Travel To China

Jai K asked:


I am a news buff and recently the ensuing trade war between China and US has suddenly come into focus. China is not letting the yuan appreciate . Need to know how its possible.

Daniel

Barry Hurst asked:


Chinese herbal medicine is a health care system which has been around since ancient times. It is also known by the acronym CHM. As the causes of illness that afflict mankind have evolved in time, CHM has also undergone developments continuously. Along with modern medicine, state hospitals in China use herbal medicine for various ailments and diseases.

All forms of diseases can be treated by Chinese herbal medicine. The traditional view in Chinese herbal medical system is to prevent diseases before they occur.

The majority of the world population uses Chinese herbal medicine since ancient times and it still is the most extensively used medical system. In comparison to commonly produced pharmaceutical drugs, Chinese herbal medicine rarely gives an adverse reaction.

Depending upon the disease’s severity the duration of the medication is expanded to get the best results and cure. Allergies, digestive disorders, respiratory conditions pertaining to respiratory tracks, immune system disorders, pain, problems due to psychological disorders, children’s diseases and gynecological problems can be effectively treated using Chinese herbal medicines.

People of all ages and constitution can take Chinese herbal medical treatment. Symptoms of current illness and previous history will be taken into consideration by the practitioner before prescribing the medicine. Even pregnant women and children can be given treatment using Chinese herbal medicines.

Traditional and modern versions of Chinese herbal medicines are available in number of formats. At first the unusual taste of the herbal medicine will be difficult to adjust to, but quickly the patients will get used to the taste. Chinese herbal treatment does not have any standard price structure. Nowadays many health insurance companies are covering herbal treatment too.

Colonic dialysis therapy is a form of treatment in Chinese herbal medicine which enables the body to eliminate toxins effectively and quickly and helps to overcome addictions.

PLA Institute of Drug Dependence Treatment and Rehabilitation is doing research to observe the effects of using colonic dialysis therapy in persons addicted to heroin and to find out whether this treatment can help them abstain from the craving for heroin.

An evaluation of an ancient Chinese remedy for dermatitis was done by doctors at the Royal Free Hospital in London. A mixture of 10 herbs was prescribed to a group of forty adult patients with longstanding and widespread atopic dermatitis in a trial which lasted 5 months. Over an eight week period each patient was randomly allocated to receive either the herbal remedy or a similar tasting placebo. This was followed by a four week wash-out period. 31 patients completed the study and showed a continued and rapid improvement in the extent of redness of skin (erythema) and surface damage during the time they were taking the prescribed Chinese herbal medicine. The research concluded that the remedy is effective in treating adult atopic dermatitis.

Find more info at http://www.onlinepharmacyresource.info



Marilyn

Andri Irawan asked:


Beginner Chinese Calligraphy, The Han Dynasty in 100 A.D. is the first origin of Chinese characters. The Chinese dictionary completed at that time included around 9,353 characters. The next version of the Chinese dictionary came out of Qing Dynasty and was called the “Kangxi” dictionary. The 42 booklets contained over 46,964 characters, which most are not even used today. There are variants on the characters, revised and refined in the current simplified edition of the Chinese language. This edition was put out by the People’s  Republic of China in 1956. This book  narrowed the characters down to about 6,500. This is considered a simplified form and is the most common form used today, although some remain committed to using the old traditional ways.

Chinese characters have been defined as complicated yet beautiful in their meaning.  They are complex in relation to other writing languages. Romanization is used in terms of relation or simple visual information, however the meaning of the character remains mysterious as the art styles behind it. Some Chinese characters mimic similar tones of other characters, yet have different meanings. Some characters written with just an added dot or stroke, turn into something completely different.

Of Chinese history, the crowning achievement to their culture, is the Chinese characters. They are an abstract art form displaying incredible depth of meaning in just a few brushstrokes. This thick symbolism has made it’s way into mainstream art from centuries gone and desirable still today. Words like love, faith, endure, tranquility, written in a one character form creates a personalization amongst the observer admiring it.  Many of these characters live on walls in homes to communicate a feeling.  Many masters have created their own unique style and now exists over 120 different styles of written Chinese calligraphy.

Learning to draw these characters requires patience, proper tools, clear concise instructions and of course, lots of practice. Acquiring this skilled art form can be hours of entertainment and enjoyment because it is so unfolding in a multi conceptual way.  You will learn the proper directions and different styles (one or two you may adopt as your own), and you will also learn each character’s simple, yet intense meaning. More than likely, you will choose a few complimentary to your own personality and self-expression. Rich information and cultural history is born from learning to write Chinese characters. The ability to dive into a whole new world is invigorating and creating the beautiful work is self actualization process all on it’s own.

Whether you embark on learning to write one character well to display as art on your wall, or you continue with the craft to put words together, even learning to read Chinese, it is rewarding.  The more you unravel the mystery living inside each of these characters, it seems to create added curiosity and a desire to keep going.

The ancient art of Chinese characters are popularized in cultures other than Chinese. The styles and forms of characters seen everywhere, are now a highly demanded art to learn.



Hunter

Independent Voter asked:


USA only has 27 gold and almost half of that from Michael Phelps but China with 45!? Didn’t everyone in USA made fun of Chinese being short and nerdy?? What’s going on here? Is China still a Sleeping Giant are they still growing as a nation? Or is this the peak of what China can do or are they just lucky they got 45 gold?

Peyton

Alan Hawkins asked:


It’s simply not possible….not possible that a wine that is freely available on most supermarket shelves for around R25 can be the cheapest wine on a restaurants wine list at R100.00.

What happened to the wine since is was bought from the supermarket, did the restaurateur decant it, lie it on new French Oak for two years and convert it in some way into a Wine magazine five star or a Cape wine masters Choice……I don’t think so.

The real story is it was probably bought that morning, stuck away in a box behind an overworked fridge compressor, at the wrong temperature prior to being dunked in some iced water in time to be served cuddled in a starched white linen cloth to be served as the vintners choice for the evening. Good grief….but what do we do as the typical South Africa guest, we smile sympathetically at the poor and innocent under trained waiter who has not been informed of the difference between bourgeois or burgundy. Do we call for management….no we don’t want to make a scene, do we call the wine over valued crap and send it back, no we are too scared our taste will be challenged or that we might embarrass ourselves.

How often have you bought a product, perhaps at your local hardware store, to find it broken after a few uses, you toss it aside, a little angry or disappointed at being conned into another wasted purchases….the cash slip, of course absolutely essential if you hope to get reimbursed or to send the R25.00 spanner away to China for a repair or replacement. A trip to the store; a scratch for the slip; a queue at the customer counter if there is one; two or three calls to a call centre to explain your story….what the…it’s simply not worth it is it….toss it and walk away….a lot easier.

One large supermarket chain is always on our side, looking after our best interests….the other is just up the street, or is it a creek, the local fruit and vegetable store has great bargains as long as you eat that pocket of pineapples on the day you bought it otherwise forget the fresh bit…..ripped off by pharmacies for years, how much real meat is in that hamburger you bought the children, is the pork sausage really pork, how much pork MEAT does it have to have to qualify….we are apathetic consumers, we “grin and bear it” in stoic tradition.

Here are a few travel tips that might help you to prevent a rip off when you are in unusual places



When booking a hotel room of a walk-in basis, ask to see the room before committing, they’ll hardly send you to their worst room will they.

As soon as you arrive in a new country, determine a few items that you can use to compare pricing, as a benchmark when checking a window menu as an example. A beer perhaps or other tinned beverage, a hamburger; the lowest price wine….if a cold drink on a menu is twice the price of that in another menu, be warned, the rest will be as well.

Restaurants and shops around the corner from the main streets and/or main attraction often offer far more value than those on the front. Look for smallish restaurants, preferably with locals evident, they would have sought out good food and good value long ago

It is far cheaper and often more fun to grab a few food odds and ends plus a drink or two from the supermarket, find a quite place and have a little picnic. Remember to take along a small pocket knife and a few suitable sized plastic bags for storage. A bottle of wine from a supermarket is a quarter of the price, there’s nothing better than to share it with someone special at a romantic spot.

No…is an answer, even once seated at a restaurant or café, if you don’t like what you see, stand up and walk out.



 

Travel wise, street wise, call it what you like but you’ve worked hard for your money…like the old adage says “a fool and his money are soon parted”

YOUR INPUT IS CRITICAL…….. Please send any travel tip or travel idea to travelbug@staysa.co.za and help fellow travellers to enjoy safe and happy travelling.



John

william smith jr asked:


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The origin of chess, shrouded in the mists of history, depends very much on one`s own perspective. We cannot, unfortunately, trace the history of chess with a bold black line that leads from the game as we know it today, to a point in the past where we can unambiguously say, “Uh ha! This is where it began!” Many ancient cultures including the Greeks, Chinese, Indians, Persians, and Arabs have staked their claims on the game`s antecedents, if not to the game itself. It is the purpose of this article to bring order out of the historical clutter surrounding the origin of chess, and to give you, the interested reader, a clear idea of its line of development.

 

As already intimated, it is no surprise that chess did not spring fully loaded with its pieces, boards, and rules from its point of origin to what we have today without a meandering style of evolutionary development. Recent scholarship on the history of chess would indicate that the Chinese emperor, Wu Ti (560-578), developed a game of divination called, hsiang ch`i , which is the ancient Chinese word for chess. The chessmen and their moves were patterned after the moon, planets, constellations, and the sun. This divinatory game may well have been the common ancestor of modern day Chinese chess-still widely played, and the game that took the western world, and indeed the entire world by storm. However, even taking the Chinese contributions into account, most scholars by a wide consensus place the origin of chess, at least in its modern beginnings, in India. We shall now see why this is so.

 

As you probably already have suspected, there is not a great deal of direct evidence for the primacy of India, for being the country of origin of chess. There is, however, a strong circumstantial case to be made. Thoughtful observers on the history of chess place its modern origins in northern India in about the fifth or sixth centuries A.D. Following the Arabic conquest of Persia, in the 7th century A.D. several of the leading Muslim scholars found chess already there, and commented that it had made its way to Persia from India. Indeed, the Persians themselves seem to support this view. In the Chatrang-namak, a series of Persian stories written in the early seventh century, chess is depicted as having arrived in Persia by way of India. But, how did Indian chess make its way to Persia? Probably through the normal activities of trade and other forms of cultural contact. By the time that the game arrived in Persia-it should be stated that there were variations of it, such as the four way game called chaturanga –not just one type, a certain type of it was being played on a 64 square board, with two players. If one were to take the linguistic evidence into consideration, then consider the following. Arabic for chess is, shatranj, which in turn comes from the Persian, chatrang, which in turn comes from the Indian (Sanskrit), chaturanga, a clear line leading back to India. Can we now say definitively where chess originated? No, but currently available evidence does seem to indicate northern India in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D.

 

So, for the moment, the origin and history of chess must remain inconclusive, as are so many things in human affairs. Maybe some day, with new discoveries, we shall know for certain.

 

 



Alicia

g0th asked:


I have purchased a guitar from China, and i want to know how many hours will it take to arrive in my country.

Hailey