Especially when it follows a few years dedicated to becoming a certified advanced holistic massage therapist and doing energy work in Northern California?
Is Paul coming unraveled, we all wonder? Am I regressing? I shaved my head: clearly his fault, since he said he only likes dangerous-looking men.
Would a big iron cross tattooed across my forehead make me more sexy-dangerous, do you think? It would certainly be SOOO me. OK, OK, enough about my summer makeovers and my failed love life. Finally got out of the tourist books! Now about those tombsβ¦ever the boring academic, let me inform you that the Qing Dynasty as noted in my last posts from the seashore established itself after storming down from the wild northeast aka Manchuria and driving out the last of the Han Chinese Dynasties in In actual fact, the dynasty reached its peak during the reigns of Kangxi and his grandson Qianlong , and after that it was one ugly, long decline, during which Europe started trying to boss China around quite a bit.
The French and British, in particular, took a fancy to marching on Beijing and burning down palaces and things in order to make the Chinese open more ports for trade. See β the WTO does serve a purpose! Kangxi, living as long as he did and of course surrounded in the Forbidden City by all those concubines and wives, managed to produce quite a few progeny, of whom something like 13 were sons. Yongzheng killed all but one the most loyal of his brothers and ruled from When it came time to plan his tomb, though, he suffered some remorse, and chose a separate location far out west of town for himself, his wives and his concubines.
Socio-cultural aside about ruthlessness. Ruthlessness is just fine. Bad for them. But men β hell yeah, kill your brothers. No problem! Gotta be cruel to be kind, gotta be firm to rule well, and certainly gotta be a man to rule! Tidbits about the tombs: there were far more than we could see in a full afternoon, surrounded by fields, orchards and chestnut trees, scattered like jewels along the verdant hillsides at one end of a hill-encircled valley.
