2024.11.18 - Nine Bends of the Yellow River, All Things New

Title: 2024.11.18 – The Nine‑Bend Yellow River, A New World

Selected Classics:

A half‑acre pond opens like a mirror; heaven’s light and cloud shadows wander together.
“How can the water be so clear?” you ask. Because fresh spring water flows from its source. — Zhu Xi, Reflections on Reading

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The Queen of Going Global

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/I98YufNmC4RoaHcBlG5KZQ

Innovation is the lifeline of modern industry. If you’re not new, you won’t catch anyone’s eye, no one will pay, and the pressure forces people to innovate for the sake of innovation—rushing headlong into the future. By contrast, reviving tradition is a humble path. It shuns gimmicks and clever tricks, relying instead on reverence and a calm, water‑still appreciation of the past. What exactly has Li Ziqi demonstrated? Here I begin to understand: the overseas expansion of technology and the triumph of industrialization mean the East is shaped by the West, tradition is tamed by modernity. Cultural export works the other way—tradition seeks to influence modernity, the East aims to comfort the West. It’s a stubborn rebellion. Li Ziqi happens to be a person destiny made stubborn.

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The Sound of Waves Enduring | Endless Skies, Endless Roads

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/b_7Rgvv9lvjeXHpTid9xKg

The 11th day of the 10th lunar month marks the birthday of Master Deng Tietao, a national‑level TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) master. Here we repost a compiled version of the article he published in Shandong Journal of Chinese Medicine, Issue 6, 1982, to commemorate this lifelong devotee who steadfastly carried the torch of Chinese medicine, persisting against odds and daring to vindicate the profession.

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Cai Zhizhong: No Amount of Money Can Buy Back Youth

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/veSOC10RiJIG-Q1TIIB5DA

Trading time for money is inevitably a losing deal, because we cannot, before we die, exchange ten million for ten more years—or even one more year or one more day. As the venerable monk Zhang Zhishun once said, “If taking medicine could guarantee health, the rich would never die, since they could afford any drug. Yet taking medicine does not make you healthy.” See:

• https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1S34y1k7iL/
• https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/mJyVaTDJm30txbzrGm4V_A

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How to Improve Your Fatigue‑Prone Constitution: Manage Energy, Not Time

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/0xRIO-XvUePUPG94HsFLYw

Today there seems to be an implicit contract between organizations and employees: each side tries to extract more from the other at a faster pace, then goes its own way. We view this as a lose‑lose situation. Employees become shackled by work, growing ever more exhausted; organizations are forced to accept dwindling motivation and continuously hire and train newcomers to fill the gaps left by departures. In the end, both parties suffer. Looking ahead, we hope for a new, explicit contract that benefits everyone: organizations invest in all aspects of employees’ lives, helping them build and sustain their own values. In return, individuals mobilize their whole‑person energy and devote themselves wholeheartedly to their daily work. This mutual uplift will raise the value of both the organization and the individual.

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The Nine‑Bend Yellow River, A New World

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/irF0b66JpSV3gKMzvF9phQ

Carrying the collective memory of Chinese civilization, embodying the spiritual roots and source of strength of the Chinese nation, Yellow River culture injects powerful value guidance, cultural cohesion, and spiritual drive into the great rejuvenation of the nation. On the new journey, the provinces and regions along the Yellow River raise the banner of reform and opening‑up, unite their hearts, and forge ahead. The ecological protection and high‑quality development mechanisms of the Yellow River basin will continue to be refined, and the basin’s good ecology, good homes, and good lives will take on a refreshed, vibrant appearance.

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Originally written by Ping Xia (平侠) and published in Chinese on 拾一集 (Weekly Reflections). Translated and adapted for DriftSeas with permission.