Woke up, looked outside the window.OH NO! Its raining.
It was really cold today.
The temperature was about 8 degrees.
And yesterday's temperature was about 20 degrees.
What a huge difference!
The moment i stepped out of the room, i could feel the coldness.
When the wind blows, god... its cold!
It doesnt help that it was really windy.
My teeth chattered all the way to class.
So during lunch, i had a hot bowl of JI DAN LA MIAN.
yes people.its noodles.
It really warms up the body.
Before heading off to IS lesson, me and Ja bought mineral waters to replenish our stock.We bought a dozen bottles.
AHAH.
People was staring at us as we made our way back.
Our lastest supply of food ->
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------WHAT I LEARNT IN IS LESSON TODAY:
Today, Xiao Ling lao shi gave us a handout of some of the emperors of China.
I quickly read it through and found it really interesting.
It really amaze me that people would really do anything to attain power.
Maybe back in those days, killing people was something normal.
I wonder, dont they feel a sense of remorse at all?
The Yuan Dynasty.This dynasty is interesting as the emperor is a Mongolian instead of a Chinese(Han).
I found it interesting as i thought all the emperors are Chinese.
Guess who is the Mongolian emperor??
Its....
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GENGHIS KHAN and KUBLAI KHAN!!
Wow!
I really didnt know he was once China's emperor.
They are like the only Mongolians i've ever heard of.
Ahahahha.
More about the Yuan Dynasty>>>
The Yuan Dynasty (Chinese: 元朝; pinyin: Yuáncháo; Mongolian: Dai Ön Ulus/Дай Юан Улс), or Great Yuan Empire (simplified Chinese: 大元国; traditional Chinese: 大元國; pinyin: Dà Yuán Diguó was both the continuation of the Mongol Empire and the Mongol founded historical state in Mongolia and China, lasting officially from 1271 to 1368.
Genghis Khan occupied northern China in 1215, but not until 1279 did Kublai Khan take control of southern China.
The Mongols established their capital at Beijing (then called Dadu).
Paper money, which had had limited circulation under the Song Dynasty, came to be used throughout the empire.
Advances were made in astronomy, medicine, and mathematics, and trade was carried out throughout the Mongol empire from the plains of eastern Europe across the steppes to Mongolia and China.
Many foreigners came to China (notably Marco Polo), and many Chinese traveled to Iran, Russia, and even western Europe.
The Chinese resented the Mongol conquerors, whose governmental system discriminated against them.
Chinese artists demonstrated passive resistance by withdrawing and turning to personal expression.
Literati painting became popular; the novel developed, and new dramatic forms also appeared. Disputes over succession weakened the central government from 1300 on, and rebellions were frequent, many connected with secret societies such as the Red Turbans.
The dynasty was overthrown in 1368 by the future Hongwu emperor.
Next is Emperor Xuantong or known as Henry Pu Yi.
Next is Emperor Xuantong or known as Henry Pu Yi.
After reading a little about him, i want to know more.
Its because he was the last emperor of China and i found his story to be a bit pityful.
The Dowager Empress Cixi named Puyi to succeed her on her deathbed.He was only about 3 years old then.
In the 1911 rebellion against foreigner and the Manchu government, he was forced to renounced his throne.
He then lived in the forbidden city.
In 1917, when Puyi was 9, a warlord named Zhang Xun decided to restore him to the throne.
Six days after the restoration, a plane dropped 3 bombs on the forbidden city.
It was the first air raid in Chinese history.
All his supporters abandoned him and he lost throne again.
He continued living his live in the forbidden city.
Then, the Manchus helped him restore his throne.
When he was 16, he married a very beautiful girl named Wan Rong.
In 1924 the army of another warlord,Feng Yuxiang, surrounded the forbidden city and he was forced to leave the place.
He set up a court at Tianjin where the japanese had a lot of power.
Eventhough he and his wife had busy social life, their relationship was very cold.
She had and affair with a guard and became an opium addict.
She gradually died in 1950.
The Japanese set up a new country called Manchuko in Manchuria and made PuYi the cheif executive.
Then in 1934, he bacame the emperor of Manchuko.
However, he was just a puppet with little say even over his personal life.
The Japanese pressured him to marry a Japanese women but resisted by taking in a new Manchu consort,Tan Yuling.
Six year later she died and PuYi believed that the Japanese had poisoned her.
He then remarry a Manchurian girl,Li Yuqin from a Japanese-run school.
At the end of the war Soviet forces took Manchuria.
So PuYi fled his palace and abdicated the throne leaving behind his wife.
In 1958, she divorced him and remarried.
PuYi and his attendants were taken to the USSR and kept under house arrest.
And in 1950, PuYi returned to China and was sent to a prison camp for nine years.
He was released in december 1959 at the age of 50s and worked in the gardens of the Academy of Science Institue of Botany.
He remarried again to Li Shuxian,a nurse who treated him during his imprisonment.
He then died in 1967 leaving behind his autobiography: FROM EMPEROR TO CITIZEN.
Sad isnt it.
I really find his life pityful.
It feels like he was being thrown around.
Being an emperor is not a glorious job at all.
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Packing for tomorrow's trip.
Tomorrow we are going to the 3 gorges.
Wohoo!
Have to do some packing because the trip will take 3 days.
Me and ja decided to make some sandwich to eat during the long journey.
The bread doesnt look nice because we dont have a knife to cut the bread!! So we just tore it off!WANT TO KNOW WHAT I HAD FOR DINNER????
NOODLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 