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Chinese Antiques, China Today - Ancient Elegance, Now Brutal Bully

by DerekDashwood

Chinese antiques have long held fascination in the west. In fact,
the oldest continually settled city in the world, Damascus, was
for 7,000 years the natural western terminus of the fabled Silk
Route to the Orient. Merchants from Egypt and north into modern
Turkey or west into Greece would have gathered at Damascus, which
had valley routes past burning deserts and high mountain passes
all the way to China. In Damascus was crafted woven Damask from
raw silk from faraway Cathay, or China, the only source of this
mystery product none others could duplicate.

When Marco Polo took this well worn route to China in the mid
1250's, it still required a series of guides as this was, and
likely still is, largely ungoverned area with various tribes in
conflict with a neighbor. And to dress in rags and appear as a
leper would discourage bandits, as the plague and various
sicknesses were everywhere. It was to the great fortune of Marco
Polo that he arrived in a time of peace.By then, the Mongul Khan
had murdered and terrified his way to absolute power and his
mighty court was filled with the most gifted artisans he had
saved from the sword.

But during the rampages west both father and grandfather Genghis
and Kublai terrified the world to the gates of Moscow and Warsaw
as all quaked by the Golden Hordes from Asia. These wild Mongol
warriors lived by drinking the blood of the horses as we sap a
maple for its juice. When they slaughtered most of the people of
a city such as Samarkand, they would mutilate but allow to live
some few to go west and warn the next town they were on their
way. Often, they found a deserted town, which they would burn
anyway.

As the Mongols passed the Ural Mountains into Europe, the now
Christian nations began to send forces to stop these barbarians
with no armor, simply wearing silk clothes on ponies with swords,
bows and arrows again Teutonic knights in full body armor on
armored horses. Again and again it was a victory for the Mongols
as it was found that they could wind an arrow back out of the
silk. In contrast, the many penetrations between body armor of
knight and horse soon had a knight on the ground, swinging his
mighty, and heavy sword to his death.

Moscow was taken, Warsaw was next; then the sudden death of
Kublai had the Golden Hordes lose interest and return east
forever. At any rate, Marco Polo returned to Venice, through such
terrible realities, adorned with riches from a faraway land. We,
the modern next door neighbor of Marco, go stand in line with a
huge buggy at a discount store loaded with Chinese modern fakes,
which we do not need, can not afford, and requires another foul
air CO2 coal factory to make more, which we will be back for. Are
we mad?

Right now, Chinese who have only known a one party state
philosophy all their lives are angry at us in the west for
pretending their Tibet is really of China and is theirs. Since
1950. But since the death of Guatama Buddha in 480 B C E it has
followed the ways of Buddhism, even to the point that each holy
man since then was picked as the newborn child in Tibet after the
Dhali Lhama dies. Does that not sound like our Three Wise Men
from the East who arrived at the birth of Jesus, looked him in
the eyes, and offered their gifts.

Now, we see Buddhist monks all in reeducation centers having to
renounce this terrorist organization, of which the Dhali Lhama is
the chief terrorist. And gentle meditators around the world feel
their blood boil in anger at this totalitarian mentality that may
create of their coming Olympics all the grace and goodwill of the
Berlin 1936 Olympics. Farce as democracy. Except now cameras as
cell phones take us inside the building reeducation centers.
Germany called them concentration camps. China calls it Tibet.

When we see decent people in London and Paris protest and get
beaten back, and then how the route tightens up so it jumped to
Asia, where all trading partners have had a talking to, we learn
on British television, from the Chinese local government man.
China will punish those who cause trouble, so in Jakarta we see
only local Chinese around the city stadium, police and torch
bearer run around the stadium several times, and then the torch
is off to careful guard in Australia, who now have China as their
chief importer, coal mostly.

And now Chinese protesters are boycotting French stores. And we
should too. Except not French stores. We need to teach civility
to a fire breathing dragon who is getting rich because we lust
after their cheap junk. Stop! Let us get ahead of their curve;
while they grow on junk we buy and now boycott us for being moral
world citizens, let us buy up their Mings and antiques, which are
still at bargain prices while they take photos with their new
cell phones. A decade from now, they will be much richer, and
wonder where great grand mothers Ming vase is.

Check the net: oh, there it is, on your mantle, with the rest of
the set. Meanwhile, coal brain Ned down the street is having a
huge garage sale of all his fakes collection from China. But it
seems everyone else kept going with their own huge buggy from
those same discount stores, and garage sales everywhere have the
same fakes. Not on your mantle, Mickey. You have been collecting
investments in the future, and slowing down CO2 emissions that
little bit. That's one fine way to cut down old dragon breath.

Buy Chinese antiques, ignore coal burning modern China, skip the
Olympics. Let us see who can take whose breath away.

Derek Dashwood enjoys noticing positive ways we progress, the
combining of science into the humanities to measure politics,
wise use and mis use of power and protective love at 
<a href="http://www.chineseantiquesshop.com">Chinese
Antiques</a>

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