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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Comments

kol said…
https://www.academia.edu/37471839/_Frontier_Fortification_and_Forestation_Defensive_Woodland_on_the_Song-Liao_Border_in_the_Long_Eleventh_Century_Journal_of_Chinese_History_2.2_2018_313-334

https://www.academia.edu/23276848/_Legitimation_Discourse_and_the_Theory_of_the_Five_Elements_in_Imperial_China._Journal_of_Song-Yuan_Studies_44_2014_325-364
Dragon's Armory said…
The first one I would like to read. In general I am woefully uneducated about the Liao dynasty and the Khitans as a whole, so thanks for providing me this!
流云飞袖 said…
I hope you don't use the term "Han & Han Chinese" in your future articles,I hope you call us by Chinese & Qinese & Cathaysian.
Thanks! <3
流云飞袖 said…
The y-dna of Yelu yuzhi of the khitan royal family of the liao dynasty is N and the main y-dna of turkic people is also N.
Der said…
@萧炎

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?
Dragon's Armory said…
Ditto,
......Why not 'Han Chinese',?
Der said…
Han by Race and Ethnicity
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.
流云飞袖 said…
Because I don't like the word
流云飞袖 said…
I don't know why, but I feel like you're more childish than I am. And I think you're older than me.
😳
I mean, you have a young soul.
@Dragon’s Armory
Dragon's Armory said…
Stay on topic fellas, this is a history blog.

If you lads want to talk about more personal stuff, PM me on FB. Dmitri's already on there frequently so hey~ if you want, introduce yourselves. Also please move personal anecdotes like /Because I don't like the word/ and, gatekeeping or strict definition of Chineseness to the FB PMs. I would prefer the comments on the main blog largely related to the article I have posted. Which means they should at least match subject, dynasty, conflict, era in the world or other correlations. You are free to make random suggestions, but that should still be in the purviews of Chinese history or East Asian history.

Thanks, feel free to comment back. Up to you.
流云飞袖 said…
Ok,I just followed your Facebook.
😝
流云飞袖 said…
The result of an lushan rebellion was the population and economy moving south and the weakness of the northwest group. And after the tang dynasty, chang'an never became the capital.
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.
Der said…
@萧炎

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.
Walao said…
@萧炎

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.
流云飞袖 said…
@Walao What you are saying?
流云飞袖 said…
The An lushan rebellion was a key historical event that split Chinese history in two.
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.
流云飞袖 said…
http://music.163.com/song/1348999273/?userid=278011966
Walao said…
You keep moving the goalposts. First, you had a problem with the term "Han chinese". Then when questioned, suddenly shifted to talking about the An-Lushan Rebellion as if they're connected.
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?
Walao said…
I take it english is not a language you've grasped then.
流云飞袖 said…
Give you an interesting information.
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.
Der said…
Han Chinese are a North East Asiatic race, all these other peoples ... the Turks, Mongols, Koreans, Japanese, Xianbei, Manchu, Jurchen, Khitan, Xiongnu are also all north east Asiatic peoples and all have been assimilated into Greater Han Chinese racial grouping in China. The only ones left out are the Siberians (Xianbei who didn't move into China), Koreans and Japanese.

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 ??
流云飞袖 said…
Huaxia Chinese - 华夏族,oh yeah.
Der said…
We are all Children of the Yellow Emperor. But Huaxia denotes more culture and civilization, we live in a more scientific world and need more precise words to describe our Race ... Han Chinese.
流云飞袖 said…
Btw,the tribe of the yellow emperor is semi- nomadic, and the character xuanyuan(轩辕) stands for wheel.The yellow emperor enjoyed working with animals.-姬轩辕-
The tribe of the Yan emperor is a farming people.-姜石年-
流云飞袖 said…
male all love it ↓↓↓
https://youtu.be/yhY9PF8UcFI
流云飞袖 said…
The Si(姒) tribe was the maternal clan of Yan di and Huang di.Si(姒) clan established the Xia Dynasty
.
Walao said…
萧炎 having a stroke.
Walao said…
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Der said…
姒 and 姬 have the female radical 女 indicating a material line of descent perhaps. What other tribal names have the female radical?
流云飞袖 said…
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Walao said…
@Der
See what I mean? 阴阳怪气的trolling.
流云飞袖 said…
@Walao 你at错人啦了,你是沙雕🐴,大哥?
Der said…
@Walao

maybe he's just a Daoist? their non-conformity can be annoying, but their knowledge can be impressive.
Walao said…
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Walao said…
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Walao said…
@Der
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.