... helped the dead select favorable sites for graves.4 These favorable sites not only had to be affordable to the family but had to bring good luck to the family and ensure that there will be no evil spirits haunting them. Like the traditional matchmaker, the geomancer is respected for his wisdom ... the family. The matchmaker and the geomancer also have to ensure that the matches and graves that they choose will only bring good luck to the families and not bad luck. Calculating the ages of the people involved and comparing to the stars of the sky does this: astrology. In foreign countries...

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... believed, for instance, during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), that flying a kite and then letting it go, apart from the pleasure in itself, might send off one's bad luck and illness. Consequently it would bring bad luck if one should pick up a kite lost by other people. This may be dismissed as superstition but may not be altogether without reason: think of the good ... ways. For mass-produced kites, pre-printed paper is used to cover the frames. Custom-made kites are painted manually after covering. Many of the designs bear messages of good luck; a pine tree and a crane, for example, me...

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... life confronted also huge changes such as land reform and nationalisation of private companies. With these measures China was supposed to have its bad economic situation improved. The definitions of economic development policies were stated in the first five-year-plan in 1953. Model to these reforms ... This is why unemployment constitutes a serious threat for social stability. China has 22,147 kilometres of boundaries with 16 different countries. This is a bad point for emigration and immigration, as it looks hard to regulate the stream of population either going in or out. In terms of ...

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