S9E10 | Finished behind the last place guy

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Firstly, hats off to Emma and her 团队 at the CYZ for all their hard work, all season-long. We close out the season 9 with an amusing story from a source, as yet never featured on this long-running educational program, called the Guòtínglù 过庭录. The author was Song literary figure Fàn Gōngchēng 范公偁 who had the misfortune to be born during the exact time when the Northern Song ended and the Southern Song began. In this tale, our young hero Sūn Shān 孙山 heads off to the capital to take the imperial exam. Another villager tagged along who also registered to take the test. One passed the test and the other was Míng Luò Sūn Shān 名落孙山. It's a nice little story infused with some of the best of Chinese culture and a dollop of human decency. That's it for Season 9. I may post a few director's cuts of previous CSP episodes during the off-season. All these CSP episodes will soon be published in the Summer catalog of Earnshaw Books. There will be vocabulary lists, tone marks, and characters. Just sayin. Thanks, everyone and drink plenty of water this summer. Keep yourself hydrated! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.8	Greetings everyone all over this warming world.
0:29.4	Lasla Montgomery here with the season 9 closer.
0:32.9	Hard to believe we already reached the end.
0:35.2	These 20 weeks sure flew by.
0:37.8	I'd like to thank every one of you for listening
0:40.1	and for your support.
0:46.3	We're gonna end things on an amusing note. Today's offering is a little funny story that comes to us from the Song Dynasty. The source of the Chengyu
0:51.6	is a little known work by the literary figure, Van Gong Chung, called the Guoting Lou.
0:57.0	But before we get into all that, let's break down the four characters for today's featured Chinese saying, Ming Loa, Sun Shan. A Ming is a name. What is your Ming? What is your
1:09.6	name? And Loa has a whole bunch of meanings, but in this case it means to lower or fall behind or below.
1:17.0	And Sun Shan, well, he's the main character from this story.
1:21.0	Ming Law, Sun Shan, name, fall behind. Sun Shan. Who knows what that means?
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