#Yin Ke

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#Yin Ke#Shameless

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#a complete liar# Yin Ke#

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All righteous tweeters show your courage to expose this liar# Jiang Gangzheng (Yin Ke)

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The First Shot | The squad.

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Amidst a Snowstorm of Love (2024)

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

movie -The Assassin 2015 (Ci ke Nie Yin Niang) '刺客聶隱娘' 劇照 /Shu Qi 舒淇 (b. 1974 Taiwanese)

一生牽絆皆是緣，你我珍惜眼前人。(All our life-long ties are fate then may you and I will cherish the people in front of us. - Lan~*)

《最好不相見》馮小剛執導的電影《非誠勿擾2》片尾曲 

作詞：倉央嘉措《十誡詩》poem by tsangyang gyatso/6th Dalai Lama 第六世達賴喇嘛 (ཚངས་དབྱངས་རྒྱ་མཚོ)

作曲：欒樹 原唱：李漠 演唱：李健

最好不相見 便可不相戀 最好不相知 便可不相思 最好不相伴 便可不相欠 最好不相惜 便可不相憶 最好不相愛 便可不相棄 最好不相對 便可不相會 最好不相誤 便可不相負 最好不相許 便可不相續 但曾相見便相知 相見何如不見時 安得與君相訣絕 免教生死作相思 最好不相見 便可不相戀 最好不相知 便可不相思 最好不相伴 便可不相欠 最好不相惜 便可不相憶 最好不相依 便可不相偎 最好不相遇 便可不相聚 便可不相聚

If we were not to meet, we would not fall in love; If we were not in acquaintance, we would not be drowned in lovesickness; If we were not in company, we would not mutually owe; If we were not to cherish, we would not recall; If we were not to fall in love, we would not mutually abandon; If we were not face to face, we would not meet; If we were not to hurt, we would not fail to be loyal; If we were not to promise, our love would not continue; Albeit, ever to meet is to know! If ever is assuch, better not to meet. Alas! How could I part with you eternally, thus not in the gyre of endless lovesickness?

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Love is all around! Love of all kinds ways and expression! Happy Valentine’s Day!!

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Let's Tug It! | s01e01

Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes

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DRAMA REVIEW | You Are Desire (2023)

From the very start I was very impressed with this drama. The first episode felt grounded in reality and presented all the main characters as young adults behaving like such but also with a level of maturity that felt respectful. Sometimes youth dramas don't know how to balance the growing pains, friendship and romance but You Are Desire does it perfectly.

Xia Feng Yan created a story with solid development based on actual growing from well rounded characters that act and react in ways that feel natural. I am amazed this is her first project and I will keep an eye on her because she has a bright future.

Deng Ke (My Huckelberry Friends) also started in the industry as a screenwriter before transitioning into directing, so it was a perfect fold for Xia's story. He understood the assignment and complemented the script with beautiful cinematography, camera movements and choice of cast.

This drama could have died in the hands of a lesser cast but Zhou Yiran and Zhuang Dafei carried the drama flawlessly. Most of the story centers around them and how they interact with others when loneliness has been a part of their young lives for a long time. The supporting cast were also at their best, each with their own lives and struggles which made them well rounded individuals and not an artifact to push the leads's story.

All of these elements created a beautiful group of people dealing with different experiences. A slice of life drama where we understand the world is not always fair and parents make mistakes; where people need to learn to grieve in a healthy way. That families can all look very different from each other and that's okay as long there's love. That you don't always pass the university exam and your workplace might suck. A world where you fall in love and support one another as you grow together with a clear understanding of each other. That life can be sweeter when you are surrounded of good people who truly appreciate you.

Overall, You Are Desire it's a wonderful story that enjoyed from the very first episode to the last one. Criminally underrated, for sure, as I don't understand how more people are not talking about what is probably one of 2023's best cdramas.

[kdram-chjh]

Cdrama: Fairyland Romance (2023)

Gifs of Intro of cdrama “Fairyland Romance”

MULTI SUB 《与卿书》 第1集：左经纶误入桃花坞 | Fairyland Romance EP01 | 撒娇男人最好命！心机世子追妻套路深 | 黄羿/王弘毅/柯颖/刘胤君 | MangoTV

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFUWBIf7DQQ

[bobopaopao]

Jiang Gangzheng (Yin Ke) is a complete liar

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Yin Ke Criminal

[kastellaran]

Revising An Earlier Translation

Earlier this year, after the youtube special where the first lore document was released, I put out a rough translation of it along with a translation of the line that could be heard in the brief clip of the movie they played. I'm not putting out a new translation of the document yet, though I want to do that soon, because there are some things about it that bother me, but I want to at least explain my revision of the movie line translation, now that I have more context for the scene it's said in, and more importantly, I understand a little more about the lore being referenced.

Just for reference, this is the line in question: 故にこの剣　陰陽八卦がひと振り“坤”の剣がある。我ら64卦が携えし蒐我の業物。またの名を…退魔の剣！ yue ni kono ken | inyou hakke ga hitofuri "kon" no tsurugi ga aru. warera rokujuuyonke ga tazusae shi shuuga no wazamono. mata no na wo... taima no ken! Originally I translated it like this: "…and so this sword is Kon, one of the swords of the Eight Yin Yang Trigrams. The master swords of the collected selves we sixty-four omens wield. Otherwise known as the Sword of Exorcism." Grammatically, I still agree with this, but here are some tweaks I would like to make (Scroll to the bottom to avoid my notes and just see the translation): 1.) inyou hakke doesn't sound nice in English no matter which way you translate it, but I'd reword it as "eight trigrams of yin and yang." 2.) Given that Kusuriuri is explaining that mononoke can't be slain by ordinary humans right before this, I'd translate that がある as "I have," as in, "which is why I have this sword." "Mononoke can't be slain by the works of man, therefore this sword is Kon..." doesn't really make as much sense in English as "Mononoke can't be slain by the works of man, therefore I have Kon..."

3.) Change "collected selves" to "Shuuga." That was my first or second time encountering that term, and I really didn't know what to make of it back then, so I just translated the meaning of it, but now I understand it's a term coined by the writers to explain the lore. It does seem to point at some kind of collective unconscious type thing (though maybe not exactly in the Jungian sense), but nowadays I choose to keep it as Shuuga, because it's easier to type and I'm still not sure what a really nice translation would be that doesn't accidentally sound like an already established philosophical term (which would be called something else in Japanese and therefore might mislead an English reader). 4.) Change "omens" to "hexagrams." Again, at the time I wasn't familiar with the I Ching or bagua, so I didn't realize there were sixty-four hexagrams as well as the eight trigrams, which is what's being referenced. Still, I'm a little torn about this because well, omens sounds cool and hexagrams sounds weird and clunky to someone who doesn't know about bagua. Additionally, the gua/ke in bagua/hakke refers to divination, which is why translated it as "omens," because I thought it was a nice way to invoke the divination meaning while still sounding like something that could refer to a physical entity (the medicine sellers). But on the other hand we do already have established language in English for talking about bagua, and we say "eight trigrams" and "sixty-four hexagrams," as unsexy as it sounds to me. You're not gonna find anything if you look up "eight/sixty-four omens," but you will if you look up trigrams and hexagrams. By the way, if anyone's wondering why we call them that, it's because the eight trigrams are a set of symbols each made of three lines, some combination of solid and broken (representing yin and yang). So it's "tri" as in three, and "gram" as in writing. Hexagrams are a combination of two trigams, so they've got six lines, which is what "hexa" means here. Anyway, so my final translation of that line (and a bit of what comes before it) would probably be: "If the mononoke is not slain, these strange occurrences will not stop. However, a mononoke cannot be slain by the works of man. That is why I have this sword, 'Kon,' one of the eight trigrams of Yin and Yang, the master swords of Shuuga which we sixty-four hexagrams wield...otherwise known as the swords of exorcism!"

[movielosophy]

The First Shot | Working family

[culiehua]

Jem's ancestral origin

bc @jaimrennnn pointed it out again, here are my thoughts on Jem's maternal ancestry bc it only now occurs to me that the following are not just regular thoughts normal non chinese people have 😭:

Literary review: Jem speaks Mandarin and not Shanghainese, it's assumed he is from the north. But where? Why?

Now this is where it gets interesting:

一 The language(s)

Nothern Chinese dialects include quite a few different dialects; there are over 300 languages in China in total – and most are not mutually intelligible. At all.

(As someone who is also fluent in Mandarin and wouldn't understand a thing in ancient Shanghai... I feel his pain)

Mandarin is the official language in all of China TODAY, however, the Beijing dialect based Mandarin as we know it today did not undergo nationwide codification until the early 20th century.

And it was only in the 1800s that a shift to Beijing based Mandarin happened. Previously, and into the 1800s, Nanjing based Mandarin was the official Standard during the Ming (1368-1644) and part of the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).

While both would be plausible Mandarin varieties that he could have spoken given the time period, what we see Jem use though is the Beijing based version of Mandarin. While Nanjingese is semi-intellegible for speakers of Beijing Mandarin, it is notably different. So you are right: He does not use any other variety in the written text we see, therefore Mandarin being his only Chinese language means he or rather his family are likely not only from Northern China but speak a dialect that, at least in unintonated pinyin form, is exactly the same (note: we are assuming they don't have a notably different one bc dialect speakers are very particular about keeping their dialects alive as they do not really exist in written Chinese).

But there's more! The northern Mandarin dialects (not just Mandarin the official language) may belong to the same language family and some can be vaguely understood amongst each other (that's why it is also common to have instances where people speak with each another in different dialects, each understanding the other but unable to speak the other dialect) but 1) not all provinces above the Yangtze are Mandarin variety dominant: Zhejiang and south Jiangsu for example are predominantly Wu-dialect heavy (think Shanghainese) which are... not understandable as a Mandarin speaker lol while some dialects from Sichuan or Shandong for example may be easier to understand (remember there are many dialects, even from different language families, in each province).

and b) there's also the fact that even Mandarin varieties don't... necessarily understand each other. You can definitely hear the difference in speech even if they aren't different in grammar or vocabulary!

What do we know about Jem tho?

Jem speaks in a very... classic kind of way I suppose? There are no real regional colloquialisms, he sounds very Standard Mandarin (pronunciation not evaluable) but he does use some literary words that I'd never use in my life (separate post on that) which makes his Mandarin very textbook elegant. He doesn't have the classic /r/ marker at the end that many northeners have either. He doesn't have the Dongbei Mandarin accent either, the Xiajing dialect is something else, etc etc.

He does use the the Wade-Giles system of romanization (based on the Beijing dialect, was the anglophone system of transcription in the 20th century) when speaking English though (I Ching, Kwan Yin) which amuses (and...confuses) me bc he speaks Chinese in perfect Hanyu pinyin? So I'd say he englishifies Chinese terms when speaking English.

(There's also the problem that he was young when he lost contact to the language environment and that he had two L1s growing up resulting in crosslinguistic interference anyway. Mixed linguistic backgrounds do often result in the development of a "clearer" accent, or lack therof...)

二 The Ke family name

I've talked about it before, but Chinese family names have meaning. In the past last names were location bound, i.e. you'd have wider clan names for all the people from one region (which is what put Ke on the top 100 most common last names list in the first place. Yes that list exists). So you can look up where these names originate from or rather where they are common.

So far, I'd narrow the name origin down to these places: Shandong and Hubei (Wu dialectal regions excluded bc we assume he has no other background dialect; nomadic tribes also excluded bc traces unclear).

Why they would make sense:

Hubei the hometown of bronze and birthplace of Chinese modern industry for Steel works (haha... "they shatter even the strength of iron or of bronze". But that was after Jem). It's basically in the heart of China, a lot of cultural history, and the weather is very hot (they are called one of the three furnaces...) it's said that people there are louder and easier riled up bc of the weather. But the Hubei dialect does sound pretty different from the Standard. So there's that.

Shandong is famous for being a cultural and religious center for Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism (Hometown of Confucius!!) ... and also for having the tallest people in the country. The people here are also very bold and straightforward but also very hospitable with a generally good reputation, the common hero personality. It is also an agricultural center (ahem, Ke ≈ tree, remember). Character wise, it fits. There are a lot of Shandong people who moved to Beijing a long time ago since it's very close.

Given that neither Jem nor Wenyu seem like hot-headed people, but rather practical, calm, honest and are believers of buddhism and chinese philosophy (reincarnation wheel + with how often Jem refers to that thousands years old book you'd believe he has it printed behind his eyelids...), I'm rather inclined to guess their ancestors are from Shandong originally, i.e. the chill ones. (Yes you cannot generalize people but we have nothing on them 😭). However, I believe they have lived in Beijing for generations.

What is also interesting is that the average victorian Englishman stood at 167cm. As of now, the English average height is 175±6(m) and 162(w). In Shandong, the average height now is 175(m) and 169(w). But in the Qing dynasty the average northern man was this tall already. So I'd go on the taller spectrum for the nephilim and say Wenyu, as a northerner, is atleast 170. Jem is considered tall, somewhere between 178 and 180cm. Calculating this into the height, Jonah is max. 178cm. Since the Carstairs weren't tiny either, this fits. (Shandong people are the tallest people in China, followed by Beijing people. Tall girl Wenyu supremacy!!). I think Shadowhunters are taller bc of exercise that's why you have Will at the same height but Jem could definitely not do as much physically, having to rely more on efficiency and genes so I believe he has tall!genes but he definitely did not get that primarily from the victorians.

三 Wenyu's pre-Shanghai residence

From what we also know, the Ke family ran the Beijing Institute as well (Jia, née Ke, and her hubby). It wouldn't be far fetched to say that they've been running it since way back. After all, the Ke's are also still in charge of Shanghai and the Herondale's ran London well into the 1990s.

What we also know is that Jem's mom, Wenyu, was sent as an ambassador of the nephilim to the emperor for a meeting at the Yuanming Yuan, burned down around a decade and a half prior to Jem mentioning it, so the visit occured before Jem could ever remember it.

Historically, from mundane history, we know this: Emperor Xianfeng ruled from 1850-61, the Garden was burned down by Europeans in 1860 during the 2nd Opium War.

Wenyu was born in 1839, so she probably went there as a late teenager. She had Jem at 21 and also moved to Shanghai with Jonah years later. Now why would China's nephilim send some random teenage girl to Beijing to talk to the ruler? Why would they send her from perhaps angel knows where thousand miles away? Unless... she was sent from the Beijing Institute? Who knows. Chaos breeds demons. (It's also odd that Cassie changed the timeline to this happening when Jem was 2 or 3. Was this supposed to mean that he might have witnessed it? Idk).

Beijing was the capital, and if the nephilim, as a race, would send an ambassador, it would make the most sense to send one from the local institute. Jem did not grow up learning another local differing variety either, leading me to believe both Wenyu and Jem were born in Beijing and learned court Mandarin.

四 Conclusion

I believe that Jem's maternal family originates from the Shandong/Beijing area but lived in Beijing for centuries before taking over Shanghai too, since they are not shown to know or speak any other distinctive dialect and the Shandong dialect, due to it's close similarity to the Standard variety, could have lost it's accent over time there with the surrounding Beijing dialect, the court dialect and their complete mutual intelligibility. Clan origin, height and personality also hint at this, as well as Wenyu's travel log. Jem's Chinese is very standard and does not deviate; he seems sophisticated and has a clear pronunciation. Beijing born and raised!

[tymns]

Naruto OC: Kino Sōden (棗田杞乃, Souden Kino, Tảo Điền Kỷ Nãi?) with a silk moth - her jutsu inspiration.

Personal Data:

Location: Konohagakure

Birthday: Feb 9th

Age: 25 (Part II)

Height: 160cm / Weight: 47kg

Classification: Sensor Type

Occupation: Anbu (former), Academy Teacher

Affiliation: Sōden Family, Byōjin Clan

Family: Hino Sōden (older brother), Yugen Yao (cousin)

Relate: Aburame Clan

Natural Types: Water, Yin, Yang

Personality: Vulnerable, Stubborn

Tool: Wakizashi

Jutsu:

Silk Manipulation

Silk Clone

Poison Powder

Cocoon Dome

Aroma Ninjutsu

Sensing Technique

Sharpness Enhancement Technique

Chakra Shockwave Slash

Water Release: Water Formation Wall

Water Release: Furious Roaring Tornado

Trivia:

• Sōden Family (棗田家, Souden Ke?, literally meaning: jujube field) is based on my paternal side. Most members of this family are civilians and running a successful herbal medicines selling business.

• Byōjin Clan (萍潭一族, Byōjin Ichizoku?, literally meaning: water hyacinth swamp) is based on my maternal side. Byōjin Clan is the shinobi clan that reside in 𝙔𝙪𝙜𝙖𝙠𝙪𝙧𝙚. They are known for their ability to control sharpness in any object through the use of Yang Release.

• The kanji 杞 in Kino means goji berry. Her full name may refers to an East Asia traditional medicine.

• • Kino dislikes her given name. She prefers to go by her codename: Usuki (ウスキ, lit. light yellow).

• Despite she had definitely achieved Jōnin level, Kino chose to remain a Chūnin rank.

• Kino’s kenjutsu was trained by her senior, Raidō Namiashi.

• With her sensing ability, she can detect moisture from afar, for example, the incoming rain.

• Blank Period: Kino becomes a member of the Aburame Clan.