Background
Dong Ping is from Shangdang, Hedong (in present-day Shanxi). He serves in Dongping Prefecture as a general. Dong Ping wields a pair of double spears in combat and is feared by many for his prowess in battle. Besides being an accomplished warrior, Dong Ping is also a connoisseur of music and the arts. He could play musical instruments and is described by women to be a romantic man. Hence, his nickname is sometimes lengthened to "Refined and Cultured General of Double Spears".
Read more about this topic: Dong Ping
Famous quotes containing the word background:
“Pilate with his question “What is truth?” is gladly trotted out these days as an advocate of Christ, so as to arouse the suspicion that everything known and knowable is an illusion and to erect the cross upon that gruesome background of the impossibility of knowledge.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... every experience in life enriches one’s background and should teach valuable lessons.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)