IUF 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hela, Walmajarri Language, Quatrefoil
22 Mar 2016
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What is the good life: midterm study guide. 5 chinese blessings ways in which to think about the good life, chinese culture portrays these 5 values/ ways to achieve happiness, or conversely the good life. Good fortune/ luck. (fu) entrance ways of buildings, continual flow of good luck. Five bats (five good fortunes: longevity, health, wealth, love of virtue, natural death, prosperity (lu) status, honor and advancement to high office. High rank = guaranteed fortune and wealth. Double happiness/ marriage (xi) wish for fertility as well. Four happiness boys: life filled with good fortune and happiness, either after a birth or a wedding. Rebus chinese construct, this double play on words further enables more symbolic ways in which to think about a good life. Harmony, and or peace have two or more ways in which one can take action upon the subject- hence not by words but by actions.
