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I was born in the seventh lunar month of 1979 and will turn 47 in a month. My generation has lived through the greatest social transformation. When we were children, rural China still followed the farming patterns that had not changed for thousands of years.

This time I stayed in my hometown for a full nine days and eight nights. While home, I turned down every social engagement I possibly could. I did not even spend a single night at my wife's parents' home. Of course, I was at my…

As of today, I have been in my hometown for eight days, the longest I have stayed here in the last decade. Tomorrow evening I will say goodbye to my father and return to Beijing; this time I have kept him company for a full…

In recent years there has been a consensus in medical circles that the baby-boom generation born after World War II may have already reached the peak of human health: their overall health is better than that of people born before or after them, and their…

My father's side of the family generally eats very lightly; their diet is basically vegetarian, with little animal-source food, and my aunt is a complete vegetarian. This may be related to the family ethos of my great-grandparents and grandparents. My eldest uncle is now 86,…

Counting today, I have been in my hometown for five days, the longest stay I have had here during summer vacations in recent years. In the past, I always rushed back and rushed away again for work reasons. This time I only want to keep…

Professor Hu Dayi is a professor and director of cardiology at Peking University People’s Hospital. He is a famous Chinese cardiovascular disease expert and medical educator, and has served as director of the Department of Cardiology at Peking University Health Science Center and director of…

On February 27 this year, the British Journal of Cancer published a research report on the relationship between vegetarianism and cancer, involving investigators from the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford. The study analyzed pooled data on more than 1.8 million people across…

Academician Tong Xiaolin has an empirical anti-aging formula composed as follows: Yinyanghuo (Epimedii Folium, horny goat weed) 90 g, Shanzhuyu (Corni Fructus, dogwood fruit) 90 g, Lurong (Cervi Cornu Pantotrichum, deer antler) 30 g, Guijiaojiao (Testudinis Carapacis Colla, tortoise-shell glue) 30 g, Huangjing (Polygonati Rhizoma)…

The Buddha taught that life has eight sufferings; the three most closely bound up with old age are aging, illness, and death. When people are in their twenties or thirties, their impression of old age, sickness, and death is not deep, and so they can…