Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom from Ming China on Life and Living
by Zicheng Hong
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An informal compilation of thoughts on the essence of life, human nature and heaven and earth by Ming-era scholar and philosopher Hong Zicheng.Tags
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This was given to me by my first real girlfriend at Michigan State Univ. Years and years went by and every day I thought of her. She wrote in the book and it is the only surviving writing I have that she did. Therapy got me to where I let her go, but I look back fondly on this book.
"Epigrams from the Ming Dynasty 'Discourses on Vegetable Roots'. 'Only those who can appreciate the least palatable of vegetable roots know the meaning of life.' "
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- Canonical title*
- 菜根譚
- Original title
- 菜根譚
- Original publication date
- c. 1588-1591
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- Genres
- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, Home & Garden, Philosophy, Poetry
- DDC/MDS
- 181.11 — Philosophy & psychology Ancient, medieval & eastern philosophy Eastern philosophy Far East and South Asia China & Korea
- LCC
- BJ1558 .C5 .H8525 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Ethics Ethics Individual ethics. Character. Virtue
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- Languages
- 6 — Chinese, traditional, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Japanese
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 28
- ASINs
- 6
