{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"S9E10 | Finished behind the last place guy","description":"Firstly, hats off to Emma and her \u56e2\u961f at the CYZ for all their hard work, all season-long. We close out the season 9 with an amusing story from a source, as yet never featured on this long-running educational program, called the Gu\u00f2t\u00edngl\u00f9 \u8fc7\u5ead\u5f55. The author was Song literary figure F\u00e0n G\u014dngch\u0113ng \u8303\u516c\u5041 who had the misfortune to be born during the exact time when the Northern Song ended and the Southern Song began. In this tale, our young hero S\u016bn Sh\u0101n \u5b59\u5c71 heads off to the capital to take the imperial exam. Another villager tagged along who also registered to take the test. One passed the test and the other was M\u00edng Lu\u00f2 S\u016bn Sh\u0101n \u540d\u843d\u5b59\u5c71. It's a nice little story infused with some of the best of Chinese culture and a dollop of human decency. That's it for Season 9. I may post a few director's cuts of previous CSP episodes during the off-season. All these CSP episodes will soon be published in the Summer catalog of Earnshaw Books. There will be vocabulary lists, tone marks, and characters. Just sayin. Thanks, everyone and drink plenty of water this summer. Keep yourself hydrated! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm\/adchoices ","author_name":"The Chinese Sayings Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/teacup.media\/chinesesayingspodcast","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/35744970\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/35744970"}