Is marriage predestined by Heaven? During the Ming Dynasty, a man in Yihuang, Jiangxi Province, was honored as Lord Tan Xiangmin. His real name was Tan Lun. He was one of the famous generals who fought against the Japanese pirates. This is a story about a young woman who later became the wife of Lord ...
In ancient China, if a man wanted to divorce his spouse, he could not do it on a whim; he had to fulfill the requirements for divorce. In the ancient divorce system, repudiation was the most typical form of divorce. If the wife failed her responsibilities in one of the seven areas the ancients held ...
Ip Man, whose real name was Ip Kai-man (葉繼問), was born in Foshan, Guangdong Province, in 1892. He was the second child of a prominent scholarly family in Foshan who believed in traditional educational values. Foshan has always been a haven for flourishing martial arts. Famous martial arts masters of the Southern schools, such as ...
During the reign of the Qing Dynasty of the Tongzhi Emperor (1856-1875), a Jiangsu merchant named Jin spent considerable money purchasing five maritime ships to trade between the Eastern and Western oceans. Each ship had guards on board to ward off pirates, who were common enemies of merchants. Finally, in the spring of Jia-Zi (1864), ...
The outside world has gone hand in hand with reducing COVID-19 restrictions. So when the televised spectators of the World Cup in Qatar could be seen not wearing face masks, the outraged Chinese, who love international soccer matches, but have been restricted by a harsh zero-COVID policy, started to protest. According to a blog post ...
This is a two-part story; please go here for Part 1 John Rabe, a German businessman known to the world for setting up a safe zone during the Second Sino-Japanese War in China and saving 250,000 Chinese people, made a wrong choice. As a result, he was forced to bear the weight of the crimes ...
This is a two-part story; please go here for Part 2 John Rabe, a German businessman, is known to the world for setting up a safe zone during the Second Sino-Japanese War in China (1937-1945) and saving 250,000 Chinese people. But a choice he made caused him to regret his lifestyle. John Rabe was born ...
In the palace, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty played the game of Go with Jia Yuan, one of his officials. Playing Go with the Emperor was always problematic, as winning or losing was quite a significant matter. Therefore, playing the game required much care and attention. Taizong always gave Jia three moves when playing ...
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a fisherman in Jiangxi Province named Zhang Deyan spent his days fishing on the carp beach. He could barely make ends meet because of the heavy tax on fish imposed by the local government. However, King Carp was about to change that. On the 15th day of ...
In 1517, during the Ming Dynasty, a flood submerged a huge city called Zhaoxin, and countless people died. However, many people fled ahead of the flood because they believed in the prediction of birds and survived. After the flood, people learned the story from those who made it through. In the city of Zhaoxin, there ...
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