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Chinese Medicine Blues
PETER FIREBRACE
Eastern Currents
Total running time: 4 mins.
Music
The British Chinese medicine expert Peter Firebrace is a dear friend of the ClassicalChineseMedicine.org community. In recent years, he has used his deep love for music to cover many of the perennial themes of Chinese medicine in witty and informative song compositions. CDs capturing more of his musical work can be obtained from EasternCurrents.ca in North America, and from peterfirebrace.com in Europe.
Simple Facts About Tea (2 parts)
SHI ZHAOPENG
China’s pre-eminent tea scholar, Hunan
Total running time: 89 mins.
Mandarin Chinese, Translated into English
by Heiner Fruehauf
Join a delightful lecture and tea drinking session with China’s pre-eminent tea scholar, retired Prof. Shi Zhaopeng. On location at Jiashan Temple in Hunan Province, the origin of ceremonial tea drinking in the Zen tradition, he clarifies some basic facts about the production and degustation of different types of Chinese tea.
Calligraphy – A Meditation
HU BAOQI
Renowned calligrapher, Shaanxi Province
Total running time: 5 mins.
Music
In the spirit of recognizing Chinese medicine as an art form embedded in traditional Chinese culture, ClassicalChineseMedicine.org presents another video about a key element of Chinese craftsmanship. Hu Baoqi, a well-known calligrapher from Shaanxi Province, introduces us to the concept of “flow” through his silent brush strokes.
“Galloping Horses” — Sound of the Erhu, China’s Most Emotional Instrument
WAN LANZHEN
Guangxi musician
Total running time: 3 mins.
English; music
Well-known Guangxi musician Wan Lanzhen plays the erhu, or two-stringed “Chinese violin”, displaying its versitility as an instrument commonly used in a variety of modern and classical Chinese music. (Introduced by Heiner Fruehauf)
On Nourishing Spirit (yangshen)
LIU LIHONG
Total running time: 9 mins.
Mandarin Chinese, translated into English
by Heiner Fruehauf
In this illuminative presentation captured at Jiashan Monastery in Hunan, China’s premier advocate of the classical wisdom traditions in Chinese medicine explores the vital concept of yangshen (nourishing the spirit). “Nourishing spirit” used to be considered a precondition for physical cultivation (yangsheng), but has gradually become forgotten in modern times.