The Scholars of Shen Zhou

These are the family names of the various officers/people of the Three Kingdoms. While they do have meanings outside of just being a family name, I'm not too sure if I would say that those are the literal meanings of the name. When something is used as a family name, it usually won't be viewed as ha...

Book of Wei (Weishu 魏書) by Wang Shen 太后每隨軍征行，見高年白首，輙住車呼問，賜與絹帛，對之涕泣曰：「恨父母不及我時也。」太后每見外親，不假以顏色，常言「居處當務節儉，不當望賞賜，念自佚也。外舍當怪吾遇之太薄，吾自有常度故也。吾事武帝四五十年，行儉日久，不能自變為奢，有犯科禁者，吾且能加罪一等耳，莫望錢米恩貸也。」帝為太后弟秉起第，第成，太后幸第請諸家外親，設下廚，無異膳。太后左右菜食粟飯，無魚肉。其儉如此。 This is the closest record I can find. It did mention Lady Bian and her se...

I beg to differ on that point. We have reign names like 建初 and 延初 on history as well, and their first character must be a verb meaning establishing or continuing. Furthermore, for the 皇初 reign of Yao Xing you just cited, the comprehensive ZDIC actually gives the reading as the "very first empe...

I appreciate your carefulness in reserving from linking all those events, and I admit that there was no explict explanation to this paricular term here , but the same can be said for most reign years on history as well as your adjective reading. If there must be one such evidence before reading of ...

考之群藝，厥義彰矣。其改青龍五年春三月為景初元年孟夏四月。服色尚黃，犧牲用白，戎事乘黑首之白馬，建大赤之旗。朝會建大白之旗，春秋冬孟仲季月，雖與歲不同，至于郊祀迎氣，衣勺、祀、蒸、嘗，巡狩、搜田，分至啟閉，班宣時令，中氣晚早，敬授民事，諸若此者，皆以正歲斗建為節。此歷數之序，乃上與先聖合符同契，重規疊矩者也。今遵其義，庶可以 顯祖考大造之基，崇有魏惟新之命 。 That's why I cited the full edict afterwards. The changing of reign year is among one of the various measures to achi...

"To manifest" or "to signify" as a verb may work better here. In traditional Chinese etymology, this character came from observing the sunlight and contrasting shadow, and then developed the inferrence from "to manifest (sth which / sb who is great)" or "(to make ...

237-239 景初 Jingchu (Bright Beginning) 景 : this character should mean "(to make a) scenery/environment" here but I have yet to find a suitable English rendering 景 as an adjective means 'great', and possibly 'bright', and if we want to go a bit further to use noun definitions, the meaning '...

Little Ice Age was never a global phenomenon, so one must look at the issue by region. I can't recall any archaeological evidence for this period of China, but the famous Chinese meteorologist Chu Kochen proposed this long ago. One piece of supporting evidence he cited is that plants grown by Cao C...

Terranigma Freak wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 4:45 am

DragonAtma wrote: ↑Sat Feb 11, 2023 8:48 am It's recorded that Cao Huan was 57 when he died, so it's entirely possible he could be confused with a guy in his 60's.

Yeah, I could have sworn Cao Huan was around 60-ish when he died, but I don't remember the source of this information.

It's in SGZ Cao Huan Bio PSZ's annotations

It looks to me that your reply strongly corroborate my analogy to a 'theater' and a 'marquisat'. Am I getting this wrong? Ah yes I was agreeing with you. Somehow did not mention that. ops It is generally true if we strictly limit our period of observation within the 3k era. Only after War of the Ei...