Lady Mengde, Who Failed to Usurp the Han Dynasty, Refuses to Be the Han Empress!
Chapter 1: Am I Cao Mengde? In the seventh year of the Yanxi era, also known as 164 CE, in the city of Luoyang— Luoyang was formerly written as Luoyang with a different character. During the pre-Qin era, the written language varied greatly among states, and even the character for “Luo” had many forms, one of which was “Luo.” ...
Chapter 1: Am I Cao Mengde? In the seventh year of the Yanxi era, also known as 164 CE, in the city of Luoyang— Luoyang was formerly written as Luoyang with a different character. During the pre-Qin era, the written language varied greatly among states, and even the character for “Luo” had many forms, one of which was “Luo.” After the Qin dynasty unified the script, “Luo” became the standardized form, which the Western Han continued to use. Hence, throughout the Western Han, the capital was known as Luoyang. However, after the founding of the Eastern Han, the doctrine of the Five Virtues became popular. The Han dynasty aligned with the element of fire, and to prevent the character Luo—associated with water—from symbolically extinguishing the dynasty’s “fire,” Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu resurr
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