Originating from Buddhist and Taoist monks in China, qigong is a spiritual practice that aims to help its users achieve total wellbeing. Unlike plain physical exercises where the focus is simply on the movement of the body, qigong requires its practitioners to have a certain level of mental preparation. “In order to do qigong… we ...
Rejecting lust was very important to ancient Chinese. There are many sayings from ancient times. One is: “When going about one’s business, one must abide by heavenly principles.” Another is: “To expand one’s field of fortune, one must act according to one’s conscience.” This implies that people must follow heavenly principles in order to accomplish ...
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) developed from the root belief that materialism stood above all. Out of this belief, that the body is nothing more than its parts, slowly grew a force that in its roots opposed traditional Chinese culture and its reverence for the divine and the soul. Anything and anyone who opposed the ...
In Chinese culture, from ancient times up to today, there are records of compassionate mother’s love. Here are few mothers worth remembering who have been included in Shen Yun’s performances. General Yue Fei’s mother Yue Fei was born in the 12th century A.D. at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty. When Yue Fei was ...
During the period of the Three Kingdoms, Zhong Yao (151-230), the founder of the regular Chinese calligraphy script known as kaishu, was married to Zhang Chang-pu (199-257). Zhang was an upstanding lady who abided by justice and placed a high value on the cultivation of morals and virtues. Even toward servants, her behavior was respectful, ...
In October 2012, a handwritten note of distress was written by a slave labor prisoner in one of China’s forced labor camps. It was hidden in a Halloween decoration set produced in the prison. The decoration set was then shipped to the state of Oregon where it was purchased by Ms. Julie Keith. When she ...
Despite more than two decades of advances in diagnostic criteria and technology, symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) too often go unrecognized or are misattributed, causing delays in appropriate diagnoses and care that are both harmful and costly. Contributing to the variability and inefficiency is the lack of multidisciplinary ADRD evaluation guidelines to ...
From Bangkok to Washington, D.C., events were held this week to commemorate nearly two decades of persecution that Falun Gong practitioners have undergone in China. Most of these simple acts of remembrance held around July 20 typically receive little media attention, much like the persecution itself — a phenomenon echoing sentiments put forward by a ...
Doreen Hegemann is a Germany-based business coach and strategy consultant, and is also an honorary member of the board of the European Women’s Management Development Network (EWMD). She paid her first visit to Taiwan in 2000 after she came across a Taiwanese studying the English language in Scotland in 1995 and was interested in the ...
Sun Yi took a lot of risks in helping make Letter from Masanjia, an hour-long documentary about his experiences in China’s most notorious labor camp. Not that Sun was there to watch the film’s premiere screening in Canada recently. He died last year in the Indonesian city of Jakarta where he had sought refuge after ...
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