Chapter 30
Chinese Sayings (Book 1)
Yī Zì Qiān Jīn | 字千金
from Season 8, Episode 1: Wouldn’t Change a Thing
Here is another well-known and useful chengyu. In this episode, we examine the 3rd century BC story behind Yı Zì Qian Jın (一字千金 ).
This is the one that came to us direct from The Grand Historian Himself and it features Lü Buwei, Lady Zhao, and the father of the future first emperor of China, King Zhuangxiang. This is one of the classic stories from the Qin State.
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