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Tobodai
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Topic: favorite Chinese Emperor Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 01:40 |
Not necessarily the most famous, but which one do you personally like the most, or to word it better, best reperesented your personal ideals for what you would want in an emperor best.
Mine in Tang Taizong as you probably know.
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Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 01:43 |
Another repeat thread..that's discussed many times in AE.
Anyway, it's Tang Taizong for me..
OR Han Wudi
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Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 03:12 |
My is Ming Shen Zhong, who loved collecting gold so much, his private gold bank had so much gold that even oxydized. Now that's called greedy.
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Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 03:49 |
edit: i seemed to have misplaced my post.
anyway, i will go with Qin Shi Huangdi. Not that i like him but that he is interesting.
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Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 05:13 |
Mine would be Tang Taizong as well.
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Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 05:42 |
Tai Tsung
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Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 10:19 |
Anyone explain to me who was Han Wudi?
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Grrr..
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Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 17:23 |
Originally posted by demon
Anyone explain to me who was Han Wudi? |
Han Wu Di, ~Z, named Liu Zhe B, who was the decisive emperor that drove out the Huns from the Han boarders.
However when he was old, he became a stupid fool. He ordered his first son to death.
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Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 17:48 |
I think some later emperors get overlooked. For example my second favorite is the Yongle emperor, for his trade policies mostly, and that it is fun to say Yongle.
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Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 17:55 |
AAh! I've read things about him! thanx for clarification.
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Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 18:12 |
Originally posted by Catt
edit: i seemed to have misplaced my post.
anyway, i will go with Qin Shi Huangdi. Not that i like him but that he is interesting.
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I like Qin Shi Hunagdi very much, he was so brutal that his impact is still felt and the nation he created has th elongest lifespan in the world outside of Egypt. He may have been cruel, but so are many people whop have been given the title the Great, and most of those people are not as great as Shi Huangdi. The only person in the entire world I think who has had more impact of the history of the world is Cyrus the Great. Nonetheless the people under Huangdi did suffer immensely, which is why Taizong beets him on my list.
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Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 20:59 |
What about the Ming Emperor who loved charpentry? And all he wanted to do all day long was chopping wood. That one's classic too. Ming dynasty's the best!
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Posted: 20-Dec-2004 at 22:12 |
wasn't there in the chines myth that dragons used to be emperors?
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Posted: 21-Dec-2004 at 14:38 |
"I like Qin Shi Hunagdi very much, he was so brutal that his impact is still felt and the nation he created has th elongest lifespan in the world outside of Egypt. "
Just what exactly is the method used to calculate life span in an Empire thats over 2200 years old.
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Posted: 21-Dec-2004 at 18:36 |
the fact that it still exists? By no means a common thing.
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Posted: 22-Dec-2004 at 12:14 |
Ok, I interpreted that as the life span of an average person living in the empire.
And if so, Egypt actually has a shorter lifespan spanning from 3100 b.c. to the end of B.C.
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Posted: 22-Dec-2004 at 13:18 |
In terms of accomplishments, my favorite is Qin Shi Huang as he built
the Great Wall, unified Chinese writing system (Hanzi), currency, width
of axels among other things.
However, my overall favorite would be the Ming emperor who sent Admiral Zheng He on his voyage. I believe it's Zhu Di?
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Posted: 22-Dec-2004 at 15:08 |
No, it's Ming Cheng Zhu, the uncle that kicked out his dead brother's son.
Also the one who started the revival of dickless people taking over power in Ming dynasty.
Not the greatest emperor ever. But then again, Ming is famous for its bad emperors. So cheers.
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Posted: 25-Dec-2004 at 22:45 |
The emperor Kang xi is my favorite because during the his reign the European dogs have to knee down infront of the throne during Po Yi Europeans just like ignore all these traditions because they think CHinese were useless.
f**kin White Dogs
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Posted: 26-Dec-2004 at 00:51 |
hrm..you'll last long....good luck mate..
i blame it on your parents for not teaching you how to behave
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