Supernova Era Page 38
by Cixin Liu
* Over 100,000 soldiers participated in the Huabei Military Exercises, conducted in 1981.
* An inversion of an aphorism from the Zuo Zhuan, which warns against ascribing mean motives to virtuous people.
* Wu Heng (1914–1999), a geologist who chaired the National Antarctic Research Committee (later the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration) in the early eighties ahead of China’s first expedition, attributed this remark to Marshal Chen Yi (1901–1972).
* A paraphrase of Cao Cao’s shocking statement to Liu Bei in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, chapter 21.
* A Neolithic culture that flourished along the Yellow River 5000–3000 BCE, predominantly in what is now Henan, Shanxi, and Shaanxi.