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Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Supplemental Biopic, the mathematician of heaven.

Even though we may be on hiatus for a month, for my first vacation in some two odd years,

and as of now I'm sequestered away from the internet entirely for two weeks in Central Minnesota.

Well, what can I say? I can't help but give you guys some additional details about the period we're in right now.

We're not going to be advancing the narrative any in these supplemental mini episodes,

but instead backtracking a fair bit and exploring some of the more overlooked

perhaps less flashy aspects of Chinese culture during these tumultuous decades of the southern and northern period.

You know, the sort of stories that just managed to get left out in the pell-mel of dynasties rising and falling

and armies clashing violently. Today we'll be focusing on one of the famed mathematicians, engineers, and

astronomers of the era, Zu Chongje.

Zu Chongje was born in the year 429 in the capital of what was first Eastern Jin and then Leo Song

not Jane or again as it was then known Jin Kang. Though Chongjo would spend his

entire life south of the Yangza River his grandfather had actually been one of the many ethnically Han emigrees to the south

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