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Discuss cool chinese stuff here
I'll start:
>The Yongle Encyclopedia is a Chinese leishu encyclopedia commissioned by the Yongle Emperor (r. 1402–1424) of the Ming dynasty in 1403 and completed by 1408. It comprised 22,937 manuscript rolls in 11,095 volumes. Fewer than 400 volumes survive today, comprising about 800 rolls, or 3.5% of the original work.
>Most of the text was lost during the latter half of the 19th century, in the midst of events including the Second Opium War and the Boxer Rebellion. Its sheer scope and size made it the world's largest general encyclopedia, until it was surpassed by Wikipedia in late 2007, nearly six centuries later
imagine how cool it would've been if it survived 
>i wanna learn
https://archive.org/details/chineseenglishbilingualvisualdictionary_201909
>>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.
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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
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>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
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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