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If you dont already know it, may as well familiarise yourself with the story of Hoichi the Earless. Its not terribly long.
sen.wikipedia/wiki/Hoichi_the_Earless#Legend_summary
Below this is so general knowledge that actually cos up quite a bit, so you should probably have a read as well:
Wu Zetian
Wu Zetian was a Chinese sovereign who ruled unofficially as empress consort and empress dowager and later, officially as empress regnant during the brief Zhou dynasty (684-705), which interrupted the Tang dynasty (618-690 & 705-907).
Wu was the sole officially recognised empress regnant of China in more than two millennia.
The importance to history of Wu Zetians period of political and military leadership includes the major expansion of the Chinese empire, extending it far beyond its previous territorial limits, deep into Central Asia, and engaging in a series of wars on the Korean Peninsula, first allying with Silla against Goguryeo, and then against Silla over the occupation of forr Goguryeo territory.
Wu Zetian was born into a rich family. She had servants at her disposal to perform routine tasks for her, so there were not many dostic jobs that Wu would ever have to learn. Because of this, Wu was encouraged by her father to read books and pursue her education. He made sure that his daughter was well-educated, a trait that was not common among won, much less encouraged by their fathers.
At age fourteen, she was taken to be an imperial concubine (lesser wife) of Emperor Taizong of Tang. It was there that she beca a type of secretary. This opportunity allowed her to continue to pursue her education. She was given the t.i.tle of cairen, t.i.tle for one of the consorts with the fifth rank in Tangs nine-rank system for imperial officials, n.o.bles, and consorts.
When she was summoned to the palace, her mother, the Lady Yang, wept bitterly when saying farewell to her, but she responded,
How do you know that it is not my fortune to et the Son of Heaven?
Lady Yang reportedly then understood her ambitions, and therefore stopped crying.
The traditional Chinese historical view on Wu Zetian generally was mixed admiring her for her abilities in governing the state, but vilifying her for her actions in seizing imperial power.
Wu Zetian (690-705) was an extraordinary woman, attractive, exceptionally gifted, politically astute and an excellent judge of n. With single minded determination, she overca the opposition of the Confucian establishnt through her own efforts, unique among palace won by not using her own family. Her rise to power was steeped in blood. Ann Paludan
Xu Fu
Xu Fu was born in 255 BC in Qi, an ancient Chinese state, and served as a court sorcerer in Qin Dynasty China. He was sent by Qin Shi Huang to the eastern seas twice to look for the elixir of life. His two journeys occurred between 219 BC and 210 BC.
It was believed that the fleet included 60 barques and around 5,000 crew mbers, 3,000 boys and girls, and craftsn of different fields. After he embarked on a second mission in 210 BC, he never returned.
Those who support the theory that Xu Fu landed in j.a.pan credit him with being the catalyst for the developnt of ancient j.a.panese society. The Jmon culture which had existed in ancient j.a.pan for over 6,000 years suddenly disappeared around 300 BC.
The farming techniques and knowledge that Xu brought along are said to have improved the quality of life of the ancient j.a.panese people and he is said to have introduced many new plants and techniques to ancient j.a.pan.
The worship of Xu Fu as the G.o.d of farming, G.o.d of dicine and G.o.d of silk by the j.a.panese is attributed to these achievents. Nurous temples and morials of Xu can be found in many places in j.a.pan.
Yang Guifei
Yang Yuhuan, of the highest consort rank Guifei, was known as one of the Four Beauties of ancient China. She was the beloved consort of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang during his later years.
In 733, fourteen-year-old Yang Yuhuan married Li Mao, the Prince of Shou and the son of Emperor Xuanzong and Consort Wu.After Consort Wu died in 737, Emperor Xuanzong was greatly saddened by the death of his then-favorite concubine.
So ti after that, however, Princess Yang sohow ca into Xuanzongs favor and the Emperor decided to take her as his consort. However, since Princess Yang was already the wife of his son, Emperor Xuanzong stealthily arranged her to beco a Taoist nun, with the tonsured na Taizhen, in order to prevent criticism that would affect his plan of making her his concubine.Yang then stayed, for a brief mont, as a Taoist nun in the palace itself, before Emperor Xuanzong made her an imperial consort after bestowing a new wife on his son Li Mao. Yang beca the favorite consort of the Emperor.
During the An Lushan Rebellion, as Emperor Xuanzong and his cortege were fleeing from the capital Changan to Chengdu, the emperors guards demanded that he put Yang to death because they blad the rebellion on her cousin Yang Guozhong and the rest of her family. The emperor capitulated and reluctantly ordered his attendant Gao Lishi to strangle Yang to death.
Yang was known for having a full and fleshy figure, which was a much sought-after quality at the ti.
Thanks to Oniisamas miracle hands, the Bea-tan doll was sohow finished before the School Festival. That was horrible
Trying to create long hair for her was already harder than expected, but trying to create the sa perfect curls just made it worse.
Originally I was going to use wool that was curled to begin with but it turned out to be a little off compared to the real Bea-tan.
As it turns out the reason was that it was all one colour. I ended up buying curled brown wool in every shade I could find, and after a lot of trial and error I managed to mix together a shade that looked right. You did it, Reika
Thanks to that adventure my room was filled with brown wool right now. Maybe I could make so animals with it after the School Festival was over. Probably not soon though. I wasnt sure I wanted to jump right back into needle felting again
The wedding dress that was the crystallisation of our clubs effort and pa.s.sion stood in the centre of our exhibition room, while our personal projects lined the walls. It was amazing what my club mbers have co up with on their own.
Of particular note was Minami-kun. Despite all the ti he spent doing the silver embroidery on the club wedding dress, he still managed to submit an amazing tapestry of the madonna and child.
In comparison the Club President had hardly contributed to the wedding dress at all At best I helped out with so of the bouquets. Sorry for being useless.
Still, my life-sized Beatrice doll was cute and had a nice realism to it, so I dont think I shad my club. Oniisama, Sasajima-san, everybody who helped at the club, thank you.
Unlike so other attractions, the Handicraft Clubs exhibition was free to enter and leave. Thanks to that we didnt need much manpower outside of a small rotating staff of guides.
Since they didnt really need here, I was going to use my effort on my cla.s.s attraction instead.
Chinese Tea Caf, Xu Fu.
The setting of our caf was that we were the disciples of the Court Magician Xu Fu, who ca to j.a.pan with him in the Qin dynasty. Thats why we were advertising our teas as elixirs of immortality. It felt like a bit of a scam.
We had quite a few types of with us; normal stuff like oolong, jasmine or pu er, as well as so more exotic types like flower teas and flowering teas. The flowering tea had been quite popular with the girls in my cla.s.s so we were hoping it would be popular with the custors too.
For snacks to go with it we were selling annin tofu, mango pudding, black sesa pudding, and various types of moon cakes among other things.
Annin tofu () or almond tofu is a soft, jellied dessert made of almond milk, agar, and sugar, allegedly eaten in China as far back as 2000 years ago.
We bought them all, obviously, so the taste was guaranteed. I had made sure to taste test each one myself. They were yummy.
The shop itself was decorated with a chinoiserie the, served by boys in changpao, and girls in pants and china-dresses. Originally the girls wanted to wear hanfu like celestial maidens but we decided against it because it wasnt very disciple-ish.
Anyhow, with this, the the would have been perfect if not for Dite.Given how he jumped at any opportunity to play his violin, it ca as no surprise that he was pushing for a part in the School Festival too.
Everyone told him that the violin wouldnt fit the the, and that if he really wanted to play sothing then he should get an erhu instead, but Dite wouldnt budge.
In the end he was so annoying that we just relented. The excuse was that he was so foreign guest from the West, and hence the sight of his afro bobbing away as he played away in a trance.
Welco, custor. These are elixirs of immortality from the fad Mount Penglai. With but one sip your youth will be returned to you
I was busy serving custors myself.
So people ca for the variety of teas, while others ca to visit friends in our cla.s.s, so the sales werent doing too badly. Still, they werent looking amazing either.
I an, I had nothing personal against a nice relaxed pace like this, but I had the niggling feeling that I was supposed to be doing more as the vice cla.s.s representative. Maybe by standing outside and attracting more custors.
I stepped into the hallway for a mont and looked at who was pa.s.sing by. Oh! Wasnt that the president of the Soccer Club? I waved my hand to beckon him over.
When he noticed he cried, Hii, Wu Zetian! before running away.
But Im not Wu Zetian. Ive always thought of myself as Yang Guifei in my heart.
The attraction by Kaburagis cla.s.s was the one most looked-forward to in our grade; they were doing one of those sound-based haunted houses. Pretty much all the guests had co here.
Considering the size limitations of the cla.s.sroom they were using, the audio haunted house with 3-dinsional was probably as good as it could get. And given how picky Kaburagi was about these things in general, thanks to the audio equipnt the haunted house was so good youd never expect it to be sothing from a school festival.
The program was Hoichi the Earless. Before you entered the haunted house, a guide in white clothing put a heart sutra seal over your face. After that they led you into this room with will o wisps and wooden grave markers.
After taking a seat, you put on the headphones provided. That was when h.e.l.l began.
The gloomy sound of a biwa played. Along with it was an eerie singing voice.
Since it was 3-dinsional, it supposedly felt like the spirits of the Heike were chanting right by your ear and chill ran down your spine. It was like they were standing right behind you.
When the spirits ca to claim you after you had the heart sutra written all over you, apparently so of the more timid custors took off their headphones to escape back to reality. The only heart sutra actually on them was the one plastered on their face after all.
As the climax when your ears were torn off, apparently so of the guests actually ran screaming down the hallway.
Given that I was a coward myself so I definitely didnt want to go, but Cla.s.s Reps quartet had apparently promised to go with each other. What the heck. Was that like a double date? So envious. But since everybody was seated in their own little area, I doubted they could do that haunted house thing when you scread and clung to each other.
A while ago when Ririna visited Xu Fu with her friends, she told that they were going to the haunted house as well later. Minami-kun was the odd one out, with an aura of I dont want to go coming out of his entire body. I wonder if hed be okay
Anyway, Ririna had ordered the flowering tea and seed to be really taken with how it blood like a flower underwater, so I made a note to give the rest to her that I had at ho.
*When it was ti for shifts to change, my friends and I went walking around the school as well. Since it was turning out to be impossible to properly see everything today, Id do the rest tomorrow.
Enjou and Wakaba-chans cla.s.s was doing a caf too. Cafs were easy to do, after all. Unlike our cla.s.s Chinese tea caf, they were going with a completely normal one. Given that it was a rare and limited chance to see Enjou in a barista outfit so it was popular enough already. On top of that, they implented a numbered ticketing system for people who wanted to enjoy his latte art. Everyone was talking about how there had been a huge queue of girls outside since the morning.
Co onn, Reika-sama. Lets go see Enjou-samas caf! Rune-chan said.
I have no objections, but without a ticket he will not make us latte art, you know?
Im disappointed about that too, but we should still go. I want to at least see him in the barista outfit.
Rune-chan had missed out on her chance to get a ticket. I guess she had underestimated how popular he would be.
We entered the busy shop only to find that Kaburagi was there too. The girls were overjoyed. There he was, sipping away at his coffee with ho-made biscuits. Which was surprising enough, since Kaburagi never ate ho-made food.
n.o.body had expected him to actually eat any of them but contrary to expectations he took a bite.
Bring the one who made these, he said with slightly widened eyes.
Confused about why she was being called out, Wakaba-chan stepped out from the back of the store.
Um, was there sothing wrong?
Takamichi. You were the one who made these?
Eh, yes. I did, but?
While Wakaba-chan was looking confused and uncomfortable, Kaburagi suddenly chuckled.
They were delicious.
Kaburagi, who never ate ho made food, had eaten a ho-made biscuit. A ho-made biscuit baked by a girl, that he even praised as being delicious.
The news spread through Suiran like wildfire, and there was a rush of female custors to The Golden Dawn, the fortune telling shop that Fuyuko-samas cla.s.s was doing.
Did this an that Kaburagi was starting to fall for her?
Here, Kisshouin-san. This one is on , Enjou smiled, as he left a latte art of a rabbit in front of .
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