Posted on 11/03/2024 12:00:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The fourth-century a.d. Chronicles of Huayang, the oldest surviving Chinese geographical survey, records that Sichuan was once the domain of the Kingdom of Shu. According to these chronicles, one Shu king, who is described as having bulging eyes, taught his people how to cultivate silkworms, while another had the ability to communicate with fish. For thousands of years, the Kingdom of Shu was known only through such semilegendary accounts. Then, in 1927, a father and son dug a ditch at the site of three earthen mounds near the banks of the Yazi River in central Sichuan, 25 miles northeast of present-day Chengdu. They found that the mounds, known locally as Sanxingdui, or "three-star mounds," concealed hundreds of jade artifacts, including ceremonial tablets and scepters. Archaeologists who excavated the site soon thereafter discovered that the mounds were, in fact, remnants of a wall that surrounded a Bronze Age city that had existed around the same time as the Shang Dynasty. Perhaps, they thought, Sanxingdui had been the capital of the elusive Kingdom of Shu.
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LOL!
THAT looks good! I haven’t had oriental in a while!
Seize, it just as Confucius say, Time Fryes.
I’m not able to wok that back, am I.
In any case, don’t let the Bass treads get you down!
Thom McCann....................
Only a heel could do that!.....................
No wonder the ChiCommies had to fabricate a "Cultural Revolution". There's no way their their individuality-crushing philosophies could ever begin to create a culture that could possibly threaten to approach the genius of their ancestors!!
P.S. I'm writing this on the first morning after Trump's victory over Marxist Camela, and have renewed hopes of a re-flowering of American creative greatness!
And imagine, that’s what they *threw out*! :^o
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