[Buy Tudou a meal of local specialties]
“Sky pairs with earth, wind with rain, the mainland with the vast firmament…”
“Three-foot sword, six-jun bow, Lingnan with Jiangdong…”
“Thunder rumbles, mist billows, the sun below with the heavens above…”
“The ancient sage said: The sun, moon, and stars will one day change, and rivers, lakes, and seas cannot escape transformation. Only the classics and literary works can endure for millennia. This is the supreme path to heaven.”
“Our ancestor Cang Jie gazed up at the winding patterns of the Kui constellation and down at the markings of mountains and rivers, creating the first character in the world, ‘fire.’ Thus the first sprout of the literary path appeared.”
“Grain rained from the heavens, and ghosts wept through the night.”
“A dragon horse crossed the river bearing the River Chart on its back; a divine tortoise emerged from the Luo River with the ‘Luo Writing’ on its shell.”
“Our forefather Fuxi studied the River Chart and Luo Writing and drew the Eight Trigrams. The first forms of writing appeared, able to manifest all things in heaven and earth, and the changes of yin and yang.”
“Later, a hundred schools of thought flourished.”
“Confucius, the sage of the Confucian school, traveled across the five continents and wrote the Analects.”
“Laozi of the Daoist school rode a green ox through Hangu Pass, leaving behind the Dao De Jing.”
“Emperor Xuanyuan cast a bronze cauldron of writing, inscribed with all the characters under heaven. It gathered the dragon energy of the human dynasty and drove the demon race into the eastern lands.”
“These classics, which have endured across the five continents and four seas, through ten thousand years of human history, are the supreme seeds of the Dao.”
