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If you ask me where I most want to be right now, I would say: in my rural hometown. I really want to advise the young and middle-aged people who are now unemployed and back in their rural hometowns to start businesses in their own…

I will remain silent for a very long time on many issues. This "very long time" may be one year, or two, or longer. Because I have come to know that sometimes silence is the best language, and words are but a burden. Ten thousand…

Dear fellow cancer patients, hello to you all! In these special times, I want to offer you some professional advice in the form of a letter. These suggestions may not apply to every patient, so I hope each of you will weigh them carefully in…

Laozi said: "Reversal is the movement of the Dao." Laozi's words sum up the essence of reverse thinking. A whirlwind does not last a morning, nor a torrential rain a whole day. The world will not always look as it does now; it is forever…

I am an atheist who has always believed that reason and evidence can help me understand the world. If there is something I cannot yet understand or analyze, it can only be because my knowledge is still insufficient; I will go and learn. And I…

I have liked Russell for a very long time. This sagacious philosopher saw through almost every problem of human society. Even more likable is the fact that he also loved mathematics. Besides The Conquest of Happiness, The Road to Freedom, and A History of Western…

Today, I can finally slip into the mode of taking my annual leave. After a whole year of drudgery, body and mind have borne a great deal of pressure, and it is time to take a proper annual leave. I just cannot let my guard…

Fuling (Poria) is a mild-medicinal, food-and-medicine water-draining and swelling-relieving herb. Fuling cakes (fuling bing) are one of Beijing's local specialties. Fuling cakes, also called fuling sandwich cakes, were originally a Qing-dynasty imperial food and are a nourishing traditional Beijing pastry. They are thin cakes made…

Qingwei Lipi Tang is a prescription from the Yizong Jinjian (Golden Mirror of Medicine), composed of cangzhu (atractylodes), chenpi (tangerine peel), houpo (magnolia bark), gancao (licorice), huanglian (coptis), huangqin (scutellaria), and dahuang (rhubarb)—seven herbs. In effect it is a combination of Dahuang Huanglian Xiexin Tang…

In the dietary restrictions I give my patients, seafood ranks first. Many patients and their families ask in puzzlement: isn't seafood supposed to be safer? Aren't marine fish and shrimp safer than freshwater fish and shrimp? The answer is no. Sea fish are not safer…