A royal wedding procession passes through an arched bridge in Bianliang, the capital city of the North Song Dynasty in today’s Kaifeng, Henan Province. Arched Bridges A single-arch bridge in an old waterfront neighbourhood in Suzhou, an ancient city near Shanghai. A three-arch bridge in the ancient city Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province. A five-arch bridge on Li River in Yunnan […]
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Chinese swords of Warring States Era, collection of Shanghai Museum 2,500-Year-Old Sword of Goujian Long before the First Emperor Qin drove his army from the west in Xi’an to reach the east coast area and united China in 221BC, there were two highly developed kingdoms in the seaboard region, one in Shaoxing (near Hangzhou) and another in Suzhou (near Shanghai). […]
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Encountering a white bone demon is one of the 81 trials Buddhist monk Xuanzang, of Tang Dynasty, and his disciples would have to face before arriving in the land of enlightenment. Of course, the enlightened land in the west is not India. It is a state of consciousness. After all, a thousand years ago, there was no such a country […]
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In Chinese mythology, epidemics are caused by Five Epidemic Demons with five pairs of evil eyes, all having a human body but the head of a man, a tiger, a horse, a bird or a rooster. According to the Encyclopedia on The Origin of the Mysterious Figures from Confucius, Buddhism and Daoist (三教源流搜神大全), a work compiled during the Ming Dynasty, […]
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A War to Prevent the Resurrection of Chinese Civilisation Did America Just Confess to a COVID 19 Bio War We only need to examine the OPCW and their recent attempts to cover up use of chemical weapons in Syria by Western intelligence agencies as a “backdrop” as it were. If that was done, then might well COVID 19 be a […]
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The World Pandemic Outbreak in Italy Dr Remuzzi, co-author of a paper in The Lancet, says he is now hearing information from Italian GPs. “They remember having seen strange pneumonia in November. It means the virus was circulating in Italy before the outbreak in China.” An artwork by Aurora Different Foreign Policies from Different Cultural Traditions China sent a medical […]
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Life In China During Wuhan LockDown In rural areas of Hubei and Henan provinces, villagers blocked the roads between villages in an attempt to stop the spread of the super infectious coronavirus. COMMENTS FROM MINDS Jan 27, 2020 Eric Coronavirus can not pass the pile of manure. Thake that you bad virus. I hear that there are some cities under […]
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Wuhan Before Struck by Coronavirus A night scene of Wuhan before coronavirus breakout. East Lake in the city of Wuhan. Wuhan sports stadium that hosted the 7th Military World Games in October 2019 between 18th and 27th. A scene of the splendid performance on the opening ceremony of the 7th Military World Games in Wuhan. More than 9,300 military sports […]
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About 3,000 years ago during the Shang Dynasty (商朝), there was a military commander named Li Jin (李靖). Li Jing had a son called Nezha (哪吒) and oddly had no bathroom in his big mansion. When Nezha was seven, on an unseasonably hot day in May, the boy told his mother he was going to take a bath in a […]
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Ancient Shanghai city wall near the Bund, 1850. COMMENTS FROM MINDS soxfan1957 Would have loved to walk around this. All Things Chinese Shanghai city walls are no longer there, demolished about 100 years ago. Eric I am constantly amazed at how the people in ancient time, Roman Collisium as an example, can stand for thousands of years while we in […]
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Square dance in the neighbourhood open space in the early morning and evening has been very popular in China for more than a decade. A scene from The Wild Goose Lake, a Chinese crime movie nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes early this year. People enjoyed square dance in a semi-developed urban area (城乡结合部) in the outskirts of Wuhan, […]
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Ma Haifang (马海方) is a Chinese artist born and grew up in Beijing’s outskirts. Below are some of his works illustrating the lives of the ordinary rural and city folks in Beijing in the last century. A summer afternoon in an old Beijing village. COMMENTS FROM MINDS soxfan1957 Aaaah! The old fashion back scratcher. One of the best inventions ever. […]
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