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Deng Xiaoping (邓小平 Dèng Xiǎopíng); 1904– 1997) was a leader in the Chinese Communist Party.Deng never held office as the head of state or the head of government, but served as the de facto paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
He reacts with wu wei (Chinese: 無 爲; pinyin: wú wéi; i.e. 'not intervening', 'not acting') but this term should not be confused with apathy. In this knowledge he finds his calm and lasting, true happiness: he accepts life as it is. The wisdom in the parable does not come from a teacher, a monk or a king, and it is not discussed at length.
In the preface and introduction to his 1875 categorized collection of Chinese proverbs, Wesleyan missionary William Scarborough observed that there had theretofore been very few European-language works on the subject, listing John Francis Davis' 1823 Chinese Moral Maxims, Paul Hubert Perny's 1869 Proverbes Chinois, and Justus Doolittle's 1872 Vocabulary and Handbook of the Chinese Language as ...
"Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. ... — Chinese proverb. 103 ...
Pages in category "Chinese proverbs" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Foolish Old Man Removes the Mountains (Chinese: 愚公移山; pinyin: Yúgōng Yíshān) is a well-known fable from Chinese mythology about the virtues of perseverance and willpower. [1] The tale first appeared in Book 5 of the Liezi , a Daoist text of the 4th century BC, [ 2 ] and was retold in the Garden of Stories by the Confucian ...
The three representative sages laughing at themselves having unexpectedly crossed Tiger Brook, 12th century, Song Dynasty. Three laughs at Tiger Brook (Chinese: 虎溪三笑; pinyin: hǔ xī sān xiào; Gan: fû ki sam siēu) is a Chinese proverb which refers to the image that the three men, Huiyuan, Tao Yuanming and Lu Xiujing laugh together when arriving at Huxi (虎溪, Tiger Brook) of ...
To be worn out is to be renewed – Laozi, Chinese philosopher (604 BC – c. 531 BC) [11] To each his own; To err is human, to forgive divine; To learn a language is to have one more window from which to look at the world (Chinese proverb) [5] To the victor go the spoils; To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive