>>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