Period Drama Thoughts & Reviews

Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace  如懿传: Episode 73

Ye Zhao + their love interests + bonus:

You think you’re tricking me? You’re the one being tricked.

the story of ming lan

During Deng Sui’s sixteen-year reign, her relatives never threatened the rule of the imperial family, a testament to her skill and talent. She ruled the country cautiously and attentively. She so loved the people that she could not sleep when there was a famine, and she cut the palace budget as a means of providing relief. She was enlightened in her appointment of officials, emphasizing that outspoken, able, and virtuous men who had a good understanding of politics and history should be recruited. The Du Gen affair may be seen as a rare deviation from this course, presumably because it directly threatened her right to rule. Her brother Deng Zhi recommended talented and virtuous men such as He Xi, Yang Qin, Li He, and Tao Dun to the court and recruited as advisers to the empress dowager Yang Zhen, Zhu Chong, and Chen Chan. The empress dowager placed a high value on education for the imperial family, establishing a school for all members, male and female, over the age of five. She was personally involved in the school, acting as invigilator during examinations. The empress dowager in her turn had received lessons on the Confucian classics, astronomy, and mathematics from the female scholar Ban Zhao from the time she entered the palace. She selected over fifty Confucian scholars and Erudites to proofread books in the Eastern Library, and ordered eunuchs to study the Confucian classics in the library so that they would be able to teach the palace women. She was herself productive; eighteen pieces of her works were gathered together in a collection after her death.

Guzhuang appreciation month: If evil why pretty (bonus)

guzhuang appreciation month: week 3 -  if evil why pretty?