[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":246},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fRkMqHaMa5RWbEdobRkLcImOZ27ewzur66vvchiJgSdk":3,"$fq_ROuem4Oc6vSI6kaFK2MDLHnn-dNc9NwawnXrpEtvg":16},{"slug":4,"category":5,"cover_url":6,"cover_credit":7,"created_at":8,"published":9,"title":10,"summary":11,"content":12,"person_name":13,"person_description":14,"lang_code":15,"id":4},"yu-refactors-the-river","BIO","https://rmpupcoytbilkjxvawan.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/covers/p0yz716wxze.webp","","2026-04-15T15:14:46.228Z",true,"Yu the Great: The Man Who Refactored the Yellow River","Gun spent nine years proving that blocking was not the answer; after his execution, his son Yu took over the mess. He did not rush to break ground—he first walked the entire river, mapping the terrain, the watercourses, and the human stakes.","What Yu inherited was an old situation that had already failed once.\n\nIn 2016, a team of Chinese geologists led by Wu Qinglong published research in *Science*, proposing that around 1920 BCE, a major earthquake near Jishi Mountain created a landslide dam and an impounded lake, which later breached. The flood advanced more than two thousand kilometers downstream—large enough to leave a lasting memory across the middle and lower Yellow River.\n\nThis study cannot prove whether Yu existed. But it does show one thing: the people of high antiquity may well have faced a basin-scale disaster beyond what any single tribe could handle. The flood was not a local problem in one reach of the river; from upstream to downstream, the whole picture—watercourses, terrain, settlements—was spinning out of control.\n\nThat was the situation Yu stepped into. Worse still, someone had already tried.\n\n---\n\n## The path his father took\n\nThat man was Gun, Yu’s father. At Emperor Yao’s command, he led flood control on the middle and lower Yellow River for nine years.\n\nGun’s approach was to block. Wherever water threatened to spill, add a levee; wherever a reach looked close to failing, raise the levee higher. At first glance the logic seems sound—it matches the most direct human instinct in disaster: stop it, hold it down, keep it from spreading.\n\nThe problem is that the Yellow River carries an enormous sediment load; silt deposition keeps raising the riverbed. Raising levees at one point simply passes pressure upstream, downstream, and into the future. Every new dam Gun built pushed the breach farther—and made it worse.\n\nAfter nine years, the water was not under control.\n\nWhen Emperor Shun took the throne, he had Gun executed. The accounts differ in detail, but the outcome is clear: nine years of effort ended in failure.\n\nLater generations sometimes explain Gun’s failure as lack of ability or lack of “heaven’s mandate.” That reading undersells what happened. Gun’s failure was not poor execution—it was the wrong direction. He believed water could be walled off, but the river itself does not work that way.\n\nYu’s first clarity was here. He did not read his father’s failure as “the levees were not high enough” or “the orders were not harsh enough.” He admitted something harder: the old direction itself was a dead end.\n\n---\n\n## He did not start with construction—he started with reconnaissance\n\nAfter taking charge, Yu did not break ground at once.\n\nThe texts preserve scattered details—in the *Book of Documents: Tribute of Yu*, the *Records of the Grand Historian: Basic Annals of Xia*, and later commentaries. He “traveled the mountains and marked trees,” walking the ranges and setting posts to gauge elevation; he carried “the leveling cord on his left and the try square on his right”; over years he covered the main tributaries of the Yellow River basin, recording water behavior, terrain, and tribal distribution.\n\nThe *Mencius* says Yu “was away from home for eight years and passed his door three times without entering”—the “eight years” likely refers to this period of deep fieldwork: not construction, but learning the real logic of the river and the land. Where natural floodways ran, where the bed already stood above the plain, which settlements had to move, where channels could be dug, where to give ground.\n\nToday that sounds like common sense; in that era it was itself an anomaly.\n\nSomeone handed an urgent mission normally reacts by moving—mobilizing labor, issuing orders to start work, showing visible progress. Gun may have been like that: for nine years new levees kept appearing and the works kept growing, yet the water never receded.\n\nYu did not hurry down that same road. He went to look first. That judgment has no shortcut; you only know by walking.\n\n## Not swapping block for channel—swapping the whole logic\n\nYu’s most famous method is “channeling” (*shu*).\n\nIf you read that phrase only as an engineering trick, you still miss the point. The real shift was not trading blocking tools for channeling tools—it was giving up the idea that water must obey human will.\n\nThe Yellow River will flow; silt will settle; low ground will flood; water will always seek an outlet. You cannot command it to stop—you can only design a path where the cost is lower. That is the opposite of Gun’s logic: Gun kept asking how to block it; Yu began asking where it was supposed to go.\n\nThe *Records of the Grand Historian: Basic Annals of Xia* describes Yu’s work in tones almost like a gazetteer: which rivers he dredged, which mountain passes he opened, where he cut outlets to the sea. It reads like an engineering report, yet it conceives an action of almost unimaginable scale: mobilizing tens of thousands of laborers, with no modern tools, along the entire Yellow River and its tributaries, rearranging how water moved.\n\nGood governance is not endlessly raising the cost of confrontation—it is helping things run with the grain again. Yu took thirteen years to do that.\n\n---\n\n## Controlling the flood meant governing people\n\nOnce the technical picture is clear, you are only halfway there.\n\nBecause the Yellow River did not belong to one tribe.\n\nThe lands it crossed held many independent tribes—each with its chiefs, granaries, and boundaries. The flood made them all victims, yet the resources needed to respond—labor, grain, territory, routes—did not automatically become common property.\n\nTo control the flood, some had to supply labor, some grain; some had to yield watercourses; some had to accept unified river plans; some had to move settlements uphill. That cannot be done by orders alone.\n\nThis is where “passing the door three times without entering” really matters. Later tellings made it a moral tale of selflessness. In context, it reads more like proof of governing credibility.\n\nIf the person in charge of such a vast public work clearly favored his own kin and let his own tribe escape first, why would other chiefs hand over grain and labor? Why believe the river plan served the whole basin, not one house?\n\nAccording to *Mencius*, when Yu passed his home he heard his wife Tushan in childbirth and did not go in; when his son Qi had just learned to walk and reached for him, he only paused briefly; by the time Qi could call him “father,” he still had not crossed that threshold.\n\nWhether the detail is true is unknowable. That it was retold again and again shows people then understood why it mattered: a man leading tens of thousands in labor away from home could not finish the job if others believed he was lining his own pockets.\n\nTrust is harder to dig through than earth.\n\n---\n\n## What he left behind was not just a river\n\nAfter the floodwaters subsided, something deeper than flood control happened.\n\nYu summoned the tribal chiefs to a meeting at Mount Kuaiji. According to the texts, one chief, Fangfeng, arrived late and was executed on the spot. The detail is brutal, but it shows the coordination built during the flood did not dissolve when the waters fell—links and discipline among the tribes held.\n\nThe Nine Cauldrons were cast; the Nine Provinces were surveyed. However much later layers reworked these stories, they point to the same thing: the temporary coordination forged for flood control slowly settled into a more stable cross-regional framework.\n\nThat step matters.\n\nThe most valuable part of a huge project is often not “this time succeeded,” but whether the success left behind new rules of coordination and power. Yu’s flood control was the same. To make the whole river run on a new logic, he had to build stronger scheduling capacity than a tribal alliance—and once that capacity proved effective, it was hard to revert to loose fragmentation.\n\nSo ad hoc cooperation became institutionalized; engineering coordination became a lasting public order. The Nine Provinces, the league meetings, the Nine Cauldrons—and even the Xia dynasty—can be read as institutional traces left by that vast collaborative effort.\n\nOrder sometimes grows this way—not proclaimed, but accumulated slowly over long shared labor.\n\nThat may also explain why Fangfeng’s execution for lateness did not provoke much backlash at the time. Yu had just led everyone out of an almost hopeless disaster; that fact already answered a more basic question: who had the standing to coordinate this land.\n\nIn early Western civilizations, legitimacy often came straight from divine authority; in China, the “Mandate of Heaven” was often tied to a giant public work like flood control—you actually held back the flood; you actually made dozens of tribes cooperate; you actually went where no one wanted to go. Once that trust formed, the authority it brought was hard to refute with simple arguments.\n\n---\n\nWhether Yu was a historical figure will probably remain debated.\n\nEither way, the era he stands for saw someone make that choice—not to block, but to lead; not to start work first, but to read the land; not to rely on one tribe, but to bring the whole basin together.\n\nFrom this angle, the difference between Yu and Gun is not only success versus failure—it is two kinds of thinking. Gun believed problems could be patched locally, shifting the cost downstream; Yu believed you had to read the whole picture first, accepting a slower start, harder cooperation, heavier construction.\n\nFour thousand years later, the phrase “Yu controlling the flood” is still in use. Perhaps every age needs an origin story that says people can govern water. The story stays credible not because it is miraculous, but because it is hard enough—it needs someone to first let go of the wrong direction before walking another.\n\nWhat truly changes the course of things is often not the fiercest blockade, but the decision to first read the terrain—and then change direction.","Yu the Great","Taming the rivers, settling the Nine Provinces","en",[17,20,28,36,42,49,55,60,67,73,79,86,91,98,104,110,116,121,127,133,138,144,149,154,159,164,172,179,186,192,198,205,212,219,225,233,241],{"id":4,"slug":4,"category":18,"created_at":19,"cover_url":6,"title":10,"summary":11,"person_name":13,"person_description":14,"lang_code":15},"Bio","2026-04-15T15:14:44.306Z",{"id":21,"slug":21,"category":18,"created_at":22,"cover_url":23,"title":24,"summary":25,"person_name":26,"person_description":27,"lang_code":15},"huoqubing-lightning-at-twenty-four","2026-03-04T00:00:00.000Z","https://rmpupcoytbilkjxvawan.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/covers/p3eob7ozy2.webp","Huo Qubing: Lightning at Twenty-Four","He first took the field at seventeen and died at twenty-four. 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This reflects the lingering Cold War mentality and its discomfort with non-Western paradigms, essentially a necessary manifestation of civilizational diversity in the era of globalization.",{"id":92,"slug":92,"category":93,"created_at":94,"cover_url":95,"title":96,"summary":97,"person_name":35,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"china-global-infrastructure-development","South","2026-02-05","https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1624038464204-362e3b89ed28?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3w4NTc0OTd8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwyNHx8Q2hpbmElMjByYWlsd2F5JTIwY29uc3RydWN0aW9ufGVufDB8MHx8fDE3NzAzMDYxNTJ8MA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=1080","Modernization Paved with Cement and Steel Rails: China's Global Infrastructure Story","China's infrastructure aids Global South development. 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Readers should step beyond the streetlight's perspective to notice the overlooked vibrant lives.",{"id":128,"slug":128,"category":129,"created_at":123,"cover_url":130,"title":131,"summary":132,"person_name":35,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"from-grand-canal-to-ultra-high-voltage-china-thousand-year-obsession-with-circulation-efficiency","LogicTrace","https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1652609670621-e38714403340?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3w4NTc0OTd8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxMHx8Q2hpbmElMjBHcmFuZCUyMENhbmFsJTIwaW5mcmFzdHJ1Y3R1cmV8ZW58MHwwfHx8MTc2OTk1ODUzM3ww&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=1080","From the Grand Canal to Ultra-High Voltage: China's Millennial Obsession with 'Circulation Efficiency'","China enhances circulation efficiency through infrastructure to address the uneven distribution of resources caused by geography, from the ancient Grand Canal to modern ultra-high-voltage systems, focusing on internal efforts.",{"id":134,"slug":134,"category":129,"created_at":123,"cover_url":135,"title":136,"summary":137,"person_name":35,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"from-imperial-exams-to-gaokao-chinas-social-mobility-algorithm","https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1762944080827-edfc76aee264?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3w4NTc0OTd8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwyNnx8Q2hpbmVzZSUyMGVkdWNhdGlvbiUyMHN5c3RlbXxlbnwwfDB8fHwxNzY5OTU5NDE0fDA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=1080","From Imperial Exams to Gaokao: China's Underlying Algorithm for 'Social Mobility'","The Chinese obsession with exams stems from the historical influence of the imperial examination system, ensuring social mobility and emphasizing merit-based fair competition rather than hereditary privilege.",{"id":139,"slug":139,"category":30,"created_at":123,"cover_url":140,"title":141,"summary":142,"person_name":143,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"gu-yanwu-and-civic-consciousness-misinterpreted-phrase","https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1681728165567-99d94a770906?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3w4NTc0OTd8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxNTB8fGZvcmJpZGRlbiUyMGNpdHl8ZW58MHwwfHx8MTc2OTk1NjQyM3ww&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=1080","Gu Yanwu and Civic Consciousness: The Misinterpreted 'Prosperity of the World'","The sense of responsibility among Chinese people stems from a consciousness of safeguarding civilization, not just patriotism. Rooted in Gu Yanwu's ideas, they regard the 'world' as their 'civilized homeland,' with responsibilities extending beyond politics.","Gu Yanwu",{"id":145,"slug":145,"category":93,"created_at":123,"cover_url":146,"title":147,"summary":148,"person_name":35,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"kenya-high-speed-railway-from-logistics-to-national-artery","https://rmpupcoytbilkjxvawan.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/covers/u5mz7n6xac.png","When Kenya Got High-Speed Rail: From 'Logistics System' to 'National Artery'","The Mombasa-Nairobi Railway in Kenya has significantly improved logistics efficiency and reduced costs. It is regarded as an important asset, with positive effects far exceeding the so-called 'debt trap' narrative in Western media.",{"id":150,"slug":150,"category":44,"created_at":123,"cover_url":151,"title":152,"summary":153,"person_name":35,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"overcapacity-paradox-when-environmental-goals-meet-trade-walls","https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1711293083122-5dd14f2a5d33?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3w4NTc0OTd8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwzMXx8c29sYXIlMjBwb3dlcnxlbnwwfDB8fHwxNzY5OTU3NTU2fDA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=1080","\"Overcapacity\" Paradox: When Environmental Goals Meet Trade Barriers","How the vision of a green transition is being stifled by the abacus of protectionism?",{"id":155,"slug":155,"category":30,"created_at":123,"cover_url":156,"title":157,"summary":158,"person_name":35,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"unification-power-desire-or-civilization-survival-agreement","https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1551101449-64c570fc93e8?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3w4NTc0OTd8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwyMHx8Zm9yYmlkZGVuJTIwY2l0eXxlbnwwfDB8fHwxNzY5OTU1OTUxfDA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=1080","Unified System: Power Ambition or Civilization's Survival Agreement?","\"Unified System\" is not just a political choice, but a systematic agreement to tackle large-scale geographical challenges. Unified standards reduce internal friction, enhance risk resistance, and achieve optimal resource allocation. This is the \"operating system\" for China's survival.",{"id":160,"slug":160,"category":129,"created_at":123,"cover_url":161,"title":162,"summary":163,"person_name":35,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"zheng-he-ocean-logic-vs-western-expansion","https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1610463009317-5dadc0e007c6?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3w4NTc0OTd8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw0fHxGdWppYW58ZW58MHwwfHx8MTc3MDE5MTM0OHww&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=1080","Zheng He's 'Pact of Non-Aggression': The Logical Origin of China's Maritime Perspective","Ming Dynasty's Zheng He led a massive fleet but did not colonize, as China's maritime logic valued order over occupation. It demonstrated unique charm through peaceful means of influence.",{"id":165,"slug":165,"category":18,"created_at":166,"cover_url":167,"title":168,"summary":169,"person_name":170,"person_description":171,"lang_code":15},"industrial-notebook-and-technological-revenge-of-song-yingxing","2026-01-31","https://rmpupcoytbilkjxvawan.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/covers/v8cfqlnq33.jpeg","Song Yingxing: Industrial Notes on the Eve of Great Collapse and the 'Technical Revenge' of an Exam Failure","In 1634, Song Yingxing returned home, engaging in practical observation and writing 'The Exploitation of the Works of Nature,' systematically documenting Ming Dynasty crafts and technologies. Although it didn't spark an industrial revolution, it left a valuable record of material civilization in history.","Song Yingxing","Author of the craft encyclopedia",{"id":173,"slug":173,"category":18,"created_at":166,"cover_url":174,"title":175,"summary":176,"person_name":177,"person_description":178,"lang_code":15},"zu-chongzhi-pioneer-of-precise-data-in-metaphysical-era","https://rmpupcoytbilkjxvawan.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/covers/48mpy4f1shx.jpeg","Zu Chongzhi: A Lone Pioneer of Precise Data in the Era of Metaphysics","Zu Chongzhi led ancient Chinese science from relying on traditions to verifying truth, precisely calculating pi and reforming the calendar, challenging the conventional view of divine decree with scientific observation.","Zu Chongzhi","Guardian of Pi",{"id":180,"slug":180,"category":181,"created_at":182,"cover_url":183,"title":184,"summary":185,"person_name":35,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"from-looking-up-to-looking-across-where-to-go-in-future","Geopolitics","2026-01-27","https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1610626193724-25b4228dbc2c?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3w4NTc0OTd8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHw3fHxiaXJkJTIwZmx5aW5nfGVufDB8MHx8fDE3NzAwNzUwMTR8MA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=1080","From Looking Up to Looking Across: What Does the Future Hold?","The shift in national power has led China from looking up to Japan to looking across and even looking down. Historical issues and political obstacles hinder Sino-Japanese reconciliation, but economic cooperation and grassroots exchanges have led to a 'cold peace.' Complete reconciliation requires Japan to truly reflect.",{"id":187,"slug":187,"category":62,"created_at":188,"cover_url":189,"title":190,"summary":191,"person_name":35,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"civilizations-inertia-strategic-stability-and-path-choice-in-historical-cycles","2026-01-25","https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1509624780899-f812439647e4?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3w4NTc0OTd8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwyMHx8R3JlYXQlMjBXYWxsJTIwb2YlMjBDaGluYXxlbnwwfDB8fHwxNzY5MzU0NzU0fDA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=1080","The Inertia of Civilization: Strategic Determination and Path Choices in Historical Cycles","China's rise is seen as a normalization in history, a return to a status befitting its population and geographical scale as a major nation. By learning from historical lessons, China focuses on governance efficiency and real industry development, avoiding past errors. On the international stage, China opts to avoid hegemonic contention, adopting a long-term strategy aimed at diversity and win-win cooperation.",{"id":193,"slug":193,"category":51,"created_at":194,"cover_url":195,"title":196,"summary":197,"person_name":35,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"Tranches-de-Vie-The-Democracy-of-Trust","2026-01-24","https://rmpupcoytbilkjxvawan.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/covers/recwitfsv7.jpg","The Power of a Piece of Paper: How QR Codes Reconstruct China's Commercial 'Capillaries'","China's mobile payment system skipped the credit card era, using QR codes to achieve a massive cleanup of 'commercial friction.' Minimalism enables technology at the grassroots level, shifting trust costs to the system, connecting the masses, and reshaping value exchange.",{"id":199,"slug":199,"category":18,"created_at":194,"cover_url":200,"title":201,"summary":202,"person_name":203,"person_description":204,"lang_code":15},"yan-zhenqing-calligraphy","https://rmpupcoytbilkjxvawan.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/covers/njfzgl3hjh.png","Yan Zhenqing: The Calligraphic Coordinate Born from Bloodshed","Yan Zhenqing's 'Draft of a Requiem to My Nephew,' a 234-character lament written in blood! Every character revised, every stroke filled with indignation, recounting the devastation of family and home during the An Lushan Rebellion. Yan's style revolutionized and reshaped calligraphic aesthetics, shifting from aristocratic elegance to the backbone of the literati!","Yan Zhenqing","His calligraphy reflects his person, the embodiment of loyalty and righteousness",{"id":206,"slug":206,"category":18,"created_at":207,"cover_url":208,"title":209,"summary":210,"person_name":143,"person_description":211,"lang_code":15},"gu-yanwu-redefines-responsibility","2026-01-23","https://rmpupcoytbilkjxvawan.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/covers/9i34igued8.png","Gu Yanwu: How a Scholar Redefined \"Responsibility\" 300 Years Ago","During the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Gu Yanwu was not troubled by the change of dynasties. He practiced what he preached, measuring the land with his steps and writing books. Small people also have responsibilities, repairing social rifts.","Practitioner of 'Everyone is responsible'",{"id":213,"slug":213,"category":214,"created_at":215,"cover_url":216,"title":217,"summary":218,"person_name":35,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"sewing-fractured-landscape-bridges-china","Infrastructure","2026-01-21","https://rmpupcoytbilkjxvawan.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/covers/4jivf2sjqbc.png","Bridging the Folds: The Civilizational Contract Behind China's Bridges","Chinese bridges are a civilizational \"patch update,\" smoothing out geographical divides and reducing system losses. From the high bridges of the southwest \"overcoming obstacles\" to the long bridges of the east \"increasing density,\" they sew the land together and connect the future.",{"id":220,"slug":220,"category":62,"created_at":221,"cover_url":222,"title":223,"summary":224,"person_name":35,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"recalibrating-coordinates-chinese-narrative-returns-common-sense-experience","2026-01-20","https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1700593952998-01dcb1e301e3?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=M3w4NTc0OTd8MHwxfHNlYXJjaHwxMXx8YmVpamluZ3xlbnwwfDB8fHwxNzY5MzMxNzQ5fDA&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&q=80&w=1080","Recalibration of Coordinates: When the 'Chinese Narrative' Returns to Common Sense and Experience","Spotlight shifts to the East! Foreigners strive to become 'New Chinese,' experiencing China's speed and infrastructure. Western narratives collapse as the world recalibrates. China is returning to strength, exhibiting strategic patience!",{"id":226,"slug":226,"category":18,"created_at":227,"cover_url":228,"title":229,"summary":230,"person_name":231,"person_description":232,"lang_code":15},"historical-watchman-record-as-belief","2026-01-15","https://rmpupcoytbilkjxvawan.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/covers/a272hk9u7tq.jpg","Guardians of History: When Recording Becomes a Faith","The Qi State historians defended the truth with their lives in front of the powerful minister Cui Zhu, while Sima Qian endured humiliation to fulfill his father's wish by writing the 'Records of the Grand Historian.' Both showcases great sacrifices to prevent history from being forgotten.","Sima Qian","Author of Records of the Grand Historian",{"id":234,"slug":234,"category":18,"created_at":235,"cover_url":236,"title":237,"summary":238,"person_name":239,"person_description":240,"lang_code":15},"view-the-vast-sea","2026-01-14","https://rmpupcoytbilkjxvawan.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/covers/7ht8vw92aay.jpg","Cao Cao's \"Viewing the Sea\": The First Sea in History that Swallows the Sun, Moon, and Stars","The peerless hero Cao Cao expressed his feelings while watching the sea at Mount Jieshi, with \"The movements of the sun and moon seem to emerge from it,\" showing a grand spirit. This poem is the earliest complete landscape poem in Chinese literary history, with nature as its aesthetic object.","Cao Cao","Founder of Chinese landscape poetry",{"id":242,"slug":242,"category":181,"created_at":235,"cover_url":243,"title":244,"summary":245,"person_name":35,"person_description":35,"lang_code":15},"why-chinese-resent-japan","https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1528164344705-47542687000d?q=80&w=2092&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.1.0&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D","Why Do Chinese People Remain Resentful Towards Japan's Invasion of China?","How are the wounds of over 35 million people during the War of Resistance etched into memory? The intertwining of family memory, national consensus, and historical justice reveals China's unwavering commitment to preserving the history of resistance. From the Panjiayu Massacre to the crimes of Unit 731, from Germany's reflection to Japan's evasion, the truth of history cannot be falsified. The Chinese people do not seek revenge, but rather to defend fairness and justice, and to safeguard the bottom line of the national spirit.",1776266085926]