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May 22, 2021 • 6 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Cdrama #TheLongBallad finished airing. It turns out #Dilireba's character Princess Li Changge and @Wulei's character Turkic prince Ashile Sun DO have historical parallels in Tang Dynasty!

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#迪丽热巴 #长歌行
Not much was written abt frmer Crown Prince 李建成 Li Jiancheng's daughter. But we do know abt Emperor Taizong's step daughter who married a Turkic prince. Her mother was a famous beauty but her Dad was killed in rebellion agst Sui Dynasty. Prince Li Shimin married her mom
In 629 AD, Tang Empire allied w #Uyghurs and Xueyantuo, launched a major expedition agst Eastern Turkic Khaganate in Mongolia. Illig Khagan fled to the tribe of Turkic Prince Ashina Zhong. Ashina Zhong captured Illig Khagan and sent him to Tang court.
Tang Emperor Taizong married his step daughter Princess Dingxiang 定襄县主 to Turkic prince Ashina Zhong 阿史那忠 as reward for capturing Turkic Khagan.

#TheLongBallad #长歌行 #迪丽热巴 #Dilireba #WuLei
Ashina Zhong then led his Turkic tribesmen fought for Tang Empire in Korea, on Tibetan Plateau agst Tibetan Empire and in Central Asia agst the Western Turkic Khaganate #Wulei #吴磊 #长歌行 #TheLongBallad
Turkic Prince Ashina Zhong was buried in Imperial capital Chang'an (Xi'an) next to Tang emperor Taizong. His tomb has some amazing murals! #长歌行 #TheLongBallad

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Oct 30
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He met her in his travels to Gilgit a couple of yrs ago while working in Pakistan. They maintained contact, had an online relationship.

Kalash said to descend frm Alexander the Great's Macedonian Army. Recent DNA tests showed that they're not related to Greeks but rather descend frm Bronze Age Proto-Indo-European tribes that migrated to the Indian subcontinent frm the Central Asian Steppe.

There're only abt 3,000 Kalash people who adhere to their ancient religion.

I had only read abt Kalash people in National Geographics and Human Genome project. It's wild to see this content showing up on my Douyin feed.

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Predictably many in Douyin comments ask him to introduce them to a Kalash gf. Bro said he won't do it and won't recommend even to his own 3 single male cousins in China. He said because there's a huge linguistic/cultural difference to overcome, his own case is special because he had lived and worked in Pakistan for many years, and he met his wife during his travels. He also mentioned that it's more difficult to travel to Northern Areas in Pakistan because there're many restrictions due to its sensitive status as a disputed area with India.
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Hangzhou police arrested Fang Bingbing cosplayer during Halloween celebration last night.
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I don't know who he is cosplaying but Hangzhou police came for him, and also made him put on his shirt
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Apr 13
In this history thread, I will talk about how the direct ancestor of Miss Russia 2011 Natalia Gantimurova led to the 1st China Russia border war and Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689.

Her ancestor Gantimur was a Tungus tribal chief who got caught up in Russian and Qing expansion 🧵
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Mar 25
188cm Ukrainian cosplayer Karina at Hangzhou ad02 animation expo. Her fanbase mostly young Chinese women.

She became a cosplayer aft moving to China w her Chinese husband, gained 3.5million Douyin fans. Her husband cheated on her then drowned in Bali's Kuta Beach last Nov on his birthday during their vacation together. Her fans are glad that she seems to be doing ok now.
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Her hubby had responded to how they did photoshoot in which he appeared taller.

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Her hubby had responded to how they did photoshoot in which he appeared taller.

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Ethiopian Chinese baby. Father works for a shoe factory.

Many Chinese textile and shoe factories moved to Africa to go around the US imposed quota on Chinese manufactured goods and take advantage of The African Growth and Opportunity Act which provides duty-free treatment to goods of designated sub-Saharan African countries (SSAs)
Chinese comments on the Douyin video: "Does your shoe factories still need people?"

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Chinese factories off-shored to Africa employ mostly local African workers with a small managerial staff send from China.

Made in Ethiopian goods will sell to the US and EU market without facing restrictions on Chinese goods
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