A Heart Cut Open: The Birth of the Lin Surname
In the final years of the Shang dynasty, around 1100 BCE, a minister named Bi Gan (比干) walked into the palace of King Zhou (纣王) knowing he would not walk out.
King Zhou was a tyrant — the last ruler of a dying dynasty, notorious…
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