{"id":166,"date":"2009-12-01T00:54:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T04:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=166"},"modified":"2009-12-01T00:54:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T04:54:29","slug":"adventures-in-shantou-contd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/adventures-in-shantou-contd\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Shantou cont&#8217;d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After enjoying some fine <strong>\u70b9\u5fc3<\/strong> (dim sum) in the morning, I went to a remote island near Shantou.\u00a0 There I contemplated several things while watching a <strong>\u8682\u8681<\/strong> (ant) under an <strong>\u5f71\u5b50<\/strong> (shadow) cast by a tree.\u00a0 I also saw some chickens whose legs were bound by plastic strings where the owner had <strong>\u6253\u7ed3<\/strong> (tied knots) around their legs.\u00a0 This island truly had a <strong>\u5e73\u6de1<\/strong> (mundane\/quaint) lifestyle.\u00a0 Looking at the chicken actually reminded me of the US-China trade balance focused on <strong>\u9e21\u722a<\/strong> (chicken feet).\u00a0 I ate some dried <strong>\u867e<\/strong> (shrimp) at a tiny restaurant and then hiked up to the top of the island where I could smell <strong>\u70e7\u9999<\/strong> (burning incense), hear the <strong>\u53d1\u52a8\u673a<\/strong> (engine) of the boat that brought me there, and see <strong>\u6e2f\u53e3<\/strong> (harbor) awaiting ships in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>\u70b9\u5fc3 dian3xin1 &#8211; dim sum<br \/>\n\u8682\u8681 ma3(2)yi3 &#8211; ant<br \/>\n\u5f71\u5b50 ying3zi &#8211; shadow<br \/>\n\u6253\u7ed3\u00a0 da3jie2 &#8211; tie a knot<br \/>\n\u5e73\u6de1 ping2dan4 &#8211; mundane<br \/>\n\u9e21\u722a ji1zhua1 &#8211; chicken feet<br \/>\n\u867e\u00a0 xia1 &#8211; shrimp<br \/>\n\u70e7\u9999 shao1xiang1 &#8211; burn incense<br \/>\n\u53d1\u52a8\u673a fa1dong4ji1 &#8211; engine<br \/>\n\u6e2f\u53e3 gang3(2)kou3\u00a0 &#8211; harbor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After enjoying some fine \u70b9\u5fc3 (dim sum) in the morning, I went to a remote island near Shantou.\u00a0 There I contemplated several things while watching a \u8682\u8681 (ant) under an \u5f71\u5b50 (shadow) cast by a tree.\u00a0 I also saw some chickens whose legs were bound by plastic strings where the owner had \u6253\u7ed3 (tied knots)&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/adventures-in-shantou-contd\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2659],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-chinese-language"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}