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🐦🌿A SEASONAL BIRD🍂🪶

The humble swallow (燕) features prominently in seasonal names, poetically indicating the onset and departure of the warmest months...April 5-9th is 'Tsubame kitaru' (玄鳥至 'Swallows Return') and September 18th-22nd is 'Tsubame saru' (玄鳥去 'Swallows Leave').

#Kyoto #京都 #Japan #swallows #燕

#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: An Lushan #安祿山 (703–757), Turko-#Sogdian general and first #emperor of the #Yan #燕 (756–63), founded after he seized #Luoyang #洛陽 in the #rebellion bearing his name. #Funfact: his name, Lushan (Roxshan), is of the same root as English #Roxanne.

#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: An Lushan #安祿山 (703–757), Turko-#Sogdian general and first #emperor of the #Yan #燕 (756–63), founded after he seized #Luoyang #洛陽 in the #rebellion bearing his name. #Funfact: his name, Lushan (Roxshan), is of the same root as English #Roxanne.

#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: An Lushan #安祿山 (703–757), Turko-#Sogdian general and first #emperor of the #Yan #燕 (756–63), founded after he seized #Luoyang #洛陽 in the #rebellion bearing his name. #Funfact: his name, Lushan (Roxshan), is of the same root as English #Roxanne.

#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: An Lushan #安祿山 (703–757), Turko-#Sogdian general and first #emperor of the #Yan #燕 (756–63), founded after he seized #Luoyang #洛陽 in the #rebellion bearing his name. #Funfact: his name, Lushan (Roxshan), is of the same root as English #Roxanne.

#OTD in #ChineseHistory: An Lushan #安祿山 (703–757) killed by one of his eunuchs and his son. A military commissioner #節度使 of Turko-Sogdian descent in service of the Tang #唐, An rebelled in 755 thus starting the #AnLushanRebellion #安史之亂, founding his own Yan #燕 dynasty.

#OTD in #ChineseHistory: An Lushan #安祿山 (703–757) killed by one of his eunuchs and his son. A military commissioner #節度使 of Turko-Sogdian descent in service of the Tang #唐, An rebelled in 755 thus starting the #AnLushanRebellion #安史之亂, founding his own Yan #燕 dynasty.

#OTD in #ChineseHistory: An Lushan #安祿山 (703–757) killed by one of his eunuchs and his son. A military commissioner #節度使 of Turko-Sogdian descent in service of the Tang #唐, An rebelled in 755 thus starting the #AnLushanRebellion #安史之亂, founding his own Yan #燕 dynasty.

#OTD in #ChineseHistory: An Lushan #安祿山 (703–757) killed by one of his eunuchs and his son. A military commissioner #節度使 of Turko-Sogdian descent in service of the Tang #唐, An rebelled in 755 thus starting the #AnLushanRebellion #安史之亂, founding his own Yan #燕 dynasty.

#OTD in #ChineseHistory: An Lushan #安祿山 (703–757) killed by one of his eunuchs and his son. A military commissioner #節度使 of Turko-Sogdian descent in service of the Tang #唐, An rebelled in 755 thus starting the #AnLushanRebellion #安史之亂, founding his own Yan #燕 dynasty.

#OTD in #ChineseHistory: An Lushan #安祿山 (703–757) killed by one of his eunuchs and his son. A military commissioner #節度使 of Turko-Sogdian descent in service of the Tang #唐, An rebelled in 755 thus starting the #AnLushanRebellion #安史之亂, founding his own Yan #燕 dynasty.

#OTD in #ChineseHistory: An Lushan #安祿山 (703–757) killed by one of his eunuchs and his son. A military commissioner #節度使 of Turko-Sogdian descent in service of the Tang #唐, An rebelled in 755 thus starting the #AnLushanRebellion #安史之亂, founding his own Yan #燕 dynasty.

#OTD in #ChineseHistory: An Lushan #安祿山 (703–757) killed by one of his eunuchs and his son. A military commissioner #節度使 of Turko-Sogdian descent in service of the Tang #唐, An rebelled in 755 thus starting the #AnLushanRebellion #安史之亂, founding his own Yan #燕 dynasty.

#OTD in #ChineseHistory: An Lushan #安祿山 (703–757) killed by one of his eunuchs and his son. A military commissioner #節度使 of Turko-Sogdian descent in service of the Tang #唐, An rebelled in 755 thus starting the #AnLushanRebellion #安史之亂, founding his own Yan #燕 dynasty.