Welcome back, my friends, to the season that is coming to an end.

Lossal Montgomery here with the Chinese saying podcast season seven closer.

That was a quick 20 weeks if you ask me.

And to finish things off, I bring you an old Chinese saying that has multiple variations

of a story that essentially involves a jinkuo or a headscarf, not just any headscarf.

Do you recall perhaps the yellow turban and red turban rebellions of the eastern Han

and Yuan dynasties?

Well the rebels wore these colored headscarves or turbans to identify themselves in from

which their movement is remembered by.

And from the same general time period of the yellow turban rebellion of 184 to 205 AD comes

this story behind the jinguo ying shiong, a jing itself is a headscarf or towel or any

kind of piece of cloth that could be worn by a man or a woman.

And a guo is also a scarf and the two characters together, jinguo, are used to describe a women's

headdress or silk scarf.

And a ying shiong is a hero or heroine in this case.

So these four characters, jinguo ying shiong comprise two words that literally mean silk

scarf hero.

Now let's get to the story which comes to us courtesy of the book of Jin, one of the

24 official histories of the dynasties, this one compiled by Tang dynasty historians

who covered the years from around 178 AD in the eastern Han to the fall of the eastern

jing and founding of the Liu Song in 420.

And we have not won but two China history a-listers headlining this tale.

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