2. If you make an amway ID card, you will become an agent in amway company in philippine.
hello. nice to meet you. you're so kind and lucky. i can help you to make an amway ID. you will become an agent in amway company.
your life will become better and better. and you will get more and more money. because there are all kinds of products in amway company in philippine. many chinese people will buy many things with your card. if you and your friends to make an amway ID, you will make much more money. (please duplicate your ID card or SSS card or passport.)
my american webfriend told me that recently he was working on a little problems. because one of his flatmates had moved out, he needed find other people to move into the house he lived in to share the bills as soon as possible, otherwise, he also had to consider to move house, since he had not enough money to afford the rent. luckily enough, he had been given the offer to move into someone's house and live there because the houseowner would be traveling a lot and only be home 1 week every month. however, he had a lot of concerns about his another flatmate---an old grandmother who lived with them. he needed to see what the older woman thought. he wanted to make sure she had a place to live if he left. at the same time, his daughter also asked him for 2,000 dollar to help pay for her wedding, she would need it next summer. he felt so embarrassed, he didn't want to give her the money. since he just struggled to save such a sum of money for the trip to china for me----we have met each other online for almost 4 years, (you can say, he is just my american web boyfriend, also a divorced father)---and he finally promised me that he would be there to meet me in reality this summer. but now the question is that she is also his only daughter and needs his help, how should he do? how can he have no heart to turn down her request?
above is the content of his email to you.
oh, it's really the distress of poor people like us! i know my american webfriend is such a kindhearted person. he even cares where that old grandmother will go if he moves into other house. no doubt, she absolutely expects him to stay in the present house. living with him, he has been her great helper, such as driving the car to send her to hospital,etc. especially the old people always come down with illness more easily, they need to look after.
yeah, still such is the poor people living in usa---the most developed country in the world, what about the poor people living in china--the developing country? i understand the hardships of living in a rented house more than anyone, because i'm also such a poor tenant. just today i get the message from the landlord saying the rent price will increase a lot. since my rent is due, i have not time to find the other house to rent at all. what's more, it's so difficult to find a proper house for a single person in my place. because in the traditional chinese society/culture, marriage is a must. so there're just very few smaller-sized house/flat to lent for single people. due to the relation between market supply and demand, the ferocious and greedy landlords can increase the monopolized price endlessly as they like. yeah, i guess it's also one of the roots of polarization of the rich and the poor. more pitifully, i also can't find the proper people to share a big house. i have not any good friend. of course, if i can, i will marry that one. my god, in chinese society, i can't imagine any more god-forsaken existence than the life of a single woman! i feel so sad and helpless. if i keep on being single, i don't know how i will live in the future! the rent has gobbled up most of my salary. and i'm afraid that i will really have no room to stand on my feet in china someday, not to mention to have the savings. it's just in so cruel and miserable a situation to be an independent single woman in china! the chinese population is too large, china is too crowded!!! why most of chinese women must marry only for survival, not for love and happiness? it just results in the vicious cycle of poverty, giving birth to more children, living badly like the humble animals! but see what a heavy price i'm paying for refusing to make a marriage without love,fighting against this kind of chinese marriage culture/system!
and i just gave a call to my younger sister, telling her about my difficulty that the house rent was increasing so much. she was becoming so worried about my future,too. she told me that i should prepare for the worst. if nobody would like to come to marry me, i should learn to pinch every penny for buying my own house! i must change my usual improvidence. but how can i save my own house with such a little income? and i know even if all the savings of my parents will be run out due to me, it's also not far enough to buy a house. oh, how i wish my parents can have a happy life in old years. oh, i really want to cry!
of course, being a father, my american webfriend should try his best to pay some money for his daughter's wedding. after all, marriage is so important for everyone, especially for woman. his daughter will be a beautiful happy young bride. i remember there's a chinese female movie star saying, if the life is bound to be wasted, i'd rather choose to waste it in love! (oh, sorry, i don't think i can translate this sentence exactly. ) oh, it's just my state, i have wasted my whole youth for waiting for the love and marriage! many times, i think why i insist in keeping on being single, why i am so silly to wait for the love, bearing the poorness and helplessness. i have no answer. i really have no answer.
on the other hand, my younger sister is the "financial manager" of my whole family, although she is youngest, 11 years younger than me, she is good at careful calculation and strict budgeting and most considerate. she is also helping my younger brother to select a new girlfriend whom she likes a lot --a young excellent doctor owning a high diploma in her working hospital. you know now my younger brother is just unlawfully living with a divorced bad jobless woman older than him,(even having a son with her ex-husband,too) in the house which my parents bought for him to marry, and that woman is very arrogant and unfriendly to us all, except my younger brother, acting rudely just as if she was the real hostess, we siblings as well as our parents all should flatter her, which makes my parents very sad and suffering. several times,the strong arguements broke out between my family and my younger brother. my mother is so brokenhearted, even not letting my younger brother go back home to see her during the chinese spring festival. god knows that he is the only son of my parents, he is just a handsome and noble prince in my whole family's eyes! he absolutely deserves a good match! ( pitifully just like me, lack of wealth and good social status/connections bring to us poor marriage prospects. ) however, we also can't complain my younger brother too much. we all clearly know such a truth that my younger brother remained a virgin body until 30 years,too. it's just that woman with a lot of sex experiences and techniques who enticed him to make love with her, beginning to enjoy the sex life. don't forget, we're all the common people with the common desires. maybe we're just mortals, although we're expected that we can be saints.
my dear american webfriend, have you heard of my cry from the bottom of my heart? how i wish you can come to china not only for me, but also for my younger brother! if that young female doctor knows that my younger brother has a sister whose boyfriend/husband is an american, from the most developed country in the world, she must agree to marry my brother. it will also improve my brother's social status/connection.
thank godness, it's the next summer that your daughter will hold a wedding, instead of this summer. otherwise, you will really have no way to go to china for me! yeah, i don't worry about it. i believe there must have a way for you to save 2,000 dollar for your daughter till next summer! so i beg you again, no matter what happens, please keep your promise to china for me this summer, let's see each other in reality at first! what you need is only the visa and air-ticket. when you go to china, i'll arrange for all things for you. because i'm just the person in this world who needs you most now!!! i really love you so deeply!(otherwise, i'll die. of course, just a kidding! if you really also love me, you won't allow me to die. if you don't love me at all, it's no necessary to die for you! it's my love declaration! )
P.S.
i don't know what kind of power supports me to fight against the marriage without love. maybe it's because i feel there're too many people in china, living like an ant, dying also like an ant! i respect the marriage so much. because i respect the life itself so much. marriage can give birth to the new life. i like this sentence: if the life is bound to be wasted, i'd rather choose to waste in love. it's my religion!
my webfriend: it is a beautiful sentence. but only in literature. in real life, can you think it will be practical... it will be called madness by common people.. me: i c. i want to be a mad person. maybe it's because i feel there're too many people in china, living like an ant, dying also like an ant! they give birth to many children, but never take good care of them. my webfriend: that condition is not only in china, in many other countries also.. including india.. for a woman, if she never gives birth to the new child, it means that her life has been wasted. but i'd rather choose to waste my life, waste my instinct of being a mother.
several days ago, my younger sister especially called me to go shopping for clothes in her working city. i happily agreed. in china, if you want to find a variety of beautiful clothes, you should go to the bigger city. since i live in a small and remote city, you can say it's just similar to a big town. i'm always troubled by lack of the proper clothes. it's the reason why i need go shopping in my sister's place.
thank godness, my sister was just assigned to work in this new city. oh, the feeling is so great when you have a chance to go to a strange city for shopping and relaxion, and no need to worry where you should live. because there's the free room for you. since i can live with my sister for free.
after taking the long-distance bus for more than 4 hours, i finally arrived at the destination. i immediately sent a mobile message to my sister. soon later she turned up in the bus stop to greet me, and guided me to her working unit, where we were provided the hot bath for free every day. and we also did some cooking since there were some fresh vegetables for free to eat in the yard,too. so many times, i feel that we shouldn't judge one's wealth by the pure money, the money is not so important. the most important thing is if you can own the free services and resources! maybe it's just the value of friendship and love and mutual help. .
undoubtedly, i enjoy the shopping with my sister very much. we not only went to the large , air-conditioned stores, also to the several crowded flea markets. and eating the delicious snacks willfully such as the sugar coated haws, sugar coated chinese yam on a stick, fried peas jelly, etc. of course, my main mission was to buy a well-satisfied clothes successfully. so when i finally found a long down jacket, i even felt at ease. for i looked for this kind of long-style clothes in the shops of my working place for a long time, pitifully i failed in it. god knows how i need a long new clothes to keep warm in our cold winter! although at that time, my younger sister reminded me that she felt the clothes was rather expensive, and i was also not very content with its color and size, but i desired to get a long coat too much, i still decided to buy it.
as a result, when i came back to check the price of my clothes in the same brand online, i realized it's much cheaper than mine. oh, how regreted i was! if only i knew that there're a lot of long coats online smilar to this one earlier! in this link, , it shows that the clothes is just completely the same as mine, its price is only 328.35 chinese yuan. however, it cost me 490 chinese yuan. i unexpectedly spent the extra more than 150 chinese yuan to buy the same clothes on the webstore. and i also unexpectedly went to buy it in such a place far from me, it's not really worth it.
and my younger sister also bought a coat. when i check the price of this coat by inputting the same brand and model number online, i find it's a little more expensive than we bought in reality. so it's rather economical for us to buy that coat. you may as well open this page to have a look, my sister only spent 330 chinese yuan to get it. while the lowest price online also reaches up to 345 chinese yuan. oh, i admire my younger sister very much. she can buy the proper clothes in good quality in the least money. she is always selective in the dress. you see, except that her coat is cheaper than the lowest price in webstore. i also noticed that her clothes is really in good quality. ----very light and soft, but very warm! which proves that it's made of the finest duck feathers. not like mine, when wearing it, so heavy and clumsy.
i can‘t help being angry with myself. why can't i make good use of the money all the while? why can't i measure which kind of clothes should be expensive or cheap well?
so the shopping for clothes is absolutely a big knowledge. it's said that in china, now there're some people living in the big city who try on the different styles of clothes on the shops in reality on purpose, once they meet the form-fitting clothes,just secretly taking down the brand and model number of the clothes, then comparing with the same clothes in the webstore, if the price online is much cheaper, they will choose online shopping so that they can save a sum of money. after all, just as this old saying, A penny saved is a pound earned!
P.S. one of my american webfriends said that If i bought that coat in America, it probably would have cost me much more. he looked up a similar coat which cost me 490 yuan in America and found it to sell for about 685 yuan. if so, my dear international webfriends, why can't we take full advantage of the worldwide internet---the greatest tool and platform in our era to save money, i.e, earn money? let's help each other from now on!
if you're interested in buying some certain of clothes from china, please feel free to contact me. it's my greatest pleasure to be your free service and resource!
my tour to guilin in china, there's such a saying, guilin's landscape is the NO.1 in the world. guilin is a place i desire to have a visit when i was a child, since there's a famous essay in our textbook of primary school about the beautiful scenary of guilin. recently i finally got a chance to have a tour to guilin which lies in the guangxi zhuang antonomous region---a province inhabited a lot of different ethnic minorities including zhuang, dong, miao,yao,etc. as i have mentioned in the last blog, most of chinese belong to han nationality. in china, there're only 5 antonomous regions where the ethnic minorities are concentrated such as Tibet, Inner Mongolia,etc. although we only stayed in guilin for 2 and a half days. it took us 22 hours from our hometown--henan province, the middle of china to go to guilin, guangxi--south china by taking the train, you can say that we just stayed in the train most of time, i still have rather a thorough idea about this beautiful place.
oh, it's a difficult problem! from where should i begin to tell about what i have seen and heard in guilin? by the way, have you heard of carst cave? we have entered 2 huge carst caves there, one of which is named ludi cave. it's said that the american president bush had just visited it in 2008. pitifully we can't take photos in the caves in which are rather dark, at the same time, the carst caves are also rather humid. however, a glorious array of fantastic stalagmites and stalactites, stone shield and stone waterfall of different sizes and shapes, showing before us made everyone excited and intoxicated very much. after the guide performed the melodious local mountain songs for us tourists in the interval, being affected deeply, i couldn't also help singing aloud. in the serene and long caves, i could fell that my voice sounded specially clear and beautiful just as the sliver bells in the wind. while i also associated with a lot of romantic love stories about the minority people i have read in the novels before. oh, my feeling was too pleased and satisfied to be described!
of course, there were a lot of foreigner visitors there. i mean in the huge carst caves there were a lot of foreign visitors,too. so i had the chance to keep in touch with those foreigners' bodies so nearly. since a few roads in the caves were very narrow. it's the only way for all people to pass through. so interesting! we all could smell the fragrance of milk from white people's bodies. oh, the white people must eat a lot of milk in daily life, ok? so they smell very milky, but rather fragrant! i guess maybe the white foreigner visitors just feel the yellow people--chinese smell sweaty and salty, since we are accustomed to eat the salty food in daily life. (pitifully i have even no courage to say hello with those foreign visitors, of course, i also have no confidence in my oral english. i only envy those chinese guides majoring in receiving the foreign tourists so much, fancying someday i can be proud of accompanying with the real white visitors like them there.)
as for the mountain and water in guilin, oh, my god, how can i depict them in my poor english level? the most beautiful scenary should be the course where the lijiang river is meadering from guilin to yangshuo for hundreds of miles. the famous peot named hanyu of tang dynasty once praised the picturesque and poetic lijiang river in his lines "the river is like a green silk belt and the hills are like blue jade hairpins", which is really a vivid discription. the hills along the lijiang river seemed to me the round hair coils one by one.
in the urban area of guilin , there're a lot of osmanthus cakes, osmanthus wines, osmanthus perfumes,etc. in china, the pronunciation of osmanthus is gui, lin means forest, it's just the origin of the name of guilin city--since there're a lot of osmanthus trees here constituting an osmanthus forest--gui lin. even when we walked in the street, the waft of sweet-scented osmanthus still came towards us from time to time. and a lot of combs made of water buffalo's horns including white horn comb and black horn comb are also being sold at the roadside stalls, also the strange tropical fruits such as papaya, yacon, passion fruit,etc i have never seen before.
all these little goods began to give full play to their temptations, accordingly, my money were also draining away quickly. oh, should first cut and taste this kind of red passion fruit! oh, no, its flesh and seeds too sour for me! i also bought the exquisite and beautiful mirrors with the guilin's landscape patterns, key rings with the jade pendants, agate chains in cheaper prices. i've even luckily witnessed how to make the silk quilt from the raw silk cocoon in a big store.
among these, the most interesting and meaningful thing is that i bought a silver bracelet of 99.9% purity from the minority dong. as seen above, guilin is an area where there're a variety of minorities, some of who have the special silver culture. i don't know if you have seen their folk silver custumes, very gorgeous! (oh,maybe you have seen them in TV before,ok?) but for me, it's also rather difficult to come into contact with these minority people loving silver jewelry. since they only live in some remote provinces such as guangxi, guizhou in south china. it's just the first time for me to see the real dong nationality silver jewelry in reality.
unfortunately when i came back to my hometown, comparing the price of the bracelet from the dong ethnic group in guilin with the common bracelet in our local store, i found its price was twice expensive than the normal price. oh, my silver bracelet with 32.8 grams costs me 800 chinese money(almost 120 dollar, it is worth 24 chinese yuan per gram), but the bracelet with the same weight just costs no more than 400 chinese money(per gram is only 14 chinese yuan). no doubt i'm feeling a little sad about it. but this silver bracelet is just hand-crafted, the silver bracelet in the superstore is machine-made. the most important reason i bought this bracelet is that i respect and enjoy the different cultures from the different people. that dong nationality guide just claimed that in their culture, silver was very important and necessary for dong women. they cherished silver jewelry very much. it's said that when the dong women are married, they don't care for the great house, car, gold jewelry, etc like the han people. they only ask for the silver jewelry to the opposite sex partners. they worship and believe in the silver jewelry which can help them keep healthy. and it seems it's true that the dong nationality can live a longer life than han nationality. that dong ethnic guide said in her village, there's unexpectedly a person of 120 years old. it's all because they always use silver to keep healthy. the pure silver can disinfect, "guasha"--a chinese treatment to cure disease by scraping the skin with a tool made of silver or jade,etc. so i say they have the special silver culture. as a rule, even if a dong woman is very poor, she still must have some silver jewelry which seems to be as important as their amulet.
oh, who knows? maybe the hand-crafted silver jewelry holding the culture and belief can increase its value as the time goes on! if so, i have nothing to regret about my tour to guilin, ok?
dear friend, how are you? it's a long time not to write to you. god knows you're in my mind for ever. especially in this beautiful and enchanting spring, i can't help recalling a famous chinese ancient poem. since i fancy you like enjoying chinese poetic imagery.
oh, today when i walk in the street, i suddenly notice the white and light willow catkins are floating in the air. how beautiful, how ethereal! like a dream! the new spring is coming around! and i know such scenery only belongs to china, the middle of china---my hometown. and i also want to tell you a thing earlier. in the last december, i finally, finally got the chance to go abroad. i finally saved a sum of money, following the ecosway MLM team to visit to malaysia(it's the most feasible and cheapest way to get the visa for me)---where you was born and grown up. oh, no language can discribe my excited and joyful feeling. we boarded the airplane in the HK airport, and i began to imagine how billowy and horrible the sea's waves should be when looking down from an airplane. but so strange, at first, the airplane was flying in the low level, i could not only find the strong sea waves, but the small sparking ripples of sea surface. oh, the sea was unexpectledy so quiet and friendly. gradually, the airplane was flying higher and higher, when i looked down to the sea again, oh, more surprised, the sea water was becoming from the liquid into solid. at this time, i also knew the real billows surging in the sky had been appearing like my initial thought about the sea. the only difference was the tumbling sea waters had turned into the fixed/statical mountains of water---huge clouds. and the sea and the sky had merged into one! oh,i was not so scared as i imagined to watch the sea from the high airplane at all. after about more than 3 hours of flight, the airplane landed in the malaysian international airport. oh, i was also not excited as i imagined. i just felt the airport was so quiet, not having a packed and squeezing crowd in chinese big cities. oh, due to my limited english, i have no ability to discribe what impression malaysia made me well. oh, but it's really like the song singing in the airport---here is the heart of asia. in my eyes, malaysia is a colorful land. i really have seen the different races with different skin colors including the malaysian chinese, indians, malaysians, even the middle-eastern women with the whole face covered with the heavy black veil, only leaving a pair of eyes open. the fantastic islamic buidings with the onion tops, the eyeful green trees with big leaves, even the strange food. oh, i remember there were a lot of coffee, the strong black tea and the dried shrimps. oh, i can't discribe it. and there's the famous malaysian pewters as well as the exquisite "black diamond" extracted from the tin mine, the delicious chocolates with the various fillings such as blueberry, durian,etc. oh, my malaysia--- so colorful, so gorgeous! so hot! what is the most interesting in malaysia is that ( i never thought malaysia is like this before. ) the different races and nationalities live together in the same city, same community, still keeping the respective customs and religions, even having the different political systems. the islam can marry at most 4 wives legally with a big, big family of many childrens. (of course, there're different nationalities in china,too. but they don't live in the same districts.) all in all, i want to say the feeling of realizing the dream is really too wonderful. no matter how, i have finally, finally. although i have waited for the day's coming so long a time. however,since i have the experience of going abroad, i realize if one has never been to that place or country, it's very difficult to understand the artistic conception of the poems and cultures of that country. because its special climate, natural landscape is the most important element to form its culture. oh, maybe it's just the so-called chinese old saying "Different water and soil raised different people ". below is just that chinese peom which discribes the scenery of my hometown's spring. (sorry, it's not my own english translation, just copy it from online.) but please using the eye of your mind to feel the special beauty of the snowy willow catkins flying in the sunshine spring of the middle of china. the tender, light green and even translucent leaves are growing on the trees, all things look like afresh! 草树知春不久归,The flowering shrubs know spring won’t be here long; 百般红紫斗芳菲.In very colorful tunes they each present a song. 杨花榆荚无才思,Only the willow catkins have no imagination 惟解漫天作雪飞.They fly all over like snow to make a proclamation. oh, i'm looking foward to your visiting my hometown in the spring someday!
now in china, the 92% of chinese population belongs to the han nationality. but do you know why are majority of chinese called han people? by all accounts, the han dynasty between 206bce and 220ce is considered the greatest period of chinese history, the great wall of china was built and the arts and culture flourished. it's just the reason why chinese call themselves as ethnic han. especially during an emperor named han wudi, there was a big improvement in all kinds of social fields including policy system, economy, culture, music, etc, even the national territory. if my english is good enough, i assure you must fall in love with my description about this period of chinese history very much. at that time, for the chinese emperors in the han dynasty, they faced a huge threaten from the huns lived in the norther part of the present china and mongolia country. the huns used to go down south to the han borders, plundering the wealth and killed the han people. the han emperors had no ability to deal with the strong and savage norther hun's army, in order to exchange the temperory peace in the han borders, they were submitted to dedicate the princesses (the han emperor's daughter) to the hun's chief called "chanyu" every few years. however, those han princesses all were reluctant to marry to such a remote and cold northern place where huns lived. it's said that the natural condition in the north was very harsh and unbearable, the huns just wore the thick clothers, eating the big block of raw meat, living in the humble tent made of the blankets and poles. since most of han national territory just lied in the center of the present china where the weather was rather suitable for people, not too cold, not too hot. the young emperor han wudi had seen by himself the fact that his beautiful and delicate older sisters had to marry to the north, far away from their parents and hometown for ever, which gave him a great impression. he felt this was a big humiliation. so when he grew up and ascended the throne later, he refused to dedicate any han women to the hun leader--chanyu. he proposed to fight against the hun army, giving them a heavy lesson. so a war between han and hun began and lasted for decades. due to the war, it's natural that han wudi needed a lot of talented people to help him. so a powerful social reform was born at the right time. in political field, he accepted the assertion--"oust others doctrines, the overwhelming Confucianism" from the famous confusion scholar named dong zhongshu. from then on, the chinese began to believe in the confucianism as a national religion， which had become a main area of practise under the chinese feudal ruling and its superiority was never changed later. confucius also got to be entitled "saint" till now. people can say that if without the advocation of the emperor han wudi, the confucianism can't be popularized in china. and the chinese history would be a different look. in military, oh, it's really a brilliant era of heros coming forth in large numbers. the famous han senior generals fighting huns such as weiqing，huo qubing，li guang, etc are just the familiar names for the common chinese till now. you can say, in the chinese mind, they're just the vivid figures, instead of the ancient dead people. in literary, there's a famous writer named sima xiangru. he created a special poem writing style named "fu". according to the history records, one of his poems "fu" was worth a lot of gold which the han wudi enjoyed very much. and even there's a famous poem sentence by another ancient chinese poet in the song dynasty "it's still difficult to ask to buy a poem "fu" from sima xiangru even with a thousand liangs (liang is a unit of weight in china. a liang is equal to 50 grams now.) of gold." every sentense in peom "fu" was orderly and full of the soaring rhetorics, which was fit for reciting aloud. at the same time, the chinese most traditional and classical food---beancurd was just invented in han dynasty. now there're a variety of cuisines about beancurd in china, served as the fried beancurd, fermented beancurd, beancurd jelly, etc. among those stories taken place in the han dynasty, the famous "zhang qian to adventure to the west" is the one which i'm most interested in. since han wudi always went to war with the huns in the north, he desired to make friends to the other countries in the west (which lie in the present western part of china--Sinkiang) as the alliance to oppose the northern huns together. so he decided to dispatch a young envoy named zhangqian to adventure westward. why do we say it's a big adventure? since at that time, there's no any connection between the han and the western regions, where the spreading mighty desert was a huge natural barrier preventing people to know each other. so zhang qian must be brave enough to travel to those unknown small countries or tribes scattered in the desert. for the first time, zhangqian guided a small group of nearly 100 han people to go west, according to the han wudi's will. they all didn't know how their fate would be. were those people lived in the west desert friendly enough? as a result, zhangqian was betrayed by the huns, he was retained in a small western country in detention when he returned to the han dynasty. nevertheless, zhangqian had visited a lot of western places and countries, he even arrived in the present Afghanistan. at last, zhangqian got a chance to flee away from this west country to his native country--han dynasty, pitifully the former group of 100 people now were just becoming 2 people---zhangqian himself and the only attendent. and the whole 13 years have passed from he left the han dynasty's territory at the start, he just turned from a youngster into a middle aged person. decades later, han wudi sent him on mission to the west again. this time, he acheived a great victory. he brought back a lot of western plants and fruits, and music, etc in the han dynasty, opening the famous "silk road". the capital chang'an of han dynasty also changed into an open, prosperous international city, gathering a lot of western businessmen and the beautiful western female dancers (oh, han people just called them as hu people at that time.) at that time, the fruits such as the grapes, walnuts, pomegranates,etc for the central people(oh, han people also called themselves as central people. they just thought they lived in the middle of earth.) were just very fresh and unheard of. i still remember being a child, once a time when we ate the pomegranate planted in our yard, my mother told our children that the pomegranate was one of the fruits just from the west, which was introduced by zhangqian in han dynasty. so i feel that the capital chang'an of han dynasty is absolutely a charming city which any foreigners to china should have a visit. now its name is xi'an in the shan'xi province with a large number of cultural relics and scenic spots. (in the meantime, it has ever been the capital of tang dynasty--another thriving period of the chinese history. so in the mind of the overseas chinese, the chinatown just means the tang people's street. the chinese traditional clothes are called tang suits.)