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Photography: Lotus Flower
2004-07-22 -
Poem: Towards Peerless Flight
2004-07-22Such ways of old that would squander skies and all,Subsiding as Fa-Rectification blinds the sun and more.Closer, come farthest horizons,Destined towards peerless flight. -
Painting: Fierce Wolves Pouncing on Their Prey
2004-07-21 -
Poem: Moments
2004-07-21From aeon's nowTo obtaining the ‘Law’,How precious this moment,New Heavens and Earth Unfolding and more. -
Painting: Lotus Flower
2004-07-20 -
Stories From Ancient China: Ancient Science and Technology of the Tang Dynasty
2004-07-20Records in an ancient book called, "Travel News", tell us that at the beginning of Emperor Tang Xuan Zhong’s Kai Yuan rule, someone repaired the emperor’s travel vehicle in the palace. Daifeng Ma was an accomplished craftsman of the Eastern Sea region. He rebuilt and repaired such items as the lead carriages, drums for recording the journeys’ mileage, and birds for indicating wind directions. These items were made more delicately than those of even more ancient times. -
Bookmark Design: Young Falun Gong Practitioner Meditates
2004-07-19 -
Photography: Lotus Flower
2004-07-18 -
Stories From Ancient China: The Consequences of Ruling with Either Violence or Virtue
2004-07-18King Li was very pleased with the result, and gloated to Zhao, “I can make all criticism against me disappear. Now no one has the temerity to speak against my rule anymore.” Zhao replied, “You haven't stopped public opinion, rather you have just stopped your people from expressing it openly to you.” He cautioned King Li, “The consequence of blocking the voice of the people is worse than that of blocking a river from flowing.” King Li still would not listen. Threatened by the King’s terror, the people of Zhou were afraid to talk. -
Painting: Blue Mountain
2004-07-17 -
Photography: Elegant Lotus Flower
2004-07-16 -
Graphic Design: Falun Dafa Spreads All Over the World
2004-07-15 -
Music: Fulfill Our Destiny and Return Home
2004-07-15 -
Photo: Lotus Flower
2004-07-14 -
Stories from Ancient China: Han Zhihe An Ingenious Craftsman Who Created Flying Mechanical Birds
2004-07-14Han Zhihe was originally from Japan. He later moved to China during the period of Emperor Xianzong of the Great Tang Dynasty and worked as a security guard in the Chinese royal court. He was also an excellent mechanical engineer who could create mechanical birds carved out of wood. He created phoenixes, cranes, crows, and magpies, all in wood, that would drink, eat, chirp and warble just like real birds.