When I was young, I often heard older people say that it’s right to be virtuous and dissolving disputes brings blessings. On the other hand, sowing discord in your family, helping someone write a letter for divorce, or to filing a lawsuit for them are all things that undermine virtue. There was once a tutor from Xiu Ning who came from ...
Throughout the ages, the ancients passed down many words of wisdom, including how one should handle matters of managing money. Zhang Shuo, prime minister during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), once gave advice on managing money. He said that money is a sort of medicine in life. When used according to the right principles, including morality, ...
The Chinese phoenix, also known as Fenghuang, is regarded as the epitome of all birds, an omen that foretells harmony, and a symbol of high virtue, prosperity, compassion, and grace. Fenghuang is believed to have been born from the sun (or out of fire) and is considered the ruler of all birds, for it embodies ...
Ordinary people are no comparison to Emperor Kangxi, who with a pious heart, fasted and cleansed himself for three days before writing the character “fu” about a half-meter tall, which enabled his grandmother, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, to miraculously recover her health. (See Part 1 here). However, can displaying “fu” bring you good fortune as well? It ...
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 ...
Mr. Wang was a kind and righteous man. He ran a hotel behind the county hall of Jiangning County, in the Province of Jiankang during the Song Dynasty. Like all good people, he was straightforward, honest, and fair in his business dealings, and so people called him Honest Wang. He also liked to help Taoist ...
One way or another, at some time or another and at the worst possible time, adversity will show up at your door. Depending on the way you handle it, whether it is physical, spiritual, or emotional, adversity can be your friend or foe. Facing adversity can make you or break you. “If a man is ...
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 ...
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