#燕Yan

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祸国妖妃 Scourge of the kingdom, the demon concubine aesthetics ⋆☾⋆⁺ character: Lady Xuanhua宣华夫人

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Yan Zijing character poster for The Story of Pearl Girl, airing November 1, 2024 (Weibo source)

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Yan Qing (燕青) FGO

[cnladies]

XIAO YAN 肖燕 | photoshoot

Xiao Yan: more photos here photoshoot: more photos here

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fc: Tang Yan (唐嫣) / Tiffany Tang

ethnicity: Han Chinese

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Cdrama: Gone with the Rain (2023)

Gifs of Ending of cdrama "Gone with the Rain"

ENG SUB 《微雨燕双飞 Gone with the Rain》 EP01 | 张楠、王玉雯 | 乱世爱情古装剧 | 欢娱影视

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czq7epuUhu8

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にょたりあ！

photographer:さとし

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 戴燕妮 ❦ Dai Yan Ni ❦ Flora Dai

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[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Tang Dynasty (618–907AD) Dancer Traditional Clothing Hanfu Based On Tang Dynasty Murals

▶1.China Tang Dynasty Mural painting of two women dancing in the tomb of Concubine Yan De /唐代燕德妃墓二女对舞壁画

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🧚🏻‍♀️Model：@盥薇(破防版)

👗Hanfu：@青泠谷

🔗Weibo：https://weibo.com/6969147663/5106836560415760

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Liu Yuning is so good in this role, I can't see how anyone else could have been cast in it. He just plays a tough guy with a heart of gold (see also: Hao Du, Ning Yuanzhou) so convincingly!

Wait... did anybody see me being a smitten puppy?

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燕云织造局 YAN YUN ZHI ZAO JU HANFU for 国风大典

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Because Liu Yuning's Yan Zijing from The Story of Pearl Girl is the guzhuang equivalent of a domineering CEO (霸道总裁), here's a clip of him doing his domineering CEO impressions during one of his livestreams.

His line in the trailer for A Dream Within a Dream, "woman, you're playing with fire," (女人，你是在玩儿火) also comes from this! 😄

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The significance of Emei

(Thank you to @renewedmotionforjudgment for the discussion!)

Disclaimer: I did not learn any Chinese literature in school and so all literary references whoosh over my head. I have done my best to translate and interpret with resources available on the Internet, but I still may have missed a lot. Feedback and other speculations are welcome.

I've been puzzled for a while about the meaning of the lines of poetry Jiang Xuening recites in reference to Xie Wei's qin, 峨眉 Emei.

She first comments on the name in Episode 8, reciting a fragment of a poem she believes Xie Wei might have taken inspiration from in a flashback.

峨眉山北雪极目，方丈海中冰作壶 On the north side of Emei Mountain, there is snow as far as the eye can see, The sea by the Buddhist temple is frozen like a pot. [1]

This is ostensibly a reference to the famous Emei Mountain in Sichuan, which is sacred in Buddhism and alluded to in numerous poems.

The lines Jiang Xuening quotes are one half of the complete poem, which taken as a whole evokes a wild, bitter, wintry outdoor scene and a longing for warmth [2]. Emei of these lines is cold, lofty, and pristine, much like Xuening's perception of Xie Wei himself at this point in her first life.

The scene changes to another flashback, with an exchange between Fangyin and Jiang Xuening as Xie Wei storms the capital:

娘娘！不好了，谢危焚琴谋反，已联合燕临大军攻击皇城！ Niangniang! Bad news! Xie Wei has burned his qin and rebelled. He's joined forces with Yan Lin's troops and is attacking the capital! 焚琴谋反？原来是“一振高名满帝都，归时还弄峨眉月”的峨眉！好你个谢危！ Burned his qin and rebelled? So it was the Emei from, "When your renown shakes the capital, come back and admire the moon over Emei with me," after all! Damn you, Xie Wei! [3]

This set of lines Jiang Xuening recites as Empress are the last of a poem called 《峨眉山月歌送蜀僧晏入中京》 by 李白, or "A song of the moon over Emei Mountain to send off Shu Seng Yan on his trip to the capital" by Li Bai. You can find the full text on Baidu.

It's a poem Li Bai wrote while traveling to his place of exile [4], and in it, the moon over Emei serves as a symbol of his longing for home and to connect him with his friend the monk Shu Seng Yan, who is leaving Li Bai and heading for the capital, Chang'an. Thus, the last two lines are a wish for his friend to make a name for himself in Chang'an, but also for them to enjoy each other's company again.

Back in the Story of Kunning Palace, we return to the present day, and Jiang Xuening thinks:

所以谢危上一次最终是当皇帝了，还是去弄那峨眉月了？ So did Xie Wei become the emperor in the end last time? Or did he return to admire the moon over Emei?

So

Emei the qin was destroyed before Xie Wei stormed the capital.

Xie Wei made Emei himself, and presumably can make another qin.

Xie Wei cannot "admire the moon over Emei" if he takes the throne, and vice versa.

So I posit that (Jiang Xuening thinks) Xie Wei thinks of Emei as symbolizing a life of peace -- a life in which he can play the qin. Like Shu Seng Yan, Xie Wei knows that his ability to enjoy Emei is only temporary in the light of his long-term plans -- his plans to shake the capital. But if he "returns," that is, gives up the throne and makes a new qin, he can enjoy that life again. To Jiang Xuening, that is the meaning of Emei.

However, we know Ning'er is a virtuoso at misunderstanding Xie Wei, and I personally think that if Xie Wei was actually going off this poem, he cannot avoid thinking of Emei as a line of comfort connecting him to his late mother, who had encouraged him to master the qin, much like Li Bai thought of Emei Mountain as a connection to his home region of Sichuan.

Anyway, this is just my interpretation at the moment. Please take with several grains of salt.

[1] The interpretation of 方丈 as a Buddhist temple and the sea being proximate to it comes from the "poem meaning" section of https://www.gushiju.net/ju/1864753. Gushiju further specifies that the temple and the sea are to the south of the mountain.

[2] The "poem meaning" and "analysis" sections of https://www.gushiju.net/ju/1864753

[3] Slightly adapted from mkvdrama's English subs.

[4] https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%B3%A8%E7%9C%89%E5%B1%B1%E6%9C%88%E6%AD%8C%E9%80%81%E8%9C%80%E5%83%A7%E6%99%8F%E5%85%A5%E4%B8%AD%E4%BA%AC/2854399. Li Bai had not reached his place of exile before he received news that he was pardoned.

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XIAO YAN 肖燕 | photoshoot

Xiao Yan: more photos here photoshoot: more photos here

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fc: Tang Yan (唐嫣) / Tiffany Tang

ethnicity: Han Chinese