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生活信條 is a Chinese proverb that means “principles of life” or “The personal obligations and rules that you live by.”
For instance, if you were a vegetarian, the act of not eating meat fits into this category.
This could also be translated as a “Way of living.”
強 is a character that means strong, strength, force, powerful, better, stubborn, and stiff (yes, all of this in one character).
This “strong” has less to do with physical strength and more to do with having a winning attitude, or just having the ability to win at something.
Note that most of the time, this character is pronounced “qiang” but when used with the meaning of stubborn, unyielding, or stiff, it is pronounced “jiang” in Chinese.
Also, sometimes “qiang” is used in modern Chinese to describe people that do crazy things (For example: Bicycling from Beijing to Tibet alone). I sometimes can be found outside my Beijing apartment wearing nothing but shorts and a tee-shirt while eating ice cream during a snow storm, just to hear my neighbors call me “qiang.” Maybe they mean “strong” but perhaps they are using the new meaning of “crazy strong.”
強 can also be a Chinese surname that romanizes as Jiang in the mainland or Chiang if from Taiwan.
強 is a valid Korean Hanja character with the same meaning but is mostly used in compound Korean words.
強 is used in Japanese (though normally in compound words). In Japanese, it has the same meaning but in some contexts can mean “a little more than...” or “a little over [some amount].” Most Japanese would read this as tough, strength, stiff, hard, inflexible, obstinate, or stubborn.
The variant 彊 is sometimes seen in older literature.
身土不二 (Shindofuni) is originally a Buddhist concept or proverb referring to the inseparability of body-mind and geographical circumstances.
This reads, “Body [and] earth [are] not two.”
Other translations or matching ideas include:
Body and land are one.
Body and earth can not be separated.
Body earth sensory curation.
You are what you eat.
Indivisibility of the body and the land (because the body is made from food and food is made from the land).
Going further, this speaks of our human bodies and the land from which we get our food being closely connected. This phrase is often used when talking about natural and organic vegetables coming directly from the farm to provide the healthiest foods in Japan.
Character notes: 身(shin) in this context does not just mean your physical body but a concept including both body and mind.
土 (do) refers to the soil, earth, clay, land, or in some cases, locality. It's not the proper name of Earth, the planet. However, it can refer to the land or realm we live in.
Japanese note: This has been used in Japan, on and off, since 1907 as a slogan for a governmental healthy eating campaign (usually pronounced as shindofuji instead of the original shindofuni in this context). It may have been hijacked from Buddhism for this propaganda purpose, but at least this is “healthy propaganda.”
Korean note: The phrase 身土不二 was in use by 1610 A.D. in Korea, where it can be found in an early medical journal.
In modern South Korea, it's written in Hangul as 신토불이. Korea used Chinese characters (same source as Japanese Kanji) as their only written standard form of the language until about a hundred years ago. Therefore, many Koreans will recognize this as a native phrase and concept.
See Also: Strength and Love in Unity
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Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
サビラン see styles |
sabiran サビラン |
(colloquialism) (from さびしい + ランチ) eating lunch alone (esp. at the office); sad lunch |
嗿 see styles |
tǎn tan3 t`an tan |
sound of many people eating |
歁 see styles |
kǎn kan3 k`an kan |
unsatisfied (of eating) |
犼 see styles |
hǒu hou3 hou |
mythical man-eating creature resembling a dog |
蟊 see styles |
máo mao2 mao |
Spanish fly; grain-eating grub |
食 see styles |
sì si4 ssu shoku(p); jiki(ok); shi(ok) しょく(P); じき(ok); し(ok) |
to feed (a person or animal) (1) food; foodstuff; (2) (しょく only) eating; appetite; (n,ctr) (3) (しょく only) meal; portion āhāra, 阿賀羅 food; to eat, feed. The rules are numerous, and seem to have changed; originally flesh food was not improper and vegetarianism was a later development; the early three rules in regard to 'clean' foods are that 'I shall not have seen the creature killed, nor heard it killed for me, nor have any doubt that it was killed for me'. The five 'unclean' foods are the above three, with creatures that have died a natural death; and creatures that have been killed by other creatures. The nine classes add to the five, creatures not killed for me; raw flesh, or creatures mauled by other creatures; things not seasonable or at the right time; things previously killed. The Laṅkavātāra Sutra and certain other sutras forbid all killed food. |
飫 饫 see styles |
yù yu4 yü |
full (as of eating) |
饌 馔 see styles |
zhuàn zhuan4 chuan sen せん |
food; delicacies (1) (obsolete) food offering to the gods; (2) (obsolete) prepared food eating |
こ食 see styles |
koshoku こしょく |
(1) meal with family members eating separate foods; (2) eating alone (not with one's family); (3) food sold in single servings |
二食 see styles |
èr shí er4 shi2 erh shih nishoku; nijiki(ok) にしょく; にじき(ok) |
two meals; (eating) two meals a day The two kinds of food: (1) (a) The joy of the Law; (b) the bliss of meditation. (2) (a)The right kind of monk's livelihood - by mendicancy; (b) the wrong kind - by any other means. |
人喰 see styles |
hitokui ひとくい |
(irregular okurigana usage) (1) cannibalism; biting (someone); (can be adjective with の) (2) man-eating (e.g. tiger); cannibalistic |
会食 see styles |
kaishoku かいしょく |
(n,vs,vi) eating together; dining together; having a meal together |
伴食 see styles |
banshoku ばんしょく |
(noun/participle) (1) eating with a guest; (2) (derogatory term) nominal official |
佳肴 see styles |
kakou / kako かこう |
delicacy; rare treat; good-eating fish |
個食 see styles |
koshoku こしょく |
(1) meal with family members eating separate foods; (2) eating alone (not with one's family); (3) food sold in single servings |
八戒 see styles |
bā jiè ba1 jie4 pa chieh hakkai; hachikai はっかい; はちかい |
the eight precepts (Buddhism) {Buddh} (See 五戒) the eight precepts (the five precepts with the addition of prohibitions against lying in a luxurious bed, self-decoration, song and dance, and eating after noon) (八戒齋) The first eight of the ten commandments, see 戒; not to kill; not to take things not given; no ignoble (i.e. sexual) conduct; not to speak falsely; not to drink wine; not to indulge in cosmetics, personal adornments, dancing, or music; not to sleep on fine beds, but on a mat on the ground; and not to eat out of regulation hours, i.e. after noon. Another group divides the sixth into two―against cosmetics and adornments and against dancing and music; the first eight are then called the eight prohibitory commands and the last the 齋 or fasting commandment. Also 八齋戒; 八關齋 (八支齋) ; cf. 八種勝法. |
共食 see styles |
kyoushoku / kyoshoku きょうしょく |
(1) communal eating of food that has been offered to a god; sacrificial meal; (2) eating together (with family, friends, etc.); communal dining |
内食 see styles |
uchishoku; naishoku うちしょく; ないしょく |
(n,vs,vi) home cooking; eating at home |
冗食 see styles |
rǒng shí rong3 shi2 jung shih |
eating without working |
冷食 see styles |
reishoku / reshoku れいしょく |
(1) (abbreviation) (See 冷凍食品) frozen food; (2) (See 火食) eating raw food; (3) (See 寒食) Chinese tradition of consuming only cold food on the 105th day after the winter solstice; 105th day after the winter solstice |
分衛 分卫 see styles |
fēn wèi fen1 wei4 fen wei wakee わけえ |
(surname) Wakee piṇḍapāta, 賓荼波多; 儐荼夜 food given as alms; piṇḍapātika means one who lives on alms; it is also interpreted as 團墮 lumps (of food) falling (into the begging bowl); the reference is to the Indian method of rolling the cooked food into a bolus for eating, or such a bolus given to the monks. |
十過 十过 see styles |
shí guò shi2 guo4 shih kuo jukka |
Ten faults in eating flesh, and ten in drinking intoxicants. |
半齋 半斋 see styles |
bàn zhāi ban4 zhai1 pan chai hansai |
Half a day's fast, i. e.. fasting all day but eating at night. |
吃壞 吃坏 see styles |
chī huài chi1 huai4 ch`ih huai chih huai |
to upset (one's stomach) by eating bad food or overeating |
吃完 see styles |
chī wán chi1 wan2 ch`ih wan chih wan |
to finish eating |
吃播 see styles |
chī bō chi1 bo1 ch`ih po chih po |
mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience |
吃法 see styles |
chī fǎ chi1 fa3 ch`ih fa chih fa |
way of eating; how something is eaten; how a dish is prepared; the way a dish is to be cooked |
吃膩 吃腻 see styles |
chī nì chi1 ni4 ch`ih ni chih ni |
to be sick of eating (something); to be tired of eating (something) |
吃齋 吃斋 see styles |
chī zhāi chi1 zhai1 ch`ih chai chih chai |
to abstain from eating meat; to be a vegetarian |
喫食 see styles |
chī shí chi1 shi2 ch`ih shih chih shih kisshoku きっしょく |
(noun, transitive verb) eating; having a meal food |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Principles of Life | 生活信條 生活信条 | shēng huó xìn tiáo sheng1 huo2 xin4 tiao2 sheng huo xin tiao shenghuoxintiao | sheng huo hsin t`iao shenghuohsintiao sheng huo hsin tiao |
|
Strong Powerful Force | 強 强 | kyou / kyo | qiáng / qiang2 / qiang | ch`iang / chiang |
Body and Earth in Unity | 身土不二 | shindofuni / shindofuji | ||
In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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