洋猩說故事 Talovich Tells Stories

The Han dynasty, surname Liu, lasted from about 200bce to about 200ce. At the beginning of the Common Era, a usurper, Wang Mang, tried to set up his own dynasty, but failed. A member of the royal family, Liu Hsiu/Xiu, struggled to restore the dynasty, but almost gave up, until an old man wearing white clothes saved the day. The first part of the Han is called the Western Han, and the second part i...

西元廿三年，東漢光武帝劉秀過了曲陽到下博城，一敗塗地、頹喪消沉，白衣老父鼓勵，歷史上留下一筆。故事需要靠人傳，希望大家將好故事傳給左鄰右社、親朋好友。 Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

In Early China, the climate in the Yellow River basin was warmer than today, so there were elephants, rhinoceroses, and a powerful, ferocious Short Horned Water Buffalo. Our story today takes us to about 550bce, when the ruler Ping (Flat) of Chin/Jin was out hunting, and he shot a buttonquail, a little bird like a quail that runs around on the ground. Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https...

晉平公射鷃，僕人襄找不到，平公要殺襄。賢臣羊舌肹怎麼解圍，且聽本回分解。 鷃可以寫鴳，類似鵪鶉而小，學名Turnix tanki blanfordii Blyth。 兕ㄙˋ是聖水牛，已經絕種。 Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

Yen Ying (578 – 500 bce) of the state of Ch’i/Qi has come up several times in our podcasts. He was dedicated to serving society, and felt no need to accrue wealth for himself. His ruler, Ching/ Jing, tried to get Yen to accept gifts, to no avail. Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

齊景公感謝晏嬰（前五七八～五00年）的貢獻，想獎賞他，而晏子認為，衣服夠穿、東西夠吃、夫復何求？晏子很厚道，到老還記著他太太少且姣的風韻。 Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

This story of power, lust, and murder too place nearly 2500 years ago, but shows a standard we should hold to today. As the US sinks into tyranny, historians in particular need to be reminded of their duty.   Key words: Ch’i, Qi, Spring and Autumn, early China, 548 bce, Ts’ui Ch’u, Cui Zhu, Tungkuo Chiang, Dongguo Jiang, Yan Ying, T’aishih, Taishi Leave a comment and share your thoughts: http...

齊靈公娶魯女生太子光，後娶仲姬、戎姬，戎姬生公子牙。 崔杼立太子光為齊莊公，莊公忘恩負義騷擾崔杼妻東郭姜，崔杼忍不可忍，弒君。晏嬰抱莊公屍首哭、踊。太史寫，崔杼弒其君。 Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

The Great Wall was effective for two thousand years in fending off nomads from the northern steppes. One of the most powerful coalitions of the nomads was called the 匈奴 Hsiungnu/Xiongnu. Their king was called a chanyü; the first king we know of was Tuman. To get rid of the prince, Modu, Tuman sent him as a diplomatic hostage to the powerful Yuezhi. Things did not end well for Tuman, but we have...

鬼方為商朝北患，周朝怕獫狁，到後來的匈奴，從北方草原侵略中原，也帶來了很多破音字，如單ㄔㄢ于、閼氏ㄧㄢ ㄓ、冒頓ㄇㄛˋㄉㄨˊ，也讓本猩發揮冷笑話、精彩音效。 Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

During the Warring States, in the powerful state of Ch’i/Qi, the powerful Lord Mengch’ang / Mengchang (d 279bce) was well served by the foresight of his ‘eating guest’ Feng Hsüan/Xuan (AKA Feng Huan).   Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

戰國齊國的孟嘗君門下食客三千，馮諼（驩）彈長夾歌，為孟嘗君解圍。 Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

Around 1050 bce, the Chou/Zhou conquered the Yin Shang and established the Chou dynasty. The founder of the dynasty, King Wu, died and left his kingdom to his son, who was just a boy. The boy became the king Ch’eng/Cheng, and was ably assisted by two wise counselors. Remnants of the Shang revolted and were quelled. The King learned that when a King speaks, there is no joking. Any person in an offi...

西周初年，成王即位，由周公、召公為左輔右弼。唐，原是夏墟，依據齊侯鐘知道商朝開國君主成湯居在此，後來為殷商都；武王伐紂，唐造反，周公誅滅唐。成王弟弟叔虞立為唐公，後來兒子繼承，改名晉。 Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

Ch’i/Qi was a powerful state during the Warring States period of the Eastern Chou/Zhou. The King Min was so arrogant and incompetent that in 284bce, Ch’i was almost conquered. King Min was killed and his son went into hiding, where he met his future wife who became a brilliant ruler in her own right. Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/c...

戰國齊湣（閔）王無道，孤狐咺ㄒㄩㄢˇ、子陳諫而遇害，民眾不服，宗族離心。燕、秦、楚、三晉合謀伐齊，齊軍敗，湣王逃。到衛、鄒、魯，最後到莒。楚淖齒殺湣王，太子法章隱姓埋名逃到太史敫（嬓）家做園丁；后太史女兒賢良、慧眼識英雄，成為齊君王后，有幫夫運，治理齊貢獻極大，使齊度過難關。 Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/comments Powered by Firstor...

Liu Chunlin was born in 1872 to impoverished peasants in Hebei. Thanks to his hard work, he passed the Imperial Examinations with the highest score. The title for the person who won this honor was 狀元 Chuangyuan/Zhuangyuan, sometimes translated as optimus. The following year, the Imperial Examinations were abolished, so Liu became the last Chuangyuan in history. He is also a noted calligrapher. T...

清朝末年，河北肅寧貧苦農家子弟劉春霖苦讀有成，也寫一手好字。要應考，地方富人遊說廩生胡光簽擋他的路，仍然考上秀才了。到直隸最高學府蓮池書院，在院長吳汝綸教導下，到光緒卅三年，劉春霖成為科舉制度最後一名狀元。 晚年拜孫祿堂為師學孫式太極拳，也繼續寫字。臺中旱溪媽祖廟樂成宮留有手書「法雨宏施」匾額，落款「肅寧劉春霖敬書，霧峰林垂拱敬獻」。 Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.m...

At the age of 43, a son of the royal family of Chin/Jin, Ch’unger/Chong’er, had to flee from his stepmother. He spent 19 years wandering, trying to find a safe place. He was rebuffed by his distant relative, the ruler of Cheng/Zheng, and he bore the grudge. Eventually he was established as the ruler of Chin by the ruler of Ch’in/Qin. In 630 BCE, Chin and Ch’in set out to obliterate Cheng, but Ch’i...

晉王子姬重耳流亡，鄭伯不禮。秦穆公送重耳回國登位，為晉文公。西元前六三〇年，秦晉圍鄭。鄭大夫佚之狐推薦燭之武說服秦穆公班師撤軍。晉文公卒，秦將說可以攻鄭，蹇叔勸秦穆公不要遠征，秦穆公生氣，派人罵他。蹇叔知道秦軍到了殽，死定了。西元前六二七年春，鄭國商人弦高在滑國機智救鄭。秦軍找滑出氣。秦軍輕佻無禮，到殽果然大敗。晉襄公的夫人文嬴讓晉放了戰俘回家。秦穆公知道錯了。 左傳文筆精簡，故事精彩。大一國文背...

Princesses attract envy, but their lives may not be enviable. The second daughter of the Tang Emperor Su was married to Moyun Chur, the Khan of the Uyghurs in 758ce, as a reward for his service in the An Shi Rebellion. He died the next year, leaving her to face a serious predicament.   Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/comments Po...

安史之亂，突厥與回紇救了唐祚。為了賞功，西元七五八年唐肅宗將二女兒寧國公主嫁給了回紇的英武威遠可汗磨延啜Moyun Chur為可敦（王后）。但可汗逝世，公主面臨莫大的考驗，需要發揮智仁勇。 Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

A Neolithic ruler, Yü, diverted floods instead of damming them. This became a dominant idea in Chinese thought, that rather than damming floods or problems, you find the way for them to flow away.   子產 Tzech’an/ Zichan lived around 550bce. He was a great thinker who influenced Confucius. He lived by the ideal that government exists to serve the people, and not the other way around. Leave a...

本猩仰慕夏禹；他教我們遇到難題要疏導，不宜堵住。 居高位的人容易高傲，且應要謙虛、聽民眾的心聲。 子產，春秋鄭人，名僑，孔子欣賞的政治家。故事發生在西元前五四二年。 Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/user/cm98dlbl2057101tm59mdezmd/comments Powered by Firstory Hosting

Confucius taught that your duty as a child or an official is to object when necessary: politely but adamantly. In the last thousand years, obedience has been emphasized, in direct contradiction to what Confucius himself said. Today we are looking at an incident in 313ce when Ch’en Yuanta/Chen Yuanda brought his opinion to the notice of the Northern Chanyü, Liu Ts’ung/Cong, leader of the Hsiungnu/X...