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Gold Horse Dragon
10-23-2002, 10:58 AM
Have any of you wondered what the sayings (in Chinese) on the front side of KQ mean in English? Come on Gene, tell us! I suggest all future issues have an English translation in the Editors column or elsewhere and to have all previous ones posted in the e zine.
GHD
TaoBoy
10-23-2002, 04:44 PM
Yeah c'mon Gene. Tell us! :D
joedoe
10-23-2002, 04:49 PM
It can be interpreted in many ways:

"Magazine for tai chi hippies"
"A good way to get out of training for a few hours"
"A few articles, a lot of advertising"

:D :D :D

BTW Gene, just kidding :)
@PLUGO
10-23-2002, 05:04 PM
"buy this Magazine or we send out the Ninjas!!!"
GeneChing
10-24-2002, 10:15 AM
Come on now, throw out some translation attempts before I kick down the secrets.
Gold Horse Dragon
10-25-2002, 11:37 AM
Well...I know a few kung fu related ones and I know various herbs and how to write herbal formulas both martial art related and non-martial art treatment related...but thats about it...SO...Please fork them over Gene!
GHD
GeneChing
10-28-2002, 11:25 AM
The first one is easy. It was our shaolin special and we translated it on the back. It was a couplet from Shaolin Temple.
"Shaolin Martial Arts Fascinates the Entire Earth, Songshan Chan Essence Benefits teh Whole World."

http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=144
Gold Horse Dragon
10-28-2002, 08:24 PM
Ah! Nice saying Gene!...now how about all the rest? And what of Future ones!?
GHD :cool:
GeneChing
10-29-2002, 12:06 PM
Not so hasty GHD, we need a man with a slow hand. One issue at a time. Our Mar/Apr 2002 was featured Hung Gar master Lam Chun Fai so we went with a traditional Hung couplet:

fan qing fu ming,
ming jie gan qi
(oppose qing, revive ming
raise your staff (take weapons) fight for righteuosness)

http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=146

Actually we are discontinuing it for next year (2003.) While a lot of people liked it, not enough did to continue it, at least for now. You have to keep in mind that was have a newsstand distribution that accounts for a lot of our sales, and - beleive it or not - most people can't even pronounce 'qigong.' I'd say over 90% of our readers can't even pronounce our title :rolleyes: so the chinese characters weren't helping.
Gold Horse Dragon
10-29-2002, 10:36 PM
Yeah...but they look good Gene! Really add to the cover.

Liked the one you just gave us...so when do we get the rest?

Slow hand...I think I heard that in a song somewhere!
;)

GHD
GeneChing
10-31-2002, 04:17 PM
Alright I'll give you another one, GHD but obviously you're the only one into it, which is why we will be discontinuing the ideograms in 2003.

The next issue featured Gao Xian of Crouching Tiger. http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=233
The couplet was supplied by master Gao himself.

wu shu da shi gao xian, wo hu chan long mei ming chuan

Martial arts grand master Gao Xian, his name is famous from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
@PLUGO
10-31-2002, 04:36 PM
I thought they where a great design element for a time... But alos a bit of a pain...

we'll all have to see how the 2003 mag covers look with out 'em...
GeneChing
11-05-2002, 11:54 AM
This was our Outlaws of the Marsh issue - this is a classic martial arts legend/novel, and the region where it happened is still renown for many great masters. So our couplet relfected that -

liang shan dou hao han, shi hu zhen ying shueng

liang mountain is filled with noble people, outlaws of the marsh has many real heroes

http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=234

Are you all still interested in this? You see now why we are discontinuing it? Seemed like a good idea, but few CMA really take the time to learn the Chinese. It's a shame really.
David Jamieson
11-05-2002, 06:09 PM
Hey, i took a wild guess at the lam chun fai cover and got it right!

it was the characters for Ching and Ming that gave it away. :D

not the lift up your weapons and go kick some butt part though :(

peace
Gold Horse Dragon
11-05-2002, 10:50 PM
Still Interested...KEEP THEM COMING GENE!

GHD
cogg
11-06-2002, 01:41 PM
Hey im into them aswell, used to look all through mag to find a translation. No discontinue jonny5 eh ok
GeneChing
11-08-2002, 11:28 AM
5 down, 2 to go.

Sep Oct 2002 was our Taoist special
http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=235

We pulled this out of a Wudang book. It's kind of hard to translate, but one of our local masters liked it so much, he immediately appropriated it for himself (typical, we're the source - always - and don't you forget it! ;) )

wan wu jie de qi suo
zhi ran shou dao er xing

Nature follows the way
All things and occurences in the universe have their reasons
Gold Horse Dragon
11-13-2002, 11:39 AM
Hey Gene..come on now...cough up the other two!

GHD
GeneChing
11-13-2002, 03:55 PM
Sorry, thought you gave up.
For the Anniversary special, you have to read this: http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=257