Sunday, September 28, 2008

THE THREE ASTRONAUTS

Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng(L), Liu Boming(C), and Zhai Zhigang

Jubilant Return to Earth after Successfully Completing the Country's first-ever Spacewalk mission

Technicians help the three Chinese astronauts out of Shenzhou-7 re-entry module today after their safe landing in central Inner Mongolia, China . State broadcaster CCTV showed Shenzhou 7 spaceship landing under clear skies in the grasslands of China's northern Inner Mongolia region at 5:37 p.m. (0937 GMT).

FIRST WALK IN SPACE

A video grab taken at the Beijing Space Command and Control Center shows Zhai Zhigang outside the orbit module of the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft during his spacewalk.

Zhai became the first Chinese man to walk in space on Saturday (September 27, 2008 ) , clambering out of the space craft ( for 13 minutes ) in a technological feat that Beijing wants the world to marvel about.

Congratulations to China for doing what Russia and the USA did 43 years ago.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Chinese Literature

The Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature or 四 大 名 著 Si Da Ming Zhu

Dream of the Red Chamber ( 紅 樓 夢) known as A Dream of Red Mansions or The Story of the Stone or The Chronicles of the Stone, 石 頭 記 , Shítóu Jì .
A Dream of Red Mansion also named as Tale of the Rock. It is of a tragic love story by Cáo Xuěqín (曹 雪 芹) .

Water Margin (水 滸 傳 ) known as All Men Are Brothers also as Outlaws of the Marsh .
It is based on the folk tales of a band of rebels by Shī Nài'ān (施 耐 庵) .

Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三 國 演 義 )
Three kingdoms based on the historical records of the conflict between the kingdoms of Wei, Shi and Wu (220 –265 A.D. 羅 貫 中) by Luó Guànzhōng

Journey to the West (西 遊 記) also known as Monkey King and Monkey.
Journey to the West is based on the Tang Dynasty monk who made the journey to India to fetch the Buddhist Scriptures by Wú Chéng'ēn (吳 承 恩) This is one of The Four Journeys.