When Confucius traveled east, he saw two children arguing and asked them why they were arguing.

Zeng is a student of Confucius during his late years and is one of the most esteemed Confucius scholars. The daily three reflections are his famous remarks. Although they sound easy or common sense, it’s easier said than done. I doubt anyone can practice those reflections daily without conscious effort. But if you do, there will be immense benefits.

It is human nature to like someone praising us and dislike someone criticizing us. However, we should differentiate praise from flattery, and distinguish constructive criticism from attack.

Over the past 10 years, I have probably written over 200 articles on intellectual property in China. Some are published in formal magazines, and some in various blogs. They are all written in a professional manner, i.e. impersonal and neutral, rich in passive tenses or third-party perspectives. Obviously, those are the articles we see a lot in a business environment, and on LinkedIn which emphasize business interaction.

Although the teaching seems obvious, you will find wisdom beneficial to your life, if you reflect more on it.

On December 7, 2022, China began to loosen epidemic control, and on December 9, it basically announced a comprehensive relaxation. Then Omikjon began to sweep across the country, especially Beijing in the early days. I am not immune. COVID-19, which has occupied everyone's life in the world for three years, but is still unfamiliar to most Chinese people, has finally become very real. I hereby recorded my own COVID-19 (Omicron) experience. It is perhaps an individual's "small history" amid the country or world's "big history".

This is the first sentence of the Confucian Analects. It is so well-known that it has almost become a cliché. The problem with cliché, however, is that people don’t bother to analyze it anymore. We all “know”, or do we?

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty (376-396 AD), a man in Wuling lived by fishing. One day he rowed along the stream and forgot how far the road was. Suddenly he came across a peach blossom forest. Within a few hundred paces on both sides of the stream, there were no other trees in the middle. The flowers and plants were fresh and beautiful. There were many flowers on the ground. The fisherman was very surprised. He went on sailing, trying to reach the end of the forest.