How COVID-19 Affected Diwali Celebrations This Year

Diwali is one of the most important celebrations in Hinduism. Known as the Festival of Lights, it is celebrated with much pomp and vigor in India. In recent years, many more countries have joined in celebrating Diwali. However, this year’s Diwali celebrations, whether in India, the United States, or other nations, have been severely marred ...

Nspirement Staff

A candle.

The Best Feng Shui

In the past, there was a man who wanted to build a house, and he invited a feng shui master to check the location. Just as they got near it, they saw birds flying out of some trees. The man said to the feng shui master: “Let’s do this another time. There must be children ...

Nspirement Staff

Seolbong Park.

The European Custom of ‘Telling the Bees’

Do you know that there is a European tradition called “telling the bees”? This is a custom according to which beekeepers tell the bees about important events of their life, including births, deaths, marriages, return home, and so on. The custom is prevalent in England and in some areas of Wales, Ireland, the Netherlands, France, ...

Michael Segarty

A beekeeper and his son inspecting hives.

How This Chinese Skincare Tool Became Popular in America

A jade roller is a skincare product that has become popular in the Western world over the past few years. The beauty tool actually has its origin in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and is believed to have protective and healing properties. Jade rollers for skincare A jade roller basically uses jade stones to massage the ...

Emma Lu

A jade roller.

No Drinking! No Fighting! The Laws of Early Edo Japan to Keep the Peace

An early Edo period document stipulating the Hosokawa clan code of conduct for vassals dispatched on a national project to rebuild Sunpu Castle has been discovered by Kumamoto University researchers. The 13 articles from the head of the Hosokawa clan in the Kokura domain (area), Tadaoki Hosokawa at the time, delegate full authority to the vassals to ...

Troy Oakes

A letter from the lord of the Hosokawa clan.

The 8 Graces of Life

Having a grateful heart, we have to be aware of the eight tremendous graces in life and return the blessings when the time comes. 8 graces to be grateful for 1. The grace of nature Nature bears us. We live, we take, and we grow in it. That is why ancient people respected nature. They ...

Nspirement Staff

A forest path.

Sea Salt Can Help You Deal With the Common Cold

There is no treatment for the common cold. However, there are natural ways to remedy its symptoms. A study of sea salt water solution found that it could cut down the length of a cold by around two days while also reducing the need for medicines by almost a third. Dealing with the common cold ...

Armin Auctor

Boy sneezing into a tissue.

Team Discovers Ancestral Puebloans Survived Ice Melt in Lava Tube

For more than 10,000 years, the people who lived on the arid landscape of modern-day western New Mexico were renowned for their complex societies, unique architecture, and early economic and political systems. But surviving in what Spanish explorers would later name El Malpais, or the “badlands,” required ingenuity now being explained for the first time ...

Troy Oakes

A large lave tube.

6 Chinese Business Traditions You Should Be Aware Of

Different cultures have their own characteristics and propriety of conducting business. China is no different. Whether it is dealing with customers, partners, superiors, juniors, and so on, Chinese business traditions mandate the observation of certain standards. 6 Chinese business traditions you need to know about 1. Generosity According to ancient Chinese traditions, a businessman is ...

Nspirement Staff

Hong Kong on the waterfront..

New Fossil Seal Species Rewrites History

An international team of biologists, led by Monash University, has discovered a new species of extinct monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere — describing it as the biggest breakthrough in seal evolution in 70 years. The discovery, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, radically changes scientists’ understanding of how seal species evolved around the world. ...

Troy Oakes

An artist’s impression of Eomonachus belegaerensis.