End of Semester Group Photo! 清华大学汉语中心期末学生照相！

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Well! It's that time of the season. We have about 2 weeks left before school officially ends on July 6th. Most of us here are moving out and looking for people to sell our stuff to, pass our stuff on to and perhaps some of us would care to donate to the needy in these times.

还剩下两个新奇的学期了。大部分的人都要搬走了。如果需要买卖或捐输的援助，请到RipplePath的买卖捐输聊天室。

Buy/Sell/买卖

RipplePath has a forum for Buying and Selling that we will try to publicize in the Tsinghua Chinese Language Program, as well as the rest of the school and perhaps other places.  So if you have something you would like to sell or give away for free, we encourage you to list it there.

这就是RipplePath的买卖捐输聊天室。请到里面登你们自己的广告也顺便看一看同学们的广告及注意我们将会有一个捐输活动若有兴趣参加。

Have a heart... DONATE? 捐输

Finally, myself and I'm sure some other people would like to do something productive with their things that they don't want to sell or can't sell by donating it to charity. I have done a little bit research with the help of my friend Wangjing and we have found a place that takes donations. I've been awfully busy lately and so have not had time to travel to the donation place. I will find time to do so and post up some info on the place and maybe we can organize a donation day and all go together.

我会尽量找机会去调查一下清华大学里的眷属机关。如果一切都好的话，那我们可以安排一个大捐输学生团一起去卷东西。 

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Today is the day of the annual Dragon Boat Festival [端午节] in Chinese culture (possibly also in Korean culture) that commemorates the great deeds of a poet from over 2000 years ago.

In modern times this holiday is celebrated by eating glutinous rice wraps and hosting Dragon Boat Races.

On this day, the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese Lunar calendar, a poet by the name of Qu Yuan [屈原], who lived in the state of Chu during the Warring States period (475 B.C. to 221 B.C.), drowned himself in the Mìluó River [汨罗江] in today's Hunan Province in 278 B.C. 

The story goes that he was an imperial advisor to the emperor, however lesser officials misdirected the emperor with lies against Qu Yuan and he was subsequently sent to lands far away from the capital. The area that he was sent to, consisted mostly of peasants and farmers. They very much respected Qu Yuan. However, under the misdirection of dishonorable officials the kingdom soon faced dire circumstances. Qu Yuan, hearing of this, was near heart-broken and in a last effort he threw himself into the Mìluó River hoping his death could awaken his emperor to revitalize the kingdom.

 The peasants then made glutinous rice balls and wrapped it into bamboo or reed leaves. The reason behind the shape of these glutinous rice wraps is that it is modeled after the shape of an ox foot. According to the Teacher of my Chinese Culture class, these glutinous rice wraps are shaped that way because oxen are an important part of the lives of the peasants and is reflected in the shape of these wraps.

These rice wraps were then thrown into the water on boats that were sent out to search for Qu Yuan in hopes of rescuing him from drowning. Each boat, one besides another, raced forward in urgency and as the years passed became known as the Dragon Boat Race. 

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I was previously setting up a Flickr Gallery for RipplePath. Flickr is a very well-designed and popular photo/image gallery in the United States and as of last week I noticed that my photos from Flickr were no longer getting displayed. At first I thought that it was simply Tsinghua's poor internet or a temporary problem. However it has been several days now and the problem remains.

中国大陆又挡了一个好网站。 我原来准备给RipplePath加一个相册，那么市场上最好的相册以我而言乃是Flickr。但是上个星期我就开始发现Flickr里的相片在清华大学的网络上不出现。那时我还以为是清华的问题。但是以过几天，这个问题仍然还存在，我今天搜索了一下，发现中国大陆又把一个好网站给挡了。真是让人烦恼啊。

Here is Flickr's official statement on this issue. 这里有Flickr的正式声明。 

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