#Jin Sect

[kibutsujidemon]

"jiang and wei husband"

[kjwaikiki]

Protective Jiang Yanli Headcanon:

I have this idea in my head where Jiang Yanli is a bit more protective and political than in canon.

In my head when Wei Wuxian comes to Lotus Pier Jiang Yanli latches on to him just as he seems to latch on to her. Here is someone who needs her, who to a certain degree relies on her. In many ways Jiang Yanli sees Wei Wuxian as her child because she is the one that raises him.

The political side comes in regarding her engagement to Jin Zixuan. Wei Wuxian isn’t treated well by Yu Ziyuan and Yanli knows that her father won’t step in to stop Yu Ziyuan from hurting Wei Wuxian. So Yanli comes up with a plan. Yanli plans to take Wei Wuxian with her to Koi Tower.

Of course this brings its own set of difficulties. She will have to convince her father to let Wei Wuxian go, the toxic environment of Koi Tower, and the fact that Jin Zixuan resents their engagement.

Jiang Yanli schemes. The easiest to overcome is Zixuan’s dislike, she just needs to make him see her as a victim or ally rather than an enemy. This idea leads to her ultimate plan.

Yanli is going to poison herself while she is at Koi Tower. She is going to lay the blame on either one of the female Jin disciples who acted out of jealousy or one of Jin Guangshan’s cronies with the excuse that they think closer ties with Yunmeng Jiang will cause a decrease in their power (or something similar). The point is that she needs there to be an initial panic, investigation, and ultimately while someone will be caught Yanli needs there to be doubt in her parents’ minds as to whether Koi Tower is safe for her.

At this point Yanli will request that Wei Wuxian comes to Koi Tower and acts as her bodyguard. She knows that with the recent poisoning attempt her father will be weak to her request and more likely to grant it. It will be even more effective if she can get Jin Zixuan to request that Wei Wuxian come to Koi Tower to look after her because her parents can’t deny a sect heir easily.

Jin Zixuan will make the request because after Yanli poisons herself and her fiancé comes to see her she will tearfully request that he bring one of her brothers to Koi Tower. She will say she is afraid and that she misses her brothers. She will act weak and pitiful to soften Jin Zixuan’s heart to her. Jin Zixuan will see how Yanli was poisoned by someone of his sect and see her as a victim. He will pity her and thus accept her request and bring it up to her parents.

Of course Jiang Cheng cannot come to Koi Tower he is the sect heir and must stay in Yunmeng Jiang where it is safe. Wei Wuxian however is much more free to come to Koi Tower and look after his Shijie.

Jiang Yanli is happy. Months of planning, carefully building up an immunity to poison, and gathering the necessary ingredients have all payed off. As for the toxic cloud hanging over Koi Tower, there was already one poisoning attempt who is to say that there won’t be a second and that Jin Guangshan is the unfortunate victim this time. Of course with Jin Guangshan dead and Jin Zixuan the new sect leader Wei Wuxian will need to stay at Koi Tower indefinitely to protect Jiang Yanli.

I’m not sure how this ends. Maybe with Jin Ling’s birth or maybe with Wei Wuxian marrying Lan Wangji. I don’t know how much Jiang Cheng or Wei Wuxian know about Jiang Yanli’s plan. I am aware that Jiang Yanli can be considered OC. In the end this is just an idea that I had and wanted to share. I hope you like it!

[quandaryyy]

Everyday working in the service industry, I get one step closer to becoming Jin Guangyao.

I sympathize with him. I understand him. I am becoming him.

[incorrectly-quoting-mxtx]

Wei Wuxian: What’s up guys? I’m back!

The Jins: What the-you can’t be here. You’re dead. We literally saw you die!

Wei Wuxian: Death is a social construct.

[lewiscarrolatemybrain]

Reading about the cultural and social importance of bathing throughout Chinese history (because I am exactly the kind of person who spends hours reading about the cultural and social importance of bathing throughout Chinese history for no particular reason on a Tuesday night) and obviously now I'm imagining the sects all lowkey competing with regards to their public baths -- or at least the ones meant for visiting disciples and dignitaries.

The Jin are obviously doing The Most and being incredibly tacky about it. The floor of the bath is made of gold tile that dull super quickly and the whole tub needs to be frequently drained so the tiles can be deep cleaned and polished, and of course once they're shiny they reflect light up and through the water in a way that's actually really distracting. The bath bean has crushed pearls and seventy four different types of flowers in it. The benches are intricately engraved and inlaid with gems in places that pinch your butt when you sit on them.

The Nie have a natural hot spring that they have turned into their main public bath. The massive cavern houses a number of varying-sized pools, some of which interconnect and others of which are freestanding. The free standing pools are typically treated with different soaks to give the water various medicinal properties (most often for things like muscle aches or minor injuries, but also for skincare and such.) I imagine the Nie recipe for bath-bean would include animal fat and pancreas, making it very rich and cleansing.

Part of me wants to say the Jiang would just bathe in the lake but that seems cheap to me, so instead: Through a combination of well-placed pipes and clever array work, the Jiang bath house feels like a mini indoor rainstorm, with water falling in thousands of warm droplets from the ceiling above to fill the pools, which are more shallow that a typical bath would be. There are built-in overhangs you can sit under to get out of the "rain" while still being in the water. If requested the rain can be "turned up" and the lights dimmed, and cymbals crash so you feel like you're really standing out in a raging thunderstorm, which some people find incredibly soothing and others find terrifying. I can't think of anything unique for the bath bean other than lotus flowers but I do think, given the proximity to the river, that mud wraps would be a common treatment offered.

The Lan... probably have the worst public baths, actually. They may not even actually have a public bath at all. If they do have one, it's not meant to be a place of luxury or entertainment, although of course it would be tastefully decorated and comfortable. Rather they'd find some way to make public bathing less about socializing and more about silently meditating while pretending you aren't surrounded by other naked people. I guess the cold springs kind of sort of count as a public bath but not really. Bath bean smells distinctly medicinal, but obviously whatever is in it works, because the Lan all look Like That.

The public bath in Qishan stopped being a popular attraction when Wen Ruohan stopped having visitors, but for years their bath was one hell of a marvel. Massive, bronze statues of phoenixes would be heated until glowing-hot and then lowered into the stone tub, filling the air with thick steam. Patrons would sit around the room on their benches, sweating it out until the statues had cooled enough for the water to be safe to enter. If you wanted a cold bath, the adjoining room was also home to a massive bronze statue, this one of a dragon that sat in the center of the tub and poured cool water out of it's mouth. Bath bean was made with plant ash rather than rice or soybean powder, and the water was all treated with volcanic ash.

And, because I am Me, the Wei sect: I'm imagining a dark hall deep in the cave systems, the floor lined with man made in-ground pools of varying sizes not entirely unlike the Nie baths, however these pools aren't connected to an outside water source or each other. There are illusion arrays carved into the walls that send out glowing, ghostly shapes of fish and otters and other river creatures swimming through the air. The pools are filled through overhead pipes that pour water, oils, and herbal mixtures into the pool, and each pool has access to it's own set of labeled levers, so a person or group of people can customize their bath while they're having it, adding more cool water, hot water, or various add-ins. The bath bean is more of a paste due to the addition of a ton of collagen. (They get it from the kitchen's bone broth. The bones are not human, but that doesn't stop visiting disciples from scaring each other about it. Don't piss off the Yiling Louzu or you'll end up in the soap.)

[vozaho]

Los bastarditos Jin. 🙏 AU en donde estos weyes son los meros-meros del clan Jin como siempre debió ser. 🥱💛

[peculiardollart]

Some Jin sect hairstyles

Jin Ladies

Nie Men and Women

Jiang Men and Women

[sandradaffodils]

Done with character design of Madam Jin or known as Li Fang in my fic...Along with the time lapse 😁

[liziocit]

Am kinda glad that Jin Ling is a Jin, weirdly enough. Even though this clan has sabotaged him so many damn times, I know he will be able to reform it if u get what I mean.

Because this is a guy who clearly cares about the commoners and the less wealthy people in his area, like when he went to night hunt the hook ghost.

This is also a guy who has an uncle in Wei Wuxian, an honourable guy, who will absolutely steer JL in the right direction. Along with Lan Wangji who will always show his support in bunnies or his quiet prescence.

Maybe the Jin sect won't be a place where injustice reigns supreme instead it will probably become a place where no marginalised groups will be turned away anymore.

Maybe women like mianmian won't have their voices covered over their male counterparts.

Maybe illegitimate children like Jin Guangyao won't be thrown off the stairs anymore, instead they'll be welcomed by the standoffish but welcoming Jin Ling.

Sure Jin Ling will face a lot of stumbling blocks in the form of the the old, corrupted elders but he's a tenacious kid, if he wants it to happen, it will happen dammit.

[murderedbyhomework]

I have zero idea if someone has pointed this out before but mxtx is a genius in symbolism.

So the representative flower for the Jiang Sect is the lotus flower （蓮花）, and the Jin representative flower is the peony （牡丹). There's this very famous piece of literature that represents the symbolism these flowers hold in Chinese culture, namely 《愛蓮說》, which about translates to "sayings out of love for lotus". It's like an essential part of Chinese literature curriculum for any Chinese student, and it compares the values the daisy flower and the peony flower represent against the values the lotus flower represent.

The lotus is heralded as the saint/role model (君子) of flowers, as it represents purity, perseverance, independence, upstanding moral values in general, and most importantly, the ability to remain pure/untouched even while living within filth. A lot of these values coincide with the Jiang Motto "Attempt the impossible", or rather attempting to do the right thing even when it seems impossible. And in a way, the Jiang siblings all represent some aspect of the lotus flower. Jiang Yanli grows up kind and soft spoken even with a mother like Madam Yu, and believes in Wei Wuxian even when the entire cultivation world despises him. Jiang Cheng displays perseverance and independence in how he rebuilds the Jiang sect, and while I don't want to get into the debate of whether or not he's a really good sect leader that cares about the commoners, or his morals in general, one irrefutable fact is that he rebuilt the Jiang Sect to it's former glory at a very young age, something that should be nigh impossible. And Wei Wuxian, while not morally pure, does attempt to do the thing he considers right, against all odds, which is actually what led him into the messes he gets into. And of course, he grows up on the streets for ages 4 to 9, yet manages to keep on being kind and selfless instead of growing bitter, retaining his morals and the teaching his mother ingrained in him. So really the Jiang siblings to greatly embody the values of the lotus flower, something I bet mxtx intended.

As for the Jin sect, having the peony as their representative flower really is the best insult mxtx could've come up against them. The peony, in Chinese literature, embodies wealth and Conventional beauty. 《愛蓮說》 goes a step further and criticises people who love the peony flower to be following the masses, and that by liking the peony flower, people are prioritising wealth, power, reputation, or are more keen on leaning on the powerful so they're safe and Conventional instead of prioritising doing the right thing and having the right values. Which of course, is a perfect reflection of the Jin Sect. Jin (金 in chinese) literally means gold, and it's reflected in how the Jin sect is presented to be wealthy and quite frivolous in spending. It also reflects how the cultivation world chose to follow Jin Guangshan, and later Jin Guangyao in condemning Wei Wuxian, because the Jin Sect has great influence, wealth, and power, and in the end it's safer and easier to go along with them.

Tldr, mxtx was an absolute genius with her using flower symbolism to represent the Jin and Jiang sect values, as well as the role they play in mdzs.

[kibutsujidemon]

"the first time"

[thelyinggrapevine]

MDZS Headcanons (Master list)

Hello everyone!

This is going to be a master list of all of my headcanons that I've been putting on a Google Doc for a couple years now (that was mainly just collecting dust in my drive but we don't talk abt that). I decided that maybe I could post these, just to see what others think!

I use some-if not all-of these headcanons in all my "Canon Relevant" fics (both published or not) and I've been recently trying to update them and add more, especially to the Jin, Nie, and Wen Sect areas!

Below are the links to each section of headcanons, as if I posted them all together as they are in my Docs, it would be quite long.

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Jiang Sect

Jin Sect

Lan Sect

Nie Sect

Wen Sect

Extra Headcanons (+ Relationship Dynamic Headcanons)

[pleasegivejinlingabreak]

Jin RuLan - MDZS novel russian edition illustrations

[just-troy0-0]

Handmade tassel!^-^

So, i made a thing and then found out it comes under being called a tassel. The inspiration was lanling jin sect for some reason.

(The photos almost makes it look like real gold)

[moonwaif]

It's JGY's "performing the customer service persona in front of your own family" that really nails down the estranged-child-born-out-of-wedlock dynamic for me.