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Practiced in China for hundreds of years, chinese medicine balls are used by rotating two or more balls repeatedly in either hand. They are intended to encourage healthy hand, wrist, and finger movements, relieve stress and hand pain, improve concentration, finger dexterity, and muscle strengthening.
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yù sù zé bù dá (欲速则不达) - To want something to be done in haste, but in doing so to take longer to accomplish.
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Poem by Stonehouse - 14th century chinese Zen master & mountain hermit
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A diagram of I Ching hexagrams sent by Joachim Bouvet to the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1701.
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China Puts Trust in AI To Maintain Largest High-Speed Rail Network on Earth
China is using AI in the operation of its 45,000km (28,000-mile) high-speed rail network, with the technology achieving several milestones, according to engineers involved in the project. From a report:
An AI system in Beijing is processing vast amounts of real-time data from across the country and can alert maintenance teams of abnormal situations within 40 minutes, with an accuracy as high as 95 per cent, they said in a peer-reviewed paper. "This helps on-site teams conduct reinspections and repairs as quickly as possible," wrote Niu Daoan, a senior engineer at the China State Railway Group's infrastructure inspection centre, in the paper published by the academic journal China Railway.
In the past year, none of China's operational high-speed railway lines received a single warning that required speed reduction due to major track irregularity issues, while the number of minor track faults decreased by 80 per cent compared to the previous year. According to the paper, the amplitude of rail movement caused by strong winds also decreased -- even on massive valley-spanning bridges -- with the application of AI technology. [...] According to the paper, after years of effort Chinese railway scientists and engineers have "solved challenges" in comprehensive risk perception, equipment evaluation, and precise trend predictions in engineering, power supply and telecommunications. The result was "scientific support for achieving proactive safety prevention and precise infrastructure maintenance for high-speed railways," the engineers said.
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Jade Sutra, one of the sutras of the Taoist thunder god, is often recited in shamanism to ward off ghosts. See: The Jade Guidebook: A Visitor's Guide to Hell
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Zhendan 震旦 is one of the Chinese renderings of Sanskrit Cīna-sthāna ('Chinastan'), often unterstood by folk etymology as 'dawn of the east. Also written 震丹、真丹、真旦、振旦、神丹.
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In China, Fēng shuǐ (風水, Geomancy) plays a role in selecting sites for major computation data centers. Studies suggest that incorporating Fēng shuǐ principles correlates with significantly reduced error rates in essential system components, such as chips.
150y ago: The horror of Chinese geomancers at British attempts to construct railways across the Lung Mai or ‘dragon veins’ of their country resulted in a consortium of local businessmen buying and promptly dismantling the newly-completed railway line around Shanghai, in horror at the devastating impact it would have on the Feng Shui of the city.
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Meng Po孟婆 - Goddess of forgetfulness in the underworld
In Chinese mythology, Meng Po孟婆 is the goddess of forgetfulness in the underworld. She stands on the bridge called Nai He which connects the past life & the next life, serving a special soup for every soul. The soup was called the "Five-Flavoured Tea of Forgetfulness" , which was made by the tears that souls shed in their life, both sweet & bitter. After drinking the soup, the soul’s memory would be erased & enter into reincarnation. Art By Japanese artist Shiori Matsuura 松浦栞
