2014年9月28日星期日

Stories of Chinese word and term (15)

巫山云雨 rain and cloud over mountain. Today, we know that the reservoir of three gorges is the greatest Hydraulic engineering in the world. Three gorges means瞿塘峡、巫峡、西陵峡. You may see the middle one is巫峡, above this gorge was a mountain calledmountain. During the time if war states (403-221 BC), there was a story. The king of named 熊槐 once had a travel there, when he felt tired, he fell asleep. He dreamed a beautiful girl came to see him. She said that she was the daughter of mountain, she was love to share her pillow and mat with the king. The king understood what she meant and had a good sleep with her. When he left, the girl said, “If you want to see me again, I am living in themountain, here in the morning is cloud and in the evening is rain.

Later in Chinese literature they used this term as metaphor of making love. A recent film using this term as name.
Pic from: http://image2.sina.com.cn/ent/d/2007-04-24/U1171P28T3D1531441F326DT20070424151834.jpg

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