Wu Song was an accomplished kung fu man, and the memory of his legendary exploit was known by everyone in Sunny Valley County. It is said that he was once confronted by a tiger, a man-eating beast who turned a mountain into its colony for at least 100 days. But the big cat’s luck ran out when it had a fatal […]
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Dream of the Red Chamber narrates how a grand household with a large population and a high GDP figure decayed and collapsed. During its heyday, a splendid banquet was held at a luxury and spacious pavilion built on a lily pool, with steamed crabs as the main course and a writers’ festival as the core activity, organized by the poets club with members mainly […]
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This is not a fairytale but a real incident occurred in a zoo in Guangdong Province. A tiger and a monkey were neighbours with their territories separated by steel bars along the border. One day when the tiger quietly took a nap, the restless and insecure monkey somehow became more vicious, more aggressive, more inclined to take risks to come […]
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The Colour ink paintings are selected from picture book Wu Song Beats the Tiger, which is a story in Water Margin – a Ming Dynasty novel about the Song Dynasty rebels. Author Liu Jiyou (刘继卣 1918 – 1983) received several Chinese and international awards for his artwork in Wu Song Beats the Tiger. After years of working as a freelance kung […]
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The Sun Is Setting in the West According to Daoist concept, the earthly existence is a shadowy reflection of the celestial reality. The dark mass looming on the western horizon is not gigantic hills, but a massive piece of cloud. A scene of yin-yang division between the dark west and the rest of the sky that is rather bright appeared in the […]
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