An official in Tang Dynasty China was once demoted to the provinces because he laughed at a calligrapher who was incredibly ugly during a day of mourning for the dead empress

>In 636, after Emperor Taizong's wife, Empress Zhangsun, died, the officials were observing a period of mourning and rotating in watching her casket, when Xu, seeing that the official taking that particular shift, Ouyang Xun, was exceedingly ugly in appearance, burst out in laughter, and was subsequently accused by the imperial censor of disrespect. He was demoted to the post of military assistant of the commandant at Hong Prefecture (roughly modern Nanchang, Jiangxi).

>>211694773 (OP)
you got this on your fyp too? haha nice

>>211694773 (OP)
>and then he raised an army and declared a Heavenly Holy Diamond Brilliant Golden Radiant Furious Velvet War and took the throne after slaughtering 750 000 men

>>211695002
5 million civilians were also eaten

>>211695069
and the new Emperor lose the Mandate of Heaven after 1 year, igniting the Radiant Jade of the Star Light Dragon rebellion

>>211695221
and then the Mongols/Jurchen/Manchus arrived

>>211695336
not after Lady Princess Xi Jin bathed in the blood of 1 million commoners from the Shenzhen province (the Manchus cooked her in mare milk right after)

>>211695476
you forgot her mother, Jin Xi, who was the emperor's 269th concubine

>>211695580
the same who had an affair with the Lesser Supreme Governor-Warden General of the 4th Jade Rank of the Western Governorate (he died after a month-long session of skin-peeling with a rusty spoon) ?

reminds me of that urban legend about an advisor of Hitler's who got sent to the eastern front over a joke

>>211695721
kek
you win, mon frere

Nice moment

>>211695859

>>211695812
Hitler told him to swat a fly, and the guy said since it was an aerial opponent the Luftwaffe representative should deal with it

>>211694773 (OP)
>Ouyang Xun
He is one of the most important Chinese calligraphers EVER thoughbeit

>>211694773 (OP)
how ugly was this guy

>>211694773 (OP)
>do literally nothing
>get exiled to east turkestan for the rest of your life

>>211696028
Allegedly looked like monke, someone wrote a whole satire story about his mother having sex with a monke and gave birth to him

https://zh-wikisource-org.translate.goog/zh-hant/%E8%A3%9C%E6%B1%9F%E7%B8%BD%E7%99%BD%E7%8C%BF%E5%82%B3?_x_tr_sl=zh-TW&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

>>211696741
>that size
mogs me

>>211695002

Lel