Hua Qing hot spring 2009 early summer time

Hua qing hot spring:

Today me and Wijbren made decision to go to Hua qing Hot spring. In fact this place is on the bottom of Mount Lin which is 30 Km far from Xian city. There are plenty buses on the Main Bus station behind the train station which every ten minutes go to Hua qing district.

This place was a resort area for emperor around 2500 years ago and kingdom and royal family used to go there especially in summer time for bathing. In fact nowadays is not a great deal to be there ,but it has its won beauty and color and the history behind this is so vivid and spectacular.

The Huaqing Hot Springs is located about 35 kilometers east of Xi'an. Historically , during the Western Zhou Dynasty the construction of the Li Palace was undertaken on this spot. In the Qin Dynasty, a stone pool was built and was given the name Lishan Hot Springs. The site was enlarged during the Han Dynasty, and was renamed the Li Palace. During the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Taizong ordered the construction of the Hotspring.

This place has a romantic story as in legend stories mentioned the emperor Xuan was madly in love with a poor girl and honored here with the name of Lady and had affair with her. He was too much in love and it says her beauty distracted him from his responsibilities and in the end he hang himself to keep her name and his country safe. This place called after her “Hua qing” which means “THE FAIR”.

This place is include the Imperial palace , Museum ,Louts area and a big garden which leads the visitors to the bottom of Mount Lin and there is a station for Cable car for whom have desire to have a bird’s view eyes of the city and surroundings.

This place has a pavilion which was a place for Fung Lady after bathing airing her and her and rest there. In This area there four baths and hot spring which are good and heal muscles pain , arthritis and rheumatism
Anyhow we spent couple of hours hanging around there and pass the Museum and got the bus and back to Xian which was nice day trip in fact..

Persian language's history

The history of Iran language( Farsi),
The Achaemenid Persian Empire (550–330 BC) was the largest empire of the ancient world and it reached its greatest extent under Darius the Great and Xerxes the Great — famous in antiquity as the foe of the classical Greek states (See Greco-Persian Wars). It was a united Persian kingdom that originated in the region now known as Pars province (Fars province) of Iran.
It was formed under Cyrus the Great, who took over the empire of the Medes, and conquered much of the Middle East, including the territories of the Babylonians, Assyrians, the Phoenicians, and the Lydians
Iran Has a great Empire for over 2500 years and control basically not only the middle East ,but also to Far East borders including some part of India and North border went far to most South Ex-soviet union and West boarder to Turkey.

Iranian language has 3 dialect which one calls Dari which speaks in Afghanistan and One speaks in center of Asia in Ex-Soviet Unions and another one speaks in ran( Persia).
Iran is a multilingual country inside of Iran there are some minorities ,ethnic groups who speaks Turkish, Kurdish and even Arabic even.

Persian appeared fairly standardized by the tenth century with a bit dialect on it and mostly appeared in Poems and should say thanks to our great poet Firdausi who made it this language alive for second time after Barber and Arab attack in order expanding Islam’s religion in neighboring countries, mainly in Persian empire which the result was not what was expected and as a result destroyed a lot of libraries and basically culture of Iran ,unfortunately.

Persian was cultivated at the courts of the Ottoman rulers, several of whom are known for composing Farsi poetry. Urdu also developed under heavy Persian influence. Persian first entered India with the conquest of North West India by Ghaznavid armies in the eleventh century. Four centuries later, Persian was chosen as the court language by the Mogul rulers, who were major patrons of Persian literature, unlike the contemporary Safavids in Iran.

The history of Persian Gulf

The history of Persian Gulf,

Persian gulf named after Daruse one of the pragmatic ,strong-minded, peacemaker and fully diplomatic manner kings in the history of our 2500 years kingdom in Persia(old name for Iran).
Iran nation has a great old history of culture and tradition with a deep old language which is comes from Hindu-European language Sanskrit.
Iran race calls Aryan, as so many nations and countries have doubt and make accidentally mistake and call us a Arab nation.

The Greek term "Sinus Persicus" is equivalent to "Persicher golf" in German, "Golfo Persico" in Italian, "Persidskizalir" in Russian and "Perusha Wan" that all mean "Persia".

Today most common Arabic works and include the Wiki -pedia and Arabic encyclopedia call it Persian Gulf.
The story of call this gold as Arab Golf started from :

Since the beginning of 20 century it started to call as Fars Sea and there was an agreement which was signed between Iran, England, Dutch, Germany, USA and independent Kuwait which is supporting the British interest in Gulf area call this sea as a heritage of Persia .

But it was quite few times that British missionaries tried hard and British diplomats wanted to separate small Island in South part of Iran and even Dubai which is now an independent country in Persian Gulf.
The beginning of 1930s was a turning point in the history of efforts for changing the name of Persian Gulf when Sir Charles Bellgrave, (?) the British diplomatic envoy in Bahrain opened a file for the change in the name of the Persian Gulf and proposed the issue to the British Foreign Office.

Even before the response of the British Foreign Office he used the fake name (in an attempt to retake Bahrain, the Tonbs, Abu Mosa, Sirri, Qeshm, Hengam and other islands belonging to Iran and to disclose and thwart the plot of disintegration of Khozestan).

Beside the disputed that has been made over the name of Persian Gulf the United nationwith include 22 Arab members are declared the unalterable name of Persian gulf and between Iran and Arab neighboring countries.

My trip to Bijing ,second part

My trip to Beijing second part,
I had been pretty amazing question been asked during interview which I think all Iranian if they keep their national face with it .They asked me If I have a full time job in China or part time, next asked me what exactly I teach and when I explained about my art qualification and English qualification they were impressed ,somehow.
Moreover they asked about my relation ship with my boy friend and wanted to know how long and how strong this relationship is!.
the next touching question was about the article in one of Dutch news was talking about us and our life in China.
After that I accepted to respect the whole duration of visa process calmly and peacefully.
Anyway the rest of the day I tried to enjoy a bit and went to Beihai park in Beijing which I have attached some photos on Face book on fact. I had been there in my last trip and had good memories and this time as it is end of spring and summer starting in Bejing ,you could see a lot of lotuses there and was so tranquil and lovely to be there out of all hustle and bustle in city center.
This park was built in 10th century and has divided to 3 part. It has a great ,magnificent garden in the east part and the white pagoda and corridors after that take you to the West part.

In fact the International Youth Hostel is a great place to stay in .I have had great experience of Beijing in Youth Hostel n China and I recommend IT.

Tuesday was the day I was supposed to go back to Xian the city we live in. But in the morning surprisingly I discovered it is so dark what is going on then in less than an hour such terrible down pour. It was raining like a hell. the street got soak in less than 10 minutes and water running everywhere. I could assume today is so flight girl. you stuck here…
Well I reached to airport with hassle and all the flight to Xian and so many to her cities were delayed or canceled and I waited couple of hours and then contact Wijbren through net find another hostel and then changed my ticket and all the way back to the city .Can you imagine when I found that hostel was 8 at night 12 hours at airport or on the way coming and going ,swinging around. well .Such a day.

But hopefully on Wednesday I could get my flight back to Xian .in total I spent 48 ours at the airport..

My Third trip to Beijing,first part

My trip to Beijing., first part
Sunday I had a flight to Beijing because I had to go to the Dutch embassy to deliver the documents for tourist visa in person. They don’t accept it online.

Anyway the last time I visited Beijing was four years ago. In fact I don’t like big cities and capitals sue to traffic and pollution and price of everything is at least double or even more. But I should confess Beijing has changed so much during these few years ,especially because of Olympic 2008 They have made a lot of effort for the environment there.

They have opened the third terminal in Beijing which from the last Underground station you can reach to the airport by shuttle bus in 40 minutes and takes you to international and domestic airport station.

I was so impressed by fast underground the speed was over 100 km per hours in fact and so clean ,organized and punctual. All the way to the airport was green .
I had heard before ,since 2007 they were working to plant more flowers and trees there ,but surprisingly there were a frost park which was old enough.
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Even in down town there was a line which took you directly to the Olympics stadium and different playground and courts there.

My trip started really great and in 1.30 minute I was there and precisely I could get the shuttle bus to the down town and luckily my Chinese good enough to communicate especially with Beijing people. I realized how different they speak there compare to other cities which I am living and used to live.

Four years ago I could speak mandarin or even could catch any words, hardly ever could understood them, but now was kind of pride for me. Any how I really loved the hostel and I have attached the picture on Face book as I can’t upload them here anymore, sadly.
I had a couple of bad accident which made my trip from a lovely one to a night mare ,somehow. First of all I received a spam on my mobile the way to airport that they claimed I used my credit card and owe bank12800 RMB which is a big amount. that freak me out .I had to ask Wijbren follow the case and found out it was spam and no need to show any reaction.
The second bad News was on Monday in Embassy. In fact it took me 2 hours my metro to reach to embassy and then I had an appointment but it took another hour to get in for interview .I delivered the documents and they told me due to my nationality they can’t give me any answer or any promise and I have to wait at least for another 2 weeks, which is sucks. But the problem was I couldn’t give my passport to them. I was thinking and tempting leave my pass there and then change my flight to train and back home, but was risky and wasted of money. So I have to wait 2 weeks and even if they call me I must have second trip to go there and stuck there for at least 5 days ,because officially visa process takes 3 days in fact.
I love to be there with Wijbren ,because he hasn’t seen Beijing at all and we want to take tour around and go to Great Wall ,but not alone. I am hoping he can manage his last week classes somehow and come with me in case of having phone call.

An artist life( Kiarostami)

Kiarostami has made more than 40 movies during his artistic lfe .He has known as a professional artist.

When the earth quake 1990 happened in Tehran he drove his life to an isolated area and afterward he made 2 movies related to devastation of earth quake. Yet, applying for a visa to direct this month's production of Così fan tutte at the English National Opera, he was asked for a deposit by Britain's visa office, to guarantee that he would not become a refugee.
He called it baloney talk and never received a proper answer why they have
treated him like this, as an international film maker has been in Ken festivals and his movies all around been seen should be treated this time differently.



After this kind of disgraceful action he mentioned he wanted to enjoy himself. He mentions he tries to say the realty in his life and the truth. Mostly he tried to bring the hidden truth into reality. He was born in 1940’s n Tehran and he passed a very peaceful life in his childhood and his father was a painter and decorator.

He made quite few movies about Shah dictator leadership in Iran before revolution and expand it to a bitter truth and mostly he confirms that he wants to talk about realties in his movies .He graduated from Tehran university of fine art and worked couple of years as a graphic designer for movies.

His motto related to the Presidential election is people should become politically mature and educated then won’t make huge mistakes twice. e said he will vote for republic and always be ready with barefoot goes to the street if it makes some good changes at the end.


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Movie time

Movie time in our daily life.

My and Wijbren are so much into watching movies of course the ones which worth watching, mostly when we finish work ,reading stuff done playing games over, then we stick to the TV and plan for dinner time .Watching movies come up which later on we make hot discussion about them.
We saw Kong Fu movie which is directed by Richard lang. This movie has a great directing, cinematography is good though and the cast have made a great role there.
This movie is one of the type of movies no one talk about t and you can’t see so many Ad’s, or if you go to the music, movie store you find it under cover of plenty of dust, but when you watch it see how mc worth watching it.

Before watching I had no clue about the movie ,just general ideas about it. It has been made as a T.V series .I recommend watching them for whom really want to go into philosophy of Kong FU and martial arts and more over get more information about Chinese philosophy.
This movie is a kind of fantastic in action and adventure that Carradine has played ever.
He was a great actor( not alive anymore, sadly).he made a great act in this movie and a lot of effort, perfect dialogue and deep sentences, nice acting ,magnificent kong fu tuff and t s cool to see t great actors in one movie.
He played in quite few movies before, but this movie is an American Version which is adapted into Chinese culture.
Another great play is Brandon Lee the child of Bruce lee He is very new to Hollywood but has made a great history for him self till now.
Overall watching this movie was a great joy me. Esecially the part he was talking about “Grasshopper” and deep philosophy meaning behind it.