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  • Two Legendary Officials: Shi Shilun vs Yu Chenglong [Qing]

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    This article introduces two legendary clean officials of the Kangxi era. Shi Shilun, son of Admiral Shi Lang, was honest and strict in governing finance, protecting common people. Yu Chenglong lived an extremely simple life, ate only vegetables, and turned troubled areas into stable regions. Kangxi praised him as “the most upright official in…

  • The Peach Blossom Spring

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    — by Tao Yuanming (Jin) During the Taiyuan era of the Jin Dynasty, a fisherman from Wuling made his living by fishing. One day, he sailed along a stream, forgetting how far he had traveled. Suddenly, he came upon a grove of peach trees lining both banks for several hundred paces. There were no…

  • Encounter in Fengdu

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    There was a cave outside the county town of Fengdu in Sichuan Province. It was unfathomable. It was said that this was the entrance to Hades of the King of Hell.

  • Scholar Liu

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    In the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the Qingzhou and Yanzhou areas of Shandong Province were infested with swarms of locusts. The locusts gradually moved to Yixian County. The county magistrate was very worried about the matter.

  • The Cricket

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    During the Xuande Reign period of the Ming Dynasty, cricket fighting became a popular amusement in the imperial palace. Every year, the insects were collected from localities across the country.

  • Tian Qilang

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    Wu Chengxiu of Shengyang liked to make friends. Many of them were celebrities. One night, he dreamed someone said to him: “You have made lots of friends across the land. But you make friends without discrimination. Now there is a man with whom you can share weal and woe. Why don’t you make him…

  • Wang Lan

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    A man named Wang Lan, who lived in Lijing County, in Shandong Province, suddenly died.

  • Protected: Revenant Resurrection

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  • Literate tigers and illiterate people

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    When Yang Shuxian was in office in Jingzhou, the tigers there were a scourge to the people. So Yang had an edict engraved on a big rock on a nearby mountain, ordering the tigers to leave the place.