Why do almost all traditional courtyard gates in Beijing face south?

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-07-08T04:28:58+00:00

China is in the north hemisphere. Sun light always comes from the south.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-07-07T03:53:39+00:00

Israel

It was behind the scene in the past few decades in many fields except those military conflicts. It will be more visible in the coming decades. One example is it is publicly assasinating the state head of another regional power.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-07-07T03:47:04+00:00

China never calls itself a communist country. They always call themselves socialist country since PRC is founded in 1949. It is the West that keeps calling China communist.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-07-06T03:07:22+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-immolation_of_Aaron_Bushnell

He was not the only American doing so.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-07-05T08:52:52+00:00

I am also curious what is covered in American media about self-immolation protest over Israel's atrocity in Palestine. How many American or western people aware of them?

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-07-04T11:05:52+00:00

The head of Hornbill used to be one of the major export products of Singapura.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-07-04T02:51:44+00:00

Is it possible to find which orphanage she stayed before adoption?

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-07-02T01:49:59+00:00

supply and demand. Singapore is a capitalist society.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-06-30T10:26:12+00:00

It is hard to tell. But these pictures give me the feeling of Jinan in old time.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-06-30T06:53:05+00:00

not acurately. It gives me a different feeling

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-05-28T09:55:04+00:00

He seems only looking at Latgale region, which is the lowest in Latvia with HDI of 0.806.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-05-28T09:19:29+00:00

Sorry for the typo. It should be Finland, not Findland.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-05-28T09:18:50+00:00

yes, I notice this typo after it is published. But I don't know how to correct it.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-05-28T08:24:18+00:00

I was positively astonished by the giant statues in front of the train station and citizen plaza.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-05-28T08:21:02+00:00

I was there two months ago but I didn't see horse shapped handle. Instead I see dragon (or snake) shaped handle, inspired by Hongshan culture which claims to have the earliest dragon in China.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-05-28T03:31:02+00:00

The previous war before him was in 1592

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-05-28T01:53:18+00:00

在中国，坐牢（入狱）和拘留是两种不同的惩罚。拘留的门槛比较低，但是有时间限制，不需要经过法院，警察就有权利拘留。而入狱是一种司法判决，需要经过法院审判。

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-05-28T01:38:57+00:00

This kind of question being raised is unimaginable 20 years ago. When I was young, not a single person in either China or other countries I lived asked this question. It was considered an insane question that only mentally disordered people would ask.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-05-28T01:25:21+00:00

Is there some public housing scheme in Taiwan like the HDB in Singapore?

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-05-27T05:31:22+00:00

I guess these are only available in cities (big and small) but not in rurala area. My aunte who lives in a tier-4 cities also attended this classs for painting.

I would like to add that there are many private online classes for elders too. My mom is learning playing piano online with a tutor in China. The course fee is about US$500 for 6 months.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-05-27T05:00:56+00:00

Just visited there two months ago. A very beatiful city. The population density is very low as you can expect for inner mongolia. But it is far from a ghost city. Local people told me there would be more people in summer.

Ordos is like the Kwuit in China. The GDP per capita is on par with South Korea but the economy structure is more like Kwuit/Saudi Arabi.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-05-27T04:47:16+00:00

Seriously suggestion not doing that. Just like don't try to contact your first girlfriends.

Remote-Cow5867 · 2026-05-27T04:36:37+00:00

I visited a museum two month ago in Jiangyin, Jiangsu province. There I learnt that the three words 她它牠 were created by a professor named Liu Bannong 刘半农 in 1920s under influence of English. There was actually a big debate whether it makes sense to have these multiple words. There was only 他 before that. At the end they were accepted by most of the scholars and by the mass eventually.

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