The story that we read was very intresting. First seems intresting that you have a clash between the two biggest peoples in the country. At that time it was unheard of to mix classes. It starts to unravel as the high and powerfull manderin family son would love a poor farmer. The conflict begins when the boy gets imediatly sick when he could not live with out his love, Ying seems to get sick as soon as she is in the present of what she does not want. It true seems that the love is not ment to be true. Yet as people know, for there to be true happiness there needs to be sacrafices that each people need to make. As the story ends you see that the ultimate sacrafice turns out to be amazing for both of them. It seems that farming was the way to go and was the simple answer to all the problems. It seems intresting on a seprete note that such a love story takes place with the countries biggest job
Jesse Nagel

This i believe was one of the more interesting reading assignments so far. One of the things that I found so interesting was that marriages were arranged between families instead of the people deciding themselves. Even if she could she would have a hard time because the father of the man she was supposed to marry was none other than the mandarin who was the most powerful person in the region.
I felt bad for her as she would be forced to whatever her parents wanted her to do as i too would also feel board living the royal lifestyle. Of course it would be easier but the day to day life in a palace would be very boring as you would do nothing and sit on your rear all day every day until something serius came up. However on a place like the farm you would be working hard every day but it would be worth it because you would have more fun living life.
It was good that she could convince the prince to convince his father who was the mandarin to allow them to create a farm on the property for the two of them to live together happily.
victor Kuc

I thought the story was Disney-cute. You know, good for little kids with short attention spans and no capacity for attention to detail. It would have made me feel all warm and fuzzy, if it had paid a little more attention to to detail. Clearly, Ying King didn't really care for Bing Sum all that much. I think this shows the chauvinistic views most early civilizations held, especially in regards to love and marriage.

I think this story was another thing that shows Chinese culture very well. It was also very cute love story. This shows that in China, they were allowed to change their job from being rich to being a farmer. In Korea, social rank was extremely important long time ago. I did not know until end that the two characters loved each other because it seems like only Bing Sum loved Ying King. When he was not able to get married to Ying King, he was sick, but Ying King was never sick, except for when she was living in different enviornment. To me, even though the story was cute and lovely, it kind of not make sense. I think Yink King did not really love Bing Sum because she married only when he became a farmer.


Sara Kim

I enjoyed to watch both video clips. I was very surprised about huge number of population do kung fu and they practice kung fu to be a soldier or police officers. Also, I surprised about that people keep their traditional clothing for kung fu still now. I could not believe that this video clip is about today's china because people who do kung fu in traditional clothing seems characters of chinese movie about old china. Also, I'm sad about that I can not really see real traditional bow today. I hope that someone could find method to make real traditional bow again. I think these video clips were very entertaining.

discovering china post

i found that the fact that china is the oldest surviving civilization to be very interesting however even though the basic civilization has remained the same, it has gone through several evolutions like the evolution of kung fu for how it was used against the barbarians for self defence to becoming a national fighting style and can be considered almost essental for getting certain jobs.

Victor Kuc

I believe both videos were very entertaining. I personally liked the first video more. I thought it was intresting how one of the most known martial arts was started by a peacefull comunity. There purpose was to defend and keep peace amoung fighting neighbors, but some use it wrongfully. I find it strange how the master uses the same values that the monks once used to teach his students martial arts. His school is even located with in a temple. Truthfully the wise teacher is killing two birds and one stone. He is both teaching his students martial arts and both teaching them the true value of what there learning. It is depressing though that his best student is only proofing the temptations of the modern world.

Jesse Nagel

This video talked about the martial art. Martial art shows the part of traditional China and I think it was beautiful and astonishing to see people doing martial art. In a temple, students of martial art praise their Buddha and this tradition has continued about 2000 years. Martial art is way of firing up the spirit. It is very amazing how much people love and still does martial art. They not only practice martial art, but they practice using archery in ancient style. I think this is kind of similar with Korea, how some people show interest in archery. In China, people eat many different things, such as snakes, duck, frog and etc. this was kind of surprising.


-Saila Kim-

Im sorry about not posting this earlier, but I would like to thank you for allowing me on the blue slip to add my post late. The videos that we had watched were very intresting. It allowed me to venture into the lives of a normal family in China. Although the family seen are classified as peasents; it seems as though if i were to live there many of us would be in the same situation. I personally thought the begining few minutes of the video was very entertaining. It was suprising to see the thousands and thousands of lines of martial art students doing the same thing at the same time. I can easily compare this to what I learned about china in the past about how they in the morning do stretcches as a school in the front of the building. It seems as though perfection and unification is honored. Something that seemed also intresting on the comunists part was that they alloud the peasants to govern them selves practicly. They were in charge of their life. for many this would seem like a chance to take over and ruin the civilization, but it seems as though the country has flourished under this new idea. You can just tell from the single family used as an example.

Jesse Nagel

Discovery China

There were two thinkgs I found very interesting about the documentary. One was how similar the paddy part was to the 'human interest pieces' news networks became fond of while the economy was in a downward spiral. It made me pretty sad that while the major cities were advancing at a dizzying pace, the rural areas did not seem to be advancing culturally or tecnologically at all. The second thing that interested me was the Mongolian Horse Race. My sister loves horses and as soon as I saw them I called my sister over so she could see them too. Turns out she already knew about them, and she gave me more facts about it than the documentary did, but it was still cool.

Interesting things about China video

There were 2 things I found to be very interesting about the discovery channel China video. The first was the martial arts training seeing the martial artists standing behind the pales of water and striking the water with their hands. I am wondering why this would help them in a fight maby because it would build up tollerance to pain in their hands/ arms.
the other thing that intrigued me was seeing the farmers constructed the rice fields by having them set in layers. the only explanations that i can think of is that either this is because the area has many hills and this would be the easyest way to do it or because the design is better for irrigation among the rice or possibly a combination of the two.

I could know many informations from this video clip. I learned part of chinese history since elementary school becuase china is neighbor country of korea. However, I have never learned about today's china before. I was shocked about huge gap between modernized cities and farm in country sides. Also tools they use for farming, such as cows, shocked me again. Also I knew there are not enough land for farming but I did not know only 10% of chinese land is available for farming. This video clip was very impressive and I liked the landscape of farm in china mostly.
+I have a question about this video. Is Mongolia a part of China? It is what video clip saying but I learned that Mongolia is not a part of China but another country.

This video explained that China has the largest population, will become the most powerful nation in the future. Something that interested me was that Chinese people still practices tradition till today. I also learned that China has that largest horse race, and many people prepare for it. Mongolians are extremely good at riding horses. They have unbelievable skills. The most shocking information was that even though China has a great amount of lands, they only have 10 percent of farming lands. This means that when they fail in harvest, they have less food to eat, when they have a greatest population in the world. Another thing that I learned was that China has the most steels and has half of the concrete in the world. As a large country, China has every large amount of things. I was surprised that people who live in a country-side are more traditional than the people who live in the cities. After the harvest, family has a feast with traditional dumpling that is wrapped in leaves. It is also a competition in school that who has the largest dumpling. I was also shocked that people who are from the rural place take very dangerous and unpleasant jobs in the city. Over 2 million in China have difficult jobs.

-Sara Kim-