Hey everyone, welcome back to the Chinese Sayings Podcast.

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Today we look at a Chung-U that I would put in the well-known category.

That is to say, it's pretty well known.

Mausui, Z-Chien.

This one has a nice backstory and takes place in the Warren States period,

that richest and most fertile time when some of the best and longest lasting Changuuse emerged.

And for the 16th or 17th time already,

we're reaching into that veritable gold mine of Changu's and great stories from ancient China, the record of the grand historian.

And this one comes to us from the chapter, Ping Yuan Jun, Yu Ching-Ching Leijuan, the biography of Yu-Ching, Lord Ping-Uen.

And this Lord Ping-Uen, or Ping-Yen-Jun was also called Jau-Sung.

He was the younger brother of King Huywen of Jao,

and served as Chancellor to both King Huaywen

and his successor, Lord Pinguan's nephew, King Shao Chung,

and from the start of Hui Wen to the end of Shao Chung was 298 to 245 BC.

Lord Pingren, he lived from 308 to 251 BC. This was during a very

consequential time in the history of Cho in the whole warring states period.

And we'll get to all that in the story behind this,

Chungyu, Mao Sui, Tsi,

Ziz-Chien. As far as the four characters that make up this Chinese saying,

Mao Sui, well, that was a person's name. Ma'u Sui, that was a person's name.

He was not anyone of particular consequence from greater Chinese history,

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