Dan Seitz

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One of the key royal cults of the Shang age still survives on the south side of old Shangqiu. Standing on a huge artificial mound is a temple built at the end of the thirteenth century in the Yuan dynasty, the replacement of earlier shrines. It is called Ebo Tai: the temple of Ebo, an archaic culture hero who is both the Chinese Noah and the Chinese Prometheus.
The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
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