Thursday, March 13, 2008

Tang poems

Tang dynasty is one of the greatest and most affective periods in Chinese history which has lots of creative inventions from technology area to culture. Tang poem can be looked the most important inventions in culture and it had indeed great influence to traditional Chinese culture. Its creativity is mainly represented to great numbers of the writers and works, high qualities poems, and influence to the follow writing styles. In the first place, the number of the writers and works is quite much. There are more than 3,700 writers who are discovered in history and about 54,000 poems in total which is much more than all of the works before the dynasty. Secondly, the quality of poems is also high leveled. There are so many popular poems left in tang dynasty and we still know something nowadays as an important heritage. Thirdly, the tang styles of poems gave great influence in history, and the reason is some creative styles came out. Many poets had created many new styles of poems which are quite different the styles before and they are easier to read. Of all the culture history of china, tang dynasty is a very important period. Not only are we surprised to so many high leveled poems and also great amount of poets, we are also proud of its creative new styles and great influence.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Books on sale!

I bought 3 on-sale books from the bookstore of our University last Wednesday. I am here to thank Yunlong and Ree because they told me about the good news. To tell the truth, there are not so many good books in the on-sale zone. Maybe it is the real reason: they can not sell them as original prices. However, I bought my favorite books: one is A Midsummer Night's Dream from Shakespeare, and one is Learn to SKI in a Weekend, and another one is Have No Career Fear. Shakespeare is one of the most famous writers all over the world, I am wandering a book from him for a long time. I need try to read his classical articles. The second one SKI, I think as a international student in Canada, SKI and skating are essential skills. I have already known sonething about skating, so just try in SKI. The last one: No Career Fear, is parpare for after 2 years. However, when I am looking back to these 3 books today, Suddenly I find that I should not to buy them. They are not very useful to me . If they are not for sale, I won't buy them. If some books are not on sale, and they are do useful to me, I will buy them. Just like an old saying goes that customers are never as smart as the merchants. I got an extra ten more dollars for the books.