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    In November of last year, my father brought me to Xi'an where we visited an old lady who lived in the mountains for 70 odd years. He asked her several questions about all kinds of things related to his future, which she answered through a series of predictions. After that, he brought me to a second person who was a specialist in fengshui, yi jing, and other similar practices. They all made predictions to the various questions he asked.    These things that used to be an integral part of Chinese culture are now much less common. Mianxiang is essentially facial reading and was more about

    The other day, I was going through podcasts by 'Stuff You Should Know,' and saw this question. It intrigued me because it had the potential to be quite philosophical. After pondering it for a while, I arrived to my conclusion that the CONCEPT of math was invented, but math itself was discovered.      One of the reasons that I believe it was discovered is because it just seems narcissistic to say that it was man made. Everything had probably revolved around mathematical ideas, but brilliant scientists just invented the system of symbols to explain this in a way that some people can understand. For example, we now know that approximately

  Dizigui is one of the major scriptures in Chinese culture by Li Yuxiu. It is based upon the teachings of the ancient philosopher, Confucius. It emphasises how children should treat their elders and what is expected of them. Some of these lessons include- never being lazy, not leaving your parent's bed should they fall ill, and trying the medicine to make sure it won't poison them. I cannot say that I even remotely agree with many of the things stated inside, but it's probably because it no longer applies to our lives. It is very centric around treating parents with sometimes unrealistic expectations. Although some of its lessons are seen in