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五代十国就完全不同了，是北强南弱。 到宋太祖继位之时，南方仍然有后蜀、南唐、吴越、南汉、荆南与湖南武平军周行逢、闽南清源军留从效等小国割据。 南朝实力最强的南唐，也远不足以和北方对抗。
“人因为心地不明，以致成为盲聋哑者…”星云大师说：禅门里有一段故事，即使在今日社会仍有启示意味：玄沙师备（五代十国时期闽国著名禅师）向大众开示：“诸方长老大德常以弘法利生为家业，如...
一聊到山西，第一反应是：煤老板！ 据说，每一个出门在外的山西人，行李箱都有一瓶完好密封的山西老陈醋。 酸得够劲儿的那股味儿，早已是山西味儿，刻入了山西人骨子里。 ●他们用6年的时间，…
China Cups, dishes, etc. made out of china. Baked clay of a type first employed in China. Country in Eastern Asia, home to 1/5th of mankind. Provinces of the ('Zizhiju' 自治区) which theoretically gives various ethnic minorities control over their own affairs. (特别行政区) Provinces do not nest neatly into geographic regions; in a few cases I have had to "pick" one. The preferred romanization is the Pinyin system devised by the Chinese government. My initial source for this writeup, a 1970 Times Atlas of China, used a mixture of the older Wade-Giles system and the even older ...
by Kumar David The resilience of authoritarianism occupies much of political discourse today. Discussion spreads from Trump’s debasement of American electoral democracy, to Modi’s barefaced Hindutva intolerance, to a spate of dictators, most recently Belarus’s dictator-incumbent for life Lukashenko. The growing list is thrown into bold relief by the backdrop of Trump, Modi, Putin and Brazil’s Balsonaro. Despite common features every case is different and specifics are as enlightening as generalities. Today’s column features Chinese history, Lanka, and US developments. I will dwell o...