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  • ‘Are You the Carrot, Egg, or Coffee Bean?’: A Mother’s Wise Lesson on Resilience Facing Adversity
    ‘Are You the Carrot, Egg, or Coffee Bean?’: A Mother’s Wise Lesson on Resilience Facing Adversity
    From the beginning of time, parents have passed on the benefit of life experience, which can be painful and gritty, to their offspring. And all too often, whether children are ...
    May 5, 2024BY Epoch Inspired Staff
  • Chinese Idiom: Playing the Qin to a Cow
    Chinese Idiom: Playing the Qin to a Cow
    The Chinese idiom “playing the qin to a cow” describes the wasted effort of talking to someone who ...
    June 26, 2014BY Jean Guo
  • Unable To Do as One Would Wish (力不從心)
    Unable To Do as One Would Wish (力不從心)
    The Chinese idiom “力不從心” (lì bù cóng x?n) means “unable to do as one would wish,” or that ...
    January 7, 2014BY Jian Zheng
  • Be There Just to Make Up the Number (濫竽充數)
    Be There Just to Make Up the Number (濫竽充數)
    The Chinese idiom 濫竽充數 (làn yú chōng shù), literally “pretend to play the yu in order to make ...
    January 1, 2014BY Ji Yuan
  • Chinese Idiom: The Appearance Stems From the Mind(相由心生)
    Chinese Idiom: The Appearance Stems From the Mind(相由心生)
    Literally, the saying means “the appearance is born of the heart”; however, the character 心 (xīn) is often ...
    August 15, 2013BY Wenmin Wang
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