The Ming Dynasty’s Useless Third-Place Scholar
大明草包探花
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- Ongoing
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- 1.5M Words
- Genre
- Historical
- Subgenre
- Song-Yuan-Ming Dynasties
- Updated
- 9d ago
- English
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Why is everything you wrote in Chinese? How am I supposed to understand it without a translation?
Many people's impression of Zhu Yuanzhang is based on his image in TV dramas or some silly cartoons—a peasant mentality, cruel and bloodthirsty, short-sighted, etc. But if he were really like that, he would have been finished long ago and could have become the founding emperor.
I used to read historical novels At most, you'll encounter a group of meticulous researchers who present various historical materials, and then start arguing and attacking each other. But things are different now. Now that history inventors have taken the stage and history creators have entered the arena, they've completely overwhelmed the meticulous researchers. They were beaten so badly they were powerless to fight back, and even completely lost the strength to argue.
I have a thing for virgins
Can the author please type with their eyes closed? I don't want to read secondhand text.
Author, can you tell me which app is called "" (cǎo bāo)? And also, Tan Hua ()?
Stop writing. The Ming Dynasty history you've read is mostly fake. Every time I read a novel about the Ming Dynasty, it breaks my heart.
Kings and nobles referred to themselves as "" or "" during the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. Before the Qing dynasty, they rarely referred to themselves as "" (this king). From the Kangxi era of the Qing dynasty onwards, this became the common self-reference. Subordinates addressed kings and nobles as follows: Song: Great King / [Name of King]. Yuan: Great King / Your Highness.
After reading a few chapters, the author kept using the word "feudalism," which was unpleasant to read. Knowing full well that the original meaning of "feudalism" refers to the pre-Qin period, and that feudal society ceased to exist after the Qin Dynasty adopted the prefecture-county system, the author still insists on misleading readers. Furthermore, there's a lot of nonsense. Readers' time is precious, and I have no interest in reading those trivial, word-filling passages!
It feels like the author is glorifying the southerners involved in the North-South ranking case.
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