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Category : China, Culture & News

22 Fév 2014

Chinese Traditional Medicine concepts of Ying and Yang

  If you travel to rural areas of China, where Chinese people have a strong knowledge of traditional medicine, you will realise they speak in terms of « hot » and « cold », and as you may guess, it has nothing to do with if the food is hot or not to the tongue. « Hot » for them means that it brings energy to the body, but in excess it can harm the body and get you sick.  « Cold » means that it cleans the […]

18 Juil 2011

Sick in China, a few recipes

I wouldn’t recommend it happened to you, but if it does, here are a few cool ways to get rid of colds and sore throats. In China, many people would recommend you to go to hospital and have an IV ( intravenous ) drip. It mustn’t scare you, it’s not like in Europe where we go to see doctors in small offices when we feel bad. In China, everyone sick in need of help usually goes to hospital, even for […]

25 Mai 2011

Chinese Farwest (music clip)

Here is a nice clip about the interpretation by the group Wan Neng Qing Lian Lu Dian (万能青年旅店) of one of Ennio Morricone’s songs, « The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ».        

11 Mar 2011

Nutrition Advice From the China Study

An interesting article about one  famous study published some time ago and best-seller in the nutrition field. It mainly says one thing: eating only plants is the healthiest of all diets. As I’ m a vegetarian, it is one more study to ad to my argumentation 😉 Here it goes: Nutrition Advice From the China Study By TARA PARKER-POPE Six years ago a small Texas publisher released an obscure book written by a father-son research team. The work, based on […]

12 Fév 2011

Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior

Whenever we tried putting the hands together, one always morphed into the other, and everything fell apart. Finally, the day before her lesson, Lulu announced in exasperation that she was giving up and stomped off.

« Get back to the piano now, » I ordered.

« You can’t make me. »

« Oh yes, I can. »

Back at the piano, Lulu made me pay. She punched, thrashed and kicked. She grabbed the music score and tore it to shreds…

09 Nov 2010

India and China

This is an article about the differences between the economic booms in both India and China: Asian Entrepreneurs Are Bullish on the Future But Indians believe they succeed despite the state. The Chinese say they succeed because of it.

30 Mar 2010

DVDs in China, some quite rare information…

Many DVDs have a kind of small melted spot on the silver side, close to the middle ring…