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Starting from the original parable, different versions of the story have been written, which are described in books and on the internet under titles such as The Taoist Farmer, The Farmer and his Horse, The Father, His Son and the Horse, The Old Man Loses a Horse, etc. The story is mostly cited in philosophical or religious texts and management ...
The next story is the Taoist story of "The Farmer's Luck", where what first appears to be bad luck turns out to be good luck, and vice versa. [4] The final story "A Heavy Load" is a version of a Zen story of two monks who meet a woman unable to cross some water. [5] The older monk carries the woman across, but she fails to thank him.
In the "Duxing Magazine" written by Zeng Minxing during the Song dynasty, it is recorded that when Di Qing was on a campaign to suppress the Nannong rebellion and passed through Yongzhou, he heard that He Xiangu had the ability to foresee good and bad omens. He went to her to request a prediction regarding the success or failure of this expedition.
The story of Zhuang Zhou drumming on a tub and singing after the death of his wife inspired an entire tradition of folk music in the central Chinese provinces of Hubei and Hunan called "funeral drumming" (喪鼓; sànggǔ) that survived into the 18th and 19th centuries.
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They're already off to a 3-0 start in the second half, but let's take a look back at the good, bad and ugly from the successful first half. Record Good: The Indians finished 12 games above .500 at ...
The anti-Israel protests on campuses revealed some of the good, bad and ugly of our universities. Behind it lies the hints of Critical Theory, which has captured so many campuses, robbing faculty ...
Li Tieguai (Chinese: 李鐵拐; lit. 'Iron Crutch Li') is a figure in Chinese folklore and one of the Eight Immortals in the Taoist pantheon. He is sometimes described as irascible and ill-tempered, but also benevolent to the poor, sick and the needy, whose suffering he alleviates with special medicine from his bottle gourd.