you think humans have fundamentally changed during the past thousand years?? wrong. here is a very relatable poem written in 1192 by Song dynasty poet Lu You (who was 67 when he wrote this so i need you to imagine that too when you picture the poem)

Lu You was hilarious actually because he was known to be this aggressively patriotic poet who dreamed of reuniting China, but he also liveblogged his entire experience of getting a cat via poems. Here's where it all began:

filing this under How People Lived in Ancient China, a collection of details about ordinary life back then. this is a new category of posts so there's not a lot: https://twitter.com/i/events/1291769858258919424

more of my Chinese history tweet collections!!: http://linktr.ee/xiranjayzhao