Rediscovering Baroque Music in the Chaos of Modern Life
Popular music is the result of a centuries-long optimization process, getting us to where we are today. What becomes a hit is the perfect combination of fitting maximum emotion, hether that’s electro-dance music sending your energy to its heights or raw ballads bringing you to tears, into the optimized timeframe of human attention, which is […]
Chronic Pain Increases the Possibility of Brain Aging: New Study Reveals
Newly conducted research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences (PNAS) has concluded that chronic pain that lasts for three months or longer could lead to a decline in brain function. This means that the critical thinking area of the brain, the hippocampus, would be rendered weakened and ineffective. The endpoint […]
China’s Tang Poetry: A Magic Formula for Modern Man
China’s Tang—a precious stone, an ornament of pure gold. Isn’t it appropriate to use a flowery metaphor to describe poetry? If so, poetry from China’s Tang Dynasty (618 – 907) deserves the richest of descriptions. After all, the time of Tang was considered a Golden Age for Chinese poetry. The Dynasty was renowned as […]
African Buddhas in Ancient China?
There are many ancient secrets that are unknown to us. Many of them stay hidden until someone discovers them and presents them to world. The same is true when we talk about africans living in ancient China. Many artifacts have been discovered in Gansu and Magao caves in China, showing that africans did actually exist […]
Adventures of the Treasure Fleet: China Discovers the World
Many years ago, on the Swahili coast in Africa, an event happened that changed the lives of the local people, forever… In the horizon, a strange huge cloud started to approach. As it got closer, even the sun surrendered to it’s mighty size. As it got closer, you could already see that it was no […]
China’s Tang Poetry: A Magic Formula for Modern Man
China’s Tang—a precious stone, an ornament of pure gold. Isn’t it appropriate to use a flowery metaphor to describe poetry? If so, poetry from China’s Tang Dynasty (618 – 907) deserves the richest of descriptions. After all, the time of Tang was considered a Golden Age for Chinese poetry. The Dynasty was renowned as a […]
Fabergé The Color of Royal and Dazzlingly Beautiful Jewelry
At Baselworld 2013, a watch and jewelry show held in Switzerland, Fabergé introduced dazzlingly beautiful jewelry. The collection reflected the brand’s core values and ideals of creativity, beauty, and the pursuit of perfection. The story of Fabergé starts with Peter Carl Fabergé, a world-renowned goldsmith and designer of jewelry and objects. Born in St. […]
Wedding in White, Chosen Right
While modern weddings typically celebrate the love and commitment between a bride and a groom, historically, many weddings represented a union between two families, or even two countries. In such cases, brides were expected to dress in a fashion that honored their family—as the bride represented more than just herself in the grand ceremony. While […]
Qin Gao Riding a Carp – A Story from Biographies of the Immortals
According to Liexian Zhuan, (Biographies of the Immortals), Qin Gao lived in the country of Zhao during the Warring States period (around 475 to 221 BC), and he was known to be a good at playing the Qin —an ancient plucked Chinese seven-string instrument. He was once an official guest of King Kang of the […]
Tang Dynasty – Zhang Guo’s Audience with Emperor Minghuang
In the painting, “Zhang Guo’s audience with Emperor Minghuang”, the artist Ren Renfa chose to look back and depict a Tang dynasty story described in books from that time period, and to paint it in the Tang style. He painted a visit made by immortal Zhang Guo to Emperor Minghuang’s palace in the 8th century […]