MDDM 64 Captain Zhang 2
Samuel Moyer
smoyer at satx.rr.com
Thu Jul 18 17:27:57 CDT 2002
Part 2
Short Historical resource on china at: http://www.china-contact.com/www/history.html
It doesn't say anything about slavery in China during this first Xia dynasty... but during the next, the Shang dynasty, it did exist....
624-34 Hsi now producing a gigantic sky-blue kite of some strong yet light silk Stuff, strengthened with curious Bamboo Ribwork, furnish'd with apparatus for steering.
The embryonic forms of modern aircraft-the kite, rocket, Kongming lamp, and bamboo dragonfly-were invented and created in ancient China and played an important role in the generation and development of aviation. http://www.flight100.org/history/chi.html
626-4 Lord Huang, a very rich trader with seven eligible daughters.
Couldn't find anything on seven daughters except this from Pennsylvania (c. 1800): http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/family/huntingdon.html Mr. Steel was a man of medium height, heavy and erect frame, communicated freely and intelligently, was kind and courteous to all, and to young men in particular, and ... lived to an advanced age. He left behind him..... and six or seven daughters....
But on seven sisters:
The Pleiad(e)s were the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione... http://www.ras.ucalgary.ca/~gibson/pleiades/pleiades_myth.html
>From Down Under: _The Two Wise Men and the Seven Sisters_ told by Josie Boyle http://www.dreamtime.net.au/seven/index.cfm
(this is not a reference to Hsi and Ho, though they are astronomers.)
Never heard Pleiades called the Seven Sisters of Industry (628- last two lines) ... found something about the ancient Chinese using the appearance of Pleiades in the Spring sky to indicate the time for Spring planting.
627-5 "Can you predict when the next Eclipse will happen?"
Lord Huang is setting up his competitive intel department... which may be shady business but it makes Ho and Hsi wealthy. That is until they miscalculate and either get Huang killed or themselves banished...(628)
628-16 Dim Sum: http://members.fortunecity.com/8dimsum/ and http://www.globalgourmet.com/destinations/hongkong/hkdishes.html
Sam
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