A scene most commonly seen in Africa, and often with disastrous results, hundreds of opportunistic villagers in Shandong Province took to the chance of grabbing free oil resulted from a oil leak. The story drew both sympathies toward the poverty stricken villagers in contrast to rich oil companies, but also disapproval of the low human qualities exhibited through the stealing.
From KDNET:
Shandong Province Liaocheng City oil pipeline leak, hundreds of villagers in water scooping oil
On the 15th [of September], in the suburb of Liaocheng City (Shandong Province) a oil leak occurred at a oil pipeline causing large amount of refined diesel to spill out, hundreds of villagers in the vicinity used tools to siphon oil. With the stringent handling from both the fire department and the oil transportation management, by 1pm that afternoon, the pipe leakage was effectively blocked.
On the morning of the 15th, reporters hurried to the location of the incident at the office of Beitie Village on Yanshi Street, there they discovered that the scene was already blocked-off by the police, two fire trucks parked on the street awaiting orders. The place where the leak occurred was located next to the bank of a small river; around 500 meters of the river floated a thick layer of oil slick. The hundred or so villagers from the few villages in the vicinity surrounded the two banks of the river, using scoops, washing pans, and other tools, to scoop oil from the river. Some villagers directly went into the river using buckets to haul oil. According to the descriptions from the villagers scooping oil at the scene, the morning of the 15th at around 4am, Villagers in the area discovered a pipeline next to the river at Beitie village developed a leak, around 6am; about a hundred people flanked the river with tools to scoop oil. After hearing the news about the leak, villages from several kilometers away also arrived to scoop for oil.
According to the fire department, the morning of the 15th at around 9am, after they received the emergency call they hurried to the scene, together with police they immediately began to disperse the villagers scooping oil. Because the leakage involved refined diesel fuel, the fire department immediately took fire prevention measures, at the same time working with the oil transportation company to help stop the leakage. At around 1pm that day, the workers at the pipeline company successfully blocked the leakage. At the present the reason for this leak is still under investigation.
After the incident, Liaocheng city, Dongchangfu district second tier police, fire department, work safety and other departments swiftly arrived at the scene to lead the recovery efforts. The local public safety bureau dispatched its entire police force to the scene to maintain order, in addition to setting up police caution tapes to control the traffic from oncoming cars. At the same time, Liaocheng city government, Dongchangfu district government and related officials all arrived at the scene to lead the recovery efforts.
Comments from KDNET:
不服删你ID:
I’m seeing the support everyone has toward environmental protection, and the love for the river!
gx1289:
Compared to Africa’s Rwanda, Ethiopia, etc., this situation is not different.
rawkohu:
Several hundred villagers…from the look of it must be thousands.
注册顶宝马:
Thank the greater masses, only because of their cleaning efforts at the first moment, did it prevent the further damage to the environment. All those at the oil company should hand over environmental damage fees.
灌水专用马甲:
Certain types of government will create certain types of people.
鱼子非1:
Not long ago, didn’t the media mock the Nigerian people for looting from leaking pipelines?
第八营养素:
Sinopec’s oil, it is there, why not take it?
zmp003:
Police and fire department, just let the people have some joy from this rare occasion.
在黑暗中沉思:
Three thousand years of civilization, in reality is not that different from Africa.
cswb:
If somebody started to smoke, then these people will become roasted pigs.
实名:
Risking their life, controlling environmental pollution.
修仁崽:
Looting – an excellent tradition of the Chinese people.
泼凉水:
PetroChina and Sinopec loot money every day, why not give us the chance to scoop some?
昌明隆盛之邦:
This represent the progress of society, if everybody support protecting the Nation’s wealth and not take any of it, wait until some company or agency spend and clean out the people’s money then sell it to them at high prices. Then, China will never have hope.
快乐山水:
The pollution and harm to the environment will last for years to come.
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I’d like to see the suits doing some oil scooping.
Thank god the police dispersed the villagers and thank Allah non of those syringe attackers was there (or maybe they were there but didn’t brought a zippo)!
Risking their life, controlling environmental pollution.
Can’t agree more.
it’s better than wasting oil and at the same time helps protect the environment, as some chinese poster pointed out. good job!
Well, not exactly like Africa where mobs of idiots huddle around leaking gasoline pipelines in search of eternity. That’s EIA. This is just helping to clean up a mess. Diesel vapor is not flammable like gas is so it’s not that dangerous.
Yeah, that river wouldn’t have been on fire if someone had thrown or dropped a cigerette in there… oh wait, it would have.
The cigarette would just go out. Look it up:) You COULD light your clothes on fire if you had diesel on them but you would need a direct flame.
Sarcasm still stands… like most Chinese bodies of water don’t already have enough combustible stuff in them already that even without the diesel they’d be lit up with the ciggie.
go ahead try that, since you know so much about “most chinese bodies of water”
too yellow… actually, I’m a professional geographer and deal with China’s river issues everyday. If you want a list of the volatile and combustible materials that are poured into the majority of China’s rivers every single day just do a simple search on google.. if you think my above comment was wrong then you don’t live in China. Please show me how clean your local Chinese river is… I double-dare you to drink a single cup of the Songhua, Pearl, Huai, Huang, or any other river in East, Central, South, or Northeast China.
Well, this is certainly an unintended positive consequence of high fuel prices and low average income.
Makes one wonder, if couple gallons of free diesel can motivate so many people, why can’t the government subsidized recycling operations throughout the country?
Seems like very large number of people could be motivated across China for not much money. Funds could come from taxes on gasoline that would also encourage public transportation, ease energy bottleneck, and address the increasingly notorious environmental issues.
@Wang Er
It’s diesel not gasoline, unlikely to ignite because flash point is pretty high.
Actually the problem is not things not getting recycled, but too much people and not enough things to recycle. Subsidized? People compete for unsubsidized recyclable trash.
The difference is that in Africa they break the pipeline on purpose.
There is a definate difference in cultures there.
Again, China’s doing its job in killing the Earth.
Well done!!! Kill it!! Kill it!!
Africa is not a country!! It is a HUGE continent. You should be comparing one area in Nigeria to one area in China. It’s like saying the entire continent of Asia is looting oil.
THANK YOU for injecting a bit of rational thought into these pig-headed threads.
Nigeria, Congo, Angola, Ghana, Botswana, etc. – all are pretty much the same. Laos, Cambodia… Paraguay, Uraguay… also the same
Actually Botswana has a per capita GDP more than twice that of China, I guess it’s just easier imagined it as one big underdeveloped continent.
Botswana also has 2 million people. China’s richest 2 million don’t earn $5k a year
@Haha, what about China’s poorest two million people? Or tallest two million people? Fattest? Seems equally as retarded as using the top earning two million in a country of billions to compare to the average of another country.
I guess you’re insinuating that Botswana is economically independent of the rest of Africa, which is utterly retarded.
No, hardly anyone country is economically “independent” of anything anymore. What I am saying is the Tony Kwak’s phrase
“Nigeria, Congo, Angola, Ghana, Botswana, etc. – all are pretty much the same.”
is inaccurate and perpetuates the stereotype that all of Africa is poor, underdeveloped, etc. I’ll admit I shouldn’t have used ‘retarded’, but that doesn’t change the fact that using top two million earners in China to compare with the average GDP of an independent nation makes no sense.
I know you are trying to say that economic disparity exists in China as they do in Africa. However Botswana is an independent country that bears no fiscal responsibility to the other parts of Africa, whereas as in China, focusing the development of say, Shanghai, necessarily reduces resources available to another part of the country.
To echo K’s original posts, Africa is a continent with many nations that do not answer to any central authority, so to use one particular city/village in China to compare to the average living condition in Africa (to say at least it’s better here) is misleading and not fair.
oops, meant “any one”
Considering that I once observed a Chinese man enter a fireworks stand while smoking a cigarette, I am shocked that a negligent smoker didn’t accidentally roast these villagers.
Another example that testifies the disparity between rural areas and big cities, not only in terms of per capita GDP, but especially in terms of culture. I am among those who believe that rural areas will never develop, that will be the turning point of the CCP
Another example that testifies the disparity between rural areas and big cities, not only in terms of per capita GDP, but especially in terms of culture. I am among those who believe that rural areas will never develop, that will be the turning point of the CCP “dinasty”
I wonder if these people are trying to use this water and oil miixture to power their cars/trucks or equipment. If they do that, then they will have a real problem that will cost them time and money to clean up the contaminaton.
I’d always wondered why these brooks in China looked so dark and horrible at times, well now I know. This article is too depressing, I think I’ll just sit here and stare glumly, and weep for mother earth:(
Great, that sounds pretty helpful alan, maybe you can get some of your friends together and cry us a river.
oooo, well done!
Aren’t you the touchy defensive fenqing?
You think environmental pollution and unclean rivers are A-ok? Thats your bag of tea….erm, fine.
But most civilized and sane people prefer a clean and quiet living environment. I’d rather look out my window and see a clear brook devoid of people picking or siphoning anything out of it, and all the damn NOISE that would go along with that. Show me a picture like that in any of the EU countries/Australia/Canada or the US and I will CRY YOU A RIVER.
Alan, my comments to you had nothing to do with environment or China and everything to do with your over-the-top, touchy feely glum and sullen “weep for mother earth” bullshit.
Now, if you tell me that you honestly cried in front of computer screen after reading this story, then allow me to apologize for making fun of your sensibilities. I didn’t think you were in earnest, and I am sorry. If not, save those melodramatic sentiments for poetry slam nights with your fellow latte sipping sensies at your local cafe.
I was a tad morose, but then there is nothing uplifting about that picture, nor the human tragedy of self serving greed that goes along with it.
No, I didn’t cry in front of the computer screen. Never drunk latte in my life dude, Islam rocks the mint tea, john wayne!!
Those Chinese are going to be RICH
unless the central government orders a raid to get back the oil
Looking at that picture, you would almost think that those villagers are volunteering to clean up the wasted diesel. Instead, the opportunistic villagers are only there to grab free oil, resulted from a oil leak. Looking at the big crowd at the scene, you could assume that it will be cleaned up rather soon.
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Those people with tractors are likely not poor. Being a farmer in China doesn’t mean you are poor either. These are just people who like freebies.
God I don’t want to hear any more of that _______ country is less civilized than us BS from China anymore. Looks like a bunch of pigs squirming for a meal.
Here Here. Glad someone has the balls to come out and say it on these boards. Seems you can’t comment on anything on here anymore without some young underling fenqing busting your balls…but remember, this IS the Chinese Century. Can’t wait for the world expo…
I agree, takes a lot of balls to post anonymously on a not really moderated site, how did become so courageous? What’s your secret?
Hear hear, not here here, FYIADragoon is not a pet, google is your friend.
hahaha disregard that i’m high
Well who has busted your balls, boy? What’s your goddamn secret?
I don’t know you own the forums? Paahh…freedom of speech, roror…
I laugh when people like Alan feel like they’re the persecuted minority on chinaSMACK. There are probably 1000 people like Alan for every single true “young underling fenqing” that actually makes it to chinaSMACK. Seriously distorted perception and representation of reality here, Alan.
That’s because white subhuman shit are a pathetic race of liars, murderers, hypocrites and child molesters.
This piece of shit “Alan” has no problem putting his hands into a 9 year old Thai girl’s underwear, but has the gall to act like he’s persecuted when their fathers or older brothers call him a douchebag on the internet.
Haha, you seem so bitter….did your husband leave you for another man?
Whites are subhumans? Right, that’s why “white” countries are developed and “yellow” countries (Korea and Japan being exceptions) are not.
If you hate white people then you should probably never use any technology created by the west and move into a cave with some paper, gunpowder, a compass, Chinese flag and portrait of Mao…that’s all you need to be happy, right?
White countries are “developed” because you stole from Arabs, blacks, American Indians, Indians, and Southeast Asians using China’s superior technology.
You also have the best land for growing crops in the world, with which you swelled the ranks of your arrogant, subhuman, semi-retarded race of simians to the point where you could flood the New World and Arabia with your ugly, inbred hellspawn.
But now the Arabs are fighting back, and your stupidity and obnoxious behavior will soon bring the rest into the fight.
“China’s superior technology” = Oxymoron
Haha…now, I understand why your name is “Haha”.
You’re a comedian, and quite a good one!
“China’s superior technology” = Oxymoron
Haha…now, I understand why your name is “Haha”.
You’re a comedian, and quite a good one!
Western Technology:
A feature of Western culture is its focus on science and technology, and its ability to generate new processes, materials and material artifacts.
It was the West that first developed steam power and adapted its use into factories, and for the generation of electrical power. [citation needed] The Otto and the Diesel internal combustion engines are products whose genesis and early development were in the West. Nuclear power stations are derived from the first atomic pile in Chicago (1942). The electrical dynamo, transformer, and electric light, and indeed most of the familiar electrical appliances, were inventions of the West.
Communication devices and systems including the telegraph, the telephone, radio, television, communication and navigation satellites, mobile phone, and the Internet were all invented by Westerners. The pencil, ballpoint pen, CRT, LCD, LED, photograph, photocopier, laser printer, ink jet printer and plasma display screen were also invented in the West.
Furthermore, ubiquitous materials including concrete, aluminum, clear glass, synthetic rubber, synthetic diamond and the plastics polyethylene, polypropylene, PVC and polystyrene were invented in the West. Iron and steel ships, bridges and skyscrapers first appeared in the West. Nitrogen fixation and petrochemicals were invented by Westerners. Most of the elements,were discovered and named in the West, as well as the contemporary atomic theories to explain them.
The transistor, integrated circuit, memory chip, and computer were all first seen in the West. The ship’s chronometer, the screw propeller, the locomotive, bicycle, automobile, and aeroplane were all invented in the West. Eyeglasses, the telescope, the microscope and electron microscope, all the varieties of chromatography, protein and DNA sequencing, computerised tomography, NMR, x-rays, and light, ultraviolet and infrared spectroscopy, were all first developed and applied in Western laboratories, hospitals and factories.
In medicine, vaccination, anesthesia, and all the pure antibiotics were created in the West. The method of preventing Rh disease, the treatment of diabetes, and the germ theory of disease were discovered by Westerners. The eradication of that ancient scourge, smallpox, was led by a Westerner, Donald Henderson. Radiography, Computed tomography, Positron emission tomography and Medical ultrasonography are important diagnostic tools developed in the West. So were the stethoscope, electrocardiograph, and the endoscope.Vitamins, hormonal contraception, hormones, insulin, Beta blockers and ACE inhibitors, along with a host of other medically proven drugs were first utilised to treat disease in the West. The double-blind study and evidence-based medicine are critical scientific techniques widely used in the West for medical purposes.
In mathematics, calculus, statistics, logic, vector, tensor and complex analysis, group theory and topology were developed by Westerners. In biology, evolution, chromosomes, DNA, genetics and the methods of molecular biology are creatures of the West. In physics, the science of mechanics and quantum mechanics, relativity, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics were all developed by Westerners. The discoveries and inventions by Westerners in electromagnetism include Coulomb’s law (1785), the first battery (1800), the unity of electricity and magnetism (1820), Biot–Savart law (1820), the first electric motor (1821), Ohm’s Law (1827), and the Maxwell’s equations (1871). The atom, nucleus, electron, neutron and proton were all unveiled by Westerners.
In finance, double entry bookkeeping, the limited liability company, life insurance, and the charge card were all first used in the West.
Westerners are also known for their explorations and adventures of the globe and space. The first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth (1522) was by Westerners, as well as the first to set foot on the South Pole (1911), and the first human to land on the moon (1969). The landing of robots on Mars (2004) and on an asteroid (2001), and the Voyager explorations of the outer planets (Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989) were all achievements of Westerners.
Congratulations, you can kill 500 million people and funnel their rivers of blood, flesh and bones into research and development. China invented everything before whites cheated by stealing resources from superior civilizations with China’s gunpowder, agricultural innovations, compass, paper, rudders and salt.
You uncivilized, genocidal and cultureless barbarians and subhumans wouldn’t even have discovered America if you weren’t so desperate for China’s tea, silk and porcelain.
China has been the source of many significant inventions, including the Four Great Inventions of ancient China: paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing (both woodblock and movable type). The list below contains these and other inventions.
The Chinese invented technologies involving mechanics, hydraulics, and mathematics applied to horology, metallurgy, astronomy, agriculture, engineering, music theory, craftsmanship, nautics, and warfare. By the Warring States Period (403–221 BC), they had advanced metallurgic technology, including the blast furnace and cupola furnace, while the finery forge and puddling process were known by the Han Dynasty (202 BC–AD 220). A sophisticated economic system in China gave birth to inventions such as paper money during the Song Dynasty (960–1279). The invention of gunpowder by the 10th century led to an array of inventions such as the fire lance, land mine, naval mine, hand cannon, exploding cannonballs, multistage rocket, and rocket bombs with aerodynamic wings and explosive payloads. With the navigational aid of the 11th-century compass and ability to steer at high sea with the 1st-century sternpost rudder, premodern Chinese sailors sailed as far as East Africa and Egypt.[1][2][3] In water-powered clockworks, the premodern Chinese had used the escapement mechanism since the 8th century and the endless power-transmitting chain drive in the 11th century. They also made large mechanical puppet theaters driven by waterwheels and carriage wheels and wine-serving automatons driven by paddle wheel boats.
The contemporaneous Peiligang and Pengtoushan cultures represent the oldest Neolithic cultures of China and were formed sometime around 7000 BC.[4] Some of the first inventions of Neolithic, prehistoric China include semilunar and rectangular stone knives, stone hoes and spades, the cultivation of millet, rice and the soybean, the refinement of sericulture, the building of rammed earth structures with lime-plastered house floors, the creation of the potter’s wheel, the creation of pottery with cord-mat-basket designs, the creation of pottery tripods and pottery steamers, and the development of ceremonial vessels and scapulimancy for purposes of divination.[5][6] Francesca Bray argues that the domestication of the ox and buffalo during the Longshan culture (c. 3000–c. 2000 BC) period, the absence of Longshan-era irrigation or high-yield crops, full evidence of Longshan cultivation of dry-land cereal crops which gave high yields “only when the soil was carefully cultivated,” suggest that the plow was known at least by the Longshan culture period and explains the high agricultural production yields which allowed the rise of Chinese civilization during the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–c. 1050 BC).[7] With later inventions such as the multiple-tube seed drill and heavy moldboard iron plow, China’s agricultural output could sustain a much larger population
Although it is recorded that the Han Dynasty (202 BC–AD 220) court eunuch Cai Lun (c.50–AD 121) invented the papermaking process and established the use of new raw materials used in making paper, ancient padding and wrapping paper artifacts dating to the 2nd century BC have been found in China, the oldest example of paper being a map from Fangmatan, Tianshui;[8] by the 3rd century, paper as a writing medium was in widespread use, replacing traditional but more expensive writing mediums such as strips of bamboo rolled into threaded scrolls, scrolls and strips of silk, wet clay tablets hardened later in a furnace, and wooden tablets.[9][10][11][12][13] The earliest known piece of paper with writing on it was discovered in the ruins of a Chinese watchtower at Tsakhortei, Alxa League, where Han Dynasty troops had deserted their position in AD 110 following a Xiongnu attack.[14] In the papermaking process established by Cai in 105, a boiled mixture of mulberry tree bark, hemp, old linens, and fish nets created a pulp that was pounded into paste and stirred with water; a wooden frame sieve with a mat of sewn reeds was then dunked into the mixture, which was then shaken and then dried into sheets of paper that were bleached under the exposure of sunlight; K.S. Tom says this process was gradually improved through leaching, polishing and glazing to produce a smooth, strong paper.[11][12]
[edit] Printing
Woodblock printing: The earliest specimen of woodblock printing discovered is a single-sheet dharani sutra in Sanskrit that was printed on hemp paper between 650 and 670 AD; it was unearthed in 1974 from a Tang tomb near Xi’an.[15] A Korean miniature dharani Buddhist sutra discovered in 1966, bearing extinct Chinese writing characters used only during the reign of China’s only self-ruling empress, Wu Zetian (r.690–705), is dated no earlier than 704 and preserved in a Silla Korean temple stupa built in 751.[16] However, the earliest known book printed at regular size is the Diamond Sutra made during the Tang Dynasty (618–907), a 5.18 m (17 ft) long scroll which bears the date 868 AD, or the “fifteenth day of the fourth moon of the ninth year” of Emperor Yizong’s (859–873) Xiantong 咸通 reign period.[17] Joseph Needham and Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin write that the cutting and printing techniques used for the delicate calligraphy of the Diamond Sutra book are much more advanced and refined than the miniature dharani sutra printed earlier.[17] The two oldest printed Chinese calendars are dated 877 and 882; they were found at the Buddhist pilgrimage site of Dunhuang; Patricia Ebrey writes that it is no surprise that some of the earliest printed items were calendars, since the Chinese found it necessary to calculate and mark which days were auspicious and which were not.[17][18]
An illustration published in Wang Zhen’s (fl.1290–1333) book of AD 1313 showing movable type characters arranged by rhyme scheme in round table compartments
Movable type: The polymath scientist and official Shen Kuo (1031–1095) of the Song Dynasty (960–1279) was the first to describe the process of movable type printing in his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, attributing this innovation to a little-known artisan named Bi Sheng (990–1051).[19][20][21][22] With the use of fired clay characters, Shen described Bi’s technical process of making the type, type-setting, printing, and breaking up the type for further use.[22][23] Bi had experimented with wooden type characters, but their use was not perfected until 1297 to 1298 with the model of the official Wang Zhen (fl.1290–1333) of the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368), who also arranged written characters by rhyme scheme on the surface of round table compartments.[20][24] It was not until 1490 with the printed works of Hua Sui (1439–1513) of the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) that the Chinese perfected metal movable type characters, namely bronze.[25][26] The Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) scholar Xu Zhiding of Tai’an, Shandong developed vitreous enamel movable type printing in 1718.[27]
The earliest artistic depiction of a fire lance gunpowder weapon, a painting at Dunhuang, dated Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period (907–960 AD)
Effects on bookbinding: The advent of printing in the 9th century revolutionized bookbinding, as late Tang Dynasty paper books evolved from rolled scrolls of paper into folded leaves like a pamphlet, which developed further in the Song Dynasty (960–1279) into ‘butterfly’ bindings with leaves of paper folded down the center like a common book, then during the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368) wrapped back bindings had two edges of the leaves attached to the spine and secured with a stiff paper cover on the back, and during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) books finally had thread-stitched bindings in the back.[28] It was not until the early 20th century that traditional Chinese thread-stitched bookbinding was replaced by Western-style bookbinding, a parallel to the replacement of traditional Chinese print methods with the modern printing press, in the tradition of Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1400–1468).[29]
[edit] Gunpowder
Although evidence of gunpowder’s first use in China comes from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period (907–960),[30] the earliest known recorded recipes for gunpowder were written by Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, and Yang Weide in the Wujing Zongyao military manuscript compiled in 1044 during the Song Dynasty (960–1279); the gunpowder formulas described were used in incendiary bombs lobbed from catapults, thrown down from defensive walls, or lowered down the wall by use of iron chains operated by a swape lever.[31][32][33] Bombs launched from trebuchet catapults mounted on forecastles of naval ships ensured the victory of Song over Jin forces at the Battle of Caishi in 1161, while the Mongol Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368) used gunpowder bombs during their failed invasion of Japan in 1274 and 1281.[32] During the 13th and 14th centuries, gunpowder formulas became more potent (with nitrate levels of up to 91%) and gunpowder weaponry more advanced and deadly, as evidenced in the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644) military manuscript Huolongjing compiled by Jiao Yu (fl. 14th to early 15th century) and Liu Ji (1311–1375), completed sometime before the latter’s death with a preface added by the former in a 1412 Nanyang publication of the work.[34]
[edit] Compass
A model in Kaifeng of a Chinese ladle-and-bowl type compass used for geomancy in the Han Dynasty (202 BC–220 AD); the historical authenticity of the model has been questioned by Li Shu-hua (1954).[35]
In San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, Veracruz, Mexico, an ancient hematite artifact from the Olmec era dating roughly 1000 BC indicates the possible use of the lodestone compass in Central America long before it was described in China, yet the Olmecs did not have iron which the Chinese would discover could be magnetized by contact with lodestone.[36] Descriptions of lodestone attracting iron were made in the Guanzi, Master Lu’s Spring and Autumn Annals and Huainanzi.[37][38][39] The Chinese by the Han Dynasty (202 BC–220 AD) began using north-south oriented lodestone ladle-and-bowl shaped compasses for divination and geomancy and not yet for navigation.[40][41][42] The Lunheng, written by Wang Chong (27–c. 100 AD) stated in chapter 52: “This instrument resembles a spoon, and when it is placed on a plate on the ground, the handle points to the south”.[43][44] There is, however, another two references under chapter 47 of the same text to the attractive power of a magnet according to Needham (1986),[45] but Li Shu-hua (1954) considers it to be lodestone, and states that there is no explicit mention of a magnet in Lunheng.[35] Shen Kuo (1031–1095) of the Song Dynasty (960–1279) was the first to accurately describe both magnetic declination (in discerning true north) and the magnetic needle compass in his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, while the author Zhu Yu (fl. 12th century) was the first to mention use of the compass specifically for navigation at sea in his book published in 1119.[21][41][46][47][48][49][50] Even before this, however, the Wujing Zongyao military manuscript compiled by 1044 described a thermoremanence compass of heated iron or steel shaped as a fish and placed in a bowl of water which produced a weak magnetic force via remanence and induction; the Wujing Zongyao recorded that it was used as a pathfinder along with the mechanical South Pointing Chariot.[51][52][53]
My favorite part of the list of Chinese inventions is:
“In San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán, Veracruz, Mexico, an ancient hematite artifact from the Olmec era dating roughly 1000 BC indicates the possible use of the lodestone compass in Central America long before it was described in China…”
Do you even read what you post or what other people post?
My favorite part is how you’re a stupid, child-molesting white subhuman.
It doesn’t matter, the Olmecs of the same race as the Northern Amerinds, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Tibetans, Mongols and Manchu.
They were yet another superior civilization wiped out by Western filth. The Chinese should never have let primitive white slaves obtain the secrets of cast iron, gunpowder, writing, paper and print.
Then they’d still be illiterate, enslaved subsistence farmers under the heel of Arabs, Turks and Mongols.
“It doesn’t matter, the Olmecs of the same race as the Northern Amerinds, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Tibetans, Mongols and Manchu.” -Haha
“The Olmec were an ancient Pre-Columbian civilization living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in what are roughly the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco.” – Wikipedia
So….are you saying that Mexicans and Chinese belong to the same race?
Are you smoking opium?
@ Haha – Do you just enjoy insulting people while simultaneously shooting yourself in the foot?
Mexicans and Chinese are totally different….and I know plenty of both.
“The Chinese should never have let primitive white slaves obtain the secrets of cast iron, gunpowder, WRITING (my emphasis), paper and print.” – Haha
Are you actually saying that China invented WRITING and white people stole WRITING from China.
That’s…….retarded.
I guess you haven’t kept up to date? You are a stupid white chimp so I’ll forgive you-
China’s script is at LEAST 4,000 years old. When they first discovered the Shang Oracle Bones (filthy white pigs like yourself denied that the Shang existed before then) there were already 2,500 characters. Egypt only had approximately 800 hieroglyphs from 2,000 BC to 0 AD.
China’s highly developed language first came into use somewhere between the Jiahu proto-writing of 8,000 years ago and at the latest 1,800s of the Shang Oracle Bone Script.
The idea of writing possibly transferred to the Sumerians (an East Asian, non-Caucasoid people) or it was independently invented there.
Either way whites have never invented writing. They are too stupid with their primitive monkey brains. I hope god sends a plague to earth that kills only white people.
“I hope god sends a plague to earth that kills only white people.” – Haha
That’s weird because I thought Chinese ppl were supposed to be atheist.
So….do you really believe that English comes from Chinese?
English doesn’t come from Chinese. English is descended from an intricate symphony of monkey howls and pig farts. However, the Phoenician script which we are using derives from the Sumerian script.
The Sumerians, who called themselves the Saggiga (black-headed people) were not Indo-Europeons or Semites. They were racially East Asians.
Where their script came from, new archaeological finds in Central Asia and China will tell.
You’re really angry and bitter.
It must piss you off a great deal that English is the Global Language instead of Chinese…but I’m sure you’ll just respond with more of your typical, “I hate white people, China is so awesome” bullcrap.
Whatever.
I don’t WANT Chinese to be the global language. Right now it’s too hard for retards like you and your pedophile ilk to learn.
English is easy like monkey howls. It’s much more accessible to the race of retards we call honkius boyfuckius
*at the replies* lolz walls of text
tl;dr
“Looks like a bunch of pigs squirming for a meal.”
I wonder if one of them is related to “Haha” and that is why his posts are so bitter.
how would the villagers use this stuff? Won’t it be full of water and leaves and all kinds of other contaminants?
The mind boggles. I hope they aren’t processing this into cooking oil or lard. It wouldn’t surprise me, at all.
It totally wouldn’t surprise me either….or I could imagine them gathering oil for profit and then not knowing what to do with it or who to sell it to.
Sounds about right. Group mentality at work. I gotta get me some of that there oil from the stream, because if not, my neighbour will have more than me. Sad state of affairs, but oh so true.
Just leave Africa out of this…
one thing u should put in mind is.. Africa isn’t a country but a continent.
about Looting..hehehe,no comments!!
“This represent the progress of society, if everybody support protecting the Nation’s wealth and not take any of it, wait until some company or agency spend and clean out the people’s money then sell it to them at high prices. Then, China will never have hope.”
There’s so much arguing in the comments that I usually read them instead of the original translated comments (and angry myself up.. sheesh). But doing so sometimes I miss a gem of a comment, like the one above.
I think a missed issue here (besides Africa being a continent) is the disparity between rich and poor. Sure, these Chinese have looted oil and made some money, but they’re still poor. It may be that they’ll always be poor. Are they just content to wait for the next oil spill as the oil company makes more money while they make less?
I wonder about Shanghainese who have lived in Lujiazui or Xintiandi for years, and then witness these tall towers and expensive complexes go up. Now, they live in a slum and every day when they walk out their front door they see rich people making lots of money and spending lots of money. I wonder what they are thinking, because I would be upset.
Furthermore, that is the unhealthiest tone of green “shiny, flowing ribbons.” How do the fish those people catch and eat breathe under there….?
Furthermore, that is the unhealthiest tone of green “shiny, flowing ribbons.” How do the fish those people catch and eat breathe under there….?
Well observed, LTB. Makes you wonder twice about eating Hunan Spicy fish head , perhaps?!
That green and a spicy Sichuan red would go great in a yin-yang hot pot, huh?
I smell opportunity in this crisis. Oh what, no crisis? Oh wells, “Petroleum River Hot Pot” doesn’t sound that appetizing anyways.
Nor does Long Xia raised in water contaminated with heavy metals.
I pity the poor fish!
Haha, I was in rural Shandong from Sept 11-13. Great learning experience, but no gas leaks.
I agree that the rural- urban divide will be the end of the CCP, that is if the water crisis doesn’t strike first. I don’t think that most of the villagers I saw were aware of the real prosperity that is going on around them. They don’t see the Audis or the Lexus being driven in the city, or the Nikes and the H&M’s flowering.
What they see as progress is more modest. Apparently buying a T.V. was the in thing 5 years ago. Now the new trend is buying a computer. The village I was in was relatively quite prosperous. Lots of Chickens running around and tons of garbage for goats to eat.
On the whole people seemed pretty happy and oblivious to their plight. I was only there for 3 days so maybe I didn’t get the full picture. I happened to be the first foreigner in the village, possibly since the Japanese invasion. I found that fact quite entertaining.
The roads in the the village still hadn’t been paved. The villagers didn’t want to fork over the money to make the investment.
The experience was quite enjoyable, and the people friendly, but the two worlds that exist: village life and the other urban centers, and the gulf that exists between them I believe are too wide to be reconciled.
But then again what do I know?
Plus Shandonghua sounds funny
“the two worlds that exist: village life and the other urban centers, and the gulf that exists between them I believe are too wide to be reconciled.”
PIAV，thank you, that’s my point exactly. It’s irrelevant to judge any looting as being beneficial when the environment and the economy is being (figuratively) raped by some corporation. Even though this is a windfall of free stuff, you’re picking it out of your own dead river. (“but it’s free!” they’ll say)
Also, Patience, if the gap is too wide to be reconciled what will eventually happen? Didn’t something like this already happen?
I hope that everyone that was there was able to get enough oil for their family.
Grrrrrrr to the spineless corporations!
You love your motherland?
It is like a large mountain of garbage
Standing on the peak, looking out at its filth
This country is so disgusting
The scenery everywhere horrible
You love your motherland?
It is like an ocean of feces and urine
Vast and boundless, wretching and surging
Many talented theves, generations of scum
Wave after wave
you love your motherland
it is like an open sewer
Full of flies, maggots
Fragrance of decomposition, lead and mercury laced fields
All a scene of a good apocalypse.
You love your motherland
it is like a giant pile of pig shit
Regurgitated vomit of the universe, earthpolluting
Walking with vigorous pestilence.
Bounding into the distance of their falure.
But you admit, it is your motherland…
Now son. Who’s your daddy?
hey thats pretty cool where did you steal it from
I believe that’s heating oil and not diesel but the differences are only subtle (heating oil is likely to be less clean, i.e. it has more sulphur, additionally, colourants are added in order to provide evidence in case of misuse in a diesel car).
Fike2308,
I think it has become readily apparent that both of you are guilty of this.