Mails with J.Y.

Dear old friend,

Thank you for your e-mail, I like your poem.

It is strange that there are tears on my face while I am reading your e-mail.

A lot of pictures, which happened on us before, appeared in my mind....

From your saying & writing I can tell that Qiao Yi is Qiao Yi. Your real nature still exists. There is a saying, which is true: "One's nature can't be altered."

I wonder what have happened for 20 years! How have you spent about 9 thousand days there? Why you kept silent ? Oh, It is certain that I would learn a lot from you if you were in China.

Some photos for you. More later if you hope.

Sincerely yours,
JY (10.11.2008 Mo.)
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Dear J.Y.,

I’ve got your mails, thank you.

Thanks a lot for the tears shed for my mail, they must due to compassion and empathy — the emotional mutual understanding as traits in being good friends.

Thanks a lot for your good memory with so many pictures having happened on us in the golden age of our nineteen eighties.

Thanks a lot for the photos, they brought me the sweet smiles, the smart aspect, the eloquent gesture and a mind at peace, just angel alike.

Thanks also for the compliment by pointing out that my real nature still exists and that you would like to learn from me.

Actually I’ve got a lot to learn from you. Your ability of getting along with people and competence of organizing activities are beyond any comparison. They due to your personal charm, attractiveness and emotional quotient (EQ).

I wonder how you have kept the ever lasting beauty of youth for the last 20 years. You must have got a special way of fitness training that makes you look even more charming and graceful than before.

In this field I’d also like to learn from you and have some experience exchanges with you, for I’ve been teaching Tai Chi here in Germany (see enclosed photos).

Now let me quote another poem written 24 years ago in memory of my grandfather. Both of my fathers passed away afterwards. So did your mother as you told me. Let this poem show our eternal affectionate memory to them.

满庭芳 清明祭酒

怅忆韶年，烟波浩渺，故里庭院香销。旧欢如梦，何似落花飘。
泪眼频频顾盼，伤流景，风物潇潇。长思忆，千番呐唤，凝噎踏途遥。
迢迢，芳草绿，依依柳色，细雨鸣条。叹春风漫卷，抚弄心潮。
阔别天涯久矣，清明节，酒酹滔滔。残阳里，衷肠望断，相见是今朝。

Looking forward to hearing from you again, hopefully with some more photos.

Sincerely yours,
Q. Y. (15.11.2008 Sa.)

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Dear QY,

Thank you for your e-mail. You are so kind, I am flattered. I do enjoy reading your e-mails, your poems, even seeing your photos. Honestly speaking, your English + Chinese are so elegant that I feel I am having lessons by reading your words.

You are admired by your close friend. I always regard you as my best friend, a learned brother, a gentleman. You are reliable. It is a great pity for me that you "disappeared" so many years in my life. As you said that's our golden time. Otherwise we could do so much as well as enjoyed so much. LIFE IS LONG, LIFE IS SHORT.

I have lessons on Sunday mornings in another school. After teaching I went to see my daddy. I will show your poem to him someday.

Would you mind if I ask you when you began to teach TAI JI? How did you learn it?
Tai Ji and QI GONG keep me fit. I like sport.

As you know I am an open-minded lady. I always manage to be happy every minute. Being with students make me pleased everyday, many call me mom wu.

I'd like to send you more photos, as you hope.

Yours JY (16.11.2008 So.)

A letter to my old friend

Dear Little Wu,

Twenty years I missed being with you have passed since I saw you last time in Peking. The black hair has turned to grey but with a well-running mind I knew you would be there, as you always were. There is a feeling of eternity in youth, which makes me amend for everything. I couldn’t help but think about you, who had so much to share with me. Friendship provides us with another soul to feel kinship, with someone to share meaningful conversations of life, to recall the past and to dream for the future, in spite of human shortcomings and frailties. We have never discarded this kinship and we place a high value in this precious friendship. That’s why we tried to look for each other after we had unfortunately lost our contacts.

However， we were not put through by a single dial at once. It took the operator of destiny more than ten years to relay the phone, and we had to be patient in waiting. Yesterday was the great occasion and we were finally put through with such an excitement, which stirs the emotions, moves the soul and fires the blood setting hearts aflame. Your sweet voice reminds me of the golden age when we lived in the neighbourhood, sharing all things with each other: joy and laughter, warmth and hope concerning life’s journey. They are the pleasant memories to be reviewed.

Today we could resume the journey with something as pleasant as in the memory. Now I would like to enclose some photos here for you, and hopefully you can still recognize your old friend. One picture shows my coaching of Tai Chi (shadow boxing) in the Medical Centre for Health here in Westfalen. I enjoy teaching this brilliant cultural tradition of our motherland and at the same time enjoy what life is. In this field we have quite a lot to talk with each other, tracing back to the early days of golden 1983 when we used to get together in the West Palace of Longevity.

In addition to that I also attach a Chinese poem as follows. If it is not readable directly here, you may find it in the enclosed document. I hope, this poem written forty years ago might still suit our actual situation. And now, looking forward to hearing from you soon with my best wishes.

Sincerely yours,

QIAO Yi （乔 毅）

为太极照题写的对联：一招一式皆功夫，亦刚亦柔堪神韵，太极英姿。

本人早年的诗作：浪涛沙令 （他乡思故）

昨夜北风寒，百感纠缠，别时容易见时难。旧景依稀皆逝去，无限悲欢。
春柳小湖边，共议江天，心潮激荡起波澜。肝胆相呈神共倾，亲密无间。

Enclosure: one doc-file and four jpg-files-

Tai Chi - the dimension of my life