Shenshu oracle soon in print!

Before end of 2018 I will have the Shenshu available as a printed book.

Sorry, it takes more time. I hope I will be finished in April/Mai.

The size is A5 horizontal (21 x 15 x 2 cm.) and it will have ± 220 pages.

In the back for every verse a short commentary/explanation.

Here in the website I will post every backgroud story I discover. In the book at every verse which has a story, there will be the website-address for it.

There are many verses which are based on stories, paintings, poems or on historic happenings.
In the image: the qin player Yu Boja with his friend Zhong Ziqi, who could 'hear the sound'.

Or Liu An, a Han dynasty prince, who was "author-editor of the Huainanzi", a "bumbling rebel who took his life to avoid arrest", and a successful Daoist adept who transformed into a xian and "rose into the air to escape prosecution for trumped-up charges of treason and flew to eternal life".

'Tao Yuan'

The utopia-myth Tao Yuan, with the Peach-blossom land of bliss nobody could ever find again.

A famous battle with an unexpected victory thanks to the East wind and a disastrous end for the much bigger army.

Love and marriage and how fate plays a part.

Tigers and dragons and the turtle Ao.

An old family-drama which made its way into a famous opera and from there into a movie.

Riders on horseback. Cities famous for their flowers.

Huang Feng, the Chinese Phoenix, which rather resembles Roc.

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