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.
當年以色列稱為巴勒斯坦，這名稱跟阿拉伯人完全扯不上關係，在公元後135年，羅馬皇帝哈德良平定猶太人革命——巴爾科赫巴革命（Bar Kokhba Revolt），那是猶太人與羅馬帝國最後一次的戰爭⋯⋯
In 1988, I left Oslo for Tokyo with an early morning departure flight on a cold winter day. It was not a direct flight, but with a relatively short overlay in Hong Kong. My destination was a small agricultural town in Aichi Prefecture, Central Japan.
For a few precious years, my father and grandfather have worked together in “Da Luo Tian Casino” and lived as roommates in the casino dormitory. The good time of supporting each other ended when grandpa insisted on leaving Vietnam to return to China to die in his hometown when he knew about his stomach cancer.
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.
