Ten Thousandfold Growth in the Ming Dynasty

A Slip of the Tongue in the Golden Hall, and the Emperor’s Wrath Sends Him into Exile in Qiongzhou. In the Forbidden City of 1475, the eleventh year of the Chenghua reign, the chill of early spring winds carried fine flakes of snow that stung like countless icy needles against the manes of the gilded bronze lions, frosting them with a thin layer of cold.