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Study on the Prohibition of the Purple Costumes in Ancient China (2013) [pdf] (semanticscholar.org)
19 points by prismatic 87 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Purple means royalty, kingship, other forbidden. Maoism is against any kinds of individuality.


I'm not certain how much influence Mao had in 1015 AD. Well, that's not true, I'm fairly certain the quantity is zero.


The line about Mao was a sarcasm about more situation of now days. English is not my native.




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