S9E08 | Owned!

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

For our eighth CSP offering this season, we open up the Book of Han once again and hear the story behind Jiāo Bīng Bì Bài 骄兵必败. It doesn't always happen this way but the timeline of history is filled with examples of more powerful military forces being defeated on the field of battle by their weaker opponent. Arrogant soldiers must be defeated. Look what happened in Vietnam between 1954 and 1975. When you look into it, even today in our own time, Jiāo bīng bì bài is still happening. On a geopolitical level, this must be one of the hardest lessons to learn. More pugnacious world leaders should consult the Book of Han and ponder these words. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, greetings once again from the Chinese Sayings Podcast.
0:05.0	This is your host, Las La Montgomery, and have another good one for you.
0:09.0	I say that all the time, don't I?
0:11.0	It's not like I'm going to go looking for any nothing special
0:13.8	changus today we look at jia bing bi bai it comes to us from the Han shoe the book of Han
0:22.8	most of you will remember the Ban family of historiographers,
0:27.4	the illustrious father, Ban Bia,
0:29.5	and his son and daughter, Gu and Banjao.
0:34.0	They were chiefly responsible for the compilation of the book of Han,
0:38.0	and let us not forget their heroic brother,
0:41.0	the explorer, diplomat, and military great Bancho, who brought the Western region,
0:47.5	today's Xinjiang province into the Han Dynasty orbit.
0:51.7	One of the stars of our Chungu for this time is Han Emperor Shun.
0:57.0	You all remember him from past CHP episodes and the Chungu from Season 3 episode 6 by when bure yi chien seeing is believing you could hear about a place a hundred times but that takes a back seat to actually seeing it with your own eyes.
1:15.0	King Shen of Han is back so we know the story took place between 91 and 48 BC,
1:22.0	but before we get to the story, let's see what characters make up
1:26.0	Jow Bing B bite.
1:28.0	Jow means proud, arrogant or conceited.
1:32.0	Bing means troops or an army. proud, arrogant, or conceded.
1:33.0	Bing means troops or an army.
1:36.0	B means certainly, surely, or must, and Bai means to defeat or be defeated.
1:43.0	Jaubing, B. Ba'i.
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