Modern History Obsessive Essay

1 雅 Elegant The Three Idiots of ThievesHistorical1.8M Wordscompleted 32Votes132.1kRecs359.5kFans

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Traveling back to the forty years of Wanli, I not only want to eat, drink and have fun, but also want to save the country in a straight line. Yes, it is such a story full of interest and contradictions. In the late Ming Dynasty, Jiangnan was prosperous at the end of the world; the elegance of "Cai Gen Tan" was the vulgarity of "Jin Ping Mei"; old monks were engaged in business, courtesans paid homage to Buddha; Yuan Hongdao drank tea and arranged flowers to express his spirituality; Li Zhuowu made wine, meditated and continued to burn books; Dong Qichang was a master of both calligraphy and painting, but he was a bully of a country squire; Zhang Zongzi was a young dandy who dreamed of returning to the West Lake when he was old; elegant people see elegance, and coquettish people see coquettishness. Counting romantic figures, but also looking at the present (cooperating with someone's certain classic actions).