Chinese President Hu Jintao instructed the country’s leading officials and Party cadres to place “building a harmonious society” top on their work agenda, when addressing a high-level Party seminar.

- People’s Daily, June 27, 2005

harmonious society: 和谐社会

和: hé

Explanation: 禾 (phonetic part) + 口 (radical part)

English translation: harmony, peace

禾: hé

Explanation: a wood 木 with a fringe on the top

English translation: standing grain, cereal

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Song of White Snow in Farewell to Secretary Wu Returning to the Capital

Cen Shen

The north wind sweeping the ground snapping the pallid grasses;

In Tartar’s sky an eight-month snow has come to pass.

As though a sudden spring gale rolled past overnight

Bringing thousands upon thousands of pear trees bloom white. Read the rest of this entry »