Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
In the study of historical Chinese culture, many of the stories that have been told regarding characters and events which have been written or told of the distant past have a double tradition: one which presents a more historicized and one which presents a more mythological version. [4]
A Chinese peasant on the fields in the 1910s or 1920s. Xiaonong Yishi (simplified Chinese: 小农意识; traditional Chinese: 小農意識; pinyin: Xiǎonóng yìshí; lit. 'petty peasant mentality') is a term used to describe parochialism originating from rural China, and which is related to the insular, traditional, and agrarian aspects of Chinese culture.
Meanwhile, the farmer came into his house, the flood was already as high as his knees. He knew what happened and made a boat, put his children inside the magical gourd, and climbed into the boat. The water level continued to rise until it almost reach the heaven. The farmer knocked the heaven's gate and asked Taidi to stop the rain. Taidi ...
A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), [1] [2] was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the ...
Today's NYT Connections puzzle for Tuesday, January 14, 2025The New York Times
The study by Cornell University's Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy’s Program on Applied Demographics projects that New York faces a significant population decline due to low fertility rates ...
Mao Yichang or Mao Rensheng [a] (15 October 1870 – 23 January 1920) was a Chinese farmer and grain merchant who achieved notability as the father of Mao Zedong.The nineteenth generation of the Mao clan, he was born and lived his life in the rural village of Shaoshanchong in Shaoshan, Hunan Province.