversary.' It reminds you at the beginning and end of each day to cherish your time.

That's not it, what has me pining away is every intimate encounter with the duty-free shop, those crazy shopping sprees.

I'm taking his words out of context? So you think Guan Zhong wasn't hoping that people would progress from material satisfaction to the spiritual and cultural level? Just look at those people from poor families. They spend money as soon as they get their hands on it. That's pretty much still being trapped in an impoverished mentality, which is uncivilized.

Speaking of the imperial examination system, that was the only channel through which impoverished scholars could realize their ideals for governing the country. However, the education system at the time was different from the one today, the students had to study and debate on classical texts, it wasn't as easy as just learning the texts off by heart.

Oh, it was talking about the Spring Festival period. A Shanghai girl went to her boyfriend's house in rural Jiangxi for Chinese New Year, and decided to break up with her boyfriend because she was so shocked at the poor conditions of her boyfriend's family.

(Sigh) I wonder how long this snowstorm will last. If you think of all those poor people that can't even afford coal, you wonder how many people are going to freeze to death this time.

Poverty limits my imagination: You cannot imagine the lives of wealthy people. Although it is said as a joke, it is somewhat " Zha1 Xin1". It is true that the children who eat steamed bread every day cannot imagine the taste of a formal banquet of Manchurian and Chinese delicacies.

It looks like you didn't just read the headline, after all. What you're saying is right in terms of logic, but you're asking a people who are already unemployed, living in poverty and who can't take any money out of their accounts to accept tax increases. You think that's possible?

Before, even though peasants in the village worked hard on the land the year through, they still lived incredibly impoverished lives. Although the wages of those who were successfully smuggled abroad were meager, they were equivalent to quite a considerable sum in renminbi, and they often lived frugally, saving up money to send back home, allowing their families to enjoy a better quality of life.

I guess that's true. No wonder everyone says that when raising a son, you have to be sparing, but when raising a daughter you can be indulgent.