Forbidden City Glazed Dragon Relief 紫禁城琉璃龙壁
Glazed dragon relief, Forbidden City: Qing dynasty, in the style of Ming dynasty.
The Forbidden City is distinguished as the residence of the Emperor and his imperial court, a common idiot regarding the fortress palace is that "紫禁之巅处处龙颜"~ "Dragons are every corner in the Forbidden City."
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Why not 'Han Chinese', that's who we are isn't it? We are Han by race and Tang/Song by culture. Why are you being so politically correct?
......Why not 'Han Chinese',?
Tang/Song by Culture
Zhou by Religion and Faith
Huaxia by Language and Civilization
anything else can not be defined as 'Chinese' but rather Barbarian.
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I mean, you have a young soul.
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Thanks, feel free to comment back. Up to you.
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northwest group represented by chang'an
World empire.
Characteristics: tolerant and open-minded.
---An lushan rebellion.---
Northeast group represented by Beijing.
East Asia regional empire.
Characteristics: closed and conservative.
So what's your point?? That Tang was better? That cosmopolitan is better than insular? that "tolerant and opened minded" is better than "closed and conservative" ?? The Ottoman Empire and Austro-Hungarian empire were cosmopolitan and there were destroyed for it, Turkey had to commit genocide to get rid of their cosmopolitanism.
Chinese civilization became conservative because of the events like the An-Lushan Rebellion. You got the order confused.
Also, you being offended by the term "Han chinese" then clown around when questioned is extremely suspect.
1、Massive loss of population; the rebellion wiped out nearly half the tang's population.
2、the irreversible southward movement of population and economy.
3、Interruption of military Technology input Channel in Inner Asia.
These three reasons make the Northwest Huaxia military aristocracy completely retired from the stage of history.
The decline of the Northwest Huaxia military aristocracy led to China's inability to resist the invasion of the northeast nomadic.
Btw, this is also the reason why Central Asia and Xinjiang are completely
Islamization&Turkicization.
You dart around so much I can't even reply in a comprehensive manner.
1. The An-Lushan Rebellion probably didn't halved China's population. Central administration collapsed so the census simply couldn't keep up. Ditto for all the other rebellions, civil wars that happened in China's history.
2. And? How and why is that bad, exactly?
3. Not sure what you're trying to say here.
4. Wut? You seem to think location determines military prowess. What about the resurgence of Song military with Yue Fei and all the other military families? They were certainly a fledgling military aristocracy if not becoming one and they were kicking the Jurchens' asses.
5. You characterized China after the An-Lushan Rebellion as "closed and conservative" shows you clearly learned your history from pop articles. China definitely become more conservative, more xenophobic after a betrayal of that magnitude but they didn't become "closed". Being threatened by militarily superior foes from the north actually forced the Song into adopting various policies that made it the richest and most advanced empire in the world. Read more about their trade networks and you'll notice they reach all the way to Arabia. And did you just forgot about Zheng He?
Lishimin's grandmother(Dugu clan)、maternal grandmother(Yuwen clan)、grandfather(Gedouling Yi) and mother(Gedouling clan) are all Xianbeinized-Xiongnu，only his wife is Sinicized-Xianbei.
So the fact that Li Shimin had ancestry from the Steppe and forests of Siberia doesn't mitigate the fact that he is 100% Han Chinese.
So what's wrong with the term 'Han Chinese' again ??
The tribe of the Yan emperor is a farming people.-姜石年-
https://youtu.be/yhY9PF8UcFI
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See what I mean? 阴阳怪气的trolling.
maybe he's just a Daoist? their non-conformity can be annoying, but their knowledge can be impressive.
Nah, I don't think so. He clearly has reading comprehension issues and he's probably just trolling. Look at him keep shifting the goalposts when caught out of his depth and pathetic attempts at getting a rise out of us. I've yet to meet many Daoists, I doubt lack of reading comprehension and passive aggressiveness are associated with Daoists.