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On Teachers' Day, the autumn rain fell continuously. Having finished my work, I sat in my study, listening to the sound of rain outside the window, now faint, now clear, recalling fragments of past years related to my teachers' kindness, my heart filled with gratitude…

A young lymphoma patient, ever since she was diagnosed with lymphoma, has come to me for pure Chinese medicine treatment. In the blink of an eye we have been together for two years. Fortunately, I have stabilized the progression of her condition: I have eliminated…

As the new school year approached, I went with the children to Tsinghua and Peking University; unfortunately, without a reservation we could not get through the campus gates. Twenty years ago I once lived in Zhongguanyuan, just east of Peking University; I often went to…

The scorching dog days are finally drawing to a close, and the autumn air is crisp and clear. As I walk along the road, my heart is light. I was born at the turn of late summer and early autumn; Heaven has always been kind…

My father is now a man in his seventies. Recently, after doctors at home failed to help him with his constipation, he came to stay with me so that I could care for and treat him. Unlike his previous visits, which never lasted long in…

Since last Thursday I have been staying in a very quiet little place, returning home only this Monday. It happened to rain the whole time I was there, and I took along four books and a Kindle. Listening to the rain under the eaves and…

I have made my son stop using his phone and computer for three weeks now; the only electronic device he has left is a Kindle e-reader, and everything else has been confiscated by me. At first my son could not adapt; for a modern person,…

Ji Kang, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove who throughout his life revered "transcending moral conventions and following nature," was about to be executed. Seeing that the sun was still high and the hour of execution had not yet come, he asked…

It is college entrance season again; in a blink, twenty-one years have passed since we finished the exam. Last night after dinner, the family went out for a walk. I asked my child's mother: "If you could choose, would you rather keep everything we have…

I chose a slow green-skinned train and bought a sleeper ticket. To the clatter of the wheels and the waves of snoring from my car, I fell fast asleep, sleeping deeply. I had an upper berth, right over the air vent. They say that on…