China Socialist “Moon” Science Enriches the People! (23.4.2023)

Visitors view back-scatter electron micrographs of lunar soil particles at an exhibition themed on lunar soil research achievements in University of Science and Technology of China, in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, April 19, 2023. The exhibition starting Monday displays exhibits made by scientists, artists and engineers based on micrographs of lunar soil particles brought back by the Chang’e-5 probe.

The Great ‘Ginseng’ Heist! 

The etymology of the term ‘人蔘’ (Ren Shen) is interesting and complex and well worth exploring, as this is the term Westerners are routinely using when referring to ‘Ginseng’. The first ideogram ‘人’ (ren2) and refers to a ‘human-being’. This Ideogram is often associated with ‘們’ (men2) – meaning ‘us’ or ‘fellow people gathered behind the safety of a gate’ – and ‘閄‘ (huo4) – meaning a ‘door or gate in-front of a human-being’ or ‘a human-being protected by a structure or institution’, etc.

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