On the fifteenth day (lantern date) of the 2023 Lunar New Year, Turkey experienced its worst earthquake in the past two centuries! According to reports from the United Nations, on February 6 around midnight, the southern part of Turkey and Northern Syria had massive earthquakes.
今年（2023）的農曆新年似乎比往年提早來臨，這正顯明了「兔年」所象徵的「快捷」與「提早」的精神，我們古人對「兔子」有著特別豐富的想像與情感，在民間的傳說中，充滿了各種與兔子相關的趣味故事⋯⋯
2023’s Lunar New Year occurs earlier than previous years’ dates, which coincides with a hare’s spirit of swiftness and brevity. People in ancient China viewed the hare with exceptionally rich and complex imagination. According to folklore, there are numerous tales associated with the hare.
Aren’t our lives like a competition too? Since the moment you were born, your weight has been measured and you would have gone through years of being compared with other children, and your parents will prepare you for all sorts of competitions, whether it is to get into a good school, a decent job, a suitable mate. Life is full of competitions and our society tends to reward the strong and mighty and ignore the weak.
本屆（第22屆）世界杯是由首個伊斯蘭國家卡塔爾所主辦，這是自2002年韓日世界杯以來，第二次在亞洲舉辦的世界杯，打破瑞士紀錄成為史上面積最小的舉辦國。但在首場揭幕戰的比賽中，身為東道主的卡塔爾球隊破紀錄地輸給了厄瓜多爾，打破歷屆以來東道主首場得勝的紀錄！
據雅虎新聞報導：「南韓首爾梨泰院10月29日因慶祝萬聖節湧入10萬民眾，卻爆發嚴重推擠傷亡事件，數百人死傷，引發全球關注。總統尹錫悅下令徹查，並宣佈全國哀悼一周。」最近另一次的嚴重踩踏傷亡事故，是10月初在印尼的一場足球比賽釀成足球史上最嚴重的災難之一，人群在幾個出口處衝撞，發生踩踏事故，至少有135人包括數十名兒童在事故中身亡。
According to yahoo news, on October 29 in Itaewon, South Korea, one hundred thousand revelers who gathered to celebrate Halloween were caught in a crowd crush, leading to hundreds of fatalities and injuries. President Took Suk-Yeol declared a weeklong mourning as well as a thorough investigation into the tragic incident.
