TenWangGe pg 1 + 2

Okay, here it is! The first page of "TenWangGeXu"! The actual text was written in the Tang Dynasty (just off the top of my head, some time 600's - 900's A.D), but this was taken from a book called "Gu Wen Guan Zhi", All the Ancient Essays You'll Ever Need, a compilation of the best works from Zhou Dynasty (1100's BC) to Ming Dynasty(1600's AD), collected and "edited" in the early Qing Dynasty (The 34th year of KangXi...late 1600's or early 1700's... I'll have to check)

Please be patient.... the image should take a few minutes to load.... Gomen nasai!
(It's cause I forgot to slice it before I exported, and now I've already deleted my fireworks file.... -.-;;)

Lost? Confused? well,

You start at the top right corner, and work your way down... yep, just like manga...
The big characters are the actual text of the "essay", while the small characters are like footnotes or little explanations... except that they come after whatever needs clarification.... no searching desperately at the bottom of the page! No more lousy "see appendix A"! If you don't get it, just squint! ^_^
Roll over the big characters to see my little definitions... er... more like rants....
I suggest that you read the "title" part of each blue pop-up first, and save the details and explanations until you get a sense of the page or whatnot.

This page is updated daily, minimum of 4 phrases, at around 12 am Pacific time, so I'll get to annoy you some more! Yay! The extent of the translations is marked by a ******** line.

Sushu's rants to ... er...herself... ^^;;

7/12/00: Ohayou gozaimasu!  Yep!  I'm up!  what? what are you talking about?  Sleeping in during summer vacation?  What's that?  ~_^;;  What do you mean I have no life!?

Later: Woo!  finally done!  There was an interim when I had to go do some menial work for Dad. (::was quite bitter cause had planned to do other stuff, too, and now it's almost lunch time!  X-/::) Sushu is not safe to be around when she's bitter or frustrated, like a snapping turtle on PMS... o.O..   But anyway, I'm finally done, so tonight I'll either start page 2 or maybe write up some other stuff that I had planned... Anyway, there'll still be an update tonight, in case you're wondering.  Hopefully by then the angelfire FTP would start working again. X-/ ::feels weird to be talking to self::

Night: Okay, I'm slacking off tonight, and writing email.  The FAQs page is up.... next, links page!  yay!  Oh, and I'll probably do the image map tomor night.

7/11/00: Okay, sorry about not updating regularly the last few days.... it's been a little hectic, but now I'll try to finish the first page tonight, even if I don't sleep till 3!  (Here's hoping it won't be *that* bad....)

Several hours later:  Okay, that's it, I'm going to bed.  There's only a few more phrases, but I need to be awake for library work tomor, plus whatever dad decides to make me do, so ... I'll try to finish it tomorrow morning.  It's 1:30... x.x Okay!  See you in 7-8 hours!
(Who am I talking to?  Oh yeah, myself. Heh.)

New!: I added a FAQs page. Doesn't have much on it right now, but no page is complete without a FAQ section, right?

Oh yeah, There's some more notes at the bottom...

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La dee da de da.... ^.^;;

A few notes:

the jpgs for the next 3 pages are up, but they're just raw Chinese, no nothing. They'll take quite a while to load yet, since I haven't convered them to .gif...
| Pg.2 | Pg.3 | Pg.4 |
in the "title" part of each pop-up is
1. the pronounciation according to PinYin, and
2. the rough translation
then comes the word-for-word literal definitions. Finally, there's my little rants...
in cases where two phrases makes more sense together, but are separated by the little "explanation characters", the phrase in "* *" in the title part is the phrase you're rolling over, and is the phrase that will be more thoroughly defined in the popup.
when I talk about "characters matching", I'm talking about the specific property in any verse-like Chinese writing... The verses come in couplets. It's not that obvious here because of all the little commentary characters, but it is requisite that the characters of each couplet "matches". Take the second couplet, for example: "Xin Fen Yi Zen, Di Jie Hen Lu". The point of matching is that the character in the same space as the previous line has a similar topic, but is often the opposite meaning. Think of it as a super-elaborate parallel structure. In this case, Xin (star) matches with Di (earth), because they are both elementals, but one is above and one is below. Fen(separate) and Jie (connect) match, and so do YiZen (names of stars) and HenLu (names of mountains). There's more to the matching, like having opposite intonations ("flat" or "sharp"), but that's getting too complicated, especially since the pronounciation was different back in the Tang Dynasty. ^_~

This boring page is made by Sushu Xia, 2000-7-06, with muchas gracias to Macromedia Fireworks for handling the image map (::worships Fireworks::), Erik Bosrup for creating Overlib (::loves the pop-ups::), CuteHTML for making all the tags blue so that I can see them, my dad for finally getting off the computer so that I can use the scanner, my mom for kicking me off of AIM so that I'll actually do something, and Nene for asking that question. ^_^v.

Oh yeah, you're welcome to steal the image, but I actually took the time to "translate" this, so ask before you take it, 'k? Then I know you exist, and maybe I can link to you....

<~~This is here because I can't make it invisible and still count at the same time. Oh, and subtract 5 for the # of times I visited.