Cultural and Intellectual History Tweets—Mountain Temple Microeconomics

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On this date on Round and Square  

17 April 2013—China's Lunar Calendar 2013 04-17
17 April 2012—La Pensée Cyclique: Chinese Thought (and Civilization)
17 April 2011)—Beginnings: Civil Twilight

[a] Calculation RL

This new Round and Square series gets right to the point...and then starts circuiting around it. We begin with a 140 character tweet about cultural-intellectual history. This is followed by an English-style haiku (with a few liberties taken here and there—hey...English ain't Japanese). We end with a nice recipe. Simple, and to-the-point (except that it really is neither of these...and that is the whole point). Oh, and I still believe in complete sentences and fully-formed wrdz (they can't always be exactly "complete" on Twitter, but, as I like to say, "you can see 'complete' from there." Sorry, but that's the way I roll. 

[b] Choice RF

If the tweet is "informational" (as today), it is "true." The recipe is "real." The haiku is just, well, odd.

I would tell you more...if I had more than 140 characters with which to work (+ spld thngs fny).

Tweet
My lecture about the microeconomics of divination is over. It's time for the article that reminds economists about "cultural" choices.

Haiku
Mi-cro-eco-nom-ics
Pray, bow, incense stick aloft
How to make a choice?

Recipe
So you've been busy at the ol' Southern Sacred Peak Temple all day? Spent a little too much money on "dragon head" (龍頭 / 龙头) incense sticks? Need a nice dumpling dinner and a good night's sleep before starting up the mountain? Well, here's what you need. 

Hunan Dumplings

[c] Northern variety RF