A 1000-year-old Chinese divorce settlement agreement was unearthed in 1900 from Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in Gansu Province. The following is a rough translation of this Tang Dynasty divorce agreement: We all know when a man and a woman become a couple, they love each other. The cause for a man and a woman to become a couple is rooted in […]
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What is the Origin of Duanwu Dragon Boat Festival? Boat racing and zongzi on Duanwu festival was initially created to pay tribute to Qu Yuan (343 BC – 278 BC), one of China’s greatest poets and statesmen. Qu Yuan was a high official of Chu Kingdom during the Warring States era. To be wrongly accused by a group of corrupt […]
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Maybe in their games, the winner is the one who runs slower than anyone else. 😁 COMMENTS ON FEBRUARY 14, 2018, FROM GOOGLE PLUS Arien N. Hammell The dog is a clever creature who knows that he does not need to stoop to manual labor to get to where he needs to go. Just look at how fast he’s getting […]
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What Is Qi? This jade elephant was unearthed from Shang Dynasty (1600 BC – 1046 BC) archaeological site Yinxu (殷墟) in Henan in northern China. 3000 years ago, the area in today’s Henan Province was a native habitat of elephants. COMMENTS FROM GOOGLE PLUS Mile HsiangYang Lee: HENAN PROVINCE – 3000 Years Ago? 😮 ELEPHANTS? 😮 But No Elephants in […]
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Mt. Wudang, the Biggest Daoist Hub in China Daoist temples began to appear in Mt Wudang since Lao Tzu and Confucius time 2,500 years ago. But Mt. Wudang was developed into a Daoist hub hundreds years later during the Weijin South North Dynasties (魏晋南北朝) around the 3rd and the 4th centuries, the time when the story of Nirvana in Fire, […]
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What Is Qigong Qi is infomation energy that supports our life, and Qigong is a kung fu of qi, an art to manage and empower the qi within our body and beyond. Qigong is the integral part of all Chinese kung fu, be it as vigorous as Shaolin or as gentle as Taichi. The only difference is the proportion between the tangible […]
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There are two kinds of travellers: One knows where to go and one doesn’t. The one who knows his destination and knows the path to reach there will sooner or later get there. The one who knows little about his destination and the path to get there might just go nowhere. By the same token. There are two kinds of […]
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The Founder of China’s Scholarly Culture Confucius lived in the era when Lao Tzu described how the universe works and Shakyamuni explained how to manager your universe. As China’s most respected teacher, in a pre-internet age 2,500 years ago, Confucius gained over 3,000 followers China wide. Ancient Chinese State-Run University This life-scale replica of the scene resembles a typical lecture […]
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Winter Plum is native to China, mainly growing in the Yangtze River delta region, including Suzhou, Shanghai and Hangzhou, with the biggest plum garden in Wuxi. The plum normally blossoms in mid-winter during January and February when all flowers die and the land is pale in colour. The plum trees can grow to 4–10 metres tall and the flowers with […]
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Lady Chang’e and the Moon Day As Chinese legend goes, a long long time ago right here on this planet, ten suns suddenly appeared in the sky and refused to go away. The land was burning and the people were dying. A man named Houyi heroically shot down the nine suns and left only one to light the sky. Life […]
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Maoshan Daoist sect is one of the most mysterious Daoist schools, known as the inheritor of Supreme Purity camp (上清派) with its principles and cultivation methods explained in Sutra of Supreme Purity (上清经). The statue atop the hill behind the premises is Laozi (Lao Tse, 604 bC – 531 BC), considered as the founder of the modern Chinese Daoism. The […]
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The Peony Pavilion (牡丹亭), Hall Of Longevity (长生殿), Thousands Of Martyrs (千忠戮) and The Fan Of Peach Flowers (桃花扇) are the four most celebrated ancient Chinese operas. Among the four, The Peony Pavilion, also named The Return of Soul at the Peony Pavilion, written in 1598 by Tang Xianzu (汤显祖), one of the two greatest Chinese dramatists, along with Guan Hanqing […]
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