客家火龙民俗

在汉民族众多的舞龙传统民俗中，客家火龙民俗是特别令人耳目一新、激情飞扬的特类之一了。它是以舞龙为载体，以燃放烟火为主题娱乐方式的一组相关民俗的总称。民间称之为“烧火龙”、“舞火龙”。     

中国古代消防史话

我国古代建筑绝大多数以木材为主要材料,以木构架为主要结构形式,耐火等级低。古建筑一旦起火,犹如架满了干柴的炉膛,由于屋顶严实紧密,内部的烟热不易散发,可迅速导致“轰燃”;古建筑的梁、柱、椽等构件,表面积大,木材的裂缝和拼接的缝隙多,再加上大多数通风条件比较好,有的古建筑更是建在高山之巅,发生火灾后火势蔓延快,极易形成立体燃烧。但我国古代建筑设计中也大量运用防火技术措施,使得大量木结构的古民居能够完好地保存至今。古代建筑的消防设计被列入世界文化遗产名录的安徽黟县宏村,其格局就是为防止火灾而设计的。宏村始迁祖汪仁…     

Mundi: articulating a post-Umbrella common(s)

ABSTRACT

This paper shares the experiences of an emergent collective of young intellectuals in Hong Kong and its recent project, Mundi, which consists of publication, activist research and communal transmission of knowledge. The project negotiates the notion and practice of “common” at the limit, from within the historical experience of Hong Kong, between academia and public intellectuals, global universalism and local particularism, and colonial knowledge and everyday urban practice. Affected by an intense desire to analyse and theorise the reality of Hong Kong, Mundi engages in a long process of decolonising knowledge production. The paper also explores how Mundi responds to the demand of the present post-Umbrella Hong Kong situation by problematising and re-articulating the common.     

Toward Developing a Cross-Cultural Metacognition Instrument for Listening in First Language (L1) Contexts: The (Janusik-Keaton) Metacognitive Listening Instrument

This study has three main goals: (1) to test an instrument designed to measure first language metacognitive listening strategies in other cultural contexts, (2) to refine and revise the scale if necessary, and (3) to discern whether the notion that first language listeners use intuitive strategies to make meaning regardless of language is supported. Toward these goals, authors developed the Intercultural Metacognitive Listening Strategies Instrument, which displays evidence of validity in four populations and three distinct cultures: the United States, Germany, and Japan. Ultimately, this study supports the notion that there are intuitive strategies that listeners use to make meaning regardless of language.     

话说“急须”

周作人在《鲁迅的故家》中写鲁迅在东京的饮茶习惯时说:“鲁迅在写作时,习惯随时喝茶,又要开水。所以他的房间里,与别人不同,就是三伏天,也还要火炉:这是一个炭钵,外有方形木匣,炭中放着铁三脚架,以便安放开水壶。茶壶照例只是急须,与潮人喝工夫茶相仿,泡一壶茶只可二三人各为一杯罢了。因此屡次加水,不久淡了,便须更换新茶叶。”     

是姓探源

是姓，是已有1800年历史的姓氏，《中国姓氏大全》将其列为“罕见姓”。据统计，目前全国是姓人口约有8000余人，许多县、市没有此姓，而在常州及其邻近的无锡、江阴、宜兴等地，是姓人口约有4000多人，可见常州的是姓为全国是姓人口的50％。     

诸葛氏溯源

关于“诸葛”一姓的来源，大体上有三种说法：一是《世本》卷三《氏姓篇》云：“有熊氏之后为詹葛氏，其后齐人语讹，以詹葛为诸葛。”“詹葛”一作“瞻葛”，该文并举例说：“宋景公时有大夫瞻葛祁。”     

何姓探源

“东海家声远，庐江世泽长”，这是收藏在北京国家图书馆地方志和家谱中心内《庐江何氏大同宗谱》扉页上的联语。它告诉世人：华夏何氏，源于安徽庐江．     

The Summer of Friendship by Fire: A Doctoral Student Reminisces about Lessons in Diversity

The journey toward becoming a multicultural person is not easy and is never finished. As an educational administrator in a tri-cultural state, I felt comfortable that I was proficient in dealing with diversity. Only when I began a doctoral program at a major Texas university was my naivety exposed. I quickly learned that experience in working with diverse populations and the ability to relate effectively to people of different ethnic backgrounds were vastly different. The two years I spent deeply immersed in a multiculturally rich cohort of doctoral students changed me. My eyes were opened to injustices that I had never before seen as I vicariously experienced life through the eyes of the “other.” Today, I am a professor at a regional university. My experiences, focused through the lens of theory, are the basis for the message to my students. I have traveled the road before and can now point the way toward a broader definition of acceptance and tolerance.     

The Code of Food and Tradition: Exploring a Lebanese (American) Speech Code in Practice in Flatland

This study examines a recognizable speech code, the code of food and tradition, as displayed among members of a Lebanese community in Flatland, located in the central United States. Based upon in-depth interviews with 20 participants and three months of participant observation at a Lebanese food festival, we identify communication that is gendered, generationally shaped, and focused on tradition. These are manifest in both beliefs and everyday practices. Drawing upon Speech Codes Theory and Bakhtinian perspectives, we examine the communicative practices and beliefs as to what it means to “be Lebanese.”     

轵国·轵道·轵关

轵国轵国(今河南济源市轵城镇,有故城遗址),因出了我国古代四大刺客之一的聂政而闻名遐迩;又因轵国域内的漫漫轵道、巍巍轵关在军事上的重要地位,成为历代兵家必争之地。     

闽台李姓源流

黄帝正妃嫘祖生子二：一曰玄嚣，是为青阳(少吴)；二曰昌意。昌意子高阳，继黄帝立，是为颛顼。《新唐书》和《元和姓纂》记载：高阳生大业、大业生女华、女华生皋陶，因在曲阜偃地生而姓偃。皋陶任帝尧大