Wang Xizhi and the Orchid Pavilion Preface - The Birth of Chinese Calligraphy
How Wang Xizhi wrote the Lantingji Xu at a springtime drinking party in 353 CE and changed Chinese calligraphy forever β the man, the work, the legend.
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Eastern Jin
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Tao Yuanming and the Peach Blossom Spring
The Eastern Jin poet who quit his post rather than bow to a corrupt official, retreated to his farm, and wrote the most influential short story in Chinese literature β a 425-word utopia that still gets quoted two millennia on.
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The Battle of Fei River: The Upset That Saved Eastern Civilization
Learn how the Battle of Fei River (ζ·ζ°΄δΉζ) in 383 CE became one of history's most shocking military upsets, stopping the Qin empire's southward conquest and preserving Chinese culture.
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