r/ChineseHistory

There's an old Chinese saying that goes, "A single person can hold a narrow pass against an entire army." I found this canyon in the map of the game OnceHuman, I knew I had to build here.

They gradually get more and more feminine looking and younger.

And then you finally end with a literal woman and child in charge.

I imagine it was due to genetic changes due to marrying small and feminine women.

Basically doomed the dynasty they should have reproduced with tall, intelligent and strong women.

https://fabermundi.itch.io/tang

Inspired by Dwarf Fortress, I wanted to create a very realistic and complex city-builder. I ditched shiny graphics for system complexity and long-term gameplay. You’re not a great conqueror, but you have a job to do, people to feed and a heartless bureaucracy above you that just can’t stop draining your town and county.

What Will Your County Remember?
Your term will eventually end.
Perhaps you will leave behind full granaries, safe roads and prosperous villages.
Perhaps you will be remembered for justice.
Perhaps for cruelty.
Perhaps the bridge you built will still stand a generation later, while your name survives only in an old county chronicle.

Disclaimer: AI tools helped me create this game.

A Cultural Revolution Magazine published by the city planning bureau of Beijing called 《城市规划革命》- The Revolutionary City Plan in 1967. The magazine criticizes in great detail the 1950s plans for the Forbidden City. The article is called “The shady plan to Reconstruct the Forbidden City Exposed” is a fascinating peek into the discussions that took place around the Forbidden City in the early years of the Peoples Republic. In the magazine, a layout of the proposed plan for the Forbidden City is shown. In this drawing the Tiananmen Gate as we know it is gone. It has instead been replaced with a building in the same style as the Great Hall of the People. In fact, it makes it clear that the Great Hall of the People and the National Museum of China which stand in Tiananmen Square today were only one part of an even bigger plan, the rest of which was never completed.

The article is a direct attack on the former CCP leader Liu Shaoqi. The plan of placing the government inside the Forbidden City is seen as proof of Liu Shaoqi’s alleged scheming to overthrow Mao. Liu is mockingly portrayed as an emperor — according to The Revolutionary City Plan, he planned to take up office right where the old Imperial throne hall was, and still is today. This move would be justified by tumbling over the Imperial throne and installing a statue of a worker pointing a gun alongside it.

There are obviously many Chinese weapons, but when people picture a Wuxia character, it's usually a swordsman.

Was the sword actually considered especially important in Chinese martial culture, or did literature and later cinema turn it into the symbol of the wandering martial hero?

I'm also curious whether the way swords are portrayed in Wuxia has much connection to historical Chinese swordsmanship.

https://www.exploreyourdna.com/article/211/the-koreans-mumun-the-yayoi-back-migration-and-the-goguryeo-question

There's admittedly a lot of chinese emperors who succeeded in defeating rivals/foreign nations, Qin Shi Huang, Han Wudi, and Tang Taizong are some notable examples.

Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5331707410776943

Slide 1:

• Caption: In the early 1960s, foreign military vessels and civilian vessels were modified to create the 2nd generation of PLAGF vessels, such as the 50 tonne class transport boat, 82 tonne class transport boat, 100 tonne class transport boat, B55 class landing craft, 50 tonne class landing craft, type 203 patrol boat, type 966 patrol boat etc.
• Top photo: 100 tonne class transport boat PLAGFS J2119 (jinan military region)
• Middle photo: 50 tonne class transport boat PLAGFS J1226 (jinan military region)
• Bottom left photo: type 966 patrol boat
• Bottom right photo: Type 203 patrol boat PLAGFS S613 (shenyang military region)

Slide 2:

• Caption: after the national economy began to develop, newer classes of vessels were created as part of the 3rd generation of PLAGF vessels, which entered service in the 1980s.
• Top photo: B-class(or Yi(乙) class) catamaran dispatch boat PLAGFS G2314 (guangzhou military region)
  • Note: appears to resemble the type 681II dispatch boat. most likely the same class.
• Bottom photo: Type 792 fishing boat. (name unidentified)
  • Most likely maritime militia? it's under the national defense mobilization system which was the PLAGF back then..

Slide 3:

• Top photo: PLAGFS 1956-1-11 dispatch boat (likely the 2nd one)
  • There are three generations of PLAGF dispatch boat named 1956-1-11. it's an honary pennant number, since mao rode on the first one back in 1956-1-11. They are possibly the most highly decorated vessels in PLAGF service. judging from the time, this is the second ever one.
  • https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5083548370866978 for a photo of the current 1956-1-11. dispatch boats are in general more luxurius than standard warships(i went on PLANS Nanjiao 87(南交87) of the HK garrison before), but i speculate this may be used as a ship for the president or other high ranking military officers like it's predecessors.
• Bottom left: 1000 tonne class oiler(NATO: Fulin class; wikipedia calls it type 632, which is questionable) PLAGFS G2301 (guangzhou military region)
• Bottom right: type 684 dispatch boat(NATO: Nanhua type A class). unidentified boat

Slide 4:

• Top photo: 150 tonne class(aka Type 271III) landing craft utility PLAGFS S2226 - shenyang military region
• Bottom photo: Cargo and personnel dispatch boat(unspecified class) PLAGFS 2182 (? the waves kinda blocked it) - shenyang military region

Slide 5:

• Top photo: A-class(or Jia(甲)-class) dispatch boat PLAGFS S2103 - Shenyang military region
• Bottom left photo: Type 271 landing craft utility PLAGFS N1123 - nanjing military region
• Bottom right photo: Type 717 sidewall hovercraft. unidentifed.

Slide 6:

• Top photo: type 890 cablelayer PLAGFS N2601 - nanjing military region
• bottom photo: type 983 patrol boat PLAGFS S3658 - shenyang military region

Slide 7:

• Top photo: type 982 patrol boats
• middle photo: type 528 recon boat/patrol boat PLAGFS N3203 - nanjing military region
• Bottom left photo: type 067 landing craft PLAGFS N2401 - nanjing military region
• bottom right photo: "60 tonne class"(type 069) landing craft PLAGFS G2323 - guangzhou military region

Slide 8:

• Top photo: 1200 horsepower class tugboat PLAGFS B1102 or 81102. not very clear which one is it. if it is the former it would be with the beijing military region.
• Bottom left photo: 350 tonne class reefer PLAGFS W1113 - wuhan military region
• Bottom right photo: type 206 diving support vessel PLAGFS W1221 - wuhan military region

Slide 9:

• Border defense replenishment ship(unspecified class) PLAGFS S3718 - shenyang military region.

Slide 10:

• Type 7210 LCAC PLAGFS S3949 - shenyang military region

Slide 11:

• PLAGF vessels in a frozen river. in front is A-class(or Jia(甲)-class) dispatch boat PLAGFS S3607, multiple type 069s and A-classes are in the background. Shenyang military region, most likely china north korea border.

Slide 12:

• PLAGF vessels in a frozen river, PLAGFS S3771 and S3772. also shenyang military region. seem to be 350 tonne class reefer ships.

Slide 13: signalmen during training

Slide 14:

• Top photo: gunners during training
• Bottom photo: radio operators during training