後起之秀 (Hòu qǐ zhī xiù) (1) an up-and-coming youngster (2) new talent (3) a brilliant younger generation From https://dict.idioms.moe.edu.tw/bookView.jsp?ID=878 From “Book of Jin – Volume Seventy Five – Biography of Wang Zhan (王湛)”. Wang Chen (王忱) was a talented man from the Eastern Jin Dynasty, where even at a young age he had already possessed…
Month: November 2022
SUP – 2022/11/06 – Big Break Regional Shoreline
Although I usually paddle on Saturdays, I had to wait until today to be out on the water as it was raining a good deal yesterday. This was the second rainy day within the span of a week or so, which is always good news for the forever dry SF Bay Area. I traveled to…
023. The Black Kid Goat
023. The Black Kid Goat (El Cabrito Negro) [Note: A “kid” in this context is a young goat under a year of age.] A young man had been courting a young woman for some time, and had finally given her his words for marriage. The young man thought that the words of marriage would be…
Hòu lái jū shàng (後來居上 – 後来居上)
後來居上 (Hòu lái jū shàng) (1) lit. late-comer lives above (idiom); the up-and-coming youngster outstrips the older generation (2) the pupil surpasses the master Story: Ji An was a man living in Emperor Wu of Western Han‘s time period, who was respected by everyone for his integrity, righteousness, and courage to speak the truth. He…
SUP – 2022/10/29 – Petaluma River
I chose this date to paddle the Petaluma River for the first time in my life as there was a Halloween event to be held on the river later in the day. It, together with a similar Witch Paddle in Half Moon Bay, were widely advertised on the Facebook SUP page that I frequently visited…
022. The Dwarf
022. The Dwarf (El Enano) Once upon a time there was a student who was courting a very beautiful girl, but the girl’s parents opposed their relationship because the student was poor. So life became increasingly difficult for the both of them and one day, [when] talking about their problems, the girl decided to secretly…