{"id":147908,"date":"2026-03-15T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147908"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:00:07","slug":"why-is-andy-laus-name-carved-on-a-600-year-old-brick-from-the-ming-dynasty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=147908","title":{"rendered":"Why is Andy Lau\u2019s name carved on a 600-year-old brick from the Ming dynasty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA 600-year-old brick bearing Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau Tak-wah\u2019s name has gone viral on social media in mainland China.<br \/>\nThree characters, identical to the actor and singer\u2019s Chinese name, were carved into the city wall of Nanjing, the ancient capital of the early Ming dynasty (1368-1644).<br \/>\nThe inscriptions, carved into a brick now preserved at the Nanjing City Wall Museum, offer clues about the identity of the ancient namesake \u2013 whose name is pronounced \u201cLiu Dehua\u201d in Mandarin.<br \/>\nThe Ming-era&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3346658\/why-andy-laus-name-carved-600-year-old-brick-ming-dynasty?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 PostA 600-year-old brick bearing Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau Tak-wah\u2019s name has gone viral on social media in mainland China. Three characters, identical to&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\/147908"}],"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=147908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}