Advice, Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber


好事多魔

- 曹雪芹, 紅樓夢

The good comes with the bad.

- Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹), Dream of the Red Chamber(紅樓夢)

Benevolence, Confucius, The Analects


仁者先難而後獲,可謂仁矣。

- 孔子, 論語 雍也

Benevolence involves being the first to volunteer for a difficult job and the last to think about rewards and recognition.

- Confucius, The Analects: Yong Ye(雍也)

Bloomberg: China Soft Landing May Be Hard for Commodity Exporters

Bloomberg

China Soft Landing May Be Hard for Commodity Exporters
By Bloomberg News - 2012.03.26 10:41 AM

The good news: China’s government will engineer a soft landing. The bad news: Even a soft landing is painful for industries that have become dependent on the world’s fastest-growing major economy as their main profit engine.

USA Today: Child's death prompts China to look at morals

Child's death prompts China to look at morals
By Calum MacLeod, USA TODAY

BEIJING – Road inspector Guo Mingyi donates his modest salary to the needy, has given blood 79 times, has worked five years' worth of overtime during the past 16 years and arrives two hours early, every day, to his job at a state-owned mining firm.

Finance: WSJ: China Risks Being Next Property-Bubble Blow Up

REAL ESTATE|JUNE 27, 2011
WSJ: China Risks Being Next Property-Bubble Blow Up

BEIJING—A recent decline in Chinese real-estate prices is starting to shake confidence in the country's economic vitality and open a debate about whether the country's economy is over-leveraged. That's what made the real-estate bubble's aftermath so painful for the U.S. and Japan.

Tai Chi: Best Fibromyalgia Treatment?

Tai Chi: Best Fibromyalgia Treatment?

By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News

Aug. 18, 2010 -- Just 12 weeks of tai chi -- the slow-motion Chinese martial art -- relieved longstanding fibromyalgia symptoms and improved quality of life in a clinical trial.

Compared with patients who received wellness education and stretching exercises, those who practiced tai chi saw their fibromyalgia become much less severe. They also slept better, felt better, had less pain, had more energy, and had better physical and mental health, says study researcher Chenchen Wang, MD, of Tufts University School of Medicine.

Tsaofu (造父)

Tsao Fu (造父)

Alternative Names (異名):
造父, zào fù, Tsao Fu


Tsao Fu (traditional: 造父, simplified: 造父 pinyin: zào fù), in ancient Chinese Mythology, was an exceptionally skilled charioteer, who is said to have lived around 950 B.C.

The Chinese tell the story of the Emperor Mu Wang, who was determined to visit paradise. He wanted to taste the peaches of immortality there. He found a very brave charioteer named Tsao Fu, who drove eight amazing horses with great skill. Tsao Fu was afraid of nothing—he carried the emperor across the Earth and into the heavens. The emperor finally reached Mount K’uen Lun and tasted the peaches of immortality. His brave charioteer Tsao Fu was carried up to the stars, where both he and his eight horses can be seen among the stars of the constellation Cepheus. The star Zeta Cephei is specifically named after him.


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