This entry explains idiom “Bai ju guo xi” originating from Zhuangzi Knowledge Rambling in the North. Using the white‑horse‑through‑a‑crack metaphor, it depicts life’s fleeting nature and reminds us to cherish brief, irreversible time.
This entry explains idiom “Cang hai sang tian” from Ge Hong’s Biographies of Immortals. Drawing on Maggu’s tale, it depicts immense long‑term transformations, stressing impermanence of circumstances and worldly fortunes.
The Duke of Zhou offered governing advice to Lu’s ruler: cherish kin, value ministers, retain loyal old officials without serious faults, and never demand flawless perfection from any single person, embodying Confucian tolerant and pragmatic talent-management wisdom.
–Mao Zedong – 1961 Above Mount Jiuyi, white clouds fleet and fly,The imperial maidens ride the wind down from the sky.A speckled bamboo branch holds a thousand tears, nigh;Ten thousand rosy clouds form a hundred layers high.
Chen Baoyue, a native of Fujian Province, was the chief executive of Qinzhou dao (Trans. Note: Dao in ancient China was an administrative division under the province).