Wind chime Japanese glass wind bells known as "fūrin" () have been produced since the Edo period, and those at Mizusawa Station are one of the 100 Soundscapes of Japan. Wind chimes are thought to be good luck in parts of Asia and are used in Feng Shui. Wind chimes started to become modernized around 1100 B.C. after the Chinese began to cast bells. A bell without a clapper, called a "yong-zhong", was crafted by skilled metal artisans and primarily used in religious ceremonies. Afterwards, the Chinese created the "feng-ling", which is similar to today's modern wind bell. Feng-lings were hung from
Chinese grammar or "xiàng" () before the noun phrase, and "yīyàng" () or "nàyàng" () after it. The construction "yuè ... yuè ..." can be translated into statements of the type "the more ..., the more ...". The Chinese copular verb is "shì" (). This is the equivalent of English "to be" and all its forms—"am", "is", "are", "was", "were", etc. However, "shì" is normally only used when its complement is a noun or noun phrase. As noted above, predicate adjectives function as verbs themselves, as does the locative preposition "zài" (), so in sentences where the predicate is an adjectival or