1974 School report

Wednesday, 31 January 2007, 19:08 | Category : History
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Translation:

Quotation from Chairman Mao

Our educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop morally, intellectually and physically and become a worker with both socialist consciousness and culture.

Report

To the parents of Wang Jianfen:

The school’s winter holiday will commence on 18 January, finishing 25 February, 1974. Registration for next semester and tuition fees should be paid on the 26, 27 and 28 of February, and on 1 March classes formally begin. This report is to inform you of the moral, intellectual and physical performance of student Wang Jianfen in Class 10, High School Grade 1 [=16 years old]; during the holiday period please educate, supervise and encourage the student accordingly in her homework, which should be handed in during registration.

Comments Merits:

Diligently studies Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought. She is eager to improve, works well with her classmates and respects her teachers. Her spirit of [class/revolutionary] struggle is strong, she takes care of public property, and is morally correct. She speaks well during meetings and actively participates in group activities. Her study objectives are clear, she has a proper attitude and good grades. Her homework is completed on time, and she respects the regulations and discipline of the school. In physical exercise she is active and participates in group activities, and is enthusiastic in recess exercise   . She actively participates in labour [this means tasks much like community service - street cleaning, etc] in which she displays a definite aptitude to endure hardship. She is active in her agricultural training [meaning farm labour, but only part-time], and carries out the tasks assigned to her.

Shortcomings:

Sometimes she is not strict enough in demands on herself, not patient enough in helping other students, and does not discipline herself enough in bearing hardship   . She occasionally talks during class.

Achievements

By subject

Politics

Chinese

Maths

Physics

Chemistry

English

Agriculture

Geography

Good

91

99

99

87

99

-

-

History

Physical Education

Music

Art

85

-

-

-

Attendance

Record

Absent

Late

Left Early

Sick

Personal Affairs

Public Errands

2

-

-

-

-

-

Holiday homework: 1, Write a daily diary entry; 2, Choose a maths question from the practise book; 3, comprehensive revision of subjects in which examinations were failed.

No. 1 Middle School, Wenshan Prefecture

18 January, 1974

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Hey hey! Restaurant proprietor! Give me pickled vegetables!

Friday, 26 January 2007, 18:42 | Category : Food & Drink
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This song by Paula Tsui is an ode to the glory that is Chinese pickled vegetables (paocai ):

 

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Hey hey, restaurant proprietor, give me pickled vegetables!
(Hey hey, lao ban, lai pan paocai!)

(chorus)
Hey hey, restaurant proprietor, give me paocai!
Hey hey, restaurant proprietor, give me paocai!
Paocai paocai Wooo! paocai paocai

(2nd verse)
Everyone loves it, yeah,
Don’t you reckon it’s funny?
Just put a plate of paocai on the table,
Wooo! My intention is to
Whet the diners’ appetite…

 

Autumn Night album cover - Paula Tsui (1969)

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Sunday, 21 January 2007, 9:01 | Category : Chinese Idioms
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Literally:

to eat closed-door soup

Meaning:

to be left out in the cold;
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Yuhuang Pavilion

Thursday, 18 January 2007, 16:58 | Category : History
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Yuhuang Pavilion

Yuhuang Pavilion

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Ceiling painting of the 28 Lunar Mansions

Ceiling painting of the 28 Lunar Mansions

 

“When I was a lad, there were over a hundred monks here.”

“That’s hard to imagine now…”

“Oh, yeah, it was busy.”

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Yunnanese idiom: Circling fly

Tuesday, 9 January 2007, 8:01 | Category : Yunnan dialect
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fly3“Circling fly” is used to describe someone who uses tactics of confusion and misinformation in order to get what they want, most often in a business situation. For example:
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Happy New Year

Monday, 1 January 2007, 23:58 | Category : Festival
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Hope you had a fantastic Christmas.

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“In winter eat nourishing food, and come the new year you will be able to punch a tiger.”

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And have a tiger-punching New Year.