Peking Opera performer Ma Lianliang and his family lived in a courtyard opposite the National Cultural Palace in Xicheng on Fuxingmen Street. It was often said that he was a filial son. He bought this luxurious house after he became famous to fulfil his father’s wish. When Ma Lianliang was a child, his family lived ...
In the north of Fufeng County, Baoji City in Shaanxi Province, exists the Famen Temple, built by the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty (A.D. 25-220). The underground palace pagoda in the temple enshrines a section of the authentic relic of Buddha Shakyamuni’s middle finger bone. Red Guards attack the Famen Temple In 1966, a ...
This is a two-part story; please go here for Part 1 Before Xiong Dazhen died, he would never have imagined that decades later, his teacher Ye Qisun would also be persecuted because of him. After the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, the “Xiong Dazhen espionage case” was dug up again. Because Xiong Dazhen was a student of ...
During the 1950s, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) embarked on improving China’s aerospace, nuclear physics, and atomic bomb research. To fulfill the CCP’s ambition, they aimed to entice talented individuals to return home to China and share their talents, just as molecular biologist Yan Ning has been enticed to do. Qian Xuesen, Qian Sanqiang, and ...
The motivation for Xian Baokang to become a master craftsman came from witnessing the Red Guards’ destruction of a precious and priceless Italian violin that belonged to his mother during a raid on the Xian family’s home during the Cultural Revolution in China. The violin that was wantonly destroyed was more than 300 years old. ...
“Sorry! My husband is deaf…” This is what Xian Baokang’s wife said to the judges of the 13th Violin Society of America (VSA) International Competition listening on the other end of the phone. The people she was speaking to could hardly believe their ears and kept passing the phone back and forth with everyone asking: “What? ...
From ancient times to the present day, people have held a special sentiment for the divine and naturally revere the divine and Buddhas; therefore, people around the world worship divine statues. When the divine sees people’s genuine intentions, they are often helped and safeguarded from dangers and calamities. Conversely, retribution brought on by the blasphemy of ...
There is a saying: “One reaps what one sows.” It is customary for the Chinese to go to temples at the beginning of the new year. Popular temples are packed all day with crowds that are eager to light incense and pray for a good year to come. However, it was not like this during ...
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