New Understanding of Basic Necessities of Life—Wear, Fare, Shelter and Transportation
〔衣食住行新解〕
Weed Disaster and Reform and Opening up
During the middle of the 1960’s, people living on the loess plateau in the north of Central Shaanxi had to live at the mercy of the weather. Baoji Irrigation Reservoir was not constructed yet and the grain yield per mu was only tens of kilograms. Weeds in the farmland then were of a score of strains only. Once my father bought me a lamb and I often graze it after school. There happened to be a drought that year and grass scarcely grow in the fields; thus the lamb put on no weight after two months and its wool became all dried-up and yellow. Fortunate
On God, Ghost and Human Being
Throughout the ages, talks on gods and ghosts have been quite abundant. But even Confucius admitted, “As for things about gods and ghosts, it’s hard for me to put them clear.” Is there real existence of gods and ghosts? My answer is definitely no! If every person, after his or her death, is transformed into a god or a ghost, there would be too many gods and ghosts thronging every corner of the world since time immemorial to leave any room for human beings. Then what is the ground for the talks of god and ghosts? In my opinion, gods and ghosts are simply the imagined incarnations of people who have made
The Association of the Thousand Hands and Thousand Eyes
The Origin of “Eventful Autumn” and Beyond
Recently a story about two friends setting up a company in cooperation reached me. In the beginning one of them took in charge of financial affairs as the juridical person, and the other handled business, neither of them giving particular thought to the division of labor. Through their cooperated efforts the company ran successfully with good profits, but then arose the dispute over the division of the profits. The one in charge of business complained that it was unfair since the other one as the judicial person took all the power in his hand and that financial power should be handed over t
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To Crack down on the Counterfeit Commodity or to Crack down on the “person” who works on them?
Be De Te and Live Guben (Act Uniquely and Morally and Live with a Solid Foundation)
Zhang Wanzhun
How to be a good person? This subject haunts me all the time, which is also an ever-discussing topic for thousands of years. Wise men of the past proposed many codes of conduct. However the world and words change, the primary principle never changes: to act uniquely and morally and live with a solid foundation..
Kindness is the seed for human beings
〔‘仁’是人的种子〕
From Shaanxi Daily November 10, 2005
Half Body and Personal Development
It’s believed in physiology that people’s body can be divided into 2 parts from the navel: upper half and lower half. To own a healthy body, we need to be highly concerned about these two halves. Heart and brain are the core of the upper, while adrenal gland is the core of the lower. People today concern more adrenal gland than heart and brain. To strengthen heart and brain is to contribute to the welfare of the society and people. To strengthen adrenal gland is to satisfy the physical pleasure only. From the movies we watch and media we read today, they are no more than the admi
