Until I set foot at the Airport of Zhengzhou in the middle of the night, I had only a vague idea about Zhengzhou mainly involved in my best friend Zhongguo Wang’s exodus to get better protection by so many disciples nearby during his rainy days. So, I had such limited knowledge about Zhengzhou – holding about 12 million people as the capital city of Henan Province/ 하남성: 河南省 out of total 90 million in the central part of China, for example- till I got there and was embarrassed to learn Zhengzhou was THE center of 중원/中原 we all are so familiar through 삼국지 / 제갈량 which I didn’t know till I got there. Further, it was such a nice surprise to find it is located so close to 낙양/洛陽: Luòyáng, a symbol of Chinese civilization with full of historical sites. Indeed, one week was simply not enough as they mentioned, to visit these many places nearby I was quite interested so that I had to choose only a few places I couldn't miss like such famous 소림사 (Shaolin Temple) and the Longmen Grottoes containing thousands of Buddhist rock carvings dating back to the 5th century, etc before I left. But through the second visit years later I enjoyed Zhengzhou so much that I still remember much of it wishing to visit someday one more time.

BB Lee

Dear BB: Let me leave some footnotes to make these Chinese English words more familiar to our readers.

Zhengzhou : 鄭州(정주)는 예부터 상업도시이며 하남성의 지역수도시로서 큰 성시이다. 중원 성시중 핵심으로 국무원은 중국중부지구의 중요핵심성시임을 승인하였고 2021년에는 전시를 6게 구로 종속시켜서 1개현은 5개군 수준의 도시를 지배하며 총면적을 7446 km²이다.

Professor ZhongGao Wang must be 中高王敎授 즉 중고왕 교수

We, the Korean American expatriates, could feel more familiar with my footnotes I hope.

Kwan Ho Chung

Thanks for chipping in to help proper interpretation of Chinese alphabets. Indeed, the way we were taught to pronounce Chinese alphabets is much different from how they pronounce for themselves so that it would need a double effort to our generation to clarify to become a menace!

Anyhow, Prof Wang Zhongguo is pronounced to 왕충호 in Korean and he is respected as the father of modern Chinese vascular surgery and also the world pioneer of an Asian version of Primary Budd Chiari Syndrome (BCS) caused by suprahepatic IVC occlusive disorder as the extension of hepatic vein outlet occlusion, I also had to learn from him.

Indeed, my first liver transplant candidate was a Japanese American woman who got the diagnosis of BCS from Kyoto University previously. But I had no idea about the Asian type of BCS different from the Caucasian type so that I had to learn everything from A to Z to tackle this additional vascular problem from him to repair the vena cava to hook up the liver properly. He is indeed a great surgeon China ever produced with a worldwide contribution.

Anyhow, due to such delicate (?) political issue involved to the farty,  I can't tell much about how and why they did this celebration at Zhengzhou; he is now fully retired but elected to the academician.

BB

I tried to reach three friends at Zhengzhou through the week but not a single one replied yet, though there was no evidence for the failure of delivery of my email to them making me wonder whether the party does not allow the reply as usual. What a docile people! So mad!!!!

BB Lee

https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/interactive/2021/photos-central-china-floods/

I just received this shocking video from my Korean friend as below;

#중국재해 허난성 정저우시 대 폭우, 중국에서 1년 동안 내려야 할 비가 3일 만에 내리면 어떤 일이 벌어질까? 상상할 수 없는 일이 벌어진 지하철역 #KIMTV1 20210723    https://youtu.be/a578wGw0swo

The party blames it as the natural disaster that occurred once in a thousand-year though obviously the water level control of the 'broken/cracked' dam precipitated! So it certainly is a 'man-made' disaster no matter what they lie but it certainly sounds like 'once in a thousand-year cover up', indeed!!! What a docile innocent Chinese!!!! Bless them!!!! 

BB Lee

Someone sent me this shocking video concerning possibly thousands of victims/drivers literally drowned, who were trapped in the 4.5 km long 6-lane underpass/지하차도 in the middle of rush hour, when the flood water from the nearby broken dam gushed in to fill up the tunnel within a few minutes; 생방송토요소통(41) 허난 정저우 지하철역과 지하차도 침수 대참사 원인은? 기록상 60년만이라며 왜 500년 1000년 5000년 대홍수로 선전? #KIMTV1 20210724. https://youtu.be/tT5fes9JSiw .

Though the Farty insists this flooding as a natural disaster, once in a 5,000-year Chinese history (?) so that they are NOT responsible for such disastrous outcome, who would believe, like Wuhan pandemic?

So distressed to watch with full of suspense and agony!!!!!

BB Lee

P.S. I sent out the email letters to eight friends throughout China through the week but NOT a single one replied yet(?). What does it mean?

How such thing could happen?

So sad!!!!!!!!!!!!

정저우 진광터널, 4800대 침수!! 5000명 사망설도 제기 되는데...[Jinguang Tunnel, 4,800 vehicles flooded!! ]   https://youtu.be/fzEX4Yh8ZJ8     

BB Lee