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Seven Counter-Proposals
During the Kaiyuan period, a woman who was divorced for being "childless and talkative" knew that she had to do two things from the day she was divorced - to rescue her sold daughter and prove that "seven divorces" were wrong. She spent thirty years weaving a "net of counter-claims" in Dunhuang, Chang'an, and Luoyang, training seven generations of female scriveners, and fighting with Pei Tingyun, the Minister of Rites, using words as the battlefield for thirty years - her most secret student was
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Resident B
On the first day that folklore professor Jiang Chen moved into a century-old house, he found a line of small pencil writing on the contract: "Do not leave the room after eleven o'clock in the evening. If someone knocks on the door and calls himself 'Resident B,' please do not respond and do not open the door." He turned on the recorder. Lighting candles to guide the way, hanging mirrors to guard the house, burying needles in rice jars, and doorstep rugs—these old rules forgotten by modern peop
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