About a thousand years ago, there was an itinerant Buddhist monk named Qici (契此) wandering around in the area on China’s east coast. He forever carried a cotton bag over his shoulder containing inexhaustible supplies of candies and toys for kids.
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This arm protection brocade was unearthed in 1995 from a tomb in Xinjiang Province dating back to the East Han (25–220). It has eight Chinese characters embroidered on it, which read as follows: 五星出東方利中國 (It will be a good time for China when five stars congregate in the east) Interestingly, the first name of the archaeologist who discovered the “five […]
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There was no donkey in this mountain until a boat shipped one from afar across the waterway to the region. A tiger from the mountain spotted the donkey and tried to communicate with the guest, but the donkey only traded with a loud and aggressive shriek. The tiger was shocked and dodged aside. After a while, the tiger tentatively returned […]
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I Ching (Yi Jing 易经) is the very foundation of Daoism and Chinese culture. But I Ching that we normally refer to is just one-third of all I Ching that was created by the ancient Chinese. This one-third of I Ching we know today is actually called “Zhou Yi (Change in Heaven 周易)”, meaning: “the I Ching compiled during the […]
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The 24 solar terms in the Chinese calendar are determined by, not a human ruler’s will, but the pulse of Nature – the change of season. Of the 24, winter solstice, the 22nd on the roll, is evidently the first solar term to be established during the Spring and Autumn period about 2,500 years ago.
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For thousands of years, Chinese people speak in hundreds of different dialects but use only one script, Han Characters, which makes the written communication and culture inheritance possible.
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In ancient China, mirrors, which are normally made of bronze, were often viewed as more than just instruments for reflection; they were also artworks, and sometimes sacred objects with supernatural dispositions, and for that, they often used as sacrifice articles to detect other worlds.
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Odes of the Warrior States era, rhymed essays of the Han Dynasty, couplet-style essays of the Wei-Jin age, poems of the Tang Dynasty, verses of the Song Dynasty, lyrics of the Yuan time, and novels of the Ming Dynasty represent the highest literary achievements of the corresponding period respectively.
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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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Great truths are always simple. (It is the language that makes the world complicated.) A quotation from Mencius Laws without compassion cannot build a good society; compassion without laws cannot make a good government. In other words, laws without compassion will not unite people; compassion without laws can lead to injustice. A Quotation from The Book of Rites The Book […]
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In the mountainous west Hunan Province in China’s southern inland region, there are many remote villages where the mysterious practice to communicate with hidden forces is still very much part of the daily reality. A family in the village. COMMENTS FROM MINDS.COM Eric Hmmmmm…. that is fascinating. Are they forces of evil? 😨😭 All Things Chinese Pure “evil” forces are rare […]
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In Chinese mythology, most beings in the celestial worlds more or less look like humans. The difference between the bodies of the terrestrial humans and the celestial beings are that the latter is much more refined in substance, more graceful in appearance, lighter in weight, shining in colour and transformable in shape since it is not formed with flesh and blood […]
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