September; 13 days earlier than the mean.62. In England, there was a severe frost from the 8th of December to the 17th of January.47, 72, 93. In 1645 during the period between 26 April and 24 May, floods struck Kiangsi (now Jiangxi province) in southern China at Wan-tsai and Hopei (now Hebei province) in northern China at An-tz’ŭ.

Oct 16, 2021 · Preface by Lionel Giles. The seventh volume of Mémoires concernant l’histoire, les sciences, les arts, les mœurs, les usages, &c., des Chinois is devoted to the Art of War, and contains, amongst other treatises, “Les Treize Articles de Sun-tse,” translated from the Chinese by a Jesuit Father, Joseph Amiot. Père Amiot appears to have enjoyed no small reputation as a …

A cousin marriage is a marriage where the spouses are cousins (i.e. people with common grandparents or people who share other fairly recent ancestors). The practice was common in earlier times, and continues to be common in some societies today, though in some jurisdictions such marriages are prohibited. Worldwide, more than 10% of marriages are between first or …

The Grand Canal, known to the Chinese as the Jing–Hang Grand Canal (simplified Chinese: 京杭大运河; traditional Chinese: 京杭大運河; pinyin: Jīng-Háng Dà Yùnhé; lit. 'Capital–Hangzhou Grand Canal', or more commonly, as the「大运河」("Grand Canal")), a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the longest canal or artificial river in the world.