中国音乐/ Chinese Music

滚滚长江东逝水—gǔn gǔn cháng jiāng dōng sh shuǐ

The Billowing Yangtze River Flows East

Song by 杨洪基(Yang Hongji) 1994

The opening theme song of《三国演义》（Romance of the Three Kingdoms）

（This is the calligraphy of the lyric）

歌词/Lyric ：

滚滚长江东逝水，gǔn gǔn cháng jiāng dōng sh shuǐ

浪花淘尽英雄。làng huā táo jǐn yīng xióng

是非成败转头空。shìfēi chéng bài zhuǎn tóu kōng

青山依旧在，qīng shān yī jiù zài

几度夕阳红。 jǐ dù xīyáng hóng

白发渔樵江渚上，bái fà yú qiáo jiāng zhǔ shàng

惯看秋月春风。guàn kàn qiū yuè chūn fēng

一壶浊酒喜相逢。yī hú zhuó jiǔ xǐ xiāngf éng

古今多少事，gǔ jīn duō shǎo shì

都付笑谈中。dōu fù xiào tán zhōng

歌词大意/ Main meaning ：

滚滚长江向东流，不再回头，多少英雄像翻飞的浪花般消逝，争什么是与非、成功与失败，都是短暂不长久，只有青山依然存在，依然的日升日落。江上白发渔翁，早已习于四时的变化，和朋友难得见了面，痛快的畅饮一杯酒，古往今来的纷纷扰扰，都成为下酒闲谈的材料。

The Yangtze River rolling to the east, never to return, many heroes fade away like whipped waves, no matter right or wrong, success or failure, all these things are short cannot last for long. Only the green mountains still exist, with the sunrise and sunset. The white-haired fisherman on the river has been accustomed to the changes of the seasons long. Meet with the friends rarely saw, and drink a glass of wine happily. Everything that happened throughout the history becomes chat material of drinks.

(You can see the MTV here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=IT&v=7QuP2EB4Sz8)

The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

六月的雨—liù yuè de yǔ

The Rain of June

Song by 胡歌(Hu Ge), 2004

episode  of “The Legend of Sword and Fairy”

The Legend of Sword and Fairy

You can see the MTV: http://www.56.com/u57/v_MTI1MDY4NzA.html

The Little Prince/Il Piccolo Principe/小王子

 

Le Petit Prince  (first edition cover) - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - 1943

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“What makes the desert beautiful, said the Little Prince, is that it hides a well somewhere".

 

Alcyone/La pioggia nel pineto - Gabriele D'Annunzio - 1902

Taci. Su le soglie
del bosco non odo
parole che dici
umane; ma odo
5parole più nuove
che parlano gocciole e foglie
lontane.
Ascolta. Piove
dalle nuvole sparse.
10Piove su le tamerici
salmastre ed arse,
piove su i pini
scagliosi ed irti,
piove su i mirti
15divini,
su le ginestre fulgenti
di fiori accolti,
su i ginepri folti
di coccole aulenti,
20piove su i nostri vólti
silvani,
piove su le nostre mani
ignude,
su i nostri vestimenti
25leggieri,
su i freschi pensieri
che l’anima schiude
novella,
su la favola bella
30che ieri
t’illuse, che oggi m’illude,
o Ermione.

Odi? La pioggia cade
su la solitaria
35verdura
con un crepitìo che dura
e varia nell’aria
secondo le fronde
più rade, men rade.
40Ascolta. Risponde
al pianto il canto
delle cicale
che il pianto australe
non impaura,
45né il ciel cinerino.
E il pino
ha un suono, e il mirto
altro suono, e il ginepro
altro ancóra, stromenti
50diversi
sotto innumerevoli dita.
E immersi
noi siam nello spirto
silvestre,
55d’arborea vita viventi;
e il tuo vólto ebro
è molle di pioggia
come una foglia,
e le tue chiome
60auliscono come
le chiare ginestre,
o creatura terrestre
che hai nome
Ermione.

65Ascolta, ascolta. L’accordo
delle aeree cicale
a poco a poco
più sordo
si fa sotto il pianto
70che cresce;
ma un canto vi si mesce
più roco
che di laggiù sale,
dall’umida ombra remota.
75Più sordo, e più fioco
s’allenta, si spegne.
Sola una nota
ancor trema, si spegne,
risorge, trema, si spegne.
80Non s’ode voce dal mare.
Or s’ode su tutta la fronda
crosciare
l’argentea pioggia
che monda,
85il croscio che varia
secondo la fronda
più folta, men folta.
Ascolta.
La figlia dell’aria
90è muta; ma la figlia
del limo lontana,
la rana,
canta nell’ombra più fonda,
chi sa dove, chi sa dove!
95E piove su le tue ciglia,
Ermione.

Piove su le tue ciglia nere
sì che par tu pianga
ma di piacere; non bianca
100ma quasi fatta virente,
par da scorza tu esca.
E tutta la vita è in noi fresca
aulente,
il cuor nel petto è come pèsca
105intatta,
tra le pàlpebre gli occhi
son come polle tra l’erbe,
i denti negli alvèoli
son come mandorle acerbe.
110E andiam di fratta in fratta,
or congiunti or disciolti
(e il verde vigor rude
ci allaccia i mallèoli
c’intrica i ginocchi)
115chi sa dove, chi sa dove!
E piove su i nostri vólti
silvani,
piove su le nostre mani
ignude,
120su i nostri vestimenti
leggieri,
su i freschi pensieri
che l’anima schiude
novella,
125su la favola bella
che ieri
m’illuse, che oggi t’illude,
o Ermione.

Gabriele D'Annunzio - La pioggia nel pineto - 1902

Jesus can walk on water, but He's not the only one.

More than 1,200 animal species have evolved the ability to walk on water. Tiny creatures such as insects and spiders can do it, and larger ones such as some reptiles, birds and even mammals have also developed this talent.

 

Basiliscus 

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Gerridae

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 Grebes

  

King James Version of the Bible/Bibbia di re Giacomo/钦定版圣经

  

Authorized King James Version Bible - First edition -Title page – 1611

Wet

Job.24

1. [8] They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Dan.4

1. [15] Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth:
2. [23] And whereas the king saw a watcher and an holy one coming down from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till seven times pass over him;
3. [25] That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.
4. [33] The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.

Dan.5

[21] And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.

Crossing the Red Sea

 

 Exo 14:27 (King James Version):

“And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea”

The Egyptians are drowned in the Red Sea - Gustave Doré – 1865

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Marriage at Cana

John 2:7 (King James Version):

  "Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim"

Paolo Veronese - The Wedding at Cana - 1571

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Jesus walks on water

John 6:19 (King James Version):

“So when they had rowed about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking on the sea, and drawing nigh unto the ship: and they were afraid”

Jesus walking on the Water - Gustave Doré – 1865

 

Dry

Gen.1

1. [9] And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
2. [10] And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Gen.7

1. [22] All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

Gen.8

1. [13] And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.

Exod.4

1. [9] And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.

Exod.14

1. [16] But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
2. [21] And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
3. [22] And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
4. [29] But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

Exod.15

1. [19] For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

Lev.7

1. [10] And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another.

Lev.13

1. [30] Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.

Josh.3

1. [17] And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

Josh.4

1. [18] And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.
2. [22] Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

Josh.9

1. [5] And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
2. [12] This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:

Judg.6

1. [37] Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by mine hand, as thou hast said.
2. [39] And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
3. [40] And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.

2Kgs.2

1. [8] And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.

Neh.9

1. [11] And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

Job.12

1. [15] Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

Job.13

1. [25] Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Job.15

1. [30] He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Pss.63

1. [1] O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;

Pss.66

1. [6] He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

Pss.68

1. [6] God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Pss.95

1. [5] The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

Pss.105

1. [41] He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

Pss.107

1. [33] He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
2. [35] He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.

Prov.17

1. [1] Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

Isa.11

1. [15] And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

Isa.25

1. [5] Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

Isa.32

1. [2] And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Isa.41

1. [18] I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

Isa.42

1. [15] I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

Isa.44

1. [3] For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
2. [27] That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

Isa.50

1. [2] Wherfore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

Isa.53

1. [2] For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Isa.56

1. [3] Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

Jer.4

1. [11] At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

Jer.50

1. [12] Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Jer.51

1. [36] Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
2. [43] Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

Ezek.17

1. [24] And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

Ezek.19

1. [13] And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

Ezek.20

1. [47] And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

Ezek.30

1. [12] And I will make the rivers dry, and sell the land into the hand of the wicked: and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I the LORD have spoken it.

Ezek.37

1. [2] And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
2. [4] Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

Hos.2

1. [3] Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

Hos.9

1. [14] Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Hos.13

1. [15] Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

Jonah.1

1. [9] And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.

Jonah.2

1. [10] And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

Nah.1

1. [4] He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
2. [10] For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

Zeph.2

1. [13] And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

Hag.2

1. [6] For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

Zech.10

1. [11] And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

Wis.19

1. [7] As namely, a cloud shadowing the camp; and where water stood before, dry land appeared; and out of the Red sea a way without impediment; and out of the violent stream a green field:

Sir.6

1. [3] Thou shalt eat up thy leaves, and lose thy fruit, and leave thyself as a dry tree.

Sir.13

1. [7] And he will shame thee by his meats, until he have drawn thee dry twice or thrice, and at the last he will laugh thee to scorn afterward, when he seeth thee, he will forsake thee, and shake his head at thee.

Sir.39

1. [22] His blessing covered the dry land as a river, and watered it as a flood.

Matt.12

1. [43] When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

Luke.11

1. [24] When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.

Luke.23

1. [31] For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?

Heb.11

1. [29] By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.

Temptation of Christ

Matthew 4:8 (King James Version):

“Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them”

Jesus is Tempted by Satan in the Wilderness Giclee - Gustave Doré - 1865

Dictionary Treccani/Dizionario Treccani/字典Treccani

Bagnato
agg. [part. pass. di bagnare].

1. Umido, o coperto, o inzuppato d’acqua o d’altro liquido: panni b.; avere i vestiti, le scarpe, i piedi b., per avere preso la pioggia; scivolare sul terreno b. (in questo senso anche sostantivato: sul b.; e così camminare sul b. e sim., e nel modo fig. piovere sul b., a proposito di quattrini o guai che vengono a chi ne ha già abbastanza); essere b. di pianto, di sudore; pan b., anche nel modo prov. fig. se non è zuppa è pan b., di cose che si equivalgono; essere o sembrare un pulcino b., mostrarsi timido, impacciato, vergognoso.

2. Cavaliere b., nella cavalleria, il cavaliere che aveva compiuto il bagno rituale prima di prendere le insegne.

 

 The Accolade - Edmund Blair Leighton  - 1901

Asciutto 

agg. [lat. exsuctus, part. pass. di exsūgĕre «succhiare, seccare», con sostituzione di prefisso].

1. Privo di umidità, secco (contr. quindi di umido, bagnato): terreno, luogo a.; coltivazione a., che non viene irrigata (contrapp. a irrigua); clima a., tempo a., non piovoso, con scarsa umidità; vento a., secco, arido; prov., marzo a. e april bagnato, beato il villan che ha seminato; parto a., reso difficoltoso dalla precoce perdita del liquido amniotico; pasta a. (o pastasciutta; nell’uso pop. tosc. anche plur., paste asciutte), senza brodo e condita con burro o sugo. In qualche caso equivale ad asciugato: i panni sono già asciutti; lasciare il fiasco a., berlo sino in fondo. Locuzioni: a occhi a., a ciglio a., a viso a., senza piangere; a piedi a., senza bagnarseli: Passava Stige con le piante a. (Dante); a bocca a., a denti a., senza mangiare o bere (in senso proprio, avere o sentirsi la bocca a., la gola a., più com. secca); fig. restare a bocca a., rimanere deluso, non ottenere ciò che s’era sperato o desiderato. Con uso avv., mangiare asciutto, fare, invece di un pasto normale, uno spuntino a base di pane e cibi freddi.

2. Usi estens. e fig.: pane a., senza companatico: vino a., secco, che contiene zucchero in piccolissime quantità, e lascia perciò puliti bocca e palato (contrapp. a pastoso); uomo a., tipo a., magro, senza adipe addosso, e quindi snello e prestante: cercate di quel dottore alto, a., 

Pastasciutta

Melone in asciutto (melone de jerru)

 

Links: Aridocultura, Dryland farming

 

 Fisico asciutto

Fonte: Dizionario Treccani Online