(are those 2 ‘eunuchs’ at each of his sides???)
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(when was this painted?)
(did the person who painted this every meet ’emperor wu’?)
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(’30 june 157′ BCE’ – ’29 march 87 BCE”)
(died @ ‘age 70’)
(born “liu che’)
‘courtesy name’ (???) –> ‘tong’
(7th emperor of ‘(western) han dynasty’)
(reign –> “141 BCE’ – ’87 BCE’)
(reign ended with his death)
(he reigned for ’54 years’)
(beginning at ‘age 15’)
(ended with his death)
(his ‘length of reign’ was not surpassed until the reign of the ‘kangxi emperor’ more than ‘1800 years later’)
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‘father’ –>
(’emperor jing’ (6th emperor of ‘han’))
(‘188 BC’ – ‘141 BC’)
(he was ‘age 32’ when ‘liu che’ was born)
(‘predecessor’ of ‘liu che’)
(who would become ’emperor wu’)
(died @ ‘age 47’)
(how?)
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‘mother’ –>
(’empress wang zhi’)
(‘173 BCE’ – ‘126 BCE’)
(died @ ‘age 47’)
(just like her husband)
(second wife of ’emperor jing’)
(he ‘fired’ his first wife ’empress bo’ because she could not bear him a ‘son’)
(she bore him a son @ ‘age 16’)
(’16 year age difference’)
(her mother was the ‘granddaughter’ of ‘zang tu’)
(‘zang tu’ was a chinese warlord (and onetime ‘king of yan’) who rebelled against the first emperor of the ‘han dynasty’ (’emperor gaozu’))
(the rebellion was unsuccessful and ‘zang tu’ and his entire family were massacred)
(~’202 BCE’)
(‘wang zhi’ had several brothers and a younger sister ‘wang xixu’)
(’empress wang zhi’ had been married to a ‘commoner’ and bore him a ‘daughter’)
(then her mother was told be a ‘soothsayer’ that both of her daughters would be ‘extremely honored’)
(so her mother ‘forced a divorce’ for ”wang zhu”)
(a mother (or father) had the power to annul their chilren’s marriages)
(wow)
(just…wow…)
(so her mother offered both her daughters to the ‘crown prince’ (the future ’emperor jing’) and they moved into his ‘concubinage’)
(guarded by ‘eunuchs’)
(how many ‘concubines’ lived there?)
(what if the ‘crown prince’ were ‘impotent’)
(seemed that ‘sex’ was less ‘taboo’ in those survivalist days)
(to prevent ‘human extinction’)
(does a ‘species’ have a ‘collective will’ to promulgate?)
(did ‘ability to bear sons’ trump (or ‘define’) sexual attraction in those dark days)
(i’m sure they believed that sme women were more adept at producing ‘sons’ over ‘daughters’)
(because they could do more work + potentially gain more ‘power’ (and ‘riches’) than daughters)
(and hopefully pass on some of the ‘spoils’ to their family)
(‘wang zhu’ bore the ‘crown prince’ 3 daughters)
(i assume ‘dynasties’ were focused on bearing sons early enough so that they would be old enough to succeed their fathers as ’emperor’)
(in this case ‘wang zhu’ bore the ‘crown prince’ his first son ON THE VERY DAY he became ’emperor’)
(what a happy day that must’ve been)
(the new emperor married to great-grandaughter of first emperor)
(‘gaozu’ first emperor of ‘han’ dynasty)
(what ‘goes around / ‘comes around’ i suppose)
(“chalk it up to ‘dynastic destiny’…)
(his reign resulted in ‘vast territorial expansion’, ‘development of a ‘strong’ and ‘centralized’ state resulting from his ‘governmental re-organization’ (including his ‘promotion’ of ‘confucian’ doctrines))
(in the field of ‘historical’, ‘social’, and ‘cultural’ studies, ’emperor wu’ is known for his ‘religious innovations’ and ‘patronage’ of the ‘poetic’ and ‘musical’ arts (including development of the ‘imperial music bureau’ into a ‘prestigious entity’)
(it was also during his reign that ‘cultural contact’ with western ‘eurasia’ was greatly increased (‘directly’ or ‘indirectly’) (?))
(many new ‘crops’ and other ‘items’ were introduced to ‘china’ during his ‘reign’)
(as a ‘military campaigner’, ’emperor wu’ led ‘han china’ through its greatest expansion — at its height, the empire’s borders spanned from –>
‘WEST’ –> ‘(modern) kyrgyzstan’
‘EAST’ –> ‘korea’
‘SOUTH’ –> ‘northern vietnam’
(and how about the ‘north’?)
(’emperor wu’ successfully repelled the nomadic ‘xiongnu’ from systematically raiding ‘northern china’, and dispatched his envoy ‘zhang qian” in ‘139 BCE’ to seek an alliance with the ‘yuezhi’ of kangju (‘sogdia’ in modern ‘uzbekistan’))
(this resulted in further missions to ‘central asia’)
(although ‘historical records’ do not describe him to be aware of ‘buddhism’, (emphasizing rather his interest in ‘shamanism’), the ‘cultural exchanges ‘that occurred as a consequence of these embassies suggest that he received ‘buddhist’ statues from ‘central asia’ (as depicted in the murals found in the ‘mogao caves’))
(‘michael loewe’ called the reign of ’emperor wu’ the “high point” of “modernist” (classically justified ‘legalist’) policies, looking back to “adapt ideas from the ‘pre-han period’)
(his ‘policies’ and most trusted ‘advisers’ were ‘legalist’, favoring adherents of ‘shang yang’)
(however, despite establishing an ‘autocratic’ and ‘centralized’ state, ’emperor wu’ adopted the principles of ‘confucianism’ as the ‘state philosophy’ and ‘code of ethics’ for his ’empire’ and started a school to teach ‘future administrators’ the ‘confucian classics’)
(these reforms had an enduring effect throughout the existence of ‘imperial china’ and an enormous influence on ‘neighboring civilizations’)
(’emperor wu’ was also known for his employment of ‘shaman advisers’, and for various ‘religious’ and ‘cultural’ changes with ‘historical significance’ of a less directly obvious ‘nature’)
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