According to legend and folk lore the North Emperor or Beid (北帝) is a powerful deity who rules the north. The ancient Chinese believed the world is made up of five elements, metal (金), water (水), wood (木), fire (火), and earth (土). They also assigned an element to each direction, north is water,...
We are able to trace the family trees to the first southward migrating ancestor for these families: Chow Der Lee Zhao In most cases it extended to the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, 1276AD or earlier. We have the information for the Der and Zhao families. It is a matter of finding time...
Mom was born in June 13, 1903 in Fausik (浮石), the second of three siblings and the only girl. It was a reflection of the Chinese tradition more than anything else that she was illiterate yet both of her brothers were educated, especially the older brother who was a teacher. She did learned to...
Zhao Mengfu (1254 – 1322) born during the latter part of the Song dynasty and died just shy of the half point of the Yuan dynasty. He attained a very high position in the Mongolian court. This was a major aspect that his critics focused on because as the 11th generation descendant of Zhao...
China’s history is one continuous loop of unification and fragmentation. The fragmentation period could be as short as half a century or longer than two hundred years. Unification happened when one of the warlords defeated the pretenders after many battles. With such a background one would expect to find a large number of professional...
