The person who spoke this sentence is a venerable old man named Liu Jifu, who was selected as an outstanding inheritor of China's intangible cultural heritage and is also the role model of the eighth phase of the fifth season of "Secret Makeover".
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TNIAAM Recommends: What books are you reading?
Photo by Dina Rudick/The Boston Globe via Getty Images You stopped caring about the comic book post, so let’s try book books... A lack of sports late...
Amani Alshehhi is a Superstar Reader!
Growing up, one of the central skills that people have to learn involves reading. Specifically, kids are taught how to read. Because reading is often ...
Review: Ottessa Moshfegh's 'Death in Her Hands' is a high-handed psychodrama
Quarantine got you down? At least you’re not the protagonist of an Ottessa Moshfegh novel. "Death in Her Hands" (Penguin Press, 272 pp., ★★½ out of fo...
Bibliofiles: Pick some ambitious summer reads this year
Somehow it’s now summer. The last couple of months haven’t exactly breezed by during the pandemic, but finally I am able to focus on reading. I’ve bee...
20 Baby Names Inspired By Classic Works Of Literature
People turn to all kinds of things for baby name inspiration. Some stare at their fruit bowl (Hello, Apple Martin), some stare at their favorite aircr...
14 Typos in First Editions
To err is human, and we’ve all done it, especially in the form of a typographical error. But different types of typos can have hugely varying conseque...
A New You: Have hope for today
A New You: Have hope for today It’s been said, “Our life is a book, and there are sections within.” Some parts we seem to be able to flip through w...
Erasing History? Um, History is Full of Torn-Down Monuments
In the wake of protests against deeply entrenched racism, statues of slave traders and Confederate leaders are being torn town and toppled both in the...