Monday, October 12, 2009

20 sentance

好名字
我的Peter
我姓郭
谢谢
是啊
你呢
再见
这是谁阿
你谁阿
这个是大事
去那里阿
有一点想家
爸爸,妈妈,还有哥哥
没有啊
我有骗子
回家
去那里
对不起
为什么
不小了

Why do Chinese vampires hop? I went to the library today to find out the answer to this question. Well... actually I went for a different reason, and ended up finding the answer by accident! The answer is: when corpses in China are buried, their legs are tied together with cloth, therefore, when they rise from the grave, they can't walk. They have to hop. It also hails back to the time when people would bring dead relatives back to the village they were born in to be buried. They would tie the cadavers to tall poles, stand them upright, and continue along the way. The way they walked and the way they held the poles, it looked like the cadavers were bobbing up and down, or "hopping".

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