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The Popular Stories About Grave Robbery
The Popular Stories About Grave Robbery
In recent years, the stories about grave robbery have become popular.
It is said the original one is Gui Chui Deng(鬼吹灯), which means the candle blown out by the ghost in English. In this story, It is said that a grave robber should light a candle and put it near the entrance of the grave room, when he/she got into it, for the grave had been sealed for so many years that there might be some harmful gas in it, or because the grave was built with many traps, such as poison gas, to protect the corpse and its treasures against the grave robbers. Also the flame of the candle could notice them of the emergency situation, when some other weird things happen, such as the corpse, sometimes the owner of the grave, transforming to a zombie as some apparatus triggered. It is said in the story that if the flame went out, the grave robbers had to give up the mission and got out of the grave room, or they would lose their lives.
Although the story sounds horrifying, in fact, it is more like an adventure story and is very interesting. Gui Chui Deng(鬼吹灯) was serialized on the internet, so if you are interested in it, you can easily find it on line. There is a publish version, two manga version, and maybe next year a movie version of the story, too. It is really a long story and I haven't finished reading it. Maybe someday I will get some spare time to finish it.
BTW, the writer of Gui Chui Deng was not a professional writer. It is said that he began writing the story in order to make his girlfriend happy, which is so romantic, isn't it? (^_^)
Another famous one is Dao Mu Bi Ji(盗墓笔记), Grave Robbery Diary. I will talk about it next time.
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Diary: A friend's wedding ceremony/ I cut my index finger when cooking dinner last weekend
I cut the index finger of my left hand when cooking dinner last weekend.
My husband and I went to a friend's wedding ceremony and ate a lot of delicious food there at lunch time. Then my husband and I felt so guilty to ourselves, because we have been trying to lose weight for month, but failed every time when offered with fine food. So we decided to walk home instead, where is 8km away from the wedding ceremony place. We had a great time walking and talking, and felt so proud of ourselves to stick to our great lose-weight-plan. We didn't feel tired at all. But when we got home, we were so tired out that we went to bed to have a nap soon.
2 hours later, I got up in a daze to cook the dinner. Then I had my finger cut and it bleed a lot. My husband quickly got me a bandaid, and I put it on my wound and tried to press it to stop bleeding. But it didn't work, still bleeding. So we hurried to the hospital, where I had my wound taken care of and dressed. Now I'm typing with 9 fingers, LOL.
Now the bad thing is that I have to go to the hospital to have the dress changed every two days. But like a coin of two sides, there comes good thing that my husband does cooking instead. It's a kind of vacation.
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About the book I have been translating for days- A Japanese dancer's dance trip
It's an interesting essay with many pictures. It is a story about a Japanese dancer, called Usa, travelling around the world to search for different dance styles. In the trip, he went to Ibiza, Spain as his first stop, which is well known as a PARTY ISLAND. Then he visited the savanna of Tanzania, where scientists have found the fossil of early modem human around millions of years ago. It is also said that the ancestors of human all came from the African Continent. Usa, the dancer, visited a tribe there, where people dance in a primitive way with no music but the beat of their heart. Usa joined the dance party, which was more likely a welcome ceremony for Usa, the guest. And he found that even though they couldn't speak the language of each other, they could still communicate with each other with dance and the beat of heart. And it turns out that we are all the same.
As to the third stop of his trip, Kenya, I am translating it now, and will share some interesting stories with you later~Stay tuned!
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