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Hi KK. That sounds quite an experience. Re. “focusing and cultivating negative Vs positive chi”, it might help to read some of the old threads. Welcome to the forum.

I think it’s wrong to “forgive” serious abusers. I first physically get rid of them out of my life. Secondly mentally let go of them by giving it all to God. Then happily live my own life without them. Definitely.

“Because of its mercury content, cinnabar can be toxic to human beings.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnabar#Toxicity

I’m a quarter-Taoist.

Interesting. I can relate to that on a personal level.

Good to see you!

I second that. ABC - avoid bad company. I second that.

Yes. I can read the pinjin and do the ‘tones’ fairly now. But I cannot remember words well as they have no common root with my language at all. Also I think I started a bit too late in life to get anywhere with something that requires so much memorising. I still practice a little bit, just for fun, as I do think it is a very beautiful and intriguing language. Yes. It’’s like having to learn 2 languages. For each English word I have to learn the Chinese equivalent + the character for it. Despite online fairy tales, in my experience each character is pretty much unique and needs to be separately memorised. Ha, ha, I definitely sympathise. But yes, it would be “rare”; most people love their own language above all others. Yes, I heard a bit about that before. A system of very hard to pass exams for entry into civil service, one had to learn by heart some of the classics. Wow, 81 verses … definitely impossible for me.

Me ‘Cassandra’ do prophesy that Xxandra will not be back.

The OP scared me off.

Nothing new under the sun.

Yep. Kanji means 漢字 han4 zi4 - Chinese character.

Worse! Bernhard Karlgren wrote in 1911: Even if you know the modern colloquial and recognize a couple of thousand Chinese characters, you cannot read a single line of Chinese literature. … Once you after no end of toil have mastered the language used in the classics, you still cannot read the histories written at the same time. If you master the two languages, you still cannot read a line of poetry. If you master the three languages, you still cannot read novels. If you master the four languages, you still cannot read newspapers. If you master the five languages, you still cannot read imperial edicts, trade agreements, passports, etc. And so on, and so on. http://goranmalmqvist.blogspot.com/2015/09/bernhard-karlgren-man-behind-scholar.html

My Chinese teacher used to say, “One cannot read Chinese without knowing the culture”.

Hi Ramleh. Welcome to the forum.

Please use Google: antlers and horns belong to two different biological families: bovidae and cervidae.

Imo often psychosomatic.

Yes, 鹿 is deer … but ‘caprinae’ is not ‘鹿’.

I second that.

True. @VELLY Your wife too will respond well to being loved by you. My advice: focus on the relationship and forget about the mentioned problems.

Very impressive.

@Mango This type of dictionary, I always switch language a few times. If the translation does not stay the same (as in your ‘deer’ case), it indicates a mistake in the database.

It’s a mistake in this database, as 鹿 lu4 - deer (cervidae).

Only by consensus.