Peony

Dream in Peony Pavilion is a beautiful flower in the Chinese national artistic treasure. It tells a legendary love story of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei. Their love was against by Du’s parents and the feudal ideas, Du even died in great sorrow. Fortunately, she was brought back to life at the end. One of most obviously characteristics is its language and sentence forms. Also, there are many professional words and expressions of drama. When people are translating this work, these items should be…

summit gave the deception of her having a headband on top of her head. She had one tiny white Peony in her hair with other light coral, plum, purple and yellow unidentified things that I presumed was to be a small hat. She was wearing a tight, amethyst purple, corset with shear lace fabric at the top. Sewn into the lace of her dress were three fully bloomed flowers, one large white and two small pink Peonies, and four that were just beginning to blossom.…

that are relevant and essential to “The Jade Peony”, a classic short story written by Wayson Choy, are racism and discrimination. That’s not all. This short story consists of many other themes. And you’re probably wondering if they are the same. But actually, these two topics differ on so many occasions. Then, we’ll get into detail and read about an inspired Wayson Choy. As you all already know, racism plays a very essential role in “The Jade Peony.” As mentioned in the text by Wayson…

herself pass with little struggle. Wind chimes in Chinese culture are put at the window of the house where someone has died to help their soul pass onto the after world. Poh Poh begins to gather objects to make her wind chimes. She uses the Jade Peony as the center piece. Poh Poh is preparing for her death, again allowing nature to take its course and let herself die peacefully. The theme of accepting fate relates to most scenes in the novel. The families live in the depression, yet they…

In The Peony Pavilion, the female lead, Bridal Du, is also born into a family of high status like Oriole. This play was written during the Ming Dynasty, during which Confucianism still dominated the society’s way of thinking. Thus, Bridal Du is held to the same social expectations of being docile, hidden from the public, and being respectful to her parents, just as Oriole was. Her upbringing, in terms of education, is primarily overseen by her father, Du Bao, a Confucius scholar. He values are…

Culture defines art. According to Webster's dictionary, the definition of culture is the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular group, place, and or time. As time progresses and present becomes past, the ability to preserve a society lies on the capacity to transfer history through tangible forms. Art has the capacity to preserve society and its history; it preserves events and emotions that were once meaningful to an era. Animal symbolism in Chinese and Japanese art as seen in a war…

The book was written by Marissa Meyer. Never have I read a book like this; I think its something I wouldn’t read again, but I would recommend this book to anyone who likes science fiction. Young adults can read this book, and scientist would read it. Me personally, I don’t really like books that be making up events, but something had me thing about this book. The title makes me think about what the book is about to be like. When I came across the book and saw the title, it sparked my interest.…

return. (Sanchez A. 2015) Ants and plants also interact closer to home, sometimes in our own back gardens. Peonies dotted with ants have often been sprayed with pesticides by humans out of fear of the ants destroying them. However, studies have shown peonies are in fact myrmecophytes, plants which possess structures associated with colonies of ants. Ants crawl over the sepals of the peony drinking the nectar produced by the plant. Consequently, the ants loosen the waxy outer folds of the…

touch with love, and happiness. The story takes place in early times Scotland and the far reaches of Earth. Bruce McLennan is a man turned cruel due to a family tragedy. He builds a castle with a dungeon and travels to China. While in China he meets Peony and takes her with him. He learns different battle tactics to battle his enemy. The rest of…

Walk on Earth a Stranger is a historical fiction book that takes place in 1849 in Dahlonega, Georgia, California, and in between. It is about a ___ year old girl named Leah Westfall, her friend Jefferson and her horrible uncle Hiram. This all begins with Leah Westfall and her family. Leah is not a normal girl she has a special power. She can sense gold! In 1849 finding gold could save a family from a horrible life. Leah has found a whole sack of gold up until now. She kept the sack…