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Since the COVID-19 outbreak, people worldwide have struggled in the maelstrom of the pandemic for two years. But now, with the emergence of new variants, we seem to see the first glimmer of dawn. I believe the hardest days may soon be behind us, and…

Lately I have been watching videos of junior-high math, physics, chemistry, and biology on Bilibili, and before I knew it I was hooked; it feels like learning something new. As I learn, new ideas keep arising in my head, and more and more things fall…

When I opened my high-school textbooks again after twenty years, I found the speed at which knowledge has been updated truly astonishing. If we do not regularly update our own knowledge system, our brains will grow old before their time and fail to keep up…

An elder of mine has finally persuaded me to commit wholeheartedly to preparing for the college entrance exam, so that I can get a junior-college (zhuanke) degree in TCM, then sit the assistant-physician exam, and then the full licensed-physician exam. No more illusions about shortcuts…

As a folk TCM doctor, I have long wanted to become a fully licensed TCM physician. To realize that dream I have already waited ten years and paid a heavy price. But as of now, this dream is still not fully realized. After the pandemic…

I finally gave up the lease on my office space. After two days of hustle, I packed the last things in the room and moved them home, and arranged with the landlord to return the keys this weekend. From now on I will mainly do…

After the Minor Snow solar term, the weather turns cold. Following northern custom, radishes and cabbages should be put into the vegetable cellar. Autumn harvest and winter storage—spending the winter in the North makes one feel this all the more deeply. Last year, as soon…

Once a reader asked me: why do you always keep thinking about your rural hometown? Wouldn't staying in the city let you help more people? I said to her: in the animal kingdom, some animals imprint on the first animal they see after birth as…

Is the Way of Heaven not like the drawing of a bow? What is high is pressed down; what is low is lifted up. What is in excess is reduced; what is insufficient is supplied. The Way of Heaven reduces the excess and supplies the…

A major exam is finally over. While reviewing before the exam, my mood was tense and the pressure high; I kept hoping the exam would end soon, planning to relax properly for a few years afterward and take it easy in the days ahead. But…