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聖誕冷知識!

Are you ready for some Christmas trivia?

準備好挑戰關於聖誕節的冷知識大考驗了嗎？

Test you friends on these tidbits of Christmas knowledge. How many did you get right?

考考你朋友有關聖誕節的趣聞知識，你答對了幾題?

祝同學聖誕節快樂🎄🎁🎅

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1. Out of every 10 people, how many Americans celebrate Christmas?

美國人當中每十人有幾個慶祝聖誕節？

Answer: Nine in 10 Americans celebrate Christmas, according to a 2017 survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, and around 55% consider it a religious holiday, while 33% think of it as more of a cultural celebration.

皮尤研究中心於2017年進行的一項調查顯示，十分之九的美國人慶祝聖誕節；大約55％的人將其視為宗教節日，而33％的人則將其視為一種文化慶祝活動。

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2. Has Christmas ever been illegal to celebrate?

慶祝聖誕節曾經是非法的嗎？

Yes. The Massachusetts-Bay Colony ordinance of 1659 made Christmas illegal to celebrate in that specific colony. The law was repealed in 1681. Christmas didn’t become a state holiday in Massachusetts until 1856, though.

沒錯。 1659年的馬薩諸塞州灣殖民地法令讓在那個殖民地慶祝聖誕節是非法的，該法律於1681年被廢止。聖誕節直到1856年才成為馬薩諸塞州的國定假日。

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3. How did red and green become Christmas colors?

紅和綠是如何成為聖誕節代表色？

We mostly have holly and Coca-Cola to thank for the rise of red and green as Christmas colors. Holly, obviously, has bright red berries and dark green leaves. It was used long ago by the ancient Celts for winter solstice celebrations as a symbol of protection and good luck. Coca-Cola’s role in making the colors a widespread combo for the holiday began in 1931 with ads featuring Santa Claus in a red and white suit surrounded by a green background and accents.

拜冬青樹和可口可樂所賜，紅色和綠色逐漸成為聖誕節的顏色。顯然地，冬青有鮮豔的紅色漿果和深綠色的葉子；古代凱爾特人很早以前就用它作為冬至慶祝活動，冬青有保護和好運的象徵。可口可樂讓這兩個顏色成為聖誕節廣為人知的組成則始於1931年，廣告中聖誕老人穿著紅色和白色的西裝，周圍環繞著綠色背景和符號點綴。

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4. True or false: "Jingle Bells" was written to be a Christmas song.

「鈴兒響叮噹」是為了聖誕節而寫的對嗎？

False! The song wasn’t intended to be attached to the holiday. Some historical reports say it was first performed at a Thanksgiving church service. In any case, the lyrics don’t mention any holiday at all.

錯！這首歌當初和這節日沒有關聯。有歷史報導說這首歌第一次是在感恩節教堂第一次被表演。總之，歌詞當中根本沒有提到任何節日。

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5. How many Americans use artificial Christmas trees?

多少美國人會用人造聖誕樹？

A survey conducted by Nielsen for the American Christmas Tree Association found that nearly 94 million U.S. households will display a Christmas tree this year. Of those, 85 percent are artificial.

尼爾森為美國聖誕樹協會所做的一項調查發現，今年有將近9,400萬的美國家庭展示聖誕樹，其中85％是人造的。

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6. How much do Americans spend on holiday shopping?

美國人在聖誕節會花多少錢買東西？

The National Retail Federation reports that Americans plan to spend an average of about $998 this year on holiday shopping. That’s down from last year’s average of around $1,048.

全美零售聯合會指出，美國人預計在這個聖誕節平均花費大約998美元消費，相較去年的平均值1,048美元有所下滑。

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7. True or false: People no longer send out Christmas cards.

人們不再寄聖誕卡片了對嗎？

False! The rate of sending any greeting card has gone down over the years, but this year especially, people are sending holiday cards as a way to connect with others during the pandemic.

錯！這些年來發賀卡的速度不斷下降，但特別是在今年，為了在流行病期間與他人聯繫，人們會發送節日賀卡。

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8. What's the most popular Christmas song of all time?

歷史上最受歡迎的聖誕節歌曲為何？

Answer: The most recorded Christmas song of all time is "Silent Night," according to Time, whereas "White Christmas" by Bing Crosby holds the Guinness World Record for the best-selling single.

答：根據《時代》雜誌，有史以來錄製最多次的聖誕節歌曲是《寂靜的夜晚》，而Bing Crosby的《白色聖誕節》則維持吉尼斯世界紀錄的最高銷量。

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9. Why do we hang Christmas stockings?

為什麼我們要掛聖誕襪？

Answer: The tradition came about thanks to a legend that states the generous Turkish bishop St. Nicholas helped a set of three poor sisters avoid a life of indentured servitude by paying for their dowries. For three nights, the bishop threw gold down their chimney, which landed in their stockings hung by their fireplace to dry. Now we carry on the tradition by hanging stockings to fill with gifts and small treats.

答：這個傳統來自於一個傳奇。故事說道，慷慨的土耳其主教聖尼古拉斯支付嫁妝幫助一組可憐的三個姐妹免除奴役。主教把煙囪裡的金子扔了下來共三晚，而金子掉入壁爐旁掛著的長襪中晾乾了。現在，我們透過掛襪子來放禮物和小點心來延續傳統。

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10. True or false: There was once a real-life Santa Claus.

現實生活中曾有聖誕老人對嗎？

Answer: True! The Christian bishop Saint Nicholas was the inspiration behind the jolly man we all know and love. St. Nicholas, a generous, gift-gifting clergyman, lived in modern day Turkey and devoted his life to helping the poor, according to Biography.

答：沒錯！基督教主教聖尼古拉是我們大家都知道並且喜歡的歡樂男人（聖誕老人）背後的靈感來源。根據傳記，聖尼古拉斯是一位慷慨、會送禮的神職人員，住在現代土耳其，一生致力於幫助窮人。

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Bonus Question: Can you still say Merry Christmas?

I will leave this question to you.

你還能再說「聖誕快樂」嗎？還是要講別的說法? 這問題的答案留給你好好思考。

社論:
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/using-merry-christmas-or-happy-holidays-no-longer-about-putting-ncna1106181

https://this.deakin.edu.au/society/are-we-allowed-to-say-merry-christmas-anymore

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/merry-christmas-happy-holidays-war-on-christmas-20191211.html

https://www.history.com/news/the-war-of-words-behind-happy-holidays

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資料來源:
https://www.housebeautiful.com/entertaining/holidays-celebrations/a35016633/christmas-trivia/
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/holidays/christmas-ideas/g2972/surprising-christmas-facts/

圖片來源:
https://icebreakerideas.com/christmas-trivia/

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I have always been an emotional and sentimental person.

When I was young, I teared up at every touching scene at the movies. I felt a lump in my throat when I heard songs with lyrics that spoke to my heart. I cried when I had an argument with my mum or the then-boyfriend, knowing that it would not help to solve things at all. It's not that I am frail - I like to think I am pretty tough after three births without epi and 11 years of being a stay-at-home mum. It's just that crying has been, and still is, a way for me to release stress, to feel and let go of my emotions, to be better able to pick myself up and emerge stronger after.

Thus, when I heard myself saying recently to one of the kids "Why must you cry over such a small thing?", I wanted to give myself a big, hard kick afterwards. In the first place, what is trivial in my eyes, like not being able to find a pair of socks or forgetting where they put one particular pencil even though there are dozens of others, might be a huge matter to them, especially in that very moment. Who am I to judge or to tell them they ought to hold it in instead of letting it out? Of all people, I should understand not just because I've been through it but also because I'm their mum a.k.a the person they trust most in the world.

It really got me thinking for quite some time. Still, I didn't sit down to have a talk with them on this subject. That was, until this incident happened.

Brave the pain, Hongkongers (Lee Yee)

In his comments on my yesterday’s article, a reader left me a YouTube link to an English version of “March of The Volunteers”rendered by Paul Robeson, an American singer who was celebrated in my youthhood. The lyrics are as follows,
「Arise, you who refuse to be bond-slaves./Let's stand up and fight for/Liberty and true democracy!/All our world is facing/The chains of the tyrant./Everyone who works for freedom/Is now crying./Arise! Arise! Arise!/All of us with one heart/With the torch of freedom!/March on!/With the torch of freedom!/March on! March on!March on and on!」

Information shows that Robeson chanting this English version in a concert held in New York in 1941 was captured in the video. That year, Liu Liang-mo, a leftist conductor, was dispatched by YMCA to further study in America. Since the Pacific War broke out, Liu had been engaged in a propaganda war against Japan. Presented by Lin Yu-tang, an eminent Chinese novelist and philosopher, he met Robeson and sang in front of the American a few war songs of anti-Japanese invasion, including “March of The Volunteers”. A few weeks later, Robeson made an announcement that he would sing a song named “Chee Lai” for Chinese. He then vocalized in Chinese before belting out the English lyrics mentioned above.

In the English version, no “Chinese nation”, “the Great Wall”nor “enemies’ gunfire” is found, which makes “you who refuse to be bond-slaves” even more outstanding. Without distorting the original gist of the Chinese lyrics, the import of the English version, which encourages people to throw off the shackles of tyranny and fight for freedom as well as genuine democracy, is even more universal and perpetual.

Fights for freedom have been waxing and waning in succession throughout times and across lands for the fact that history has unequivocally manifested that people are being relentlessly enslaved by tyranny and freedom persistently suppressed by authoritarians.

Since 1997, after Hong Kong people had enjoyed liberty for more than one hundred years, freedom has been continually eroded and chipped away. In contrary to the authoritarian of gigantic power, Hong Kong is isolated and feeble. Being put in a vulnerable position, Hong Kong people used to have only three options: 1. Abscond from home, which means emigration; 2. Get used to living in a place with less and less freedom; 3. Haggle over protection for ourselves in an inferior position. The fourth one, “struggle to resist at the cost of one’s life” , had not even been contemplated until the anti-extradition amendment bill movement last year, in which young people were the vanguard and more than half of the population got embroiled.

Why did I put forward half of the population, but not a small minority figured out by the Chinese Communist Party? The reason is undisputed with just a glimpse of the mainstream opinion online, 2 million people in the demonstration and the ballot of the District Council Election.

Dragging on and on, the last year struggle, which tired Hong Kong people out, was to no avail. Since the Hong Kong version of national security law was tabled, the three options mentioned above have resurfaced. Confronted with the peremptory China, which has been legislating for Hong Kong in violation of the Basic Law, some legal professionals and democrats in town would rather succumb to the illegitimacy and counter-propose certain terms and conditions to safeguard the rights of Hong Kong people, including the provisions of retroactivity wiping off, interpretation of the law in accordance with common law, defendants tried in Hong Kong’s courts, stipulation of a sunset clause, etc.

When the US intended revising Hong Kong’s special status with regard to the Hong Kong version of national security law, some of them suggested that to preserve a firewall between Hong Kong and China, the US should conserve a little bit of the special status.

The haggling over protection for Hong Kong people in an inferior position, the third option, is surely not out of bad intention. Be that as it may, regarding what we have been experiencing in the past 20 years, showing the white feather would not stop the mighty authoritarian from seizing the overall jurisdiction of Hong Kong. Though conflicts might be alleviated, the plight of Hong Kong people would only worsen in front of the insatiable authoritarian. Worse still, Hong Kong people knuckling under to it would hinder the US from sanctioning China and Hong Kong.

Getting pained by uncompromising struggles has to be anticipated. The US sanctions on Hong Kong are definitely painful to Hong Kong people. In the past couple of days, Yuen Kung-yi said: To take this route, Hong Kong people should brave the pain.

Perhaps those who come to the middle ground intend Hong Kong people to reserve the minimum protection. Yet, meanwhile, I am reminded of the wisdom of a classic philosopher, Friedrich Hayek: Those who fantasize about trading their basic freedom off for minimum protection would eventually find out that they are given neither freedom nor protection.

Robeson’s husky singing is reverberating in my ears.

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呼吸をして, 今を見渡すたこの光景を(Why did you let it go?)
胸に残る　止まない痛み (oh no) いつまで続くのだろう？
いつも自分に 　問い掛けてても
そうまた繰り返すの？

そっと抱いて離さないで、このまま黒に染まりすつ
何も見えなくなるから
Until I reached the limit 抑え続けて、Ah ah
これ以上壊したくはないから

見えないから不安になってしまう
ありえないことも頭の中駆け巡り
争い続けても

いつも一人で憂い、悔やんでも,
こんな思いを繰り返すなら
支配されるのを　怖がってても　
そんなんじゃ前に進めないから

君が差し伸べるその手を握って
何度も救われて生きてたから
Keep looking for another way
探し続けて,新たな自分になる為
変わらなきゃいけないから
I know it's true
I didn't wanna face the truth
Ive been running away
Cuz it hurts it hurts
Take it away from me

ずっとこのまま離さないで
一人で生きれないのなら
これからを受け止めていくから
I'll face the world and move ahead
変わってみせるよ
未来を切り開くため
今からを作るんだ
I know it's true
It's hard to make a change
Let's take a small step
One by one never stop
I'll make a change

Take a breath、looking at this sight in front of me
Never-ending pain that stays in my chest. How long is this gonna continue?
Always telling myself that your gonna repeat this again?

Hug me gently and don't let me go if not.
I'm gonna turn into a dark and won't be able to see
Until I reach the limit I keep holding it down
Because I don't wanna destroy it

Anxiety kicks in because I can't see
A lot of Impossible events conflicts in my head

Always alone in regret and sorrow
If I have to repeat this all the time
Getting scared by taken over
That's why I cannot keep moving forward

It helps me countless times by grabbing your hands
when you reach out to me
Keep looking for another continue searching
To change me because I have to

I know it's true I didn't wanna face the truth
I've been running away Cuz it hurts it hurts
Take it away from me

Don't let me go forever. If I cannot live alone, I'll face the world and move ahead I'll do my best to change
to brighten my future ahead
It starts from now

I know it's true
It's hard to make a change
Let's take a small step
One by one never stop
I'll make a change


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遗憾或难过
错过和失落
反正大概就是这些坏的情绪吧
差不多
假装或洒脱
笑过也哭过
至少能回到彼此原本生活中
不拉扯
该继续猜测
直接就开口吗
纠结如何说破
可越想了解的
越是无法琢磨
爱就是爱着
不爱就不爱了
请全部藏好它
可越想忘记的
反而记得深刻
你快听 滴答滴 滴答滴 滴答滴 是雨滴的声音
你快听 是我在 是我在 是我在哼你最爱听的旋律
你快听 滴答滴 滴答滴 滴答滴 窗外又在下雨
难道这 不是你最爱的天气
该继续猜测
直接就开口吗
纠结如何说破
可越想了解的
越是无法琢磨
爱就是爱着
不爱就不爱了
请全部藏好它
可越想忘记的
反而记得深刻
你快听 滴答滴 滴答滴 滴答滴 是雨滴的声音
你快听 是我在 是我在 是我在哼你最爱听的旋律
你快听 滴答滴 滴答滴 滴答滴 窗外又在下雨
难道这 不是你最爱的天气
你快听 滴答滴 滴答滴 滴答滴 是雨滴的声音
你快听 是我在 是我在 是我在哼你最爱听的旋律
你快听 滴答滴 滴答滴 滴答滴 窗外正在下雨
碰巧我也此时想你
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#傲七爷 #是想你的声音啊 #抖音热曲

for my little lover...
and to everyone who needs a little more love ❤️

We all might feel stuck or lost in life sometimes, not knowing where we are heading...because we cannot see what is ahead of us...and we could feel worried, scared and frustrated....That's how I felt when my son was diagnosed with autism since he was a small boy....

Step by step, we walked together...and he is now a big boy who just turned 14 years old in July 2020...When I look back, I feel very proud of every baby little step we made together...Coz I didn't know but I just had to keep going for him, and for us. And now I know...the little steps could bring us together and farther ahead if we just keep going...There are still a lot of challenges ahead for us....but we will just keep walking...like we have always....not knowing where we are heading...

So I decided to make this animation video for my little lover. I wish, one day, when he can understands the world better, he will remember all the little things that meant to us...and he could feel the love in this little song that I wrote for him and this beautiful animation.

So...me and Little Lover Ethan would like to send you hope and love and blessings through this Little Song....

這是一首我為小情人寫的歌
也是小情人給我靈感去分享給你們的歌
看著他一天一天的成長
他讓我學習什麼事情都可以從一小步開始
a little little step
do a little little more
生命就會一點一點不一樣

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《A Little Song》
Music, Lyrics & Performed by Vicky Fung

Give me a little little love
It's been a little little tough
Hold me a little little close
To hear a story never told

Give me a little little time
Give it a little little try
Just give a little little more
Together walking through the door....

That's how I sing along
Daladada daladada
Ooo...hoo
Sing a little song
Daladada daladada

I've been away a little long
Sometimes it's right it could be wrong
I take a little little breath
And make a little baby step
This road a little little long
I sing this little little song
I grow a little little strong
You give me strength to carry on...

That's how I sing along
Daladada daladada
U...
Sing this little song
Daladada daladada

Oh......
I smile a little song
I cry a little song
Daladada daladada

Oh......
I taste a little song
I touch a little song
Daladada daladada

Oh......
I dance a little song
Daladada daladada

Oh.....
Breathe a little song
Live a little song

Acoustic guitar by Leo Wong
Recorded by Maggie Shum & Pak Sze @Espresso Studio
Mixed by Leo Wong@Espresso Studio
Video Animated by Chu Fung@Visual Tailors
Illustrated by Siuloy
Calligraphy by Wendy Tang

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