SuaveG – The Gentle Path

Chinese mythology, folktales, and literature

Yi River

  • Farewell on River Yi [Tang Poems]

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    Ana

    — Luo Binwang The hero left his friend With angry hair on end. The martyr’s now no more, The waves cold as of yore.

  • The Fall of Lü Bu [Three Kingdoms]

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    Juan

    In the year 198 AD, the turbulent struggle for dominance in central China reached a critical juncture with the collapse of Lü Bu’s short-lived power in Xuzhou (Xu Province). Once a feared warrior who had twice driven Liu Bei from Xuzhou and nearly toppled Cao Cao in Yan Province, Lü Bu now faced the…

  • Earthquake

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    Ana

    On the seventeenth day of the sixth lunar month in the seventh year of the Kangxi reign period (1668) between seven and nine in the evening, there was a great earthquake.