Xianyang City Bureaucrat
@XianyangCB
The Stratagems of the Warring States and other open access Classical Chinese translations. Pronouns: 臣/臣之. MQGA
Today's update from the Ming brothels channels Shang Yang (translated by @moghilemear13, mayb u follow) tinyurl.com/5zuuds5r

Qin update:
Sunset over Zhongnan Mountain in NW China’s Xi’an. Rooftops glow in gold. Majestic beyond words.
PoV: they found out you have the highest millet yields in the commandery
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Are you 治水-pilled yet anon?
The Yellow River's habit of shifting courses is one of the great geographical forces that's shaped Chinese culture. A primal motivation for state-formation was zhishui 治水, basically hydraulic engineering to tame the river. The term carries great significance even now
Go west, young Siberian razibkhan.com/p/go-west-youn… A 1999 paper in Nature identified a mutation on the human Y chromosome with a geographic distribution that, depending on where you stood, was either peculiar or deeply validating. The mutation was later found to be part of the N1c…
an ideal relationshio should look like this
an ideal relationshio should look like this
We release new aDNA data of 23 individuals dating to the 4th–2nd millennia BP in the Yellow River Bend and find a significant prevalence of Yangshao-related genetic ancestry in this region and reveal an unexpected long-distance contact with the Mongolian Steppe and southern China
XYCB hosts offline meetup, 2025, colourised.
Foreign Taoist priests visit the Temple of Heaven, Beijing.