Forbidden City ． Yuanmingyuan ． Hollywood

Please share if this (lost in translation) happens to
the language(s) you speak too :)
Only a couple examples for a break~
The original Chinese name of the Forbidden City is
Purple Forbidden City. 

Where is purple?
Forbidden City is not purple. Isn't it?
If "purple has long been associated with royalty",
why? And why is this across borders and cultures?

Yuanmingyuan (圓明園)
Bigger than the Forbidden City.
The de facto political centre of
the empire. Qing Emperors* chose to
stay there most of the time
according to documents.

Yuanmingyuan has a funnily boring
name in English - Old Summer Palace.
Why not translate it properly
from only three characters?
The middle one means sun and moon＊.
A simple, plain yet incredibly mythical word.
Lavish allusions in history, religion, folklore
and... Wuxia.
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Yuanmingyuan -
Does it look like "China" to you?
.
The emperor:
Go peasants!
Thou shall die for me
fighting the imperialists!
.
The deplorables:
WTF!
So you've been having fun in the
palaces built by the imperialists?
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Me:
Now that is China!

3 circles in 圓明園.
3 circles in Hollywood.
Each displays symmetries
visually and/or phonetically in itself.

How is Hollywood translated in your language(s)?
That larger-than-life sign may have been imprinted
on our mind. What font? Extra bold?

Holly wood is for magic wands.
Yeah as a muggle, about everything I know 🤪

* Sun and Moon
明 (Ming) is also the name of the
previous dynasty before Qing. A taboo supposedly...
.
~ A Few "Moments" Later ~
明 means Sun + Moon Alchemy
.
Related:
Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreütz
(Rostau)
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Why didn't Qing Emperors* build a brand new
imperial palace rather than keeping
the Forbidden City, which was
constructed in Ming dynasty?
Thriftiness was never virtue for
whomever sitting on that dragon chair.
All is connected and relevant still...

* Qing Emperors
Hesitation to say "Chinese emperors"
in case these guys rolling in their graves.
Manchu was the official language in Qing.
Han Chinese belonged to the
lowest level in social hierarchy.
Same when Mongols ruled China.
.
A book on my list:
Travels in China - John Barrow (1764-1848)

Qin ． Qing
秦 ． 清
First ． Last
.
Qin 221–207 BC
Qing 1644—1912
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~ Spoiler Alert ~
May I recommend to go
a little Crrrazy first?
.
Please allow me to
gossip a little more.
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The official language of Qing,
the Manchurian (alphabet),
actually looks like... Arabic.
(clues in 紅樓夢 i.e. Story of the Stone)
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"女真不滿萬，滿萬不可敵"
The secret lies in horses.
The real high tech they got from...
I can only guess it's related to
Zoroastrianism and the Aryan magi
(magus 麻姑 its plural in Latin).
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The secret lies in iron.
.
Ming had firearms (from trade
with the West). So how could
the nomads defeat firearms?
Unless... they had firearms
too. But how?
Btw:
Yuan, "a successor state to
the Mongol Empire after its
division", had firearms from
trade with the West. Yuan had
horses too. How could the revolting
peasants beat the firearms and
horses? Unless...
.
The Manchurian Candidate
- Frank Sinatra (1962)
- Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep (2004)

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"Aryan originates from the Sanskrit
word ārya, meaning "noble one".
The term was used by Indo-Iranian
peoples, including the speakers of
Vedic Sanskrit in ancient India."
.
According to Helena Blavatsky, Aryan
got their wisdom from the Atlanteans.
.
The wisdom thrived and blossomed
in the acient Arabic/Islamic world.
(e.g. Sufism, Genie, Al-kimiya*...)
.
Related:
- Arabic numbers
- Hindu–Arabic numeral system
- Arabic contributions to
Mathematics include algebra,
geometry and trigonometry...
Key peroson like Omar Khayyam...
(Khayyam-Pascal triangle, which
somehow is connected to Calculus).
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Came to mind:
Under the mounting pressure,
surrounded by danger of a frantic,
relentless, epic-scaled run down
(by Qing), the emperor of Ming
(in exile) sent messengers to
Europe asking for help from
the Pope in Rome. His queen
even converted to Catholicism.
Their son, the last prince of Ming,
was baptized at birth as,
who else(?), Constantine...

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To thicken the plot...
(this is wild...)

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Zoroastrianism's Faravahar symbol
appears in the ancient Mesopotamian
(Anunnaki, Sumerian) art too.
Zoroastrianism may be much
older than stated in Wikipedia.
Or to say Ahura Mazda (Faravahar)
is much older than Zoroastrianism
got the name Zoroastrianism.
- Ex1
- Ex2
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Faravahar ． Nibiru
.
Faravahar ． Cross
- Dinger
from a wheel to a cross
- Swastika
- Photon Cross
- Nibiru Cross
- Ankh
- Chi Rho
.
Cross symbol was used to show
power and military superiority.
e.g. Knights Templar Cross,
Assyrian king, Globus cruciger
.
Chi Rho was used to show
power and military superiority.
.
Zoroastrianism's flying disk with
spreading wings symbol -
inherited by Rome's eagle
and all of today's navy, army, air
and space forces
.
Wings win!
"Aerial supremacy" is the
winning key in modern warfare.
.
Kitty knows.
We can't put our hand on top of
a kitty's paw.
'Cause she(he) is the boss :)

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Please note that the Manchu people
already had Jurchen script,
女真文, which looked more similar
to Chinese characters.
Why did they mint a new writing system?
.
It took Korea almost 500 years
to switch to the Hunminjeongeum
(훈민정음) completely...
.
What? Only 50 people are still using
the Manchurian today! (from Wiki)
Another monstrous hole gouged
by the Cultural Revolution?

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But the Rome came.
The New Romes.
.
A few moments later.
Um... Almost 200 years.

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1860
The fall of
Yuanmingyuan 圓明園
Does it look like "China" to you?
.
But why not order to clean it up?
To help wipe out the memory of
the bygone glory?
.
Leaving all the debris scattering around
the "Feng Shui treasure land" (風水寶地)
in the capital city of a self-claimed
greatest empire (天朝上國) could be a
constant reminder, a humiliating one,
to the emperor. A poor lad who
lived with a bundle of ancestor
ghosts breathing down his neck 24/7.
.
He passed away the next year at 30.
The emperor didn't even have the
"face" to come back home (Beijing)
before dying.
.
People say
what a dreamland he drew
his last breath from.
What a hideout.
What a wimp.
He fled, as his capital under
siege by the "imperialists",
to a beautiful resort
hundreds of miles away.
To ask for help!
On the very top of that sprawling,
exquisitely decorated royal retreat,
a temple stood tall. (middle one)
An awe-animating replica of the
Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet.
(Tibet. A missing link.)
.
Xianfeng was the real
"Last Emperor".
The rest was puppets,
3 kids in a row,
and the matriarch,
Cixi, behind them.
.
Cixi, widow of Xianfeng.
So, in a way, he never left.
Till the end.
Which is exactly
50 years later.
.
We may never be able to
understand what did Yuanmingyuan
really mean. Maybe, just saying,
the Forbidden City was only
a façade, the smoke and mirrors
compared with it?
.
The fall was inevitable.
Yuanmingyuan held too many secrets.
Just like 紅樓夢
i.e. Story of the Stone.
(後四十回 😹)
.
Spring - Summer - Fall - Winter
.
In Feng Shui,
Spring is considered sacred.
The connotation of "ejaculation"
symbolizing fertility.
Can we say it's superstition?
How many children did Kangxi
or Qianlong have?
The 3 kids in a row,
on the other hand,
none produced any offspring
in adulthood.
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Old Summer Palace.
The English name of
Yuanmingyuan.
.
Summer is 夏,
an ancient dynasty(?) according to
mythologies, which is suspected to
have connections to the Sumer
in Mesopotamia.
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Old ． ॐ
Old is 古
古 is good.
"Old" also evokes the
"Old Serpent"
(Garden of Eden).

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The "imperialists" sailed half
way around the world only to
burn down a garden?
.
p.s.
Yuanmingyuan stands for
"circle shiny garden" in Chinese.
Shiny(明) = Sun + Moon
.
Garden ． Guard
.
But they never meant to bother a
soul in Beijing. Listed in an
official bulletin announced openly:
"所有種種違約行動，
人民未參與其間，
決不加以傷害".
They were so well behaved that
on the day of burning (ritual),
please note it was 9/5, lunar
calendar, the deplorables from
every corner of the city showed up
to help. And to ogle. In an
extremely, absurdly curious way.
.
The reason for this whole charade,
according to the bulletin, was to
punish the emperor of Qing and Qing
government for "breaking the contract".
.
The Contract.
In my humble opinion.
.
Qing government(清室政府) suggested
the 愛新覺羅 bloodline.
In my humble opinion.
.
That poor lad just had the worst luck.
(I've been trying to imply 😬)
.
After being the luckiest person
in the world.

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So after taking over the entire
capital city of a vast country,
the imperialists just left!?
.
It was not a piece of cake.
By then, hundreds of Western cannons
had been purchased and deployed in
the ports of strategic position.
Qing also sent their ace army.
Led by a descendant of
Genghis Khan. The legendary,
the last duke with an Iron Hat.
(鐵帽子王)
.
In the wake of the burnt remains
of a garden, they left.
With trophy and loot of course.
.
Btw let's call this
the Second Opium War 🤷‍♀️
.
Meanwhile the same imperialists
never stopped helping Qing
army fighting the prolonged,
extensive rebellions attacking
Shanghai and other cities along
the Yangtze River.

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The fall of Yuanmingyuan
and
the Sinification of Manchu.
.
Compared with the book "Travels in
China" by John Barrow (published in 1804).
To see how Manchu people, the aristocratic
class, rejected anything "Chinese" back then.
(I haven't read that book by the way :)
.
Sir John Barrow
had to be an Englishman.
.
British empire had to be the one
that opened up China in 1842.
.
Please take a look at this map,
and give me a wink~
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Related:
- The Sassoons
- Why Soviet's Russia seems to be
the "successor" of most of the
British influence in Asia?
- And the US had to be the
one that opened up Japan.
Sou desu ne! Wink~
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Incidentally there was an Englishman
(Oops sorry Irishman)
yes another sir, Robert Hart serving
as an official in Qing (Chinese)
government for as long as half a
century (1863-1911)! His department,
Imperial Maritime Custom Service,
was the only zero corruption department
in the entire Qing government.
"Hart was the most important and most
influential Westerner" in the last
50 years of Qing. A great deal of
income his reform generated directly
fueled the bloodline of a crumbling
empire and helped extend its lifespan.
.
Nobody could touch the Hart.
.
This is crazy. Since in 1900, the
Empress Dowager Cixi declared war on
the British Empire (and a few more).
She then ran away from capital
Beijing to Xi'an. The war ended
with a decisive defeat of Qing
with an astronomical price tag.

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Ever seen US and Russia
on the same team?
Britain and Germany?
France and Britain?
Germany and France?
Japan and US?
Russia and Japan?
.
In 1900's China.
All of the above.
The same team.

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Why do horses of the "top-notch quality"
always come from the North?
Maybe it's because their land
of origin is a plateau.
.
Enemies always come from the North.
Hence the Great Wall.

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Iran - the homeland of Aryans.
.
Could it be a coincidence that its
neighbor, the Hittites in Anatolia,
being one of the earliest civilizations
to master the use of iron?
(Hittites sounds like 胡天)
.
Could it be a coincidence that its
another neighbor, India, potentially
being the first to enter the Iron Age?
(Tamil Nadu, 4th millennium BCE)
India was also a land of Aryans.
.
Horse + Iron
Ladies and gentlemen.
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Related:
Legends say:
before Iran, Aryans used to live in
the North Pole. The Hyperborea.
Urban legends say:
in the South Pole, Antarctica, there
is a "passageway" leading to the Moon.
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p.s.
- Iranian people "speak modern Persian,
which is written using a modified form
of the Arabic script."
- Old Persian was used to decipher
Cuneiform (Behistun Inscription)
- Elam, Proto-Elamite

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Manderine, the name betrays
its Manchu influence
peculiarly in sounds.

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The Manchurian (alphabet) is reportedly
modified from the Mongolian script.
The Mongolian script looks
like Arabic too.
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Let's put horses aside.
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How did Genghis Khan's soldiers get
their weapons, iron-made or not?
It's said that they kept artisans
alive as captives to work for them
after conquests of a country or a city.
So a bunch of people who spoke different
languages from different cultures and
regions with different kinds of skills
in need of a variety of different
materials, probably holding all sorts of
grudges, since their families all perished
because of wars, to be organized and
disciplined to produce a huge amount of
weapons of all and sundry, preferably
aligned with certain sets of standards
and even utilizing certain state of
the art technology.
.
The military supply chains, for the
Mongols in the 13th century for example,
could be extremely humongously complex, as
well as infinitesimally complicated.
.
The same question may apply to Manchu.
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Related:
- Micro - Macro 1
They see eye to eye:
Iron is the weapon for humans.
And the pathogens responsible for
causing Black Death.
And the parasite responsible for
causing Malaria.
And more.
- Micro - Macro 2
(Meteoric) iron flying in the space.
Iron flowing in the blood.

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Speaking of horses...
I still remember the cavalry charge
scene in the so-called battle of
bastards in Game of Thrones.
Especially that few seconds of
slow motion focusing on the
horses' movement.
So unbelievable.
And emotional.
That music made me want to cry...
Like Fate thumping on the ground.
The expressions of the horses
made me want to cry...
Bonus!
🤪

The other day.
3 clicks (away).
I could've never thought.
In front of my face.
This map.

🫣
Why "China" why "Chinese"?
No China in China before 1912.
There was only Da-Qing, Da-Ming,
Da-Yuan... in China before 1912.
In 1896, Li Hongzhang (李鴻章), a
notable official embarked on a 190-day
round-the-world visit to Europe
and America on behalf of the imperial
Qing court. Although the original
purpose of this trip was to attend
the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II
of Russia, the tour caused a great
sensation in the Western media.
Li even received the rockstar treatment
in the America, drawing massive crowds,
more than half a million, to flock
to locations such as Fifth Avenue and
Central Park before paying a visit to
the White House. In the extensive
newspaper interviews and reports,
"清國" (Qing naiton) was the name
he used to introduce his own country.
.
Before 1912:
Chinese (spoken) → Mandarin (官話) or
other dialects.
Chinese (written) → Hanzi, Kanji (漢字).
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But... How about "Cathay"?
* Al-kimiya

"The Arabic name for the Emerald Tablet
is al-Lawh al-zumurrudh (اللوح الزمردي).
The earliest known versions of this
alchemical text are written in Arabic."
(Jabir ibn Hayyan)
.
"The name "emerald" itself is zumurrud
(زمرد) in Arabic."
Zumurrud (祖母綠)
Last but not least.
Who built Yuanmingyuan?
.
Um...
I did some research a few years ago.
But whenever I had an urge to bring
this up, I kept seeing Jack Nicholson
yelling at Tom Cruise.
"You Want Answers?"
"I Want The Truth!"
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"
.
I don't know what they are arguing about.
I only watched the memes.
.
But I'd picture myself running
away crying out "You are right!
I can't handle the truth!" 🫠
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And the "Conspiracy theory" either.
.
As for my research?
Well just a few Youtube videos about...
the Tartarian Empire.
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p.s.
These 2 pictures
  are from a book called
"Shepp's World's Fair Photographed".

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Tartarian
(conspiracy)