Images of China

Posted on November 24, 2008 by

china-0988Today we laugh at the stereotype of the Chinese shown in the old Charlie Chan movies.  Yet here is a translation on a stone beside a grassy area in a Xian Buddhist temple that is exactly how the traditional Charley Chan would talk to his modernized son:

 

Please not to trample
Small grass too Contain life

RWalck@Verizon.net

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My reasons for writing this blog are spelled out in the posting of 10/1/2012, Montaigne's Essays. They are probably not what you think.
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