#Wang Xiaoxiao

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The Devil of the Bull Is Back (2023) 牛魔王之魔王再临

Director: Wang Hui / Zhang Zengguang Screenwriter: Lu Yufan / Ma Jiaqi Starring: Fan Shaohuang / Li Muyun / Wang Gang / Chen Yiming / Zeng Chen Genre: Fantasy / Costume Country/Region of Production: Mainland China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 2023-03-26 (Mainland China Internet) Duration: 87 minutes Type: Retelling

Summary:

In ancient times, the leader of the demon clan, the Bull Demon King was arrogant and prideful and rebelled against Heaven. However, he eventually suffered the consequences and was knocked back to his original form. The heavenly king was compassionate and allowed him a way out. He was kind-hearted and demoted him to the mortal incarnation of Liu Jiu. Unexpectedly, a few years later, the demonic nature and memory in Liu Jiu's body were deliberately awakened by the traitor. Liu Jiu went to Kunlun alone to seek a solution. On the way, he met Ye Xiaoxiao, the princess of the Flame Mountain. The two shared weal and woe, and their love gradually grew. They met the little demon pig Dachang and the dog Shisan again, Liu Jiu wandered between good and evil several times, almost causing a catastrophe, but in the end, evil cannot prevail against good, and the conspiracy that had surrounded him since ancient times was solved.

Source: https://mov-20.chinesemov.com/2023/The-Devil-of-the-Bull-Is-Back

Link: https://nunuyingyuan.com/movie/304085

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Entry 6

On July 14, Tiktok Group's public welfare project "Toutiao Seeking People" announced that by July 2022, it had helped more than 19000 separated families to reunite, and helped 59 people go home at most one day. Among the lost people who were recovered, the longest was 80 years, the fastest was 60 seconds, the oldest was 101 years old, and the youngest was only 3 months. Toutiao Search is a public welfare search project launched by Toutiao in February 2016. Its core principle is to distribute search information based on geographic location accurate pop-up technology, and it is committed to helping all kinds of separated families find the lost with scientific and technological means. According to the White Paper on China's Lost Population (2020) issued by the research institute under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the elderly, minors, disabled and mentally retarded people, migrant workers, vagrants and beggars with no means to live are vulnerable groups. With the development of the headline search project, platforms such as Tiktok have gradually joined. Since December 2021, Tiktok platform and volunteers have started the live broadcast of family searching to help parents and children spread the information of family searching. As of June 30, 2022, Tiktok has successfully helped 751 people go home by pop-up window and releasing 14681 notices. For more than six years, "Headline Search" has launched "Cross Strait Search for Relatives", "Search for Martyrs' Descendants", "Search for Old comrades in arms", "Chinese Search for Roots", "Tiktok Search for Persons" and other special projects, and has cooperated with a number of public welfare organizations, local civil affairs departments, and relief stations to continuously expand the type of search for relatives. At present, Headline Search has become one of the largest Internet public welfare search platforms. The relevant person in charge of the headline search introduced that Tiktok search made the search more diversified, opening up a new channel for searching for relatives, and the creator ecology of Tiktok platform also provided more resources for searching for relatives. As of July 10, Tiktok search volunteers have successfully recovered 458 people. Huang Defeng (net name: Xiao Xiao) is one of the search volunteers active in Tiktok, and has helped 7 search for relatives to find their families. He was originally a Bouyei youth who was keen on spreading national language. In September 2020, Feng Xiaoxiao received help in Tiktok. Through voice recognition, he successfully helped the Bouyei elderly Deliang, who had been abducted for 35 years, find his relatives. In May and June of this year, he helped a 60 year old man of Yunnan Zhuang and an 80 year old man of Guangxi Zhuang to find their relatives who had been separated for more than 30 years by identifying national languages and releasing videos. Li Jingwei, a recipient of the Headline Hunting Project, was abducted at the age of four and has been searching for relatives for 33 years. On December 15, 2021, he used his memory to draw a map of his hometown by hand, and asked Gan Biao, a volunteer looking for people on Tiktok, to release a video of looking for relatives. 13 days later, he finally found his mother, brothers and sisters in Zhaotong, Yunnan. After the successful marriage recognition, Li Jingwei has also become a Tiktok search volunteer, releasing nearly 100 videos of family search, and has helped many people find their families. In July 2021, Li Shuqin, a native of Zunyi, Guizhou, found his brother who had been missing for 33 years within two days through the video released by Wang Xiaoxin, a search volunteer on Tiktok. Now, he has also become a Tiktok looking for people volunteer. He has released 39 videos of looking for relatives, successfully helping to find two people. It is reported that Li Shuqin's story of looking for relatives has been adapted and shot into a public service short film Two Trees, which will be officially launched on July 15.

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Shanghai Triad

directed by Zhang Yimou, 1995

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Shanghai Triad (摇啊摇，摇到外婆桥), dir. Zhang Yimou (张艺谋). 1995.

Set in the criminal underground of 1930s Shanghai and spanning only a week, Shanghai Triad stars Gong Li as Xiao Jinbao, a nightclub singer and the mistress of the boss of a prominent crime syndicate; and Wang Xiaoxiao as Tang Shuisheng, the young teenage protagonist who is sent to work for the triad and serves Jinbao. Over the course of a week, Shuisheng is caught at the center of a whirlwind of internal betrayals and ruthless gang fights. Both a bildungsroman and a tale of cyclical power, Shanghai Triad’s narrative serves as historical social commentary, emblematic of Zhang’s oeuvre. 

Visually, Shanghai Triad is a continuation of Zhang’s reliance on brilliant reds and lustrous golds to illuminate backdrops and suffuse his characters in an aura of mystery and drama. It marks the end of his professional and personal relationship with Gong Li, which had spawned seven successful films. The two would not work together until Curse of the Golden Flower (2006). Shanghai Triad received the Technical Grand Prize at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival and has been nominated for and been awarded multiple additional honors.

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Yao a yao, yao dao wai po qiao (Zhang Yimou, 1995)

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xiaoxiao cao photographed by joey wang

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Sun Xiaoxiao's New Legend of Madam White Snake premieres today

Sun Xiaoxiao’s New Legend of Madam White Snake premieres today

New Madam White Snake 新白蛇传 is a retelling of the classic folk tale, and stars Sun Xiaoxiao as White Snake, Lu Hong as Xu Xian, the reincarnation of the gentleman who saved White Snake, and Zhang Tianyang as Fa Hai, who seems to be possessed by an evil spirit from his previous life.

The 48 episode drama releases 2 episodes every Friday to Sunday on Tencent. Members get a six episode head start.

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Welcome to my personal archive of bjyx moments (number 1) that make me laugh stupidly at my phone. In no particular order.

1. We are…

My chinese is very limited but even i understand how yibo said "We are…" (我们是 wǒmenshì）Personally,,, not a turtle who goes face first in everything, call me overthinker but what can you do. Even so i just have to ask 😪 Yibo… do you think of yourself as an item?

2. A little over a year

Everybody hold something bc i was stunned…

This is the original, since i’ve now found out you can only share one video pro post.

My oh my… okay ofc you could say "well maybe he ment that they’ve known each other for a little over a year". Which is not true since they first met at DDU when xz went there with his XNine members. But, i’ll give you that. Why are they so akward after? Especially after realizing they’re being filmed.

Even if the lipreading isn’t real (i cant back it up or not , so i’ll just have to relay on the OP) it’s… very sus.

Limpwrist stamp.

3. 1 Minute apart

This isn’t a mind blowing hard candy but i just think it’s really cute and funny. It could be coincidence but by how much yibo gets tagged etc. He probably was lurking on xzs profile or they were together.

Translation:

XZ: Not going to say much! Old Wang, happy birthday! Charge forward!

YB: My god, thank you Zhan ge!!! (The motorcycle picture should be updated)

XZ: Okay!

The last reply also had this meme of yibo saying "wow" 💀 a true comedian

4. Jealousy?

This was during the promotions of The Untamed when they were in the happy camp episode.

Long story short they were garbage split into teams and had to squeeze through little holes to win and the other teams had to hinder them from doing that.

Yibo and Wei Daxun(?) squeezed through the same hole and when i tell you… xiaozhan looks mad, i mean it.

Update: The right picture is gu wei being jealous in OOL and the left one is how xiao zhan looked at them. Exact same expression, poor jealousy. And xz said that he gets jealous fast too.

Especially later people were like lmao what? and laughed bc it really does look funny but our xiaozhan was still upset looking

You can find the whole episode here, although these pictures were not screenshots from the finalcut

Dont worry, later Xiaoxiao was happy again after yibo tried to hinder him from going through the hole <3

5. 191110

During Ggs performance there was a big yellow sign among the red signs that read "gege, didi loves you" which is a quote yibo said in the bts of the untamed.

Xiaozhans reaction is just the cutest.

Btw i noticed that there’s an image limit…yes im new here. So i’ll probably continue this in another post!

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Staring at Dr. Zhao 1 of 2 - Ode to Joy 2  欢乐颂2

Staring at Dr. Zhao from Season 1 Gif Set

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intro post

hi friends!! my name is eloise, and i’m fourteen. here’s an introductory post :)

some stuff about me:

i’m eloise, and i live in the usa. i’m half chinese and half american, and i watch all my c-dramas with my mom. i’m nearly fluent in mandarin, and i have a mini crush on wang kai. i follow blogs from my main, @mildlinerstudies.

dramas i’ve watched + reviews:

i first watched 大宅门, or grand mansion gate, last year as an assignment for chinese school. despite not liking it much at first, i got really into it, and i ended up watching season two (lowkey the most depressing thing i’ve ever watched). it definitely isn’t the best drama i’ve watched, but it really got me into c-dramas, especially with the emotional attachment to the characters (jiu hong is an evil awful nasty person i will fIGHT YOU ON THIS)

at my friend’s request, i watched 如果蜗牛有爱情, or when a snail falls in love. it’s by far my favorite drama, and i love it with my whole heart. it’s the inspiration for my url, and i love everything about it. the characters are incredible, the cinematography is unbelievable, and oh my god the PLOT. i’ve rewatched it i think 3 times and i cry every. single. time.

after wasfil, i watched 欢乐颂 (ode to joy), seasons one and two. though i may be biased because of wasfil, i love qu xiaoxiao and dr. zhao so incredibly much, and i’m so glad they got more screen time in season two. honestly, i really only cared about qu xiaoxiao’s plotline, and i was so annoyed by fan shengmei. it wasn’t a great drama in my opinion, but it was good.

after ode to joy, i watched the first few episodes of love o2o, but i really didn’t like it because there was nothing in the show other than romance. i might go back to it at some point, but i really didn’t like how every single thing was romance-related.

after that, i watched 他来了，请闭眼 (love me if you dare). i really liked it at first: the crime was absolutely incredible. i’m a sucker for smart detectives and well-planned crimes, so i was super into it until xie han came out. he was a ridiculous villain, and the romance was suuuper boring. the female lead had zero autonomy, which was annoying too. i was so disappointed by the second half of the show, because it had such great potential at first :((

i’m currently watching 琅琊榜, or nirvana in fire. it’s so incredible, and i love the characters, especially mcs and jingyan with my whole heart. i’m about to watch episode 42, but i’m bracing myself because this show is becoming more and more heart-breaking as it goes on. i’ve also heard that the end is very sad, which worries me because the show has already destroyed my emotional stability.

blogs:

some c-drama blogs i follow are:

@orangememory @jingyans @meichang-su

please message me if you’re into c-dramas!! i’d love to be internet friends :)

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qserasera replied to your photoset “i just have a lot of qu xiaoxiao appreciation feelings every day.”

/whispers what cdrama is this and it is fun to watchhh

i’m sorry that you asked. you’re going to get the informative reply, but for everyone’s sakes i’ll leave the short answer above the “keep reading” line.

it’s called “ode to joy”! reviewers have been driving me insane by  calling it “china’s sex in the city”, which is true in that it is about five women working in a city who have love lives and personal problems at the same time and advise each other frankly about the two. apparently no other show has ever done that thing. it’s entertaining, but it’s not, like, a straight-up comedy, and it does hit some weird territory that’s not necessarily comfortable to watch. so if you’re in the mood for light hijinks + unwinding to watch after work, this may not be the right show.

ex: the most independent / big-sisterly of the cast is also the poorest because she’s sending all her savings from her office job home to her parents in the countryside. they just keep demanding that she borrow more money, that she work harder, that she not live in a “”fancy city apartment”” and just move into her company’s hostel so that she can save more money to send them. all while her layabout brother has no job because he has no skills. this has escalated to the point where her salary paid off half the mortgage on her brother’s house. it’s  purposely a commentary on china’s sons > daughters regard, which persists today. while it isn’t excused, her parents are never outright villanised and i found it deeply squirmy as a viewer. 

also, like. it’s a series produced in china that deals with the topic of sexism. so.

moving on! stuff the show IS good for: found families formed by dysfunctional characters who still have to go to work in the morning; real talk about adulthood; female characters who never fuck each other over to get a man (though one does act shitty to get the man kicked out from all their lives, see last paragraph); nihuang apparently reincarnated as a high-powered business exec with a gift for math and being blunt; addressing the balance between independence + opening up to the people who love you; being a show about a bunch of complete weirdoes who love each other VERY MUCH.

(stuff the show isn’t good for: giving nihuang a love interest i don’t want to punch repeatedly.)

as you may have noticed, wang kai is a love interest for one of the characters! he isn’t deeply fleshed out, but my horrible tiny favorite* falls in love with him at first sight and spends thirty episodes chasing him relentlessly, which made it like a++ for me. you get an unfortunate scarlett o’hara/ashley wilkes vibe off of them, though, which is also awful to watch! mental incompatibility isn’t really the kind of thing you can fix in an episode, and yet you have to root for them: he makes her want to be a better person! she’s the one who drags him out from his homebody lifestyle to have FUN the way he feels a doctor no longer should! but there’s a definite tension between their respective intellectual levels and i haven’t watched far enough to see how it’s resolved.

(* qu xiaoxiao: rich man’s money-loving daughter, former gangster who stopped because she got bored, viciously perceptive and shameless, the kind of girl who flirts with a friend’s new boyfriend and gives him her phone number to (i) expose the guy as scum and (ii) have someone to use and move office furniture for her.)

basically: i am enjoying it immensely, but it’s a smidge more serious than the romantic-dramedies for which i usually reblog gifs so YMMV. you can probably get a sense from the first episode.

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Yao a yao, yao dao wai po qiao (Zhang Yimou, 1995)

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My opinion on Single’s Villa:

Synopsis: After being ditched at the altar, Jiang Kexin has promised herself to remain single! Her childhood friend Ren Xiaoxiao shows her the beautiful new condominium, Singles Villa- for the rich and elite bachelors.

Plot [10/10]

what can I say.. this show was just great! Honestly in my top 10 favorite C-dramas! The side plot (especially the murder one) really added some spice to the show, it made it from just a romance to having a bit of mystery in it.

Characters [8/10]

oof even the characters you thought didn’t matter made a difference in this show. I loved the people who lived in the houses beside Kexin, (honestly I want to live there). The only reason why this got an 8 was at times the characters can be very frustrating, expect to be screaming in your pillow from time to time.

Intro/ending [7/10]

To be honest, I wasn’t a fan. It was like a pop up storybook, which fit the theme but I didn’t enjoy the design as much. That and it shows it as if they’re in the city when most of this drama will take place within the villa. I don’t see why they couldn’t stand in front of their houses or something but okay. The show never really had an Ed, just showing what to expect in the next episode (I don’t see much of that so it was a bit refreshing haha)

Soundtrack [10/10]

wow. just— wow. Very few soundtracks has me singing along during scenes. I can’t find it on Apple Music which is the only reason why I don’t listen to it everyday. [one of my personal faves is linked]

Fun fact:

I’m in love with the outfits, so props to the costume designer. But LOL EVERYONE STAY WEARING A TURTLENECK ITS KINDA FUNNY LOL

anyways- I’ve never seen a drama with Jiro Wang in it, (I’m going to be starting Ko One soon thou) I’ve only known him from being in a band with Aaron Yan (one of my favorite Chinese actors/singer)

FINAL RATING: 9/10

honestly watch this show. the first episode wasn’t its strongest but the ending was very satisfying and it’s worth it!

where to watch?: Netflix

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For the latest on plant-microbe interactions, you must check bioRxiv.

Some of the best work in the plant-microbe interactions field find its way on bioRxiv first. Check this amazing list of e-prints/preprints published just this last month on bioRxiv:

CRK2 and C-terminal phosphorylation of NADPH oxidase RBOHD regulate ROS production in Arabidopsis Sachie Kimura, Kerri Hunter, Lauri Vaahtera, Huy Cuong Tran, Aleksia Vaattovaara, Anne Rokka, Sara Christina Stolze, Anne Harzen, Lena Meißner, Maya Wilkens, Thorsten Hamann, Masatsugu Toyota, Hirofumi Nakagami, Michael Wrzaczek bioRxiv 618819; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/618819

An N-terminal motif in NLR immune receptors is functionally conserved across distantly related plant species Hiroaki Adachi, Mauricio Contreras, Adeline Harant, Chih-hang Wu, Lida Derevnina, Toshiyuki Sakai, Cian Duggan, Eleonora Moratto, Tolga O Bozkurt, Abbas Maqbool, Joe Win, Sophien Kamoun bioRxiv 693291; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/693291

BSU1 family phosphatases mediate Flagellin-FLS2 signaling through a specific phosphocode Chan Ho Park, Ji-Hyun Youn, Shou-Ling Xu, Jung-Gun Kim, Yang Bi, Nicole Xu, Mary Beth Mudgett, Seong-Ki Kim, Tae-Wuk Kim, Zhi-Yong Wang bioRxiv 685610; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/685610

Emergence of the Ug99 lineage of the wheat stem rust pathogen through somatic hybridisation Feng Li, Narayana M. Upadhyaya, Jana Sperschneider, Oadi Matny, Hoa Nguyen-Phuc, Rohit Mago, Castle Raley, Marisa E. Miller, Kevin A.T. Silverstein, Eva Henningsen, Cory D. Hirsch, Botma Visser, Zacharias A. Pretorius, Brian J. Steffenson, Benjamin Schwessinger, Peter N. Dodds, Melania Figueroa bioRxiv 692640; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/692640

Effector prediction and characterization in the oomycete pathogen Bremia lactucae reveal host-recognized WY domain proteins that lack the canonical RXLR motif Kelsey Wood, Munir Nur, Juliana Gil, Kyle Fletcher, Kim Lakeman, Ayumi Gothberg, Tina Khuu, Jennifer Kopetzky, Archana Pandya, Mathieu Pel, Richard Michelmore bioRxiv 679787; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/679787

Plant mixed lineage kinase domain-like proteins limit biotrophic pathogen growth Lisa Mahdi, Menghang Huang, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Leïla Brulé Kopp, Isabel M.L. Saur, Florence Jacob, Viera Kovacova, Dmitry Lapin, Jane E. Parker, James M. Murphy, Kay Hofmann, Paul Schulze-Lefert, Jijie Chai, Takaki Maekawa bioRxiv 681015; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/681015

A generalist pathogen view of diverse host evolutionary histories through polygenic virulence Celine Caseys, Gongjun Shi, Nicole Soltis, Raoni Gwinner, Jason Corwin, Susanna Atwell, Daniel Kliebenstein bioRxiv 507491; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/507491

Oligomerization of NLR immune receptor RPP7 triggered by atypical resistance protein RPW8/HR as ligand Lei Li, Anette Habring, Kai Wang, Detlef Weigel bioRxiv 682807; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/682807

A receptor for herbivore-associated molecular patterns mediates plant immunity Adam D. Steinbrenner, Maria Muñoz-Amatriaín, Jessica Montserrat Aguilar Venegas, Sassoum Lo, Da Shi, Nicholas Holton, Cyril Zipfel, Ruben Abagyan, Alisa Huffaker, Timothy J. Close, Eric A. Schmelz bioRxiv 679803; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/679803

Genome assembly and characterization of a complex zfBED-NLR gene-containing disease resistance locus in Carolina Gold Select rice with Nanopore sequencing Andrew C. Read, Matthew J. Moscou, Aleksey V. Zimin, Geo Pertea, Rachel S. Meyer, Michael D. Purugganan, Jan E. Leach, Lindsay R. Triplett, Steven L. Salzberg, Adam J. Bogdanove bioRxiv 675678; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/675678

Improved control of Septoria tritici blotch in durum wheat using cultivar mixtures S. Ben M’Barek, P. Karisto, M. Fakhfakh, H. Kouki, A. Mikaberidze, A. Yahyaoui bioRxiv 664078; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/664078

In-field detection and quantification of Septoria tritici blotch in diverse wheat germplasm using spectral-temporal features Jonas Anderegg, Andreas Hund, Petteri Karisto, Alexey Mikaberidze bioRxiv 664011; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/664011

Follow the latest bioRxiv plant-microbe interactions papers on the biorxiv Twitter feeds for Plant Biology, Microbiology and Genomics. You’ll also find some of the latest bioRxiv papers on the Scoop.it pages Plants and Microbes and  Plant Pathogenomics.

Learn more about preprints/e-prints at #ASAPbio.

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