HeyJaredBamboo and Jade
Following Dao and drawing inspiration from Chinese tradition, resilient like bamboo, resplendent like jade
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White Clouds on the Ridges - a hermit’s life (opens the original)
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One hundred- and thirty kilometres south-west of Songshan, the Central Marchmount, is a town named Xuchang. Xuchang is renowned for being the place where warlord Caocao, in the Three Kingdoms period, set up his headquarters and staged his domination over small prefectures. Today it is the centre of a wig-making and hair extension empire, and home to the largest wig manufacturer in the world.But prior to wigs and warlords, Xucheng was famous for hermits.Bamboo and Jade is a rea
Harmonious sounds, yin-yang temperament (opens the original)
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Just as Goujian’s sword, unearthed after some two and half millenia, emerged gleaming, untarnished, still unfathomably sharp, the set of chime-bells once belonging to Marquis Yi of Zeng, dating from 430 BCE, emerged intact. Complete with bells, drums, pipes, and stands for them all, and flanked by bronze dragons and cranes, they were inscribed with detailed, complex musical notation, Goujian’s sword had been protected by its scabbard, the underground environment that resisted oxidation, and extr
Daoist tea at Changchun Guan (opens the original)
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Mystery met me at the railway station.Amidst the crowds of people jostling to find their friends and family, the Daoist nun, whose name, Xuan, meant Mystery, was distinctive in her blue gown and top knot. At first I couldn’t find her, amongst the sea of people, then I felt a warm hand take mine. She whisked me away to a waiting car.It was a thirty-minute drive to the Changchun Guan 长春观. We drove past East Lake and onto busy Wuluo Road, the long east-west throughfare that starts with the First Br
cha dao 茶道, dao cha 道茶 and gongfu cha 工夫茶 (opens the original)
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Of the three terms, cha dao 茶道, dao cha 道茶 and cha gongfu 工夫茶, two are related temporarily, and two, despite emerging centuries apart, are related conceptually.Yet before the advent of these terms, the first treatise on tea was written in 760 CE. Lu Yu’ s Cha Jing 茶經, or Classic of Tea was circulated amongst the literati before it was published twenty years later in 780. Beginning with finding the best water and preparing your utensils, the Cha Jing de
Four Lives, Six Dao (opens the original)
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Since the first century, when Buddhism was first introduced into China, Daoism and Buddhism began cross-pollinating. Ideas and concepts moved from one to the other, and became part of the respective traditions. 四生六道 is a phrase originally stemming from Buddhism, then entered the Daoist tradition in the fifth century, through the Lingbao, or Numinous Treasure school.Literally four lives, six dao, this concept is usually translated as “four births and six realms” or “four types of births and six d
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