Tag: Northern Song Dynasty
The Daylily’s 2,500-Year Journey: How China Turned a Poet’s Flower into a Kitchen Staple
The Chinese idiom "huánghuācài dōu liáng le," literally "even the daylily dish has gone cold," is a northern...
A Divine Dream and a Doomed Official: The Prophecy of Li Ruoshui Before the Fall of the Northern Song
Li Ruoshui, originally named Ruobing and courtesy name Qingqing, was a high-ranking official during the...
A Trip to Baochan Mountain: The Ambition of Chancellor Wang Anshi
In today’s Anhui Province of eastern China, there is a scenic locale known as Mount Baochan (褒禪山), which...