Forum Budaya & Sejarah Tionghoa
Hari Raja Orang Tjina.
Oleh : Tjoa Tjoe Koan.
Bahoeawa sesoengggoehnja soeka tjitalah kita aken melihat bangsakita di Betawi, Samarang dan Soerabaja, dalem 2 – 3 tahoen ini bebrapa banjak jang mengoesahaken dirinja menjalin hikajat-hikajat dzaman dhoeloe kalai di negri Tjina ka dalem bahasa Melajoe, jang hikajat-hikajat itoe tertara serta diterbitken oleh bebrapa pertaraaan katiga negri itoe dan telah tersiar di koeliling negri bawah angin ini.
Budaya-Tionghoa.Net | Berikut ini nasehat pernikahan jaman dulu , dimuat di Liberty pada bulan November 1931 , dalam bahasa masa itu. Tentunya nasehat ini belum tentu cocok untuk dijaman sekarang tapi baiklah disajikan disini untuk perbandingan karena sepertinya ini nasehat untuk istri dalam menghadapi kehidupan pernikahan tahun 1930an. Pointnya kurang lebih adalah : (1) bila sudah menikah jangan sekali malas berdandan ,(2) jagalah kesehatan fisik anda dan sajikan hidangan yang hemat tapi sedap , (3) jangan ganggu suami anda pada waktu istirahatnya , (4) percaya pada suami , (5) jangan mengomel apa yang disukai suami , (6) jangan putus harapan dan uring-uringan ketika menghadapi masalah (7) terima bingkisan dari suami dengan penuh kegembiraan , (8) jangan cepat kecil hati , (9) jangan suka membahas permasalahan yang sudah lewat , (10) rawatlah suami dikala susah dan senang dan arahkan suami jika pikirannya sedang tersesat. Untuk lebih jelasnya lihat langsung dibawah ini .
The Ruler of the Southern Ocean was Shû (Heedless), the Ruler of the Northern Ocean was Hû (Sudden), and the Ruler of the Centre was Chaos. Shû and Hû were continually meeting in the land of Chaos, who treated them very well. They consulted together how they might repay his kindness, and said, “Men all have seven orifices for the purpose of seeing, hearing, eating, and breathing, while this poor Ruler alone has not one. Let us try and make them for him.” Accordingly they dug one orifice in him every day; and at the end of seven days Chaos died.—[Chuang Tze, Legge’s translation.]
A European lately arrived in China, if he is of a receptive and reflective disposition, finds himself confronted with a number of very puzzling questions, for many of which the problems of Western Europe will not have prepared him. Russian problems, it is true, have important affinities with those of China, but they have also important differences; moreover they are decidedly less complex. Chinese problems, even if they affected no one outside China, would be of vast importance, since the Chinese are estimated to constitute about a quarter of the human race. In fact, however, all the world will be vitally affected by the development of Chinese affairs, which may well prove a decisive factor, for good or evil, during the next two centuries. This makes it important, to Europe and America almost as much as to Asia, that there should be an intelligent understanding of the questions raised by China, even if, as yet, definite answers are difficult to give.
Budaya-Tionghoa.Net | “Tragedi bulan Mei 1998, telah menggemparkan dunia. Korbannya kebanyakan dari etnis Tionghoa. Sebuah tragedi yang meninggalkan noda hitam dalam sejarah Indonesia. Sebagai penyair yang punya hati nurani, pasti mengutuk peristiwa tersebut dan menyampaikan simpatinya kepada para korban, dengan caranya seorang penyair….”(Tjandinegara, 1999, hal.28)