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Last night was Christmas Eve, but Christmas Eve was not peaceful. An aunt of mine was admitted to the hospital ICU on Christmas Eve after a ruptured cerebral aneurysm caused brain hemorrhage, and the hospital told us to prepare 100,000 yuan for surgery. A female…

Shinya Yamanaka, the renowned Japanese stem-cell scientist who won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, spoke at an "International Olympic Symposium held in Japan" about how he came to medicine. After reading his life story, I was greatly encouraged. In his twenties, Yamanaka's…

Once, when I was having a meal at my beloved teacher home, in casual conversation my teacher told me that the most admirable spirit of Chinese scholars is the family-and-country sentiment they carry. From ancient times to the present, among Chinese scholars whether going into…

Many people in the world envy others’ lives, always feeling their own life is not as good as someone else’s, and must catch up with or even surpass others before they are content; as a result, their happiness is very low. Others feel that other…

There is a woman at the front desk downstairs; I do not know since when, but each time we see each other we exchange a smile. We occasionally greet each other—a 'hello' accompanying the smile—but have never once had a real conversation. I do not…

Four to five o'clock in the afternoon on October 3, 2019 is a memorable time for me. I spent about an hour clearing out my WeChat Moments completely and then closed them. Originally I only intended to close Moments, but before closing I thought it…

Perhaps it is my nature, but the life I have always lived has been half a beat slower than society. In high school I liked to sit alone in a corner of the classroom, unnoticed and undisturbed, reading my own books and writing what I…

My son was raised in a free-range way; from childhood he never went to training classes and finished his homework on his own. We did not interfere in everything he did, did not stop any of his attempts that were not life-threatening, and did not…

Little biographical material survives about Hong Yingming, the author of Caigentan (Vegetable Root Discourse). All we know is that his courtesy name was Zicheng and his hao (literary name) was Huanchu Daoren, meaning "the returning-to-the-origin wayfarer." His given name and courtesy name were probably taken…

The world's people are bound by glory and gain, and readily call the mortal world a sea of bitterness, not knowing that when clouds are white and hills are green, when rivers flow and stones stand, when flowers welcome and birds sing, when the valley…