china, destiny, greed, moral character

Greed Can Ruin a Person’s Destiny

There is a legend about a once-famous painter and how greed destroyed a person’s destiny. He wanted to make the Buddha and demons the subjects of his paintings, but since he did not know what they looked like nor could he imagine what they looked like, he became very anxious. One day, he met a ...

Michael Segarty

A Chinese landscape painting.

The Legend of Taiwan’s Banping Mountain

A peculiar mountain, the Banping Mountain sits at the junction of Zuoying District and Nanzi District of Kaohsiung City in Taiwan. One side of the mountain ridge is so flat that it looks like it has been cut off with a knife. The residents say it resembles a painted screen, so everyone calls it the ...

Max Lu