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Confucius said: "If the Way is heard in the morning, one may die in the evening content." Buddhism also often says: birth and death are a great matter, and impermanence is swift, so Buddhism often urges its followers to strive in practice, resolve bodhi early,…

From childhood, our teachers and elders taught us that the more friends one has, the more roads one has, encouraging us to make friends widely. From certain angles, such a view is not wrong. But from another angle, more friends also mean more burdens; fewer…

Communication between doctors and patients and their families is a fundamental aspect of treatment. Good communication not only helps build trust between doctor and patient and promote mutual understanding and sympathy, but is also beneficial to the patient's recovery. At the same time, because oncologists…

The Confucian classic Daxue (Great Learning) puts forward the life ideal of "if it is made fresh each day, renew it day by day, day after day"—a spirit of constant self-renewal. In the Three Kingdoms period, Lü Meng said another line: "When a scholar has…

After years of questioning the meaning of life, I have come to accept this attitude: life has no meaning. And for a considerable, foreseeable time to come, I do not intend to change this attitude. I once read a dialogue between a scientist and a…

When my father named his two sons, he was quite grandiose: he picked our names from Zhuge Liang's line "one's ambition should be lofty," hoping his two sons would one day hold lofty ambitions and accomplish something magnificent. Honestly, from childhood onward, the name "Zhiyuan"…

The veteran TCM physician Sun Bingyan was among the first generation of doctors after the founding of the People's Republic who used TCM to fight cancer and achieved remarkable results. During his lifetime he was received and looked after by Premier Zhou Enlai, by former…

People often ask me to talk about how to study TCM.

Every day I receive a flood of recommended articles from WeChat friends—health articles with sensational titles. Most are clickbait pieces written by self-media accounts for marketing purposes, and over 95% of them are not worth reading. Such articles borrow the prestige of some so-called expert…

On September 17, 2016, the last day of the Mid-Autumn Festival long weekend, my wife and I, on a sudden impulse, followed a real-estate agent to look at commercial housing in Fangshan District, Beijing. House prices, rocketing all the way, had driven the entire property…