#Meng Chiao

[gennsoup]

The peril of love is not in loving too often, A single evening can leave its wound in the soul.

Meng Chiao, Impromptu

[wesley-de-cornualles]

此儿自见灾，花发多不谐。 穷老收碎心，永夜抱破怀。

Calamity infecting a child is natural: blossoms mostly fail. Still, I gather

ruins of the heart, a spent old man cradling love's debris in endless night.

Meng Chiao, from “Apricots Died Young”, The Late Poems of Meng Chiao trans. David Hinton

[weatherwaxironboots]

Fucking doing this cloud atlas deep dive and I've started with researching the phrase

"the weak are meat and the strong will eat"

and the man who wrote it

Han Yu of the Tang Dynasty.

Oh what a time Han Yu lived in, a time of great change and activity, the flood of Buddhism and Taoism caused him much worry. His world was filled with poetry, poetry was key to communication in his day to day experience. His time is reffered to as a "golden age of great antiquities" often across many different texts.

I am starting with Han Yu and I know that this is just the beginning.

Managed to find this handy book of analysis and translation.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sowen/files/owen_stephen_-_the_poetry_of_meng_chiao_and_han_yu.pdf

[xbethelight]

The Double 墨雨云间 (2024)

[namjhyun]

DRAMA REVIEW | The Double (2024)

For starters, this was a great watch. The production value was outstanding, the clothing design beautiful and the performances exactly what you want from this kind of revenge story, which is subtle and over the top at the same time, somehow. The music and editing could be better but they didn't stop me from enjoying this drama.

The main characters are smart, deadly and flirty. Their friends and family members a perfect fold for their cunning ways.

Wu Jin Yan and Wang Xingyue have an explosive chemistry. It's unreal. Every scene they had together got me giddy with excitement.

The villains were not your typical and I found myself equally invested in the part they had to play in this story. Their ending was befitting to their respective arcs and retribution sweet.

It's my first time watching a drama where Li Meng stars in but I am damn impressed by her. She's a powerhouse and I will be looking forward to her future projects.

This is also the kind of drama where nobody is safe and I commend the script writer for going there when so many other don't. That said, if you are going to kill a major character, you can't have a lukewarm resolution.

I have spent the better part of the last hour reading and watching every interview the director, cast and crew gave about this drama because when I finished it watching I was pissed.

This might be controversial because I know this is a well loved drama, hell, I loved watching this drama but what was the director thinking changing the script of the final episode and leaving the story as an open ending? Viewers spent 40 episodes, invested in this characters, hoping for them to have a happy ending, only to be met with a final scene that can be interpreted as reality or wishful thinking. Leaning more on the latter.

A revenge story it's not something you leave open ended. And, yes, I know there's an epilogue and I think it should be part of the final episode not something you release just in case fans might be angry at what you did. This is so unserious, I am lacking words.

This drama was a solid 8 for entertainment and production value until that ghastly final scene, forcing me to drop a full number. They should have known better... and they did. Why release an epilogue if they didn't?

Rating: 7/10

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: The Double (2024)

Gifs of Ending of cdrama "The Double"

ENGSUB 【墨雨云间 The Double EP01】 木叶动，秋声起，墨雨中，云间明 | 古装 爱情 | 吴谨言 / 王星越 | YOUKU COSTUME

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVTrm7F1eg

[inemi]

One moon lights

a thousand forevers.

Meng Chiao

Art by Aimee Stewart

[callivich]

Gallavich Quotes Prompts 🗣️

Prompts for fics, headcanons, or discussion, etc. Interpret these however you like and feel free to use them as just a jumping off point! Btw, if anything along these lines has been written, please do recommend them to me! Quotes are by various writers that I’ve come across on tumblr (so I’m trusting these are the accurate sources)

“When I go toward you it is with my whole life” - Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours

“I still wake up with things to tell you” - Trista Mateer, I Still Forget We’re Not Even Friends

“You did something for me I couldn’t do for myself. You loved me for who I am” - William Chapman

“With my eyes in your eyes I am less vulnerable to the elements” - Oana Avasilichioaei, Momiji Garden

“The peril of love is not in loving too often, a single evening can leave its wound in the soul” - Meng Chiao, Impromptu

“All the years of wanting you have softened me up, have made me sensitive to the moments we are together so that I treat each one like a treasure” - Michael O'Leary, He waiatanui kia Aroha

“I want to watch your wrinkles deepen under the passing full moons, I want to see grey hairs appear and strong shoulders stoop as our families grow” - Tenille K. Campbell, we met in late spring

“I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to” - Elizabeth Berg, Talk Before Sleep

“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time” - Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment” - Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Right now I'd like all my troubles to stand in front of me in a straight line, and one by one I'd give each a black eye” - Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy” - Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible” - Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Your first kiss is destiny knocking” - Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times” - Mitch Albom, For One More Day

“All roads lead to you even those I took to forget you” - Mahmoud Darwish

"I am in urgent need of having my lips sealed with kisses” - Franz Kafka

[putah-creek]

-from AUTUMN THOUGHTS lonely bones can't sleep nights the singing insects keep calling them calling them and the old have no tears when they sob autumn weeps dewdrops strength failing all at once as if cut loose with ravages everywhere like weaving unraveled I touch thread-ends no new feelings memories crowding thickening sorrow how could I bear southbound sails to wander rivers and mountains of the past -MENG CHIAO 751-814 CE

[imaginedpoetry]

Mourning Lu Yin (Meng Chiao)

1

Invariably pure and austere, poets mostly starve to death embracing empty mountains,

and when white clouds have no master, they just drift off, idle thoughts carefree

Servants too weak to make arrangements after a long illness

You body lies waiting Among all those prize books

Hungry mice shredded and scattered through the house

You’ve gone to the village of new ghosts now

I look into a face a white as jade then watch your burial ashamed no one follows, clutching at you calling you back

At dusk springs mourn by the hundred, their empty lament flowing and flowing

Midjourney : Modern Chinese oil painting, <poetry lines>, depth of layers in the style of Shao Wenhuan and Gerhard Richter --ar 3:2 --v 5 --q 2 --s 250

The images were selected on an individual basis rather than maintaining a specific style. The was a conflict in that the style would be constant but the image did not fit or the image was right but the style was different.

This avoids the issue

from: The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry Edited by Eliot Weinberger New Directions Publishing Corporation New York, NY 10011

[gennsoup]

Who will say that the inch of grass in his heart Is gratitude enough for all the sunshine of spring?

Meng Chiao, Wanderer's Song

[wesley-de-cornualles]

儿生月不明，儿死月始光。 儿月两相夺，儿命果不长。 如何此英英，亦为吊苍苍。 甘为堕地尘，不为末世芳。

At our son's birth, the moon was dark, and when he died, it began to shine.

Moon and child, they stole each other away. O scarcely lived child of mine,

what's it like, blossom after blossom, if not endless blue heavens in lament,

sweetness falling into earthen dust, nothing left to bloom in other times?

Meng Chiao, from "Apricots died young", The Late Poems of Meng Chiao, trans. David Hinton

[weatherwaxironboots]

I'm continuing my deep dive into cloud atlas and I'm investigating Han Yu so I'll share some of that here.

The Pheasant Struck By An Arrow

Han Yü

On the plain fires burn with silent determination,

Field pheasant, fearing the hawk

Come out and sink back down again.

The general wishes to humble others by his skill,

Turns his horse around, bends his bow.

But holds back and does not shoot.

The area gradually gets narrower, onlookers increase,

The pheasant starts up, the bow stretched in full,

A strong arrow in the notch.

It soars abruptly upward, against the people,

More than a hundred feet,

Red pinions and the silvery barb follow

Toward one another slanting.

The general looks up and laughs, his officers congratulate him,

As many-colored feathers fall scattering before the horse.

From Page 21 of "the poetry of Meng Chiao and Han Yü" by Owen Stephen

[xbethelight]

The Double 墨雨云间 (2024)

[ericayuwenhuang]

Here is where we meet

Here is where we meet 2023/06/29-10/15 Venue: Chiayi Art Museum 1F-3F Supervisors：Ministry of Culture, Chiayi City Government Organizers：Chiayi Art Museum, Tianmei Art Foundation Collaborators：TKG+, Mind Set Art Center, Each Modern Curator：Erica Yu-Wen Huang Artists：Wang Po-Yen, Wu Chuan-Lun, Lin Yi-Hsuan, Lin Ying-Chieh, Chiu Chen-Hung, Chang Chih-Chung, Zhang Xu-Zhan, Chang Cheng-Chun, Chuang Ho, Kuo Yu-Ping, Chen I-Chun, Chen Sung-Chih, Chen Ching-Yuan, Chen Ching-Ming, Huang Chih-Cheng, Liao Chi-Yu, Liu Chih-Hung, Cheng Nung-Hsuan, Jian Yi-Hong, Lo Yi-Chun Archive Room - Participating Artists：Ding Chien-Chung, Niu Jun-Qiang, Wang Po-Yen, Shih Meng-Hsin, Wu Chuan-Lun, Li Yi-Fan, Li Ting-Huan, Lin Hao-Bai, Lin Yi-Wei, Lin Ying-Chieh, Chiu Chen-Hung, Chiu Chien-Jen, Hung Sheng-Hsiung, Hsu Yin-Ling, Shiu Sheng-Hung, Chang Chih-Chung, Zhang Xu-Zhan, Chang Cheng-Chun, Chang San-Hsueh, Chuang Ho, Kuo I-Chen, Kuo Yu-Ping, Chen I-Chun, Chen Sung-Chih, Chen Kuan-Ying, Chen Fei-Hao, Chen Ching-Yuan, Chen Ching-Ming, Huang Chih-Cheng, Huang Xuan, Yang Han-Chiao, Liao Chi-Yu, Liao Zen-Ping, Liu Chih-Hung, Liu Feng-Ling, Cheng Nung-Hsuan, Ou Jing-Yun, Hsieh Jhou-Yu, Jhong Jiang-Ze, Lo Chan-Peng, Luo Jr-Shin, Lo Yi-Chun

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: The Double (2024)

Gifs of Intro of cdrama "The Double"

ENGSUB 【墨雨云间 The Double EP01】 木叶动，秋声起，墨雨中，云间明 | 古装 爱情 | 吴谨言 / 王星越 | YOUKU COSTUME

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVTrm7F1eg