Ah, then it probably DOES mean "great virtue shows the Way". (BTW, I was mistaken about my comment about simplified characters: I was in the wrong Pinyin mode when typing. The stone said 載, not 载. Same character, just traditional.) I met my Chinese/Japanese wife while living in Japan: she's now a college teacher here in the States. -- Roger Williams <roger at qux.com> Chief Technical Officer, Qux Corporation On 16 Mar 2015, at 20:29, keith harmon Snow <keith.harmon.snow at gmail.com> wrote: > excellent, thank you very much. It is a tablet on a mountain in Wudang Shan behind the Purple Heaven Palace at the cave shrine of a famous "bee daoist". > > Can I ask where your understanding of Chinese comes from? > > thank you again > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Roger Williams <roger at qux.com> wrote: > I think it's an obscure Chengyu (four-character idiom), but it's in > simplified characters, so it must be on the Mainland. > > 厚德载道 (hòu dé zài dào) literally means "great virtue fills the road", > which I guess means something like "great virtue is highly praised". > (In the right context, it might also mean that "great virtue conveys the Way".) > > More common similar Chengyu are 厚德载物 (great virtue can carry all > the things in the world) and 厚德载福 (great virtue brings happiness). > > -- > Roger Williams <roger at qux.com> > Chief Technical Officer, Qux Corporation > > On 16 Mar 2015, at 15:59, Deborah Chandler <debchandler411 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > A friend needs a sign translated from Chinese to English. I can't > > attach it here, due to list guidelines, ut if you are willing to help, > > could you reply to my friend, Keith, who is cc'ed here? > > > > Thanks, > > Deb > > _______________________________________________ > > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > > > > -- > > keith harmon snow > USA: +1.413.626.3800 > > 84 Goshen Road > Williamsburg, MA 01096 USA > > A participant at the 65th Annual Conference on World Affairs, Keith Harmon Snow is the 2009 Regent's Lecturer in Law & Society at the University of California Santa Barbara. Some of his reportage, writings, photography and human rights reports can be seen on the web sites: Conscious Being Alliance, All Things Pass & Keith Harmon Snow. > > Save a girl's life! > www.stopexcision.net