my dear friends and family
chinese beauty
today i went to the shanghai museum and would like to share a photo of a female chinese statue in the tang dynasty. in those days, fatty and plum women are considered beautiful. if she still exists, no one will give her a second look, hahahah.
even up to the early seventies, chinese guys still preferred women to be 'round and lustrous', like a pearl, unfortunately i grew up tall and thin and i felt quite inferior then.
Chinese culture
am now reading a book called 'the ugly chinese' written by a chinese writer in taiwan 20 yrs ago who pointed out all the shortcomings in chinese people and chinese culture.
in the early days, we,chinese, had been taught only to 'release 30% of our words', and we were told never speak our mind.(unfortunately i am a special breed)
this writer says: there are psychiatrists in the US, however we chinese will not have psychiatrists, because when we see a psychiatrist, we will have to speak the truth. however chinese people do not want to speak the truth, if he has pain in the butt, he will say there is pain in the ear. if a woman dumps him, he will say that its he who dumps the woman. so how can a psychiatrist provide treatment???
i find this very funny, and quite true.
lydia
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