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Art Design: Children Practise the Falun Gong Exercises
2004-01-14 -
Two Falun Gong Calendar Designs for 2004
2004-01-13 -
Ancient Cultivation Story: Being Selfless Even In the Midst of Danger
2004-01-13In the Jin Dynasty, a man named Zhang Chong lived in the city of Chang’an. He believed in Buddhas and prayed every day. One day a civil war broke out, and thousands of people fled from Chang’an. The refugees were captured by the army of a warlord, who slaughtered the men and carried off the women... -
Poster: Introducing Falun Gong and Falun Gong Books
2004-01-12 -
Four Characteristics of Chinese Bronze Craft
2004-01-12Bronze is a high-grade copper-tin alloy. Articles made of bronze are durable collectibles because they are not as brittle or fragile as earthen tiles and bricks, bone oracles, porcelain, paintings or copies of stone inscription. Bronze antiques also come in a great variety of elegant designs with distinctive outlines far superior to other types of antiques. -
Drawing: A Righteous Statement
2004-01-11 -
The Rainbow Song
2004-01-11Sing a song,A rainbow song,With voices ever wide.Sing a song,A rainbow song,Shining across the sky. -
Poster Design: Hong Kong Falun Gong Practitioners Practising the Exercises
2004-01-10 -
Stories from Ancient China: The Altruism of Bing Ji
2004-01-10During the reign of Emperor Wu in the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.–23 AD), the Crown Prince of that time was framed by his enemies and executed for planning to overthrow the Emperor. At the time of his execution the Crown Prince had a grandson who was only a few months old. Due to this tragedy the baby boy lost his entire family as they too were executed along with the Crown Prince. -
Three Calendar Designs for the New Year
2004-01-09 -
The Correlation Between Cultivation and the Development of High Furniture
2004-01-09The evolution of furniture in ancient China reveals that the transformation of ancient people’s living style from sitting on the floor to sitting on high chairs occurred only after the Song dynasty. This means the custom of sitting on high chairs has a brief history of one thousand years in Chinese culture. One might wonder why it hadn’t occurred to the ancient Chinese people before that sitting on a taller chair might be more comfortable? It doesn’t make much sense especially if you’ve read about the incredible technological developments and inventions in ancient China recorded in Meng Xi Bi Tan by Shen Kuo of the Song dynasty. Can it be true that only after the appearance of Hu Chuang that the ancient Chinese people realised they could sit on stools? -
Drawing: Torture by Exposure to Excessive Heat
2004-01-08 -
Big Bang Theory of Human Evolution?
2004-01-08"Many details of subsequent human evolution over the period of the ice ages remain unclear, but one certain finding from both anthropological and genetic data is that there was no later time when the size of the human species became small again," says Hawks. "So the 'Eve theory' of modern human origins, which states that modern human populations very recently arose as a new African species that replaced all other indigenous peoples such as Neanderthals, can be put to rest." -
Banner Design: Introduction to Falun Gong
2004-01-06 -
Calendar Design for 2004: Falun Gong is Good
2004-01-05