Mooring on River Qinhua -Du Mu
translated by 曾培慈 (Betty Tseng)
The river is cold and enshrouded in a fog,
the river sand enshrouded in moonlight,
I’ve come to moor on the Qinhuai after dark where there are cabarets nearby.
Courtesans perceive not the sorrow of a perished empire,
Across the river singing of A Flourishing Backyard continues into the night.
It was drizzling on the first day. The Qinhuai River seemed to be enveloped in a layer of smoke. Walking along the Qinhuai River, I experienced the atmosphere of the culture.
Wuyi or Swallows’ Lane
–Liu Yuxi
translated by 蔡廷干
Beside the Zhuque Bridge wild flowers thickly grow,
Along the Wuyi Lane the sun is setting low.
Where once the swallows knew the mansions of the great,
They now to humbler homes would fly to nest and mate.
In the museum of Wang Dan and Xie An, many exhibitions were displayed there telling the history of the two distinguished family.
The model of the war of Feishui told us the military ability of Xi An, while the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection shown us the literary talent of Wan Xizhi.
Confucius Temple
Walking into the Confucius Temple, I was greeted with eight status of Confucius’ students.
People value Confucius as the teacher for all ages. He tried his best to promote his outlook in politics – kindheartedness in his all life.
He didn’t achieve his goal, however, he taught a large number of students successfully.
People admire him after his death, but something is rotted, especially after the appearance of imperial examination.
The rulers use him opinion to rule people’s minds while people make a courtesy call to him to pray for scholarly honour and official rank.
After the introduction exhibition of Confucius, the temple is just a display of imperial examination.
There are things about the examination and how people educate children to study hard for it on display.
Office of the President
Although it was pouring in the afternoon, there were tons of people visiting the Office of the President.
The Office of the President is not tall, the main building is three-floor and president’s office is located on the second floor.
Walking through the axle wire, I visited the history of Jiang Jieshi and Hong Xiuquan. Passing the display halls one by one, the process of the set up of nationalist party shown before my eyes.
Swept forward by crowds, I went up stair and visited the office one by one. They are just common ones. Expectation became flat.
the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum
The Whole World As One Community
Passed the dense groves, I arrived at the mausoleum.
Upside there are a series of footsteps.
Going up step by step, the boards shown up one by one.–Universal love; The Whole World As One Community; Nation, Civil Rights, The People’s livelihood.
Sun Yat-Sen devoted his all life in establishing a new China. Although he didn’t finish his dream, the successors achieced his goal at last.
His devotion will be remembered forever.
Ming Tomb
Ming Tomb is the tomb of the first emperor of Ming dynasty – Zhu Yuanzhang
Sun Quan Memorial Hall
–Son should like Sun Zhongmou
A teenager born of a hero since ancient times. Sun Quan is such a teenager hero. He succeed Wu from his brother when he was just 18 years old.
He has the talent of choosing a person for a job and honours worthy men of letters.
With the help of Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Lu Xun and so on, using the strategy that conservative view of the world in the east of the Yangtze River,
he can keep the one third of the world.
The Memorial Hall of The Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders
Outside the hall, there were a lage amount of people. They waited in a circuitous line, hopefully, impatiently, anxiously, and finally desperately.
Some people just gave up waiting before the gate of the hall. The square was full of people. The statu–Family Ruined saw the desire of the people.
The statu, which told a tragic story of a womon, was just a start of the sad atmosphere.
Her husband would never be alive;
Her child would never be alive.
Only left the wife raped by the evil.
Oh, my god!
After a long time waiting, I finally entered the gate, but there were still a lot of people waiting in front of the hall.
I decided to give up and just visit around it.
There was a display of the families of survivors. These are one and another tragic stories.
Many of them now lives a normal life, but the horrible memory can never be wiped away.
A mass grave is near it. More than 300 skeletons were found in this 150 $m^2$ grave.
What a svage act it is!
Finally, I saw the peace god statu. Peace is invaluable and hard-won.
That was a tumul tuous year
May you have beautiful years in your afterlife
If one day we can meet, I must tell you
Mountains and rivers still exist,
The country is prosperous and the people are at peace
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