#chinese discord server

[meichenxi]

Want to learn Chinese in the New Year?

A reminder that we have an absolutely Excellent small-ish Discord server specifically for that purpose!

We:

share tips and advice

share daily Chinese prompts to write to (@marilearnsmandarin thank you!!)

provide a platform for finding study buddies or language exchange partners

recommend and discuss dramas

set monthly goals and reflect on them

study together

do voice calls

It's been quiet in the past year, but me and several other key members have been getting back into learning over the last month. The New Year has galvanised us all into action, and the next few months should have some exciting things in store 0.0.

Come and join us!

[langvillage]

hello language learners! new this month in the language village, a chill way to practice a little bit every day: the one sentence club! as the title suggests, the idea is to write one sentence in your target language(s) every day. for an extra challenge, especially if your target language uses a different script, try handwriting the sentence too!

join the language village discord server to receive daily reminder pings, get inspiration from a daily question prompt, and participate alongside other one sentence club members!

feel free to tag #langvillage if you post your sentences on tumblr ✨

[darkfluffydragon]

THEORY: PEACH BLOSSOM COOKIE and Dark Cacao's relation to Journey to the West

Okay okay, so hear me out. Peach Blossom Cookie is based on the Chinese Goddess Xiwangmu.

I'll start by how I got to this conclusion. The entirety of the Dark Cacao storyline so far has had a lot of Journey to the West elements to it.

Stormbringer Cookie's legendary costume: Splitter of the Seas for example. Inside the video trailer advertising the costume, there is a scene showing the Heaven Splitter glowing underwater. This is a scene highly reminiscent of the Golden-banded staff Ruyi Jingu Bang, a treasure of Ao Guang, the dragon king of the Eastern Seas.  The staff would eventually come under the ownership of Sun Wukong, and upon finding its true master, the staff would flow. This can be seen happening in the image below.

Not only that, but Stormbringer's costume also has a dragon scale-like texture on it referencing Ao Guang, and she also wears a golden headband much like Sun Wukong.

Continuing on with this theme of Journey to the West, the mountain in the Beastraid parallels Wuxing Mountain, which is the mountain Buddha traps Sun Wukong underneath. The Mountain is also known as the Five Elements Mountain or the Five Finger Mountain, another piece of evidence pointing to the similarities between Journey to the West and Buddha since the Beastraid attacks mainly using hands.

With the connection to the mountain and Journey to the West secured, I can move on to Peach Blossom Cookie. The first hints of Peach Blossom Cookie's inspiration were the peach tree and the peach tree surrounding him. In Journey to the West, there is one type of peach that is heavily involved in the story, called the Peaches of Immortality.

In Chinese Taoist folklore, the Goddess Xiwangmu lived in her palace on the mythological Mount Kunlun, where she was said to have grown an orchard of peach trees that bore peaches every three thousand years. The peaches, once ripened, would bestow immortality and longevity on any human who ate them. The third type especially has a striking similarity to Dark Cacao and Mystic Flour's SoulJams. "The third variety is the most extraordinary. These Peaches of Immortality have purple streaks and their stones are a pale yellow. They ripen only every 9,000 years and whoever eats them lives eternally and enjoys a rank equal to that of the Sun and the Moon (which are actual living beings in Chinese mythology)."

In the story of Journey to the West, Sun Wukong was asked to guard the immortal peaches. Instead, he ate them all himself and continued to create chaos. As punishment, he was imprisoned for 500 years under the Five Finger Mountain. This helps connect the peach trees on the Beastraid mountain with the story. Peach Blossom's skill is also called "Heavenly Fruit", again suggesting the similarities.

Now to focus on the Goddess Xiwangmu herself. She was the one in charge of the Immortal Peaches and was known as the Queen Mother of the West. Coincidentally enough, The Flour Peak of Transcendence is also located at the bottom west of Beastyeast.

In multiple old artworks of the Goddess Xiwangmu, she is depicted to share a very close semblance to Peach Blossom Cookie. Such as the colouring, and even the hair bun, which has been replaced by a literal peach.

Another feature that suggests that Peach Blossom may be of divine nature is the floating ribbon he wears, which is called a Pibo, or Pei. These were most commonly worn by women and are often used in media to showcase that a character has a high amount of spiritual energy. Stormbringer, Mystic Flour, and one of the five characters shown playing Go (A Chinese strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to capture more territory than the opponent by fencing off empty space) all wear a pibo showcasing their powerful status.

(Also, since I'm talking about them, they are likely the Wufang Shangdi, the "Five Regions' Highest Deities" or "Highest Deities of the Five Regions". They can also be known as the "Five Colour Deities", as each is known for a specific colour representing them. The Bluegreen Deity, The Yellow Deity, The Black Deity, The Red Deity and The White Deity. Each has an animal form that is the dragon corresponding to their colour.)

The Goddess Xiwangmu was also the only deity in the Chinese Pantheon with the ability to talk directly to humans, using her peach tree as a link between Earth and Heaven. However, she did not speak to just any human.

She would speak exclusively to Chinese Emperors in order to give them the Mandate of Heaven and teach them the secrets of immortality. The Mandate of Heaven was considered the emperor’s divine right to rule. The first emperor to claim the Mandate of Heaven was Emperor Shun of Shanxi, and it is said that on the day he was crowned, five planets had aligned. Though in most of her interactions with the mortal kings, they would always fail her tests and remain mortal.

This can be seen within the newest Cookierun Trailer where Dark Cacao encounters Peach Blossom Cookie at the peach tree and he offers him a place to sate his hunger.

It should also be noted that Xiwangmu lives at Mount Kunlun, which is one of the longest mountain chains in Asia and extends more than 3,000 kilometres. Dark Cacao wonders about "How many steps" he has climbed and is shown to be exhausted, which suggests that he has walked a very long way.

Taking another close look at the scene, there are three birds settled around the small pond. The twelfth chapter of the famous Chinese text Shanhai Jing, or the "Classic of Mountain and Seas", describe Xiwangmu with three birds:

'She is the controller of the Grindstone and the Five Shards constellations of the heavens. Xiwangmu rests on a stool and wears an ornament on her head. She holds a staff. In the south, there are three birds from which Xiwangmu takes her nourishment. They are found to the north of the Kunlun mountains.'

However, Xiwangmu was also thought to have been a demonic figure who caused disease, floods, and other major disasters. The opinion of her began to change around the time of the Tang Dynasty, and following this shift, she was seen as a repentant, benevolent goddess. Whether or not Devsis will include this aspect of her in Peach Blossom Cookie is unclear, especially with the interactions between Cloud Haetae Cookie and the Pale Ailment.

(And here's an image of Emperor Shun, doesn't that hat look familiar?)

Dark Cacao's newly awakened title as the "Dragon Lord" is interesting too, as it ties back to Stormbringer and the origin of the Ruyi Jingu Bang (which parallels the Heaven Splitter which had been used to split the Black and White dragon into two. The two dragons are now apparently helping Dark Cacao.)

[ryin-silverfish]

For the 5 or so FSYY Likers out there:

I've made a FSYY Discord server. Now, I've never created or run a server before (and @the-monkey-ruler is helping me out on that front), but if you wanna talk about the novel, its adaptations, share your fanworks, or just chat, you are welcome to join.

As for those who don't know what FSYY is yet, I'll just repaste my old summary from the AU sideblog here:

"Ancient China's bloodiest divine bureaucracy recruitment program, kickstarted by a king who simped too hard for the creator of humanity and the fox girl she sent to end his dynasty." "I'll write my own God-Demon novel, with blackjacks and fox hookers!" ——Xu Zhonglin/Lu Xixing/Li Yunxiang Jokes aside: Investiture of the Gods(Fengshen Yanyi) is the other big "God-Demon Novel" of the Ming dynasty, written after JTTW. It's a fictional retelling of the toppling of the Shang dynasty and its tyrannical King Zhou by King Wu of Zhou——but with more Daoist arts, immortals and demons helping out both sides, and ten billion magical formations and treasures.  At the end of the story, almost everyone who died in battle were deified and became the 365 gods of the Celestial Bureaucracy, thus "Investiture of the Gods". 

Not an exclusively 18+ server, but considering the original novel's more graphic content, personal discretion and some level of maturity are adviced.

[bunnakit]

🌸 THE BL/GL DISCORD HAS OFFICIALLY REACHED 100 MEMBERS! 🌸

I am humbled by the response to the server and how sweet the community has been! We can't wait to see what the future brings; how the server grows, what shows we can obsess over together, what creative projects we share with each other, etc.

Here's to an amazing, positive 2024 full of love and good shows!

(Haven't joined yet and want to? Click here for an invite!)

I also want to say a massive thank you to the mod and admin team, I really didn't expect the server to grow so quickly almost overnight and I'm so grateful for all of you that have joined me in this effort after I sent several frantic DMs, you guys are the best!

[madamadragon]

I create a Discord for everyone where we can talk about Mysterious Lotus Casebook!

We will discuss about:

Headcanons

Fanfiction

Theories

Ships

And mostly important how hot is Xiao Shunyao

Join my server for weekly malessere and disagio!

[moodycarcass]

i feel like one of these days im gonna get badly yelled at an adopt designer for taking the "you can change the design to your liking" blurbs too literally

[plasma-studios]

fun fact if you don't use he/him and while ur chatting with a native chinese speaker and they refer to you by he/him it's possible that they're not intentionally misgendering you, it's just a language mistake because the default pronoun (they/them) in chinese is the same one as he/him, so usually it's customary to refer to someone whose pronouns you don't know as he/him. so basically they're using he/him as they/them, so they're not misgendering you on purpose! feel free to correct them:) of course if they refuse they're cunts and extend them no more grace than deserved

[casiavium]

Hi ghiralink fans I know people on this site don't like twitter but you are missing out and I think everyone should know about pisu_1107 and fu_akane's art so here are their pixiv and twitter accounts ❤️ I won't repost any of their work (though I see pisu's get reposted a lot unfortunately, and they specifically ask for it not to be 😔) but they are AMAZING and you should know about them

pisu_1107 pixiv twitter

fu_akane pixiv twitter

[rainecloud020604]

girl help a soda did not fix me i have so much i need to do

[caluski]

I've been trying my fucking hardest to understand the meaning of these google-translated Chinese memes bc I'm desperate to find an appropriate way of using them.... I've already eaten potatoes

[chaotic-language-journey]

Anyone wanna join a new and small but chill discord server?? Sweet and fun place for adults to make friends, play games, study languages, and just have a good time.

💖 <= click the heart

[astranauticus]

so i recently found out about my mothers villain origin story of hating all musicals and apparently it's because many years ago she (not a lot of english, mind, like functional/professional english at best) went on a business trip to london and for some reason her company paid for tickets to mama mia at (and i quote) 'one of those famous historical london theatres' and she fuckin hated the entire 3 hour experience like she couldn't understand what they were singing and she was bored out of her mind but the theatre was too bright for her to sleep through it like her exact thought when it ended was 'fucking hell its finally over' and ever since she's been firmly against the concept of musicals. anyway i'm obsessed with this story i think it's the funniest shit ever

[treasurechestsubs]

Our discord invite and CN -> ENG Translators wanted

Hello,

I wished to give some info on the above-mentioned two points in the title.

About our discord invites

1) When you fill up the form, please do cross-check your email address 2/3 times. If this address is wrong, then the email will bounce back and you won't be able to receive an invite.

2) Since our email accounts have not interacted before, if you also have a gmail account, then the email I send you will most probably end up in your spambox rather than your inbox. So, please always do cross-check the spambox of your email account to.

3) We do receive a lot of messages asking when the invites will be sent. I'm very sorry about this. Answering everyone is quite difficult for me due to shortage of time. Since I'm only one human doing all the checking of the request entries we receive via the form you guys filled up, it takes me some time to go through each entry and send out the email. In addition, I don't get sufficient time every day to check and send out invites. These are generally sent in bulk batches. So once you have filled up the request form, please just regularly check your inbox and spambox of your email account so that you don't miss out on the invite.

4) If you were late in seeing the email with the invite link, please just reply to the email asking for a new link. I'll send you a new one.

5) If you updated your entries in the request form, please send us a direct message in tumblr and mention what field you updates and details of the field. I can cross-check and send you a new invite then.

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Chinese to English translators wanted

We’re looking for a

1) Chinese to English Translator for our novel translation project

Please see >> this post << for more details and please please consider applying to that we can continue this project.

2) If you or your friends can help us out in translations of our AD projects as well, that would be really great! Please see >> this post << for how to apply for the same.

>>> Please note, the tests for the novel translation and the AD translation are different! <<<

We could really really use help with our novel translation project right now. We don't wish to drop this project as the story is quite interesting AND it's a Mu Su Li novel, one of our favourite authors.

Please do not be scared or nervous with the translation test for the novel. It is just for us to know how to interpret the lines. You can of course use dictionaries and different online websites for finding information related to idioms, Chinese mythological references and such.

We would also absolutely be very happy if you wanted to help us with our AD translation projects.

Please do consider applying. We have a very friendly and interactive staff.

[nando161mando]

Discord is 38% owned by the Chinese Government aka Tencent. Try to delete your account and you’ll see.