Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Chinese abacus named UNESCO intangible cultural heritage

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Friday, December 6, 2013

Chinese abacus named UNESCO intangible cultural heritage

Want China Times, Staff Reporter 2013-12-06

The clerk at a restaurant in Xiangtan, Henan province, does his bookkeeping
with a Chinese abacus, Mar. 26. (Photo/Xinhua)

The Chinese abacus, known as the "zhusuan" or "suanpan" in the Chinese-speaking world, has been named as an item of intangible cultural heritage at the 8th Annual UNESCO World Heritage Congress in Azerbaijan on Wednesday, reports China's state-run English-language newspaper China Daily and Xinhua News Agency.

The abacus has been used as a calculation tool in China since the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BCE) and continues to be used in rural marketplaces today.

Although its importance has gradually diminished with the advent of digital calculators, it remains a cultural symbol. It had been listed as an item of intangible cultural heritage by the Chinese government in 2008.

The listing may help get more people interested in the abacus and instill a sense of pride among the Chinese people, which could lead to the preservation of abacus culture in China, said Su Jinxiu, vice director of the Chinese Abacus Association.

The two decks of the abacus are called heaven and earth and the five beads on each rod are moved up and down during calculations.