www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

chinadaily.com.cn
left corner left corner
China Daily Website

A fascination with wood

Updated: 2013-03-11 11:34
By Zhao Xu ( China Daily)

A fascination with wood

An independent scholar of traditional Chinese culture, Mi Hongbin has a soft spot for wood. Wang Jing / China Daily

Old wood is valued in China for its aged patina, its markings and a beauty that lives on long after the tree was felled. Zhao Xu talks to a scholar who has made it his calling to study and treasure wood.

Mi Hongbin raised his very first question about wood at the age of 7 as he watched a traditional Chinese doctor take his patient's pulse.

"What he did, basically, was to place his fingers gently on the patient's wrist and count the throbs," says Mi, an independent scholar with a special bent for the mystical and philosophical aspects of Chinese culture, and a soft spot for wood.

But it was the prop, not the healing that held the young man's attention.

"What intrigued me was not that he could come to a diagnosis through such a simple but mystified procedure, but the fact that it couldn't be performed without that small chunk of wood, on which the patient rested his wrist."

That "chunk of wood" has been part of the healing paraphernalia for ages, and is known as a "pulse pillow". Many have been used for decades, and all have been polished by constant use to a shiny patina, oiled by numerous encounters with human skin.

"To a child like me, it was a symbol, an essential part of a ritual," Mi recalls. "And I asked my father: 'Why wood? Maybe we could use something else, like a cotton-stuffed real pillow?'"

His answer was brief, but it took Mi the rest of his life to decipher the words.

"Wood cultivates people", his father had said.

Shouldn't it be the other way round, Mi had thought at the time. The question remained in Mi's head as extensive travels around the country drew him deeper and deeper into the study of wood, much like the concentric swirls that marks a tree's core.

"For the Chinese, wood represents two things: constancy in the face of a fickle world, and gentleness bestowed by age," says Mi.

A fascination with wood

A fascination with wood

Beast stone 

Exploring identities 

Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 Next Page

8.03K
 
 
...
...
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: a毛片免费播放全部完整 | 欧美xx一片| 色播基地 | 免费观看欧美精品成人毛片 | 三级亚洲 | 男的操美女 | 国产91丝袜美腿在线观看 | 久久精品成人国产午夜 | 日本美女福利视频 | 4438全国最大成人网视频 | 成年女人看片免费视频播放器 | 国产免费一区二区三区 | 午夜dj视频完整社区 | 日本黄色免费大片 | 国产女主播在线 | 最近手机中文字幕1 | 国产欧美日韩在线观看 | 美女张开大腿让男人捅 | 欧美日韩在线视频一区 | 国产日韩精品欧美一区视频 | 国产成人理在线观看视频 | 久久青草免费线观最新 | 国内成人免费视频 | 自拍成人| 亚洲女人在线 | 国产精品亚洲一区二区三区 | 美女视频永久黄网站免费观看韩国 | 国产亚洲精品自在线观看 | 日韩欧美在线综合网高清 | 国产四区 | 久草在线视频资源站 | 久久久久在线视频 | 香港三级日本三级三级人妇 | 亚洲天堂男人的天堂 | 日本一区二区高清不卡 | 久久久久久久久久毛片精品美女 | 99精品视频在线在线视频观看 | 女人aaaaa片一级一毛片 | 88av视频在线观看 | 久久99网站| 久草视频首页 |