Translation

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About translating,

 

Last week i had a conversation with my Chinese teacher and he say's that the

translation of " night sweating " in Yin Xu is not really a good translation for

the Chinese character of it.

 

As he said, the term Night sweating suggest that the sweating in Yin Xu ,only

happends at night but this is not merely true.

" Night " sweating can even happen in the daytime when someone lays on bed and

fall asleep. He said that the Chinese character must be more translated as

" sweating while sleeping " or " sweating when you are unconscious " . As this can

happen 24 hours a day and not only those 7-8 hours as most people do, is the

term " Night " sweating a little misleading.

Look at the people who work at night and must sleep in the daytime. Would those

people with a Yin Xu not be (night) sweating because they are sleeping in

daytime...?

 

After this i asked , but how can that Yin symptom then happens at Daytime which

is Yang?

 

He laught a little because he saw my confused face,

 

He said dat western people have the tendency to stick to much to the rules and

laws without thinking around them. And how more we stick to those rules , our

sight is narrowed.

 

he answered;

 

Sweating at day is indeed mostly associated with a Yang Xu , but there is

always Yin within Yang.... You have to look at the mechanisms how things work.

While sleeping you bring your body into a Yin condition. The Yin wants to go

inside. And when the Yin is in a Xu condition , it cant control the (empty)

Heat, so sweating occurs.

 

 

Dont you loveee :-) (well that was what i said)

.........

 

He said also that Most of the translation are very good now. Much better then

10-20 years ago. But there is still a lot to do in fixing errors. ( and much

more to explore)

 

And indeed he says , if you want to understand at a deeper lvl,

you have to study Chinese, and even go further : you have to become a Chinese to

understand their thinking/feeling.

 

Don't know if this " night " sweating thing was already known , but i thought maybe

it's something to put on the list.

 

Well gonna start soon with learning Chinese

 

Zaijian!

 

 

Rick