History is not heating topic. I really enjoy watching or reading it. I can read story of the life of important people. And some hisotorical events, I could see the normal people's life. It is a great thing. Yesterday, I thought of the Arab 1001 night tales, I thought of the Alibaba and the 40 robbers.
The rich older brother found out the cave of the robbers and he was so excited to take as much treasure as he wished, but finally he forgot the code :sesame ,door open, and this greed was fatal, he was found by the robbers ,and was killed. Well, Alibaba, he found the cave before this brother, but he took some treasure,rich enough, but not that greedy to stay inside the cave too long, so he was not found. And when the robbers tries to kill him, he again found out, and killed the robbers, and saved his life.
You mean the lyrics I translated myself?The lyrics just described a guy had seen a lady he liked and might love a lot,but he didn't cross over the street and chase after her. So later he could not find her anymore.
In life, anything people like or love, it will require hard and solid work. Dreaming will not change anything. Thinking is the same. As action will require a lot of things, most time on line people just a waste of time.
Maybe I should not write this kind of thoughts.Hehe.
Guadal, I never think I am more important than other people type. But I like to learn from other people,their history and the way they make their life choices,For our own life, the more you have seen or learned from other people, the better you can make your life decission.
If we learn from the best decission in life, we might make our own life middle, if we learn from the middle life decission, we might make our own life low. I would still think the way the person learn in life can improve one's life. Even we might not be important person,charactor, but we need be responsible for ourselves, and make our best in life.
Guadal, I never think I am more important than other people type. But I like to learn from other people,their history and the way they make their life choices,For our own life, the more you have seen or learned from other people, the better you can make your life decission.
If we learn from the best decission in life, we might make our own life middle, if we learn from the middle life decission, we might make our own life low. I would still think the way the person learn in life can improve one's life. Even we might not be important person,charactor, but we need be responsible for ourselves, and make our best in life.
Yeah, I think sometimes people might be lazy to think their way, and might purely follow their present life. And sometimes it is good to watch other people's life, and if you can learn from their life, you can do a bit better in your own life.
I wondered a bit,the main actress was from a high ranking family, if she could choose again, will she choose other road? Life is full of changes and chances, I really enjoy looking at people's choice. I also like to watch the living condition of different people at that time in Japan.
It is a story, and I enjoy watching the way different charactors thinking and doing. And I could see the low class at that time,they were very keen on getting rid of the general family. Cos in such a case, they could also gain more freedom by working only for the royal king, and at the same time, the western countries brought in more opportunities.
Charming like a lotus,I could not cross the road over to her/him; I only gazed into her/his back,watched the dust disappeared.
I want to ask,as beautiful age as the bright and elegant zither,whom she/he would spend her/him time with? Maybe inside a beautiful building with bridges under the moonlight in the flower yard, Maybe inside a wooden carve decored window,red door building,a place only spring could know.
The flowing cloud is so free in the sky,and in the late afternoon of the city,
I wrote several sentences of broken heart with my pen; How much sorrow do I have? It is like the whole lot of weeds inside the running water, the willow flowers flying in the whole city, and the yellow plum's raining season's endless thin/skinny rain.
Guadal,most of us here are working class; Now in a way, I don't need work much. I use my brain to think you seem to use your working hand to think.rolling on the floor laughing
I put my own thoughts in translating the lyrics, Just want to add a bit feelings inside.
True, a lot of guys would be attracted by appearance by instinct. The general here just refused to sleep with any women, cos he knew his decendents would have difficult life. Nobody would accept a second king,the royal family in any countries, one is enough. And finally the general's family did get that result.
I will see, how he will be like when I find my man,hehe.
Johnny, keep a note of being charming from me?Why?
Well i think it is nice to lead a life, the man and woman want their life to be together, and much less pressure from the social position. I prefer the love in between the couple, an appreciation of each other, and a nice support and understanding of each other.
In my point of view, I would also try to make myself pretty as long as possible,it is a personal respect and a respect to the guy.Even there is not a guy now, I would like to blossom myself.
Johny: it is beautiful to write such a love, but it is very difficult to lead a life like that. The young wife led a lonely life as a widower. And she was so young.
I guess she had the love for him, and he was as charming as the lyrics I translated,
but the lady had to suffer from a life without company.
Charming like a lotus,I could not crossing the road over to her/him; I only gazing into her back,watching the dust disappeared.
I want to ask,as beautiful age as the bright and elegant zither,whom she would spend her/him time with? Maybe inside a beautiful building with bridges under the moonlight in the flower yard, Maybe inside a wooden carve decored window,red door building,a place only the spring could know.
The flowing cloud is so free in the sky,and in the late afternoon of city,
I wrote several sentences of broken heart with my pen; How much sorrow do I have? It is like the whole lot of weeds inside the running water, the willow flowers flying in the whole city, and the yellow plum's raining season's endless thin rain.
Johny: About love between man and woman: I think this general must be a guy very charming, I mean, in the series, another lady loved him so much, even they never really slept together, she was happy and content to be able to stay in the same room with him. But only the 3rd wife went into the general's heart,although they also never slept really together. Just holding hands. And the general already began to say, he wish he could live with a family and make sure his family to be safe. Just right after that heart felt affection,he fell ill and died.
If for me, maybe to be with a normal guy might be more practical. Maybe not as charming guy as this general,but it is also sad that she could only lead her life with this short time of Plato's love. And that is the only sunshine for her loving life, as he passed away,there could not be more sunshine.
When the 3rd wife was chosen, cos she was thought to be a very thorough thinking young lady,which later she turned out to be just like that. She had a young guy loved her a lot. She was sent to the 3rd or the second last general's life to be his wife. Well, in fact, his father's province was the strongest place to be against the general. Cos, they also wanted to improve their position.And now as USA, Uk , and other western countries stepped onto Japan,then they were given new opportunities to catch: trade with foreigners, and even set up good friendship or visit foreign countries. And before, they had to bow to the King, even as a puppet, and they had to bow to the general as well. I think in a way, the lady married the end of the general's glory, or in a way, not a good timing.
Thank you for joining in with a very nice angle of thinking! The general was a very smart guy, he found out if he showed his wisdom to people, he might be poisoned. So he always show himself like a kid, hopping in front of people, making faces in front of people. And the wife, she was chosen more or less from a province governer's family, I mean very high ranking already. But still not high ranking enough to match the husband, she had to be adopted by even higher ranking people as their adopted daughter, then a princess, so that she could marry the mad like general.
And the wife found out the general was not mad person. So they began to play chess together. And that was the only time, that the general could feel to be together with a woman he liked. I think eveyone in his time would chase after his position, and power and money, you name anything, but to his position, he had to pretend to be mad. And he realized already, that was the end of his families position as a general,but keeping the Japanese king as a puppet. His family was the one in real power. The real pressure was from the provincial governors, who were rich, and had enough capital, even local troop, and the general became a governor type of role, which was very unavoidable. And he knew he didn't have enough troop or money even just two governors were in war. And plus at that time ,usa and other western army were on Japanese land. He didn't want children with any women.Of course, he didn't love the dead wives, or other women he could take inside his palace.
He loved his 3rd wife, and he began to miss her when his mother thought to wife's background might make the general very unsafe,hence the mother in law forbid the wife to turn up in the guys' sleeping room. But the general one night could not bear it, and he walked to the wife's palalce. But still sadly, he fell ill, and one day he died.
So in a way,it is good to lead a normal but happy life.
Even among such high ranking people,still the life was not satisfying. Maybe that is life. so value the time and feelings is important. And drop the things unnecessary.
In fact, the general had pretended to be mad and he had two wives died before this 3rd young wife, and he didn't want to sleep with neither of the 3 ladies, cos he had many brothers, and all his brothers were poisoned to death or murdered before. And in such kind of fear of death, he pretended to be mad all his life to cover his brightness.
I did the same thing for her school uniform. She was a tall girl when she went to school. And everyone need buy the school uniform, and she was given a big and loose set. The pants alone were around 20cms longer. My mum sewed the long part inside the pants, and now 5 years later, we would let out the remaining 20cm extra length every year, and we didn't buy anymore school uniform,but her classmates bought the 6th time uniform.
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History is not heating topic. I really enjoy watching or reading it. I can read story of the life of important people. And some hisotorical events, I could see the normal people's life. It is a great thing. Yesterday, I thought of the Arab 1001 night tales, I thought of the Alibaba and the 40 robbers.The rich older brother found out the cave of the robbers and he was so excited to take as much treasure as he wished, but finally he forgot the code :sesame ,door open, and this greed was fatal, he was found by the robbers ,and was killed. Well, Alibaba, he found the cave before this brother, but he took some treasure,rich enough, but not that greedy to stay inside the cave too long, so he was not found. And when the robbers tries to kill him, he again found out, and killed the robbers, and saved his life.