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Oh What A Time...

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The Laws of Chin

The 18 laws of Chin, a legal code written onto bamboo canes to create that any man found crying and so presenting his weakness in public was to be humiliated. In ancient Italy, in ancient Rome specifically, medieval Italian authorities believed that public displays of grief especially weeping and wailing could lead to other emotions. So the idea in ancient China is they want to impose standards of emotional decorum as well as to remind different political factions who was in charge.

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