![]() Afterwards, Liu Che needs to go to Tai Shan to see what Heaven thinks of his reign, and asks Ping to join him. Ping is left dejected, so she continues to be with Liu Che. Danzi chooses Wang Cao, a herbalist, and Danzi's trusted friend, to escape with him. She also meets the young Emperor, Liu Che, who gives her the Imperial Dragon seal. This is the only book which features both Ping and Danzi together. In this, the first book of the series, the slave Ping frees the dragon Danzi from the horrible Huangling, and travels with him to Ocean, making friends, being kidnapped, making unexpected stops, and being betrayed numerous times by many people. Bingwen however, was a trickster that steals peoples' money through cunning tricks. ![]() He eventually meets Bingwen, in which he thinks is destined to be his Dragon Keeper. Danzi was a young Dragon, in which he roams the world. Set in a time before Danzi was captured and put into Huangling Mountain, this story is a wonderful experience of courage and a little honor. ![]() Puns such as these play a crucial role in Dragon Moon.This prequel to Dragon Keeper is the story of Danzi as he searches for a new Dragon Keeper, and meets startling new friends. That's because ‘ xiao ping’ can also mean ‘little bottle’. When a man called Deng Xiao Ping was political leader of China, people who wanted to protest about him smashed small bottles. ![]() Puns can also be used as political statements. So a mother might give her child celery for lunch if she wants him to work hard at school. The word for ‘celery’ (‘ qin’) is the same as the word for ‘hardworking’. Therefore bats have become good luck symbols. The Chinese word for ‘bat’ (the flying mammal type) is ‘ fu’, which can also mean ‘happiness’. You can write down something which when spoken aloud could mean something completely different. The recycling of word-sounds leads to a rich tradition of puns where a word or even a short sentence can mean more than one thing. However, if those 100 words were written down, they would each have a different character. In Chinese a single spoken word might have 100 meanings. One spoken word can have different meanings. In Chinese, these word-sounds are recycled over and over again. In English there are 80,000 different sounds that can be used to make up words. That makes a total of only 1600 possible sounds. Each can be spoken with four different tones. In fact there are only about 400 sounds in Mandarin Chinese. The Chinese language doesn’t use as many sounds or syllables in making up words as English does. Instead it uses thousands and thousands of individual characters. Most languages in the world use an alphabet Chinese is one of the few that doesn’t. In Dragon Moon, Ping tries to follow the path that Danzi has set for her, but finds that his message can be read in many ways. Ping discovers Danzi’s map at the conclusion to Garden of the Purple Dragon. It was a rough map of the Empire sent to her by Kai’s father, Danzi.” On one side it was marked with faded, scratchy lines and squiggles drawn in what Ping believed was blood. “Ping examined the silk square for the first time in many months. Audio Listen to a reading from the first chapter of Dragonkeeper and find out what author Carole Wilkinson has to say about dragons, chinese herbs, getting stuck into research, and the pleasures of reading.Go to the desktop wallpaper download page Wallpapers Seven fantastic Dragonkeeper wallpapers for your desktop.Find out more about one of the Seven Wonders of the World Great Wall of China In Dragon Moon, Ping must make a dangerous journey along The Great Wall of China.Find out more about the history behind Dragonkeeper Han Dynasty China The Dragonkeeper series is set during the ancient Han Dynasty, which lasted from 206 BCE to 220 CE.Yi-Jing The Yi Jing (or I Ching) is a book of divination, used to predict and plan for the future.Solve the dragons head tangram in Dragon Moon Seven Cunning Pieces A Chinese puzzle which can be fitted together in different ways to form an amazing variety of shapes: animals, people… even dragons.Danzi’s Map The map Ping discovers at the conclusion to Garden of the Purple Dragon contains secret instructions from the dragon Danzi.
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