The word 'jing' is a valid word in written English.
It is often used as an interjection, expressing surprise or excitement, similar to words like 'wow' or 'whoa'. It can also be used as a noun, meaning a loud and abrupt noise or a Chinese currency unit. Example sentence 1: "Jing! I can't believe I won the lottery!" Example sentence 2: "The door slammed shut with a loud 'jing', causing everyone in the room to jump." Example sentence 3: "The souvenir shop sells traditional Chinese items for as low as 10 jing per piece."
Reverence captures the original meaning of jing.
They are titled "Laozi Classic, Part 1" (Laozi shang jing) and "Laozi Classic, Part 2" (Laozi xia jing).
Laozi 53, for example, states, "The great dao is very even (flat, easy to travel on), but people like (to take) by-ways (jing)." The literal sense of dao as a path, contrasted in this instance with jing, a small trail off the main road, is clearly preserved here, but it is also easy to see how it can be used as a metaphor, how the extended ethical and spiritual sense of dao comes into the picture.
Examples include the medical "classic" The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (Huang Di nei jing, Unschuld 2003, Unschuld and Tessenow 2011) and the Zhou [dynasty] Classic of Gnomon Calculation (Zhou bi suan jing, Cullen 1976 and 1996).
The Han shu Bibliographic Treatise consists of six sections: (1) the Six Arts (liu yi 六藝) or Classics (liu jing 六經), (2) Masters (zhu zi 諸子) texts of Warring States philosophy, (3) Poetry (shi fu 詩賦), (4) Military works (bing shu 兵書), (5) Numbers and Techniques (shu shu 數術), and (6) Recipes and Methods (fang ji 方技).
A subsection titled Turtle and Yarrow (shi gui 蓍龜) contains texts on turtle-shell and yarrow divination, including the Zhou yi (Zhou Changes), the original text of the Yi jing or Book of Changes.
In the three-minute video, 'From Candles to Computers: Bringing Electricity to China's Jing Jin village', she says: "The coal industry is a major force in eliminating fuel poverty in China but, more importantly, it's a critical driving force for the phenomenal economic growth China has experienced".
The Xian High-Tech Industries Development Zone will eventually span 90 square kilometres at a cost of 100 billion yuan ($12 billion), says Jing Junhai, its director.The sheer size of this undertaking betrays China's ambition to become a global power in software and services to match its pre-eminence in manufacturing.
It is as if they were being taught to swim without ever getting into the water.China has made English compulsory in school from a young age, but teachers are overstretched and mostly underqualified, says Jing Zhao, a visiting researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
The story Linda Jing tells in the video is slick and persuasive: she was a girl from a poor village forced to study by candlelight because there was no electricity until coal-fired power plants arrived, transforming her destiny and that of China.
What are the other opportunities that can be out there?" Linda Jing has certainly made the most of her opportunities.
