I learned a long time ago to listen to my inner voice. It is a warm summer day in Australia, during a pandemic, and an odd silence wraps up the city of Melbourne due to a new sudden and unexpected lockdown, the third. Once again, I find myself immersed in my thoughts and, while trying ...
There is a story from the Qing Dynasty by an influential scholar named Ji Xiaolan (紀曉嵐). He wrote about a teacher named Song Bantang of Anyi — now Xia County, Shanxi Province — in his writings Reading the Xiaocaotang Notes, If I Smell Three. Song was a government official in Yin County, Zhejiang Province, where ...
During the last several hundred years of the Zhou Dynasty (周朝), people’s selfish desires increased along with the development of society. The ancient great virtues and the virtuous rule of emperors in the Xia Dynasty (夏朝), Shang Dynasty (商朝), and early Zhou Dynasty were replaced by individuals seeking personal interest. As a result, relationships among ...
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