We all have two hands, they are in the opposite positions, but they mutually complement and support each other. My partner went through a major surgery recently. The two chief cardiovascular surgeons came from two different hospitals. When they walked out of the surgery room for this ten-hour op

Time brings a great change to the world. With technology’s daily fast development, substance brings forth the fresh at every single moment. A richly decorated crystal and jade palace today will all flutter away like a passing cloud one day. Only the eternal history and culture, passed down by hundre

Due to a very important family emergency, I had to put on hold everything at hand and fly back to China from Canada within a week. Very urgently, I went through a 48-hours-leading-time pre-boarding COVID19 FlyClear RT-PCR swab test and antibody blood test. With both tests' negative results, I succe

What means the determined will and the noble integrity of a person? Does a scholar, or a gentleman or a soldier acting on behalf of their true hearts describe any meaning of a person’s determined will and noble integrity? I think it does, and so did our ancestors. They created the character 志 to pr

In June, SilkRoad Cooperation inspired me to work on the soulful Silk Road story through the character 丝-silk https://lnkd.in/gUJFph3s. Our collaboration in bridging cultural sharing in helping business continues. Today, we talk about 云-cloud, which connects a natural phenomenon with our digital da

Have you ever noticed? ✅The force-bearing structure of a bicycle is a hollow tube. ✅The weight-bearing tire of a car is a hollow structure. ✅Although the ocean liners are made of metal heavier than water, they can carry weight and sail on the water because of their hollowness. ✅The load-bearing ste

I read a small article talking about value and it motivated me to do some research on the Chinese character “值”, which means value and worth in English. To find some photos I can use for this post, I entered “value” into some free image download websites. Guess what I get? 80% to 90% images returne

There were a grandpa and his grandson who woke up early to study every morning. One day, the grandson asked: "Grandpa, I read like you every day, but I don't understand it, and I forget everything when I close the book. Is it useful to read this way?" Grandpa didn't say a word. He turned around an

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a silk shop in Beijing. One day, a sudden fire burned everything in the shop, including the account books. Then, the shop owner posted a notice, saying: Our shop’s account books have all been destroyed in the fire; Those who owe me money don’t have to pay

Chinese characters have been in the process of development and simplification from graphics to graphical characters over history. In pursuing the benefits for common people in China and the rest of the world to learn the language more easily, our government Community Party of China initiated furthe

There was a white rabbit who loved the beauty of nature. She especially liked the moon. In her eyes, the moon’s dimness and brightness, waxing and waning were full of charm. So the king of the universe summoned her and said that she had a unique talent for admiring the moon and decided to give her

What kind of a title is this?! This is an incredible statement! But indeed, I want to talk about science-科学, which if Chinese explains word by word, means the sub-subjected subjects for study and research, then we should know that in ancient China, there were no sub-subjected subjects for study. Th

We are all in the world of the living. A USA friend who dedicates his whole life in study and digitalizing the evolution history of the pictographic Chinese language was quoting this character 世 for his good friend’s leaving the world of living last week. He said: “The 世-life is the top part of 枼 w

It's The Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere today, Jun 21, 2021. Half-year from the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere on Dec 21, 2020, the surface temperature of the Northern Hemisphere is starting to reaching its highest, while inside the core of Mother Earth, it is the day her int

The answer is simple: 正直- being righteous. They all know this word 正. It means upright straight, correct, right, and justice. Over thousands of years, generation by generation, Chinese are acting on this world 正 which carries huge wisdom through 4 hiding simple Chinese words in it: 下 - Low; down;

In today’s world, weapon competition under high-tech integration measures the infinite possession of material wealth and fierce economic strength. But, do you know how gunpowder for weapons was invented as one of the four major inventions in ancient China and why it was all about human #health? Anc

Life is like a rechargeable battery, requiring career recharging, professional recharging, health recharging… from time to time, to maintain a high energy level. Did this concept exist before the battery’s existence? Yes. And, we can learn it through a single character “脏”. Ancestors used this “脏”

Legend has it that when Lao Tzu (or, Lao Zi) was fifteen, he worshipped a man named Chang Cong as his teacher. Later, the teacher became seriously ill. Lao Tzu went to visit him, but couldn’t forget to ask for more teaching. And here came a conversation between them like this: Lao Tzu said respect

In 2008, Dr. David Vesely, the chief scientist of the Health Science Research Center of the University of South Florida, found that the heart can secrete the last-life hormone, it can not only kill more than 95% of cancer cells within 24 hours, and it also has an excellent therapeutic effect on othe

Zheng Banqiao(https://lnkd.in/e6Xfp_r) had a straightforward character and was a county governor who governed incorruptibly and intelligently with integrity. As a result, there was nothing worthwhile at his home. One night, a thief entered his home, and he chanted a limerick: On this drizzle-heav

In different languages over the globe, there are various ways to describe the reactions of human beings in the face of difficulties and extreme trials. In Chinese, we often use 稳如泰山 to describe the cool-headed calmness and steadfastness of a person in the face of troubles and challenges, just like t

When my little girl uses an iPad App to learn simple coding like {if...} {then do...} {repeat...} {elseif...} {else...}, it is fascinatingly simple and easy. And the program lets the kids debug and refine the codes to make their small codes a closed-loop process at the end. This reminds me of my ol

As one of the most fundamental characters, 木-wood/tree, used to be questioned by a younger me that why during its simplification, the center of this word is completely moved to the lower part. As we may all know that the underground roots of a tree and its branches/leaves above the ground occupy alm

The childhood story of the blind man touching the elephant never fades in our memory. A blind man touches the elephant to learn what an elephant is like: When he touches the belly, the elephant is like a wall; When he touches a leg, the elephant is like a big pillar; When he touches the tail, the

The human body is wise, like a small cosmic world, while the universe is a big cosmic world. In this small cosmic world, everything is connected as a whole from the Traditional Chinese Medicine's(TCM) point of view. TCM thinks that the human skin is closely related to human Qi and Blood circulation

People intend to listen to what they want to listen to. They feel resonation, reorganization, happiness, and energy when they listen to something they are intending to listen to. They feel conflict, restlessness, contempt, neglect, avoidance, even depression when they listen to something they are

Over more than five thousand years, there have been countless anecdotes in history, from astronomy to geography, from humanities to ethics, from mathematics to nature, from poems to music, all reflecting the diversity and tolerance of ancient Chinese cultures. The names of Chinese people have profo

There was a carpenter who worked in his yard. His business was very good. Every day from morning to night, the yard was filled with the sound of saws and hammers, and was piled with shavings and sawdust. One evening, the carpenter and one of his apprentices were sawing a thick piece of wood. Accide

During the reign of Song Renzong, an owner of a rice store had a bad business, so he asked a scale builder to make a 15-half-taels scale for him (in ancient times a catty was 16 taels), and promised to give enough money. This was incidentally heard by the rice store owner’s little daughter-in-law.

穷?! Not Simply Poverty, But Extreme! Poverty and wealth, what is the definition of them? With the cutting-edge development of technology and the economy, how they play their new roles in our daily life? Deep dive research brings us back to old history again. This time, it focuses on the word 穷-pov