In the Great Ming, Starting with Tofu
人在大明，从做豆腐开始
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 1.7M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Historical & Ancient
- Updated
- 4y ago
- English
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Please Recommend High-Quality Historical or Alternate-History Novels with Highly Intelligent Characters
Anything is fine as long as it isn't brainless and the supporting characters don't suddenly lose all their intelligence.
Any More Good Ming Dynasty Stories? Looking for Stories About Saving Zhu Biao, Empress Ma, or Zhu Xiongying
Looking for books like "Ming Dynasty: I’m Done Pretending, Your Grandpa Is Zhu Yuanzhang". I haven’t found a single good book about the Ming Dynasty besides this one.
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The Genre Doesn’t Matter. Just Give Me Something with Smart Characters
I won't say more. You'll understand.
Novels These Days Are Too Rushed. Hardly Anyone Takes Their Time and Writes Carefully
Don't make me look at any of Tomato's five toxic genres!
Seasoned Readers, Come On In and Swap Book Recommendations
For the most demanding readers suffering from a book drought. Beginners, stay away.
Looking for Passionate Stories That Bring Tears to Your Eyes
Ideally, it's about someone from the future transmigrating back to the present and helping our motherland fight off aliens or disasters. These are the only books that make me feel anything lately.
I’ve Read Over a Thousand Books, but Only Six Made It Onto My Shelf. I’m Extremely Picky, So Recommend Me Something Good
I Can't Believe Historical Fiction Writers Can Be This Good
A fact-based educational book written using sources from official history, but not boring!
In a Reading Slump? Time to Bring Out the Crown Jewel on My Shelf!
Desperately Short on Historical Fiction, Please Recommend Some to Save Me From This Reading Drought
Preferably a historical novel with a realistic feel.
Great Novels Set in the Ming Dynasty, Including the Late Ming
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Recommend Some Worthwhile Ming Dynasty Novels
I’ve read several books about the Ming Dynasty. Overall, they had excellent prose, deep historical knowledge, and well-crafted characters. But a few seem to share the same flaws: too much exposition and overly contrived schemes. Any good recommendations?
Looking for Meticulously Researched Historical Fiction
They seem pretty hard to find. Let's give it a try.
Looking for Relaxing, Cozy Novels with an Easygoing Daily-Life Feel That Stay Enjoyable
There Are Hardly Any Great Historical Novels These Days. Disagree? Come Debate Me
The protagonist should not be sanctimonious, and the novel should not be mindless.
High-IQ Historical Alternate-World Novels Without a System, Tang, Song, or Ming Are All Fine
Good Novels About the Tang Dynasty
Sui-Tang dynasty wuxia.
Historical Fiction That Doesn't Dumb Down the Characters
I want a protagonist with brains
Any Good Historical Novels? I've Run Out of Historical Fiction to Read Lately.
Please recommend some historical novels.
Any Excellent Historical Novels?!
I'm sick of those power-fantasy stories where the protagonist shows off all the time!
Historical Fiction: Transmigrate to Ancient Times, Start an Industrial Revolution, and Conquer the World
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Such a good book, I don't know why it got such a low score? Maybe those bookworms are used to fast food and ordering food through apps. Without these set meal apps, they won't even bother to cook for themselves anymore!
The author's writing is good. I switched from a female-oriented novel to a male-oriented one, and after reading the first few chapters, I found them to be excellent. I hope the later chapters will be just as exciting.
The material base determines the superstructure. There is no best system, only the most suitable system. The people's ever-growing living standards and the backward productive forces are the principal contradiction. These are things that I used to just memorize by rote, but in this novel I get to understand them anew. It's really good.
A great book whose title doesn't do it justice. Using medicine as a starting point, it depicts the myriad aspects of life. The time traveler also serves as a catalyst, introducing a diverse cast of characters, each vibrant with their own thoughts and lives, all gradually changing within a context relatively consistent with the social environment of the time.
I finished this novel in two days and would like to share my thoughts. Having read many time-travel novels, this one left a particularly deep impression on me. The protagonist, instead of following the crowd and creating a personal heroism, participates in this era from the perspective of an ordinary time traveler.
This book has a lot of Mu Yi's style! Mu Yi's protagonists always have a medicine box with them no matter where they travel.
A very good book. The later parts become more ensemble-oriented. Unlike other books, the protagonist doesn't aspire to be a powerful and influential ruler. He arrives in the Ming Dynasty with modern knowledge; his medical skills are merely his initial asset, a stepping stone to change the world. Therefore, those expecting a divine physician might be disappointed.
Well written! The suspicion and guilt by association under imperial power expose the protagonist's helplessness and constant fear. Under an autocratic system, there is no safety; even without doing anything wrong, one can be implicated because of the actions of relatives and friends. The protagonist himself was imprisoned two or three times for this reason.
Author, please update more! I love historical fiction like this, without a systematic plot. It's much better than those mindless, reckless rejections of the emperor.
Xu Da and Empress Ma were important figures in the early Ming Dynasty. The author, when writing a time-travel novel, should at least research their lives. Xu Da died several years after Empress Ma, but in this story, Xu Da dies earlier, and Empress Ma has the protagonist treat her illness.