Showing posts with label Chinese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese. Show all posts
Thursday, August 13, 2026
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Thursday, September 04, 2025
the Dazu Rock cave temple carving "Hell of Iron Wheel (round saw blade) ", 10th century AD, from the panorama of the courts of hell at Baodingshan, that religious zealots had carved to promote abstaining from getting drunk and enjoying life
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Uniformly seated in a row, the hell kings preside over torture as sinners are beaten, boiled, crushed and dissected.
Machinery such as the treadle-operated tilt hammer and the wheeled saw were commonly used in Sichuan.
Situated in Fohui Village, Sanqu Town, Shizhuanshan Cliff Sculptures are made between 1082 and 1096.
The inscribed texts warn the viewer to embrace virtue and study the dharma lest this nightmare become realized for them.
The explicitness of their behavior (becoming drunk, being tempted by the flesh) formed part of the existential experience of viewers.
The internationally religious emphasis placed on abstinence, portrayed at eye level, suggests the clergy's prioritizing sex as the most religiously abhorrent sin
Saturday, July 12, 2025
The nighttime movements of bizarre panel-clad vehicles have some thinking that new armor is being prepared for unveiling at an upcoming military parade.
A column of unidentified vehicles, each of them covered by a large, box-like structure, passing through Beijing, poses something of a mystery.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
the BYD Seagull is one specific model that the CEO of Ford has admitted he’s worried about from a competitive standpoint. It sells for $9,700 in China, and is already slated to be sold in Europe, and a cheaper variant is set to launch in the UK this year, too.
BYD is already enjoying success in the UK, with 62 dealers currently operating and 120 expected to be up and running by the end of 2025.
According to Autocar, the Seagull – which will be called the Dolphin Surf in Europe and the UK – will come equipped with more features and safety equipment in those parts of the world, but it will still be one of the cheapest EVs one can buy when it arrives there. BYD executive vice-president Stella Li said that while the Dolphin Surf might “not be the cheapest” EV one can buy in those markets, it will “be the best value,” with a rumored price tag of less than $25,937
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