#medievalchina — Public Fediverse posts

“Do you wanna build a snow-lion?”: Fun with snow in medieval China https://www.medievalists.net/2022/01/snow-medieval-china/ #MedievalChina

Abstaining from alcohol in medieval China https://www.medievalists.net/2021/01/abstaining-alcohol-medieval-china/ #MedievalChina

Essential Hiking Gear for a Medieval Chinese Monk https://www.medievalists.net/2020/11/medieval-chinese-monk/ #MedievalChina #Travel

How to Guard Your Tang Dynasty Tomb https://www.medievalists.net/2021/11/how-to-guard-your-tang-dynasty-tomb/ #MedievalChina

The Upstart King: Jingzong of Xia https://www.medievalists.net/2020/09/upstart-king-jingzong/ #chinesehistory #history #medievalchina

Child Emperor vs Empress Dowager: Regency in the Western Xia https://www.medievalists.net/2020/10/child-emperor-vs-empress-dowager-regency-in-the-western-xia/ #chinesehistory #medievalchina #history

#OTD 1013: Completion of the Principal Models from the #Imperial Storehouse (Cefu Yuangui #冊府元龜), a massive collection of official documents and one of the principal sources for the history of #MedievalChina. One of the Four Great Books of the Song (960–1279) 宋四大書

#OTD in #MedievalChina: Li Longji 李隆基 (685–762), Emperor Xuanzong 玄宗 (r. 712–756) of Tang 唐 (618–907) elevates his concubine Yang Yuhuan 楊玉環 (719–756) to the status of 'favorite consort' (guifei 貴妃)—hence her better-known name Yang Guifei. #長恨歌

#OTD: Li Longji 李隆基 (685–762, r. 712–756), temple name Xuanzong 玄宗, aka Illustrious Emperor 明皇, was not only born (685) but also ascended the throne of the Tang 唐 (618–907). #MedievalTwitter #MedievalChina #長恨歌 #EverlastingSorrow #AnLushan #安史之亂 #ChineseHistory

#OTD in #MedievalChina: Li Longji 李隆基/ Xuanzong 玄宗 (r. 712–56) of Tang 唐 and his crown prince, Li Heng 李亨 / Suzong 肅宗 (r. 756–62) quit the Western capital Chang'an 長安 for Chendu 成都 in flight from the rebel armies of the An Lushan Rebellion 安史之亂.

#DOTD: 李顯 (656–710), Tang Zhongzong 唐中宗 (r. 684; 705–10). After being deposed by his mother, Empress Wu 武則天 (r. 690–705) and replaced by his brother, Ruizong 睿宗 (r. 684–90; 710–12), the Tang was restored under his reign. #Restoration #中興 #ChineseHistory #MedievalChina

#DOTD: Yuan Shao 袁紹 (?154–202), warlord of the late Eastern Han 東漢. Defeated by Cao Cao 曹操 (155–220) at the Battle of Guandu 官渡之戰 in 200. #MedievalChina #ChineseHistory #ThreeKingdoms #三國

#BOTD: Li Dan 李旦 (662–716), Tang #唐 Ruizong 睿宗 (r. 684–690; 710–12). #MedievalChina #Restoration #中興

#DOTD in #MedievalChina: Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹 (989–1052), scholar-official, poet, reformer and philosopher of the #GoldenAge of the Northern #Song #宋 (960–1127). One of the most prominent politicians of his time, he rubbed shoulders with the most illustrious literati of his day.

#OTD in 618: Li Yuan Li Yuan #李淵 (566–635), temple name Gaozu 高祖 (r. 618–626) ascends the throne in the Sui 隋 (581–618) capital Daxing 大興 (thereafter named Chang'an 長安, today's Xi'an 西安), thus establishing the Great Tang #大唐 (618–907). #ChineseHistory #MedievalChina

#DOTD: Xiao Tong 蕭統 (501–31), Crown Prince Zhaoming 昭明太子 of the Southern Liang #梁 (502–57) and compiler of Selections of Refined Literature #文選, the #vademecum of every well-educated person in #MedievalChina, translated, among other, by Erwin Ritter von Zach (1872–1942).

2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of vol. 1 of Mao Han-Kuang's #毛漢光 (1937–) Collected #TombEpitaphs from the Tang (Tangdai muzhiming huibian fukao 唐代 #墓誌銘 彙編附考, 18 vols., IHP, Academia Sinica), which kicked off the #EpigraphicTurn in the study of #MedievalChina.

#DOTD in #MedievalChina: #Tang #唐 Emperor Li Heng 李亨 (Suzong 肅宗, 711–762; r. 756–762), who ascended the throne in the midst of the #AnLushanRebellion #安史之亂 while his father Li Longji 李隆基/Xuanzong 玄宗 was still alive, forcing the latter to retire. Both died in 762.

#OTD in #MedievalChina: The Shatuo 沙陀 general Li Cunxu 李存勗 (Zhuangzong 莊宗, 885–926, r. 923–926) declares himself emperor of the restored or Latter #Tang 後 #唐, one of the #FiveDynasties #五代 (907–960) in #ChineseHistory #ImperialChina #Restoration

#OTD in #MedievalChina: Li Zhu 李柷 (né Zuo 祚, Emperor Ai 哀帝 or Zhaoxuan 照宣帝, 892–908; r. 904–907) cedes the throne 禪讓 to Zhu Wen 朱溫 (Quanzhong 全忠, Liang Taizu 梁太祖), marking the end of #Tang #唐 after 289 years (618–907).#FiveDynasties #TangSongTransition #唐宋變革

#DOTD: Denis Crispin Twitchett 杜希德 (1925–2006), British sinologist and historian of #MedievalChina, co-editor of the #CambridgeHistoryOfChina. Professor at University of Cambridge & PrincetonUniversity, he is best known for his work on the Tang 唐 (618–907 [not 906😬]). #SinologistsSaturday

#DOTD: Xiang Da 向達 (1900–1966), #Chinese historian of the #MiddleAges, #Dunhuang #敦煌 scholar, translator, #bookhistorian. #MedievalChina #ModernChina #ChineseHistorians #Buddhism #EastWestExchanges #BertoldLaufer