YI LING GONG PU and Global Culture Connections

Yi Xiaoping, Draft 2002-03-04. Update 2005-03-11

The common greeting in English "GOOD MORNING, HOW ARE YOU?" may have come from the Chinese greeting and PU "Gu De Mu Er Ning; Hao A, You !" meaning "Rice plus Domestic Animals (Forest) equal Peace" or "River Valley Food, Virtue, Domestic Animals (Forest), You, Peace. Good, Friend! ". The greeting "GOOD EVENING" may have come from the Chinese PU "Gu De Yi Wen Ning", meaning "Rice, Virtue, Change-Travel, Culture, Tomb, Peace". The greeting "GOOD NIGHT" may have come from the Chinese PU "Gu De Ni" meaning "Rice, Virtue, Endurance, Milk". "England" came from the Chinese words "Yin Lang" or "Yin Land" meaning respectively "Smart and Beautiful People" or "The Land of Yin and Shade". "America" likely came from the Chinese "A Mi Li Keng" or "A Mei Li Kang" meaning respectively "Ah, Pit of Rice Grains" or "Ah, Beauty, Sunshine and Wellbeing". The "Miwok" native americans on the west coast used to harvest rice. The English words "Before" and "After" may have come from the Chinese words "Bi Hua" and "A Fu De" respectively, meaning "Compare and Plan" and "Happiness". The American place name "Texas" sounds like "De Ke Sha Si" meaning "Virtue Overcome Murder Master", "Marin" like "Ma Lun" meaning "Horse Wheel", "Berkeley" like "Bo Ke Li" meaning "Redwood Overcome Force", "Dominion" like "Dao Mei Ni" meaning "Morality(Rice), Beauty and You". The religion "Islam" sounds like the Chinese "YI Remember The Blue", "Muslim" like "Shephard (Horse) Remember The Forest", "Jesus-Christ" like "JI(YI) Choose West - Anti-Thunder Master". "BIBLE" came from the Chinese words "Bai Bu" meaning "spread cloth writings". The English famous literature "SHAKESPEARE" sounds like the Chinese "Xie Ke Spear" meaning "Writing Overcome Deadly Spear". "KORAN" came from the Chinese "Ko Luan" meaning "The Pursuit of Wealth Leads to Chaos". The Muslim name "Mohammed" came from the Chinese "Mo Han Mei De" meaning "Do Not Shout Have-Not". The Indian religion name "HINDUISM" came from the Chinese "YIN CAPITAL", city "De Li" from the Chinese "Village of Virtue", and the Indian loyal family name "Gandi" came from the Chinese "DRY LAND". The spanish explorer Christopher Columbus who discovered America sounds in Chinese like "Ke Li(Rei) Si Tou Fu - Ku Ling Bu Si" meaning "The Anti-Profit (Thunder) Master went for happiness - Cried that the forest should not have died". This is why the Christmas tree is the most common thing during the Chrismas Holiday. The Mongol leader in the 13th century "Genghis Khan" sounds like "Gen Ji Shi Kang" meaning "Foundation-Base is Wellbeing". His Chinese name "Chen Ji Si Han" means "Accomplish Good and Remember the Salty". His grandson "Kublai Kahn" sounds like "Ku Bu Lai Kang" meaning "Crying Would Not Bring Wellbeing". Kublai finally absorbed the China's Sung Dynasty to start the Yuan dynasty. The English name "PHILOSOPHY" was an abstraction of the Chinese student greeting "Fu Yi Lao Shi Shou Fu (Happiness Teacher Yi Longevity Happiness)" or PU "Fu Yi Lao Shou Fu (Abundance, Travel-Change, Work, Old-Thin, Longevity, Happiness)".

The YI LING GONG PU is a typical Chinese generations naming convention (Fig. 1). The first six sentences were YI LING GONG PU of TaiHe-GreatPeace that was first used about 800 years ago in TaiHe-GreatPeace county of JiangXi province of China. Some families by TaiHe-GreatPeace PU migrated to Hunan Province. The authors and the writing time for the PU are unknown, but the word "Chu" at the beginning refers to the "Chu" state in the eastern Zhou Dynasty (400 BC, cf. Hook 1991) (it would be the border regions of todays HuBei, Hunan and JiangXi provinces). The middle four sentences were the YI LING GONG PU of MaiYuan, i.e., the naming PU for the Yi families in MaiYuan village, DongAn county, Hunan province. MaiYuan PU started from the second (ii) sentence of TaiHe PU, i.e., the "ZHEN" generation, about 600 years ago. The first named person from the MaiYuan PU, Yi ZhenXiu (Gui YiLang, "Zhen" generation) (1400-1474), was the first Yi settler of MaiYuan village. The MaiYuan PU continued and expanded the earlier TaiHe-GeatPeace PU. At the same time, the TaiHe-GreatPeace PU continued to be used by other YI villages of DongAn county and elsewhere in JiangXi and Hunan provinces. The last eight sentences were the DongAn PU that was accepted by all Yi villages of DongAn county in 1930. The earliest ancestor of the Yi Families in MaiYuan village could be traced to Sir "YI LING GONG - Jiang ZiYa" in TaiYuan-GreatPlain city of ShanXi province, who was an officer in the Zhou Dynasty (1100-221 B.C.). In the Chinese naming tradition, one could have a formal name, a pseudo-name and a nickname. "Jiang" and "ZiYa" could be pseudo-name and nickname respectively. Earlier than this, the Yi families likely lived on the YILI river in XinJiang province of China. The person "Great Yu" who founded the Xia dynasty (2205-1767BC) of China was likely an earlier ancestor of Yi. The family name "Jiang" may have the same origin as "John", "Jiang" and "Jiang" . The first woman on earth "Eve" as written in the Christian bible was likely an ancestor of Yi. The first English bible is the "King James Bible" that was published in the year 1611. The bible wrote that the world's first man was ADAM. Together with EVE, the two names refered to Creationism and Evolution of the human race. The "Yi" name is one of the earliest family names. Today's diversity of names likely came as a result of population increase and tortuous history. For examples, the eleven numbers of the Chinese language "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 0" have corresponding names "Yi, Lei, Tan, Si, Wu, Liu(Lu), Qin, ?, Zhou, Xi(Shi), Lin". The number eight does not have a corresponding name because it was reserved for divination and it sounded like "Ba (Daddy)". The ten heavenly stems "Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, Gui" also have corresponding family names "Ya(Jia), Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu(Fu), Ji, Geng, Xing(Shen), Ren, Gui". Literary people and refugees often use pen names that were not related to family names at that time, but, the names became family names later. Earlier, first names might come from Family PU, but, they later developed into family names. The Chinese twelve earthly branches "Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai" also have corresponding names, such as "Zi, Qiu(Qiu), Yin(Yin), Mao(Mao), Chen(Chen) , Si(Si), Wu(Wu), Wei (Wei), Shen, You, Xu(Xu), ?". The author does not know a family name for the last one "Hai". Many characters in the YI LING GONG PU have been used as family names. As seen from the environment of MaiYuan village, the YI LING GONG PU was partially implemented. The PU stated the most important things in life to achieve happiness. The three PU of TaiHe, MaiYuan and DongAn are all centered on "Natural Environment, Human, Government and Society". But, they differ in the use of Chinese characters and details. For example, the three PU begin respectively with "Water, Forest, Soil and Human", "Heaven, Fruit Trees, Cultivation, Human, Society" and "Rice Plant, Forest, Domestic Animals, Population, Society". Such delicate changes reflect firstly the alteration of the earth environment by humans and secondly the increase of human population as well as human knowledge and power. Certain changes were intended to avoid words that could cause misunderstanding, but, they did not steer away from YI LING GONG PU. Certain changes were intended to avoid words that could cause misunderstanding. For example, the sentence "You Keep and Elevate Sky" should mean "Happy Dwelling, Keep What is There and Grow Plants to Push the Sky Up". It is also possible that the true meanings of YI LING GONG PU were not passed down by the word of mouth, and the written words had only been partially decoded over time. YI LING GONG PU stated fully the importance of protection of the natural environment in order to ensure sustainable development. It fully reflected the Chinese idiom "The Rise or Fall of Heaven is the Responsibility of Everyone". From the philosophical point of view, "YI LING GONG PU" means that the universe is made up of living things, Change-Movement with Time, Spirit and Matter, that there is diversity in the four things. Modern materialist dialectics considered that the universe is made up of Matter and Spirit and that Matter changes constantly. The latter is contained in the former. It represents the combination of "Human, Social and Natural Sciences". It implied human extraterrestrial origin and that on the planet earth, the human kind originated on the KunLun Mountains to the north of the world's highest mountains - the Hymalayas. The PU likely represents the origin and essence of our civilization. In style, the PU is concise and easy to recite, and it contained logic, system science and information compression.

Figure 1. The YI LING GONG PU, its English translation and Chinese interpretation.


Figure 2. YI LING GONG PU of TaiHe-GreatPeace and translation.


Figure 2. The "Comet Hill" and "Saucer Rock" (center front) of MaiYuan. The Saucer rock is a limestone structure with connected caves.

Experts have concluded that the best evidences for the understanding of human evolution are cultural objects. The difficulty is that most cultural objects can be carried and used by people as they migrate from one place to another. YI LING GONG PU may have come from three different sources: (i) First, it was authored in the first kingdom several thousands of years ago, but it was lost in the ever changing history and the ideas were passed down orally; (ii) Second, it was brought to earth by extraterrestrial people but lost at landing, and the ideas were passed down verbally; (iii) Third, the writing of its ideas was gradually perfected with the time of history, but, the PU was not spread and accepted as fast as the rate of population growth and migration. Some people in the world applied YI LING GONG PU completely or partially, consciously or unconsciously, or with certain misunderstanding. If it is accepted and implemented by all the people around the globe today, ourselves and next generations will live on the earth that will be better than today. Everyone will be able to engage in intellectual and physical work, travel to or work in different places around the globe, and live happily for more than 100 years, etc.. The human kind will live happily for ever on the planet earth.

YI LING GONG PU - Notes for English Translation and Chinese Interpretation

The author studied and translated the above PU for more than two years. It has been decided to keep the original style, words, sounding and meaning to the maximum possible extent. Attention is given to the most important things for humans to survive and be happy as well as relationship between people, society and Nature. The TaiHe PU consists of six sentences with four characters for each sentence. Its meanings are relatively clear and a free translation style was considered more appropriate. The "Tian (Sky)" in the (v) sentence refers to the earthly sky that is under the Sun. A more formatted translation style was adopted for the MaiYuan and DongAn PU. The first three characters in the first sentence "Gui, Xin, Ren" refers to "Rule of the Sun, Work to Produce, and Living and Responsibilities". The character "Xin" consists of "Li (Build)" and "Shi (Number Ten)". The Chinese Number Ten has rich and positive meanings (detailed later). It may also mean greed that leads to unnessesary suffering and sacrifice. In the western culture, "Xin" was taken as "Erect Cross" that means "Suffering and Endurance" in relation to Jesus Christ. "Gui, Xin, Ren" also represent the heavenly stems "Sun, Venus, Mercury", which contained the concept of solar system evolution and count down. In the translation of the second sentence of MaiYuan PU, the word "Face Court" may be compared to "Face Heaven", "Face Ground", "Face Mountain" and "Face Sun". It means "Social Interchange and Court Witness". The word "Good Faith" represent inter-religious and cultural "Good Beliefs". The word "Good Faith" represent cross religious and cultural "Good Beliefs". In the translation of the fourth sentence, the character "Xin" contains the SEVEN words "Stars-Moon-Sound-Fragrance-Pollen-Water-Change" in sound and structure. Examples of "Light-Sound" include "Thunder-Rain" and "Fire-Water Flow", etc.. "Fragrance-Pollen" represent animals and plants. "Water" represent "Rain-River-Stream", and the words "Rain", "River" and "Stream" in Chinese sound like "Fish", "Rice Plant, Peace" and "Wash, Eat" respectively. "Change" denotes "Change of Life and Things in Time and Space". In the translation of the nineth sentence of DongAn PU, the words "Wisdom-Courage" represent a range of mental capacity. The translation considers not only the dictionary meaning of the character, but also the current usage of the word as well as the meanings of the parts which the word is composed of. Repetition of words was avoided as much as possible. The newer DongAn PU and the MaiYuan PU have a little repetition in meaning. In the interpretation and translation, words with negative slang usage were also avoided. Furthermore, the meanings of the title for the PU "YI LING GONG PU" are considered in the translation and interpretation. The Chinese interpretation and English translation were done at the same time and compared to each other, but, more attention is given to the Chinese interpretation. Since a Chinese character may have multiple meanings, the entire PU was considered as a system in balance when the meaning of the character was chosen. All words are equal parts of the PU regardless of their order. It should be born in mind that the simplified Chinese and the English translation serve as explanations and should not be separated from and independent of the original PU.

The English letters "Y" and "UVW" have the same origin. "UVW" symbolize "sea bay, valley, rivers", and "Y" symbolizes merging rivers and plant sprout. "Y" sounds the same as "EI", they most likely have the same origin. The letter "J" is pronounced as "Y" in Swedish. "L" symbolizes a tree trunk and root. "G" and "CK" have the same origin. "G" symbolizes musical instrument Gong and the arch shape. "P" symbolizes a river pool and an inverted water fall. Examples for the Chinese meanings of the title "YI LING GONG PU" are as follows. The person and place names that they represent will be described later in this article.
(i) The following Chinese characters have the same pronounciation "One, Second of Heavenly Stem, Cloth, Art(Talent), Move, Justice, Meeting, Service, Firm, Reliable, Control, Medicine, Women, Benefit, Odd(Differ), Remember, Hundred Million, Doubt, Wing, Ant, Friend, Suitable, Leisure, Joy, Chair, Station, Will, Translate, Anecdote, Ripples". The following Chinese characters sound similar "YIN, shade, Cause, Sound, etc.". The following are dictionary, character structure and other extended meanings: "Yang, Shade, Human-Animal- Fish- Eagle-Horse, Rain-Sprout-Language, Eden, Yangtze River, Soil-Beans, Change-Migrate-Travel-Movement-Time-Month, Friend, Plain, Cloth, Easy-Yielding, Interchange-Trade, Ya, Yi, Yao, Yang, Yu, Yuan, etc.;
(ii)The following Chinese characters have the same pronounciation "Zero, Forest, Neighbor, Rain, Spirit, Life, Order, Ring, Hill, Mountain, Age, Animal, Clever, Quick". The following are dictionary, character structure and other extended meanings: "Energy, Power";
(iii) Thunder-Cloud, Mountain, Common-Public, Arch, Work, Sir (salute), Gong;
(iv) Poem, Universal, Spectrum, Musical Notes, Diversities, Charter, Service, Plant Nursery-Garden, Bed, Unpolished Jade, Palmate Foot, Water Fall, Unadorned Beauty, Poor.

Examples of the meanings for the title "YI LING GONG PU", as derived from the pronounciations, are as follows:
(i) Easy-Eat-Evolve-Eagle, Eden, Yellow River, Yangtze River, Year, Roman number I, Is, Island-Ice, Interchange, Jah, Jehovah, Jesus, John, Jew, Just, Jump, Judgement, Yin-Yang, Year, Yes-You, Yield, Yielding, Unit, Universal, Unique, Visual, Vegetable, Venus, Village, Vapor, Water, Wood, Warm, Weather, Waste, West, White, Write, Wide, Wild, Wind, Wine, Wall;
(ii) Life, Land, Lake, Loop, Liberty, Language-Literacy-Letter-Law, Lean, Little-Large;
(iii) Can, Christ-Cross, Candle, Capital, Car, Common, Color, Conductor, Cotton, God, Ghost, Garden, Genesis, Government, Guide, Gap, Glacier, Gain-Get, Gong, General, Group-Gang, Geneology, Genuine, Gem, Gas, King, Know, Kind;
(iv) Pallette-Pattern-Paint-Picture, Photograph, Platform, Peace, Pavement, Plant, Permanent, Poem, Paper, Parallel, Priest-Pastor, Philosophy, Plural, Plan-Past-Post-Previous-Push-Pull, Poor, Plain-Plane, PuPu-Pee (Stool and Urine, verbal).

Every sentence is interpreted into eight words (sixteen Chinese characters) except for the tenth sentence. A dash "-" is used to represent a range (from-to). In the English translation, the plural words were represented by their originals as mush as possible to save length of sentence. Care is taken to use words with distinct meaning and avoid words with multiple or even self-contradictory meanings. The tenth sentence has rich meanings and and two lines of twelve words each were used. The sounding and structure of each character are taken into account fully in the translation. For example, the last character "Xin" (new) sounds like "Xing" (move-go-travel) and looks like "Xin" (bush-wood) , and it consists of "Li" (plant or establish), "Mu" (wood), "He" (Rice Plant) and "Jin" (weight unit that is similar to the pound). This "Xin" also sounds like the "Xin" in the first sentence and the "Xin" in the fourth sentence, but they look entirely different. The original meaning of the latter "Xin (New)" is contained in the former two "Xin", but, the latter is less complex. In this article, "Xin (New)" is translated into "Planting- Nursing, Walk-Income, Income Assistance, Change-Travel". The "grass head" of the Chinese character "Xin (Income)" means "Cloud-Rain". Therefore, the complete meaning of "Xin (New)" is "Things Gradually (one by one) Change (differ), Move (move-fly-drift) and Grow (benefit, pound by pound, health-medicine) with Time and Space, and Modify or Change the Old into New (heritage-memorial) ". Therefore, "Xin (New)" differs from the traditional "Change (as in I Ching/Book of Change)" or "Cyclic Change (Zhou Yi)". It should be pointed out that the word "YI" has no equivalent in the English language. It is a mere convenience and English tradition to translate "YI" into "Change". The Chinese word "Bian (Change)" is contained in "YI" but the former usually does not contain the meaning of "Move and Grow (YI)". "Rest-Sleep-Roof" in the tenth sentence represent different kinds of accommodation. In China, "Shack", "Tent", "Dormitory", "Wu" and "Fang" have been most common shelters. As seen from the character structure, the Chinese character "Wu" contains the meanings of "attic, soil floor, dark and crowded". It is usually used for bedroom, kitchen, storage or domestic animals. The similar Chinese character "Fang" contains the meanings of "eaves (or small sunshine roof window or chimney), attic, large, open and household". The two characters are usually used together as "Fang Wu" to indicate a group of buildings. In the west, new types of shelters have come out, such as "Portable Tents", "Cars", "Mobile Home (Trailer)", "Motor Home (Camper) " and "Hostels". "Hook-Ditch" have direct meanings of "Tool Hooks - Water Ditch" as well as extended meanings "Angling Fishing - Animal Trapping". In the interpretation of each sentence, the original meanings of the characters are placed at the beginning, whereas the extended meanings are placed at the end of the sentence. The word "Zhi" in the seventh sentence is translated into "Cultivation" that applies to plants and people. In addition to dictionary meanings, The four Chinese characters in the seventh sentence "Zheng Gang Zhi Ji" sounds like "Jin Gang Shi Ji" in the DongAn dialect meaning "Metals, Steel-Wood Pole-Bamboo Pole-Vat-Orange-Port, Stone, Chicken, Machine, Trade". These meanings are represented by "Industry-Trade" in the translation. In the eleventh sentence, "Gang Dong" was translated into "Timber Trees", "Dryland Forest" and "Service" etc.. The Chinese interpretation of MaiYuan and DongAn PU has eleven short sentences and two long sentences, 11x8 + 1x12x2 = 88 + 24 = 112 words or 224 characters.

More detailed meanings for each character of the tenth sentence are listed as follows:

(1) "Tan-Tang". Hall of House, School, Church, Temple, Public Hall, Paradise, Canteen, Grand, Talk, Communication, Pool-Pond-Reservoir, Rapid Water, Sugar, Charcoal, Soup, Blanket, Jar, Lie Down, Explore, Elastic, Market; Heat up, Spit, Open-Flat, Greed, If, Paralysis, Sigh, Chest, Drip, Trip, Enamel, Boring Tool, CrabApple, Mantis, Flash, Shield, Hardwood, Carbonyl.
(2) "Gou". Mechanism, Government-Organization, Structure, Buy, Dog, Ditch, Hook, Sufficiency;
(3) "Ding". Cooking Vessel, Roof, Hammer-Nails, Pre-Order, Tail-Vigilance, Guard, Compensate, Stabile-Reliable, Settled-Firm-Decision, Great Reputation;
(4) "Xin". Fire Wood, Income, Go-Walk-Travel-Move, Awake, Action, Shape, Fresh, Change New, Renovation, Innovation, Renew.

It should be noted that the traditional Chinese dog is different from today's western dog. Unlike today's western dogs that are used only as pet, the Chinese dogs in the countryside have been used for multiple purposes. They were used for food garbage cleaning, home vigilance, food and pet. They not only eat domestic animal bones and other food left-over waste but also baby's excrement. There is a kind of maggot in the toilette that digest excrement. The maggot was used to feed domestic chicken and ducks. Chicken also clear food garbage. These are biological technologies that were developed by human ancestors.

The first Chinese character in the fifth sentence "HE" has the left side "HE" and right side "MOUTH". "HE" sounds the same as "River" in Chinese and it is made of "Tree" and "Tassel". This means that the foundation for "HE" is forest. From sustainable production point of view, "HE" depends on water and nutrients from the forest. In China, the left side "HE" refers to "Rice Plant (Dao)". The rice plant is best in the "water way (Dao)". The grains of rice plants are called "GU". The growth of the grains depends on sunshine which is available on water ways. River flows in valleys (GU). Other similar food plants have their own names such as "Wheat", "Maize", "Millet", "Soy Beans", "Sorghum" and "Potato". "Mai (wheat)" sounds like "Mai Mai (buy sell)". This indicates that wheat was originally used as an exchange commodity, like "Gold and Silver" at later times. "Yu Mi (Maize) " sounds like "Yu (Jade)", which indicates that it was also used as an exchange commodity. In the Chinese tradition, rice is the staple food, and others are supplementary food. The combination of "He" and "Mouth" means first that every human must have enough rice plant, and secondly, the population of humans should be planned. Rice plant in the river valley can support more people than fish alone and can coexist with river. Not only can fish be raised in rice field but other small animals such as eels, frogs, birds, rats and snakes can exist. In dry season, rice field can be used to plant different kinds of economic plants such as vegetables. Rice hay and husk can be used either as animal food or construction material. The water in the rice fields are the sources of rain, and it help maintain steady temperature on the earth surface. Due to the husk of rice grains, it can be stored for a long time. It can not be easily wasted due to accidents such as dirty water intrusion, nor can it be easily stolen. Wheat and grassland in the valley can also support more population than fish alone, and they exist side by side with river. But, they support much less population than rice plant. Wheat and grass can also grow on mountain slopes where there is moisture but a lack of water. Wheat field, grassland and other dry land crops that are located on hills to replace forest on a large scale will result in the loss of water and soil retaining capacity, and gradually lead to the death of rivers. Silt and mud in water can settle down in rice fields. This serves the dual purpose of enriching the rice fields and preventing the rivers from being blocked. The large scale use of underground water will lower the water table in the ground. This will also gradually lead to the death of rivers. Dry ploughed land can also cause swirl wind that brings dust into air resulting in loss of soil and air pollution. The lack of forest can also result in extreme temperatures on the ground surface, that is, colder in the cold season and hotter in the hot season. The disappearance of forest can also result in "drought" or "flood" disasters. Because river is the source of water and water is the source of life, the earth environment will be kept in its youth state and living things will exist forever if the population is controlled by the production of natural river reliant food. If there is flowing water in the river valley, there is moisture in the air, which benefits the growth of forest, animals, plants and dry land crops. In the thirteenth century, the Italian traveler Marco Polo called China "CATHAY" (CUT-HAY). The English word "HAY" for dried grass sounds the same as the Chinese "HE". He likely saw a lot of cut rice plant in China. In his own country at that time, animals grazed on grassland and there was no need to cut the grass. Rice field, wheat field and grass land in the river valley have a lot in common, but, they are entirely different on the mountains. Fruit and vegetables also rely on river and stream. Humanity as a whole has not realized that over population and extreme industrialization will lead to the death of rivers and forest, and eventually the death of the earth. Therefore, population planning by natural river-reliant food production represent the maximum population that the earth can permanently support. It should be pointed out that the practice of building water reserviors to turn dry land into food growth land doe not fall into the "He - Kou" population planning dialectics. This will result in reduced river flow and rain. Nor does the practice of using nuclear power to pump water to high elevation land for the same purpose. This will result in water pollution and reduction of living things. Human life depends not only on food but also on clothes, housing, travel and cultural products. Because rice plant can coexist with river and accommodate all kinds of animals and plants at large, the "Rice Plant - Population" population planning dialectics has a solid basis. This population planning method is peaceful and natural, and is more effective than any other method. On the other hand, people who live in cold regions need more protein, fat, clothes or other forms of energy than those who live in the warm regions of the earth. Rice plant can not grow in very cold regions of the earth. But, the cold regions have extra cold energy such as food can be kept fresh for a long period of time. Rice plant may sometimes be destroyed by flood, which may result in starvation. The human race has evolved to today's economic structure with different types of food. Different societies have implemented different ways of birth control. In the world, "Peace" has evolved into the dural concepts of "Meal for Everyone and Population Planning". The word "Republic" was derived from "Repas"(Meal) in the French language. But, many countries and regions have adopted single food product agriculture in order to increase yield and simplify the production process. For example, some northern countries and regions plant wheat only, and some regions plant rice only. Some people have simply labeled different crops such as "Rice, Wheat, Maize, Millet and Bean" as "Five GU". This can easily result in the neglect of their different growth environments and the damage to the long term benefit of people.

As seen from above, the key to lasting healthy food production is the word "He Ping". "He Ping" has the following original meanings: "River-Valley-Forest- Rice Plant-People-Flat". "He Ping" has the secondary meanings of "Peaceful-Polite (dealing with people), Moderate (drink and eat), Flat Ground (living)", and third meaning of "Equality" that means "Equal in Dignity, Rights, Responsibilities, Leadership and Before the Law". Since rice plant is the lowest crop and it can support higher elevation crops such as wheat and maize, rice plant based agriculture can support the most population. Japan and Korea in the northern climate and Southern China are successful examples for rice planting. Agriculture without rice plant can easily lead to the deterioration of the ecosystem in the long run. This being said, it is still feasible to have other types of agriculture, except that river and forest are very important. Since the seventh sentence included other types of agriculture: fishery, planting and animal raising, and other sentences included "trees and forests", "He Kou" is translated into "River-Rice Plant" and "Population". This is the Dao (Tao or Path) for sustainable living. "Population" means "Adequate Population". A population that is too large or too small is no good. As shown above, rice must be planted on a flat field. Before weapons were invented, only on a flat ground can a biped man win over a four leg beast. Rice planting made it possible for humans to take up permanent residence instead of looking for food all the time. The people who rely on rice were able to win over beasts to become the master of the earth. This is the reason why in Chinese "Dao" (Rice) sounds the same as "Dao (Tao)" (Road), and in English "Rice" sounds the same as "Rise". In China, rice was measured in volume by "Sheng (meaning Rise in English)". The Chinese word "Ping" is best translated into "Peaceful-Moderate" and "Equal".

Background Information for YI LING GONG PU

DongAn county is located in the border region between Hunan Province and GuangXi Zhuang Autonomous Region. MaiYuan village is located in the western border area of DongAn county. The MaiYuan elders used to worship "Ga La" (dialect) or "Jia Lao" (standard Chinese), that is, ancestors. "Ga La" and "Jia Lao" sounded like "God" in English or "Jah" in Hebrew, respectively. The English word "Gospel" (meaning definitive truth and teachings) likely came from the Chinese words "Ga Pu (Family Book)". The word "God" is newer than "Jah", it contained "De" (virtue). Therefore, the most ancient meaning of "God" is "Family Virtue". That family eventually grew to more than five billion strong today and spread all over the planet earth.

The earliest ancester for the Yi families of MaiYuan was YI LING GONG, also called Jiang ZiiYa. The documented path of their migration was TaiYuan-GreatPlain City of ShanXi Province -> JiangSu Province -> TaiHe-GreatPeace county of JiangXi Province -> YiJiaWang-YiBay of XiangTang prefecture of Hunan Province -> YiYang City -> XiaZiXian of BaoJing-ShaoYang prefecture -> MaiYuan village of DangAn county of YongZhou prefecture. The twelve sentences and the fifty two characters in them represent the twelve months and fifty two weeks in a year. If "Jiang Zi Ya" is read backwards, "Ya Zi Jiang", sounds the same as "Yang Zi Jiang" (Yangtz River). The English first name "JOHN" (the Baptizer) and the Chinese family name "JIANG" (meaning river) may have its origin here. "Ya" means the sprout of plant and it also represents the shape "Y" at the merging of two streams or rivers into one. The Chinese character "Jiang" symbolizes "beautiful women". Therefore, "Jiang Zi Ya" refers to the river delta area with lots of produce and beautiful women. The place name "YINing" and the river beside it "YILI River" at the border area in the North-West of XinJiang Province of China is likely the ancient origin for the "YI" and "LI" families. The English letter "Y" looks like a river. The English word "river" starts with "r" that also look like a river. The English place name postfix "SHIRE" (as in YORKSHIRE, YORK was the ruling family of England 1461-1485) and the Chinese administrative unit "Xian (county)" may have the same origin. The English Queen "ELIZABETH" (meaning white sand in YILI river)may be related to the above "YILI" river. The English name "PHILIP" (Happy ILI Pu) may be related to the Chinese name "MaiYuan"(PulseHead) or "Pu-He (Peace PU or Universal Peace)". The legendary Great Yu established the Xia dynasty (2205-1767BC, cf. Hook 1991). The person by the name "I YIN" in the 18th century BC helped establish the Shang (Yin) dynasty (Giles 1898).

The YI families migrated from North of Yellow River to the South of Yangtze River. According to the "Yi Nation-Family Book" by the QingYuan Tribe, the Yi families lived on the Yi River of HeBei province. In the waring periods, in the year of 241 BC, prince Dan of the Yan nation accompanied JingKe to the Qing state. When passing by the Yi River, the prince Sang "Oh, Windy and Cold Yi River, Go out and Become a Martyr." From the waring states to the Qing-Han dynasty, gun fire and smoke spread along the Yellow River tributaries. With the wars and defense constructions, resources were wasted and people could not survive. Some ordinary people migrated far south to avoid calamities. In the Qing-Han dynasty, the Yi ancesters migrated to the Wolf Mountain of TaiYuan (today's YangQu county). In the first year of Han ZhangWu, or the year 221 AD, some Yi families moved to YangZhou of JiangSu province. Later, the four branches of Zhen, Xiang, Fu and Lu migrated to the six provinces to the south of the Yangtze River. They erected temples to become organized.

YI LING GONG PU of MaiYuan was first used for the first Yi settler of MaiYuan village, Yi ZhenXiu (Gui Yi Lang 1400-1474) about six hundred years ago. It is unclear when it was authored. Yi ZhenXiu's migrated from the Xia Zi Xian village of BaoJing (today's ShaoYang county) and his wife was Liu. He named his three sons with one, two and three as the third character. His eldest son Yi XinYi was born in the year 1423; second son Yi XinEr was born in the year 1426; and the third son Yi XinSan was born in the year 1434, all in the Ming Dynasty. The character "Zhen" of Yi ZhenXiu came from the earlier YI LING GONG PU of TaiHe-GreatPeace. The YI LING GONG PU of MaiYuan came up with a more accurate and direct expression of YI's wisdom than this earlier PU. The MaiYuan PU also contained the ideas of "Comet", "Limestone Caves" and "Alien Landing", which were expressed in the natural environment of MaiYuan village (Fig. 2). In 1930, all Yi villages of DongAn county adopted the new YI LING GONG PU of DongAn. The author's great grand father Yi XinZuo (FuChen, 1878-1944) was on the organizing committee for the 1930 Yi Family-Nation Book of DongAn. His father was "Yi YouSen (Sir. HeQing, ZhaoXin)" , grandfather was "Yi ZuLan (Sir. ZhiQing, ShengTing)".

At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty (about year 1279 AD), the first person Chu named after the TaiHe-GeatPeace PU migrated from TaiHe-GreatPeace county, JiAn prefecture of JiangXi province to YangQing village, BaoJing (today's ShaoYang county), Hunan province. The above paragraphs indicate that the Yi ancestors migrated from JiangXi province to Southern Hunan province about 725 years ago (1279 to present), from ShanXi province to JiangSu province about 1783 years ago (221 to present), from Yi river of HeBei province to ShanXi province about 2200 years ago (200 BC to present). The famous poet "Qu(Chu) Yuan" (332-295 BC, cf. Giles 1898) was a representative of the times of the Chu state as mentioned in the TaiHe Pu. Based on geography, the Yi ancestors likely followed the Yellow River in their migration from the KunLun mountains to the east. At the same time, other branches followed JinShaJiang (Gold Sand River) that is the upper end of the Yangtz river, Mekong river and other rivers to YunNan province of China as well as south-east Asia. They likely took the approach of walking and settling to slowly expand and migate. Estimating from distance, the Yi ancestors were in the Gansu and NingXia regions about 5000 years ago. There were at the YiLi river under the KunLun and Tian mountains about 10,000 years ago. It is likely that the ancestors of Africans (such as Libya-Li Bi Ya), Egyptians (Yi JiPu), West Asians (such as Israel-Yi Si Lei) and Europeans (such as Italians-Yi DaLi) started from the YiLi river region about 10,000 years ago. Yi and Li are family names. Yi means soil beans among other things and Li means tree fruits. Europeans who migrated north-west maintained grass and wheat agriculture due to cold and dry weather. Rice planting was possible in certain areas of Europe, but, it was abandoned because it could not compete against dryland agriculture. Chinese who migrated east developed or maintained the rice agriculture in addition to the traditional fruit, grass and wheat agriculture. West Asians and Africans had to abandon rice and focus on dryland agriculture in order to compete with the Europeans without regard for the climate differences. The Maya culture likely originated in the ILI river region, because their 20-base number system contained the word "IL".

The world population in year 1950 was 2,555,360,972 (more than two and half ) and in year 2000 it increased to 6,079,603,571(just over six billion)(cf. www.census.gov). The world population increased 2.3792 times (more than two times) in 50 years period. The population of China was slightly less than half billion in year 1950, and it increased to over one billion in year 2000. It was an increase of a little more than 2 times. Suppose the world population doubles every 50 years, then the population numbers at 50 year intervals form a geometric series, such as 2, 4, 8, etc.. If we use "T" to represent the population in year 2000, "A" the population in a year in the past, and "F" the factor of population increase over 50 years, then the number of years for the population to increase from "A" to "T" is expressed by the : N=50(logT-logA)/logF.

Suppose the human race started with one couple, A=2. Substituting the world population number of year 2000 into this , we have N=50(log6079603571 - log2 )/log2.3792 = 1260. This is to say that if the world population increased at the rate of the last 50 years for the entire human history, then God created the couple only 1260 years ago. This is of course untrue. The population increase rate in the last 50 years was the highest in human history. Suppose the population increased 1.5 times in 50 years, that is, a couple started from infants, had three children, and died at the age of 49.99. Then, The first couple was created only 2670 years ago. This is closer to the truth.

Let us further assume that the first couple lived 70 years and did not have grandchildren until death. With F=1.5 and using 70 to replace 50 in the above formula, N=3738. That is, the first couple was created 3738 years ago. Repeating the above calculation for 100 couple at the beginning of human history, then it would have taken 3054 years to reach today's population. This indicates that the estimation in the above paragraph that the human race had ten thousand (10,000) years of cultural history and five thousand (5000) years of recorded history is reasonable. In the early human history, humans were vulnerable and propagated very slowly.

Following the above calculation for the future, in 30 and 70 years from today, the world population would expand from today's 6,079,603,571 to 7,233,408,630 and 9,119,394,427 respectively.

If the population number for China in the year 2000 (one billion) is substituted into the above to do the same calculations, then for F=2.3792 at 50 year intervals, the result is 1155 years, and for F=1.5 at 70 year intervals, the result is 3458 years. These numbers for China are lower than the world numbers by only 105 (1260-1155) and 280 (3738-3458) years respectively. This implies that the geometric expansion of population is astonishing. The world population can increase six times in 100 to 300 years.

A person walking at 25 km per day can cover a distance of 5000 kilometers in 200 days. That is to say, with more than a year, a person who started from XinJiang province of China could walk to the Mediterranean Europe in the western direction or the Korea Pennisula in the eastern direction. Those who used canoes and boats on water or horses on land were much faster. The Korea Strait is only 90 km wide. It would be easy to reach Japan. The Japanese KanZi are actually Chinese characters. The Chinese meanings of "KanZi" are "Visible Characters", "WellBeing Characters" and "Care for Children". This is in agreement with the proposal in the above paragraph that the human race originated in the KunLun mountains below the Hymalayas and migrated and propagated throughout the globe.

Nationalities have been mixed through marriage. The fathers and mothers of past fifteen generations in the author's family had the following full name and family names - respectively: Yi HeCai-(Xi), Yi GuangYun-(Xia), Yi XinZuo-(Wei, Chen), Yi YouSen-(Xia), Yi ZuLan-(Li), Yi AnJue-(Wu, Xi), Yi MingShou-(Xiao), Yi TaiWei-(Tang), Yi GuoE-(Xia), Yi YuanFeng-(Wang), Yi ZongShi-(Hu), Yi ZhengRong-(Zhang), Yi ShangCheng-(Xia), Yi TingLiang-(Wang), Yi ChaoXi-(Wang), Yi SiMing-(?). This indicates that the author is related in blood to many persons the above mothers surnames. If the family tree is traced further above, surnames will be found. The 20 generations of the authors family lived in the MaiYuan village. The above first name "AnJue" sounds the same as the English name "ANGEL", "TaiWei" the same as "DAVID" and "GuoE" the same as "GORE". Yi SiMing sounds like the brother of "YiSRAEL" in the Christian bible. The MaiYuan PU started from Yi ZhenXiu (Gui Yi Lang 1400-1474) six hundred years ago. There has been from 20 to 23 generations. If the population increased to F=2 times every 70 years, i.e., they lived 70 years, had four children, and had no grandchildren at death. Yi ZhenXiu couple's offsprings would amount to 776 today. My estimate is between 500 and 1000. The calculation is realistic. As comparison, F=1.5 and F=3 would result in 66 and 25367 persons respectively, which are incorrect. Using the ratio that one person is multiplied by 500 in 600 years, it is estimated that the population of China in year 1400 (Beginning of Ming Dynasty) was two millions. This estimate is probably realistic. If we use F=2 in 70 years to correct the calculation for the world population in the above paragraph (F=1.5 was used), the result is N=2205. This means that one couple in the year 205 BC can propagate to today's world population. The year 205 BC was in the historic time span from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period in the Chinese history with the city of LuoYan as the political center. Clearly, there were far more than one couple at that time. If we further assume that the human race started with 10 couples, then it would take only 1972 years to reach the year 2000 world population. This demonstrates that the world population growth was interrupted. Based on history books, such interruption was apparently caused by wars. But, from the experience of MaiYuan village and surrounding communities, the interruptions were mainly caused by limited natural resources that limit marriages, birth and longevity. The book quoted that in the Han dynasty of China in year 2 AD, there was the first recorded population census and the total population was 57,671,000, most of whom lived in northern China (Geelan and Twitchett 1974). The calculation above indicate that such a high population figure must be taken with caution. The calculation above lends credit to the belief that all humans on earth are related in blood.

The fourth sentence of the YI LING GONG PU expressed that ancesters lived in beautiful natural environment. It also implied that the human kind originated from another planet. The twelve sentence compared offsprings to the post KunLun mountains. The KunLun Mountains are high mountains situated to the north of the worlds highest mountains - Hymalayas. The KunLun mountains were likely the place where humans originated on earth. It could also be the place where YI LING GONG PU was first authored. The Tarim Basin desert and other deserts were likely seas in the ancient past. The province name "QingHai-Deep Blue Sea" likely came out of this. With the gradual exhaustion of natural resources and the dried-up of the seas, humans migrated to the east and to the west, south and north. Since the KunLun Mountains are the origin of many great rivers, outward migration was relatively easy. The Yellow and Yangtze rivers flow to China to the east, The MeKong river flows through China, Thailand, Cambodia and VietNam in the South-East, YarLung Zangbo Jung river flows through Tibet and Bangladesh in the South, The Indus and Sutlej rivers flow through Pakistan and India to the South, The Amudar'ya and Syrdar'ya rivers flow to Aral Skoy More sea (Uzbekistan) in the west, the Ili river flows to Lake Balkash (Kazakhstan) in the north-west, the Irtysh river flows through Kazakhstan and central Russia to the North. The Aral Skoy More sea is close to the Caspian sea which is connected to the Black sea. These two seas are likely the cradle of the white European people. The nations to the west of China are called "YIN" or "YI", and the nations to the east of China are called "YAN" or Sun. For examples, India means in Chinese "YIN Land"; Iran sounds like "Yi Lang, Yi Lan or Yi Luan" meaning "Mr. Yi, Remember Blue or Yi Got Into Trouble"; Iraq sounds like "YI NaKe (Where will YI go?)"; Yisrael sounds like "YI SiRei", meaning "Yi remembers the thunder"; Syria sounds like "SiRei Ya" meaning "remembers the thunder, please"; Jordan sounds like "Jo Tun" meaning "foot stop village"; Egypt sounds like "YI JiPu" meaning "YI continue with the PU". LIBYA means LI compete with YA. CHAD means XIA land. SUDAN means SU land. MALI means the village of MA or horse. Ethyopia sounds like "Yi SiE" meaning "Yi remember the geese". ANGOLA sounds like "An Gou La" meaning "enough peace". Italy sounds like "YI DaLi" meaning "Yi's great benefit". Spain sounds like "Si Pa In" meaning "You are afraid of YIN", or "Si Ben" meaning "You Fled". France sounds like "Fu Luan Si" meaning "Wealth Gives You Trouble". "Luis" sounds like "Lu Yi Shi" meaning "Road Travel-Change Master". Vatican sounds like "Fan Ti Gang" meaning "Meal Replace Steel". England sounds like "YIN Lang" meaning "smart man". Russia sounds like "LuXi" meaning "road to the west". Switzerland sounds like "Shui Shi Er Lang" (Auspicious Market Son). Austria sounds like "Ao Si Chuan" meaning "Endure the Four Rivers". Australia sounds like "Ao Si Chuan Li A", meaning "Endure the Four Rivers to Achieve Benefit". Holland sounds like "Hao Lang" meaning "Good man". Germany or Deuchland sounds like "De Guo" meaning "Land of Virtue". Sweden sounds like "Rui Di" meaning "Lucky Land". Viking sounds like "Fei King or Six King" meaning "Fly Metal or Road-Land King". American sounds like "A! Mi (Mei) Li Keng" meaning "Ah! Rice (Wheat) Pit". The American national bird is "EAGLE" which sounds like "YIN" in Chinese. To the east of China are Korea meaning "Face Sun" in Chinese and Japan meaning "Sun Land" in Chinese. The Islam religion might have come from "YI Si Lan" meaning "YI Remember the Blue" and Muslim religion from "Ma Remember the Forest", Christianity from "Moses, Jesus-Christ" meaning "Mao Choose West, Ji-Yi Choose West - Anti-Profit (Thunder) Master". Greece may be a dialect for "Anti-Profit (Thunder) Master (Christ)", but, it may also have to do with oil, grease and candle. Greek Capital "Athens" may mean "A sun's". Europe sounds like the Chinese "You Lu Pu (Oil Road PU)". The spanish explorer Christopher Columbus who discovered America sounds in Chinese like "Ke Li(Rei) Si Tou Fu - Ku Ling Bu Si" meaning "The Anti-Profit (Thunder) Master went for happiness - Cried that the forest should not have died". This is why the Christmas tree is the most common thing during the Chrismas Holiday. The "Catholic Church" also came from China (Cathay). The name "Jew" sounds like the Chinese name "Zhou" that is one of the most common names in China. The Jewish holiday "Yom Kippur" came from the Chinese "Yao Mo Gui Pa" meaning "Monster, Demon, Ghost, Fear". KunLun mountains also have meanings such as change-movement, waves, comparisons, firm-strong, water and mineral sources, etc..

The English word for "correct" is "right", but, the corresponding Chinese word is "middle". It is possible that when human ancesters migrated from the KunLun mountains (north of Hymalayas) to the west, they wondered which direction to go at some place like Iraq. The European ancesters chose the "right" hand or the northern direction, but, the African ancesters chose the left hand or southern direction. The English uses "JUSTICE" to represent "Correct Decision" in relation to the law. The word "JUSTICE" came from "JUST" and "JAH" meaning "Just in Time, Just Enough" and "For the Public Good". The Chinese character "Zhen (Middle)" also contains these meanings.

The common names in the west and the east had the same origin, although people were called mainly by the first names in the west and by the surnames in the east. The names evolved from simple descriptions of things and characteristics. The following relations of English and Chinese names are given as examples: "Adam (A Dan - Beginning, Egg)", "Eve (Yi Fu - Number one, First Wave, Cloth)", "Moses (Mu Shi - Shepherd, Mao Ze Xi - Mao choose west)", "David (DaHuZi -Beard Man, From Big Lake)", "John (Jiang - River)", "Mathews (Ma Shi - Horse Master)", "Mark (Ma Ke - Horse man)", "Peter (Ping Di - Flat Land)", "Luke (Lu Ke - Road Guest)", "Job (Zhou - Circle, Border)", "Jesus (Ji-Yi Ze Xi - Ji-Yi choose west)". Other examples for names are "Don" (Dong-East) , Ann (An-Peace), Jones (Xiong-Bear, Male Lion), Mary (Ma Li - Horse Benefit) , Clinton (Ke Lin Tun - Anti-Forest Village), Reagan (Lei Gen - Thunder Root), Ford (Fu Di - Happiness Land), Edward (Ai De Hua - love, virtue and Beauty). There are also names for places that came from description of the same thing, such as "Changsha" (Long Beach), "XiaoPing" (shopping), "MaLun"(Marin) and "MaiYuan (PulseHead or PHILIP)". There are also such personal names like "Chang Zi"(Longman), "HaiLun"(Helen), "Bing"(Ben), "Gou Zai"(Doug), "Jian" (Jane) and "Wei Lian" (William). There are also similar family names such as general Robert E. Lee of the South Confederate Army and Abraham Lin-coln of the North Union Army in the civil war of the United States as well as Young (Yang and Ya in Chinese). The men farmers in southern China has a tradition of keeping a 1.5 m long 0.2 m wide cotton cloth tie around the waist that is used both as a handkerchief and a rope. This evolved into the western tie for suites today. The farmers use a wooden pole of 1.5 m length to carry things on the shoulders. The pole may be used as a weapon for self protection against animals or criminals. The existence of such a light weapon is the reason why generations of chinese farmers can live together. In MaiYuan dialect, the white spider web is called "Bo Si Wang", where the words "Bo Si" is the same as the Chinese words for Persian. Certain Persian people likely had white hairs. This may indicate that ancestors of China likely had trade and family relations with the Persian people in the remote past. In fact, Marco Polo wrote that a certain Persian princess married into the KUBLAI KAHN's family.

The Chinese has used 10 Heavenly Stems (Fig. 3) since ancient times well before all the 10 solar stems (9 planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto plus the Sun) of the solar system had been discovered in the Western civilization. In fact, the last one, Pluto was discovered as recent as 1930 by American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. The name "Solar Sy-Stem" evolved from the name "Heavenly-Solar Stems". It is possible that the human race knew all about the solar system in the ancient past, but this knowledge was later lost. The Chinese also used 12 Earthly Branches as shown below to represent 12 months in a year or 12 divisions of a day well before the West found that the earth orbits around the Sun. The pronunciation of the the above 22 chinese character, plus that of the following 8 common characters for: Wind, Space, Bright, Horse, Fear, Steam, Big, Wave, included the pronunciation of all 26 English letters. This indicates that the western alphabets are audio abstractions of early Chinese characters. The very construction of the above ten Chinese characters may indicate the super-human history on a planet. They are explained as follows:


Figure 3. 10 heavenly stems and 12 earthly branches.

The very construction of the above ten Chinese characters may indicate the super-human history on a planet. They are explained as follows:

(1) Character JIA is made of the character for "plantation field", indicating the beginning of agriculture.
(2) Character JE3 is made of a sickle for harvesting crops, indicating the making of tools.
(3) Character BING3 shows a person in a house with ceiling and walls, indicating permanent residence.
(4) Character DING shows piles driven into the ground to mark boundaries, indicating ownership of property. It also means young men working as border guards.
(5) Character WU4 shows a weapon for self-protection.
(6) Character JI3 shows a winding river or stream, indicating irrigation of plantation fields, and migration and expansion along rivers.
(7) Character GENG shows a prosperous tree with roots, indicating advanced trees and fruits agriculture. It sounds the same as the character for "ploughing" . It may also indicate reworking of the land to achieve cyclic harvest.
(8) Character XIN sounds the same as the Chinese words for "New, Trust-Confidence, Income-Forest, Stars-Sound-Fragrance-Water, Joy, etc.". The character XIN consists of the two Chinese words for "Li (Build)" and "Shi (Ten)". The Chinese word for Ten has many positive meanings. Examples are "Food, Stone, Fact, Knowledge, Wisdom, Teacher, Lose, Model, See, Suitable, Wet, Try, Water Stream, Wash, Joy, Past, Daughter in Law, Rare, Fine, Silicon, West, Attack, Sacrifice, Pity". Therefore, the character XIN means "Build Earthly Paradise with Hard Work" as well as "Wanting too much to Cause Unnecessary Sacrifice". The western Christian religious symbol cross "CROSS" looks like the Chinese character for "Ten", but, the vertical bar is longer than the horizontal bar, i.e., asymmetrical from top to bottom. The symbol "CROSS" means "Crucifixion" and "Test of Steadfastness" in relation to Jesus Christ. In the ordinary use of the word of "cross", it may mean "Intersection" that tends to be used for negative meanings.
(9) Character REN2 sounds like the Chinese characters for "People, Pregnancy, Cooking, Responsibility, Duty, Benevolence, Endure, Toughness, Sword, Set Out, Harvest". It looks like the Chinese character for "King". It represents the operation of a people's kingdom.
(10) Character GUI sounds like the Chinese characters for "Rule, Noble, Track, Noble Flower, Rare, Destination, Ghost, Tricky, Kneel, Keeper, Tortoise" . Its pronounciation in the DongAn dialect is "KUI" that sounds the same as the Chinese characters for "Sun Flower, Chief, Lofty, Puppet, Helmet, Watching, Feedback, Shame, Deficit, Defeat". The upper left of the character looks like lightning and rain, its upper right looks like flying wing. GUI is close to the English word "Guide". In summary, it represents the Sun God above the sky, who use his rules to manage life below the heaven.

Taking into consideration the history contained in YI LING GONG PU, it is not difficult to see that the latter is the continuation of the above ten heavenly stems.

The ancient Chinese book "I Ching" sounds and means the same as "YI JING", and "YI JING" is contained in "YI LING". Therefore, "I Ching" originated from "YI LING". In the Chinese language, "MaiYuan" means the source of life, matter and energy. "Mai" sounds like "Wheat" and "Rice (Mi)" in Chinese or "Maize" in English. "MaiYuan" could also mean the source of wheat, rice and maize. "MaiYuan" also sounds similar to "MaYa" in Central America. The Chinese people and the Native American people have the same skin, hair and eye color. The Miwok natives of California used to harvest a wild rice sitting in canoes. "MaiYuan" and "MaYa" likely have the same origin. There is a rock painting from eastern Chad (Xia Land), probably less than 3000 old, which shows figures like the Chinese Oracle (Coulson and Campbell 2001). The top half of the rock painting shows a cow and three narrow waist women with head dress and long skirt. Each figure looks like the character "BU (no)" in the Chinese Oracle. The bottom half shows a large horse, the same size as the cow, a small horse and two wide waist women, also with head dress and long skirt. The painting likely depicted a gathering together of two different tribes, dependent on cows and horses respectively. These two tribes are like the Chinese people and the northern Mogolian people, respectively.

The Chinese character for "YI" symbolizes walking and flying creatures (with humans included). "YI" sounds like "Yi (wings of birds)", "Yi (clothes)" and "YIN". "YI" looks like the traditional Chinese character "Ma (horse)". "YI" means change-movement with time, clothing, amiable, plain, trade, etc.. "YI" constitutes the right half of the traditional character for "Yan (sun)". In the ancient HuangDi times of 5000 years ago, the sun was likely worshiped as the firy God who could hear and see. Thus, "YI" also symbolizes the sun. Hence, "YI" is the unity and balance of "YIN" and "YAN". "YI" also sounds like "YI (different)", implying that we are different from other animals in the world. "LING" means spirit and forest, etc.. GOD is number one in the universe. "YI" is pronunced as the number "1" in Chinese. The word "GOD" contains "GO". "GO" has a meaning that is contained in the Chinese word "YI". "GOD" is spirit, i.e. "LING" in Chinese. GOD sounds like "GONG". This indicates that "GOD" and "YI LING GONG" may have the same origin. "GOD" is part of "GOOD", and this is demonstrated in the Christian Bible (see books of "Genesis" and "Exodus"). YI LING GONG PU is all GOOD. This is the difference between the two. The positive encouragement of the YI LING GONG PU and the negative warning of the Bible are complementary for the benefit of humans. "GOD" sounds like the Chinese word "Gao (High)". The latter is not only used to measure height but also to indicate positive development such as "Ti Gao (improve)". If read backwards, "GOD" contains "DOG". This means that "GOD" takes care of dogs and other animals. The Chinese word "LING" includes animals and forest. In the west, the word "GOD" is the basis for the word "GOVERNMENT". The America dollar bills and coins all have on them the sentence "In God We Trust". The coins also have the word "Liberty" on it. In China, "YI" (Change), "Ling" (Spirit), "Gong" (Public Access and Ownership) and "PU" (Unified Way of Life) form the basis of government. These clearly demonstrate that humanity has partially implemented "YI LING GONG PU".

The book of Genesis of the Christian Bible wrote that GOD created the first human in the "Garden of Eden". Since "EDEN" sounds like "YI DE" . The "Garden of Eden" likely came from "YI Land". Since "YI" sounds the same as number "ONE" in Chinese, "Garden of Eden", "YI Land" and "First Land" refer to the same thing. "YID" is a slang for Jewish. "Yiddish" is a Hebrew language that was used by Jews in Northern Europe. "Yiddish" likely came from "YI". More specifically, "Garden of Eden" may refer to the area around the place "YiNing-YiPeace" and the river "YiLi" under the KunLun Mountains. In fact, in DongAn dialect, the three Chinese words "YiNing", "YiLi" and "Yi Ling" are pronounced the same. "GONG" sound like "GONG" (Arch) and looks like a mountain peak. It means stability, public service, support, bridge, strength and greatness. GONG also means "LEI GONG" (i.e., Thunder God). The English word "Commune" likely came from the Chinese character "Gong (Com)". YI LING GONG and the Christian idea that GOD is Son, Holy Spirit and Father in one are in agreement. They have the same origin. "PU" means "universal", "spectrum (diversity)", "charter", "genealogy", "servant" and "poem", etc.. The persons "MOSES" and "JESUS" as pronounced in English and Swedish may be translated into Chinese as "Mao ZeXI", meaning "Mao chose West", and "Ji-Yi ZeXi", meaning "Ji-Yi chose West".

It is likely that humans established kingdoms in the KunLun Mountains, did sky observations, developed languages, and had different kinds of agriculture and animal husbandry. The people who migrated to the west further developed the alphabetical languages, dry land agriculture and animal husbandry. The people who migrated to the east further developed the drawing-characters languages, dry land and water-paddy agriculture, husbandy and fishery. The Lunar Calendar is based on the phase changes of the moon. It reflects daily changes of the sky. It was further developed and used in Asia. Later, the Christian or solar calendar was further developed in Europe. It reflects the weather changes from season to season. Many people including scientists think that the solar calendar is more accurate than the lunar calendar because the earth rotates around the sun. However, observations and reasoning demonstrate that the lunar calendar is more meaningful, useful and scientific. For examples: (i) the Lunar Calendar has the solar calendar embed in it because it has the yearly cycle and seasons of a year; (ii) the Lunar Calendar accurately describes the phases of the Moon and the moon's position relative to the Sun on a monthly basis, which has dictated the life cycles of animals and human ancesters (such as the menstrual cycle of women, due to the fact that full moon nights are the warmest and brightest nights of a month); (iii) The Moon light help reduce temperature changes between day and night, which was crucial for the survival of all living things on the planet earth; (iv) the Moon is the main reason for ocean tide and its influence on the weather change (such as wind, cloud and rain) is at least as important as the Sun (see Fig. 4), and (v) the first day of the month on the Lunar Calendar is approximately the day when the moon and the sun are together in the sky and the fifteen day of the months is approximately the full moon night when the moon is 180 degrees behind the sun. The simple soap bubble experiment that every one can do may be used to demonstrate under what conditions a bubble will rise up to the sky or fall down to the ground. On the coastlines of oceans, such bubbles are created all the time.


Figure 4. Cloud that had risen from the Pacific Ocean (photographed on San Rafael Hill, 2004-06-16 20:30).

Human racial differences and similarities were mainly a result of firstly the power and selection of the different natural environments, secondly the selection of different human societies and thirdly genetic variation. Natural selection dictated that humans tended to adopt the color of the environment because of both coloring by food, water, wet air, smoke and solutions as well as camouflage against enemy animals and humans. Fresh water from the mountains carry black ingredients from forest fire ash and plant decompose. The air that rises from such water stream contains fine particles of such matter. Sea water contains chloride that has a little blue color. The white people with yellow hair were indications of adaptation to the cold, dry and white snow environment in the winter, dry weather and yellow grass and crop hay environment in the summer. For example, in the cold climate, the skin pores contracts to keep out the cold air; whereas in hot climate, the skin pores expand to allow for evaporation. Open pores may also be filled with color material and algae, resulting in skin color change. In warm climate, people worked and lived outside all year long and received the energy of the sun, such that the skin gradually turned black. Whereas in cold climate, people had half a year to live and work indoors, such that the skin gradually turned white. Black hair in the dry and intense sunny air would look a little gold-yellowish. Wet hair would look a little dark. The black people with black air were indications of adaptation to the hot, humid and dark rain forest around the equator. Black skin and hair were also caused by burning firewood for cooking and heating. Social selection dictates that the race that adapted to the natural environment best became the dominant class that gradually increased in population, whereas the minority race gradually diminished due to slow birth rate, marital mixing or mutual killing with the dominant race. Social selection also means that different races of humans modified and created their own living and working environments that ensured their own advantage. For example, the European people use a lot of white soap, dye and paint. The white material comes mainly from limestone. The people to the west of the Hymalayas have used alphabetical languages and dry land agriculture; and people to the east of the Hymalayas and to the south of the Yellow River have used character-drawing languages and water agriculture of rice paddies and fish ponds. Genetic variation means that odd physical features showed up in individuals who resemble ancesters at an ancient time and/or in a far away land when/where the environment was drastically different. Today's science and technology has unlocked the mystery of colors. Color printers uses the main three colors "RED-YELLOW-GREEN" to mix out numerous different colors. The author studied in Sweden at ages 21 to 24, studied and worked in Canada at ages 26 to 36. The two countries are cold and dry. When I was 40 years old, one third of my hair changed from black to white. This is unusual in my family. When I was at ages 34 to 36, I worked at a mine in Marathon, Ontario, Canada. I saw the Sun very little and my skin became clearly whiter. It should be pointed out that today many people color their hair into any color.

The facial shape, nose height, and eye color are closely related to the living environment and habit. People living close to the North Pole or those in deep valleys and trees are subject to short exposure to the Sun. The sleep for longer hours and the face and the nose tend to become longer. People who sleep on the back of the head tend to grow wider and flatter face than those who sleep on the sides of the head. Those who live in cold and dry climate have more difficulty breathing, and the nostrils tend to become larger and the nose tip become longer. Like the hair color, the eye color changes with age. My three year child has black eye balls, myself brown and my 77 year old father had grey-brown eyeballs. Like skin color, eye color gradually adopts the color of the surrounding. In cold snow weather and sea water environment, the eyes would gradually lose the black color ingredient. The pattern of the teeth affect the shape of the face. In the west, children generally adopt the dental procedure to align the teeth in order to eliminate opening and overlapping. In fact, some overlapping of the teeth prevents opening just like the tiles on the roof of a house.

Fig. 5 shows the photographs of the 7 members of my family. We grew up in different social conditions and natural environments that made us different from each other physically and spiritually. We should be equal partners in the family and society. Short descriptions of each individual follow the picture. Fig. 6 shows a photograph of the author and a man of MaiYuan. My eye color is typically bown, whereas his eyes are greenish blue. He said that his parents had common eye color.


Figure 5. The author's family.

Table 1. Physical Characteristics for Author's Family.
RelationAgeHeight (m)Weight (kg)ProfessionCharacteristics
Father77 1.75 60 - 50 Army veteran,farmer,elementary school teacherTall man
Mother731.6 40 Elementary school teacherShort thin woman
Eldest brother571.79 80 Construction worker,farmerLong big fellow
Elder sister461.67 60 Farmer,elementary school teacherTall woman
Elder brother451.67 60 - 55 Farmer,middle school teacherMedium size
Myself401.77 60 Professor,engineer,entrepreneurThin tall man
Younger sister371.6 45 Technician,insurance salesShort


Figure 6. Chinese man with greenish blue eyes (Right) and the author (Left).

The first sentence pointed out that human thinking and culture are as important as the sun and the planets in the sky. It used backward counting to imply the deterioration of the earth's environment. The author's grandfather's grandfather was Yi YouSen (has forest). His second name was Zhao Xin (the forecasting star) and his third name was HeQing (clear river). His elder brother YouYu (has prediction) had seven sons whose names had the character “XIN” as the third character, such as JinXin and GengXin. This demonstrates that the character “XIN”contains the meaning of "Star" or "planet". The character "XIN" in the fourth sentence consists of the two words "Sound and Fragrance" in Chinese. This reflected that the two natural phenomena were the same in origin, i.e., they both require the existence of air. The parallel combination of the two Chinese characters "XIN GUANG" reflected the unity of sound, particles and light. Western science re-discovered the unity of light in waves and particles in the 20th century. Furthermore, the Chinese character "XIN" in fourth sentence also implied "rain - water flow". The fourth sentence reflected the mutual reliance of the five things "rain, pollen, sound wave, light - lightning and warmth". The first three all depend on air, and warm weather depends on both light and air. This law is essential for us to maintain a healthy natural environment.

The 4th sentence described a beautiful natural environment with sound, pollen, light and deep water. It may also imply that the human kind came from a far away planet. This far away planet likely refers to Mars. Mars is the outer neighbor of Earth, and Venus is the inner neighbor. Mars has a diameter that is half the earth at the present time. It has an atmosphere that is 95% carbon dioxide (gas product from the burning of fuels)[2, 3]. Outside the orbit of Mars is a belt of metorites. It may imply that with the energy reduction from the Sun, life migrated from outer planets to inner planets in the Solar System. The tomb of the first Yi settler of MaiYuan, Gui YiLang (Sun First), pointed to the Saucer Rock that is beside the Comet Hill. The Comet Hill looks like a comet and the Saucer Rock with caves looks like alien saucer spacescraft. These may imply that the origin of the human kind was connected to alien landing, caves and the comets.

According to a Chinese legend, the great person "YU" defeated flood, and his son founded the first kingdom "XIA" (pronounced as "YA" in DongAn dialect) dynasty (2100-1600 BC). "YU" likely transformed from fish "YU", and he was empowered whenever rain "YU" fell. "YI" and "YA" likely originated from the legendary "YU". Today, in DongAn county of Hunan Province, China, The YI and XIA villages are neighbors, and there are marriages. The author's grandmother was Xia CuiYu. The "YI" nationality in south-western China may have the same origin as the "YI" nation-families in the rest of China. The Chinese "YIN" and "YANG" and the Western "I" and "A" likely originated from "YI" and "YA". Early humans likely lived beside rivers and relied on fish as food to a large degree. The stream in front of MaiYuan village was called "YIN River" in the past. Words in the English language like "INN" and "EASY-YIELDING" likely originated from "YI". The word "ISLAND" in Swedish and English likely came from "YI" as well. Another dialect pronounciation for the sun was "SUN" as in the book "SunZi Military Arts". This pronounciation for the sun was adopted in the English language. The Persian dynasties "SHAH" may have origin in the Chinese "XIA". The Mongol leader in the 13th century "Genghis Khan" sounds like "Gen Ji Shi Kang" meaning "Foundation-Base is Wellbeing". His Chinese name "Chen Ji Si Han" means "Accomplish Good and Remember Salty". His grandson "Kublai Kahn" sounds like "Ku Bu Lai Kang" meaning "Cry Not For Wellbeing". Kublai finally absorbed the China's Sung Dynasty and unified China. The proletarian revolution leaders "Engels" and "Marx" mean "Blessing to You" and "Horse Overcome Thinking" respectively in Chinese. The English name "Charles (Xia's Offspring)" might be ralated to the above name "XIA". The "AIDS Virus" is the most recent word that is derived from the "Spoil Children Disease" of the Chinese language.

The character for "Peace" in Chinese consists of "Rice" and "Mouth", symbolizing that the peace is the balance of food and population. The French and English word "REPUBLIC" may be derived from the French word "REPAS" which means "MEAL". The English word "Hey" (meaning dried grass) sounds the same as the Chinese character "He". The main western food such as "Milk" and "Beef" are derived from hey. Therefore, the western word "Hey" may have originated from the Chinese word "He". These indicate that the Chinese and Western cultures have the same understanding of peace. Another interesting Chinese word is "Zhou Yi (i.e., Cyclic Change)" or "LunHui". It was translated into western language by meaning as "REVOLUTION". After travelling around the earth via America and back to China, it became "Ge Ming" which has the meaning of killing. One of the earliest western handgun is the "REVOLVER" that is closely linked to revolution. The English word "GUN" likely came from the Chinese word "GANG (STEEL)". On the other hand, the English word "EVOLVE" may be derived from the Chinese word "YI FU" that means "changing and moving waves" or "one cycle". Other words that are similar in both sounding and meaning are: "SHENG" and "SOUND" or "SING", "DAN SHENG" and "DANCING".

The basic eleven chinese numbers in DongAn dialect (Fig. 7) have profound and interesting meanings. They may be the eleven most important reminders for a new immigrant:


Figure 7. Eleven digits in the Chinese language and the pronounciation in the DongAn dialect.

(0) Number LIN (zero) sounds the same as many Chinese words such as "Forest, Neighbor, Rain, Spirit, Life, Order, Ring, Hill, Mountain, Age, Animal, Clever, Quick". It looks like the Sun, Moon and Earth, etc.. It represent life under the sun.
(1) Number YI (one) sounds the same as many Chinese words such as "Second of Heavenly Stem, Yi, Cloth, Art(Talent), Move, Justice, Meeting, Service, Firm, Reliable, Control, Medicine, Women, Benefit, Odd(Differ), Remember, Hundred Million, Doubt, Wing, Ant, Friend, Suitable, Leisure, Joy, Chair, Station, Will, Translate, Anecdote, Ripples". It sounds like the Chinese words for "YIN, shade, Cause, Sound, etc.". It looks like horizon or surface of still water, or a ray of light.
(2) Number LEI (two) sounds like the Chinese word for Thunder. Another pronunciation is "NIAN" that sounds the same as the Chinese word for "Grinding". The standard Chinese pronunciation is ER that is the same as the Chinese word for children.
(3) Number SAN (three) sounds the same the Chinese word for mountain, like the Chinese word for Spectrum and Lightning. It implies mountain, rainbow or lightning, and thunder storm. It also sounds like the Chinese word for "Funeral".
(4) Number SI (four) sounds the same as the Chinese word for Death. It also sounds like the Chinese word for "Thread".
(5) Number WU(five) sounds the same as the Chinese word for simple House or Hut. It implies shelter.
(6) Number LU (six) sounds the same as the Chinese word for "Road", "Way" and "Land". Another pronounciation is "LIU" that sounds like "Flow" and "Willow".
(7) Number CHI (seven) sounds the same as the Chinese word for Eat. It implies food. Another pronounciation is "QI" that sounds the same as "Wife, Get Up, Together, Build, Gas, Oppress(Cheat), Abandon, etc.".
(8) Number BA (eight) sounds the same as the Chinese word for "Father, Rake, Cake, Shit, etc.". It implies what are needed for growing up.
(9) Number JIU (nine) sounds the same as the Chinese words for "Long Lasting" and "Wine". Wine can be used for food sterilization and pleasure.
 (10) Number SHI (ten) sounds the same as many words such as "Food, Stone, Fact, Knowledge, Wisdom, Teacher, Lose, Model, See, Suitable, Wet, Try". It sounds like XI that represent many words such as "Water Stream, Wash, Joy, Past, Daughter in Law, Rare, Fine, Silicon, West, Attack, Sacrifice, Pity". Its roman numeral representation is 10 that is the combination of YI and LING or YIN and YANG). It implies the end and beginning of the decimal cycle. In DongAn dialect, it implies marriage and birth.

A clear linkage between English and Chinese languages can be seen from the eleven basic English number (Fig. 8). These numbers are sonic representations of many Chinese words that state the things that are important to people. (0) ZERO from "Zei Lai Lo" meaning "the thief is here"; (i) ONE from "Wan" meaning many related things such as bowl, playing, late, done, king, etc; (ii) TWO from "Tu" meaning soil or land and travel, etc; (iii) THREE from "Shui" meaning water, (iv) FOUR from "Huo" meaning fire, (v) FIVE from "Fan" meaning meal and house or wealth (FaFu), (vi) SIX from "Shui Xi" or "Se Shi" meaning water stream and river or dating, (vii) SEVEN from "Shen Fen" meaning identification and profession, (viii) EIGHT from "Er Zi" meaning son, (viiii) NINE from "Nai" meaning milk and endurance, (x) TEN from "Tan, Tang, Teng or Deng" meaning charcoal, soup, blanket, lake, pond, pool, sugar, hall, talk, information, pain, vine, rise, bench, lantern, wait, etc.; (xi) ELEVEN from "YI FU" meaning clothes or "one cycle". The seven days of the week in English also have Chinese meanings based on the same pronounciation (Fig. 8).


Figure 8. Relations between English numbers and week days and Chinese words.

Fig. 9 shows the first 7 letters of the Greek Alphabet. They symbolize the humans living environment.


Figure 9. First seven letters of the Greek alphabet.

(1) The first couple of letters, alpha, represent the shape of a volcano and its mouth.
(2) The second couple of letters, beta, represent lakes and ponds inland.
(3) The third couple of letters, gama, represent rivers.
(4) The fourth couple of letters, delta, represent river delta at the merging place of two rivers or the entrance of a river to sea.
(5) The fifth couple of letters, epsilon, represent the coast line.
(6) The sixth couple of letters, zeta, represent the zig zag mountain trails.
(7) The seventh couple of letters, eta, represent a person carrying wood with a pole or bare shoulders.

The MAYA language used three digits to construct all numbers in the base-20 system (see Fig. 10). "__" represents "5", "o" represents "1", and the crescent moon shape represents zero. "__" symbolizes the horizon, "o" the sun, and the crescent moon shape the moon or human eyes (Coe and Kerr 1998). This may imply that the the moon was closely related to human origin and survival.


Figure 10. The MAYA base-20 number system (Notice the letter "IL" on the character for number "1". "IL" likely represented "YI LING", "YEAR" or "ILI" river). (from "The Art of the MaYa Scribe ". 1998. )

The Chinese pronunciation for " YI" and "LING" are the same as the roman numerals "1" and "0" respectively. The two numbers are the basis of mathematics and science. The number "1" conceptualizes "Gradual Change". If it is multiplied or divided by any other number, it does not alter the other number, but if it is added or subtracted by any other number, it causes gradual change in the other number. Therefore, "YI" is to "keep others and make them change gradually". The number "0" conceptualize "spirit". If it is multiplied or divided by any other number, it nullifies the end result. If it divides any other number, the end result is infinity. If it is added to a number, it is invisible. If it subtracts a number, it makes the result negative. Therefore, "Ling" is invisible enery. "YI LING" is invincible energy flow or power. The "gradual cyclic change" or "ZHOU YI" or "I CHING" is one form of "YI LING" that does not contain another type of change, i.e., the "sudden change". The Chinese classics "I Ching" ("Book of Cyclic Change" or "Mountain Chains" or "Ground Treasures") written more than four thousand years ago likely originated from "YI LING". "GONG" represents the things between and shared by "YI" and "LING". "PU" represents action plan, guidelines or charter. The purpose of YI LING GONG PU was to move the human society towards gradual progress and prevent abrupt change. From the philosophical point of view, "YI LING GONG PU" means that the universe is made up of living things, Change-Movement with Time, Spirit and Matter, and that there is diversity in the four things. Modern materialist dialectics considered that the universe is made up of Matter and Spirit and that Matter is changing constantly. The latter is contained in the former. Hence, "YI LING GONG PU" also represent the combination of "Natural, Human and Social Sciences and Technologies", and it is the origin and essence of our civilization.

This Chinese naming convention is a treasure among the cultures of the human kind. It not only passes literacy, morality and knowledge down the generations securely and accurately , but also exercises inter-generational planning. The YI LING GONG PU demonstrates a positive attitude, distinct and non-repetitive meaning in each character of the 52 characters in the 12 sentences. Part of Mao Zedong's Nation-Family PU is shown in Fig. 11. The "Yuan" (FAR) generation occurred in the same time period as the same character in the YI LING GONG PU. YI LING GONG PU also contained all the ideas expressed in the Christian bible, though the latter included detailed witnesses.


Figure 11. Part of the Mao Nation-Family PU for Chairman Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic of China.

The author was born in MaiYuan village of DongAn county. The author's father Yi ShiPu (HeCai, TianYi) was born in 1926 in the MaiYuan village during the First World War (1914-1929). He was a staff soldier in the army in the Second World War (1939-1950). The elders of MaiYuan village skipped the word "Yuan" (Far in English) in 1927 to start using the last eight sentences of YI LING GONG PU, that of DongAn. The author's eldest brother was born in 1948, the same year as the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. His name sounds the same as the then capital city of China "BaiPing".

The importance of mountain and forest is clearly indicated in the YI LING GONG PU. Mountain and forest are necessary for rain and the storage of water. In California, one often sees cloud that has risen from the Pacific ocean. But, such cloud does not produce thunder and rain. The cloud is blown to the mountain range in the east by the western wind. In the high mountains and forest, the cloud may produce thunder and rain. This author went to the YOSEMITE national forest park on June 30, 2004. It was sunny and warm. Just before I entered the mountains in mid-afternoon, I saw black cloud above the high mountains. At 12:00 on July 1, 2004, I arrived at the GLACIER point at an elevation of 2200 m. It was sunny. There was white snow on the high mountains in front of us and there was cloud above the snow. Thunder was heard (Fig. 12). If there were no forest on the mountains, the exposed rocks would be heated up during the day, and there would not be snow, cold cloud or rain. At glacier point, I also saw how the tall cypress tree ageed. The tallest tree among a group of trees took the strongest sun and wind. It was also the first tree to start loosing the green color, leaves, branches and the bark. The trees around it were prosperous and are striving to be the tallest tree (Fig. 13). Earlier in the year 2001, the author went to the OLYMPIA national forest park. There was a tall and big tree on the ground that had fallen uprooted. It fell because the roots were not sufficiently firm and there were no tall trees around it (Fig. 14).


Figure 12. Trees, snow, cloud and thunder at Glacier Point of Yosemite National Forest Park at 12:00 July 1, 2004.


Figure 13. Aging of tall redwood tree at Glacier Point of Yosemite National Forest Park (photograph on July 1, 2004).


Figure 14. Fallen redwood tree at a Camp site on Olympia National Forest Park, Port Angles, Washington, USA (photograph in April, 2001).

YI LING GONG PU was reflected in the the typical house architecture in the MaiYuan village (Fig. 15). The main house structure consisted of vertical wooden pillars and horizontal plates that were assembled without the use of any metal nails. Tong-oil coated bamboo nails and wooden wedges were used to assemble the structure into a single entity. It is stable against earthquake and ground subsidence. Wood comes from trees that make effective use of solar energy. It is reusable and renewable. Three of the fourth walls were constructed of mud bricks that were resistant against fire, heat, cold and sound echo. The floor was made of stiffened mud that was safe for kids. Rectangular limestone blocks that were hand chiseled were used as the wall for water ditches. They were also used as outdoor benches. If they are not intentionally damaged, they remain essentially unchanged after more than 130 years of rain and wind. There is an orchard around the house and the orchard is enclosed in a mud brick wall on top of which is covered with a medicinal vine tree. The mud bricks are also reusable and renewable. Mud and sand are carried by flowing water to deposit in ponds. It can be used in rice fields and then used to make mud bricks later. The house as shown in Fig. 15 was built about one hundred and thirty years ago with used wood material from another building.


Figure 15. Typical MaiYuan house (the carving window is absent, wooden pillar diameter 256 mm). Left is front view of the left room (the mud brick enclosure wall with vine on top stands in the left-front), Right is right view (the room on the right was taken down about 20 years earlier). (photograph in September of 2003)

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Figure Captions:

Figure 1. The YI LING GONG PU, its English translation and Chinese interpretation.

Figure 2. The "Comet Hill" and "Saucer Rock" (center front) of MaiYuan. The Saucer rock is a limestone structure with connected caves.

Figure 3. 10 heavenly stems and 12 earthly branches.

Figure 4. Cloud that had risen from the Pacific Ocean (photographed on San Rafael Hill, 2004-06-16 20:30).

Figure 5. The author's family.

Figure 6. Chinese man with greenish blue eyes (Right) and the author (Left).

Figure 7. Eleven digits in the Chinese language and the pronounciation in the DongAn dialect.

Figure 8. Relations between English numbers and Chinese words.

Figure 9. First seven letters of the Greek alphabet.

Figure 10. The MAYA base-20 number system (Notice the letter "IL" on the character for number "1". "IL" likely represented "YI LING", "YEAR" or "ILI" river). (from "The Art of the MaYa Scribe ". 1998. )

Figure 11. Part of the Mao Nation-Family PU for Chairman Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic of China.

Figure 12. Trees, snow, cloud and thunder at Glacier Point of Yosemite National Forest Park at 12:00 July 1, 2004.

Figure 13. Aging of tall redwood tree at Glacier Point of Yosemite National Forest Park (photograph on July 1, 2004).

Figure 14. Fallen redwood tree at a Camp site on Olympia National Forest Park, Port Angles, Washington, USA (photograph in April, 2001).

Figure 15. Typical MaiYuan house (the carving window is absent, wooden pillar diameter 256 mm). Left is front view of the left room (the mud brick enclosure wall with vine on top stands in the left-front), Right is right view (the room on the right was taken down about 20 years earlier). (photograph in September of 2003)