Zhì Shàn (至 善)/ Gee Sin shall have been a Shàolín (少林) Monk and probably Abbot, Wǔ Méi (伍 枚)/ Ng Mui shall have been a Buddhist Nun, Miáo Xiǎn (苗 顯)/ Miu Hin shall have been a Buddhist layman, Bái Méi (白 眉)/ Bak Mei and Féng Dàodé (馮 道德)/ Fung Do-Dak shall have […]

While I’m writing a whole article series on the mythology of the Southern Shàolín (少林) Style, I also did read a blog post about what is taught in Wing-Chun, a martial art, which I repeatedly mention in my article series. So I found that blog post intriguing and even more so because that blog post made […]

Avoiding to make suicides a topic is in Germany a policy, which shall reduce suicides in number. But the topic really is too interesting for making everybody comply with this policy and resist the temptation. I watched an interview on a religious tv channel few weeks ago and almost forgot about it. Although it was […]

The same documentary series meanwhile told me to be in its second season. I had never expected that it could be so long, so I didn’t count the episodes and don’t know how many I already watched. Yet the second season came with some surprises. This second season shows many pictures from the Galapagos Islands […]

Have you wondered that I, in previous articles of this article series, mentioned some Chinese emperors, yet didn’t give their names in a normal format like Emperor Rénzōng (仁宗)/ Yóngyǎn (顒琰) of Qīng (清)? I instead called them the Kāngxī (康熙) Emperor or the Yōngzhèng (雍正) Emperor or the Qiánlóng (乾隆) Emperor or the Jiājìng (嘉靖) […]

In the last time, even since some years, many things broke at my home. When needing a craftsman (no, women aren’t doing blue-collar work) in Germany, then you could have to wait some weeks while craftsmen are busy and hurry from emergency to emergency between the dates, when they already got booked. So almost everybody […]

The mantis or praying mantis is a very impressive predator for an insect. The mantis isn’t one species, but mantises are a whole order of insects, further divided into thirty-three families, four-hundred-and-sixty genera, and two-thousand-four-hundred species. Some mantis species feed not only on other insects, but also on spiders (Maybe that’s why also female mantises […]

On the one hand, Martin Armstrong’s blog is a great source for learning about history; on the other hand, he also publishes so much nonsense that it is really difficult to believe him anything. On the one hand, he teaches that everything repeats in cycles; on the other hand, he teaches that former German chancellor […]

Dog Style/ gǒu-quán (狗拳)/ gao-kuen is a so rarely encountered martial art that I almost overlooked it. Dog Style is said to be a kind of sister of the White Crane Style because both were around the same time in the same province founded by women. This explains why also the founder of the Dog […]

This article series shall increase the readers’ economic literacy, but this blog post shall additionally also increase the readers’ judicial literacy. Although I’m due to differences in the judicial systems not sure how much this blog post can be helpful to people, who live in an Anglo-Saxon jurisdiction. If you are for example in France […]