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IS THERE ANY LOVE IN CHINA?
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PostPosted: 2008-08-26 16:52:38    Post subject: IS THERE ANY LOVE IN CHINA? Reply with quote

IS THERE ANY LOVE IN CHINA?

As a tiger can not learn how to climb,
White Paper can not tell the truth of love.
Supposing a man has not a love code at heart,
How dare he touch this vexing problem?

To answer this question is indeed a puzzle.
Without personal experience,
how can an intern midwife who is unmarried
aid in every possible way a woman in labor?
But science and reason put it under powerful
microscopes to reveal the humane killers.

Just answer questions listed in this index:

How many virgins marry dollars?
How many maidens marry fortunes?
How many lasses serve at night clubs?
How many beauties live as concubines?
How many ladies remarry larger sofas?
How many rustic girls desert their boyfriends?

Certainly there are reasons besides reasons.
My question is as follows:

IS THERE ANY LOVE IN CHINA?
WHAT’S ITS WEIGHT?
WHAT’S ITS PRICE?
WHAT’S ITS VALUE?
WHAT’S ITS USE?

Here are the basic national backgrounds.
The soldiers’ duties remain still heavier.
The women’s hatreds remain still deeper---
a theme song preceding a contemporary opera.

That Rights include Right of True Love
for four thousand years of civilization,
not a human being has ever set foot on.
How can a man appreciate whatever they have not tasted?
For instance, honey you have never touched,
How can you afterwards recall its flavor?



For most girls it is the same whoever to marry.
If only there are in house rooms and checks.
Without the knowledge how sweet the sweets
Are they able to picture what is sweeter?

The society is a balance that loses its balance.
That the illustrious are unwilling to sacrifice
the obscure are obliged to relinquish.
for a higher pay;
for a favorable post;
for a room facing south;
for a better condition to treat…

But with what to bribe?
Certainly soft jade is above everything else.
The prettier attach themselves to bigwigs.
The coquettish rely heavily on men of weight.
Do they do this totally out of true love?
With satisfaction and satiety gone and come,
a hundred NOs accompany their deep sighs.

Seldom does a Tess appear beneath an Eastern roof,
who heroically killed the man who had ruined her first love.
Medea could have so acted from a great spirit.
She would rather kill her sons
than become a Chinese-like housewife.
Her saying goes worldwide like this:
Stop wanting your husband,
And nothing you want will fail to come about.

Both of them belong to the feminine gender.
Their Highnesses are mirrors reflecting true human nature.
But the female throughout China would rather make another choice.
Smartly they survive and so live but never for love!
(by Mahuairong)
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PostPosted: 2008-08-27 08:24:07    Post subject: Reply with quote

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IS THERE ANY LOVE IN CHINA?


I believe so, very much so, no love in this poem though.

It sounds like all curses should go to women?
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