ancestors, poverty, strength, tai-tai, talent, virtue, wealth, wife, zhou dynasty, zhou li

How Our Ancestors Viewed Wealth, Poverty, and Virtue

In this current cycle of time and space, many things around us, including poverty and wealth, follow certain laws. The criterion our ancestors used to measure wealth and poverty aligned with these laws, especially as far as virtue was concerned. This was quite different from that of our modern thinking. If we look beneath the ...

Tatiana Denning

An ancient Chinese building.