ladyemperor: (smile | save all of China)
武媚娘 | Wu Meiniang ([personal profile] ladyemperor) wrote in [community profile] isleofavalon 2021-08-29 09:43 pm (UTC)

Not as many as here. The imperial library had an extensive collection but we never had things like magazines or newspapers.

[Information that could be bought and sold by just about anyone, things meant to be read and then discarded afterwards.]

And we weren't normally encouraged to go to the library whenever we wanted to. They'd say it was "unseemly". [Though by the smile on her face it's clear that she has absolutely frequented that library as much as she wanted, seemliness be damned. Hey, if she was going to be punished with copying out the late Empress Wende's entire 30 volume of writings on how to be a proper lady then she'd more than earned her right to be there whenever she wanted.]

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