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Ranks even below 妾Concubine is 嬖. In case of serious crime as as treason, entire clan are sentenced. Men executed/exiled/enslaved, women enslaved. These enslaved women and their female descendants are 嬖.

Unlike 妾 and their son, illegal to elevate status of 嬖.

Other source of 妾 Concubine are female servants or former courtesans. 妾 basically semi slave status. their son(s) can't be heir and you can't make a 妾 your main wife 妻 no matter how much you favor her because that's strictly forbidden by Zhou Dynasty law of succession.

夫有一妻二妾，其刑聝；夫有二妻，则诛；妻有外夫者，则宫

Man who has 1 wife and 2 concubines, cut off his ear
Man who has 2 wives, cut off his head
Man who commits adulery w a married woman, cut off his balls

Would we see the world's 1st ever stealth fighters fight over Taiwan?

J20 vs F35B who would win?

Current situation over Taiwan

By brilliant Brazilian artist @LatuffCartoons

Evolution of animal hats in China:

1-2:Tang Dynasty Warrior tri-color glazed pottery.

3:Buddhist mural in Kizil Caves in Xinjiang

4: modern Chinese Netizen

Martini traveled back to Rome frm 1651 to 1655. he wrote his eye-witness account of Manchu conquest of China in his book Regni Sinensis a Tartaris devastati enarratio which was published in 1661.

The Euro illustrators of the book prbly nvr seen a Chinese person irl.

No context Zhuge Liang post

Side note: Trans-Siberian railway skirting around Chinese territory only completed in 1916 because aft 1905 Russo-Japanese War, Japan took over Southern Manchurian railway south of Changchun

Russia used China Eastern Rail to ship 330k troops outnumbering 270k IJA in the war

Japan inflicted a crushing defeat on China in 1st Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895 by sinking China's 1st modern fleet and destroying Chinese army in land.
China was forced to cede Taiwan and Liaodong Liaotung Peninsula in S Manchuria.

However Russia wanted Manchuria for itself