Hi everyone, Lazzle Montgomery here with a quick promo message for you.

First of all, thanks for listening to the China History Podcast.

My everlasting gratitude for checking it out, hope you like it.

I wanted to let you know about a couple other teacup media shows. Even if you're not a tea drinker, please go check out my tea history podcast. We humans collectively down about a billion cups of tea a day.

And other than the water we drink and the air we breathe,

nothing is consumed in greater quantities than tea.

The Tea History Podcast explores teas. greater quantities than tea.

The Tea History Podcast explores tea's roots as a bitter medicine that China's tea masters

transformed into a beverage that inspired a million great ideas. The history of how T developed

over the ages and how every single civilization on Earth fell for it. It's a great story. The T History Podcast. And while I have you, please also give a

listen to another history show called the Chinese Sayings Podcast. The Chinese language is chock full of thousands and thousands of these idioms or Chinese

sayings called Chengyu in Mandarin.

Every one of them is grounded in some event or story from Chinese history and at the Chinese

sayings podcast each episode we look at one break it down tell the story behind it,

oftentimes featuring historical characters straight out of the China History

Podcast.

It's always a treat to learn how only four Chinese characters

can express so much meaning.

Whether you speak Chinese or not, you can still appreciate these short

six to eight minute podcasts.

I welcome you to check it out. The Chinese Sayings Podcast.

Okay, before we start rolling with the episode, let me welcome you to check out my website at

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