heart, self improvement, wang guanming, writers, writing

Great Writing Comes From the Heart

Significant literary works can evoke a multitude of emotions yet can also nourish people’s hearts. But how does one create great books or articles? And how does a writer find the inspiration to create them? To find the answers to these questions, we asked Chinese-language columnist Wang Guanming from The Epoch Times, who began writing for the ...

Emma Lu

A smartphone with The Epoch Times app.

The Key to Reversing Your Apparent Misfortunes

This is a true story about a poor young man who turned around his apparent misfortunes. He traveled to Paris to look for a good friend of his father’s, found him, and asked the man if he could help him get a job. “Are you proficient in math?” the friend asked. The young man shook ...

Helen London

A Paris street and buildings.

Meet Ancient China’s Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

During the 3rd century CE, there lived a group of seven men in China known as the Seven Sages of The Bamboo Grove. They were philosophers, writers, musicians, and scholars who had a distaste for court life. As such, China’s seven sages used to gather around a bamboo grove near the house of their leader Ji ...

Nspirement Staff

Portraits of Ruan Ji and Ji Kang.