After the Eastern Zhou period, the Chinese heartland saw the rise of competing feudal states. Social harmony collapsed, and warfare became incessant. This was the era Confucius described as one of the “collapse of rites and the decay of music.” But what, then, was “music” like before it fell into…

During the Song Dynasty, the anti-Jin hero Yue Fei wrote the four characters “Tian Li Zhao Zhao” (Heaven’s principles are clear and evident) before he was framed. To this day, no one truly knows the bitterness in his heart at that moment, no one fully understands the anguish he endured. He left…

When it comes to the feeling of the Lunar New Year, mainland Chinese people will feel ‘boring’, ‘busy’, etc., and cannot feel the real New Year. The feeling of the New Year has become the actions of ‘going home and getting together’, ‘going to reunite with parents’, which means people doing their…

During the Qing Dynasty, an old man lived in Wuxi county. Because he suffered from a diaphragm disease for many years, his neighbors called him Diaphragm Guy.