In China, every family has the habit of doing a thorough cleaning during the Spring Festival. They clean the rooms, wash the furniture and electrical appliances, and take apart and wash the bedding. This represents that there should be a new look in the new year and that all the bad luck from the previous year will be swept away.
The custom of sweeping away the dust originated in the...
Sun Simiao, the Medicine King, was a real person from Huayuan in Jingzhao (now Yao County, Shaanxi Province) in the Tang Dynasty. He was intelligent and quick-witted since childhood and could recite a thousand characters every day. When he grew up, he was proficient in the doctrines of Laozi, Zhuangzi and the Hundred Schools of Thought. During the reign of Emperor Xuandi of the Northern Zhou...
Carriages Pulled by Spiritual Beasts
In the middle and late Warring States period, the idea of immortals emerged along with people's fear of death and their longing for immortality. In the Chinese concept of the universe, a new component - the fairyland (the world of immortals) - was also created at that time. After the Han people acknowledged that death was inevitable and immortality...
In the mysterious world of Taoism, Thunder God, as the deity in charge of thunder and lightning, presents a majestic and solemn image, and his power is even more awe-inspiring. Thunder God often uses thunder and lightning talismans to suppress evil spirits and safeguard the peace between heaven and earth.
Once upon a time, there was a Taoist priest who wholeheartedly pursued the Tao and was...
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