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What is up with this article? His birthdate is off by two years, his age at first examination by eight.
me goes and corrects. This is one messed up article.
Zotlan
Traditionally the Chinese did not measure age the same way Europeans did. They counted a child as being one year old at birth, and increased that age by one year every new year, not every anniversary of the child's birth. Thus a kid born two days before the new year would be two years old on the second day after he was born. Causes historians all sorts of problems.
"An example of this was Chinese student self-declared messiah, Hong Xiuquan, who despite ranking first in a preliminary, nationwide imperial examination, was unable to afford further education. As such, although he did try to study in private, Hong was ultimately noncompetitive in later examinations and unable to become a bureaucrat"
Presently, he is referred to as the third and youngest son, although a source,
The Search for Modern China, suggests that he was actually the fourth of five children. However, I am unable to access the sources used to support the current statement. This discrepancy raises uncertainty about his actual birth order. The
Blue Rider13:32, 18 November 2023 (UTC)reply