Harry Potter Morning Light

Nick believes that the fate of Chinese people and lanterns is like that of British gentlemen who love their umbrellas.

Because soon there will be a festival to commemorate the birthday of a goddess named "Mazu". Many associations and guilds participated in the celebration ceremony. They appeared on the streets of Guangzhou with banners of different shapes and colors.

"Mazu" is a bit of a Christian saint. She did live in Fujian. This kind woman helped people who went to sea to predict the weather, gather medicine to treat diseases, and rescue shipwrecks. At the age of 28, she dedicated herself to saving people at sea, so she All the statues are of young women.

Worshiping Mazu is divided into family sacrifices and temple sacrifices. The admiral invited Nick to participate in the family sacrifice ceremony. Nick really didn't know what gift to give on such an occasion that was both a sacrifice and a farewell banquet.

Lin Gua is not a "duty person". This is a new vocabulary Nick learned from Juren. According to other Chinese students of Lawrence, he is a vulgar guy. He used to be Lawrence's favorite student and even served as a The painter's assistant, they had a very close relationship, but when he felt that he could learn nothing from Lawrence, he began to steal Lawrence's paintings and take them as his own, claiming to be his own paintings.

Lin Gua ignored those foul words, he believed that he could not always rely on Lawrence's protection, and needed to "rely on his own feet" in due course, and said those words out of commercial competition considerations. From the first contact, Nick showed Lin Gua his picture album. Lin Gua was willing to recognize Nick as a colleague and gave him a set of sketches.

What Lin Gua did for the lady that day was a sketch, and he is now turning it into color, and he had just completed half of it when Nick came to his studio.

"looks like?"

Holding the pen, Lin Gua asked Nick with a sly smile.

Nick wanted to try his best to persuade Lin Gua to change the posture of holding the brush. He held the brush according to the way of holding a brush. If he used the method of western painting, it would be lighter, but after listening to Nick's explanation, he responded, "Oh, yes, I'm just a bad painter who doesn't know much."

Then Nick canceled the plan to let Lin Gua take him to buy gifts.

On the advice of the locals, Nick went to a well-known local antique shop, which contained many treasures, but he really didn't understand why a gong should be sold at such an expensive price. While Nick was communicating with the boss, the leader who had been here last time passed by the door, holding a beautiful lantern in his hand, decorated with carved patterns on six pillars, with silk ribbons, hanging around The multicolored tassels and lantern gauze make the sunlight extremely soft, just like Gothic stained glass.

Zuo Ling does not speak English, but he is good at choosing gifts. He chose a grotesque bronze sculpture of an old man riding on the back of a buffalo. In order to highlight the value of this work, the store claimed that it was a sculpture of the ancient sage Lao Tzu.

Nick chooses a clock, which he intends to use as a foreigner, to claim that he brought it from Europe.

Zuo Ling and the boss laughed when they saw Nick's choice.

"Fortunately it wasn't the admiral's birthday," the boss told Nick, who had no idea what their joke was about.

When packing the clock, the guy looked very unhappy, as if he was unwilling to sell it to Nick. Nick planned to take the clock back to the hospital first, and then go to the port to find Captain Yao. At this time, Zuo Ling reminded Nick what gift he wanted to give to "" Wanning".

Then Zuo Ling lifted the lantern in his hand, as if saying that this was the gift he wanted to give to "Wanning".

Then Zuo Ling pointed to himself, "I, Cao Xi."

Chinese is a very special language, and it is this particularity that makes people daunted. Chinese characters are a kind of pictographic writing, which is different from alphabetic writing, and most of the writing is ideographic rather than phonetic. Therefore, the shape of Chinese characters There is no necessary connection with sound, which makes many beginner Europeans feel at a loss.

But Nick soon understood that "Wanning" was the name of the lady who suffered from cataracts, and the handsome leader in front of him was probably her fiancé.

Nick felt the need to improve his Chinese so that he could have a private conversation with Zuo Ling instead of being in front of a third party and let him relay certain content.

So he returned to the hospital, and instead of going to the pier to find Captain Yao, he found "Three Kingdoms".

Nick discovered that Chinese characters also have roots. It is said that Chinese characters were invented by Cangjie. For example, when drawing the sun, he first drew a circle and then put a dot in the middle. This figure later evolved into the word "日". When depicting the moon, he drew a crescent moon, and when drawing eyes, he merged two ellipses together, which later evolved into the word "eye".

When describing complex concepts, use analogy. For example, when drawing the "Dan" in the morning, draw the figure of the sun rising from the horizon. The Japanese character represents the sun, and the horizontal line below represents the horizon.

In the future, the processing of fonts will be more delicate. Combining two or three single-body characters together will form a knowing character, such as combining the sun and the moon to form "Ming", and combining two woods to form "Lin". Hands and eyes together constitute "seeing" and so on.

Most of today's mental activities are describing abstract concepts. The Chinese call these roots "mother characters". There are only 214 mother characters. They are used as radicals and combined with other characters to form new characters , It is said that a Civil Code uses 100,000 different Chinese characters, of which seven to eight thousand are commonly used, and only one-eighth of them are not commonly used.

Usually an ordinary book uses only two to three thousand Chinese characters, and the ten-volume chronicle "Three Kingdoms" in Nick's hand only uses 3342 different Chinese characters.

Nick counted from day to night until the priest came to his room.

"Would you like to talk, boy?" the priest asked Nick.

Nick didn't know what to say.

"How about I tell you a story?" said the priest to Nick, and he told Nick a long story.

Georgiana turned to the next page, but the content on the next page was completely out of line with the one above, and it seemed that some of the content had been deleted.

Reluctantly, she flipped through the pages of the book, hoping to find the interlayer or something. Later, she remembered to look at the footnotes representing the pages. The numbers were correct, which meant that some content had indeed been deleted during printing.

"I'm so mad!" she yelled.

"Who is mad at you?" Bonaparte's voice sounded lazily at the door.

Georgiana froze for a moment, and carefully observed his expression, as if he was not "throwing a tantrum" as in the legend, but just a little "sulky".

"Would you like to talk?" Georgiana said like the priest.

He waved to her, she stood up immediately, he took her hand to make her sit on the edge of the bed, and he lay on her lap.

"No, I don't want to talk." He closed his eyes and said tiredly, and then he seemed to fall asleep.

She struggled for a while, driven by comforting him and satisfying curiosity, she summoned the book on the table with the flying spell, and then continued to read.

"If you dare to put a book in my face."

Georgiana immediately lifted the book up, almost under her nose.

"What are you looking at?" he said listlessly.

"Nick Polo." She answered perfunctorily.

"Shouldn't it be Marco Polo?" He asked strangely.

"I don't know how to explain this to you..." She put down the book in frustration, and Bonaparte let out a scream.

"I'm sorry," she said apologetically, moving the book away from his face.

He sat up on her lap and looked at her with wide eyes, looking genuinely angry.

"Can I ask you a question? If someone provoked you in your face, how would you answer?"

He looked at her seriously.

"This sentence." Georgiana turned to the antique shop, and Cao Xi provoked Nick's sentence, "Nick Polo fell in love with the general's fiancée, and the general revealed his identity to Nick Polo."

"Is he tall?" asked Bonaparte.

Georgiana thought for a moment.

"Yes."

"I admit I'm short, but if you make fun of me for that, I'll chop off your head to eliminate the difference."

"Wow." She couldn't help but look at him more. This sentence was said by Napoleon to an officer who provoked him after crossing the Alps. Of course, Napoleon did not chop off the officer's head in the end, nor asked him to eat a gun. Son.

He looked like he wanted to teach her a lesson, but didn't know how to do it.

"Do you want to lie down?" She pointed to her leg. "It will make you feel better when you get seasick."

He stood up proudly and walked away, but he did not go far, returning to the table where Georgiana had been sitting just now.

So she also stood up with the book and sat down opposite him.

Don't read half-heartedly, otherwise you won't find that sense of immersion.

But now she had to be careful lest she couldn't hear him when he wanted to talk.

"What are you looking at?" he asked again.

"Nick Polo." Georgiana said perfunctorily, "You can understand it as Nick's Frenchman's travels to the East."

"Why Nick Polo?"

"Because of Marco Polo," replied Georgiana.

He was even more confused.

So she had to tell him from the beginning, starting from when Nick performed cataract surgery for Wanning.

Of course a blind man does not need a lantern. After regaining his sight, he will be able to see the colorful world, as well as exquisitely crafted lanterns.

Nick, you seem to have met a strong opponent.