>>10327 no matter what era or year we are, whether 10th century or 10bc, ARCHIVAL as we've come to see now is always important, even though every single time it never really looks that very important in the moment people were living. also OP i heard classical chinese is very different than the current chinese care to elucidate if you know anything about that

>>10327 Chinese mythology is extremely interesting, I forgot their name but there's an entire group of people that claim to be descendants of Houyi, a guy that shot down every sun except for the one we still have today.

>>10344 The Geija, they're related to Miao . and the Hmong which is super cool . They have a festival on the Lunar month too. >>10336 Definitely. Archival is forgotten so often but it's the backbone of everything I don't know much about Classical, but this (in)famous poem is written in it: http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML I think SUPER old chinese didn't have tones too. And there're lots of scarcely used characters in classical, but most sentences are apparently short and sweet.

>>10327 I've spent some time reading Chinese history, mostly because i caught a Romance of the Three Kingdoms addiction from playing Dynasty Warriors like 15 years ago. I'm a little drunk right now so I don't have anything particularly coherent in mind, but the way a certain author remarked on Cao Cao as a military adventurer was really charming to me, I guess it kind of catches the absolute post-apocalypse that the Han experienced after the collapse of central authority.

>>10477 i love the three kingdoms period so much chinese people have a proverb "meet his own maicheng" which is their analogue to waterloo, apparently which is based on liu bei's loss to sun quan at maicheng iirc

>tfw there's an entire manifesto by the emperor of the ming dynasty on chinese political procedure and it's untranslated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang-Ming_Zuxun

i don't know whether the song dynasty was stupid or not, they really needed to get a defected jurchen general in like, right after defeating the khitans up north. chinese history really is filled with random invaders from the north killing empires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accounts_of_Jingkang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Conducted_at_Sea

>>10929 it's hard to wrap my head around the fact that a swedish woman was taken as a slave to dzungar xinjiang, where she'd met a dutch cartographer who'd suffered the same capture during the great northern war

>>10327 Is anybody here learning Chinese I wonder what came first, the script or the sounds I like the character 了 because it's unique to me and a bit efficient desu also, let me drop a few resources for you boys https://www.hanyutales.com/ a website for chinese stories https://hanzicraft.com/ draw chinese characters and get da word https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/zhongwen/ extension to view the definition of each character https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-vocabulary/ HSK vocabulary if you're interested in mugging it all up https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Main_Page a great wiki for chinese grammar https://www.hackingchinese.com/ very useful website on learning chinese https://www.chinese-forums.com/ a forum which i like for its emphasis on chinese culture good luck hikarins

>>11198 https://taiwancenter.taiwan-world.net/material/basic here is a taiwanese government website with resources! they have a lot of workbooks if anyone wants to learn I might start reading Du Fu's and Li Bai's poems, a native told me to give them a try, they're very famous in China's education system https://ctext.org/ a website for free chinese textbooks

yongle civilopedia https://www.civilopedia.net/rise-and-fall/civilizations/leader_yongle

>>11672 Hikarin, have you been playing Civilization VII? Do you know if there are any good mods for Civilization VI? I wonder if it's received updates I learned about the Chaoshan region of China, it had been the origin of a lot of derivatives of it's culture, as it had been home to a lot of migration overseas. It had a lot of impact on Singaporeans, along with Indonesian Chinese, who were often the majority landowners, strangely often. Quite a few people there speak a variety of Mandarin that is the closest to ancient Chinese, and they're often referred to as the Teochew people. They also have a coming of age ceremony. Interesting people. https://www.omniglot.com/chinese/ A useful page for people trying to learning languages, a lot of documentation I'd recommend the movies, „An Elephant Standing Still” and „To Live” on https://kisskh.ws/ which I found a lot of East Asian shows in Also try out https://lightnovelpub.org/ for quite a few webnovels, albeit in English, Qidian would be better for Chinese https://www.konglongmandarin.com/ Another interesting website I came across to learn Mandarin from Peppa Pig

「 衆鳥高飛盡 孤雲獨去閒 相看兩不厭 只有敬亭山 」 「 The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. 」 A poem about the Jing-Ting mountain, related to Zazen in Buddhism, which is related to the meditation. It's interesting how Japan diverged from Chinese Buddhism with schools of esoteric Buddhism with skull rituals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikawa-ryu Chinese esoteric Buddhism never really flourished because of the persecution that arrived shortly after it began to be taught, and the name for it is literally related to the Tang dynasty - 唐密 It seems to be undergoing a small revival, with the designation of these temples by esoteric monks as important sites, because of their cultural influence outside China

Been a while since I visited this site hello Hikarins ! 搭子文化 is an interesting sociocultural phenomenon within China today where people make friends based on their social status in life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazi_culture https://www.wenlinshe.com/tw/ this is a very cool library with a lot of classics and idioms that could be useful http://www.robos.org/sections/chinese/cangjie.html this provides information on cangjie which is a useful system to type Chinese and makes use of the radicals, with keys mapped to them 「 夫禍富之 轉而相生 其變難見也 」 「 Disasters and abundance take places with one another It is difficult to make certain 」 These are two lines from the 淮南子 about the old man near the border who had lost his horse. It is a pretty famous parable, and parables, addages, or idioms in Chinese are often referred to as 成語 https://sites.google.com/site/wenzhoudialect/anthology/baidu-wenzhou-dialect this regards "Wenzhounese" a division of Wu Chinese, which is also close to Shanghainese. Wenzhounese is famous for it's uniqueness, with around eleven tones, with phrases describing it discussing it's remoteness "天不怕，地不怕，就怕温州人说温州话" "Fear not the heavens, nor the earth, but the Wenzhou man speaking Wenzhounese. It is regarded as one of the devil dialects. https://github.com/ZWolken/Great-Dictionary-of-Modern-Chinese-Dialects/blob/main/%E5%B9%BF%E5%B7%9E%E6%96%B9%E8%A8%80%E8%AF%8D%E5%85%B8.pdf this is a document regarding a 2002 compilation of the fourty two modern Chinese dialects 躺平 is a term used to mean "lie flat" and it is mostly a word used by a lot of NEETs in China, kukuku is an example of an old Chinese imageboard, although their culture is very isolated https://english.shanghai.gov.cn/en-LearnChinese/index.html a useful site from the Shanghai government I also learned about tone sandhi, where the tones change regarding the context and the previous tone that precedes a phrase, it is pretty strange and hard to figure out https://opentext.ku.edu/tingyiting/chapter/lesson22/ 邯郸学步 is a unique phrase that I relate to, it warns one to not copy another person blindly, and regards the Handan walk, which was sort of an old trend in ancient China https://www.straightdope.com/21343499/is-the-chinese-word-for-crisis-a-combination-of-danger-and-opportunity there is a lot of discussion on whether the Chinese word for disaster is a combination of danger and opportunity There is also an obscure practice where Chinese characters are used and picked as a form of Astrology, there are few pages on it https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/literomancy There is a lot of use of seals or chops within businesses in China, and it's often discussed in the legal context, it is sort of like a more official signature compared to ordinary 签字/ https://harris-sliwoski.com/chinalawblog/is-that-a-real-chinese-company-chop-stamp-seal/

>>12247 very kool resources chikarin, thank yew