台灣23位原住民：阿美族，今天拜訪詩巫馬拉山長屋的伊班人，慶祝達雅佳節 ．．．．．． 圖示主人視客人需要，以可口可樂代替米酒，不過來自台灣的阿美族對米酒肯定沒問題...... 23 Amis, an indigenous people from Taiwan visited Iban long house at Bawan Assan, Sibu, they found a lot of common interests and customs......
這是台灣原住民的立法委員廖國棟，在長屋與伊班小童們合影，他說兩邊的原住民應有許多淵源與關係的...... Sovin or KuoTung Liao, A Legislator of the Legislative of Taiwan realized that Iban here would be their relative! 當大家一同唱歌起舞時，雖然語言不同，但肢體語言，已經很難出到底誰是台灣的原住民與砂拉越的的原住民了！ Although their language are not the same, but when they sing and dance together they found they are almost the same gesture and same tune......
七步之內必有芳草／菜！ 詩巫好多人的後園都有種些菜或草，在下於默迪卡家屁股大的後園，也善用每寸土地，種了些菜，也長了不少野草，最近才發現那種視為日本草（頑固的意思）是叫做千人拔，整棵連根放進熬熱水，可以對發炎等，若加進雞湯裡可以補腦力的作用！千人拔又叫活力草呢！ 從最近鏡頭的參茅到香草，走七步有八種或草或菜的植物，讓全家人吃得安心，對健康又有幫助......看看你家後園是不是也有這么多寶物!? The following plants and herbs are very common at Sibu household backyard! 艾草－－對乏力，感冒有幫助(Ngi herbal) 蕃薯葉是豐富纖維的通便佳餚Hi-fibre potato leaves 難以根除的千人拔－－草葯(Chien-ren-ba,thousand ppl can't pull out-another herbal grass) 角豆菜Lady finger 香草加參茅煮水成為鹹性水，但在端午節還是包裹粽子的好材料！ This fragant leaf with Chanmou leaf will become a neutralised drinking water! 這是葱與蘆薈onion and aloe vera 用香草裹成的粽子，比周部長的好吃多啦！ 後園的許多草可能都是很有用途的！ 還好屈原跳江自殺，所以今天有裹粽子習俗，但不曉得，在這期間韓國的前總統竟然步其後塵...... 恭祝大家Happy端午節！ 剛收到家政的短訊有關粽子的： 無論日子叫人多么《沉粽》， 你要多《保粽》和《蒸粽》， 人生事務《飯粽》，但你在我《心粽》 是極其的《貴粽》，祝端午節喜樂，多多蒸粽！
The Nestorian Stele (also known as the Nestorian Stone or Nestorian Tablet)
"Behold the unchangeably true and invisible, who existed through all eternity without origin; the far-seeing perfect intelligence, whose mysterious existence is everlasting; operating on primordial substance he created the universe, being more excellent than all holy intelligences, inasmuch as he is the source of all that is honorable.
This is our eternal true lord God, triune and mysterious in substance. He appointed the cross as the means for determining the four cardinal points, he moved the original spirit, and produced the two principles of nature; the somber void was changed, and heaven and earth were opened out; the sun and moon revolved, and day and night commenced; having perfected all inferior objects, he then made the first man; upon him he bestowed an excellent disposition, giving him in charge the government of all created beings; man, acting out the original principles of his nature, was pure and unostentatious; his unsullied and expansite mind was free from the least inordinate desire; until Satan introduced the seeds of falsehood, to deteriorate his purity of principle; the opening thus commenced in his virtue gradually enlarged, and by this crevice in his nature was obscured and rendered vicious; hence three hundred and sixty-five sects followed each other in continuous track, inventing every species of doctrinal complexity; while some pointed to material objects as the source of their faith, others reduced all to vacancy, even to the annihilation of the two primeval principles, some sought to call down blessings by prayers and supplications, while others by an assumption of excellence held themselves up as superior to their fellows; their intellects and thoughts continually wavering, their minds and affections incessantly on the move, they never obtained their vast desires, but being exhausted and distressed they revolved in their own heated atmosphere; till by an accumulation of obscurity they lost their path, and after long groping in darkness they were unable to return.
Thereupon, our Trinity being divided in nature, the illustrious and honorable Messiah, veiling his true dignity, appeared in the world as a man; angelic powers promulgated the glad tidings, a virgin gave birth to the Holy One in Syria; a bright star announced the felicitous event, and Persians observing the splendor came to present tribute; the ancient dispensation, as declared by the twenty-four holy men [the writers of the Old Testament], was then fulfilled, and he laid down great principles for the government of families and kingdoms; he established the new religion of the silent operation of the pure spirit of the Triune; he rendered virtue subservient to direct faith; he fixed the extent of the eight boundaries, thus completing the truth and freeing it from dross; he opened the gate of the three constant principles, introducing life and destroying death; he suspended the bright sun to invade the chambers of darkness, and the falsehoods of the devil were thereupon defeated; he set in motion the vessel of mercy by which to ascend to the bright mansions, whereupon rational beings were then released, having thus completed the manifestation of his power, in clear day he ascended to his true station.
Twenty-seven sacred books [the number in the New Testament] have been left, which disseminate intelligence by unfolding the original transforming principles. By the rule for admission, it is the custom to apply the water of baptism, to wash away all superficial show and to cleanse and purify the neophytes. As a seal, they hold the cross, whose influence is reflected in every direction, uniting all without distinction. As they strike the wood, the fame of their benevolence is diffused abroad; worshiping toward the east, they hasten on the way to life and glory; they preserve the beard to symbolize their outward actions, they shave the crown to indicate the absence of inward affections; they do not keep slaves, but put noble and mean all on an equality; they do not amass wealth, but cast all their property into the common stock; they fast, in order to perfect themselves by self-inspection; they submit to restraints, in order to strengthen themselves by silent watchfulness; seven times a day they have worship and praise for the benefit of the living and the dead; once in seven days they sacrifice, to cleanse the heart and return to purity.
It is difficult to find a name to express the excellence of the true and unchangeable doctrine; but as its meritorious operations are manifestly displayed, by accommodation it is named the Illustrious Religion. Now without holy men, principles cannot become expanded; without principles, holy men cannot become magnified; but with holy men and right principles, united as the two parts of a signet, the world becomes civilized and enlightened
