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Why the art of leaving blank space is the ultimate beauty of the Chinese artistic conception
The Chinese are modest and restrained, and believe that "when a vessel is full, it overflows"; in all things, leave some room. Thus Chinese aesthetics is sparse yet not empty, full yet not overflowing, leaving space for imagination and infinite possibility. During the Eastern Jin dynasty, the Grand Commandant Yu Liang fled the capital because of a rebellion and planned to join forces with Tao Kan to suppress...
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A Detailed Guide to Appreciating and Making Chinese Bonsai Flowers
Methods for Appreciating and Making Chinese Bonsai Flowers
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Which of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals does "golden branches and jade leaves" refer to?
In the twelve Chinese zodiac animals, "golden branches and jade leaves" represents the dragon, because this term originally described the beautiful branches and leaves of flowers and trees, and later came to refer to the descendants of the imperial family; now it is also used as a metaphor for people of noble birth or for those who are delicate and frail. The twelve Chinese zodiac animals are a more vivid representation of the twelve Earthly Branches, and the zodiac has gradually become integrated into the folk belief concept of mutual generation and mutual overcoming.
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What is the symbolic meaning and significance of the Chinese parasol tree?
Noble character: In stories, the Chinese parasol tree has long symbolized a noble and beautiful character; the ancients used the rampant growth of the Chinese parasol tree, draped in brilliant morning sun, to symbolize a noble and beautiful character. Faithful love: Legend says the wu is the male tree and the tong is the female tree; they grow together and age together, live together and die together, and in the writings of poets it also became a symbol of faithful love.
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How to Grow Chinese Mahogany (Toona sinensis)? Detailed Methods and Key Technical Points
Sowing: Soak the seeds in warm water at 30 to 35°C for 1 day in advance, take the seeds out, wrap them in gauze, and place them in a warm environment; once the radicle of the seeds grows to 0.5 cm, they can be sown. Division: In early spring, dig up the young seedlings from the roots of mature plants and plant them in a seedling bed; wait until the seedlings have grown larger the following year and then plant them in their permanent position.
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How do you care for a Chinese pistache? Don't water it for a month at home, and the leaves stay lush and green
If a plant is itself very easy to care for, that earns it extra points. Why? For example, it is drought-tolerant, and it just so happens you have a bad memory; or it dislikes fertilizer, and it just so happens you don't know how to apply fertilizer. Doesn't that really earn the plant extra points?
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Why does the flower scape of Chinese Cymbidium (Cymbidium goeringii) stay short and bloom close to the ground?
The flower scape of Chinese Cymbidium is too short, and this is the only reason; it has little to do with the potting medium, fertilizer, light, and so on. Chinese Cymbidium gives the impression of a shy young girl, and its fragrance is the same, rather subtle and elegant, not as direct as that of Faber's Cymbidium (Cymbidium faberi). And the flower scape...
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This creature has an extremely strong reproductive capacity, runs rampant abroad with no one daring to eat it, yet sells like hotcakes at Chinese night markets.
As globalization accelerates, the exchange of information at home and abroad has helped more people learn about the different cultures of countries around the world. In recent years, one hot topic has been the oyster invasion in Denmark, which turned to Chinese food lovers for help, and many...
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What are the traditional Chinese medicine therapies with distinctive features for farmer's lung?
Farmer's lung is one of more than twenty types of pneumoconiosis and belongs to the organic pneumoconiosis series; it has not yet been included among the statutorily designated pneumoconioses in China. The pneumoconioses already included in China are silicosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis, electric graphite pneumoconiosis, carbon graphite pneumoconiosis, talc pneumoconiosis, cement pneumoconiosis...
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After Japan's vegetables were hit by disaster, it turned to imported Chinese vegetables as an emergency measure, and Japanese people exclaimed it was truly delicious
After the summer typhoons and earthquakes, although Japanese people kept saying that Chinese vegetables were heavily polluted and poor in quality, once the natural disasters had basically destroyed vegetable production in the north, they still obediently imported Chinese vegetables. According to the Nihon Keizai...
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