681 Quotes About Chinese

Love is simple, if you allow it to be simple." Julian to Hannah, Take A Chance

The Chinese considered the moon to be yin, feminine and full of negative energy, as opposed to the sun that was yang and exemplified masculinity. I liked the moon, with its soft silver beams. It was at once elusive and filled with trickery, so that lost objects that had rolled into the crevices of a room were rarely found, and books read in its light seemed to contain all sorts of fanciful stories that were never there the next morning.

To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.

SONG OF SUNSET ON THE RIVERA strip of water's spread in the setting sun,Half the river's emerald, half is red.I love the third night of the ninth month,The dew is like pearl; the moon like a bow.

AMUSING MYSELFFacing my wine, I did not see the dusk,Falling blossoms have filled the folds of my clothes.Drunk, I rise and approach the moon in the stream,Birds are far off, people too are few.

AUTUMN AIRThe autumn air is clear,The autumn moon is bright.Fallen leaves gather and scatter,The jackdaw perches and starts anew.We think of each other- when will we meet?This hour, this night, my feelings are hard.

QUIET NIGHT THOUGHTBefore my bed the moonlight glitters,Like frost upon the ground.I look up to the mountain moon,Look down and think of home.

FEELINGS ON WATCHING THE MOONThe times are hard: a year of famine has emptied the fields,My brothers live abroad- scattered west and east.Now fields and gardens are scarcely seen after the fighting,Family members wander, scattered on the road.Attached to shadows, like geese ten thousand li apart,Or roots uplifted into September's autumn air.We look together at the bright moon, and then the tears should fall,This night, our wish for home can make five places one.

We set our own limits on love. Some of us bind our hearts like Chinese women bind their feet. The binding is painful at first but eventually you get used to it and the pain goes away. The saddest part of all is that by binding yourself to the choices you make, you forget that there was ever another way to live.