2025.12.29 - External Treatment Methods Anyone Can Learn

Title: 2025.12.29 – A Healing Method Anyone Can Learn

Mao Zedong: “A towering figure born of China’s soil,” who organically combined Marxism with China’s fine traditional culture https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/WquqFHjJjv-zL2jR_FYVVA
In the magnificent practice of revolution and nation‑building, Mao Zedong led the people to fuse the basic principles of Marxism with China’s concrete reality and with its excellent traditional culture, inaugurating the historic process of Marxism’s sinicization. Zhou Enlai once said, “Mao Zedong is a great figure who grew out of China’s soil.” Rooted in Chinese soil, the integration of Marxist fundamentals with the nation’s fine traditional culture—the “second synthesis”—shaped Mao. The revolutionary and construction endeavors he led also advanced this “second synthesis,” complementing each other and producing brilliant chapters in China’s cultural history that still shine today. Also see: The strongest liberal‑arts teacher in history—how he reformed the literary world?, very timely.

Fu Peirong: Do you remember your first day on the job? If you’re feeling weary, you must read this https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/fjKWg2By2Q59kmK6Y97low
Find ways to treat every day, every task, as if it were your first time—approach each day with excitement, as if the day were a hard‑won gift. The outside world may stay the same, but you can be different every day.

On Top‑Tier Marital Relationships and the Best Parent‑Child Bonds https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/MhLyNrWFfKzJyPQoUFDJAQ
This year I heard two sentences that lit up my life as a 40‑year‑old man like twin beams of light. First: a top‑tier marriage is two people joining forces against the world, not locking themselves away to trouble each other. Second: the best parent‑child relationship is standing together with the child to defeat problems, rather than siding with the problem to defeat the child. In that moment I suddenly realized I had been getting it wrong all these years.

First Comes Microscopic Mutual Resonance, Then Macroscopic Harmony https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/vAvriuWm4V-jJRbEc_T7bg
The craze for Chinese classics and traditional Chinese medicine has made the “heart” even hotter. Without talking about the heart, it can’t be called traditional culture. Yet discussing the heart—using it to handle our “troubles”—often feels directionless, like holding a bowl of chicken soup not knowing how to drink it. That leads to internal friction. In the end I sigh: traditional culture is great, but it hasn’t made me better. Is the heart important? Yes. Are we only dealing with a heart issue? No. Nothing exists without yin‑yang. “I” and “the world I inhabit” form a yin‑yang pair—think of subject and object. The subject’s heart does not exist in isolation; it is linked to the object. The two cannot be separated.

Nona | Five‑Element Acupuncture Can Gradually Smooth the “Spikes” on Your Body https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/V37ZRa4SzM6cAQTyykKHFw
Five‑element acupuncture can help us gradually smooth the “spikes” on our bodies, reducing harm to friends and family. Patients who undergo treatment often find that as they improve, the interpersonal problems they face—family, friends, work—also become less severe, because they understand themselves and others better and can grasp others’ needs. More tolerance means fewer conflicts.

A Healing Method Anyone Can Learn https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/iORvvBVp_vKBpBIuiT4IEg
If you want to learn a simple way to practice Chinese‑medicine self‑care in daily life, what’s the easiest entry point? The answer: external therapies. External therapy, especially massage, is a straightforward, immediately applicable Chinese‑medicine method. By grasping the big picture and practicing consistently, you can see changes in a short time. If you’d like to use simple, safe external therapies this autumn‑winter to protect your own and your family’s health, or if you’re looking for a visible, tangible, practical path to learning Chinese medicine, this experiential journey into external therapy is the starting point.

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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.