#chinese EVs

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

So Many New Electric Cars Available In Europe For 2025! Oslo eCarExpo Full Tour

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

P.S. Good dictionary! Politically correct Westerners immediately forget about "free speech", "Western values" and "international laws" as soon as they are asked how it is consistent with the money of "big Western business" investing in the economy of communist China and Russia and the quarterly profits made there... !???

By the way, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett and Co. supports the communist Chinese economy investing huge resources and transferring technology to China...and makes a nice profit there.

Why shouldn't we in Eastern Europe buy electric cars made in China when America's own big business is funding China's economy and military...????

[frstk]

Instead of giving raises or allowing vacations, Vincent decides to personally treat his employees on new year's eve.

The other cooks: (Why is that guy getting the biggest loaf…😒duh)

& Vince getting stomachache from skipping meals, so the food duo broke into his apartment to the rescue🤗

[lgbtlunaverse]

the wangxian + a-yuan "dads with an adopted son" thing is fine and enjoyable in fanfics honestly but I think we as a fandom are really not utilizing the idea of all of them in unconventional familial structures enough. Like, canonically it wasn't so much that wwx was a-yuan's guardian as that a-yuan was being raised collectively by the wens and wwx was adopted INTO the larger wen family. And lwj got attached to him through that. A-yuan just has these very attached weird uncles/older cousin figures that aren't related to him by blood at all but keep sticking around.

Just think of a modern AU with a lot less death where lwj does as he does in canon and keeps showering a-yuan in gifts as much as he can and when wwx is like "aiyah lan zhan you're gonna spoil him. Not everyone is as rich as you! What's his family supposed to say if they can't buy him all the stuff you do?" lwj just goes "Hm". And from then on out every year once a-yuan's birthday is near the extended Wen family members (well. the ones that are invited that is. No one wants wen chao at a birthday party) wakes up to a wechat payment from lwj.

Random wen cousin number 6 texts granny like

cousin 6: i just got 400 yuan????

granny: oh that's just wangji

cousin 6: i've never met this guy in my life???

granny: he wants you to buy a-yuan a nice birthday present!

cousin 6: how does he know my bank account???

[redsugarx]

Hanfu in Components: Structure Conventions (pt2)

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Thanks for the love on the last post, I’ve been motivated to continue writing LOL Anyway: Construction/sewing pattern/structure is very important to hanfu!

There are a few important structure conventions when it comes to hanfu—almost all traditional-cut hanfu follow these rules; you could call them the defining characteristics of hanfu. There are exceptions to every rule of course (I will go over some caveats at the end of this post), but generally if a hanfu design ignores these rules we might consider it to be ‘incorrect.'

(There will be a longer follow-up pt. 3 post to this explaining the anatomy of a hanfu top/robe, where there will be more detailed in-context illustrations and descriptions. I just figured I should list these ‘rules’ somewhere separately.)

中縫/中缝/zhong1 feng4/Center Seam

Take a look at your shirts. Is there a shoulder seam between the front of the shirt and the back of the shirt? Western clothing tends to consist of a front piece + back piece sewn together to create a space for your body to sit in：

Hanfu doesn’t work like that. Traditionally, the garment isn’t separated into a front piece and back piece: it’s separated into a right piece and left piece, which are joined together at the vertical center seam. Why? Traditional fabric has a narrower width than the standard ~145cm that we have today, so a long, narrow piece is less wasteful to cut out from a bolt of silk than a wide one.

Therefore there is always a center seam, one running vertically down the front and one down the back. 中 = center, 縫 = seam, so 中縫 means center seam. There’ll be a front center seam （前中縫） and a back center seam （後中縫）.

不破肩/不破肩/bu2 po4 jian1/No Broken Shoulder

Kind of an addendum onto the previous point? Additionally since the body pieces are separated into left/right rather front/back, there’s no seam at the top of the shoulder here. The fabric is simply draped over the arm/shoulder to hang down, covering the torso on both sides.*

*Caveat: Some modified hanfu that vendors sell today will have a shoulder seam, especially thicker winter garments or short-sleeved garments. This is a design choice made to prevent the fabric from looking too stiff, known as 破肩/破肩/po4 jian1，literally “broken shoulder.” It can look great, lots of hanfu makers do it! But just to be clear, that is a MODIFICATION.

接袖/接袖/jie1 xiu4/Sleeve Connection

Western clothing patterns tend to have something where the fabric of the sleeve gets connected to the fabric of the garment’s body at the shoulder/armpit, often with a concave arm hole shape to help with the contours of the garment when it’s worn.

Hanfu sleeves, on the other hand, are never connected at the armpit—they are connected halfway down the arm. In other words, the piece of fabric that forms the body extends to also cover the upper arm part of the sleeve. The actual sleeve piece is connected to the body at the bicep/elbow area via a flat seam. (In the case of half- or no- sleeve garments there might just not be a separate sleeve piece.)

右衽/右衽/you4 ren4/"Right Over Left" Rule

Applies to cross-collar, some varieties of round collar, and some varieties of standing collar tops. In the case that the front of the garment crosses over itself, the flap coming from the wearer’s left goes OVER the flap coming from the wearer’s right. Easiest way to make sense of this is, if you’re looking at someone wearing a cross-collar hanfu top, the cross will look like a lowercase y.

Caveats

NO RULE EXISTS WITHOUT EXCEPTION!!! These rules exist because a majority of hanfu follow them and they are a standard that people agree on right now. However, there are ALWAYS cases—historically or otherwise—where these rules may be broken. For example, there are several Ming Dynasty cross collar robes that happen to be left over right, and the location of the sleeve seam can differ based on what garment you're looking at.

Also, many modern hanfu manufacturers will deliberately choose to break these 'rules' in favor of aesthetics. This is a purposeful design choice—not one that's done out of ignorance or disrespect. It's easy for common modifications to get mistaken for 'historically accurate.' To be clear, it is 100% okay and super common for modifications to exist! Just don't go around claiming that it was historically that way.

My advice is that if you're starting out with hanfu, try to stick to these rules in the back of your head as closely as possible. Once you've built your foundational knowledge, then you can start exploring the exceptions to the rules. These rules may not be foolproof, but they are a useful tool to help you understand the commonalities and trends within hanfu without overwhelming you.

Last note: it is generally more of a taboo for seams that should exist to not exist in a piece of clothing (i.e. no center back seam) than for extra seams to exist. If you go look in museums for the artifacts that hanfu is based off of, you'll notice that a lot of them—especially the ones from earlier dynasties—are a chaotic patchwork of a bunch of random piece of fabric sewn together to create the garment. Fabric is expensive, people don't want to waste it! So it's not all that weird to have seams in random places.

Happy 除夕 everyone! 有蛇有得 :>

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[jamesartifice]

I think he got the message wrong. The BYD Build Your Dreams, Chinese EV doesn’t correlate with nightmare designs. Well maybe that’s the point. USA,ers are too busy stabbing each other. Sometimes in the front, sometimes in the back, sometimes at the supermarket sometimes at the fuel pumps and sometimes in a dishonorable display of faux power. The real display is the sleeping giant getting all woked up…again. Who benefits from internal erosion? Only an External force. Thine Eyes to Behold.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"Wait! Listen. It's Morse code!"

The Librarians S02E05 And the Hollow Men.

[xielianhua]

Zhou Jieqiong for Bilibili’s New Year’s Eve Gala

[kaitcake1289]

i cant stop drawing them help

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

P.S. Another small fact that shows that the customs tariffs introduced by the EU will not stop the expansion of Chinese EV manufacturers in the global car market...! New Zealand has no obligation to bail out lazy legacy automakers...like VW...! It's just realpolitik that the Germans love so much when it comes to their politicians' business dealings with the Kremlin...

Another day, another new EV from China!

This is the Leapmotor C10 selling in New Zealand for $55k ($32k USD) with a range of 420 km (261 miles).

I pick one up soon and will give it the usual puntastic treatment but wanna know if there's anything specific anyone wants to know?

[divinationdrawings]

5 languages, 5 princesses, 1 happy new year!

(special thanks to my boyfriend who is fluent in Chinese and German and helped me with accuracy)

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Tesla Sales Crash Through the Floor [in Europe]

It would appear that Tesla sales collapsed in some major European markets, including France and Germany. Is Musk going to experience the consequences of upsetting your core customers, or does he think he can steal enough from the American government to compensate?

P.S. Tesla's sales in Europe have collapsed not only because of politics and arrogance, but also because Tesla lost the battle to create an affordable electric car. The new electric Renault 5 has completely defeated Elon Musk in France, and the Chinese electric car manufacturers are not resting on their laurels either...

[xiaolanhua]

ZHAO LUSI Hunan TV’s New Year’s Eve Gala

[nexttimeisnotthesame]

Meng Ziyi in Ivan Yong Couture for Hunan TV's New Year's Eve Gala 2025

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Nissan Epic, Era, Epoch & Evo Concepts, 2024. Presented at Auto China 2024, four NEV (New Energy Vehicle) prototypes. The two EVs and two plug-in hybrids, are a joint venture with local partner Dong Feng. The Epic is an EV SUV, the Epoch is an EV sedan, the Era is a plug-in hybrid SUV and the Evo is a plug-in hybrid sedan. They preview the future direction of Nissan's “In China, for China” strategy

[jettacar]

tiny car <3