YI LING GONG PU

Notes and English translation by Yi Xiaoping. Draft in 2002-2. Update in 2004-11-24.
Please find detailed explanations in a separate article entitled "YI LING GONG PU and Global Culture Connections".

YI LING GONG PU OF TAIHE
From TaiHe County, JiangXi Province, China

(i)

Clean Water, Forest, Soil, Able Persons, Seasons and Continuance.

(ii) zheng4 yi3 wen2 cai2
Civil Persons in Government.

(iii) bi4 zhong4 fu4 da4
Middle in Wealth and Greatness.

(iv) ting2 chao2 jing guo2
Family-Neighbors, Community-Society-Government, Capitals and Countries.

(v) er3 shou3 zeng tian
You Keep and Elevate Sky.

(vi) qi2 xin4 ying4 bing3
Rely on Wonderful Belief.

YI LING GONG PU OF MAIYUAN AND DONGAN
From DongAn County, Hunan Province, China

Shown on this page are persons naming poems for 52 generations. The first four sentences have been used as the naming convention by the YI families in MaiYuan village, EastPeace county, Hunan Province. The last eight sentences were accepted as the naming poem by all YI families in EastPeace county. The MaiYuan elders used to worship "Ga La"(dialect) or "Jia Lao (or Zu Zong)" (standard Chinese) which sounded like "God" in English or "Jah" in Hebrew, respectively. Since the neighbors in MaiYuan are usually related in blood by their ancestors, such practice of worship of ancestors is equivalent to the teaching in the New Testament of the Christian bible "love your neighbors as yourself". The English word "Gospel" (meaning definitive truth and teachings) likely came from the Chinese words "Ga Pu (or Jia Pu)".

The English sentences are concise but simplified translations.

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[1] DongAn (EastPeace) Dialect
gui3

Sun, Work, Life, Civil Society-Culture, Thinking-Morality, Read-Write, Ask-Listen-Smell, Learn-Teach-Try.

[2] EastPeace Dialect
chao2 ting2 shang4 zheng4 zong1
Face Court, Family-Neighbors, Community-Government, Uphold, Truth, Justice, Purpose, Good Faith.

[3] EastPeace Dialect
yuan2 guo2 tai4 min2 an1
Unit Countries, United Nations, Garden-Orchard-Park, Everyone, Health, Safety, Content, Tranquility.

[4] EastPeace Dialect
zu3 you3 xing1 guang1 yuan3
Ancestors, Planets-Moon, Light, Sound-Fragrance-Pollen-Water-Change, Far Travel, Foresight.

[5] EastPeace Dialect
he2 ping2 du3 shi2
River - Rice Plant, Population, Moderate-Peaceful, Equal, Honest, Realistic, Facts, Practice.

[6] EastPeace Dialect
pu3 hou4 qin1 cheng2
Thrifty, Plain-Warm, Giving, Forgiving, Kind, Loving, Faithful-Trustworthy, Sincere-Open.

[7] EastPeace Dialect
zhen4 gang1 zhi2 ji4
Promote, Fishery, Cultivation, Industry-Trade, Reason-Law-Discipline, Chronicle, Memorial, HelpOneAnother.

[8] EastPeace Dialect
jing4 ye4 luo4 qun2
Respect, Work-Business, Competence, Confidence, Learn-Teach, Among People, Sharing, To Everyone.

[9] EastPeace Dialect
ying1 cai3 jun4 fa1
Trees-Flowers, Living Things, Yin-Yan, Diversities, Men-Women, Wisdom-Courage, Talents, Expression.

[10] EastPeace Dialect
tan2 gou4 ding3 xin1
Family-Neighbors, Community-Government, Social Welfare, Talk-Communicate, Education- Study Halls, Kitchen-Dining-Hall, Fresh Meal, Hot Water-Soup-Blanket, Rest-Sleep-Roof, Fame, Planting-Nursing, Walk-Income; Income Aid, Pond-Pool-Lake-Reservoir-Shoal, Earthen Jar-Jug-Pot-Forum-Music-Elasticity, Honey-Syrup-Sugar-Charcoal, Market-PreOrder, Hook-Ditch, Mechanism, Structures-Parts-Tools, Dog-Sufficiency, Vigilant-Protected, Safe-Stable, Change-Travel.

[11] EastPeace Dialect
mian3 wei2 gan4 dong4
Encourage, Timber Trees, Dryland Forest, Service, Independent, Cooperative, Responsible, Leadership.

[12] EastPeace Dialect
chui2 shi4 hou4 kun1
Immortality, Exercises, Example, Training, Compare, United Generations, Forest Behind, Hill-Mountain-KunLun.

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