#he hui xiang

[iconsruins]

[simply-zhouye]

Zhou Ye a majestic red dress in another wedding scene this time as He Yan in Legend of the Female General!! Let’s hope it’s not like Gu Xiang’s fate.... or a fake wedding like Yan Hui 😅

[swiftletinthecloud]

Dun dun dun...Shan Gu Dao is still alive and the real bad guy behind everything.

Zhan Yun Fei seems like a good and genuine dude, an actual friend to Li Xiang Yi. And despite the poison making Li Xiang Yi unrecognizable to people who knew him 10 years ago, the dude was still able to recognize him almost instantly unlike the "friends" Li Xiang Yi had at Sigu Sect.

Seeing Fang Duo Bing interacts with both his mom and dad is a treat, a good treat. They both taught him to be a good person, even if at the start of the drama he's arrogant and spoiled. It's hilarious how Fang Duo Bing hugged Minister Fang and told him how grateful FDB is that the minister is his dad after the interaction with Shan Gu Dao and Minister Fang's reaction is "oh that's nice but what are you up to?" LOL

[inmoonlightpoetry]

《回乡偶书》- 贺知章

回乡偶书, Impressions on Returning Home, by He Zhi Zhang 贺知章, translated with pinyin and vocabulary

huí xiāng ǒu shū – hè zhī zhāng (唐 – táng) 少小离家老大回， 乡音无改鬓毛衰。 儿童相见不相识， 笑问客从何��来。 PINYIN: Huí xiāng ǒu shū Shǎo xiǎo lí jiā lǎo dà huí, Xiāng yīn wú gǎi bìn máo cuī. ér tóng xiāng jiàn bù xiāng shí, Xiào wèn kè cóng hé chù lái. ENG: Impressions on Returning Home Young when I left home, old as I return, My dialect has not yet changed, but the hair on my temples is thinning. Children meet me not…

[theannypetite]

Bilibili Comics Shutdown

Time to Read: 37 minutes On January 24th, 2024, Bilibili Comics announced the shutdown of the service on February 29, 2024. There’s a lot that can be said about Bilibili Comics and how they have operated in the past 2, 2.5 years, but the conclusion is the same, whether the criticism is positive or negative, so there’s not much point in discussing all the issues and their, at times questionable…

[accio-victuuri]

wait.. i’m literally on here or weibo almost 24/7 ( as you can tell lol ) but I feel like i missed something. i’m seeing clowning related to xz’s photos and how it looks like he is a groom and it’s a wedding photoshoot. the place is also famous for wedding shoots ( allegedly, idk. i’m not from there ) so turtles are imagining again. lol. freakin coincidence that wyb’s GRA photoshoot was done at a wedding shop. plus the “wedding outfits” for weibo night. which is all clowning and galaxy braining.🌌

now, we’re joking around, like where’s yibo? he should be taking photos with his partner.

then i see comments that there is this one song WYB recently listened to. meaning, as recent as when XZ flew to singapore which is called 超人不会飞 (superman can’t fly) by Jay Chou. i know WYB and everyone else is a big fan of Jay Chou but the clowning comes from the timing of when he listened to it. let me get to that first.

here is the song if you wanna listen to it. 🎶

turtles are interpreting it as WYB longing to “fly” to where XZ is and be with him but he can’t because of all his work commitments. he wants to take a breather. thinking about what his life is and the constraints, and at times like this, when they spent days in Beijing, but now they have to be apart, it affects him even more.

however when i read the lyrics, it could also be because he can relate to what jay chou is singing about. here’s the english translation i found here. i have bolded the ones i felt like WYB relates too. literally no need for explanation. just read it. It fits with his status in life so much that it’s almost scary.

妈妈说很多事别太计较

ma ma shuo heng duo shi bie tai ji jiao

Mum said one should not be too fussy over most matters

只是使命感找到了我 我睡不着

zhi shi shi ming gan zhao dao le wo wo shui bu zhao

But my sense of mission found me and i can't sleep over it

如果说骂人要有点技巧

ru guo shuo ma ren yao you diao ji qiao

If scolding someone requires some skills

我会加点旋律你会觉得 超屌

wo hui jia diao xuan lu ni hui jue de chao diao

I will add a tune and you will feel it's very cool (diao)

我的枪不会装弹药（弹药）

wo de qiang bu hui zhuang dan yao (dan yao)

My gun is not loaded with ammunition

所以放心不会有人倒（人倒）

suo yi fang xin bu hui you ren dao (ren dao)

So don't worry, nobody will collapse

我拍青蜂侠不需要替身 因为自信是我绘画的颜料

wo pai qing feng xia bu xu yao ti sheng yin wei zi xin shi wo hui hua de yan liao

I don't need a double for The Green Hornet because confidence is the coloring for my painting

我做很多事背后的意义远比你们想象

wo zuo heng duo shi bei hou de yi yi yuan bi ni men xiang xiang

The meaning behind the things I did is far beyond your imagination

拍个电视剧为了友情与十年前的梦想

pai le dian shi ju wei le you qing yu shi nian qian de meng xiang

Filming a tv drama is for friendship and a dream 10 years ago

收视率再高也难抗衡我的伟大理想

shou shi lv zai gao ye nan kang heng wo de wei da li xiang

No matter how high the rating is, it can't match my noble ideal

因为我的人生无需再多一笔那奖项

yin wei wo de ren sheng wo xu zai duo yi bi na jiang xiang

Because my life do not need another award

我不知道何时变成了社会的那榜样

wo bu zhi dao he shi bian cheng le se hui de na bang yang

I don't know when I have become a society's role model

被狗仔拍不能比中指要大器的模样（怎样）

bei gou zai pai bu neng bi zhong zhi yao da qi de mo yang (zen yang)

Can't show the paparazzi the finger and have to put on a magnanimous front

我唱的歌词要有点文化

wo chang de ge ci yao you dian wen hua

The lyrics I sing must have some degree of literacy

因为随时会被当教材

yin wei sui shi hui bei dan jiao cai

Because it might become teaching material anytime

CNN能不能等英文好一点再访

CNN neng bu neng deng ying wen hao yi dian zai fang

Can CNN interview me when my English gets a little better

时代杂志封面能不能重拍

shi dai za zhi feng mian neng bu neng chong pai

Can i reshoot the Time magazine cover

随时随地注意形象

sui shi sui di zhu yi xin xiang

I must take care of my image at all times

要控制饮食不然就跟杜莎夫人蜡像的我不像（本来就不像）

yao kong zhi yin shi bu ran jiu gen du sha fu ren la xiang de wo bu xiang (ben lai jiu bu xiang)

I must control my diet or i won't look like the "me" in Madame Tussauds (it doesn't look like me in the first place)

好莱坞的中国戏院地上有很多手印脚印

hao lai wu de zhong guo xi yuan di shang you heng duo shou yin jiao yin

There are many handprints and footprints at Grauman's Chinese Theatre

何时才能看见我的掌

he shi cai neng kan jian wo de zhang

When will mine be seen there?

如果超人会飞 那就让我在空中停一停歇

ru guo chao ren hui fei na jiu rang wo zai kong zhong ti yi ti xie

If Superman can fly then let me take a breather in the sky

再次俯瞰这个世界 会让我觉得好一些

zai ci fu kan zhe ge shi jie hui ran wo jue de hao yi xie

Overlooking this world again will let me feel better

拯救地球好累 虽然有些疲惫但我还是会

zheng jiu di qiu hao lei sui ran you xie pi bei dan wo hai shi hui

Saving the world is tiring, though I am a little tired, I still will

不要问我哭过了没

bu yao wen wo ku guo le mei

Don't ask me if I have cried

因为超人不能流眼泪

yin wei chao ren bu neng liu yan lei

Because Superman can't cry

唱歌要拿最佳男歌手

chang ge yao na zui jia nan ge shou

(You) must get best male singer award as a singer

拍电影也不能只拿个最佳新人

pai dian yin ye bu neng zhi na ge zui jia xin ren

A newcomer award is not enough if you act

你不参加颁奖典礼就是没礼貌

ni bu can jia ban jiang dian li jiu shi mei li mao

Not attending award ceremonies is considered rude

你去参加就是代表你很在乎

ni qu can jia jiu shi dai biao ni heng zai hu

And if you do, it means you are over-concerned about it

得奖时你感动落泪（落泪）人家就会觉得你夸张做作（做作）

de jia shi ni gan dong luo lei (luo lei) ren jia jiu hui jue de ni kuang zhang zuo zuo

When you won an award and teared, people will think you are fake and exaggerating

你没表情别人就会说太嚣张

ni mei biao qing bie ren jiu hui shuo tai xiao zhang

When you have no expression, others will say you are too arrogant

如果你天生这个表情 那些人甚至会怪你妈妈（妈妈）

ru guo ni tian sheng zhe ge biao qing na xie ren sheng zhi hui guai ni ma ma (ma ma)

And if you are born with that expression, they will even blame your mum

结果最后是别人在得奖 你也要给予充分的掌声与微笑

jie guo zui hou shi bie ren zai de jiang ni ye yao ge yu chong fen de zhang sheng yu wei xiao

In the end someone else gets the award, you also have to give ample applause and smile

开的车不能太好 住的楼不能太高

kai de che bu neng tai hao zhu de lou bu neng tai gao

The car you drive can't be too luxurious nor can you live too high up

我到底是一个创作歌手 还是好人好事代表

wo dao di shi yi ge chuang zuo ge shou hai shi hao ren hao shi dai biao

Am I a singer-songwriter or a representative of good men and good deeds?

专辑一出就必须是冠军

zhuan ji yi chu jiu bi xu shi guan jun

My album must be ranked top once released

拍了电影就必须要大卖

pai le dian yin jiu bi xu yao da mai

My movie must sell well

只能说当超人真的好难

zhi neng shuo dan chao ren zhen de hao nan

I can only say, being a Superman is difficult

如果超人会飞（超人会飞）那就让我在空中停一停歇（停一停歇）

ru guo chao ren hui fei (chao ren hui fei) na jiu rang wo zai kong zhong ti yi ti xie (ti yi ti xie)

If Superman can fly then let me take a breather in the sky

再次俯瞰这个世界 会让我觉得好一些

zai ci fu kan zhe ge shi jie hui ran wo jue de hao yi xie

Overlooking this world again will let me feel better

拯救地球好累（地球好累）虽然有些疲惫但我还是会（我还是会）

zheng jiu di qiu hao lei (di qiu hao lei) sui ran you xie pi bei dan wo hai shi hui (wo hai shi hui)

Saving the world is tiring, though I am a little tired, I still will

不要问我哭过了没

bu yao wen wo ku guo le mei

Don't ask me if I have cried

因为超人不能流眼泪

yin wei chao ren bu neng liu yan lei

Because Superman can't cry

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I don’t think there is anything wrong with how cpfs are relating this to cpn cause that’s just how it is. But sometimes, there are other reasons why they do what they do.

SO MY CONFUSION COMES FROM HOW THE HELL DO PEOPLE KNOW WHAT HE RECENTLY LISTENED TO. I can’t seem to dig up how or maybe it’s something we don’t talk about. I have never experienced this kind of tidbit related to them before so I wanna know the source. Or is this like the gaming cpn where certain people know and they will not divulge the boy’s account for privacy? if anyone knows, feel free to comment. If i find out in the future, I will share.

[reinaka42]

Wang Chuan Feng Hua Lu (忘川风华录) Masterpost

Wang Chuan Feng Hua Lu (忘川风华录) is a Vocal synth (Vocaloid and SynthV) music project. It consists of songs themed around different figures throughout Chinese history. The project is a collaboration between different artists and creatives, with music and videos featuring prominent traditional Chinese elements. The project's title translates to "The Records of Magnificence of the Wangchuan" - In Chinese mythology, "Wangchuan" (or River of Forgetting) is a river in the Underworld that can rid one of their past life's memories, similar to the river Lethe.

A mobile game adaptation has also been developed by NetEast. Unfortunately, I haven't played it so I can't give much insight on it. However, I assume that its premise is similar to that of the idea behind the project as a whole: all these historical figures meeting each other in the Underworld after they died. Maybe.

You can find all the songs on Bilibili. The official Weibo can be found here. The game's website, which includes all characters appearing so far in the game, can be found here, and its Weibo can be found here.

(If you prefer YouTube, I've also put together a handy playlist. Please know that most of these videos are reposts though, so please watch the original Bilibili MVs if you can!)

This blog is where I will be posting everything I feel like I need to say about the songs in this project. A lot of it is lifted from my Twitter account but will be in much more detail. Note that I probably won't touch collab songs, or songs that don't focus solely on the project's own characters.

Disclaimer: I do not speak Chinese, nor am I an expert on Chinese history. Therefore, I cannot reliably translate the lyrics to these songs, nor my words should be taken as gospel. I am merely a nerd gushing about my hyperfixation.

Playlist

多情岸 【Duo Qing An】 ➼ B link

洛阳怀 【Luo Yang Huai】 ➼ B link

易水诀 【Yi Shui Jue】 ➼ B link

山河令 【Shan He Ling】 ➼ B link

簪花人间 【Zhan Hua Ren Jian】 ➼ B link

栖凰 【Qi Huang】 ➼ B link

心上秋 【Xin Shang Qiu】 ➼ B link

祖龙吟 【Zu Long Yin】 ➼ B link

如见青山 【Ru Jian Qing Shan】 ➼ B link

竹林间 【Zhu Lin Jian】 ➼ B link

天下局 【Tian Xia Ju】 ➼ B link

青鸟衔风 【Qing Niao Xian Feng】 ➼ B link

木兰行 【Mu Lan Xing】 ➼ B link

好字唯之 【Hao Zi Wei Zhi】 ➼ B link

不可道 【Bu Ke Dao】 ➼ B link

水叙湖风 【Shui Xu Hu Feng】 (collab) ➼ B link

是非 【Shi Fei】 ➼ B link

风起甘露 【Feng Qi Gan Lu】 (collab) ➼ B link

��剑 【Wei Jian】 ➼ B link

万象霜天 【Wan Xiang Shuang Tian】 (New Year event song) ➼ B link

千秋梦 【Qian Qiu Meng】 ➼ B link

易安难安 【Yi An Nan An】 ➼ B link

惊鹊 【Jing Que】 ➼ B link

高歌破阵 【Gao Ge Po Zhen】 (collab) ➼ B link

不赴 【Bu Fu】 ➼ B link

西行 【Xi Xing】 ➼ B link

大航海家 【Da Hang Hai Jia】 ➼ B link

牡丹乱 【Mu Dan Luan】 (collab) ➼ B link

倾国 【Qing Guo】 (collab) ➼ B link

相虎 【Xiang Hu】 ➼ B link

补天裂 【Bu Tian Lie】 ➼ B link

此期盈期 【Ci Qi Ying Qi】 (1st anniversary song) ➼ B link

破云来 【Po Yun Lai】 ➼ B link

归钓吟 【Gui Diao Yin】 ➼ B link

始见千秋 【Shi Jian Qian Qiu】 ➼ B link

临川浮梦 【Lin Chuan Fu Meng】 ➼ B link

将军行 【Jiang Jun Xing】 ➼ B link

妄语人间 【Wang Yu Ren Jian】 ➼ B link

数风流 【Shu Feng Liu】 (2nd anniversary song) ➼ B link

问剑春秋 【Wen Jian Chun Qiu】 ➼ B link

起战令 【Qi Zhan Ling】 ➼ B link

人间应又雪 【Ren Jian Ying You Xue】 ➼ B link

旷古回响 【Kuang Gu Hui Xiang】 ➼ B link

墨隐侠声 【Mo Yin Xia Sheng】 ➼ B link

桃源故人 【Tao Yuan Gu Ren】 (3rd anniversary song) ➼ B link

燕双归 【Yan Shuang Gui】 ➼ B link

拜云台 【Bai Yun Tai】 ➼ B link

思华年 【Si Hua Nian】 ➼ B link

承天 【Cheng Tian】 ➼ B link

*Note: The anniversary songs are probably for the game's anniversaries, as the project itself is more than 5 years old.

Albums

Vol 1: 溯洄 【Su Hui】 Includes character songs from Duo Qing An to Zhu Lin Jian. Features human vocals.

Vol 2: 踏浪 【Ta Lang】 Includes character songs from Tian Xia Ju to Yi An Nan An + Shui Xu Hu Feng.

Vol 3: 数风流 【Shu Feng Liu】 Includes character songs from Bu Fu to Yan Shuang Gui, and the two anniversary songs.

Visual character guide:

PRE-QIN | QIN | WESTERN CHU | HAN | THREE KINGDOMS | JIN | NORTH & SOUTHERN DYNASTIES | TANG | FIVE DYNASTIES & TEN KINGDOMS | SONG | YUAN | MING | QING | DREAM

[shookethdev]

a o e i i er ai ei ao ou an en ang eng ong i ia iao ie iu ian in iang ing iong u ua uo uai ui uan un uang ueng ü üe üan ün a o e er ai ao ou an en ang eng yi ya yao ye you yan yin yang ying yong wu wa wo wai wei wan wen wang weng yu yue yuan yun b ba bo bai bei bao ban ben bang beng bi biao bie bian bin bing bu p pa po pai pei pao pou pan pen pang peng pi piao pie pian pin ping pu m ma mo me mai mei mao mou man men mang meng mi miao mie miu mian min ming mu f fa fo fei fou fan fen fang feng fu d da de dai dei dao dou dan den dang deng dong di diao die diu dian ding du duo dui duan dun t ta te tai tei tao tou tan tang teng tong ti tiao tie tian ting tu tuo tui tuan tun n na ne nai nei nao nou nan nen nang neng nong ni niao nie niu nian nin niang ning nu nuo nuan nü nüe l la le lai lei lao lou lan lang leng long li lia liao lie liu lian lin liang ling lu luo luan lun lü lüe g ga ge gai gei gao gou gan gen gang geng gong gu gua guo guai gui guan gun guang k ka ke kai kei kao kou kan ken kang keng kong ku kua kuo kuai kui kuan kun kuang h ha he hai hei hao hou han hen hang heng hong hu hua huo huai hui huan hun huang z za ze zi zai zei zao zou zan zen zang zeng zong zu zuo zui zuan zun c ca ce ci cai cao cou can cen cang ceng cong cu cuo cui cuan cun s sa se si sai sao sou san sen sang seng song su suo sui suan sun zh zha zhe zhi zhai zhei zhao zhou zhan zhen zhang zheng zhong zhu zhua zhuo zhuai zhui zhuan zhun zhuang ch cha che chi chai chao chou chan chen chang cheng chong chu chua chuo chuai chui chuan chun chuang sh sha she shi shai shei shao shou shan shen shang sheng shu shua shuo shuai shui shuan shun shuang r re ri rao rou ran ren rang reng rong ru rua ruo rui ruan run j ji jia jiao jie jiu jian jin jiang jing jiong ju jue juan jun q qi qia qiao qie qiu qian qin qiang qing qiong qu que quan qun x xi xia xiao xie xiu xian xin xiang xing xiong xu xue xuan xun

NAKU 🫵

[mdj30823]

你好

这是我的日記。

我在学中文二年。

我想写每天因为我要说跟我的男朋友的家人。他们是新加坡人， 他们的英语不好。我的中文也不好。

你和我会说中文共同。

Ni hao

Zhe shi wo de ri ji.

Wo zai xue zhong wen er nian.

Wo xiang xie mei tian yin wei wo yao shuo gen wo de nan peng you de jia ren. Ta men shi xin jia po ren, ta men de ying yu bu hao. Wo de zhong wen ye bu hao.

Ni he wo hui shuo zhong wen gong tong.

Hello

This is my journal.

I have been studying Chinese for 2 years.

I plan to write everyday because I want to speak with my boyfriend's family. They are Singaporeans, their English is not good. My Chinese is also not good.

You and me will speak chinese together.

[eyenaku]

Ji ji fu ji ji

a o e i i er ai ei ao ou an en ang eng ong i ia iao ie iu ian in iang ing iong u ua uo uai ui uan un uang ueng ü üe üan ün a o e er ai ao ou an en ang eng yi ya yao ye you yan yin yang ying yong wu wa wo wai wei wan wen wang weng yu yue yuan yun b ba bo bai bei bao ban ben bang beng bi biao bie bian bin bing bu p pa po pai pei pao pou pan pen pang peng pi piao pie pian pin ping pu m ma mo me mai mei mao mou man men mang meng mi miao mie miu mian min ming mu f fa fo fei fou fan fen fang feng fu d da de dai dei dao dou dan den dang deng dong di diao die diu dian ding du duo dui duan dun t ta te tai tei tao tou tan tang teng tong ti tiao tie tian ting tu tuo tui tuan tun n na ne nai nei nao nou nan nen nang neng nong ni niao nie niu nian nin niang ning nu nuo nuan nü nüe l la le lai lei lao lou lan lang leng long li lia liao lie liu lian lin liang ling lu luo luan lun lü lüe g ga ge gai gei gao gou gan gen gang geng gong gu gua guo guai gui guan gun guang k ka ke kai kei kao kou kan ken kang keng kong ku kua kuo kuai kui kuan kun kuang h ha he hai hei hao hou han hen hang heng hong hu hua huo huai hui huan hun huang z za ze zi zai zei zao zou zan zen zang zeng zong zu zuo zui zuan zun c ca ce ci cai cao cou can cen cang ceng cong cu cuo cui cuan cun s sa se si sai sao sou san sen sang seng song su suo sui suan sun zh zha zhe zhi zhai zhei zhao zhou zhan zhen zhang zheng zhong zhu zhua zhuo zhuai zhui zhuan zhun zhuang ch cha che chi chai chao chou chan chen chang cheng chong chu chua chuo chuai chui chuan chun chuang sh sha she shi shai shei shao shou shan shen shang sheng shu shua shuo shuai shui shuan shun shuang r re ri rao rou ran ren rang reng rong ru rua ruo rui ruan run j ji jia jiao jie jiu jian jin jiang jing jiong ju jue juan jun q qi qia qiao qie qiu qian qin qiang qing qiong qu que quan qun x xi xia xiao xie xiu xian xin xiang xing xiong xu xue xuan xun

[simply-zhouye]

Wishing the happiest 26th Birthday to our wonderful puppy & cold beauty Princess Zhou Ye! Born on May 20th, 1998 aka #Happy520ZhouYeDay!

[abarero]

Pokémon x TGCF {Xie Lian}

{Main Team}

Ruoye the Sylveon

- A precious friend he’s had since childhood. His friends Mu Qing and Feng Xin have Eeveelutions that are siblings with Xie Lian’s Ruoye.

Xiu Ying the Florges

- It was given to him as a white Flabebe by a boy he’d saved from an attack, and she’s been a cherished member of the team ever since.

Zhen Zhen the Furret

- Xie Lian’s only shiny Pokémon; he found this Pokémon being picked on by others and rescued it.

Jia Yi the Absol

- Villagers kept reporting seeing this Pokemon before disasters and began to view it as a bad omen. Undeterred by this superstition, Xie Lian made her a member of his team.

Mei Hui the Meowstic

- Full of restrained power, many underestimate the strength behind this Pokémon’s attacks.

Dai Lu the Pachirisu

- Although small and not very threatening at first glance, this little Pachirisu is often the key to a winning battle.

{Also Travels With}

Chao Xiang the Garbodor

- Xie Lian found him, lonely and hungry, while sorting through some rubbish. Since he too was down on his luck, he decided to take this Pokémon in and care for him.

Fang Xin the Chien-Pao

- A cursed sword brought to life by the hatred of people, this Pokémon was given to him by White No-Face who claimed the Pokémon would be nothing but cruel. But under Xie Lian’s care, the Pokémon has come to trust again; now playful but fiercely loyal.

[weidaoduzun3]

Musing On The Story of Lord Wenhui & Cook Ding.

The more I read this book, the more I am able to recall the divinity within me, but at the same time, the more I read this, the more I forget myself and who I am.

To live life with spontaneity, to be unselfconscious in all my actions and not doing a thing because it’s “right” or it is “wrong” but to just do; to just act because it’s innate in me. Sure I can rationalize these things okay enough. To the point where I can apply these teaching every day? Maybe I will be able too, maybe I wont but putting this into practice every day takes EXTREME discipline.

One thing I’m sure of, words cannot articulate this Dao. What a fool I am to try to articulate what I’m experiencing. Zhunagzi says: “to pursue the limitless (The Dao), with the limited (the mind/senses), this is but danger.”[3.1.3]

Namely, because the Dao exceeds all intellect and conceptualizations that have limits; so to embark on The Dao using just my 5 senses would be a fool's errand. I’m drawing parallels between Iamblichus’ “irrational” ways of going about theurgy and other Hermetic & Platonic teachings. But sharing those will have to wait. I'm really impressed with the story of Cook Ding and Lord Wenhui (King Hui of Liang).

The King is ever impressed with Cook Ding's butchering skills on an ox. So impressed he says this: "Wow! Terrific! How could skill ever go so far as this?" [3.3]. Cook Ding responds by saying he has no skill, but he is good at The Dao. According to just a simple cook for the imperials, just after three years butchering oxen for a living, he no longer see's the oxen's with his eyes but confronts the animal with his spirit (神) [3.4.1-4]. After telling Lord Wenhui this, Cook Ding mentions: [3.4.5] "When the sense and knowledge stop, the divine is ready to act." Cook Ding goes on to say because he cuts without knowledge or skill and just inherently cuts because that is the Cook's nature, and because he has arcanely merged the principal or natural configuration of the Ox, he abides where inherent certainty leads him. Then Cook Ding says: [3.4.10-11] "It never happens that my plying encounters the joints, So how much the less likely am I to encounter a big bone!"

Next, Cook Ding demonstrates the difference between an ordinary cook's knife, a good cook's knife, and his knife. The ordinary cook must change his knife once a month because he hacks the meat. A good cook changes his knife every year because he cuts through the meat. Guo Xiang says this about the good cook: "He(the good cook) fails to hit the interstices in the natural configuration." Meaning the good cook does not approach his craft with his/her spirit (神). Now Cook Ding says his knife has lasted over 19 years, with thousands of oxen that he has cut and butchered. He also mentions how little he has to put his knife to sharpening, but when he does, he applies the least amount of effort to perfectly sharpen his knife. Knowing how effortless his craft and his nature is, Cook Ding soaks up each moment of caring for his knife, feeling satisfaction for what he has done so perfectly. [3.4.12-21]

Lord Wenhui is so impressed by Cook Ding's words the King now has learned how to nurture life from the Cook's words. If a man can hone his knife to such a degree, imagine what you or I could do with the very life we have been blessed with? At least, that's how Guo Xiang interprets the end of the story and Lord Wenhui's amazement at Cook Ding. [3.5]

Safe to say, I was just amazed at Cook Ding's words just as Lord Wenhui was. I really like this story because we have a common working man teaching someone of aristocratic background The Dao. Reminding me that one doesn't have to become a great invocator or sage or King to embark on this inarticulate Dao. In fact, we shouldn't add or subtract anything from our emotions/tendencies. Zhuangzi says this a little later in the chapter: [3.12.3] "Such people try to escape from nature and multiply the scope of their tendencies/emotions, which is to forget what they have been endowed with." Just as Cook Ding demonstrated for us, he perfected the allotted capacity given to him by Heaven. In his arcane fusion of Earth(Oxen) and Heaven (Cook Ding's natural allotted capacity that is given to him out of Fate), Cook Ding can radically live in the moment, nurturing each breath and stroke of the knife.

Master Zhuang admits this is quite difficult and Guo Xiang expands on why it is so difficult I think very beautifully that I’ll just provide the whole commentary and last words from Zhunagzi:

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Love and Leather

Chapter 1

Introductions

Hello, my name is Cai Xia, and this is the story of how I fell in love with the Emperor and became the Empress of the Qing Dynasty. But first, I would like to introduce my family, teacher, hometown, and where my story begins. My family has lived in Chunsu, a somewhat wealthy town about three days from the capital, for generations, and it is where my parents met and fell in love. They met when they were teens and fell in love not long after. My parents were twenty years old when they married, and then they had my older brother, Cai Yan, a year later.

I was born five years after my brother Yan, and my family could not be happier to finally have a daughter after trying for so long. Now my family has been running a leather tanning/selling business since the founding of Chansu, and the whole family has been working it ever since. Even now that the Cai family is one of the five wealthiest families in Chansu and can hire people to do the work for us, we are still working in and around the business to ensure the quality of our leather is top-notch and second-best to none. My father, Cai Bo, and my brother Yan work in the tanning shop, providing the leather is clean and sellable to the public, while my mother, Cai Hui, and I work in the shop selling the leather to the people of Chansu.

We sell our leather to all people in town and travelers who are just passing through, but my favorite customer is Mr.Ling, a devoted customer, and my brother and I’s teacher since we were old enough to learn how to read and write. He is the one who instilled in me a love of reading and a thirst for knowledge of any kind. Mr.Ling is also the one I go to when I get myself into situations that require wisdom that I will not have until I am as old and wise as Mr.Ling. And lately, it feels like I have done nothing but pester my poor teacher with the most difficult challenge I have ever faced and will ever face. The son of the town magistrate, Xiang Chen, is a rude nobleman who uses his father’s position to terrorize the town and make people bend to his will.

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Oh,hi,it’s me again,THAT STAN of both Augustus and Qin Shi Huang ,huge apologize for making mistake on your name,please let me greet you again ,hi Amelie ,thanks a lot for replying~ I really love your opinion about Ying Zheng’s publicly closed off.Yes I do think this is the biggest difference between him and the Roman emperor ,Octavian’s actually felix,indeed,Marcus Balbus and Julia Minor gave him a peaceful Childhood,and with his childhood sweetheart,special Agrippa,Wow,let him know what the pure true love feels like,but Ying Zheng,uh,when he was born his great-grandfather was crazy for war,King Zhao Xiang loved the city Handan more than his children（comparing with Augustus crying for Agrippina’s son?),King Zhuang Xiang was a underestimated monarch,but a terrible father,the empress,just beautiful,and nothing.Ying Zheng can only,ok fine.Even Meng Tian and Meng Yi,the two brothers are loyal,but could not be closer to their King as Agrippa do,something remained in the King’s soul fovever,if they lived in the same time,I thought he would admire Augustus,but they could be friend, I believe,they would appreciate each other in a very happy way because they had same intelligence and point of views，and ambition,of course.What if write a fic about them?haha. Very excited to hear you wanna make history gif,I don’t think Octavian had enough or fair TV shows,same thing to Ying Zheng,however,we had had plenty of Ying Zheng’s image on media,but I hope you haven’t seen Da Qin Fu,that’s terrible uh,both the actor and the story.Well,actually it’s a series of TV show Da Qin Di Guo(The Qin Empire),in this series Ying Zheng‘s ancestors,you know ,King Zhao Xiang ,King Hui Wen,Xiao Gong (I don’t know)all of them are better,only our first emperor!It makes me a lot sad. But I may introduce you a Chinese actor whose name is Weng Fei Ran,almost all my friends consider him as the best teenager king of Qin ,as for the adult one we can’t decide,but,there’s a lot.maybe you could choose one to make gif ~ Oh,by the way,in Chinese Ying Zheng’s name could means POLITICS,and could means Spring Festival,too,so,you can call him “Spring”just for fun.

Don't worry about the name thing, unless you're French absolutely nobody has gotten it right on first try ever, I've only met two other people who even have that name (it made looking for those little keychains and license plates with your names on them the bane of my existence as a kid).

Octavian definitely had his issues in his childhood, he lost people early on with his father and his grandparents, and it appears his relationship with his mother and his stepfather was very complicated, not to mention the various illnesses he kept on getting that kept nearly killing him. He had his struggles, but other than health issues, there wasn't anything making him insecure about whether or not he'd be alive or not. His great trial that brought out the darkness within came later in life with Caesar's murder. It's why, for all the evil things that he did once he had power, he did start out his career in a pretty selfless way, by asking Caesar to spare Agrippa's brother out of nothing more than love for his friend. Politically, he knew he was safe, and thus had the space to, as I mentioned, cultivate friendships and open himself up to emotional attachments that allowed him to try and get them back even after he became closed off in other ways.

The key difference in Octavian and Yingzhen's personal stories and how it affected them is that Octavian's personal tragedies were much more spaced out. Other than the concentration of Caesar dying and then a year later his mother dying, which likely did affect him severely because he's, like, eighteen to nineteen when that's going down, most of the losses or betrayals or personal setbacks he suffered either emotionally or healthwise were pretty evenly spread out throughout his life. Yingzhen appears to have had things go to shit for him pretty quickly for a concentrated period of time before it all smoothed out and basically stayed smoothed out save for some isolated incidents. The issue is that the trials happened during a really formative period for him, in his childhood, and that was the baseline for how he reacted to everything that came after. Just as Octavian's caution and careful nature and consideration and "hasten slowly" attitude can likely be attributed to growing up sickly, Yingzhen's lack of close personal connections in the historical record can be attributed to growing up in adversity.

I think these two would get along, insofar as they could get along with anyone, because they do have similarities, as we've mentioned. And most crucially, they're very good administrators. Yeah Qin Shi Huang went a bit nuts at the end with all the mercury, but in general he and Augustus shared a gift for the politics of governance and the running of the state. It's why they've remained so influential in history and certainly in the history of their countries, it's why, in the list of Roman emperors, Augustus is consistently ranked as the best.

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Lyrical Mix 1 (從未見過的海 - 告五人)- 24/11/2024

今早的鬧鐘喚醒 Jin zao de nao zhong huan xing 是對靈魂的敲擊 Shi dui ling hun de qiao ji 如常的翻來覆去 Ru chang de fan lai fu qu 是對軀體的提醒 Shi dui qu ti de ti xing

窗邊光線撲朔迷離 Chuang bian guang xian pu shuo mi li 是回憶不甘離去 Shi hui yi bu gan li qu 只能讓宿醉肆意 Zhi neng rang su zui si yi

今夜的街邊燈火 Jin ye de jie bian deng huo 是溫熱的耳語 Shi wen re de er yu 目光的到達之地 Mu guang de dao da zhi de 想著未來和過去 Xiang zhe wei lai he guo qu

冬天來臨而惆悵心情 Dong tian lai lin er chou chang xin qing 怪罪天氣不穩定 Guai zui tian qi bu wen ding 可是心裡一直 Ke shi xin li yi zhi 一直想起 Yi zhi xiang qi 想起你的雙眼 Xiang qi ni de shuang yan 我的宿命 Wo de su ming

* 從未見過的海 Cong wei jian guo de hai 在你眼裡浮現出來 Zai ni yan li fu xian chu lai 拍打著寂寞等待 Pai da zhe ji mo deng dai 變成眼淚流了下來 Bian cheng yan lei liu le xia lai

** 從未見過的海 Cong wei jian guo de hai 若是天地雲煙消散 Ruo shi tian di yun yan xiao san 悲傷與快樂並排 Bei shang yu kuai le bing pai 不分晝夜我全部都愛 Bu fen zhou ye wo quan bu dou ai

外在的慾望讓我 Wai zai de yu wang rang wo 燒傷了平靜 Shao shang le ping jing 內在的聲音是你 Nei zai de sheng yin shi ni 給我的憧憬 Gei wo de chong jing

活著的意義在於追尋 Huo zhe de yi yi zai yu zhui xun 還是聽從命運 Hai shi ting cong ming yun 如果夜裡的我 Ru guo ye li de wo 保持清醒 Bao chi qing xing 那就是對你 Na jiu shi dui ni 深深著迷 Shen shen zhe mi

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從未見過的海 Cong wei jian guo de hai 只待天地雲煙消散 Zhi dai tian di yun yan xiao san 悲傷與快樂並排 Bei shang yu kuai le bing pai 不分晝夜我全部都愛 Bu fen zhou ye wo quan bu dou ai

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從未見過的海 Cong wei jian guo de hai 在我們眼裡浮現出來 Zai wo men yan li fu xian chu lai 命運的遺憾空白 Ming yun de yi han kong bai 變成眼淚流了下來 Bian cheng yan lei liu le xia lai

從未見過的海 Cong wei jian guo de hai 茫茫天地雲煙消散 Mang mang tian di yun yan xiao san 悲傷與快樂同在 Bei shang yu kuai le tong zai 告訴我們不要再等待 Gao su wo men bu yao zai deng dai