{"id":1198,"date":"2021-04-26T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2026-01-05T00:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:21:28","slug":"shudong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/2021\/04\/26\/shudong\/","title":{"rendered":"sh\u00f9d\u00f2ng"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>\n\t\t\t<span onclick=\"plus(this)\">sh\u00f9d\u00f2ng<\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(sh\u00f9\u00b7d\u00f2ng\n<span class=\"lit\">tree \u00b7 hole \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[tree hollow]<\/span>\n\u6811\u6d1e\n<span class=\"trad\">\u6a39\u6d1e<\/span>)<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: hsl(100, 85%, 40%);\"> \u2190 Tap\/click to show\/hide the \u201cflashcard\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/en\/wol\/b\/r1\/lp-e\/nwtsty\/45\/12#study=discover&amp;v=45:12:15\" title=\"Romans 12 \u2014 Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY\">Romans 12:15<\/a> tells Christian ministers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nRejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, at <a href=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/en\/wol\/b\/r1\/lp-e\/nwtsty\/46\/9#study=discover&amp;v=46:9:22\" title=\"1 Corinthians 9 \u2014 Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY\">1 Corinthians 9:22<\/a>, the apostle Paul wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTo the weak I became weak, in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to people of all sorts, so that I might by all possible means save some.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ones who grew up exposed to Western culture may find it challenging to understand and relate to people in the Mandarin field, whether householders or publishers, who grew up marinated in Eastern culture. One area in which this is especially true is the expressing or sharing of personal feelings.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing Eastern culture to Western culture, Western culture is generally more encouraging of individual development and individual expression, whereas Eastern culture in contrast encourages subordinating individual concerns to those of the group. This suppression of individual concerns can cause them to get deeply buried inside people, and at times, it goes so far that people feel the need to find unconventional outlets.<\/p>\n<p>One example involves this week\u2019s MEotW, \u201c<span onclick=\"plus(this)\"><i>sh\u00f9d\u00f2ng<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n(sh\u00f9\u00b7d\u00f2ng\n<span class=\"lit\">tree \u00b7 hole \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[tree hollow]<\/span>\n\u6811\u6d1e\n<span class=\"trad\">\u6a39\u6d1e<\/span>)<\/span>\u201d, which means \u201ctree hollow\u2019. The Wikipedia <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_the_Mood_for_Love\" title=\"In the Mood for Love - Wikipedia\">entry<\/a> for the Chinese movie <i>In the Mood for Love<\/i> provides this summary of what one of the movie\u2019s characters said about this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhile dining with a friend, Chow relays a story about how in older times, when a person had a secret that could not be shared, he would instead go atop a mountain, make a hollow in a tree, whisper the secret into that hollow and cover it with mud.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/img\/tree_hollow-30.jpg\" alt=\"tree hollow\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n<a title=\"Creative Commons \u2014 CC0 1.0 Universal\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/img\/cc-zero.svg\" alt=\"Creative Commons Public Domain logo\" height=\"18\"><\/a><br \/>\n<!--photo source: https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/140641142@N05\/28218566309\/sizes\/k\/--><\/p>\n<h3>A Modern, Digital Version<\/h3>\n<p>As our world has become more digitized and people spend more time on the Internet, some relatively obscure corners of it have come to be used by Chinese people as cyber tree hollows. One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theworldofchinese.com\/2021\/04\/hollow-comfort\/\" title=\"How the Deceased on Social Media Attract Chinese Netizens | The World of Chinese\">article<\/a> in the magazine <i>The World of Chinese<\/i> discusses a couple of examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMocha Official, an obscure video blogger with just 200 followers on Bilibili, will never know that his homepage has become a sanctuary for the internet\u2019s depressed and lonely. Since the 19-year-old was found dead in his rental home on January 19, his videos\u2014which used to only attract comments in the single digits\u2014have been flooded with over six million <i>danmu<\/i> (\u5f39\u5e55, \u201cbullet screen\u201d) messages that flash across the screen in real time, offering condolence and sympathy to the vlogger who can no longer see them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Viewers\u2019 debates eventually turned to how Mocha\u2019s life and death changed their own attitudes to life. Bilibili has preserved Mocha\u2019s content in a \u201cmemorial account,\u201d and it has since then become a \u201ctree hollow (\u6811\u6d1e),\u201d a term for spaces on the internet where users can make digital pilgrimages to confess their secrets.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026the preserved accounts of the dead often attract netizens moved by the life or death of their owner, or else simply wishing to confide in a listener who will always be there and never betray them. The Weibo page of Dr. Li Wenliang, the Wuhan ophthalmologist who died from Covid-19 in February 2020 and was named a national martyr, is now one of the most frequented \u201ctree hollows\u201d in the Chinese cyberspace.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to quote one professor\u2019s explanation of this phenomenon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cLeaving a message in an anonymous cyber place has a special effect, especially for patients with mental illnesses, who always feel a strong stigma around their disease. People want to confess their private feelings, and cyber tree hollows can fulfill their requirements,\u201d Huang Zhisheng, a professor of computer science at the Free University Amsterdam, tells TWOC. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to feel as if someone is listening.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Listening and Understanding<\/h3>\n<p>Indeed, many Chinese people could really benefit from having someone to listen to them, someone to talk to. That emphasizes why it\u2019s especially important for those of us serving in the Chinese fields to apply the scriptures cited at the beginning of this post. A couple of other relevant scriptures are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe thoughts of a man\u2019s heart are like deep waters,<br \/>\nBut the discerning man draws them out.<br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/en\/wol\/b\/r1\/lp-e\/nwtsty\/20\/20#v=20:20:5\" title=\"Proverbs 20 \u2014 Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY\">Proverbs 20:5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Know this, my beloved brothers: Everyone must be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,<br \/>\n\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/en\/wol\/b\/r1\/lp-e\/nwtsty\/59\/1#v=59:1:19\" title=\"James 1 \u2014 Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY\">James 1:19<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, to be able to listen with understanding, and to eventually speak understandably and helpfully, a basic requirement is that we need to become sufficiently proficient with the <em>speech<\/em> of those we want to help in the Mandarin field\u2014it\u2019s not enough just to be able to mentally recognize a bunch of Chinese characters. As <a href=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/en\/wol\/b\/r1\/lp-e\/nwtsty\/46\/14#v=46:14:8-46:14:11\" title=\"1 Corinthians 14 \u2014 Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY\">1 Corinthians 14:8\u201311<\/a> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n <strong>8<\/strong> For if the trumpet sounds an indistinct call, who will get ready for battle? <strong>9<\/strong> In the same way, unless you with the tongue use speech that is easily understood, how will anyone know what is being said? You will, in fact, be speaking into the air. <strong>10<\/strong> It may be that there are many kinds of speech in the world, and yet no kind is without meaning. <strong>11<\/strong> For if I do not understand the sense of the speech, I will be a foreigner to the one speaking, and the one speaking will be a foreigner to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps it\u2019s true that it\u2019s best to use Chinese characters in some situations, such as when texting or emailing is the best or only communication method available. However, generally, it\u2019s better to talk to someone than to write to someone, if possible, especially when discussing personal matters.<\/p>\n<p>By <em>all<\/em> means, let us do what it takes to help honest-hearted ones in the Mandarin field who have been \u201cskinned and thrown about like sheep without a shepherd\u201d, so that they can benefit from the love and care provided by Jehovah and his universal family. Let us not keep on being \u2018foreigners\u2019 to such ones.\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/wol.jw.org\/en\/wol\/b\/r1\/lp-e\/nwtsty\/40\/9#v=40:9:36\" title=\"Matthew 9 \u2014 Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY\">Matthew 9:36<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romans 12:15 tells Christian ministers: Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep. Also, at 1 Corinthians 9:22, the apostle Paul wrote: To the weak I became weak, in order to gain the weak. 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