Monks at Baizhang Mountain hid their elderly abbot's farm tools one day, hoping to spare him physical labour; Baizhang refused to eat until the tools were returned; the phrase produced, "A day without work is a day without food",...
Chinese sources tracking the imperial examination system estimate that roughly 100,000 jinshi degrees, the highest a scholar could earn, were awarded across the entire history of the exam; nearly 3,000 of them came from Fuzhou alone, a single prefecture...
Government administrative reforms in 1983 left Shangrao's territory pinched into two separate lobes joined only by a narrow strip of land, a shape so unusual that Chinese commentators now describe the city's silhouette on a map as a bowtie,...
