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The Character Keeper of the Song Dynasty: Keeping Names Is More Difficult Than Keeping Lives
Blow BeardHistorical110k Wordsongoing
It's hard to keep a life, it's hard to keep a word, it's even harder to keep a name. The Song Dynasty valued literature over military affairs, governed the country with words, and prospered the country with literature. Instead, it left a loophole in the system. In the fifth year of the Qing Dynasty, Wen Yan, a new scholar, found that his place of origin, identity, and resume had become another answer in all official documents. In order to recover his identity, he tracked down the secret hidden
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