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Art from the time of the imperial opium wars in China
“A Diplomatic (Chinese) Design Presented to the U.S.” 1881
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Kung Hei Fat Choi
Kung Hei Fat Choi is the auspicious Cantonese phrase most commonly heard in Hong Kong this week during the Lunar New Year. Kung Hei stands for congratulations, while Fat Choi literally means making a lot of money. The phrase was said to be originated in the Guangdong region during the Self-Strengthening Movement (1861–1895) in the late Qing period, where Chinese workers wishing their foreign bosses prosperity during the New Year so that they could get a bigger share of profits in the coming year.
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Hexagram 63 - Ji Ji (Already Crossing) - Yijing (I Ching) sign of the year 2022
After Completion. Having already crossed a river or completed a task. The lower: Li (clinging, fire). The upper: Kan (the abyss, water).
Act through the small.
Make an offering and you will succeed. Advantageous Trial. Proceed actively. Stay the course. Maintain balance & pace. Use intuition.
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Chinese tomb reveals ancient staple taste for cannabis: study
The accidental discovery of a Tang dynasty soldier’s resting place unearthed signs of the plant as an important food crop, researchers say. The presence of seeds also pointed to cannabis as more than a source of nutrition
The legalisation of “recreational marijuana” in other countries “greatly increases the opportunities for our citizens to come into contact with and use marijuana products out of curiosity”, said Hu and his colleagues in a paper published in the Journal of Criminal Investigation Police University of China last month. While the global cultivation of cannabis plants has shrunk by more than 90 per cent since the 1960s, the plantation area in China – mostly for hemp fibre – has increased more than 30 per cent in just a year to 24,400 hectares (60,300 acres) by the end of 2019, according to the government data. The use of new cultivation technology also increased productivity by more than three times to 5.2 tonnes per in the same period.
Cannabis was first domesticated 12,000 years ago in China, researchers find
A study in the journal Science Advances reported that ‘cannabis sativa was first domesticated in early Neolithic times in East Asia’. All current hemp and drug cultivars diverged from an ancestral gene pool currently represented by feral plants and landraces in China, the study said.
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The Foundations of Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine is huge in scope and requires years of study. However, the primary prescription for health is quite simple: abide by the cycles of nature and maintain peace within the body, mind, and spirit.
In the Yellow Emperor’s Classic, the earliest surviving medical text written over 2300 years ago, Huang Di was told that in ancient times man lived a simple life in accord with nature, but “Nowadays people are not like this ... they adopt recklessness as usual behavior.” What would Huang Di think of today’s lifestyle? Perhaps, it is time to listen to the Yellow Emperor.
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Chinese scientists develop artificial intelligence “prosecutor” that can press its own charges
Machine is so far able to identify eight common crimes such as fraud, gambling, dangerous driving and ‘picking quarrels’, researchers say
Prosecutors in China already use an AI tool to evaluate evidence and assess how dangerous a suspect is to the public
"While the original goal of AI is to produce human-like machines, in the end, machine learning will just end up making humans behave more like machines instead." - hardmaru
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The Paradox of Wu Wei (無為) - The Art of non-action, non-doing or 'doing nothing'
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Regeneration Rising
- China Pledges to Plant Forests of Trees Equal to the Size of Belgium – For Each of the Next 5 Years Straight
- China 'Modified' the Weather To Create Clear Skies For Political Celebration, Study Finds
- India this year reached its 2030 goal of having 40% of its energy come from renewable sources - 9y ahead
- Finally, a Fusion Reaction Has Generated More Energy Than Absorbed by The Fuel
