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1. Green
2. Green Fire
3. Green Plum and Bamboo Horse
5. Kingfisher
7. Sapphire
8. Bee
9. Lion Dance
10. Blue Dragon
11. Apple
12. Cyan
13. Jade
14. Demon / Raksha
The fresh green of nature
青 is nature's color and can refer to forest green, greenish-blue, or the darkest of greens.
青 and color represent nature, youth, and young people.
In the same way, we refer to green bananas and the rookie being green, the same is true in Chinese and Japanese, where, in a certain context, this can mean immature, unripe, or young.
In Japan, this can also be a female given name “Haru.” It can also be used as a given name (for either sex) in China.
Innocent Children's Games
青梅竹馬 means “green plums and hobby-horse.”
Figuratively, it means “innocent children's games,” “childhood sweethearts,” or “a couple who grew up as childhood friends.”
This phrase may sound a little strange as it's a kind of Chinese proverb or idiom. It makes much more sense in Chinese than in English.
靑龍 is a title that can mean blue or green dragon.
The first character can mean blue, green, azure, or celadon.
The second character means dragon.
This is mostly a Chinese title (especially in Buddhism). It will be understood but less commonly used in Japanese and Korean.
怡紅院 is from “The Story of the Stone” by Cao Xueqin.
For some reason, this phrase was translated as “House of Green Delights” when the novel was published in English. The translator took some liberties and believed that “green” had a more positive feel than red to a western audience. Therefore, the phrase shown to the right is “House of Red Delights” (which is the most original and correct way).
(precious stone)
玉 is how to write jade in Chinese, Korean Hanja, and Japanese Kanji. This refers to the semi-precious stone that can be almost white or a vivid green.
Note: In Japanese, this character can mean jewel, ball, sphere or coin depending on context.
If your name is Jade, you may want to choose this to represent your name by meaning rather than pronunciation.
羅剎 is the Chinese version of demon that comes from the ancient Sanskrit word raksha, raksasa (rākṣasa), raksas (rakṣas), or raksasi (rākṣasī).
This title regards malignant spirits and demons. These demons are described in ancient texts as terrifying, with black bodies, red hair, and green eyes, and as devourers of men.
FYI: Sometimes the second character is written in the form shown to the right.
真主 is how Chinese Muslims refer to God (it literally means “True Master”).
Oddly, in China, two different names for God have emerged. Even though Muslims, Christians, and Jews all worship the same God of Abraham.
In Arabic, the word Allah is just the Arabic way to say, God. Arab Christians pray to Allah, just like Arab Muslims. Somehow in China, the title of God diverged.
If you are curious, there are millions of Muslims throughout China but especially in the northwest portion of China known as Xinjiang. Here you will find descendants of Turkmen, Persian, Arab, and other ethnicities. Some are mixed with Han-Chinese blood; others appear to be pure Turkmen. Many have fair complexions, green eyes, and light hair but all are citizens of China. A visit to Xinjiang will shift your paradigm and blow away all of your stereotypes about what it means to be Chinese.
誰言寸草心報得三春暉 is the last line of a famous poem. It is perceived as a tribute or ode to your parents or mother from a child or children that have left home.
The poem was written by Meng Jiao during the Tang Dynasty (about 1200 years ago). The Chinese title is “You Zi Yin” which means “The Traveler's Recite.”
The last line as shown here speaks of the generous and warm spring sunlight which gives the grass far beyond what the little grass can could ever give back (except perhaps by showing its lovely green leaves and flourishing). The metaphor is that the sun is your mother or parents, and you are the grass. Your parents raise you and give you all the love and care you need to prepare you for the world. A debt that you can never repay, nor is repayment expected.
The first part of the poem (not written in the characters to the left) suggests that the thread in a loving mother's hands is the shirt of her traveling offspring. Vigorously sewing while wishing them to come back sooner than they left.
...This part is really hard to translate into English that makes any sense but maybe you get the idea. We are talking about a poem that is so old that many Chinese people would have trouble reading it (as if it was the King James Version of Chinese).
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These search terms might be related to Green:
Adonis / Handsome Young Man
Chastity / Pure Heart
Forever Young
Forever Young / Eternal Youth
Forever Young / Long Life
Fresh Start
Happy New Year
Jade
Kitten / Young Cat / Little Cat
Learn New Ways From Old / Onkochishin
New Beginning
New Caledonia
New Guinea
New Life
New Moon
New York
New Zealand
Olive
Papua New Guinea
Pure Heart
Pure Land / Jodo
Pure Land Buddhism / Jodo Buddhism
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The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Green | 青 | ao | qīng / qing1 / qing | ch`ing / ching |
Green Fire | 爐火純青 炉火纯青 | lú huǒ chún qīng lu2 huo3 chun2 qing1 lu huo chun qing luhuochunqing | lu huo ch`un ch`ing luhuochunching lu huo chun ching |
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Green Plum and Bamboo Horse | 青梅竹馬 青梅竹马 | qīng méi zhú mǎ qing1 mei2 zhu2 ma3 qing mei zhu ma qingmeizhuma | ch`ing mei chu ma chingmeichuma ching mei chu ma |
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Green Dragon Blue Dragon | 靑龍 靑龙 | sei ryū / seiryū | qīng lóng qing1 long2 qing long qinglong | ch`ing lung chinglung ching lung |
Kingfisher | 翠鳥 翠鸟 | cuì niǎo / cui4 niao3 / cui niao / cuiniao | ts`ui niao / tsuiniao / tsui niao | |
House of Red Delights | 怡紅院 怡红院 | yí hóng yuàn yi2 hong2 yuan4 yi hong yuan yihongyuan | i hung yüan ihungyüan |
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Sapphire | 青玉 | seigyoku | qīng yù / qing1 yu4 / qing yu / qingyu | ch`ing yü / chingyü / ching yü |
Bee | 碧 | bì / bi4 / bi | pi | |
Lion Dance | 獅子舞 | shi shi mai shishimai | ||
Blue Dragon | 蒼龍 苍龙 | cāng lóng cang1 long2 cang long canglong | ts`ang lung tsanglung tsang lung |
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Apple | 蘋果 苹果 | píng guǒ / ping2 guo3 / ping guo / pingguo | p`ing kuo / pingkuo / ping kuo | |
Cyan | 青色 | aoiro | qīng sè / qing1 se4 / qing se / qingse | ch`ing se / chingse / ching se |
Jade | 玉 | tama / gyoku | yù / yu4 / yu | yü |
Demon Raksha | 羅剎 / 羅刹 罗刹 | luó chà / luo2 cha4 / luo cha / luocha | lo ch`a / locha / lo cha | |
Allah God of Islam | 真主 | zhēn zhǔ / zhen1 zhu3 / zhen zhu / zhenzhu | chen chu / chenchu | |
Appreciation and Love for Your Parents | 誰言寸草心報得三春暉 谁言寸草心报得三春晖 | shuí yán cùn cǎo xīn bào dé sān chūn huī shui2 yan2 cun4 cao3 xin1 bao4 de2 san1 chun1 hui1 shui yan cun cao xin bao de san chun hui | shui yen ts`un ts`ao hsin pao te san ch`un hui shui yen tsun tsao hsin pao te san chun hui |
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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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When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
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The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
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We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
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