FIRE TURTLES AND ICE TOADS
Just wondering. These were readily available in a street market, a mall of fresh delicacies, in Xian. The reality of China. Get 'em while they're hot...and cold.
Fire Turtles?
Ice Toads?
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TAO 61--What makes a great state is its being (like) a low-lying, down- flowing (stream);--it becomes the centre to which tend (all the small states) under heaven. (To illustrate from) the case of all females:--the female always overcomes the male by her stillness. Stillness may be considered (a sort of) abasement. Thus it is that a great state, by condescending to small states, gains them for itself; and that small states, by abasing themselves to a great state, win it over to them. In the one case the abasement leads to gaining adherents, in the other case to procuring favour. The great state only wishes to unite men together and nourish them; a small state only wishes to be received by, and to serve, the other. Each gets what it desires, but the great state must learn to abase itself.
from Tao Te Ching, translated by James Legge
from Tao Te Ching, translated by James Legge
4 comments:
Re the first: those are roasted silkworms, right? Have seen them being sold in Seoul -- but no, I didn't dare to try any! :)
I don't think so. They were squirming. But I may have imagined that. FIre turtles! (If you saw Detective Dee, you know why I made the illusion.)
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
Stuff like that is why travel would be hard for me. Although, who knows? Anthony Bourdain seems to like som nasty stuff!
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