{"id":140600,"date":"2025-11-17T02:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140600"},"modified":"2025-11-17T02:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:00:17","slug":"chinas-queen-bao-si-was-blamed-for-millennia-science-has-cleared-her-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140600","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Queen Bao Si was blamed for millennia. Science has cleared her name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFew women in Chinese history have been as scorned \u2013 or as misunderstood \u2013 as Bao Si. For nearly three millennia, the queen has been remembered not as a person, but as a symbol: the beautiful femme fatale whose cold heart and unparalleled beauty brought down a dynasty.<br \/>\nAccording to legend, Bao Si was a queen so aloof she never smiled.<br \/>\nDesperate to amuse her, King You of the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1046-771 BC) is said to have played a deadly prank: he lit the kingdom\u2019s sacred beacon fires \u2013&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3332716\/chinas-queen-bao-si-was-blamed-thousands-years-science-has-cleared-her-name?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFew women in Chinese history have been as scorned \u2013 or as misunderstood \u2013 as Bao Si. For nearly three millennia, the queen has&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}