The Vase of Virtue and the Divine Lamp are two different artifacts, each guiding different pathways to riches in the legends of ancient India and ancient Arabia. Two different cultures with different beliefs and ethnic groups, but both represent the same universal values. Vase of Virtue: dreams and riches In ancient India, a very poor ...
It is said that a person is rich and prosperous for a reason. Accumulation of virtue, in this life or from previous lives, can be exchanged into wealth and prosperity. This is a true story from the Qing Dynasty of immediate reward for having virtue and doing a good deed. In the Shunzhi era, an elderly ...
During the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, foreign businesspeople brought massive amounts of opium into China, leading the people to take on incorrect social values and ruin their health. In the eighteenth year of Daoguang (1838), the imperial court appointed Lin Zexu as the imperial minister and sent him to Guangzhou to ban opium. ...
During the time of the Opium Wars in China, Zeng Guofan led the Hunan army with full authority from the Emperor and was responsible for all the financial management, but he never embezzled any of the army’s money. At the time, the salt trade was a way of making money using coupons to exchange during ...
Well goes an old saying: “Of all virtues, filial piety is the first (百善孝為先).” It is the traditional virtue of respecting and caring for one’s parents and ancestors. The Chinese character for filial piety The Chinese character 孝 xiao is made up of two parts. The upper part is the character 老 (lao), which denotes ...
An old demon saw that human beings were blessed in the human world, so he told the little demons: “We need to disrupt human life, otherwise there is no place for us in the human world.” So he chose to send a little demon to a farmer. The first little demon and the farmer He ...
With kung fu’s introduction outside China came the emergence of martial arts films like Fist of Fury, Drunken Master, and so on. “When you can take the pebble from my hand, it will be time for you to leave,” is a memorable quote from the classic 70’s TV series Kung Fu. Along with Bruce Lee’s rise ...
America is facing a serious problem — a lack of virtue. Modernist ideologies that promised to herald a utopian society free from vices have ended up being the harbingers of a virtueless society where morality is not objective, but depends on the whims and fancies of the individual. The traditional idea of virtue is almost ...
In his new book, Beauty Matters: Creating a High Aesthetic in School Culture, Stephen Turley details the nature of beauty in some of the most precise and definitive terms you will find. Turley, in a recent interview, said he sets a plan for incorporating beauty’s characteristics into the classroom. Through his years as a teacher ...
In an era of scandals — such as infant formula contaminated with melamine, children vaccinated with fake vaccines, food containing additives that have adverse health effects, and others — people are becoming outraged and feeling anger and hopelessness. The world is getting worse and beginning to decline. Those in power have no virtue. According to the ...
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