Wang Jia was a native of Hejian Zhangwu (now Hejian County, Hebei). In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Jia served in the army in Qizhou. One year, he was sent to escort more than 70 exiled prisoners and their leader, Li Shen, to the capital. Prisoners share expressions of remorse According to ...
Dugu Jialuo was Empress of the Sui Dynasty, the wife of Sui Dynasty Emperor Wen, and a devout Buddhist. She often lamented that life was hard and being a woman was even harder; therefore, the only way to be liberated was through a belief in Buddhism. The beautiful and gentle-natured Dugu Jialuo, at the age of 14, married 17-year-old Yang Jian, who ...
The Chinese idiom, “a broken mirror joined together again,” expresses the idea of a couple being reconciled or reunited after a period of separation. It has its origins in a story about Princess Lechang of the Southern Chen Dynasty and her husband, the scholar and poet Xu Deyan. In the last years of the Northern ...
Modern people believe living conditions in ancient times were very primitive. However, ancient Chinese science and technology was quite advanced. Papermaking, gunpowder, and the compass were all invented in China. Stories of other incredible inventions have been passed down to the present day, even mechanical water toys, though the mechanisms they describe have long been ...
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