8According to the traditional Chinese way of telling one' s age, s/he is one year old immediately after s/he was born, and one year older after each Chinese Lunar New Year.
9From Book Sixteen of The Analects by Confucius: When the Way prevails under Heaven all orders concerning ritual, music and punitive expeditions are issued by the Son of Heaven himself...(translated by Arthur Waley).Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 1998.
10From Chapter One of 7ao 7e Ching by Lao Tzu: The Way that can be told of is not an unvarying Way; The names that can be named are not unvarying names.(translated by Arthur Waley).Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 1998.