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Jie You always thought her fate was full of misfortune. It wasn't until she plunged into Zhaoyu, two thousand two hundred years in the past, and fled the ruins over ground soaked with blood that she realized everything she had suffered before was nothing.
The Warring States period was nearing its end. In this fractured land, warfare, floods, famine, and epidemics ran rampant, and human lives were worth less than weeds.
The young woman of the Jie clan was named Min. Under the assumed name Yi You, she traveled through Jing and Chu with an itinerant physician, treating the sick and saving lives.
She was clever and graceful, lively in her youth, and in the eyes of the Chu people, she was like a beautiful, passionate mountain spirit.
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One day, a dream on Mount Wu was shattered and the waters of the Xiao and Xiang ran dry. A fallen prince wanted to claim this mountain spirit as his own.
"Once I entered the Peach Blossom Spring, a thousand springs lay beyond the flowing stream."
Li Bai, "Ancient Airs, Fifty-Nine Poems: No. 31"
●Reader's Notes:
1. The romance is one-on-one in stages, with a love-rivalry plot and a gradual coming-of-age arc. If that's not for you, please don't read. The early story focuses on the plot; the romance begins after she comes of age.
2. The main story has no fixed pairing. The bonus chapters have a happy ending, and no major characters die.
3. Set from the late Warring States period through the Qin dynasty. The perspective is that of the Six States being battered by the powerful Qin, with no mercy. Major themes include Mohist thought, mechanical wooden armor, the development of pre-Qin medicine, and the compilation of the Inner Canon and the Materia Medica.
4. Researching the Warring States period is complicated. If you spot any errors, please help me catch them. Love you all (@^3^)
The Bamboo Books series:
Xia and Shang: Chasing the Sun, a short story about King Tang's conquest of Xia (in preparation).
Shang and Zhou: Passing the Flame, everyday life as an official, the founding of the Western Zhou, and the separation of shamanism and medicine (completed).
Spring and Autumn: Pursuing the Light, a travel guide to the Spring and Autumn period, the Zhou dynasty's poetry-gathering and military oversight systems (in preparation).
Qin and Han: The Celestial Offices, a Bian Que story and the Qin conquest of the Baiyue (next story).
Yuan and Ming: Lord of Mountains and Seas, the greatest compendium of ancient Chinese prescriptions and the Ming conquest of Yunnan (completed).
Theme: Mohism inherited the traditions of shamans and diviners from the Three Dynasties and paved the way for the chivalrous heroes of the Han and Tang. It was once a prominent school of thought alongside Confucianism, and one of the brightest stars among the Hundred Schools of Thought, with a profound influence on Chinese culture and intellectual history.
Come on, author [put hands together] There was too little food in the pre-Qin Dynasty 😭
(Qi2 onwards): plants such as beams and millet.
King Han of Chu (some say his name is Mourning), is King Chu You, the son of King Kaolie of Chu, and is also said to be the son of King Chun Shen. The academic circles generally believe that this is a rumor spread by his concubine King Chu and his party to seize the throne.
In fact, I have never understood, since they launched the trouble of going to the palace, why Zhao Wu was saved by the Han family and finally let him be crowned and mastered the Zhao family in advance. It stands to reason that other companies would directly block this road.
Why don't you update it?