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Made icons of some of my picks from Boys Planet from the tt ending fairy clips ><

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Boys Planet Episode 3-4 Recaps: Hot Sauce

If you’re following the MNET show Boys Planet, you probably know by now that the editors are extremely irritating. For a song “mission” like this, they show 2-3 minute montages of some of the teams practicing, then fast forward to show time passing, then make it look like the performance will start any moment, and then have a lengthy flashback before we finally get to see the performance. 

So, I made a main recap that takes you through episodes 3 and 4 in a linear way, but then when it comes to focusing on each team, I’ll put all those thoughts in a separate post so you can keep the storylines straight. This post is about the Hot Sauce teams’ rehearsal and performance. 

The Teams

K team:

Leader: Park Hanbin

Other members: Lee Dong Gun, Bak Do Ha, Choi Woojin, Park Hyunbeen, Park Ji Hoo

Lee Dong Gun is 17, auditioned with Criminal (wearing shoes), was ranked 43rd and then 44th, and has risen from 1 star to 2 stars. I think the judges were unreasonably cruel to him about his audition, for the record. 

Park Ji Hoo is 16, auditioned with Freak, was ranked 47th and then 49th, and has fallen from 4 stars to 3 stars. He’s the one that told Hui, “I just got here!” 

Choi Woojin is 18, auditioned with NuNu NaNa, was ranked 41st and then 46th, and has fallen from 3 stars to 1 star. 

Park Hanbin is 20, auditioned with The Real, was ranked 34th and then 36th, and has been 4 stars the whole time. He is the one with the blue hair. 

Park Hyunbeen is 17, auditioned with GBTB, was ranked 40th and then 50th, and has been 3 stars the whole time. 

Bak Do Ha is 20, auditioned with My House (blue shirt), was ranked 27th and then 25th, and has been 0 stars the whole time. He’s not good at anything, and yet you know exactly who I mean, right? 

Jang Min Seo is also there for the earlier rehearsals, with his longer blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail. He later had to leave the show, apparently due to knee injuries. This SHOW. 

G team:

Leader: Osuke

Other members: Nice, Cai Jin Xin, Chen Liang, Lin Shi Yuan, Ollie, Toui 

Osuke is 19 years old, auditioned with Crown, was ranked 63rd and then 69th, and rose from 1 star to 2 stars.  He’s Japanese. 

Nice is 22 years old, auditioned with Kokobop, was ranked 71st and then 63rd, and has been 0 stars the whole time. He’s Thai. 

Cai Jin Xin is 19 years old, auditioned with Reveal, was ranked 42nd and then 45th, has been 0 stars the whole time. He’s Chinese.

Chen Liang is 22 years old, auditioned with God’s Menu, was ranked 83rd and then 61st, and fell from 2 stars to 0 stars. He’s Chinese.

Lin Shi Yuan  is 24 years old, auditioned with God’s Menu, was ranked 89th and then 91st, and fell from 1 star to 0 stars.  He’s Chinese.

Ollie is 16 years old, auditioned with Kick It, was ranked 23rd and then 18th, and fell from 3 stars to 0 stars! Oh no!  He’s Chinese, but speaks English really well -- in fact, he seems more comfortable in English than other languages, and chooses English for most of his interviews.  

Toui is 19 years old, didn’t get to audition, was ranked 95th and then 93rd, ouch, and rose from the automatically assigned 0 stars to 1 star. He’s Japanese. 

Team Selection:

I think this is the fifth k-team picked, and might be the fifth g-team picked too. It’s hard to be sure.

Episode 3, 1:21:58

Part Selection 

Then they pick who will have the killing part, and they give it to little Ji Hoo, who specializes in facial expressions. 

On the K-side, the team decides to pick a leader. Bak Do Ha says he’s been a leader in student government, but Park Hanbin says he’s been a leader of musical teams at his agency. They hold a vote for leader, and no one votes for Bak Do Ha. Diplomatic Park Hyunbeen still says “Please put down your hands” so that DoHa wouldn’t know that no one had raised them. Awww. But Park Hanbin wins unanimously. He promises to push them hard, then gives a really cute smile. 

Meanwhile, over on the G-team, the drama is that the leader, Osuke, is the shortest one on the team, so he keeps disappearing from view. MNET lets us know this is very funny with their choice of background music. If you’re wondering, Osuke is apparently 5’5. 

Osuke interviews (in Japanese) that the other team has Park Hanbin, who has four stars, but his team has a combined total of 3 stars among them - so Park Hanbin alone could beat all of them. Aww.  

Skip to Episode 4, 1:21:37. It’s time for the teams to perform. 

Back stage, Seo Won says something that is translated as “Win scrumptiously.” 

The holy trinity of G-team hopes, Keita, Matthew, and Zhang Hao, watches hopefully. 

The K-team introduces themselves, and promise to do a delicious performance. Don’t know what that has to do with guns to their heads, but ok. Also, love how Bak Do Ha forgets to do it. He seems like a sweet guy, but boy, he can’t do anything right. 

Left to right: Choi Woojin, Bak Do Ha, Park Hyunbeen, Lee Dong Gun, Park Ji Hoo, Park Hanbin 

G-team introduces themselves as a restaurant of charms. We again hear about how tiny Osuke is, and then it’s time for a flashback.

Osuke is having trouble figuring out how to teach the choreo to the team by watching the video on the tablet, and I can’t blame him. I don’t know how people do that. Meanwhile, K-team is learning so fast. He interviews, straight up, “I think my team will lose.”

That’s Osuke in green and Toui in yellow. Chen Liang has silvery hair and an eyepatch. There’s Nice, right behind Osuke (and looking down!!). It’s hard to see the others in this shot, but it should be noted that Lin Shi Yuan had red hair during his audition, but his hair is brown now (and it looks a lot better). 

Ollie steps forward and offers to help, and things begin moving. Ollie might be the youngest member, but, as he explains in his interview (in English), “We want to win, and we kind of have to work together to make the best stage we can.” In the end, Ollie becomes the dance teacher, and helps everyone a lot. 

Remember that Ollie is signed with Yuehua, which means that he trains with Zhang Hao and Han Yu Jin -- this is a kid who has actually studied choreography, and he was initially a three star. I suspect he may have failed his star level test because he either just sort of choked or was sick that day -- I've heard that if you were sick for the second level test they put you in zero stars automatically. Though he takes over as leader, he’s still sweet with his hyungs, and it’s nice to see. 

At dance rehearsal with kindly LipJ, they go up in pairs, one person from K and one from G. I get the feeling that they both performed as teams first and did decently, or else LipJ wouldn’t put them through this. Blue haired Park Hanbin from the other team dismisses Ollie as “nothing special,” but he’s laughing as he says it, so it easily could be a joke. I think Park Hanbin jokes a lot and doesn’t think about how people might interpret the things he says. I think MNET is trying to make me hate Park Hanbin, and I don’t like to do what MNET is telling me to do, so I’m going to fight it. 

But look at these two. It should be a really unfair match, given their ages and star levels, and yet….

I think Ollie is completely keeping up with Hanbin -- in fact, I think he nails some of the details even better than Hanbin does. LipJ’s comments obviously confuse Ollie, so she switches to English, which he seems to understand much better than Korean. She tells him, essentially, that he’s doing the choreo his own new way, but that she really likes it. 

At dress rehearsal, the judges are pretty impressed. They can’t believe that this is a team with five no-stars (it’s almost as if ya’ll sorted Ollie into the wrong pile!). The dancing seems to all be pretty good, and though Toui is having trouble with some of the high notes, the vocal masters tell him he’s doing ok otherwise, and to just focus on the last part more. It seems like good feedback, and in a fair world, this team might even have a chance to win. The judges also say that Osuke looks nice in the middle because he’s so short. 

As we head into the performance, Ollie gets the last word, in English: “I believe in my teammates.” 

Left to right: Osuke, Toui, Ollie, Lin Shi Yuan, Nice, Cai Jin Xin, Chen Liang 

As the performance begins, the judges say that they hope the trainees will show vigor beyond just skills, and I think I know what they mean -- they want to see dancing, not just execution of choreography. 

Overall, pretty good, Toui’s bad high notes aside! One of my favorite G-performances. You could believe they were having fun. Obviously, Ollie was one of the best, if not the best in terms of both dancing and performance; but he also showed decent vocals -- clear, and with signs of actual training. He’s ranked pretty well and I hope he survives so we can keep seeing more of him. Osuke was the best in terms of facial expressions throughout -- he’s really fun to watch in general, but his rapping tone was not the best. Lin Shi Yuan was arguably the best rapper, but kind of forgot to perform, which is a bummer since he was in the center a lot. Cai Jin Xin looked a little lost on stage sometimes, like he was counting his steps, but when he was the vocalist he remembered to show expression. Poor Toui -- stepping up to do some SM Agency style high notes on a team without a main vocalist. He did his best, ya’ll. I think if I were him I would have just not tried for that note -- just drop an octave or something, I don’t know. 

Biggest surprise: You guys, Nice not only didn’t look down the whole time, he actually looked upwards??? And showed all sorts of different facial expressions other than just dull surprise! It’s the first time since he came on the show that I understood why he was here. I think his fan cam is worth a peek. I’m not saying he’s the best performer to ever walk the earth -- just that he’s so much better than I would have guessed. Good job, Nice! You were the biggest surprise on this team, for me. 

At 1:29:56, we move over to K-team. 

The MNET editing focuses on Osuke’s charm and how natural and relaxed Ollie is. No one has a kind word to say about Nice, which is a shame because I feel like he made a leap forward from what we’d ever seen from him.

But yeah, overall, good job Hot Sauce G! 

We flashback to the boys’ dance rehearsal, not with the judges but on their own. Hanbin has gone full dance teacher on them, telling them to lift their arms more, elongate their angles, etc. But he doesn’t seem cruel or insulting in any way. He had warned them that it was going to be tough, but it really IS tough. He makes them dance one at a time with him, while the rest of the team watches to see what’s different. 

Bak Do Ha says, “He pulled us by our necks,” which probably sounds more normal in Korean.

Lee Dong Gun says, “I learned a lot from Han Bin hyung -- I learned what it really means to practice.”  

Choi Woojin says, “I was grateful we practiced 1-on-1.”  

At that big group evaluation where they all gave each other feedback, everyone is full of compliments for Ji Hoo and the team in general. However, there is a lot of negative feedback about main vocalist Donggun’s vocals, which seems well earned. Kid is ruuuuuullll off key. Hanbin says, essentially, that it’s natural Donggun would feel stressed out, but that he should try his best to stay relaxed. No one on this team is really a noted vocalist, and so Donggun is falling on his sword. I feel bad for people who have to take on the main vocalist when no one else will, even though maybe they also can’t sing. Hanbin even admits that he himself needs more practice, and the team almost can’t believe it. They’re aiming not just to beat G-group, but to win the whole thing and end up on M-Countdown. Hey, I love the ambition. 

Park Ji Hoo, who has the killing part, says he’s grateful for Hanbin’s good ideas, and adds, “He’s the best.”

There really isn’t any drama here, even though one of the team members had to leave the show and they had to scuttle to rearrange the choreo and parts probably a day or two before the show. There wasn’t drama because Hanbin is being exactly what he should be, as a leader. His feedback is firm but specific and fair. He doesn’t just yell at them to already be good dancers. He helps them be good dancers. He even coaxed accurate dancing out of Do Ha somehow. I don’t know why the psychopath dance teachers don’t do that, but then again, they are psychopaths incapable of basic human empathy. Hanbin at least knows that people perform better when they feel happy and confident. 

Left to right:Choi Woojin, Bak Do Ha, Park Hyunbeen, Lee Dong Gun, Park Ji Hoo, Park Hanbin 

The performance:

It’s great, actually, aside from Donggun’s pretty terrible vocals. It's too bad they didn't have anyone else better suited for the part -- I know he did his best, he's just not a vocalist. Ji Hoo is super charming, as dumb looking as his pointless goggles are (that’s not his fault). They all looked like they were having fun, and the choreography made sense when they were doing it. Park Hyunbeen, in the very shiny jacket, rapped pretty well.  Even Do Ha did ok with the dancing! Let the record show, this is what happens when you teach people a dance with respect and honesty instead of yelling at them and making them feel bad or passive aggressively hiding in staircases. 

Hanbin’s shirt raise felt kind of pointless but I won’t pretend it didn’t work on the crowd.

And he pulled it off with self-confidence, which is the most important thing about a shirt lift. I’d rather full confidence and not as good abs than the other way around. Luckily, Hanbin has both confidence and good abs so good for him! And pretty good vocals, too. 

Side note: why did K group get so much cuter of a background? (The reddish one is G, the greenish one is K)

Anyway, I don’t know if this team could have ever won against the Backdoor team when it came to the M-Countdown, but I do think that if their songs had been switched, and this team had had Backdoor and the other team had Hot Sauce, then maybe this team would have won. Backdoor is just such a great song and Hot Sauce is just noises and choreography. I swear, I like a lot of NCT songs, but this one just isn't it for me, personally, and I think it's harder to pull off. Backdoor is the kind of song that I think more people would like even if they weren't fans of the people performing the song.

Afterwards, the judges are full of compliments for the whole team, going so far as to basically compliment the show for casting so many talented trainees. 

The Results:

G: Toui 10 

Main Vocal

K: Lee Dong Gun 56

Sub Vocal 1

K: Park Hanbin 253

G: Ollie 60

Main Rapper

K: Park Hyunbeen 107

G: Lin Shi Yuan 12 

Sub Vocal 2

K: Choi Woojin 30 

G: Nice 6

Sub Rapper 1

K: Bak Do Ha 29 

G: Cai Jin Xin 54

Sub Vocal 3:

G: Chen Liang 10

Sub Rapper 2

K: *Park Ji Hoo* 143

G: *Osuke*  81

Final vote: 618 to 233

They don't actually tell us how many votes Chen Liang got, but we later on find out that the whole team had 233 total, so it would have to be 10 for Liang.

Hanbin is pretty surprised and happy about his high vote count.

He interviews that the audience liked it when he showed his abs, and I mean, they did. 

But poor Ollie had been hoping for better than 60 votes -- it’s just hard for a 16 year old to beat a 20 year old when it comes to sex appeal, and appeal in general. Ollie is super talented and I know he’ll land on his feet somehow. 

I’m happy for Osuke -- 81 votes is great for a G-team member. But once Ji Hoo’s score -- or as the subtitles called him here, “Ji Boo” -- was revealed, K team already had 296 votes, and it already was obvious which team would win. 

I’m surprised for the votes that both Lee Donggun and Toui got. I know 10 isn’t much but it’s more than I thought the trainee in last place would get! I think Lee Donggun has a lot of charm. 

Hanbin’s 253 is just six points below Kim Ji Woong’s 259 votes, so I guess the trick really is to show your abs! 

Oh, Nice looked like he was going to cry. Nice, you did a good job! I noticed you, sweetheart! 

Hanbin interviews that it was his first time as a leader (??? didn’t he say he’d done it before???) but that his team trusted him and didn’t quit, and he thanks them truly. 

Meanwhile, G-group is speechless with sadness. They just sit there, and you can feel their chests aching. Ollie begins to cry, and his hyungs wipe away his tears. The rest of them cry a bit too. 

Osuke interviews that he feels bad that as a leader he couldn’t do more for his team. But we all know that the deck was stacked against them. 

Ollie gets the last word, saying in English, “even if we don’t win, it’s ok. It was like, a really fun ride to go along.” 

And that's the end of this recap!

Also, this was the final song to be recapped (Love Me Right was in an earlier post.)

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Call Me by Fire 4

The performances from the 3rd Concert (4th Round) that impressed me the most

🔥 1. "Upstream" by Shi Kai, Aruna, and Jing Long

High-energy song + martial-arts beat-down live onstage. A group of thieves (played by Shi Kai and Jing Long) has finished a successful heist and is back in their lair when another group (Aruna) shows up to steal their loot.

This moves too fast to screencap properly, and there weren't any action photos from the production team's photographers, so, please: JUST WATCH THE VIDEO! And Jing Long's (on couch) vocal fluctuations are💯

Did Aruna intimidate official group leader Shi Kai into doing this? Yes. Was it worth it? Absolutely!

🔥 2. "Cage" by Reno Wang, Allen Lin, Evan Yo, Nine

⚠Warning! Dark themes. Depictions of sui/cide (censoring to avoid the bot), abuse, drowning

The themes are really dark, but the performance is extremely well done and impressive. Reno Wang and Allen Lin play musicians who keep their composer (Nine) and violinist (Evan Yo) locked up in a dungeon and abuse them, until the composer jumps into a water vault to end it all.

Note: Nine is a certified diver and knows how to do this safely. And he seemed very happy to do it. "I can stay in there longer! :D" Others: "NO!" Producer: "And you CAN'T laugh while you're in there!" Nine: "OK OK"

🔥 3. "D-I-S-C-O" by Liang Long, Jerry Yuan, and Jason

For all the previous one was dark, this one's light and wholesome, and definitely catchy!

Rivals-to-Friends trope! Liang Long and Jason play an older and younger actor, respectively. They look down on each other and just Do Not get along. Jerry Yuan plays their agent. Then they have a disco-dance-off and become friends.

Scores, for the curious, as comment to avoid spoilers.

[gabrielokun]

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My May's songfic answer to the GuSu pairing ask: https://vk.com/marriedingusu

Song: Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

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Drama Gossip: The Spirealm (致命游戏)

Source: Google Images

It started off peculiarly; first, his domestic cat refused to let him cuddle it. Lin Qiushi soon found that a sense of disharmony and incongruity began to pervade everything around him. Then, one odd day, he pushed open a door, and he discovered that the hallway he was familiar with turned into a boundless corridor. At both ends of this corridor were twelve, identical iron gates. Thus, the story began.

Source: MyDramaList (2024)

Action, Adventure, Augmented Reality? Sign Me Up!

I do not consume everything that has the 'entering a virtual game with real life consequences' plot-line but when I do, I more or less will enjoy them. The Spirealm is exactly that plot-line and after just finishing 19th Floor (another Chinese drama with similar concept), I was expecting more and hoping for lesser disappointment.

This drama did not disappoint at all. Lets first talk about the roles and the cast. Brilliant job on the casting, everybody pulled off their role so wonderfully, it felt like they were made for their roles. As for the characters these actors portrayed, wow. I haven't been obsessed with a fictional Chinese character in such a long time but Ruan Lan Zhu is so easy to be obsessed with. The writing was brilliant because I very quickly grew attached to the main people and when shit hit the fan, yeah, I felt everything as if I was a part of them.

Spoilers going on from here so if you haven't watched the show, go and watch it now, please?

As I was saying, I was so attached to some of the characters, I really, wow... Say Li Dong Yuan first. I actually already was spoiled with his death, I even knew which door was going to cause his death yet when it happened, I physically gasped. Then his farewell scene came about and goodness gracious, Xiao Zhuang's reaction was absolutely heart-wrenching. It really did not help that right before getting stabbed, the door Dong Yuan went through for Ling Ling was one of the most entertaining and comedic doors.

After that Zao Zao's death? She was already trying her best in the real world, she tried her best in the spirealm. She gave one of the best speeches ever. Yet that chandelier... I never hated chandeliers as much as I do now.

That's the thing about The Spirealm. This show has plenty of heartbreaking scenes but at the same time, it has a bunch of hilarious scenes too. You really can go from laughing one second and then depressed the next. Exactly like when Cheng Yi Xie sacrificed himself for his brother? One second I was laughing at Lan Zhu begging for Ling Ling's forgiveness and suddenly I was pissed but before I could even get real mad, I was hit with a broken heart. This may sound like a complain but the roller coaster of emotions made this drama ten times more interesting than other dramas.

Moving on to the game or doors or levels (however you want to call them). I really, really enjoy shows with this concept but many a times, the stakes just aren't high enough. Not The Spirealm though. I mean, look at Dong Yuan, Zao Zao and Yi Xie. They are part of the main leads and that world did not go easy on them. As much as I hate that they died, I really appreciated the high stakes in this drama. It made watching the show so much more worth it.

Anyhow, despite thoroughly enjoying this drama, I have so many questions. First things first, did I miss the significance of the necklace Lan Zhu gave Ling Ling during the first door?

Also (this is not that important by the way), when the time comes, the players have no choice but through the door. We've watched Ling Ling enter his doors plenty a time. Now tell me how did Wu Qi survive?

I may be someone who loves an ambiguous ending but if the theory that everything was not real is in fact real, I hate it. Yet, everything being a part of Ling Ling's dream or "hallucination" does make sense, as much as I hate it. Remember where Ling Ling walked into upon completing the first door? He entered the door in the middle of the road and exited it into his house? The discrepancies started right from the beginning. Which (if I did not miss anything) might explain the lack of significance behind the necklace. It will also explain why Ling Ling's time between each door is never long yet Wu Qi's not worried about his next door when he witnessed Dong Yuan's death? Or that Chen Fei's advancement is so much slower than Ling Ling. Furthermore, I'm supposed to believe the crew learnt about a mysterious man who helped Xiong Qi reunite with Xiao Ke in the spirealm and they did not investigate more?

I really do hate the everything was not real theory but I also cannot deny it's the most reasonable one. There was another theory I chanced upon on Douyin a while back and have since forgotten most of the information. However, I like that theory a lot even though it was quite farfetched. Long story short, the user theorised that after Lan Zhu walked into the portal and cleaned the program, Ling Ling woke up and regained consciousness after being hit, right? That's not reality but the 12th door and the door god for this last door is Lan Zhu. That was all I remember but the user did provide explanations and timestamps for their theory and upon reading it, it did make sense too. Therefore, if I ever come across that video again, I will link it here.

In the meantime, let's wallow in the conclusion of The Spirealm. It was a quick and short ride but an extremely memorable one.

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4.5/5)

More productions from China here: 19th Floor (19层) | Under the Skin (猎罪图鉴)

[scenesandscreens]

General Stone [Shi san tai bao Li Cun Xiao] (1977)

Director - Hung Tao, Cinematography - Wen-Hsiung Li

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Cdrama: Her Fantastic Adventures (2024)

Gifs of Intro of cdrama "Her Fantastic Adventures"

【Multi | FULL】 EP01 Song Yiren traveled back to ancient!😜 | Her Fantastic Adventures 第二次“初见” | iQIYI

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql2pwhzWQLA

[dangermousie]

Ok, decision made. Just as Mars is my Taiwanese binge rewatch, and Empress Ki my Korean one, The Legend of the Condor Heroes 2008 wins over some stellar candidates as my Mainland rewatch (it helps that unlike the other finalists, The Myth and 3K, it will break my heart only a little.)

I am not the world’s biggest wuxia enthusiast but LOCH2008 remains one of the few wuxia dramas I love unreservedly (I think it, Return of the Condor Heroes 2006 and Listening Snow Tower are the only wuxia dramas I genuinely love from beginning to end tbh.)

I’ve first watched it so long ago, I don’t even remember if it was my first Hu Ge drama or not but I’ve seen and loved Ariel Lin in many a twdrama and yet still was blown away by how naturally she fit into a period setting. Her chemistry with Hu Ge was fire. Good hearted man and smart woman is my catnip and they were so so perfect, I got a bit emotionally unwell from overinvestment in them.

And speaking of unwell…if I was invested in the main OTP, my level of obsession with secondary OTP of antihero (and for a time a plain villain) Yuan Hong and the martial artist who loves him Liu Shi Shi was something else. It was my first drama with either of them and I went off a serious deep end. (I am old enough to remember when they had hordes of rpshippers, heh.) They were the definition of “doomed by the narrative” and every attempt they made to fight made it worse, and they were intense and fucked up and codependent and the love triangle of Yang Kang X Mu Nianci x Ouyang Ke was the epic righteous dude turning villain and villain mellowing for love both chasing the same tough woman set up that we deserve and never get.

Throw in battles, politics, torture, friends to enemies to friends, and some truly fucked up family dynamics and this is everything. Rewatch!!!!!

[nemainofthewater]

The most versatile of accessories, a fan can be:

-A fashion statement for the discerning gentleman

-A sign that you're a gentleman and the person talking to you is a pleb

-A way to whack people on the head when they do something stupid

-Something to hide behind when a sleeve is too conspicuous

-A weapon (????)

Oh, and I guess it can keep you cool as well if you want to be boring.

Write-ins, propaganda, and images are welcome!

[calitsnow]

Summary of all mentions of members of Hong Lu's family in the game + comparison with the original book

Summary:

Mention of his “family” in general in the game

Mention of the family elders in the game + comparison with the original work

Mention of his grandmother in the game + comparison with the original work

Mention of his grandfather in the game + comparison with the original work

Mention of his father in the game + comparison with the original work

Mention of his siblings in the game + comparison with the original work

Mention of his brother (Jia Huan) in the game

I wanted to recap all the times Hong Lu talks about his family or a particular member of his family while at the same time comparing them to their version of the original novel by giving some info on the latter (assuming that Hong Lu = Jia Baoyu ). I excluded from this list the uncles and aunts by marriage as well as Baoyu's cousins ​​ for various reasons (too long otherwise, not mentioned...) but I will perhaps do a part 2 to talk about them.

Was also excluded, the entire branch which stems from Jia Yan (the brother of Jia Yuan (the father of Jia Daishan, the husband of Grandmother Jia)), a branch which remains important since it is this one who leads to the actual Head of the Ningguo Mansion (Jia Zhen) when the story takes place. But since, they are distant relatives/cousins ​​of Jia Baoyu, that was taking me too far and so I had to remove them from this list. But I still wanted to mention it since it is an important branch of the family

The Jia family is mainly composed of 4 great families: the Jia Family, the Xue Family, the Wang Family and the Shi family in other words those who were born with the name Jia and those who joined the family by marriage / alliance / by being the brother / sister of one of the grooms… (born Xue or Wang or Shi).

There are also other families like the Xing or Lin family joining the Jia family but whose name appears (very) less often and which are also not considered as one of the great families of the novel.

This list of family members is made in relation to the place they occupy in relation to Jia Baoyu.

I/Mention of his “family” in general in the game

LCB sinner, chatter#3

Abn. logs, Pink shoes: lacking data

Abn. Logs, Sign of Roses: level 1

Abn. Logs, Sign of Roses: level 3

Liu Association South Section 5, story

Liu Association South Section 5, story

K Corp. Class 3 excision staff, post-uptie chat 2

W Corp. L2 Cleanup agent, Idle

Main story, Canto II, episode: 3

Detour Tales, Chapter 5.5, Miracle in district 20, episode: 13

Main story, Canto V, episode: 2

Hong Lu’s promo pre-limbus company release (Hong Lu also mentions the family’s chef’s side dishes but I didn’t include it because it was not about his family specifically)

II/Mention of the family elders in the game + comparison with the original work

W Corp. L2 Cleanup agent, story

W Corp. L2 Cleanup agent, story

Main story, Canto IV, episode: 27

To tell the truth, I don't really know what the term "elders" is supposed to encompass in this context in the sense that, I don't know whether or not parents and/or uncles/aunts should be included in addition to the grandparents.

In my opinion the term "elders" refers to all the generations who are above the one who uses this term (in this case Hong Lu / Jia Baoyu) so I would tend to want to count the parents and uncles / aunts but I cannot say this with certainty.

I will therefore base myself on my interpretation so that it will allow me to talk about more characters of the novel but do not hesitate to let me know what this term encompasses!

1st generation:

Grand parents:

Jia Daishan:

Son of Jia Yuan

first Duke of Rong

husband of Grandmother Jia

father of Jia She, Jia Min and Jia Zheng

grandfather of the three first Spring Ladies (Jia Yuanchun, Jia Tanchun and Jia Yingchun), Jia Zhu, Baoyu, Daiyu, Jia Huan, Jia Lian

died before the beginning of the novel, reason why we don’t know much about him

Grandma Jia (the Dowager):

Daughter of the Marquis Shi of Jinling

Wife of Jia Daishan

Grandmother Jia is a generation above the oldest member of the Rongguo Mansion (Jia Jing)

Thus, members of the Jia family all defer to her

For further information, refer to the paragraph dedicated to her below

Great uncle(s):

Dowager’s brother:

We don't know much about the Dowager's brother

He is Grandmother Jia’s brother

He is the father of Shi Ding and Shi Xiangyun's Father

He is Shi Xiangyun’s grandfather

died before the beginning of the novel, reason why we don’t know much about him

2nd generation:

Parents:

Jia Zheng:

Jia Zheng is the second and youngest son of Jia Daishan and Grandmother Jia.

He has a wife, Lady Wang, and two concubines: Zhao (with whom he had two children) and Zhou

For further information, refer to the paragraph dedicated to him below

Lady Wang:

Daughter of one of the four most prominent families of Jinling (Wang)

Primary wife of Jia Zheng

Mother of Baoyu and Yuanchun

Because of her purported ill-health, she hands over the running of the household to her niece, Wang Xifeng

In the eyes of her servants, she appears as a statue of a lifeless Buddha.

Although generous, she is described as without will or conviction.

Lady Wang seems kind and caring but can be cruel and ruthless when her authority is questioned.

She shows excessive concern about her son Baoyu's romantic relationships and closely monitors his maids.

Lady Wang plays a role in the death of Baoyu's maid, Qingwen, due to her suspicion and cruelty toward maids she perceives as threats to her son's virtue.

Uncles:

Jia She:

Elder son of the Dowager

Big brother of Jia Zheng and Jia Min

Husband of Xing furen

He has 2 concubines: Yingchun’s mother and Jia Cong's mother

Father of Jia Lian, Jia Yingchun and Jia Cong

He inherited the title of Marquis Rong

He is treacherous and greedy, as well as seductive/woomanizer.

He feels jealous towards his younger brother, favored by their mother.

He was later stripped of his title and banished by the government.

Father of Wang Ren and Wang Xifeng:

Lady Wang’s brother

Also brother of Wang Ziteng and Wang Zisheng

Father of Wang Ren and Wang Xifeng:

Wang Ziteng:

Lady Wang’s brother

Also brother of Wang Xifeng’s father and Wang Zisheng

Wang Zisheng:

Lady Wang’s brother

Also brother of Wang Xifeng’s father and Wang Ziteng

Aunts:

Jia Min:

Daughter of Jia Daishan and Grandmother Jia

Sister of Jia She and Jia Zheng

Wife of Lin Ruhai

Mother of Lin Daiyu

Xue Yima also known as Aunt Xue:

Sister of Lady Wang

Sister of Wang Ziteng, Wang Zisheng and Wang Xifeng’s father

Mother to Xue Pan and Xue Baochai

She is generally kind and affable.

However, she struggles to control her rambunctious son.

III/ Mention of his grandmother in the game + comparison with the original work

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Detour Tales, Chapter 5.5, S.E.A, episode: 4

If Hong Lu is indeed the equivalent of Jia Baoyu in the world of limbus company, Hong Lu's grandmother should be the one known as Grandmother Jia, née Shi:

Grandmother Jia:

Also called Dowager Shi or simply the Dowager

She is the daughter of the Marquis Shi of Jinling

Grandmother Jia is a generation above the oldest member of the Rongguo Mansion (Jia Jing)

Main elder of the great family, she is the oldest and most respected authority of the Jia Clan

Of an enjoyable temperament, she does not intervene in the private lives of her children provided that they do not disturb her, even if they have become debauched or high rollers.

It was she who arranged for Daiyu, her only "outside" (i.e., maternal) grandchild, to come to the Rongguo Mansion

She spoils her grandson Baoyu whom she carries in adoration

Despite this, she does not approve of his love for Daiyu

She is the one who supports the marriage arranged by Sister Pheonix (Wang Xifeng) between Baoyu and Baochai

She will die at the ripe old age of 83

Maybe it's just me, but she seems to be one of the people if not the person who pays the most attention to Jia Baoyu's jade, reminding him to take care of it, asking him if he knows where it is his jade when he is not wearing it, paying attention to the stone...

IV/ Mention of his grandfather in the game + comparison with the original work

Detour Tales, Chapter 5.5, Yield my flesh to claim their bones, episode: 4

Abn. Logs, Pink shoes: lacking data

Hong Lu’s promo pre-limbus company release (yéyé" (爷爷) meaning "grandfather" or “grandpa”. It is an affectionate term used to refer to one's grandfather in Mandarin.)

So we don’t really know which of his two grandfathers Hong Lu is referring to but knowing that in the novel only his paternal grandfather is mentioned and died before the novel begins, I think the "grandfather" Hong is talking about is Jia Daishan (and that he probably died in the world of Limbus Company too)

Jia Daishan:

Son of Jia Yuan

first Duke of Rong

husband of Grandmother Jia

father of Jia She, Jia Min and Jia Zheng

grandfather of the three first Spring Ladies (Jia Yuanchun, Jia Tanchun and Jia Yingchun), Jia Zhu, Baoyu, Daiyu, Jia Huan, Jia Lian

died before the beginning of the novel, reason why we don't know much about him

V/ Mention of his father in the game + comparison with the original work

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If Hong Lu is indeed the equivalent of Jia Baoyu in the world of limbus company, Hong Lu's father should be Jia Zheng:

Jia Zheng:

He is the second and youngest son of Jia Daishan and Grandmother Jia.

He has a wife, Lady Wang, and two concubines: Zhao (with whom he had two children) and Zhou

Father of Jia Zhu (deceased), Jia Yuanchun, Jia Baoyu, Jia Tanchun and Jia Huan

Confucianism had a great influence on him: he is a Confucian scholar who tries to be an upright and decent person, he fulfills his duties of filial piety towards the Dowager, and wants to educate his children strictly

Afraid his one surviving heir will turn bad, he imposes strict rules on his son (Jia Baoyu), and uses occasional corporal punishment.

Jia Baoyu is afraid of him

He has the ambition to become a good civil servant

But he lacks experience and is easily deceived by others, which earns him a bad reputation.

VI/ Mention of his siblings in the game + comparison with the original work

Main story, Canto III, episode: 2

Detour Tales, Chapter 5.5, episode: 13

Abn. Logs, Pink shoes: lacking data

If Hong Lu is indeed supposed to be the Jia Baoyu of the world of Limbus Company, then, if we refer to the novel The Dream of the Red Room, Hong Lu should, like Baoyu, have 4 siblings:

Jia Zhu:

First son of Jia Zheng and Lady Wang

Big brother of Jia Baoyu and Jia Yuanchun and half-brother of Jia Tanchun and Jia Huan since they share the same father.

In the original novel, Jia Zhu is already dead prior to the action of the novel, so we know very little about him.

He had a son (Jia Lan) with Li Wan

Jia Yuanchun:

First female family member of the quartet of "Springs", first daughter of Jia Zheng and Lady Wang

Big sister of Jia Baoyu and Jia Yuanchun and half-sister of Jia Tanchun and Jia Huan since they share the same father.

She is about 10 years older than Baoyu.

She was raised by her grandmother

As an older sister, she taught Baoyu to read and write when he was liitle like his mother would have done.

Originally one of the ladies-in-waiting in the imperial palace, Yuanchun is later promoted to the highest ranking of imperial concubine "Xiande”, having impressed the Emperor with her virtue and intellect.

Despite her prestigious position, Yuanchun feels imprisoned within the four walls of the imperial palace.

She died at the age of forty, following an illness, in total isolation.

Jia Tanchun:

Third female family member of the quartet of "Springs", second daughter of Jia Zheng and his concubine, concubine Zhao

Big sister of Jia Huan and younger half-sister of Jia Zhu, Jia Yuanchun and Jia Baoyu since they share the same father.

The fact that she is the daughter of a concubine is still such a burden that she often claims Lady Wang, Baoyu's mother, as her own

Tanchun is a very clever and capable person, as much as Sister Phoenix for comparison

But, as the proverb says, "he who comes last will have fewer opportunities than the others", and this is what happened to her, because when her family declined she had not done much and she was sent to a distant region following an arranged marriage

Jia Huan:

Third son of Jia Zheng and his concubine, concubine Zhao

Little brother of Jia Tanchun and younger half-brother of Jia Zhu, Jia Yuanchun and Jia Baoyu since they share the same father.

More info just below

VII/ Mention of his brother (Jia Huan) in the game

Main story, Canto I, episode: 30

Main story, Canto V, episode: 18 (there we don’t know if he is talking about Jia Huan or not but there are not many other options and from what we can deduce from Jia Huan’s behaviour (in game and in the book too) it’s not very out off character)

Jia Huan:

Third male family member of the generation of the Jia household, son of Jia Zheng and his concubine, concubine Zhao

Little brother of Jia Tanchun and half-brother of Jia Zhu, Jia Yuanchun and Jia Baoyu since they share the same father.

He is described as ugly and clumsy

He and his mother are both reviled by the family, and he carries himself like a kicked dog.

He is very cunning but mediocre, he shows his malignant nature by spilling candle wax, intending to blind his half-brother Baoyu

That’s all! If I have forgotten any moments where Hong Lu talks about his family, don't hesitate to tell me and I will add it! Also, I tried to verify and proof-read all the info and everything should be correct but if I made a mistake feel free to point it out to me :)

[krudy7kk]

Analysis of Spirealm's ending

Never posted anything on my tumblr but I have the most unholy Spirealm brainrot rn so I'm posting my analysis of Spirealm's ending. The preface, a lot of people interpreted the ending of Spirealm as depressing and the series to be very tragic overall, but, I feel like the ending is mostly happy, and here's why;

Crossposted on MDL as a review

Heavy Spoilers

Spirealm ended with seemingly “it was all a dream” type of ending but my interpretation of the ending was that Lin Jiu Shi , through the act of completing the game, “saved” the game as his childhood friend intended. “Saving” the game in this scenario, reverts all the tragedy the game has caused without erasing anything that’s happened… kind of. The way the story goes about it is a little convoluded but through picking up the themes of this story, is not indecipherable. 

Proving that the game did all happen; there are three main points that infers this. The first, most tangible point is that, at the end of the series, LJS wakes up in the middle of the traffic. Assuming everything that’s happened after the traffic accident at the end of the series was dreamt up, it does not explain why the internet cafe boss at the beginning of the series– who’s seen the game before the traffic accident– has no recollection of LJS having played the game. The second point, if everything in the game had not happened, it would make no sense for LJS to accurately know the name of people he’s never met before. The third point, which is the most confusing one, explains one of the main themes and why the director probably chose to take this route. 

One of the main themes of Spirealm is the legitimacy of the “virtual world”, where the characters have debated multiple times if everything that happens “virtually” in the game is real or not. I forgot which episode it was but, LJS in the latter part of the series pondered “If the feelings in Spirealm are more sincere than real life, what really is the difference between virtual and reality?” ( Also not a direct translation, I’m too lazy to go find the exact episode and translate it) The point of this quote is, even if the memories don’t exist anymore, the feelings and relationships that were formed during the time in Spirealm were “real” and sincere. We can see this through the way Chen Qian Li fhaving familiarity towards LJS at the end of the series, despite acknowledging that he doesn’t actually know him. This is a little more debatable but you could also argue that the differences between the depiction of the people around LJS before and after he woke up also shows the effects of the game. One could interpret Tan Zao Zao being an influencer instead of an actress as something unconsciously influenced by the events of Spirealm. While being in Spirealm, TZZ felt like she constantly had to mask herself as an actress, you could argue that her being a influencer instead of an actress in the new world as a choice she made unconsciously due to the feelings of restriction she’s felt in Spirealm. Same with instances like Chen Yi Xie watching horror movies as a hobby and Li Dong Yuan being content working as a street vendor that makes little money.

In the last scene of the show, when LJS goes back into Spirealm, he sees TZZ where she tells him “it feels like I woke up from a long dream”, referring to life outside of the game. This further emphasizes how the game is actually “real” too, since when LJS is outside Spirealm, Spirealm is referred to as a “dream”. Whichever reality they are in is the real one, so by proxy, they are both real.

Another point to consider is the relationship between LJS and RNZ. If everything was a dream, then essentially, LJS dreamed up a lifelong companion (boyfriend) in elaborate detail seemingly out of nowhere… It makes more sense if RNZ did exist, but was simply erased from existence due to the game also having been erased. The whole last arc of the story also repeatedly states that he would be erased once the 11th door was complete.

The game bringing people back to life, erasing everyone’s memory, and altering reality also seems entirely reasonable when the whole basis of the game is based on its ability to kill people and warp time. Realistically speaking, there was no real way to depict RNZ and LJS saving the game besides erasing the game completely, therefore, the erasure of everyone’s memory and the game’s existence is the intended effect of “saving the game”.

I also believe that LJS reprogramming the game essentially is the equivalent of him fulfilling his friend's wish of  “restoring the game to its original state” as the game he ended up recreating was essentially the original intended game. 

I believe that the ending of Spirealm was the perfect happy ending, Everyone is alive again, they get to live their life to the fullest, and in the end, LJS finishes the game where he likely decides is his new “reality” with RNZ. They all live together happily as Chen Qian Li wished for in the 11th door. This is the 12th door, LJS’s completed door of happiness.

That’s mostly all I wanted to say, I’ll probably rewatch the series when Subs (that are comprehensible) come out so I can make exact quotations and give actual episode numbers (plus there are probably more things I have missed). But for now that’s all I’ve wanted to say. I’m open to debate the ending since I feel like the ending was definitely left a little ambiguous but I feel like a lot of these things were changed from the novel with the intent of creating this ending specifically. (ex. Slight novel spoiler: TZZ being a famous and acclaimed actress in the Novel while being mildly unpopular in the series) 

Add my discord if you want to talk about this show with me, it lives in my head rent free: krudy7kk

TLDR: Spirealm was not a dream, everything that happened got erased due to LJS completing the game. Everyone gets transported into an altered reality where they are living their happiest lives (indirectly bc of games events) and LJS reunites with everyone towards the very very end where they all live peacefully together.

[the-monkey-ruler]

The Monkey King 3: The Kingdom of Women (2018) 西遊記女兒國

Director: Cheng Baorui Screenwriter: Wen Ning Starring: Aaron Kwok / Feng Shaofeng / Zhao Liying / Xiao Shenyang / Luo Ziyi / Lin Chiling / Gigi Leung / Liu Tao / Sun Yihan / Yuan Qiongdan / Pan Binlong / Chen Yali / Shi Shi Genre: Comedy / Romance / Fantasy Country/Region of Production: Mainland China/Hong Kong, China Language: Mandarin Chinese Date: 2018-02-16 (Mainland China) Duration: 116 minutes Also known as: Journey to the West: Kingdom of Women / Journey to the West: Kingdom of Women / The Monkey King 3: Kingdom of Women / 西游记·女儿国 IMDb: tt6466464 Type: Retelling

Summary:

Sun Wukong (Aaron Kwok), Tang Sanzang (Feng Shaofeng), Zhu Bajie (Xiaoshenyang) and Sha Wujing (Him Law) – inadvertently enter the Womanland of Western Liang because they angered the river god, they accidentally entered the female realm of Xiliang, a nation populated by women raised to believe that men are fatally deceptive in matters of the heart. After breaking into it, everyone discovered that there were only women in this country, and there had been no men here since the founding of the country. Moreover, the country has an ancestral motto that regards men as natural enemies. Love nevertheless blossoms between Tang Sanzang and the Womanland's young queen (Zhao Liying), even though her royal preceptor (Gigi Leung) is hell-bent on sentencing the men to death. As Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing search for a way out of this nation surrounded by a vast magical net, it soon transpires, conveniently, that romantic love is the only key to opening the gate.

There is also a prophecy in the classics, indicating that one day, a monk from the East will break into it with a monkey, a pig, and a little blue man and the day they arrive is when the Daughter Kingdom will be destroyed.

Source: https://chinesemov.com/2018/The-Monkey-King-3

Link: https://sflix.to/watch-movie/free-the-monkey-king-3-hd-16532.2519338

[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

谓剑 【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

[gabrielokun]

[moononmyfloor]

A Compilation of Chinese Period drama OSTs that are inspired by Classical Poetry- Part 3

Part 1, Part 2

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More in Confirmed List

8. The Long River

"Life Passes Like a Dream (浮生若梦)" (Ending theme) by Li Bai, performed by Wang Zhenhua

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9. Oh My General (2017)

Yang Lin [杨蔺] - Pride of the Fishermen [渔家傲] by Fan Zhongyan

I couldn't find a way to share an mp3, but you can find it here and listen from there.

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10. Dream of the Red Chambers (1987)

Source

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Sadly I couldn't find any other songs he composed based on the original poems for the drama, except the one below. If you know more, please do share! 🥺 🙏

Burial of Flowers

A famous cover by Tong Liya

I highly recommend listening to this chilling cover done for the kiddie drama version of Red Chambers as well.

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11. Romance of the Three Kingdoms (1994)

滚滚长江东逝水 Gǔngǔn Chángjiāng Dōngshì Shuǐ (The Billowing Yangtze River Flows East) by Ming Dynasty poet Yang Shen, performed by Yang Hongji

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短歌行 Duǎngē Xíng (A Short Song) by Cao Cao; performed by Yang Hongji

Extra: Rendition of the same scene in Three Kingdoms (2010) with Eng translation and in Advisors Alliance (2017)

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子夜四时歌 Zǐyè Sìshí Gē (The Midnight Song) Lyrics adapted from a Southern Dynasties era poem; performed in a Wu accent. Played during Liu Bei and Sun Shangxiang's wedding scene in episode 43. Source

A translated fanvid

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七步诗 Qībù Shī (The Seven Steps Poem) by Cao Zhi; performed by Liu Huan

(Aka the Bean Poem. Here's a nice comparison of the same scene in different dramas by another Tumblr user!)

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丈夫歌 Zhàngfū Gē (A Song for Men) by Luo Guanzhong; performed by Lü Jianhong

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There are more but this is all I was able to find :(

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12. The Advisors Alliance (2017)

In the same spirit (their version of Duan Ge Xing is already shared above),

十五从军征 At Fifteen I Joined the Army on Expedition by unknown Han dynasty poet, performed by Jin Yushan (金语衫) (not sure, Wikipedia says Jin Yubin) Here's a cartoon version as well.

The thumbnail of the vid is incorrect for some reason btw. It's from AA not 3K.

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怨歌行Yuan Ge Xing (Song of Regret) by Ban Jieyu, performed by Yeung Tung & Lu Moyi

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13. My Fair Princess (1998)

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14. Shaolin Wendao (2016)

Not a poem, but the ost is made out of the Mahayana Buddhist Sutra Da Bei Zhou/Great Compassion Mantra/Nilakantha Dharani.

This was one of the first songs I have listened on YouTube, even before I started watching Cdramas etc. It has always brought me great sense of calm and peace. Only recently, more than like 5 years later I finally found out where it is from.

Da Bei Zhou (大悲咒) by Jing Shan Yuan (敬善媛)

The scene from drama

Full ost:

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15. Journey to the West (2011)

Similarly, the opening ost was taken from the mantra of the Mahayana Buddhist scripture Heart Sutra.

Xin Jing (心经) performed by Yang Xiaolin

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