u/YensidTim

What are your favorite eras of division to learn aside from the Three Kingdoms Period?

The Three Kingdoms is pretty well-known already, but aside from that, which ones are your favorite eras, whether due to their culture, history, etc?

  1. Spring and Autumn

  2. Warring States

  3. Northern and Southern Dynasties

  4. Sixteen Kingdoms

  5. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms

  6. Song Liao Jin Xia

  7. Warlord Era

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u/YensidTim — 3 days ago

What are the oldest texts being taught in public schools around the world?

I'm very curious about what the oldest texts being taught in public schools all over the world are. And I'm talking about in their original texts. I know in the USA, the oldest text being taught in its original form is probably Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Beowulf is also taught, but not in its original text, rather in a translated version. I'm assuming the UK is the same.

In China, from what I hear, the oldest text being taught is Classics of Poetry (Shijing), with the earliest poems being dated to the 11th century BCE.

What about other countries such as Egypt, Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Germany, UAE, Persia, Japan, Korea, Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, etc.?

I'll even accept texts being taught in their transliterated versions. What I mean is texts being rewritten as how they're written in another writing system. An example would be Vietnam, which teaches Vietnamese poetry originally written in Nôm script, but is now transliterated into the Latin alphabet. The language itself is still the same and remains untranslated, just in a different script.

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u/YensidTim — 8 days ago