恩典之路Chinese Christian song with lyrics
Lord, You are my guide, the shepherd of my life
Through the hills and valleys, You're always by my side
Calling me by name, You've chosen me with love
Blessing me abundantly, Your promise will never change
Every step we take, You lead us with Your grace
Your love, Your hand, will hold us close to You and will guide us through the path of grace
YAN, JERRY XING sang Condolence in Shanghai Concert Hall.
Translation of the Lyric:
Standing at mourning hall, I can't help to stop my face was bedewed with tears,
calling my brother Chou Gong Gin to listen to me carefully:
Tsao Meng Der (Tsao Tsao) led an arm's force with eighty hundred and thirty thousand members;
who tried to seize the territory of Dong Wu upon by force and engulf the south of China.
Governor Chou (a military commander) was great daring combined with superior judgement, although you were in youth;
in order I was under your command, I took advantage of east wind from Heaven at the top of Nan Pin Mountain.
Pang Shi Yuan used as a scheme titled a chain of rings by connecting with together to Tsao Tsao's warships;
Hang Gong Fu to make capital of fire defeated Tsao Tsao but used a ruse of inflicting an injury on whom self to win the confidence in the enemy,
A great hero who you are but unfortunately, there is no longer for your life, suddenly!
You left a beautiful reputation that will be to last forever!
My liver and gut were broken by the tremendously sorrowing, my brother Chou!
I have to stop to say anything by mouth and asking for Heaven for you by heart!
With extremely deplore that for adorable talent by your idiosyncratic;
with deeply regret that for using the art of war by your particular as well as Sun Wu!
In that you passed way, although I still live, which is like has no bend the arrow;
Know me one that was you, fear me one, which is Tsao Tsao!
Broken intestine for me tied to wipe my tears,
We separated loved each other in live and death. Ten thousand called out thousand shouted you couldn't be to reply to me!
Oh, my military commander Chou!
This play renders far more for vocal music, somehow. There is a combined with abstractive, contrasting and exaggerative performing style always mesmerized audiences. A typical characteristic is among Yan School's repertoires.
Zhuger Liang, premier of Shu (Han Dynasty in China), who condoles with general Chou Yu on his death found by Maestro Yan, Jiu Peng in 20th century; the 3rd generation heir is Jerry Xing Yan, who sang with Symphony, in Dec, 2010, at Shanghai Concert Hall of China.
During the Three Kingdoms period (A.D.220-265), Wei, Shu, and Wu, are three independent states. Invade each other constantly to fight over control of the central part of China. Liang, prime minister of Shu, is a prudent and intelligent man, he always defeats the enemy by his great wisdom. One incident, Zhuger Liang and his army accidentally step into Wu's territory and have a violent battle with Wu. Command Chou Yu of Wu is killed during the battle. Zhuger Liang surprisingly appears at the memorial ceremony; Zhuger Liang moans, cries, and screams grievously as if he has lost his dearest friend. Widow - Shiao Chiao which at first has successive general military commander Lu Su ready to arrest Zhuger Liang, but his behavior softens her heart. Shiao Chiao ended up let him go free without any hurt.
1994 Taipei Mayoral Debate (2): Chao Shao-kang's reactionary fire and brimstone
From comparing the DPP to the Nazis to spending a third of a local election speech criticizing Lee Teng-hui's foreign policy, Chao Shao-kang gives a tour de force of reactionary 非主流 sentiment the likes of which you'll never see from a mainstream Taiwanese candidate again. (Hau Pei-tsun was just roundly criticized for saying similar things during the 2014 campaign.) Chao's New Party was born as a reaction to the Taiwanization of Lee's KMT and faded away as it became clear there wasn't room for a new party and as the KMT moved closer to China to get these votes back. This speech is a master class in how a historically privileged group perceives a mass movement against its supremacy. If the subtitles don't load, click on the second box from the left in the bottom right corner.
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The Ming dynasty () was the ruling dynasty of China – then known as the Great Ming Empire – for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China ruled by ethnic Han Chinese. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng (who established the Shun dynasty, soon replaced by the Manchu-led Qing dynasty), regimes loyal to the Ming throne – collectively called the Southern Ming – survived until 1683.
The Hongwu Emperor (ruled 1368–98) attempted to create a society of self-sufficient rural communities ordered in a rigid, immobile system that would guarantee and support a permanent class of soldiers for his dynasty: the empire's standing army exceeded one million troops and the navy's dockyards in Nanjing were the largest in the world. He also took great care breaking the power of the court eunuchs and unrelated magnates, enfeoffing his many sons throughout China and attempting to guide these princes through the Huang-Ming Zuxun, a set of published dynastic instructions. This failed spectacularly when his teenage successor, the Jianwen Emperor, attempted to curtail his uncles' power, prompting the Jingnan Campaign, an uprising that placed the Prince of Yan upon the throne as the Yongle Emperor in 1402. The Yongle Emperor established Yan as a secondary capital and renamed it Beijing, constructed the Forbidden City, and restored the Grand Canal and the primacy of the imperial examinations in official appointments. He rewarded his eunuch supporters and employed them as a counterweight against the Confucian scholar-bureaucrats. One, Zheng He, led seven enormous voyages of exploration into the Indian Ocean as far as Arabia and the eastern coasts of Africa.
The rise of new emperors and new factions diminished such extravagances; the capture of the Zhengtong Emperor during the 1449 Tumu Crisis ended them completely. The imperial navy was allowed to fall into disrepair while forced labor constructed the Liaodong palisade and connected and fortified the Great Wall of China into its modern form. Wide-ranging censuses of the entire empire were conducted decennially, but the desire to avoid labor and taxes and the difficulty of storing and reviewing the enormous archives at Nanjing hampered accurate figures. Estimates for the late-Ming population vary from 160 to 200 million, but necessary revenues were squeezed out of smaller and smaller numbers of farmers as more disappeared from the official records or donated their lands to tax-exempt eunuchs or temples. Haijin laws intended to protect the coasts from Japanese pirates instead turned many into smugglers and pirates themselves.
By the 16th century, however, the expansion of European trade – albeit restricted to islands near Guangzhou like Macau – spread the Columbian Exchange of crops, plants, and animals into China, introducing chili peppers to Sichuan cuisine and highly productive corn and potatoes, which diminished famines and spurred population growth. The growth of Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch trade created new demand for Chinese products and produced a massive influx of Japanese and American silver. This abundance of specie remonetized the Ming economy, whose paper money had suffered repeated hyperinflation and was no longer trusted. While traditional Confucians opposed such a prominent role for commerce and the newly rich it created, the heterodoxy introduced by Wang Yangming permitted a more accommodating attitude. Zhang Juzheng's initially successful reforms proved devastating when a slowdown in agriculture produced by the Little Ice Age joined changes in Japanese and Spanish policy that quickly cut off the supply of silver now necessary for farmers to be able to pay their taxes. Combined with crop failure, floods, and epidemic, the dynasty collapsed before the rebel leader Li Zicheng, who was defeated by the Manchu-led Eight Banner armi ...