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Each season has its own identity, which comes with its own associated health risks. For example, many people report feeling sleepier in spring, and allergies and colds are common; while in summer, there is an increased risk of heatstroke, diarrhea and dysphoria. Autumn often brings coughs, constipation and dry skin, while winter is generally higher incidence season for respiratory and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Effective prevention, however, is not complicated. A basic understanding of season-related health goes a long way toward maintaining a strong body and mind all year around. What diet is best suited to the different seasons? What form of exercise is best? How can you tap into things that might affect your mood? What living habits and practical changes to your lifestyle can help prevent diseases? This book systematically and comprehensively introduces the simple and easy methods of holistic Chinese medicine that help maintain human health. Using accessible language, it meets the health needs of different groups of people, including disease prevention, exercise, entertainment, diet, lifestyle, emotion, physical therapy, etc in different seasons.

This book covers basic knowledge of tuina (massage therapy), including detailed explanations of massage methods for common diseases and sub-health conditions. It is a simple, practical family healthcare book, with illustrations of the techniques accompanied by captions, so that readers with zero knowledge can understand and learn. The book can also be used as a reference for professional masseurs. Specific contents include: - The main principles, preparation work, things to take note of, and commonly used acupoints, offering the sort of comprehensive understanding that is necessary to put tuina into practical use. - 26 massage manipulations, 53 massage methods for common diseases, ways of locating acupoints accurately, and practical massage techniques, with detailed steps and clear pictures to help beginners learn quickly. - 12 daily healthcare massage therapies, including techniques for different parts of the body and the various zang-fu (viscera), as well as beauty and slimming. Just 10 minutes of massage a day can stimulate the body's self-healing power, and you will feel its effect on your physical and mental health.

On top of a huge mountain, there is a small temple where a young monk lives. Every day, he goes down the mountain to a river to fetch water. One day, a skinny monk comes to the temple, hoping to live there. The young monk greets him happily. However, there will not be enough water to use with one more person. Neither of them wants to fetch water. Soon after, a fat monk comes to the temple, hoping to live there, too. The skinny monk and the young monk quickly push the task of fetching water to him. But none of the three monks is willing to go down the mountain to fetch water. They can only hope that it will rain soon. However, the rain does not come, but a lightning strikes the big tree in the temple and sets the temple on fire. The three monks want to put out the fire, but there is not a drop of water in the temple. This time they are in big trouble! What should they do? Do they put out the fire eventually?

This book is an ultimate comprehensive guide, not only presenting the step-by-step illustrated instructions but also all the information regarding Chinese knotting. From the origins to developments, functions to decorations, material selections to final products, basic techniques to modified combinations, and traditional crafts to creative designs, author Cao Haimei walks you through every detail. Besides discovering the history and traditions, this book also demonstrates the basic techniques, such as designing, interlacing, tightening, shaping, adjusting, and decorating. With the proper tools and materials, whether it is synthetic or silk cords, glass beads or porcelain charms, gold rings or silver clasps, you can start knotting by following the 100+ projects to make your home decorations, lucky charms, necklaces, bracelets, hair accessories, buttons, brooches and many more.

Chinese New Year's eve is the most important day of the year for the Chinese people. The whole family sits around the table to celebrate the reunion. However, a long time ago, on this day, people were used to running away from their homes and hiding in the mountains and forests. It turns out that on this day, a huge monster called Xi who lives at the bottom of the ocean comes to the shore to look for food. People are scared that they will be killed by him. There is a little immortal named Nian living in the sky. He is small but mighty. He hears about the worrisome of the people on the earth and decides to come down to protect them from Xi. Nian comes down to the earth and tells everyone that their homes are safe, and he will protect them, but nobody believes that this little immortal can defeat the huge monster. Everyone leaves their home except one disabled blind old lady. Nian helps the old lady decorate her house and cooks a big meal for her. At midnight, Xi comes to the village to look for food. It walks towards the old lady's house as it is the only lit place in the village. What can Nian do to force Xi out of the village? Can he save the old lady and all the villagers?

Yuanyuan is a very shy little girl. She always speaks in a soft voice. One day, an old man who specializes in sugar figure blowing appears on the street. The sugar figures that he blows are so vivid that the children love to gather around him. Yuanyuan, however, is too shy to go. It isn't until all the children go home that Yuanyuan dares to step forward and asks the old man to blow a little candy man. The old man agrees and blows a sugar ball for Yuanyuan, something magical happens ... The sugar ball becomes bigger and bigger, and it wraps around Yuanyuan, taking her flying higher and higher. Along the way, Yuanyuan encounters the exhausted birds, the hungry ants, and the cat who wants to go home but can't swim. What happens between the shy Yuanyuan and the little animals? Where will the magic candy ball take Yuanyuan?

"This book combines Chinese painting techniques with twenty-four solar terms of traditional Chinese culture. According to the sequence of the four seasons--spring, summer, autumn, and winter--natural scenes are refined into a series of charming ink paintings. Following the tutorials in this book, you can complete beautiful ink and wash paintings in just a few strokes. You will also learn about the culture surrounding the solar terms, which has been passed down for thousands of years to reflect the beauty of the changing seasons." -- Back cover.

"A long time ago, hundreds of birds lived on the Cangwu Mountain where they experienced four distinct seasons. Among them, there is a very unnoticeable brown bird called Phoenix. All birds except Phoenix fly to the largest lake in the mountain every day. They comb their feathers by the lake and compete to see whose feathers are more beautiful. Phoenix doesn't like to attend such gatherings; instead, she collects food quietly to get ready for the winter. However, all the other birds make fun of her hard work. Unexpectedly, the coldest winter comes earlier than usual. Those birds who only care about their looks have to go out to find their food in the cold wind and heavy snow. They are almost starving to death due to the sudden shortage of food, but the kind Phoenix does not hesitate to share her food with her friends to tide over the difficulties. The cold winter is finally over, and spring has come. To thank Phoenix for saving their lives, the birds have prepared a mysterious gift for her. What is the gift then? Read the story and find out how the ordinary brown bird has transformed herself into the Queen of birds in Chinese myths."--

This book of contemporary Chinese literature contains two separate novellas, Calling Back the Spirit of the Dead and The Boarder by one of China's most prolific writers. Calling Back the Spirit of the Dead In this story of intrigue and heartbreak, Peng Ruigao takes the reader into the heart of a small town and peels away the layers of deceit and corruption that have been surrounding many of its residents. In the middle of the night, Ah Peng is called into the town offices and told of the sudden death of Deputy Town Chief Wei Shouyi. The mysterious death shakes up not only the town offices, but Party headquarters as well. Ah Peng slowly unravels the strange events surrounding this mysterious death of his best friend and colleague and exposes the complexity of the relationships that have been simmering just below the surface of this small town. Betrayal, corruption and romance all have a place in this well-paced, beautifully described yet constantly surprising story. As he unearths more and more details of the events surrounding and preceding his colleague's death, Ah Peng discovers that his own past has been subjected to the forces of jealousy and treachery as well and that neither events nor people are what they seem. An artfully calibrated mystery, this story draws the reader in and keeps surprising through until the very end. The Boarder Peng Ruigao's prose set the tone perfectly for a tale of hardship and perseverance in the Huanglou Township Secondary School. The school's students must contend with the difficulty not just of being far from home, but of the terrible shortage of food they suffer as a consequence of famine in the country. Amongst the students of Class 6 of the ninth grade, a bully named Liu Tingsong slowly contaminates the lives and relationships of the other children at the school as he pushes them to the brink of despair. The gentle Ma Xiaolong is subjected to persecution because of his parents' deeds and political affiliations by staff at the school, while others have their misbehavior overlooked as their parents are in positions of influence. His suffering is alleviated in tender moments of attention from the delicate and kind-hearted Luo Zhaoying who sacrifices whatever she can to help him along. Underneath the cruel behavior of the students there is a glimmer of hope in the loyalty and kindness shown through tiny acts of generosity, loyalty and tenderness, which sustain them through very difficult times. These moments provide respite and redemption from the injustice the students have to endure not just at the hands of their teachers, but the other students as well. In a moving and lyrical tone, Peng Ruigao's beautiful and haunting descriptions bring to life a very difficult time not only in the children's lives, but in China's history.

A vivid history of bamboo in China--the cradle of East Asia's bamboo civilization

This illustrated book introduces all the traditional festivals and customs of China. The background history and popular myths surrounding all the well-known festivals, including the Chinese New Year, the Lantern Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, are explored and detailed in each colorful chapter.