Any Recommendations for Books on Self-Cultivation and Inner Peace? 大神们有没有修身养性的书推荐呀
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Painted Realms 聊斋画境
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is the culmination of ancient supernatural and strange-tale fiction, hailed as an unrivaled masterpiece. Its subject matter is wide-ranging, its material rich, and its artistic achievements remarkable. It created many memorable artistic archetypes, with vivid, distinctive characters that laid a foundation for visual art. Strange Tales Illustrated selects excerpts from more than 80 renowned classics among the 494 stories in the Zhu Qikai edition, revealing the
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Working as a Dorm Supervisor at a Remote Factory, Protecting 80,000 Women Workers 在深山大厂做宿管，守护八万女工
Li Xingchen, a descendant of a mysterious family, had just been crowned the nation's top scorer on the college entrance exam when his parents were struck by eighty-one bolts of violet heavenly lightning and vanished without a trace! Believing his parents dead and left with empty pockets, he was forced to drop out of school and dive headfirst into a massive foreign-owned corporation with a hundred thousand employees, taking on a hellishly difficult job: dorm supervisor for eighty thousand female
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Born Weak 天生弱者
Most people admire the strong, but they choose to admire the weak! At first, the distance between people is vast, so vast that we cannot see each other for who we truly are. In the end, the distance between people is small, so small that we can touch the kindred core within one another.
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Every Word Reveals Prajna 字字见般若
He had studied Buddhism for twenty years, recited countless sutras, paid his respects to many masters, and completed all kinds of religious practices. His mind was calmer than before, but the suffering remained. When a friend came to pour out her troubles, he sat across from her, thought for a long time, and couldn't find anything to say. She had been a university lecturer and run a business. She had made money and lost it. Eventually, she realized that the hardest thing wasn't making or losing
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- 105 The Power of the Chancellor: The Great Qin Dragon Cauldron 九天相权·大秦龙鼎 The Nine Heavens' Chancellor's Power: The Dragon Ding of Great Qin —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 106 Ban Chao: Star Lord of the Western Frontier 班超：镇西星主 Ban Chao: Star Lord Who Pacified the West 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 107 The Nine Heavens’ Tally of Command: The Biography of Sun Wu 九天兵符：孙武传 The Nine Heavens' Military Talisman: The Legend of Sun Wu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 108 The Heart of the Han, Book Two: The Bronze Cauldron Emerges, War Engulfs the Three Kingdoms 玄汉文心·第二部 文鼎现世·三国烽烟 The Literary Soul of the Mystic Han, Part Two: The Bronze Ding Emerges, Flames of War Engulf the Three Kingdoms —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 109 The Heart of the Han: The Legend of Lu Jia 玄汉文心.陆贾传奇 The Literary Soul of the Mystic Han: The Legend of Lu Jia —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 110 Winter Solstice Sacrifice at the Suburban Altar, Year Eighteen of Jinghe, Great Yong 大雍景和十八年·冬至郊天 Winter Solstice Sacrifice to Heaven in the Suburbs, Year Eighteen of Jinghe in the Great Yong Dynasty —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 111 Zhuangzi, the Sword Immortal: Roaming the Ninth Heaven 剑仙庄子：逍遥九天 Sword Immortal Zhuangzi: Carefree Across the Nine Heavens —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 112 Venerable Lord of the Vastness Sword: Mencius Descends to Earth, His Aura Reaches the Ninth Heaven 浩然剑尊：孟子临凡，气贯九天 Sage of the Righteous Sword: Mencius Descends to the Mortal Realm, His Spirit Piercing the Nine Heavens —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 113 The Tang Dynasty in Turmoil: Reforged in the Year of the Fire Horse 残唐鼎沸：丙午再造 The Tumultuous Late Tang: Rebuilding in the Year of the Fire Horse —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 114 The Marquis of Liu Through the Ages 太玄留侯 The Great Mystery and the Marquis of Liu —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 115 The Heavenly Secrets: The Life of Guan Lu 天机箓之管辂传 The Records of Heaven’s Secrets: The Biography of Guan Lu 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 116 The Black-Armored Strategist: Cui Hao’s Chronicle 玄甲定天：崔浩谋世录 The Black-Armored Strategist Who Settled the Realm: The Chronicles of Cui Hao —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 117 The Invisible Grain of Qingli 庆历无影粮 The Shadowless Grain of Qingli —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 118 The Rhapsody of Changmen: Ashes of the Golden Moon 长门赋·金月烬 Ode to the Gate of Longmen: The Golden Moon Burns to Ashes —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 119 The Poor-Born Female Chancellor: Your Majesty, I Won’t Marry 寒门女相：陛下，臣不嫁人 The Common-Born Female Chancellor: Your Majesty, I Will Not Marry —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 120 All Realms Return to the Stars 万境归辰 All Realms Return to the Stars 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 121 Tao Zhu’s Mystic Strategy: Mastermind of Heaven’s Secrets 陶朱玄略：天机谋主 The Tao Zhu Strategy: Mastermind of Heaven's Secrets 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 122 Divine Numerology: The Secret Scroll of the Supreme Principle 神数衍天：皇极秘卷 Divine Numerology Reveals Heaven: The Secret Scroll of the Emperor's Pole 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 123 Nine Transformations of the Azure and Yellow: Li Si’s Cauldron 苍黄九变：李斯鼎 Nine Transformations of Heaven and Earth: Li Si Ding 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 124 Me, an Outer Sect Disciple, Became the Immortal World's Ancestor by Keeping a Low Profile 我，外门弟子，苟成仙界老祖 I, an Outer Sect Disciple, Cautiously Became the Immortal Realm's Ancestor 1Reads—Score—Shelves
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A Family's Journey Through the Stock Market 炒股养家记
The Underlying Logic of the Stock Market Human Immortality and Resurrection Understanding the Nature of the Universe Searching for the Meaning of Life [Help humanity stop turning on itself, find its soul, and achieve immortality and resurrection, so that life can flourish throughout the universe and we can live happily with our families forever.] [Life is one great dream. In the face of death, dreams and reality are no different. Write about, witness, and imagine every beautiful thing in this w
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The Legend of Water Goddess Yilun 水神漪沦传
“Ripples in the heart bloom in midsummer, while the ocean’s waves bring yesterday back to life.” There are no human emotions at all. Longing for a simple, peaceful life. Hope does not exist. Wang Jian Shi has already forgotten… The cave, the bridge, that little house… The Chinese banyan tree planted in his heart, and the fish swimming in the garden. The Heavenly Gate, the sea of stars. A delusional teenager’s wild fantasy…
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- 127 EN Building the Qingyun Immortal Sect, With an Emperor Ancestor Arriving from the Start 打造青云仙宗，开局大帝老祖降临 [Invincible Lead] [Sect] [Taking Disciples] [Nonstop Thrills] [Summoning] [No Female Lead] [No Hesitation, Straight to Action] No one helps me reach for the skies, so I'll climb the mountain myself and build an Emperor Sect! This book is also known as: "Every member of my sect, inside and out, is a Great Emperor. How will you deal with that?" "The road to immortality is hard to climb? What's with all those Immortal Emperors from Qingyun?" What! How did you know that even the dogs guarding the ga 25.3kReads9.1Score1.2kShelves
- 128 Beautiful China: How Much Do We Remember of the Past? 美丽中国，往事知多少 More than forty years have passed since reform and opening-up. What lies ahead for the new generation of farmers? They were once called “Uncle Farmer,” then “Farmer Brother,” then “Farmer Big Brother,” then “migrant workers,” and now the fashionable insult is “stinking farmer.” “You’re so dirty and smelly. How can you take the subway or the bus?” That was something said in a major Chinese city. It was only one person’s opinion, but it also reflects how people’s living standards have risen across 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 129 The Changing Years of Common Folk Beneath Cooking Smoke and Bamboo Hats 炊烟笠民之沧桑岁月 A rare work of realist literature online, this is a bleak, solitary tale set in modern times. Through the eyes of ordinary people, it reveals human nature and explains the roots of the decline of modern history. Its intellectual depth and artistic merit are nothing short of classic. The book chronicles the joys and sorrows of ordinary people, praising those who are kind, loyal, principled, and never sycophantic, while condemning those in fine clothes who are depraved, greedy, immoral, and unwil 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 130 Yuding Zhenren 玉鼎真人 The bookworm Wu Tianzhen became a True Spirit without even realizing it. After passing away by his own will, he arrived in a very different world of martial cultivation. But once he learned about martial cultivation, he found it all too strange, so he changed the cultivation method himself and embarked on an unconventional path... The plot of this book is beyond the author's control, and it involves major events across three universes. Read with caution!!!! 64Reads—Score—Shelves
- 131 The Two Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties 两晋南北朝 The comedy is just for laughs, but the history is all authentic. We hope more people will discover a love of history by starting with something fun. The period from the Jin dynasties through the Northern and Southern Dynasties was crucial. This three-hundred-year era of turmoil left more lessons and food for thought than any other period in history. It had two defining features: the merging of different peoples, and the rise of Buddhism. It also had a peculiar pattern: the North and South were e 2.9kReads7.9Score190Shelves
- 132 The Divine Lord of the Black Tortoise 玄武神君 He, or rather, it, was called "Xuanwu." From the day it was born, it had been chosen as a candidate for survival. Though it was given a human body and entered the selection for the Four Divine Lords, the competition was fierce, and its personality made it especially reluctant to take part in all the fighting that came with the martial world. After it said, "I don't want to kill anyone," people were astonished to discover that ever since entering this brutal contest, it truly hadn't killed a sing 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 133 You Come Rushing Toward Me 你扑面而来 The story takes place in 1998. A group of college students born in the 1970s seem to be in the prime of their lives, yet their days in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, are utterly uneventful, ordinary, and dull. They are like sheets of paper with no weight to them, ready to be swept away by the slightest gust of wind. And so their lives unfold, as they grow and change… 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 134 Fengdu Affairs Office 酆都事务所 [First-person manhunt and mystery-solving + no System + no transmigration + traditional supernatural fantasy] The King of Hell, ruler of the Fifth Hall of the underworld, opened an agency in the human world to hunt down evil ghosts, wicked beasts, and demons that had escaped into the land of the living. My name is Fu Ming, an orphan born with the Five Deficiencies and Three Shortcomings. By a twist of fate, I interviewed at a company called the Fengdu Agency. Who would have thought that I would 4Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 135 Master Ni's I Ching Studies 倪师易学 Join Teacher Ni Haixia in studying the Tianji series every day. With this divine gift of the Way of Change, all the world's affairs can be made simple, bringing good fortune, avoiding misfortune, and turning danger into safety. The key to learning is perseverance. I hope everyone makes progress and gains something every day. 5.2kReads8.8Score912Shelves
- 136 Turn the Tables Against All Odds 逆风翻盘 She was a poison doctoring prodigy and top agent from the twenty-first century. After an accident, she transmigrated into the body of someone who had lost her memories and was being hunted. To stay alive, she took risks farming and doing business. Then one day, a handsome young man said, “Junior Sister, you’ve saved me so many times. I’ll pamper you, love you, and keep you safe. You won’t have to toil and travel around anymore.” Ye Ying hurriedly replied, “Senior Brother, you’d better hurry up a 26Reads8.3Score—Shelves
- 137 The Immortal Emperor's Mortal Body 赘婿仙帝之凡体 Fantasy; [No System + Invincible + Decisive and Ruthless + Cunning + Beast Taming + Alchemy + Formations + Artifact Refining] In the Realm of Heaven and Earth, martial arts reign supreme. Yet Long Haotian was born with an inadequate martial foundation, a genuine mortal body in the world of martial arts, also known as a useless martial constitution. He grew up surrounded by insults and humiliation! Though he was a martial arts failure, the young lady of the Jiang family fell in love with him anyw 185Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 138 The Actor 戏子 Transmigration, an alternate world, ancient times, farming, healing... “Once you step into the entertainment industry, that great big dye vat, no one comes out clean...” A new dynasty, a new history, a new young playboy. Over the course of his life, he will meet many people: Empress Dowager Xiao, Yelü Xiuge, Yelü Xiezhen, Pan Mei, Yang Ye, Yang Yanzhao, Wu Erlang, Pan Jinlian, Chao Gaitianwang, Li Taibai, Kou Zhun, Wang Qinruo, Liu E, Ding Wei... War is raging across the land. The Liao kingdom’s —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 139 From the Start, Reborn as a Baby: I’ll Take You on a Cultivation Journey Through the Martial World 开局穿成婴儿，带你修仙闯荡江湖 [Female-led + cultivation + coming of age + putting scumbags in their place + romance + devoted love + no System or golden finger] After transmigrating, Jiang Chuyue finds herself an abandoned baby. She thinks she’s simply ended up in ancient times and gets ready to lie flat and enjoy life, only to discover, to her shock, that this is a world of cultivation. After joining a sect, Jiang Chuyue hopes to coast along, but her master tells her to have her senior brother supervise her cultivation. Wha 246Reads5.8Score—Shelves
- 140 Master of the Purple Star: The Birth Chart Rules the World, the Stars Subdue All Realms 紫微星主：命盘定乾坤，星斗镇诸天 Master of the Ziwei Star: The Fate Chart Determines the World, the Stars Subdue All Realms —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 141 The Hidden Treasures of the Spirit Pivot 灵枢天藏 The Celestial Treasury of the Spirit Pivot 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 142 The Goddess of the Luo River: Spirit of the Vast Deep 洛神赋·沧溟灵兮 Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River: Spirit of the Azure Deep 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 143 Chong’er Returns to Jin 重耳归晋 Chong'er Returns to Jin 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 144 Ink Seal of the Nine Heavens 墨印九天 Ink Seal Across the Nine Heavens 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 145 The Way of Strategy: Zhang Yi’s Mystic Plans 纵横灵途：张仪玄策 Traversing the World of Spirits: Zhang Yi's Arcane Strategies 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 146 The Divine Art of Taiyi: Secrets of the Heavenly Origin 太乙神数-天元秘箓 Taiyi Divine Numerology: The Secret Register of the Heavenly Origin 25Reads—Score—Shelves
- 147 The Star of Literature Falls to the Mortal Realm: Wang Bo's Legend in the Mystic Tang Dynasty 文星坠凡：王勃玄唐传 The Star of Literature Falls to Earth: Wang Bo's Mysterious Tang Dynasty 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 148 The Art of the God of War: The Schemes of Huaiyin 兵仙箓：淮阴玄谋 The Art of War: Huaiyin’s Hidden Stratagems 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 149 The Spirit Venerable of Guiguzi 鬼谷灵尊 Ghost Valley Spirit Venerable 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 150 The Mystic Sovereign of the Way of Yi: The Legend of Guo Pu 易道玄尊：郭璞传奇 The Daoist Mystic: The Legend of Guo Pu 4Reads—Score—Shelves
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