Although Zong Que’s achievements on the battlefield weren’t written about in most history books, the old Book of Song included his story and how we got this episode’s featured Chinese Saying.

This week’s Chinese Saying features the heroic Liu Xiu, better known as the Guangwu Emperor who gave us this useful idiom when he praised the star of our episode.

When the Han Emperor Xuan had a headache out in west China he called on Old Reliable, General Zhao Chongguo, to deal with it. From this, we get one of the most useful Chinese Sayings ever!

This episode of the CSP concerns the early years of the Warring States period between Kings Goujian of Yue State and Fuchai of Wu.

In this episode, we meet Chen Sheng, whose origins couldn’t have been more humble. Hear his story and how he aspired to be to become the Hong hu Zhi Zhi concealed away in his heart.

Before he engaged Zhang Han in battle, Xiang Yu shouted a four-syllable order to his troops. This episode explores that phrase.

After becoming a hero last episode for returning the He Shi Bi Jade back to Zhao, Lin rose high in the government. But the mighty general Lian Po wasn’t satisfied to play second fiddle and was determined to put Lin Xiangru in his place.

The season 3 opener of the CSP features Sima Xiangru promises his king if the precious He Shi Bi jade ornament should get stolen or lost, he will find it and return it safely to his home state of Zhao all in one piece.

In the CSP Season 2 finale, Laszlo picks out a good one featuring China’s most famous person from ancient times. Today with our smartphone-obsessed lifestyles you can say we too sometimes don’t notice the smell of meat.

Laszlo tells a story of true love between two literary famosas from the Song Dynasty. Theirs was the perfect love that contained all the ingredients of marital bliss except length of years together.