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They did not live in houses; they lived in pits dug into the earth and covered by rough timber and thatch roofs to shield them from the freezing winters. 1.000

👤 Jacob Dreyer 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Archaeology

Simplified: Peasants during the Shang dynasty lived in pits dug into the earth with timber and thatch roofs.

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3 weeks ago
In industrial quarters like Xiaomintun, they operated massive, hyper-coordinated bronze foundries. 1.000

👤 Jacob Dreyer 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Archaeology

Simplified: In industrial quarters like Xiaomintun, Shang craftsmen operated large, coordinated bronze foundries.

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3 weeks ago
Yinxu was, some say, a city of perhaps 150,000 people, and had no physical walls but was sharply divided by class. 0.900

👤 Jacob Dreyer 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Archaeology

Simplified: Some say the ancient city of Yinxu had a population of around 150,000, no physical walls, and was sharply divided by class.

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3 weeks ago
elephants, rhinoceroses and tigers still roamed the warm, humid landscape 1.000

👤 Jacob Dreyer 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Paleontology

Simplified: During the Shang dynasty, elephants, rhinoceroses, and tigers roamed the Henan plains.

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3 weeks ago
Shang craftsmen, meanwhile, enjoyed a privileged, middle-tier status, protected by the state because they produced the technology of power. 1.000

👤 Jacob Dreyer 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Social Structure

Simplified: Shang craftsmen held a privileged, middle-tier status and were protected by the state.

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3 weeks ago
In ancient times, to seal a political pact, lords dug a pit, slaughtered a sacrificial animal (often a bull or dog), cut off its left ear and caught the blood in a bronze vessel (皿). The lords smeare... 1.000

👤 Jacob Dreyer 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Rituals

Simplified: In ancient China, lords sealed political pacts by slaughtering a sacrificial animal, catching its blood in a vessel, smearing the blood on their lips,...

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3 weeks ago
Auspicious divine answers, dates and consequences would be recorded on the bones. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Archaeology

Simplified: Fact: Auspicious answers, dates, and consequences from oracle bone divination were recorded on the bones.

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3 weeks ago
The Shang had intense self-doubt; they couldn’t go to war or plant crops without performing rituals to check in with God. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Religion

Simplified: Fact: The Shang people performed divination rituals before major activities like going to war or planting crops.

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3 weeks ago
盟 or alliance, which is used to describe the European Union and ASEAN, consists of a bowl or vessel (皿) at the bottom topped by the character for bright or clear (明), which originally depicted a wi... 1.000

👤 Jacob Dreyer 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Linguistics

Simplified: The Chinese character for alliance (盟), used to describe the EU and ASEAN, is composed of the characters for vessel (皿) and bright/clear (明).

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3 weeks ago
Shang scribes routinely split a single question for the spirits into positive and negative outcomes: It will rain tomorrow or It will not rain tomorrow. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Religion

Simplified: Fact: Shang Dynasty scribes routinely posed questions for divination in both positive and negative forms.

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3 weeks ago
The priest or diviner would pose a question, usually to the high god Di or the ancestors, then apply heat to ox shoulder blades or turtle shells. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Religion

Simplified: Fact: During the Shang Dynasty, diviners posed questions to a high god or ancestors and then applied heat to ox shoulder blades or turtle shells.

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3 weeks ago
Originally, the word meant “interlocking patterns.” 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Linguistics

Simplified: Fact: The character 文 originally meant "interlocking patterns."

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3 weeks ago
Recent examples would be Japanese loan words like zhuyi (主义, “ism”) or jingji (经济, “economy”). 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , Japan , Linguistics

Simplified: Fact: The modern Chinese words zhuyi (主义) and jingji (经济) are loanwords from Japanese.

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3 weeks ago
Scholars like Yuri Pines have long argued that the ideographic nature of the Chinese script was the primary engine of its cultural continuity. 1.000

👤 Yuri Pines 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Linguistics

Simplified: Statement: Scholar Yuri Pines has argued that the ideographic nature of the Chinese script was the primary engine of its cultural continuity.

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3 weeks ago
Our world has two dominating cultural source codes: one from the West, however construed, and the other that began in Yinxu, Henan, around 3,500 years ago, where the written Chinese language emerged i... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Linguistics

Simplified: Fact: The written Chinese language emerged in Yinxu, Henan, around 3,500 years ago in the form of prophetic oracle bones.

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3 weeks ago
The oracle bone inscription was of a person’s body, undergoing a painful ritual transformation of tattooing or scarification. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , History , Linguistics

Simplified: Fact: The oracle bone inscription for the character 文 depicted a person's body undergoing ritual tattooing or scarification.

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3 weeks ago
Chinese automakers face other costs — thousands of dollars for each car — from tariffs the European Union imposed on electric vehicles from China last year. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economic , China

Simplified: Chinese automakers face other costs thousands of dollars for each car from tariffs European Union imposed on electric vehicles from China last year

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7 months ago
BYD and other Chinese automakers have partly bypassed those tariffs by sending hybrid cars that mainly use battery-powered electric motors with small gasoline engines as backups. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Economic , China

Simplified: BYD and other Chinese automakers partly bypassed those tariffs by sending hybrid cars that mainly use battery-powered electric motors with small gasol...

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7 months ago
Chinese automakers, notably BYD and SAIC Motor, have taken delivery in recent months from Chinese shipyards of some of the world’s largest ships designed specially to carry cars. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , Shipping

Simplified: Chinese automakers notably BYD and SAIC Motor have taken delivery in recent months from Chinese shipyards of some of world’s largest ships designed sp...

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7 months ago
Ships carrying Chinese cars are using the Red Sea and Suez Canal even as other vessels still sail around Africa in fear of attacks by the Houthi militia. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ China , Shipping

Simplified: Ships carrying Chinese cars use Red Sea and Suez Canal other vessels sail around Africa due to fear of Houthi attacks

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7 months ago