Seasonal Chinese Kitchen
Why Do Chinese Families Make Osmanthus Pear Drink in Autumn?
An everyday Chinese drink, and the traditional ideas behind autumn dryness.
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Seasonal Chinese Kitchen
Everyday Chinese food, seasonal change and the ideas behind home-cooking practices.
Chestnut Porridge: Why We Eat It When Winter Comes
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One Passion Fruit, Two Autumn Recipes: Understanding Autumn Dryness and Body Fluids Through Everyday Chinese Food
Explore autumn dryness and body fluids in traditional Chinese food culture, with a warm passion fruit drink and passion fruit beef in sour broth.
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Wu Xing / Five Phases
How to Read a Five-Phase Correspondence Chart
Read two Five-Phase correspondence charts and understand how qualities connect Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water with the body and natural world.
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Zang-Fu: A Different Model of the Body
Why Traditional Chinese Medicine Organ Names Are Not the Same as Anatomical Organs
Learn why Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lung and Kidney in TCM refer to more than the anatomical organs with the same names, and how to read these terms in context.
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Zang-Fu: A Different Model of the Body
Why Does Traditional Chinese Medicine Link the Spleen with Digestion?
Understand the TCM Spleen’s transformation and transportation role, its relationship with Stomach, and why it differs from the anatomical spleen.
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