The Chinese are famous for their proverbs, or yànyŭ: words of wisdom gathered from literature or uttered by famous philosophers over the centuries. And, although ancient in some cases ...

Here, in a village of stone huts set amongst dense mangrove trees, Kristof met a number of elderly men who told him that they were descendants of Chinese sailors, shipwrecked on Pate many ...

But as ancient Chinese philosopher and writer Lao Tzu suggests ... angry and forceful as signs of strength but, as this German proverb states, there is true strength in staying measured and ...

If you’re feeling the tasks of modern life are getting on top of you, it may be that you need to be looking to the ancient Irish and in particular, their proverbs, to help you de-stress ...

Grand Canal barges have no fancy names, no mermaids planted on the bow, no corny sayings painted ... was seen by Chinese historians as an act of brilliant madness. Ancient China’s main rivers ...

The Chinese paddlefish belongs to an ancient lineage of paddlefish that has been around for at least 100 million years. But in early 2020, a study concluded that the species has recently gone ...

An ancient Chinese proverb that counsels “do nothing, and everything will be done” could sum up the Federal Reserve’s latest approach to interest-rate policy. Fed officials will hold their ...

This information has been compiled by the work of Joseph Needham and his colleagues in a study of ancient Chinese books on science, technology and medicine. His research has been published in the ...

Even 50 years ago, the old Chinese government still called the job of the chief executive “making adjustments to the tripods”. Tripod in ancient Chinese refers to all sizes of cooking utensils.

According to the ancient Chinese classic, The National Language – The Language of the Zheng State, dishes should not be of a single ingredient or several monotonous ingredients, but should be ...

Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

Madam Five and carpenter Kong work together managing a famous whorehouse. Kong's apprentice Yat fails to get along with Ching due to a misunderstanding between them. Luckily, the appearance of a ...