People don't really mean all of China most of the time when they say 'China', especially in this context. Everyone lives east of a diagonal line that bisects the country that roughly corresponds to the old idea of "China proper". That area's what's really under discussion here: the land of the Han culture within China.
Yes. Growing seasons and crops matter though.
I was going to say 'but no one lives in Binzhou' but China being China of course three million people do. Still, the more important cities like Luoyang are even further south than it is, so your point remains valid.
Well, it seems Gordy and I and most English speakers have led sheltered lives. There are some dialects where this is a thing in English, apparently.
Holes in sheet were the ultra-religious folks so they wouldn't have to see each other naked.
It's fairly common usage in the Netherlands too. In the days before the interwebs "discreet" newspaper adds referred to French, Russian and Greek practices.Ok it is apparently a Central European thingy, most probably because the practice was spread by the Napoleonic armies here... it is oral sex.
Fair enough but area of Han culture postdates the first agricultural innovations. The Yellow River civilization expanded to incorporate both Sichuan and the lower Yangtze area, so we're really looking at 3 originally independent areas with their own population booms based on different crops.
Sure, if you don't count the guys in the Xiang Valley as a fourth. I mentioned that all upthread somewhere.
