Confucius Academy Call to Power

The Confucius Academy wonder from Activision's 'Civilization: Call to Power' PC game (1999)

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[amitabho123]

...Simplified Chinese on a several thousand year old manuscript?

Que nationalist rage.

[amitabho123]

@TehCybernerd They're probably not Chinese, lol.

[SuperSmashyfication]

@amitabho123 The kind of Chinese that isn't Chinese at all and is really English.

[TehCybernerd]

@amitabho123

haha, yeah...

[TehCybernerd]

@amitabho123

oh dear, it's guo!? what really? i thought that was just a random rectangle. okay, no need to explain the rest, it makes sense now, but those proportions are just awful.  why would they leave that much space?

[amitabho123]

@TehCybernerd The character is 国, (guo, a jade in an enclosure) 'country', as in 中华人民共和国 (Central-Culture People-Commoner Share-with-Country, or People's Republic of China), from the character 玉, representing the king (王 is made out of 一, representing the roof of the world, and 土, the character for 'dirt'. The 点 in 玉 represents the gem itself: 天堂的本质在土). The traditional character is 國, though this is purely phonetic; 或 (huo) means 'or'.

What kind of Chinese do they teach you in Canada? ಠ_ಠ

[TehCybernerd]

@amitabho123

oh hush. the character is 玉 (yu4), which is the same in simplified as it is in traditional (at least i think it is). it means jade. i wonder what it has to do with the confucian academy though.

[Kemonokami]

@HazMatMedia

A very truthful one, too. People equate government with a massive organization that keeps a country stable despite no one trusting it, but it's really just the act/state of keeping things and people not-on-fire/dead.

[HazMatMedia]

First Confucius quote I ever learned.