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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 ...
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.
Shennong (神農), variously translated as "Divine Farmer" [1] or "Divine Husbandman", born Jiang Shinian (姜石年), was a mythological Chinese ruler known as the first Yan Emperor who has become a deity in Chinese and Vietnamese folk religion. He is venerated as a culture hero in China and Vietnam. In Vietnamese, he is referred to as Thần ...
The city name Xiaogan in Hubei, meaning Filial Piety Moves [the Heaven] (Chinese: 孝 行 感 天), is from the story of Dong Yong. [7] 9: He Buried His Son for His Mother (为母埋儿; 爲母埋兒; Wèi Mǔ Mái Ér) Guo Ju 郭巨: Eastern Han dynasty: Guo Ju lived with his mother, wife and son. He was known for being very filial to his mother.
A 40-year-old farmer named Sang Qingjun walked his 70,000 chickens and also trained them to fly in northern China. In the clip, filmed in the city of Suihua in Heilongjiang Province on September ...
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