The Tale of Yue Fei, the Glorious Warrior of the Celestial Empire
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The Tale of Yue Fei, the Glorious Warrior of the Celestial Empire
19.99 €
This is a novel about the national hero of China, the military leader Yue Fei, who lived during the Song Dynasty, in the early 12th century. The Song Dynasty was a country of developed and refined culture - it was here that movable type printing was invented in the 11th century, thanks to which a magnificent literary heritage has survived to this day. The rulers of the country had a deep respect for the fine arts (sometimes to the detriment of government affairs), city life was in full swing, trade and crafts flourished. The capital of the Song Dynasty, the magnificent Kaifeng, is considered the largest city in the world among those that existed at that time.
The wealth of the Song Dynasty gave no rest to its neighbors, and the empire itself was always not averse to expanding its possessions. Wars were constant. Military valor was highly valued, but loyalty was valued even more. Yue Fei became the living embodiment of these qualities. A great fighter and a brilliant strategist, he stood steadfastly guarding the northern border of the empire, which was constantly under attack by the Jurchens. "It is easy to move a mountain, but difficult to move Yue Fei's army," his enemies, who were never able to defeat him, said of him. Yue Fei did not die on the battlefield, he was secretly killed in prison, where he ended up on the slander of traitors who doomed their country to defeat and humiliation. But he remained an invincible hero in the legends of his people. These legends formed the basis of a novel written at the turn of the 17th–18th centuries by the Confucian scholar Qian Cai, and in this work a heroic epic, a historical novel and a fairy tale are intricately intertwined.
The wealth of the Song Dynasty gave no rest to its neighbors, and the empire itself was always not averse to expanding its possessions. Wars were constant. Military valor was highly valued, but loyalty was valued even more. Yue Fei became the living embodiment of these qualities. A great fighter and a brilliant strategist, he stood steadfastly guarding the northern border of the empire, which was constantly under attack by the Jurchens. "It is easy to move a mountain, but difficult to move Yue Fei's army," his enemies, who were never able to defeat him, said of him. Yue Fei did not die on the battlefield, he was secretly killed in prison, where he ended up on the slander of traitors who doomed their country to defeat and humiliation. But he remained an invincible hero in the legends of his people. These legends formed the basis of a novel written at the turn of the 17th–18th centuries by the Confucian scholar Qian Cai, and in this work a heroic epic, a historical novel and a fairy tale are intricately intertwined.
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