Fortify Your New Year’s Resolutions With These 5 Chinese Legends

For Confucius, to follow what the ancients called the Mandate of Heaven was a way of life, the way of the superior man.

Wu Zixu, a key general and minister in the Warring States Period. Wang Shuang-K'uan/Epoch Times

Like any other commitment made to yourself, New Year’s resolutions may seem to be a dime a dozen, to be broken or forgotten on a whim. If you don’t want things to stay that way in the Year of the Monkey, read these five stories from the Chinese past to get some inspiration.

Emperor Yu Controls the Floods

Emperor Yu the Great, artist unknown. Public Domain