The Qin Farmer
秦农
- Status
- Completed
- Length
- 335k Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Qin-Han & Three Kingdoms
- Updated
- 5y ago
- English
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Quiet Reflection Pavilion
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Breaking New Ground and Finding Hidden Gems
You have to sample plenty of books when you’re exploring new territory. Hopefully, a few good ones will make the cut.
The Best of the Book Sea
“Writing” by Lu You Writing comes naturally, its finest touches found by chance. Pure and flawless, what need has it of a human hand? Look at ancient ritual vessels: neither skill nor clumsiness was imposed upon them. The Han came closest to the pre-Qin age, yet purity and decadence already differed. What is this foreign music, with bold bamboo pipes mingling with sorrowful strings? Kui has long since passed; who can we hope to meet again in a thousand years?
Female Readers Who Enjoy Male-Oriented Fiction
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Reading Through Transmigration
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The sacred deeds of the Five Emperors and Three Sovereigns have deceived countless travelers.
My views on Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of Han are completely different now compared to when I posted this poem. To put it bluntly, I'm no longer a Qin Shi Huang fan, and I'm no longer a fan of this "charming ancestor." The sacred tales of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors have deceived countless travelers; how many illustrious figures have they misled?
The slow adoption of stone mills was mainly due to their cost.
Making stone mills requires metal tools because the millstones must be chiseled very flat. Therefore, when metal tools were expensive, the cost of stone mills was also high, making widespread adoption difficult. The widespread use of stone mills in China occurred after the Han Dynasty implemented blast furnace iron smelting, which significantly reduced the price of iron tools, leading to a…
Do you think you deserve the featured spot in July?
I was recommended this in July, but it was never released. 😡
The protagonist was humiliated while working as a hired laborer, so he quit. Then he ran out of food and went hungry that night. So he carefully raised cattle for a month, hoping to win the next cattle race and turn his life around. Here's the question: where did you get all the food you ate for that month?
I thought it was a farming story set in the Qin Dynasty based on the synopsis, but the last sentence amazed me. I haven't read it yet, but I'll give the book a thumbs up for its creativity.
Author, do you deserve the countless chapter recommendations your mentor, July, gave you?
The writing is decent, but the main flaw is the excessive angst and abuse of the protagonist. It's too gruesome, lacks satisfying moments, and I don't like it.
First review of my apprentice's & roommate's book
... The one who rode over on horseback... And it turned out to be another eunuch... Repeated eunuchs are unforgivable.