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In exchange for status, she was a seductive and gorgeous cultivation genius. As soon as he returned, he was the cold and handsome War God of his generation. With the space of the black and white jade pendant in his hand, he could do whatever he wanted in the world. How could there be so many coincidences in the world? Life has its limits. Love at first sight? The kindness of dripping water in return? He said lightly, "I saved your life. I expect you will not be able to repay me. You can only repay me with your body." From then on, he was bound to live his entire life.
Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood. This book demonstrates how early Chinese stories of the re-creation of the world from a watery chaos provided principles underlying such fundamental units as the state, lineage, the married couple, and even the human body. These myths also supplied a charter for the major political and social institutions of Warring States (481–221 BC) and early imperial (220 BC–AD 220) China. In some versions of the tales, the flood was triggered by rebellion, while other versions linked the taming of the flood w...
Mercenary King Chen Yang returned to the city to protect his comrade's sister, the goddess. In the bustling city, Chen Yang was like a fish in water, carefree and at ease. And to see how the previous generation's soldiers would use their iron fists and wits to build a business empire...
A world where martial arts ran rampant and magic flew everywhere. This was an unlucky opportunity where Lin Feng, who had been knocked down by a car, had transmigrated into this world full of legends, where battle qi and magic went hand in hand and he possessed the son of a general, who had just died. Let's see how Lin Feng, with his devilish brain, exceptional battle qi and talent in magic, can sweep through the entire world. Facing the general's family that was on the verge of shattering, how he would bring it to its peak. Lin Feng's dream was to carry out his class as a Brawler to the very end.
The Ben cao gang mu, compiled in the second half of the sixteenth century by a team led by the physician Li Shizhen (1518–1593) on the basis of previously published books and contemporary knowledge, is the largest encyclopedia of natural history in a long tradition of Chinese materia medica works. Its description of almost 1,900 pharmaceutically used natural and man-made substances marks the apex of the development of premodern Chinese pharmaceutical knowledge. The Ben cao gang mu dictionary offers access to this impressive work of 1,600,000 characters. This third book in a three-volume series offers detailed biographical data on all identifiable authors, patients, witnesses of therapies, transmitters of recipes, and further persons mentioned in the Ben cao gang mu and provides bibliographical data on all textual sources resorted to and quoted by Li Shizhen and his collaborators.
By the end of the nineteenth century, after a long period during which the weakness of China became ever more obvious, intellectuals began to go abroad for new ideas. What emerged was a musical genre that Liu Chingchih terms "New Music." With no direct ties to traditional Chinese music, New Music reflects the compositional techniques and musical idioms of eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth–century European styles. Liu traces the genesis and development of New Music throughout the twentieth century, deftly examining the cultural, social, and political forces that shaped New Music and its uses by politicians and the government.
This was a world of deer cauldrons without Wei Xiaobao. This was a legendary story of the Divine Dragon Sect dominating the world!
Chu Ying, as the Goddess of Light, was only able to rest for a single inch.However, in a single night, the storm clouds abruptly changed.Six thousand years ago, she and Eunuch, who had grown up with her, had broken their engagement by crushing their marriage jade.Six thousand years later, she quietly returned. However, what she faced was the imperial concubine's calculations and calculations.Later on, in the cold sea water of the Penglai Immortal Island, she transformed into a small grey snake, forgetting everything that had happened in the past.He was clad in snow-white clothes. Stepping on the moon, he arrived here with a teardrop on the corner of his eye. It was a deep red that burned his eyes.He said that he hated her for thirty thousand years and yet had saved her countless times from the abyss of suffering.Mythical gods and ghosts, a facade made by a real person, these three thousand floating flowers, who had ever truly transcended the mortal world?The clouds parted and the sky changed. The old debt she owed him still needed to be paid.
A black fire lifted the mysterious veil of the Great Liang Mountain. An enormous, badly damaged sword that had cut through the ages of the Fiendgod continent. The young man who had lost his memory woke up in a daze. In that world where he could not see the light, he left countless breathtaking legends. Some people said that he was a demon, but he was only a swordsman, a lonely swordsman.
He, was a member of China's most mysterious organization! He was a man that could shock the entire world! He, was also known as Thunder God! An unexpected mission had left him in the city. Behind the mission, there was an earth-shattering conspiracy. And he, with his iron fists, defended everything, protected his woman. While fighting to the death with the dark forces, he also threw himself into the bustling city. Beautiful women, money, little brothers, love rivals. He used his way to explain his pretentious life!