ancient china, chivalric and heroic tales, chivalry, flexibility, good-hearted people, han dynasty, hero, strength, zhu jia
The Zhu family, who lived during the time of Han Gaozu, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty (256-195 BC), was well-known for being great-hearted. Hundreds of eminent people survived due to their assistance, and the number of ordinary people they helped was countless. However, they never bragged about it and were even reluctant to ...
New research finds that, while the Knights of the Round Table has won global fame, most medieval English chivalric and heroic tales have been lost. Meanwhile, more than three-quarters of medieval stories in Icelandic and Irish survive to the present, in an unusual pattern suggesting that island ‘ecosystems’ helped preserve culture. 90 percent of medieval manuscripts of ...