There is a unique tradition of thread and fabric made from lotus fibers from Inle Lake in Myanmar. You have to see it face-to-face to appreciate the process.

Can you think of a legend about the origin of Siamese twins about a magnetized stone inside each?

Creative child's play: using a bamboo sword to probe for gold.

Picture a tree with colorful feathers instead of leaves--a vivid image.

You possess personal city walls when you are depressed.

Imagine the Washington D.C. mall as a huge baseball field for giants with the Lincoln Memorial as home plate, Jefferson Memorial as first base, Washington Monument as second base and the White House as third base. There would be a lot of soil to cover as you ran the bases.

Picture a situation where you or someone else can't help but put their large dog on the altar to sacrifice for a greater cause. (Maybe their child is allergic, and they have to give the dog away?)

Picture a lid fitted on a dish, making it a small box.

After a hole in his muscle prevented him from working, he soon became poor.

Look carefully at this character, as several components separate or blend. Picture Jiminy Cricket in the middle of a sack, wearing a crown rather than his top hat (which is on top of the sack).

This character can be used as a formal word for the number 4. Picture artifacts like staples and a writing brush dating from the year IV being found in the Great Wall.

A visitor stands on the water's edge.

A shake has split open or breached the valley causing harm.

Under the mountain ridge is a hillock.

The body part that can make the most winding motion is your wrist.

There are muscles between your ribs called intercostal muscles.

Imagine saying, "This seems to be an insignificant problem if the tears are few."

Imagine a bellow coming from a fur ball's mouth.

The common word for chin is 下巴, but this literary word is part of the name of the Summer Palace in Beijing 颐和园. Characters with the 页head component are often parts of the head: forehead 额, cheek 颊, neck 领, face 颜, etc. If you turn the left-hand component of this character 90 degrees counterclockwise, it could look like a chin. Or maybe you are looking up at someone on a loft bed and just see their chin hanging over.