Tag: chinese philosophy
The Daylily’s 2,500-Year Journey: How China Turned a Poet’s Flower into a Kitchen Staple
The Chinese idiom "huánghuācài dōu liáng le," literally "even the daylily dish has gone cold," is a northern...
Three People Who Determine Your Happiness in Old Age
As people reach the later stage of life, the most precious thing is not savings accounts or bankbooks...
China’s Five Sacred Creatures and What They Actually Meant
The dragon: lord of transformation, emblem of imperial power The Shuowen Jiezi, the Han dynasty's...
How Beijing’s Character Simplification Campaign Severed China from Its Own Civilization
Look carefully at two versions of the same character. The first is 愛, the traditional form of the Chinese...
Changsha: City of Poets, Scholars, and Ancient Kilns
Changsha sits at the confluence of mountain and river, with Yuelu Mountain rising to its west and the...
Ancient Chinese Health Wisdom: What the Book of Rites Says About the Body
In classical Chinese thought, virtue produces a physically observable effect on the body The Book...
Confucius’s Warning Against Becoming a ‘Tool-Person’ Still Applies in the Age of Algorithms
In today’s Chinese internet slang, a “tool-person” (Gongju ren) refers to someone valued only for utility—replaceable...
Su Shi in Exile: The Meaning of ‘Settling the Wind and Waves’
Su Shi, a leading poet and statesman of China’s Song dynasty, wrote some of his most enduring lines while...
China’s Most Educated Man Gu Hongming Spent His Life Defending His Country’s Lost Values
At the turn of the twentieth century, China was losing a war it had been fighting for decades, not on...
Qian Mu Read a Party Proclamation for Three Minutes—and Chose Exile
By Chen Jing Saving a last breath for Chinese civilization: Qian Mu and the newspaper that decided...
Harmony of Heaven and Earth: How the Five Elements Link Nature, Seasons, Health
In ancient China, the philosophy of "heaven, earth, and man as one" has guided wellness for millennia...
Virtue Is the Best Feng Shui
Feng shui, literally “wind and water,” is an ancient Chinese philosophical system, sometimes translated...