2025.11.17 - How Much Money Can You Earn from Farming
Ping Xia
2025.11.17 – How Much Money Can You Make From Farming?
Winter has passed, and these four everyday habits drain your vital energy—stop them now!
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Avoid: out‑of‑season fruits and vegetables. Do: natural nourishment.
Avoid: staying up late. Do: go to bed early.
Avoid: night running, sweating profusely, and frequent showers.
Avoid: overthinking and worrying too much.
The starting point of a change in heart‑nature is understanding one thing
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The so‑called “detachment of principles” means the two cannot communicate directly. The lack of direct communication stems from the absence of a central hub—and that hub is the heart‑nature. Heart‑nature operates through resonance; people only feel the subtle, concrete details, so what relates to heart‑nature is action. In short, whether we look at stages or principles, for those of us still on the path we must prioritize practice over theory. In fact, once you understand your own nature, many theories will naturally fall into place, and grasping the universal principles of the world becomes much smoother. “Cultivation” is really about practice. When we stop rambling in our heads, settle down, and devote ourselves wholeheartedly to what we do, we have reached the starting point of a transformation of heart‑nature.
30 Ideas for Staying “Calm and Optimistic” at Work
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For me, the biggest stroke of luck was discovering Charlie Munger at a young age, reading his books and naïvely studying his life philosophy—especially his many mental models and the power of compounding. The earlier you start applying them, the greater the payoff. It takes years to curb short‑sightedness, keep learning, and adopt a long‑term mindset. Now I’m even more convinced that almost every return in life—wealth, love, friendship, health, growth—comes from compounding. Whoever realizes this early and spends time only on lifelong partners and endeavors that yield long‑term returns will enjoy a life without regrets. I hope these 30 life ideas can offer you a little help.
How Much Money Can You Make From Farming? We Asked Over a Thousand Farmers in the Past Five Years
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Across the country, large farms contract smallholders, who in turn work for the big farms—a pattern that has been booming for years. Even the elderly man in this photo can still tend his four ridges of fields, but will his descendants be able to keep them after a few more years? In my view, these elders are the last of China’s traditional farmers; when they retire, the five‑thousand‑year era of individual small‑scale agriculture will finally end. Every time I see a stooped‑back farmer, I feel deep emotion. They have lived through the three‑year famine, built reservoirs, paid state grain taxes, and the younger ones migrated to cities after the reform era, only to return to the fields after turning 60—devoting their whole lives to the nation’s development.
Five Questions About What Social Sciences Are
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Times keep changing, and the methods, topics, and paradigms of philosophical and social‑science research evolve with them. Yet the original mission—“to set the heart for heaven and earth, to give purpose to the people, to inherit the lost teachings of the sages, and to bring peace to all generations”—remains unchanged, and it is the foundation of the field’s enduring vitality. This may be the timeless lesson of the “Four Sentences of Hengqu” (a classic Chinese philosophical maxim): true thinkers are always on the road of answering the questions of their age.
Originally written by Ping Xia (平侠) and published in Chinese on 拾一集 (Weekly Reflections). Translated and adapted for DriftSeas with permission.