4/23/2006: Carved gourd
 

http://cellar.org/2006/carvedgourd.jpg

Are you out of your gourd? What does that mean, anyway?

A mini gourd engraved with tiny Chinese characters is pictured in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province. The common gourd, with the actual size of a table tennis ball, has changed its appearance after 240 ancient Chinese poems with around 5,000 characters are engraved on it by Ruan Wenhui, a master in Chinese handicrafts industry, through three-month-long elaboration, Xinhua news agency said.

How do you do something like that without wite out? And if you do screw up, do you not tell anyone because you're pretty sure no one will notice?

Damn fool, he could have done it with a laser in minutes. :haha:

I love gourds. You can't have too many gourds.

:lol: Ancient Chinese secret...:lol: :lol:

I love goulds.

Howevel, I have nevel lead one.

thats lacists

It would be worth buying if those were 240 limericks.

i met a man once he was a dental technician and could write that small he could write up to 16 characters on a piece of rice (uncooked mind you) i thought that was impressive but nothing compared to this picture.

The microchip before the microchip =D

Characters as in chinese/japanese/korean or characters as in A/B/C?

Oriental languages are idogrammatic. Each character means something, as opposed to the characters simply referring to a sound.

Oh, OK. I was waiting for you to say he could write on your molar with a drill...

That's true for Chinese and a certain Japanese writing, Kanji.
It's wrong for Thai, Korean, Hiragana Japanese, Katakana Japanese... - actually it's wrong for ANY language but Kanji and Chinese.

Welcome to the Cellar, sordid. :D
So those oriental characters are sounds or syllables?