SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

Liaodong

  • Guo Jia: Cao Cao’s peerless strategist [Three Kingdoms]

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    Juan

    Among the brilliant minds who shaped the Three Kingdoms era, none captured Cao Cao’s trust – or foresaw the future with such uncanny precision – as Guo Jia, styled Fengxiao.

  • Chapter 33. The Fall of Yuan Brothers [Three Kingdoms]

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    Rob

    In Chapter 33 of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, two pivotal threads unfold in the wake of Cao Cao’s conquest of Ji Province: a dramatic personal episode involving his heir Cao Pi and the beautiful Lady Zhen, and a decisive military campaign against the last remnants of the Yuan clan in the distant northeast.

  • Fraternal strife and the fall of the Yuan Clan [Three Kingdoms]

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    Rob

    The collapse of Yuan Shao’s once-mighty coalition – ruler of four northern provinces and commander of over 100,000 troops – was not sealed by his defeat at the Battle of Guandu alone, but by the self-destructive infighting among his sons after his death.

  • The collapse of Gongsun Zan [Three Kingdoms]

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    Rob

    While Yuan Shu expanded his power in the south, Gongsun Zan, to the north, was spiraling into disaster. After the brutal execution of Liu Yu in 193 AD, Gongsun Zan believed he had finally secured complete control over You Province(Youzhou), free from any rival authority. Yet he fatally underestimated one crucial force: the will…

  • Yingning

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    Ana

    Wang Zifu was a native of Luodian in Luxian County, Shandong Province. His father died when he was still a child. Being extraordinarily clever, he passed the imperial examination at the local level and became a xiucai at the age of fourteen.

  • A white-headed pig

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    Ana

    Once in Liaodong, a swineherd’s sow farrowed a piglet with a white head, and thinking it a prodigy he decided to present it to the court.