The Point: Power of Chinese poetry 

Thank you so much for sharing this lovely encounter of two lovely souls sharing their tea through the electronic glasswall.

😍 Ms. Liu Xin's outfits..Very pretty and looking so peacefully..👍😉...

Thank you for showing us such an incredibly touching and profoundly engrossing conversation! The ease with which Xin helps weave their way through this thoughtful dialogue and the beautiful beautiful response that Tim generates are such that I was, at multiple points in the interview, moved to tears! This video has really reconnected me with my cultural, poetical, and spiritual root-- something that we all need to look back to, especially in this day and age!

Amazing guy who is able to learn Chinese and then translates the poems into English, simply wow me! All to best Tim!

I am reading an anthology of Chinese poetry in translation and am very very impressed by its beauty, which comes through even in translation. Also what impressed me is the interweaving of human emotions and the natural world

As a child learning Chinese and English, when I saw a new word, I was often able to guess its meaning from the context where the word was located. In English, I could at least pronounce it since English is alphabetical phonetical and is written as it is pronounced. By the same token, I was disappointed that I could not pronounce a new Chinese word. Little did I know that years later, my disappointment turned into delight when I discovered that I could largely understand ancient written Chinese passages. Alas, my delight with English writing turned into disappointment when I discovered that I could not read Old English. As a non-linguist, my layman hypothesis is that pronunciation evolves faster than writing over time and isolation and the spelling will eventually catch up to reflect the pronunciation. By being non alphabetical, ideograms were immune from this evolutionary pressure to catch up with the pronunciation. In both delight and gratitude, I can today recognise fossil ideograms and decipher the wealth of multidisciplinary information and wisdom that my ancient ancestors left me as my heritage, in the form of poetry, for instance.

Were Tim Clissold wishing to read and write this beautiful language today, he could access online the Mandarin Blueprint Method and have it mastered in no time at all! It’s been a lifelong goal for me to be able to decode these stunning characters and thanks to this course I can easily remember and write each character. My new goal will be to read his translations of ancient Chinese poetry. Thank you for featuring his work.

This was amazing!! Went straight to Amazon..it’s sold out and not available in kindle…🤷🏼‍♀️

I wonder why he said you can't get great precision...I wonder if Quantum Mechanics has something to do with it? "...my whole life just bird tracks on sand." powerful indeed

Interesting chat. Liu Xin, you are also a poetry in motion...a very elegant lady !!!

Fascinating conversation.

Fascinating, 非常感谢你们俩! There are actually many corollaries with the earliest Welsh poetry.

Lovely, Liu Xin and Tim Clissold. Thank you!

THis was beautifully done -- the entire broadcast down to the timing, content, topic and exchange between host and guest.

Very interesting!

"It envisions languages as genuine, that moves the origin, to be as yin and a yang altogether in a world of light" Xiexie......

Lovly conversation 🙏😊👌..…

I really enjoyed this session.

Aside from our shallow differences, we, as humans, are ultimately the same. As in, the fundamental characteristics of humanity remain the same. Curiosity, self-preservation, desire, and security. Even if we differ in culture, language, customs, and beliefs. I believe in cultural exchange, diplomacy, civility, compassion, cooperation, communication, and putting aside our differences. Situations arise where things won't go smoothly, but promoting this universally applicable form of education is key to avoiding unnecessary conflict.

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Um...ok. A tea party in the internet era.

*" The Old Man Who Sells Charcoal "* *Prevalently Poignant to the PRESENCE of BEING challenging Our Current Civilization'$ Existence*

Many years ago I read about an English academic who was so intrigued by the Chinese language that he picked it up and went to communist China to translate a book. He was so fascinated that he translated other works and his planned short spell in China just became forgotten. He never went back to England and died in China. Anybody has any idea what's his name?

Everyone says it is super super hard.. I know a Corp guy who has been studying mandarin he said 20 yrs he has been trying.. he said you have to address different levels of society in a different way. Like poor vs wealthy??? Don't know.

😍😍😍 Liu Xin

This tranquility in China may make me a billionaire and big man in Africa we all hope 🙏.

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How about Chinese language and of course thinking are for quantum physics while English /thinking for Newtonian.

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Rongyao CHN.

The number of Chinese languages users will eventually surpass that of English speakers. It will be expedited by the Belt and Road Initiative. So learn Chinese or be left out.

Our Western reductionist scientific worldview moves us into smaller and smaller circles of self-centeredness. TNH

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hahhaha, thang nao con nao tu van toc tai trang diem cho maika nay dzay :D:D:D dem bon do nhot phuong het diii, maika xau ma ko bit tai sao minh xau :D:D:D:D

How many facelift did u have

Thank you for talking about culture. We tend to see only the differences, but we humans have so much more in common.