#note: hou liang.

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Name: Mid-Autumn Festival 1,000 Follower Spectacular!

Rating: Mature

Pairing: Bi-Han x afab!Reader

Word Count: 4,000

Summary: You and your husband Bi-Han enjoy a nice family dinner at Madam Bo’s for the Mid-Autumn Festival and later enjoy some alone time with one another, experimenting in ways you never have.

Author’s notes: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival lovelies! Have I got a treat for you and it involves mooncakes but that’s not all! Y’all wanted Bi-Han getting a prostate massage and fuck if I didn’t deliver it! This is kind of a mash up of things I wanted to write, one being festival stuff, the other being a celebration of hitting over 1.000 followers here on tumblr! It’s so wild to me that a blog that just rambles about Bi-Han and writes about him has so much love but here we are! This story has some dirty talk and possessive Bi-Han in it but also has some soft moments, its a good mix of fun and filth and hopefully y’all enjoy it! If you do please don’t be shy with the likes, comments, reblogs, DMs etc. Let me know you liked it please! Enjoy lovelies!

You giggle and shove Bi-Han’s heavy body off of yours, “Polar Bear, stop, we’re in public,” your words are slightly slurred as you find yourself pleasantly buzzed. You look around the expansive tea house and despite the size everything seems warm and homey, you’re always happy when you’re out with Bi-Han at Madam Bo’s.

“Come on qīn, it’s the Mid Autumn Festival it is all about the love between Chang’e and Hou Yi, you shouldn’t be stingy with the affection,” Bi-Han laughed and you could tell by the blush high on his cheeks that the cryomancer was drunk, or at least tipsy, Bi-Han could hold his liquor quite well and you didn’t think you’ve ever actually seen him drunk.

“Brother, why don’t you have some more to eat, that’s what the Mid-Autumn Festival is really about, sharing food with your family,” Kuai Liang chimes in pushing a delectable-looking bowl of steamed crabs toward Bi-Han. “Father always used to talk about the importance of spending time together as a family.”

“Fuck Father, I’m glad he’s dead,” Bi-Han slurs before reaching for a steamed pork bun instead as he bit into the light, fluffy bun.

“Polar Bear, please not tonight, tonight is about family, don’t upset your brother’s please,” you urge, your face clouding with worry.

“Tch, sorry qīn, you’re right tonight it about celebrating family and being together,” he grumbles reluctantly and motions for you to pour him another cup of baijiu.

You’re hesitant to pour another cup for him, but you don’t want to deal with his complaining and posturing if you don’t so despite your better judgment you pour the liquor into his cup. You reach for some of Madam Bo’s delicious har gao and happily eat the plump, juicy shrimp dumpling leaving the crabs for your husband and brothers-in-law to share.

“It was a good idea coming down to Madam Bo’s for Mid-Autumn Festival this year, none of us have to clean up afterwards,” Tomas laughs and takes one of the crabs for himself. “I know I appreciate it! Do you know how much work it is cooking and cleaning up for the three of you?” You laugh and take a sip of oolong tea, trying to pace yourself on drinking, you’re well aware you can’t hold your liquor quite as well as Bi-Han can, well not baijiu at any rate.

“Who cleans up qin? Huh?” Bi-Han raises his eyebrow at you and you have the decency to look sheepish knowing full well the cryomancer always did the cleanup when you did the cooking.

“I, uh well,” you shove some roast duck in Bi-Han’s mouth to silence the cryomancer’s protests. “Tomas, how are things lately, I feel like I haven’t see you or Kuai Liang in ages,” you switch the topic.

“Things have been challenging but very rewarding, work with the Shirai Ryu are going well and we’ve even managed to find a promising new initiative, his name is Hanzo,” Tomas answers with ease in between sips of his own glass of baijiu.

You were so pleased the brothers had managed to work out their differences after Fire God Liu Kang and intervened and the two of you had talked some sense into Bi-Han. Kuai Liang and Tomas had still kept their Shirai Ryu to be the guardians and protectors of Earthrealm whereas Bi-Han kept his Lin Kuei and they were granted more of a prominent role in the tournament and guiding Earthrealm. It had been harder to convince Sektor that his army of drones were no longer necessary, but thankfully Bi-Han had seen sense and had commanded Sektor to stand down. There was still definitely tension between the brothers, but you were content that you were all in a good enough place that you all could come together to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival as a family. The festival was a foreign concept to you when you first arrived in Fengjian, but you had fallen in love with the holiday when Bi-Han told you the story of Chag’e and Hou Yi, their beautiful, tragic love story made you weep, but despite the sorrow you loved the idea of being able to celebrate their love. “Hanzo huh? Well that’s good, I’m glad to hear things are going well, but I will admit things are lonely without all of you.”

“Earthrealm needs the Shirai Ryu, its a sacrifice we all have to make,” Kuai Liang interjected before you could get too involved in clan politics.

“Yes, of course, I understand,” you reply, sneaking another dumpling and a sip of tea, the table was laden with so much food there was no way the four of you would be able to finish, you regret not inviting Sektor and Cyrax, but thought it was better they weren’t there as there was still bad blood between the two clans.

“Who’s ready for Moon Cakes?” Madam Bo suddenly interrupts, placing a heaping plate of assorted pastries on the table.

“Moon cakes!” You squeal with excitement and suddenly you somehow feel hungry again, you had never had the pastry before you started dating Bi-Han, but after trying them you were hooked on them, the custard-filled ones were your favorite. As if she were a psychic Madam Bo pops a mini custard-filled one in your mouth and you can’t help moaning with delight as the flaky pastry gives way to the luxurious custard inside.

“Madam Bo, you spoil us,” Tomas smiles at the elderly patroness as she smiles at your happy reaction to the confection.

“Nonsense Smoke, it’s Mid-Autumn Festival! Everyone gets moon cakes! I can’t have my customers unsatisfied on such an auspicious day,” Madam Bo chirps happily.

“Thank you Madam Bo,” you manage after finishing your miniature moon cake, a look of satisfaction plastered to your face.

“The one with the black dot is the sesame one Bi-Han,” Madam Bo laughs before slipping him the bill and heading off to tend to her other customers.

Bi-Han doesn’t hesitate grabbing one of the ones with the black dots, sesame moon cakes you know are his favorite and he acts like a little kid when he gets one, to the point that you’re surprised he doesn’t ask you the make the confection year round. He finishes off his moon cake before draining his umpteenth cup of baijiu, he counts out his bills carefully before adding some extra for Madam Bo, despite tipping not being customary in China, it was a holiday after all and Madam Bo deserved it for her warmth and hospitality. “Shall we?” he asks standing up and swaying on his feet slightly.

The four of you make your way back to the Lin Kuei Temple as you bid good night to your brothers-in-law and giggle drunkenly toddling after Bi-Han.

You flop on your shared bed as Bi-Han struggles with getting his belt off, he finally works his way through all the layers of his belt and lets it fall on the stone floor. You watch him wrestle with the rest of his complex uniform, in no state to be able to help him with the various layers and complex knots holding his layers off. After several long minutes, Bi-Han seems to finally work his way out of his excessively complicated robes as he flops on the bed next to you. “I’m proud of you Polar Bear, I know letting your brothers leave and create their own clan isn’t easy for you, but you did a very good job acting very civilized tonight.”

“I don’t want to talk about them, show me your tiddies,” he smirks at you reaching for the hem of your qipao you had worn at his insistence.

You laugh at his immature behavior, “help me unzip it then,” you whisper running your hand along his smooth cheek.

“Fine, fine,” he agrees, giving you a slightly petulant pout as if to say, how can’t you just become instantly naked, as he tugs the zipper down and carefully helps you out of the garment.

You’re pleased that even in his inebriated state Bi-Han had the common sense to remember this was your favorite qipao, one based off of one of his mother’s, and he was gentle with it. You lay next to him in just your lingerie, one of your favorite sets, dark blue and lacy, it was equal parts delicate and sexy, it also fit perfectly, there was no overflow or pinching and the underwear hid your imperfect little belly.

“Fuck your tits are huge,” He laughs drunkenly burying his cold face in between your ample chest making pleased little noises as he rubs his face back and forth.

“Polar Bear,” you giggle as you tug his hair loose from his tie, his ebony locks spilling down his well-muscled back, you stroke his silken locks as your husband continues to amuse himself with your breasts.

“I love your tits so much, they’re so soft and so jiggly, they’re like big ol’ flans,” he chuckles as he reaches around to undo the clasp of your bra to be able to manhandle them with ease.

You let out a soft sigh of pleasure as his cold, calloused hands squeeze and grope your sensitive breasts. “I want to play with you tonight, please?” You pull Bi-Han’s head up to look him in his beautiful chocolate eyes as you give him your best pleading look.

He sucks in a low breath and reluctantly rolls off of you to give you free rein of his body, “what did you have in mind qin?”

“There’s something I want to try, keep an open mind Polar Bear, its supposed to feel really good for you, I promise,” you bite your lower lip, sucking it into your mouth as your eyes roam over his flawless body.

“What?” He asks sitting up on his elbows, trying to fight off the pleasant floaty feeling the baijiu has given him.

“I’m not going to tell you, you just have to trust me, you know I’d never do anything to hurt you, but it might be kind of weird,” you explain running your warm hand along his aching, cold cock.

He leans back with a pleased groan as he lets you stroke his cock with slow, gentle strokes, “fine, but it better feel good,” he mumbles, bucking his hips up slightly.

“Where’s the lube,” you ask pressing a kiss to his cold cheek.

“Lube? What the fuck do you need lube for?” Bi-Han bristles immediately at the mention of the lubricant.

“I need it to jack you off, you said you’d keep an open mind Polar Bear,” you frown at him as you straddle his narrow hips.

The cryomancer grunts unhappily as he relents, “its in the draw in the bedside table,” he tells you as he squirms under you trying to get some friction for his neglected cock.

“Got it,” you grin triumphantly as you pull the tube from the drawer and make your way back to Bi-Han’s dripping cock, it's so pretty you lick your lips, huge, dripping, and heavy against his perfectly cut abs. “Mmm Polar Bear your cock looks delicious right now, I’m a little jealous of my hand,” you sigh almost wistfully as you squeeze some of the lubricant in your hand as you grasp his big cock and give it a gentle tug.

“You can suck it instead,” the cryomancer grins at you as he lifts himself back up on his elbows to watch you.

“Maybe I will,” you muse sticking your tongue out playfully as you fist him gently, not applying much pressure yet, just teasing the cryomancer, loving the feeling of his thick, veiny cold cock in your hand. You lay with your head on his rock-hard abs as you can’t help but let your tongue dart out and gather the pearly fluid leaking out of Bi-Han’s cock, it’s cold but not bitter, salty but not unpleasant, musky and masculine and perfectly him.

“Mmm qin, that feels nice,” the cryomancer practically purrs in his drunken state, something you absolutely loved was how Bi-Han didn’t seem to care about how vocal he was when he had been drinking.

Your hand works along his cock, stroking him with a firm grasp as you twist your hand in a circle when you reach his soft, velveteen head, “Bi-Han,” you whine his name as you look up at his pretty flushed face, his hair hanging loose around his face as he bites his lip with pleasure, it was the perfect picture a sight no one but you were privy to see. Your hand moves faster now, pulling another groan from the cryomancer as you jack him off, you seize your chance while he’s focused on the feeling of your hand gliding over his dick, you switch hands so your lubricated hand is no longer stroking the cryomancer, who hisses at the added drag your other hand offered. You take a deep breath and swallow audibly as you carefully nudge his legs further apart and there it is, the little pucker that you have your sights set on. Slowly, carefully you trace the outside of the hole with your slicked-up finger and before Bi-Han can react or stop you, you slowly sink the finger inside.

“Wha-what the fuck!? What are you doing qin?!” He starts, body going rigid, his ass clamping around you instinctually.

You ignore him though and fish around inside him for that little bundle of nerves that you know in spite of himself is going to make Bi-Han feel good, and you find it as you stroke it with a come hither motion.

“Huh, wha, why hnnnggghhh,” the cryomancer can’t hold back the pleased noise as you stroke his prostate, “fucking stop this is weird,” he starts to sit up.

Your hot mouth drops over his cock, swallowing him down as best as you can in a practiced motion, your finger wiggling further in his tight hole.

“Ah, fuck qin, that, that feels kind of good, do… do it again,” he pants and squeezes his eyes shut as he relaxes against the bed enjoying the feeling of your warmth encompassing his cold cock.

The noises he makes are like heaven to you as your mouth works his cock over, your tongue laving every inch of it as you suck it further into your throat. Slowly you work a second finger into the tight ring of muscle as you massage the cryomancer’s prostate, your fingers dancing across the fleshy nub.

“Ta ma de,” he groans deeply in his native tongue as he subconsciously grinds his perfect ass against your fingers, the baijiu loosening his inhibitions enough to enjoy this very rare role reversal.

You pull away from his delicious cock to echo his sentiment, “fuck,” you take in his flushed, blissed-out expression as you thrust your fingers in and out slowly, applying steady even pressure to the small organ inside the cryomancer.

Bi-Han lets out a low moan as your fingers speed up, his body starting to tremble with his impending release, “shit qin, that feels really good, keep going, please,” he practically bites his own tongue to stop himself from begging like a little bitch in heat.

Your tongue massages the underside of his shaft as your fingers keep moving in and out of the cryomancer’s tightness, you never actually thought you’d get this far, you thought maybe you’d get one finger in before he wigged out and stormed off for the night but actually getting to finger fuck your husband made your brain short circuit. You shift and rub your thighs together trying to alleviate some of the mounting pressure, seeing Bi-Han look so fucked out had you nearly cumming from the sounds he made alone. Your stomach feels tight as arousal pools in it and you don’t know how much longer you can keep yourself from making the cryomancer fuck you, you want to see him cum though, you want to taste his cold, viscous fluid filling your mouth, so you don’t stop, you can’t stop, you ignore your own desires and focus solely on his. You bob your head along his cock, forcing as much inside as possible, it burns as it stretches your throat, but the little shout Bi-Han makes is worth the discomfort. Your finger twist and screw in and out of the cryomancer’s tight confines, each press and thrust of your fingers massaging his prostate more and more.

“Qin, I’m gonna,” he gasps and lets out a choked-off cry as he tries to warn you, but you get the message, your fingers double their efforts as you pound into his prostate and you pull back until only the tip of his huge cock is left in your mouth. With a loud growling shout of pleasure, Bi-Han is cumming in your mouth.

You moan as the icy liquid splashes against your tongue the saltiness coating your mouth with the thick liquid. Your tongue swishes the cold fluid around as you swallow frantically trying not to spill a drop of the cryomancer’s cum, you can’t help it though, Bi-Han cums so much more than a mouthful as some of his release flows down your chin.

Bi-Han just moans with satisfaction as his release keeps seeping from your hot mouth, his hips still as do your fingers, “fuck me, what was that?”

“A prostate massage,” you answer, pulling off his cock with an audible pop as you swallow down more of the cryomancer’s essence. You wipe your chin off and make a show of licking your finger clean watching Bi-Han’s lust-darkened eyes, you raise an eyebrow as you look down at his still-hard cock. “Someone’s not done apparently,” you comment gesturing to his huge dick.

“Well of course not, my girl hasn’t cum yet, I still have a job to do,” he growls before pouncing on you and pinning you down. The cryomancer all but rips your soaked panties off as he rubs the velvety head of his cock against your dripping walls.

“Fuck Bi-Han, please, I need to cum so bad, seeing you like that has me so turned on, you were so hot,” you babble as his dick slowly opens you up as his cock sinks into your tight pussy. You cry out loudly at the feeling of the cryomancer rearranging your insides to make room for his massive cock, it feels so good, the stretch and slight burn as he buries his cock inside you.

“Mmm fuck qin, you were made just for me weren’t you? You’re always so pretty and so wet for me, such a good little slut,” he growls possessively as he holds himself inside you balls deep letting you get used to his huge cock.

“Ahhh, Bi-Han please,” you whimper as he starts to move, the pressure in your stomach teetering on unbearable, you knew your little pregame session sucking his cock and finger fucking the cryomancer had turned you on, but you didn’t realize how much it had turned you on. One thrust from the cryomancer and you were practically seeing stars, you shout and throw your arms around him tangling your fingers in his loose hair.

“Hold on tight qin, I don’t feel like taking things slow tonight,” the cryomancer shoots you a smirk and all you can do is moan in response.

You cry out his name over and over as he begins to piston in and out of your tight, wet hole, everything feels too much all at once but perfect all at the same time. Each stroke of his cock drives deeper and deeper into your welcoming pussy as the fat head of his cock assaults your sweet spot. You’re dizzy and lightheaded within minutes and it had nothing to do with the alcohol you consumed, it was all from the cryomancer’s actions, the way his cock moved in and out of your body, the way his weight bore down on you, the way he claimed you as his own.

“Such a good little slut, whining and whimpering so prettily for me, you just love getting stuffed with my big cock don’t you? It’s what you were made for, taking my cock and only my cock, no one else gets to touch you qin, you’re mine,” the cryomancer growls, possession dripping from his words as his grip moves from your hips to press the undersides of your thighs towards your stomach.

“Only you Bi-Han, I’m only yours,” you cry out as the pressure becomes unbearable and heat pools in your stomach despite your body being chilled from the inside out. You cling to the cryomancer, trying to ground yourself but only wind up pulling his hair causing Bi-Han to let out a low, warning growl.

“Only I get to touch you, only I get to fuck you and only I get to paint that pretty little pussy white with my cum, but you’re such a little slut you love every minute of it don’t you,” Bi-Han continues, his words edging you closer and closer to your peak as his cock rams into your cervix over and over causing your entire body to tremble and shake in his grasp.

“Only you Bi-Han, oh fuck only you!” You cry out as your toes curl and the pressure bursts, you cry out his name shrilly as your head thrashes back and forth as your tongue lolls to the side as you cum hard around Bi-Han’s perfect cock. Stars burst before your eyes and pleasure floods your body as you shutter and heave below Bi-Han’s flawless, thrusting body.

Bi-Han groans deeply as he presses your thighs almost flush to your stomach, plowing in and out of your body with little regard for how oversensitive you were in this state, he was only concerned with his own orgasm. He keeps fucking you hard, pounding your cervix open with each thrust as he chases his high, loving the way you cry and tremble for him, “what a good little slut, such a good girl for me, I’ve going to fill you up with my cum now,” he grunts out in between gritted teeth as his hips start to falter and lose their rhythm. “Oh fuck, that’s it, that’s my good slut,” he lets out a low bellow as he stills inside you.

You cry and shake as the cryomancer’s final onslaught brings you to your peak once more, hot fat tears drip down your cheeks as he pushes you past reason. The sensation of Bi-Han’s cold viscous cum painting your walls white does you in, with a weak little sob of his name, you’re tumbling over the edge hurtling towards darkness as your orgasm consumes you.

Neither of you move for a while, you couldn’t even if you wanted as you’re trapped under the weight of the cryomancer as you finally regain consciousness. You whimper softly, unable to find your voice yet as you shiver with cold brought on by the cryomancer being buried deep inside you still.

Reluctantly the cryomancer finally rolls off you to the side of the bed, “fuck qin, that was, well that was something else alright.”

“That was so good,” you whisper, barely able to form coherent thoughts yet, “your cock is too good, I still feel drunk, but I don’t think it’s the liquor anymore,” you giggle softly as you grab one of the fur comforters from the bottom of the bed and roll up in it before slotting yourself next to Bi-Han, laying your head against his rock hard pecs.

“We should, uh maybe try that again sometime,” Bi-Han admits, his cheeks colored with a rosy shade of pink as he looks away not wanting to make eye contact.

“Anytime you want Polar Bear, anytime you want,” you agree and smile before slipping into a very deep and very restful sleep.

[extraordinarilyextreme]

today, i wanna talk about this point that i've referenced a couple times across my yrzx fics:

For the fate of the world, Wang Ye relinquished his days of peace and tranquility. To save Zhuge Qing’s life, Wang Ye could sacrifice everything beneath the heavens. (from 岁月不待人 | the moon and the tides, you and i)

i'll start during Beijing arc, when ZCL asks why WY doesn't just give up Feng-hou Qimen to the ppl who want it.

in the manhua (ch. 185) & donghua (s3, ep. 3), WY's response is vague: "for various reasons, i can't give out [that power]."

(note that the dialogue differs slightly btwn these two adaptations, but the meaning is the same)

but in the live-action (s1, ep. 22), WY clearly explains that "it would throw the ways of this world into greater disorder. this calamitous fate must be shouldered by me alone."

these lines perfectly demonstrate one of WY's most defining traits: 心怀天下 / a heart that cradles everything beneath the heavens.

we see it first during the tournament arc, when WY admits to ZCL that he didn't need to get involved in this mess—but did so anyway because the fate of the world was implicated.

WY: Actually, whatever happens to you all has nothing to do with me. No matter how terrible the world ends up, I can still protect myself and my family and keep us unscathed. So, actually, I shouldn't have come here. [...] ZCL: What you mean is that if I continue my investigation, the future of this world may very likely develop in a bad direction. Daozhang, who this "bad future" impacts isn't limited to only me, right? The two of us are neither kin nor kith; you wouldn't have come to get caught up in these troubled waters because of me, right? WY: This, involves another concept. I call it the weight of fate. [...] And you, Zhang Chulan, you hold a high ratio of that weight. Your choice will change the fates of many, many people. (LA s1, ep. 14; see also manhua chs. 121-122 & donghua s2, ep. 12)

this is the extent of WY's selflessness. and as his conversation w ZCL continues, something else is revealed to us.

ZCL: The you who could have stayed out of this matter entirely chose instead to come here and persuade me. Did you also not choose the future that would have been best for you? (LA s1, ep. 14)

that 'something' is none other than WY's conduct: 明知山有虎，偏向虎山行 / knowing full well the mountains harbor tigers, yet insisting on traveling deep into the mountains anyway. or, in other words, the practice of forging on into promised danger.

which, coincidentally, is exactly how WY praised Zhuge Liang's character during his match against ZGQ.

可他却放弃了作为一个修者该坚守的一切。就算逆大势而行，也要投身到乱世当中，只为了去救那个明知已无可救药的天下。/ But he chose to give up everything that a cultivator should uphold and protect. Even if it meant opposing the momentum of the times, he threw himself utterly into chaos of the mortals—all to save a world he knew full well was beyond redemption. 为了那个天下情愿去和天理和大势对抗 / For that world, he was willing to hold off divine order and destiny itself. 明知不可为而为，这就是他那个级别的术士作为。/ To do something knowing full well of its impossible nature—this was the practice of a sorcerer of his caliber. (LA s1, ep. 13; see also manhua ch. 110 & donghua s2, ep. 10)

with such a heart of compassion (怜悯之心, HMH's words) and sense of responsibility, WY is unlike anyone else in his generation. instead, it can be argued that the character most similar to WY is in fact one of his seniors, lao-Tianshi.

they are, at least in the LA, the only two 麒麟 in the story after all (s1, eps. 8 & 20):

and just like lao-Tianshi, it's easy to think of WY as a saint (圣人) or a god—something "above" mortal humans. he's operating on a scale (格局) far greater than anyone else in our main cast; WY is always taking the whole world into consideration, even if that's the choice least favorable to him.

(LA s1, ep. 23)

and then Beijing arc happens. and by the end of it, WY has an epiphany:

“The me who has always avoided involvement with worldly affairs has no right to speak of leaving them behind.” (manhua ch. 196; see also LA s1, ep. 23 & donghua s3, ep. 7)

he's begun to have a reckoning with his own human-ness. he's starting to realize that he's fallible, that he's ordinary and secular, that he has attachments—and, importantly, that he wants attachments. that he desires companionship (just as humans are wont to do).

and it's with that moment of enlightenment that we dive into Biyou Village arc.

because, overall, WY has not actually changed that much. he still feels responsible for the peace and safety of the world; he still wants to figure out how ZCL and FBB are related to the Jiashen Calamity. he still remembers clearly what Hong-ye said: "you are the chosen one." (LA s1, ep. 4)

and even ZGQ himself remarks (manhua ch. 228; see also donghua s4, ep. 5):

yet when ZGQ's safety is at stake, WY doesn't hesitate for even a moment:

(donghua s4, ep. 5; see also manhua ch. 228)

that is not the conduct of someone who always thinks about the bigger scheme of things. that's the conduct of someone making a choice for himself, an arguably selfish choice, to save his friend and doom everyone else.

WY would sooner give up his Feng-hou Qimen and restart the Jiashen Calamity than see ZGQ in danger. that is how important ZGQ is to WY.

在王也的心中，诸葛青的命比天下苍生还重要。/ in Wang Ye's heart, Zhuge Qing's life is more important than everyone in beneath the heavens.

and that's because ZGQ is the first of his generation to approach him. to make an effort to befriend him. to look beyond the power he possesses and also see him.

(LA s1, ep. 15; see also manhua ch. 131 & donghua s2, ep. 14)

in other words, it was ZGQ who made WY's godlike love for the world human. WY is no longer an outside viewer looking down on the plane he feels beholden to; WY is a part of this secular world, and that is why he should want to protect it.

because the red dust realm is where ZGQ exists. here is where their bond exists.

(unrelated pic from manhua ch. 196; see also donghua s3, ep. 7)

tldr: Wang Ye places the world before himself, and Zhuge Qing before the world.

— all this to say, i really am excited for s2 of the live-action, even though the casting rumors have been disheartening. Biyou Village arc is a climactic chapter for YeQing, so i hope the adaptation does it justice.

(LA s1, ep. 27)

[triplicemedia]

KRONOS posa para a Naver x Dispatch

O boygroup Kronos, formado pelo programa de sobrevivência H Producer, fez um ensaio fotográfico para o NAVER x Dispatch e deu uma entrevista. 

Eles falaram sobre o conceito do grupo, a experiência no H Producer, o que as canções Magia e Oblivion passam e o single album Neverland. 

O ensaio foi ao ar livre com os nove rapazes posando em um parque no centro de Seul. Os trajes eram leves e despojados para combinar com o verão e suas idades. 

O fotógrafo destacou a boa desenvoltura dos garotos e sua vontade em aprender a modelar, além claro, sua ótima educação.

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[drwcn]

How To Name Your Chinese Characters: 

1) LAST NAMES: 

I’ve pasted the Top 100 common last names in alphabetical order, and bolded the ones that appear in CQL:   

B: 白 Bai C: 蔡 Cai ; 曹 Cao ;  常 Chang ; 曾 Ceng ;  陈 Chen ;  程 Cheng ;  崔 Cui ; D: 戴 Dai ; 邓 Deng ; 丁 Ding ; 董 Dong ; 杜 Du ; F: 范 Fan ; 方 Fang ; 冯 Feng ; 付 Fu ; G: 高 Gao ;  葛 Ge  ; 龚 Gong ; 顾 Gu ; 郭 Guo ; H: 韩 Han ; 何 He ; 贺 He 洪 Hong ; 侯 Hou ; 黄 Hua ; 胡 Hu ; J: 贾 Jia ; 蒋 Jiang ; 姜 Jiang ; 江 Jiang ; 金 Jin ; K: 康 Kang ; L:  赖 Lai ; 李 Li ;  黎 Li ; 廖 Liao ; 梁 Liang ; 林 Lin ; 刘 Liu ; 陆 Lu ; 卢 Lu ; 路 Lu ; 吕 Lü ; 罗 Luo ; M: 马 Ma ; 麦 Mai ; 毛 Mao ; 孟 Meng ; N:  倪 Ni  ;  牛 Niu ; P: 潘 Pan ; 彭 Peng ; Q: 钱 Qian ; 秦 Qin ; 邱 Qiu ; R:任 Ren ; S: 邵 Shao ; 沈 Sheng ; 史 Shi ; 石 Shi ; 施 Shi ; 宋 Song ; 苏 Su ; 孙 Sun ; T: 陶 Tao ; 谭 Tan ; 唐 Tang ; 田 Tian ; W: 万 Wan ; 王 Wang ;  汪 Wang ; 魏 Wei ; 吴 Wu ; X: 邢 Xing ; 夏 Xia ;  蕭 Xiao ; 谢 Xie ; 徐 Xu ; 许 Xu ; 薛 Xue ; Y: 阎 Yan ; 严 Yan ; 杨 Yang ; 姚 Yao ; 叶 Ye ;  余 Yu ; 于 Yu ; 袁 Yuan ; Z: 张 Zhang ;  赵 Zhao ; 郑 Zheng ; 钟 Zhong ; 周 Zhou ;  朱 Zhu ;  庄 Zhuang ;  邹 Zou ;

Above are all single character last names, but there are some double character Chinese last names, seen below (list not exhaustive): 

独孤 Du’Gu ;  公孙 Gong’Sun ; 南宫 Nan’Gong    欧阳 Ou’Yang ;  司马 Si’Ma ; 上官 Shang’Guan ; 宇文 Yu’Wen ; 长孙 Zhang’Sun ; 诸葛 Zhu’GE ; 

2) GIVEN NAMES/COURTESY NAMES

《Elements》: 

Light*： 光 (guāng) - light，  亮 liàng - bright / shine， 明 (míng) - bright， 曦 (xī) - early dawn， 昀 (yún) - daylight， 昭 (zhāo) - light, clear，照 (zhào) - to shine upon，

Fire: 焰 (yàn) - flames， 烟 (yān) - smoke，炎 (yán) - heat/burn， 烨 (yè) - dazzling light，  

Water: also see “weather” OR “bodies of water” under nature; note the words below while are related to water have meanings that mean some kind of virtue: 清 (qīng) - clarity / purity， 澄 (chéng) - clarity/quiet， 澈 (chè) - clear/penetrating， 涟 (lián) - ripple， 漪 (yī) - ripple， 泓 (hóng) - vast water， 湛 (zhàn) - clear/crystal， 露 (lù) - dew， 泠 (líng) - cool, cold, 涛 (tāo) - big wave，泽 (zé)，浩 hào - grand/vast (water)，涵 (han) - deep submergence / tolerance / educated

Weather: 雨 (yǔ) - rain， 霖 (lín) - downpouring rain， 冰 (bīng) - ice， 雪 (xuě) - snow，  霜 (shuāng) - frost 

Wind: 风 (fēng) - wind

* some “Light” words overlap in meaning with words that mean “sun/day”

《Nature》:

Season: 春 (chūn) - spring， 夏 (xià) - summer， 秋 (qíu) - aumtum， 冬 (dōng) - winter

Time of Day: 朝 (zhāo) - early morning / toward， 晨 (chén) - morning / dawn， 晓 (xiǎo) - morning， 旭 (xù) - dawn/rising sun，昼 (zhòu) - day，皖 (wǎn) - late evening，夜 (yè) - night 

Star/Sky/Space: 云 (yún) - cloud，天 (tiān) - sky/ heaven，霞 (xiá) - afterglow of a rising or setting sun，月 (yuè) - moon，日 (ri) - day / sun，阳 (yáng) - sun，宇 (yǔ) - space，星 (xīng) - star

Birds: 燕 (yàn) - sparrow， 雁 (yàn) - loon， 莺 (yīng) - oriole， 鸢 (yuān) - kite bird (family Accipitridae)，羽 (yǔ) - feather

Creatures: 龙 (lóng) - dragon/imperial

Plants/Flowers:* 兰 (lán) - orchids，  竹 (zhú) - bamboo， 筠 (yún) - tough exterior of bamboos， 萱 (xuān) - day-lily， 松 (sōng) - pine， 叶 (yè) - leaf， 枫 (fēng) - maple， 柏 bó/bǎi - cedar/cypress， 梅 (méi) - plum， 丹 (dān) - peony

Mountains: 山 (shān)， 峰 (fēng) - summit， 峥 (zhēng)，

Bodies of water: 江 (jiāng) - large river/straits， 河 (hé) - river， 湖 (hú) - lake， 海 (hǎi) - sea， 溪 (xī) - stream， 池 (chí) - pond， 潭 (tán) - larger pond， 洋 (yáng) - ocean

* I didn’t include a lot of flower names because it’s very easy to name a character with flowers that heavily implies she’s a prostitute. 

《Virtues》: 

Astuteness: 睿 ruì - astute / foresight， 智 (zhi)， 慧 (hui)， 哲 (zhé) - wise/philosophy, 

Educated:  博 (bó) - extensively educated， 墨 (mo) - ink， 诗 (shi) - poetry / literature， 文 (wén) - language / gentle / literary， 学 (xue) - study， 彦 (yàn) - accomplished / knowledgeable, 知 (zhi) - to know， 斌 (bīn) - refined， 赋 (fù) - to be endowed with knowledge

Loyalty: 忠 (zhōng) - loyal， 真 (zhēn) - true 

Bravery: 勇 (yǒng) - brave， 杰 (jié) - outstanding, hero

Determination/Perseverance: 毅 (yì) - resolute / brave， 恒 (héng) - everlasting， 衡 (héng) - across, to judge/evaluate，成 (chéng) - to succeed， 志 (zhì) - aspiration / the will

Goodness/Kindness: 嘉 (jiā) - excellent / auspicious，磊 (lěi) - rock / open & honest， 正 (zhèng) - straight / upright / principle，

Elegance: 雅 (yǎ) - elegant， 庄 (zhuāng) - respectful/formal/solemn， 彬 (bīn) - refined / polite， 

Handsome: 俊 jùn - handsome/talented 

Peace: 宁 (níng) - quietness/to pacify, 安 （ān) - peace, safety

Grandness/Excellence：宏 (hóng) - grand，豪 (háo) - grand, heroic，昊 (hào) - limitless / the vast sky，华 (huá) - magnificent， 赫 (hè) - red/famous/great， 隆 (lóng) - magnificent， 伟 (wěi) - greatness / large，轩 (xuān) - pavilion with a view/high，卓 (zhuó) - outstanding

Female Descriptor/Virtues/Beauty: 婉 (wǎn)，惠 (huì)， 妮 (nī)， 娇 (jiāo)， 娥 (é)， 婵 (chán) (I didn’t include specific translations for these because they’re all adjectives for women meaning beauty or virtue) 

《Descriptors》:

Adverbs: 如 (rú) - as，若 (ruò) - as, alike，宛 (wǎn) - like / as though，

Verbs: 飞 (fēi) - to fly，  顾 （gù) - to think/consider， 怀 (huái) - to miss, to possess， 落(luò) - to fall, to leave behind，梦 (mèng) - to dream， 思 (sī) - to consider / to miss (someone)，忆 (yì) - memory， 希 (xī) - yearn / admire

Colours: 红 (hóng) - red， 赤 (chì) - crimson， 黄 (huàng) - yellow， 碧 (bì) - green，青(qīng) - azure，蓝 (lán) - blue， 紫 (zǐ) - violet ，玄 (xuán) - black， 白 (baí) - white

Number：一 (yī), 二 (er) - two, 三 (san) - three,  四 (si) - four,  五 (wu) - five, 六 (liu) - six, 七(qi) - seven, 八 (ba) - eight,  九 (jiu) - nine, 十 (shi) - ten

Direction: 东 (dōng) - east， 西 (xi) - west， 南 (nan) - south， 北 (bei) - north，

Other: 子 (zǐ) - child, 然 (rán) - correct / thusly

《Jade》: *there are SO MANY words that generally mean some kind of jade, bc when ppl put jade in their children’s name they don’t literally mean the rock, it’s used to symbolize purity, goodness, kindness, beauty, virtue etc*  琛 (chen), 瑶 (yao),  玥 (yue),  琪 (qi),  琳 (lin)

《Spirituality》

凡 (fan) - mortality 

色 (se) - colour, beauty. In buddhism, “se” symbolizes everything secular

了 (liao) - finished, done, letting go 

尘 (chen) - dust, I’m not… versed in buddhism enough to explain “chen”, it’s similar to “se”

悟 (wu) - knowing? Cognition? To understand a higher meaning

无 (wu) - nothing, the void, also part of like “letting go” 

戒 (jie) - to “quit”, but not in a bad way. In buddhism, monks are supposed to “quit” their earthly desires.

极 (ji) - greatness, also related to the state of nirvana (? I think?) 

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DMBJ Weibo

Author of Novels & Screenwriter

Nanpai Sanshu (aka Xu Lei & Kennedy Xu) [worked as a screenwriter on time raiders, tomb of the sea, & reunion]

His company [produced the mystic nine, tomb of the sea, & reunion]

Shows’ Weibo

The Mystic Nine [hasn’t posted since 2018]

The Lost Tomb [hasn’t posted since 2017]

The Lost Tomb 2 [hasn’t posted since 2019]

The Lost Tomb 2.5 [hasn’t posted since Aug. 2021]

Ultimate Note [hasn’t posted since Jan. 2022]

Tomb of the Sea [hasn’t posted since 2019]

Reunion: Sound of the Providence [hasn’t posted since Dec. 2021]

The Mystic Nine: Qing Shan Hai Ting [hasn’t posted since Feb. 2022]

The Mystic Nine Actors

William Chan (Fo Ye)

Zhang Yixing (Er Ye)

Ying Haoming (Ba Ye)

Zhang Mingen (Lt. Zhang) [same as un & sand sea]

Zhao Liying (Yin Xinyue)

Harry Hu (Chen Pi)

Yuan Bingyan (Ya Tou)

The Lost Tomb Actors

Li Yifeng (Wu Xie) [account was deleted in 2022]

Yang Yang (Zhang Qiling)

Liu Tianzuo (Pangzi)

Tiffany Tang (Ning)

Ken Chang (Wu Sanxing)

Wei Wei (Pan Zi)

Li Chenhao (High Shao)

The Lost Tomb 2 Actors

Neo Hou (Wu Xie)

Cheng Yi (Zhang Qiling)

Zhang Boyu (Pangzi) [same as LT2.5]

Li Man (Ning)

Liu Xueyi (Xie Yuchen) [same as LT2.5]

Huang Yi (Huo Xiuxiu) [same as LT2.5]

Peng Yusi (Shun Zi) [same as LT2.5]

Yao Lu (Wu Sanxing) [same as LT2.5, hasn’t uploaded since 2019]

He Zhonghua (Chen Pi) [same as LT2.5]

The Lost Tomb 2.5 Actors

Bai Shu (Wu Xie) 

Zhao Dongze (Zhang Qiling)

Zhao Ruihuan (Ning)

Bai Yihong (Pan Zi)

Ultimate Note Actors

Xiao Yuliang (Zhang Qiling) [same as sand sea]

Joseph Zeng (Wu Xie)

Chen Fangxu (Pangzi)

Liu Yuning (Hei Yanjing)

Liu Yuhan (Xie Yuchen)

Zhu Jie (Wang Meng) [same as sand sea]

Hankiz Omar (Ning)

Liu Ruoyan (Huo Xiuxiu)

Leanne Liu (Huo Xiangu)

Wang Jinsong (Wu Erbai)

Fan Ming (Wu Sanxing)

Wan Peixin (Pan Zi)

Tao Luoyi (Chen Wenjin)

Tomb of the Sea/Sand Sea Actors

Wu Lei (Li Cu)

Qin Hao (Wu Xie) [his profile picture is still him as Wu Xie🥺]

Chen Minghao (Pangzi) [same as Reunion]

Zhang Meng (Su Nan)

Yang Rong (Liang Wan)

Yu Hewei (Wu Sanxing)

Wang Haoxuan (Su Wan)

Zhu Jian (Yang Hao)

Kudousi Jiang Ainiwaeris (Kan Jian) [he’s aka Wa Er]

Ji Chen (Hei Yanjing)

Hong Xuan (Yin Nanfeng)

He Longlong (Huo Daofu) [same as reunion]

Yu Kaining (Luo Que)

Reunion Actors

Zhu Yilong (Wu Xie)

Huang Junjie (Zhang Qiling)

Mao Xiaotong (Bai Haotian)

Hu Jun (Wu Erbai)

Baron Chen (Hei Yanjing)

Liu Chang (Liu Sang)

Huang Mengying (Ya Nv)

Fan Yize (Er Jing)

Nathan Yu (Wu Sanxing)

Wu Zenan (Li Jiale)

Wu Lipeng (Jiang Zisuan)

Zhong Jiacheng (Jia Kezi)

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

How would you rank the various Iron Triangle members from different adaptations?

I decided to just rank the major recurring characters too!

** Ranking “Explore With the Note” // “Heavenly Palace on the Clouds” later after it’s done airing.

Wu Xie:

Zhu Yilong (The Lost Tomb Reboot)

Li Yifeng (The Lost Tomb 1)

Qin Hao (Tomb of the Sea)

Zeng Shun Xi (Ultimate Note)

Hou Minghao (The Lost Tomb 2)

Xiao Ge // Zhang Qiling

Huang Junjie (Lost Tomb Reboot)

Xiao Yu Liang (Tomb of the Sea, Ultimate Note)

Yang Yang (The Lost Tomb)

Cheng Yi (The Lost Tomb 2)

Wang "Fatty" Pangzi

Chen Minghao (Lost Tomb Reboot, Tomb of the Sea)

Zhang Bo Yu (The Lost Tomb 2)

Cheng Fang Xu (Ultimate Note)

Liu Tian Zuo (The Lost Tomb)

Zhang Rishan

Zhang Mingen (Tomb of the Sea)

Zhang Ming’en (Mystic Nine)

Zhang Ming En (Ultimate Note)

Xie Yu Chen

Liu Xue Yi (The Lost Tomb 2)

Liu Yu Han (Ultimate Note)

Zhang “Lay” Yi Xing (Tomb of the Sea)

Zhang Xiao Chen (The Lost Tomb)

Hei Yanjing

Chen “Baron” Chu He (Lost Tomb Reboot)

Ji Chen (Tomb of the Sea)

Liu Yu Ning (Ultimate Note)

Wang Meng

Zhu Jie (Tomb of the Sea)

Zhu Jie (Ultimate Note)

Gao Qi Chang (Lost Tomb Reboot)

Wu San Xing // Xie Lian Huan

Yao Yi Chen (Lost Tomb 2; Young Wu Sanxing)

Yu Ming Xuan (Lost Tomb Reboot)

Ken Chang (The Lost Tomb)

Fan Ming (Ultimate Note)

Yu He Wei (Tomb of the Sea)

Yao Lu (Lost Tomb 2; Old Wu Sanxing)

Huo Xiu Xiu

Huang Yi (Lost Tomb 2)

Liu Ruo Yan (Ultimate Note)

Wu Yu Tong (Tomb of the Sea)

Ying Er (The Lost Tomb)

Wu Er Bai

Hu Jun (Lost Tomb Reboot)

Wang Jin Song (Ultimate Note)

Li Hu Cheng (Tomb of the Sea)

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Connections to “The Poppy War”

The setting and characters to The Poppy War has derived a lot of inspiration from historical events and myths alike. This is meant to discuss which characters have a relation to those preexisting. Of course, you do not need to know this information to enjoy the books, but I think knowing them will elevate your reading experience. None of this information is official. This is just the conclusions I came to while reading. Feel free to make comments

MAJOR MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ALL BOOKS

Locations

Nikara: Qing Dynasty. 

Mugen: Japan (Meiji Period)

Hesperia: Britain

The Hinterlands: Mongolia (unsure)

Murui: Yellow River

Tianshan: Kunlun

The different provinces were based off the Chinese Zodiac

The Poppy Wars: the Opium wars, as they have the heavy involvement of foreign invaders

Fang Runin: Rin’s character does not seem to take from a specific person, however the wiki stats that she was inspired by multiple people, such as Azula from ATLA and Mao Zedong

Chen Kitay: It's pretty obvious his character is inspired by Zhuge Liang in Romance of the Three kingdoms. In actual history, he wasn't that much, but in the book, Zhuge was a monster at strategy. 

In the first book, Irjah proposes a question, which Kitay replies “to bait the enemy into giving them arrows by rolling out a boat of strawmen”. This is something that Zhuge did as well.

Sring Venka: Honestly I'm blanking on Venka. I think perhaps Venka isnt supposed to represent a character at all, but instead all the comfort women and victims of the Rape of Nanking, based on what happened to her during Golyn niis. 

Yang Souji: He and his group the “Iron Wolves” remind me so much of the Shinsengumi. He even shares a name with Okita Souji, the captain of the first unit. 

The Shinsungumi were also nicknamed “The wolves of Mibu”

I know the glaring problem with this is that the Shisungumi are Japanese, and should have been Mugini in this book, but I think these parallels are pretty cool in any case.

Chiang Moag- Ching Shih. Woah, as soon as I heard Lady Pirate, it was undeniable who Moag is. Ching Shih, the most famous pirate in China perhaps, and she was a woman.

Their backstories share similarities too. Ching shih was a prostitute, just like rumors around Moag. 

The Cike: During the Zhou Dynasty, Wu Zetian (China’s only female emperor) had a secret police force that assassinated everyone she needed. This sounds incredibly similar to the way Daji used the Cike. 

Altan Trengsin: I believe that Altan is like Rin; either an amalgamation of many characters or simply someone Kuang made for the sake of the story.

Ramsa: I believe him to be Nikara’s representation of the creation of fireworks. Not based off a person, but instead one of the Four great inventions of China. Or maybe I’m looking too far into it lol, since he doesn't strike me as being inspired from a myth, since he is not a shaman

Baji: Zhu Bajie of Journey to the West. Based on his description and his name, I had him guessed before they even said anything about pig.

His weapon is even the same as Bajie’s, a nine-toothed rake. 

He also shares his desires, both of them being lusty for beautiful women

Suni: Sun Wukong. I had him guessed by his name as well. Although I believe the connection to be true, I cannot help but feel disappointed that the avatar of Sun Wukong was killed off so easily

The traits that these two characters share are pretty different, much more different than Baji had Bajie. 

For one, Suni is generally calm when he is not being taken over by his god, and is pretty gentle and nice actually. This is very unlike Sun Wukong, and also the reason why I think Suni was a bad body for Wukong to take over, since I think their desires do not match up like Rin and Phoenix

Aratasha: The last in the trio, Sha Wujing. I was confused at first, since Aratasha is no fighter, but I realized his name sounds incredibly similar to Sha Wujing. Wujing was a sand river demon in JTTW, so I don’t think it was a stretch to believe that Aratasha was based off of him (his god is a river god, after all)

Plus, Aratasha died before Baji and Suni did. Wujing in JTTW was weaker than both of his companions. 

Chaghan and Qara Suren: This may be a stretch, but I think Chaghan was inspired from Genghis khan. Gengis Kahn united the Mongols, like Chaghan united the Ketreids and Naimads. Even though the time period would be centuries apart (Genghis 1206, Qing Dynasty 1644-1912), it is the most likely option. It is unrecorded whether Gengis had any sisters, so I believe that Qara was made for the sake of plot (anchor). 

Yin Family: The entire Yin family was taken from the story of Nezha. You can read more about the original story by searching his name in Wikipedia. R F Kuang kept a lot of things from the original tale, and these notes are what I have noticed

Yin Vaisra- Li Jing. Li Jing was also a great general, and in other stories, he was the head general in the Jade Emperor's Heavenly Army. If you know about “Journey to the West”, it was him who attempted to subdue Sun Wukong. 

Yin Saikhara- Lady Yin

*its interesting how Kuang decided to make the mother’s name the family name for the Yins. Originally, I would have thought it was Li instead.

Muzha and Jinzha’s name were lifted directly from the source material

Mingzha is a character Kuang added, for Li Jing only had three sons (or 2 sons and a daughter in this case). There is no source material for how Muzha and Jinzha’s characters are; even in adaptations we rarely get to see any exploration of them.

Yin Nezha- Nezha:

Yin Nezha, like his original counterpart, was the third child of his father. Since Muzha was changed to a female, he is actually the second son. 

He has the powers of the Dragon of the Western river (TBG 392), likely referring to the White Dragon in myths, who is the dragon ruler of the western sea. 

Like the Nezha in the myth, Yin Nezha had an occurrence with a dragon that changed his life. 

At the first battle between Nezha and Rin in TBG, it is stated he wears golden rings around his wrists and ankles. Guanyin bodhisattva did this to Nezha in Journey to the West, in order to placate him. 

The Trifecta: All of the figures in the Trifecta were based on the Fengshen Yanyi (AKA the Investire of the Gods).

Jiang Ziya: His name was directly taken from the novel. 

Su Daji: Her name was directly taken from the novel, as well as some of her penchants for murder. Daji, in both history and the novel, was infamous for her torture methods. 

Jingzha being delivered back to his father in a dumpling holder would qualify as a toruture method. I applaud Kaung for being creative.

Yin Riga: I do not know if Riga is meant to be King Zhou or Ji Fa (the man who overthrew Zhou). Perhaps he was inspired by both of them, or neither. 

Since Kuang did not go into depth into which gods were in the pantheon, I will make a list to who I think is there

Gods mentioned in the books:

Erlang Shen

Sanshengmu 

Sun Wukong *implied through Suni

Zhu Bajie *implied through Baji

Huxian *implied through Unegen, and also Daji

Phoenix

Nuwa

Fuxi

The Four Dragon Kings (Yin Riga was likely the Dragon of the East) *There is no confirmation that there are multiple dragons, but I believe it was strongly implied

Chang’e

Xi Wang Mu, Queen Mother of the West

Zhenniao *implied through Pipaji

The Four Guardians (Azure Dragon, Vermillion Bird, White Tiger, and the Black Tortoise) *implied through Dulin, who summoned the Black Tortoise

Wong Tai sen *implied through Lianhua (Actually I am not sure, but I could not think of any other healer god in Chinese myths)

Gods not mentioned but I believe are in the Pantheon: 

Yudi: Usually depicted as the husband of Xiwangmu

Hou Yi (Since Chang’e is there. However, there is a possibility that he is in Chuulu Korikh as punishment for killing the sons of Yudi)

Shennong: He exists between Nuwa and Fuxi as the “human”

The Eight Deities

Guanyin: (Since Wukong is implied to be a god) showed up in JTTW

Yanwang: (Since Wukong is implied to be a god) showed up in JTTW

Other tidbits:

Arlong’s name may have been the combination of “Azure” and the chinese word for dragon “Long”. 

Aquebus are guns, but they shoot very slow. This aint a AK 47

The Red emperor could have been based off of Qin Shi Huang, or even the Jade Emperor himself.

Chuulu Korikh’s origin, although explained, has ties in Chinese myths. It was the mountain that encased Sun Wukong before he was broken out by Xuanzang. This means that the mountain was put there by the big B, Buddha. (Actually I can't remember if Kuang said who put the mountain down, but if she didnt specify this is what I think happened) 

I am more familiar with Chinese history and myths, rather than Japanese ones, so if im missing something feel free to correct

[sunfin3k]

Three Kingdom Jstor Article

The bad news guys is that you don’t get a chapter review today. The good news is that instead I’ve compiled a list of all the sources I can find on Jstor that relate to the Later Han/Three Kingdoms. There is some great stuff, with some very well known writers represented so I hope you all enjoy! But remember, you only get six free a month so pick wisely...

·       “Confucian” Values and Practises in Han China by Michael Loewe

·       A History of Court Lyrics in China during Wei-Ch’in Times by Howard L. Goodman

·       Adoption in Han China by Miranda Brown and Rafe De Crespigny

·       Cai Yan and the Poems Attributed to Her by Hans. H Frankel

·       Cao Zhi’s (192-232) Symposium Poems by Robert Joe Cutter

·       Celestial-Master Taoism and the Founding of the Ts’ao-Wei Dynasty: Li Fu Document by Howard L. Goodman

·       Chinese Polymaths, 100-300 AD: The Tung-kuan, Taoist Dissent, and Technical Skills by Howard L. Goodman

·       Chu-ko Liang in The Eyes of His Contemporaries by Eric Henry

·       Confucian Piety and Individualism in Han China by Michael Nylan

·       Divination by Shells, Bones and Stalks during the Han Period by Michael Loewe

·       Han Administrative Documents Recent Finds from the North-West by Michael Loewe

·       Historic Analogies and Evaluative Judgements: Zhuge Liang as Portrayed in Chen Shou’s “Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms” and Pei Songzhi’s Commentary by Hoyt Cleveland Tillman

·       On Reading Cao Zhi’s “Three Good Men”: Yong shi shi or Deng lin shi? by Robert Joe Cutter

·       Politics and Philisophy under the Government of Emperor Huan 159-168 A.D. by Rafe De Crespigny

·       Recent Research in China on Wei-Jin Nanbeichao History by Hou Xudong and Howard L. Goodman

·       Rethinking Chinese Kinship in the Han and the Six Dynasties: A Preliminary Observation by Hou Xudong and Howard L. Goodman

·       Rotten Pendent! The Literary and Historic Afterlife of Qiao Zhao by J. Michael Farmer

·       Some Notes on Han-Time Documents from Tun-huang by Michael Loewe

·       Some Notes On The Western Regions in Later Han by Rafe De Crespigny

·       The Bifurcation of the Yellow Turbans in Later Han by Howard S. Levy

·       The Calligrapher Cheng Yu (ca.163-230) and the Demographic of a Myth by Howard L. Goodman

·       The Cosmological Context of Sovereignty in Han Times by Michael Loewe

·       The Death of Empress Zhen: Fiction and Histography in Early Medieval China by Robert Joe Cutter

·       The Incident at the Gate: Cao Zhi, the Succession and Literary Fame by Robert Joe Cutter

·       The Jewish presence in Imperial China by Michael Loewe

·       The Kingdom of Nanzhong China’s Southwest Border Region Prior to the Eighth Century by John Herman

·       The Life and Legacy of Liu Biao: Governer, Warlord, and Imperial Pretender in Late Han China by Andrew Chittick

·       The Measurement of Grain during the Han Period by Michael Loewe

·       The Organs of Han Imperial Government: Zhongdu guan, duguan, xianguan and xiandao guan by Michael Loewe

·       The Orphan Ts’ao P’i, His Odd Poem, and Its Histotrophic Fame by Howard L. Goodman

·       The Study of Wooden Documents: Recent Developments by Michael Loewe

·       The Three Chaste Ones of Ba: Local Perspectives on the Yellow Turban Rebellion on the Chengdu Plain by J. Michael Farmer

·       Ts’ao Chih and His Immortals by Donald Holzman

·       Two Chapters in the Life of an Empress of the Later Han by Chauncey S. Goodrich

·       What’s in a Name? On the Appellative “Shu” in Early Medieval Chinese Histography by J. Michael Farmer

·       Yellow Turbans Religion and Rebellion at the End of Han by Howard S. Levy

·       “Well how’d you become king, then?” Swords in Early Medieval China by Robert Joe Cutter

[the-archlich]

You've previously told us about the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and the Seven Scholars of Jian'an. What about the Eight Paragons of Jiangxia (or Shangyang)? My copy of the SGYY lists them as Chen Xiang, Fan Pang, Fan Kang, Kong Yu, Tan Fu, Zhang Jian, and Can Zhi, in addition to Liu Biao.

So here’s the trouble: Liu Biao was part of two separate groups of 8 respected men.

The Eight Watchers 八顧 were all from Shanyang:

Zhang Yin

Xue Yu

Wang Fang

Xuan Jing

Gongxu Gong

Liu Zhi

Tian Lin

Liu Biao was also part of a group of eight friends who opposed corruption in the government:

Chen Xiang of Runan

Fan Pang of Runan

Kong Yu of Lu state

Yuan Kang of Bohai

Tan Fu of Shanyang

Zhang Jian of Shanyang

Cen Zhi of Nanyang

Note that these groups are entirely different, and even the ones from Shanyang don’t overlap.

Zhang Jian of Shanyang is probably the most significant of these figures. When young he received special nomination to serve the court, but he considered the provincial inspector who nominated him to be a man of poor character and declined. In 165 the new inspector Zhai Chao appointed him as a local investigator and sent him to bring charges against corrupt locals. Shanyang was home to the family of the powerful eunuch Hou Lan. The family was responsible for a wide number of crimes, including oppressing the locals an erecting a vast and illegal tomb for Hou Lan’s mother. Reports about the situation sent to the capital were intercepted to Zhang Jian destroyed the tomb himself and confiscated the family’s property. Zhai Chao was held responsible and sentenced to forced labor.

About this time Zhang Jian formed a fellowship of 24 men from Shanyang who opposed corruption. This included the Eight Watchers mentioned above: Liu Biao, Zhang Yin, Xue Yu, Wang Fang, Xuan Jing, Gongxu Gong, Liu Zhi, and Tian Lin. Zhang Jian then went to Luoyang as a political activist. After the death of Dou Wu in 168, the eunuchs continued to move against their enemies in 169. Zhang Jian and his confederates were declared to be traitors, along with hundreds of other critics of their cabal. Many were dismissed, arrested, and killed. Yuan Shao gained fame during this time by helping people escape from the eunuchs, even leading raids on prisons to free people.

Zhang Jian fled to the northern frontier, and many who assisted him were executed. Although the Proscription ended in 184 and he was invited to take office under He Jin, he declined. In 196 he accepted appointment from Cao Cao as Minister of the Guards but held the title only ceremonially, keeping the doors of his residence shut and not engaging with public affairs. He passed away around 200.

Chen Xiang was well connected and entered service in the offices of the Excellencies early. He was at court during the time when Liang Ji controlled the government and tried to have Liang Ji arrested, though nothing came of it. He was sent to a frontier post, though he returned to court when Liang Ji was overthrown. He was then sent off to be Inspector of Yang where he brought charges against powerful individuals, including the brother of a leading eunuch. The eunuchs eventually imprisoned him for his connection to their enemies, but he was released. Chen Xiang retired and passed away in 170.

Fan Pang was always admired for his strict morality. He held a number of minor positions at court, though he temporarily resigned in disgust. He was soon re-appointed by the Grand Commandant and released a list of the 20 most corrupt officials in Ji. Nothing came of the list and he resigned again, only taking up a position in in Runan’s local government. He was arrested by the eunuchs in the first Faction Incident in 166 and was imprisoned for a year before being released. He was arrested by them again in 169 and was executed.

Kong Yu was a distant descendant of Kongzi and was from a very powerful family. Although Liang Ji tried to appoint him to the court, Kong Yu rejected any association with him and refused to take office, remaining a private scholar instead. This earned him much praise. He did briefly accept office under the anti-Eunuch regent Dou Wu but soon retired and remained a private scholar. He was barred from office by the eunuchs after Dou Wu’s death, though it doesn’t appear that he had much interest in court service anyway.

Yuan Kang was not a member of the famous Yuan clan of Runan. He did become associated with the Xun clan of Yingchuan and changed the name of their village to honor Xun Shu and his eight famous sons. He later became executor of Taishan where he prosecuted corrupt officials. Some of Hou Lan’s retainers went to Taishan after being prosecuted by Zhang Jian in Shanyang but Yuan Kang prosecuted them too. In response the eunuchs raised false charges against him and had him exiled to Rinan in Jiao territory. His constituents petitioned for his release and he was eventually allowed to return to Bohai. He soon died at home.

Tan Fu was a private scholar who rejected most court appointments. He briefly served under Dou Wu and Chen Fan, though not for long. He always advocated for government reforms, though he was not a major figure.

Cen Zhi was the least significant of these men. A private scholar, he recommended that the local official Cheng Jin arrest a corrupt merchant. Cheng Jin was unable to do so due to an amnesty and, overzealously, killed the merchant and his family, over 200 people. He was arrested and executed for this while Cen Zhi fled. He later returned home during another amnesty. He refused to take office and fled to Wu in 169, where he died. Although he was popular among reformists, he contributed little to the cause

[treethymes]

Good Men, Good Women 好男好女 (1995, dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)

The statistics regarding the White Terror, which technically continued until the lifting of martial law in 1987, are chilling enough. Between 1949 and 1960 over 2000 people were shot and another 8000 severely punished. At most, 900 of these victims were actual Communists, while the rest were simply caught up in Chiang Kai-shek’s consolidation of power. Before martial law ended in 1987, Taiwan had a total of 29,000 political prisoners, another 140,000 who suffered hardships, and 3,000 to 4,000 who had been executed. [...] [T]he pervasively tense atmosphere and deep psychic scars it left are still evident today in the mass distrust and cynicism many Taiwanese feel towards politicians of any stripe. In her recent sophisticated study of how Taiwanese literature and cinema have depicted the traumas of the 228 Incident and afterwards, Sylvia Lin argues that this is the key meaning behind Good Men, Good Women which connects this work with the previous two films. All three films, according to her, reveal how untrustworthy visual representations of the past are, especially after decades of official repression. For her, the underlying theme of Good Men, Good Women is the ambiguous way the Taiwanese relate to the past because of the “imposed collective amnesia” resulting from forty years of martial law. In particular she notes how unresponsive Liang Jing is to the excerpts of her own diary coming back to her, that in fact she cannot deal with a personal trauma (Ah-wei’s death three years earlier) in much the same way Taiwan as a whole finds it difficult to face up to the public traumas of its long suppressed history.

James Udden, No Man an Island: The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien

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Chinese tea culture and the influence

The Chinese people, in their drinking of tea, place much significance on the act of “savoring.” “Savoring tea” is not only a way to discern good tea from mediocre tea, but also how people take delight in their reverie and in tea-drinking itself. Snatching a bit of leisure from a busy schedule, making a kettle of strong tea, securing a serene space, and serving and drinking tea by yourself can help banish fatigue and frustration, improve your thinking ability and inspire you with enthusiasm. You may also imbibe it slowly in small sips to appreciate the subtle allure of tea-drinking until your spirits soar up and up into a sublime aesthetic realm. Buildings, gardens, ornaments and tea sets are the elements that form the ambiance for savoring tea. A tranquil, refreshing, comfortable and neat locale is certainly desirable for drinking tea. Chinese gardens are well known in the world and beautiful Chinese landscapes are too numerous to count. Teahouses tucked away in gardens and nestled beside the natural beauty of mountains and rivers are enchanting places of repose for people to rest and recreate themselves.

China is a country with a time-honored civilization and a land of ceremony and decorum. Whenever guests visit, it is necessary to make and serve tea to them. Before serving tea, you may ask them for their preferences as to what kind of tea they fancy and serve them the tea in the most appropriate teacups. In the course of serving tea, the host should take careful note of how much water is remaining in the cups and in the kettle. Usually, if the tea is made in a teacup, boiling water should be added after half of the cup has been consumed; and thus the cup is kept filled so that the tea retains the same bouquet and remains pleasantly warm throughout the entire course of tea-drinking. Snacks, sweets and other dishes may be served at tea time to compliment the fragrance of the tea and to allay one’s hunger.

The formation and development of Chinese tea culture

China is the hometown of tea, is the world’s first discovery of tea, tea and the use of tea cultivation countries. The origin of tea at least the main Qi Wannian history. Tea was found and the use of human, about Siwuqiannian history.

 In accordance with “The Book of Songs” and other relevant documentation, in the pre-history, “Tu” refers to all types of wild plants bitterness of food raw materials. Fresh medical unity in the history of the times, the Zhike tea vegetable oil, the Qing God, Xiaoshi, in addition to Zhang, the medical function is to facilitate wait until it is not difficult for people found. However, the general medical practices for the development of an exclusive drink often, there must also be some special factors, namely, real-life people in a particular need. Bashu region, to the multiple for Jiyi “Zhang smoke” land. “Barbarian people living with tea, the lack of will.” (Ai Qing weeks of “Zhu Guo Travels” Volume II) is often vulgar Bashu people eating spicy side, thousands of habit, still. It is this natural geographical conditions and the resulting decision of the people’s dietary practices, making Bashu people first “JIANCHALING” Apart from taking to Zhang Qi, antipyretic drugs. Jiufu-Xi, a medicinal purpose gradually Subduction, tea has become a daily drink was. Qin-Ba-Shu is likely to see this as a daily drink tea customs.

Tea from the medicinal drink into a regular habit, the strict sense of “tea” would then have its typical signs that “tea” (cha) the emergence of sound. Guo Pu Note “Yi-release”, “Jia”: “small trees such as gardenia, Dong-Sheng Ye, can be boiled for soup to drink. As early as today called for the mining, tea, who was admitted late Ming, a Chuan, Shuren of the TU. “Clearly, the Han,” Tu “has been specifically beverage word” tea “in pronunciation,” tea “from” Tu “isolated, and embarked on the” independence “road of development. But “tea” the emergence of the word is accompanied by the development of the tea things and commercial activities have become increasingly frequent, until later in the Tang Dynasty, is also in line with the new symbol of a people’s social life after such a text change in the law.

China will start from the tea, There are different theories about, the Western Han Dynasty, tea drinking has been a matter of the official literature, drinking tea when the starting time earlier than some. Tea appears to cultural characteristics, in the Han, Wei and Jin Dynasty, Northern and Southern Dynasties period.

Tea Culture Broadly speaking, the tea at the natural sciences and humanities tea in terms of both human society is in the process of the historical practice of creating and tea-related material and spiritual wealth combined. In a narrow sense, focusing on the human sciences tea, tea mainly refers to the spiritual and social functions. As the science of tea has become an independent system, which now often say the tea culture emphasis on the humanities.

The influence of tea culture on Chinese civilization

1、the three countries before the tea culture of the Enlightenment

Many of the books found that the tea set for 2737-2697 BC, its history can be pushed to Sanhuangwudi. Eastern Han Hua, “The Fresh”: “Kucha for food, meaning benefits” of the medical records of the value of tea. Western Han Dynasty tea to the country of origin named “Tu-Ling”, that is, Hunan Chaling. To San Guowei generation “-Blair” has the earliest documented the method of tea cakes and drinking: Story of the Pakistani Inter-for cake, a pie-old man leaves to a paste of rice. Tea in the form of material and infiltration to other human sciences and the formation of tea culture.

2、Jin Dynasty, the seeds of the Northern and Southern Dynasties tea culture

With the rise of the literati tea, the tea poetry Gough increasingly available, tea has been out as a general form of eating into the cultural circles, will play the spirit of social role. Jin Dynasty, Northern and Southern Dynasties period, Menfa system has been formed, not only the emperor, nobility amassed a wave of officials and scholars generally proud boast, multi-effect Plaster Liang Hou Wei. In this case, some people of insight to “Yang Lian.”

Thus, there is satisfied that the land, Huanwen to tea and wine at all. South Qishizuwu emperor is a relatively enlightened Emperor, he did not Hei Yu Yan, under Yi Zhao before his death, he said after the funeral to be thrifty as possible, not to Sansheng for offerings, only put more Ganfan, fruit cake and Chafan can. And to “the world Guijian, with such a system.” Satisfied that the land, Huanwen, Emperor Wu Qi, where tea is not only refreshing to quench their thirst, it began work in a community, into a tea hospitality, to worship and that a Kind of spirit and sentiment of the means. Tea has not entirely the use of its natural value used by the people but entered the spirit of the area.

Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties period, the world disorder, all kinds of ideological and cultural exchanges collision, supernaturalism very popular. Metaphysics is the period of the Wei, Jin, a philosophical idea, mainly糅合Confucian thinking of the Lao Zi and Zhuang Zi-yi. Xuan Xuejia most of the so-called Fellows, the first to the door, the face, the instrument only, Hyun-loving nothingness from the light. Eastern Jin Dynasty, furans North Korea, the affluent Kangnam Scholars to be temporary to meet, hang around all day in Qingshanxiushui between the light winds to continue to develop, resulting in many light homes. Initially, there are more than idle talk Jiutu home, and later, talk of the wind gradually developed to the general literate.

Xuanxue Jia-speech, also general-talk rhetoric. Liquor make people excited, but drinking more would be stricken manner, nonsense, failed Yaguan. The tea-drinking and may be Jingri always clear, it is clear thinking, calm attitude. Moreover, the general terms of the literati, the whole day dealing with Jiurou, of the economy, will not allow. Days, many Xuan Xuejia, talk to wine home from the village. In them, where tea has been treated as a mental phenomenon.

   With Buddhism, Taoism up, and have tea and Buddhism, Taoism linked. In Taoism, the tea is to help Lian “inner alchemy” or-down muddy, light-weight-for-bones, Xiu Changshengbulao a good way to the body in Buddhism, the tea is a brooding meditation required of Of the show. Although this has not yet formed a complete religious tea ceremony and the ideological principles set out tea, tea has been divorced from the diet as a form of state, has significant social, cultural functions, the Chinese tea culture clues.

3、the formation of the Tang Dynasty tea culture

780, Lu Yu, “the tea,” tea culture of the Tang Dynasty is a landmark. Tea has summed up its natural and human sciences double content of the tea arts, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism into the three tea, the pioneering spirit of the Chinese tea ceremony. After tea and a large number of books, poems tea, “tea in”, “JIANCHALING water”, “Cai Cha”, “16 soups.” Tang tea culture and the formation of the Zen on the rise, the benefits of tea is refreshing thought, spermatogenic Zhike function, the temple advocates tea, tea trees planted around the temple, the development of the tea ceremony, a tea appear, the first election of tea, The matter was tea activities. China’s Tang Dynasty in the form of tea ceremony at the palace tea, the tea ceremony of the temple, the literati tea ceremony.

4、 the prosperity of the Song Dynasty tea culture

Song tea has been a great development, and promote the development of the tea culture, the literati in a professional Tea Associations, an official of the “social soup”, a Buddhist, “1,000 clubs.” Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin tea is an of disabilities, in court and authorities in the establishment of tea things, the court has been using tea grades. Tea-ceremony system has become, thanks to the win over Secretary of tea has become the emperor, with relatives an important means, but also give foreign envoys. As for the lower social and vitality of tea culture is more lively, some of movement, the neighbourhood to “Xiancha” You Ke, to respect the “gold ingot tea”, when engaged to “tea”, the time of the marriage to “the tea”, when roommate “A tea.” Cha Doo civil wind has brought Preparing cooking point of a series of changes.

  Since the Yuan Dynasty, the tea culture has entered a period of twists and turns. Song expansion of the tea culture and the social dimension of cultural forms, tea things are booming, but the tea to complicated, trivial, luxury, lost the Tang Dynasty tea culture profound ideological connotation, too delicate tea flooded the spirit of the tea culture, lost Its noble profound nature. In court, nobles, scholars there, drinking tea became a “drink at the child” and “drinking style,” and “Play tea.”

5、 that the universal culture of Qing-Cha

At this point there has been steaming green, Chaoqing, Hong Qing, and other tea, tea drinking has been changed to “minority bubble”, many of the Ming Dynasty scholar Aston handed down the left for, such as snow star “Pengcha picture,” ” Tea map “, Wen Zhengming’s” Huishan tea party “,” Lu Yu Pengcha plans, “Tea plans. ” The increase in tea, tea art is different, the style of Tea Ware, texture, pattern Qianzibaitai. Tea exports to the Qing Dynasty have become one of the official sector, the tea, tea, tea countless poems.

6、 the development of modern tea culture

  After the founding of New China, China’s annual output of tea from 1949 to 7500 T development in 1998, more than 60 million T. Tea a substantial increase in material wealth for the development of China’s tea culture to provide a solid foundation in 1982, set up in Hangzhou, the first to promote tea culture for the purpose of social groups – the “tea house”, established in 1983 in Hubei ” Lu Yu Tea Culture Research Society, “1990” were the Federation of Chinese tea “was set up in Beijing, 1993,” the China International Tea Culture Research Society “in the establishment of Island Lake, in 1991 China Tea Museum in Hangzhou West Lake Township officially opened. 1998 China International Tea Cultural Exchange Peace Museum completed. With the rise of tea culture and tea houses throughout the run more.

International Tea Culture Symposium has been opened to the fifth sector, has attracted Japan, South Korea, the United States, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong and Taiwan has participated. The main provincial cities and counties in the tea production in the host “Tea Day”, such as Fujian’s Wuyi Yancha section of the city, Yunnan’s Pu’er tea festival, Zhejiang Xinchang, Taishun, Hubei and Britain Hill, the Tea Festival in Xinyang, Henan abound. To have tea as the carrier, to promote comprehensive economic and trade development.

Chinese tea culture and tea culture in Europe and America or Japan, a great difference. Chinese tea culture has a long history, profound, not only contains the material and cultural level, also contains a deep spiritual level. Tea by Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty in the history of Chinese tea culture and sounded the horn. Since then, the spirit of tea permeates the court and society, into the Chinese poetry, painting, calligraphy, religion, medicine. For thousands of years, China has not only accumulated a great deal about tea cultivation, production of material culture but also accumulated rich spirit of the tea culture, which is unique to China’s tea culture, a cultural study area.

[triplicemedia]

Amizade de Hou Liang e Fujioka Daichi é assunto entre os fandoms

Desde que Hou Liang, vocalista principal do Kronos, e Fujioka Daichi do Wish estiveram na Radio Star e revelaram que participaram de um programa semelhante ao H Producer, além de posteriormente Kim Gura descobrir que os dois rapazes eram amigos desde essa época em outro país, o fandom do Kronos e do Wish ficaram eufóricos com essa suposta e inusitada amizade. Os dois rapazes nunca interagiram publicamente, mas tiveram uma ótima química ao cantarem na Rádio Star.

Um vídeo feito por uma fã chinesa tornou-se assunto quente do momento ao viralizar no youtube e rapidamente passar para outras redes. Na compilação há partes de vídeos onde mostram Hou Liang e Fujioka Daichi agindo com naturalidade e amizade entre si. Desde a skinship e tratamento informal durante a compilação. Partes de quando eram apenas trainees em uma empresa na China e praticavam. Também no programa competindo e se divertindo. Uma parte em particular tomou atenção de geral quando ambos foram anunciados como classificados para primeira fase do programa, semelhante ao H Producer, e se abraçaram emocionados com a conquista um do outro.

As fãs rapidamente perceberam que amizade dos vocalistas é antiga e muito bonita e levantaram uma hashtag #HouFujiFriendship para os artistas logo após a viralização desses momentos.

para comentar a notícia, nos mandem uma ask com a tag: #noteth389.

[jyslifetimes]

Ahma & Alan (@ahmaandalan) is playing 11/14 to 11/20 at the Dream Flare Film Festival (@_dreamflareff_ ! Produced by @aikhunentertainment, DFFF aims to share the beauty of cinema, taking Taiwan as a source of inspiration. To watch my film, get tickets here (link also in IG bio): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dfff-2020-ahma-alan-tickets-127261258851 My film will be playing alongside some great shorts, some of which were an official selection of the Taipei Film Festival. Funny story, earlier this year I tried to submit my short film to Taipei Film Festival but found out I couldn’t because on paper, I’m just American. HAHA! (TFF only accepts short films from Taiwanese nationals). It’s all good, I think it’s really important to bring up and support local filmmakers, which I think is the intention behind the rule, and Taiwan has some amazing filmmakers I look forward to watching. An honor to be part of this festival. Hope you can join us! (note: films can only be watching within the U.S.). Ahma & Alan (a 23 min short film) Starring: Mei-Hou Wu, @gregory.yuan, Akio Chen Executive Producer: @caraichiu Producers: @fabulous_sugar_c, Su-Jean Chiang, Betty Chung Director of Photography: @richardsjsue Gaffer & Emotional Support: Tan Chi Liang Production Designer & Costume Design: @skylerchen Art Director & Wardrobe: @roderick.c.t. Hair & Makeup: Anny Roan Assistant Director: @civilized133 Sound Mixer: @t7963t Editor: @chun7211 Music by @royersueno …and many more! 好開心我們的短片”阿嬤與阿倫“有加入夢花國際影展11月14日到11月20日！： https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dfff-2020-ahma-alan-tickets-127261258851 夢花國際影展是想跟不同的國家分享電影的魅力。影展是從台灣有受到大的印象。 我的短片也跟一些台北電影節的短片有進入。覺得有點好笑，我年初想申請台北電影節但是發現關於短片的話，他們只能收有台灣國籍的導演。在紙面上我只是一位可憐美國人，😄 GO USA! 哈哈。沒關係，我覺得他們這樣規定應該是為了給台灣導演們個平台可以發揮一下。我覺得這也很重要，我個人很期待看台灣的導演將來會拍什麼樣的作品。 進入夢花國際電影展覺得很光榮。希望您們能跟我們一起吧！（備註：只能在美國看影展的片）。 阿嬤與阿倫 主演 吳美和，袁積友，陳慕義 監製 邱宜貞 製片 施忻宜，江淑瑾，鍾麗雲 攝影師 蘇士傑 燈光指導和心理導師 譚紀良 美術/服裝設計師 陳柏豪 美術/服裝助理 曾柏淳 梳化師 阮鳳琴 副導演 吳溎七 現場收音師 張勤 剪接師 高魁駿 原創音樂 孫啟武 #美國 #台灣 #短片 #亞裔 #華僑 #阿嬤 #奶奶 #影展 #台北 #鹿港 #shortfilms #asianamericanfilm #taiwan #taiwaneseamerican #taipei #lukang https://www.instagram.com/p/CHr8_4apH4U/?igshid=pythra6tc8e5

[whoa-royal-chaos]

ℤ𝕙𝕠𝕦 𝕄𝕖𝕚 𝕠𝕗 𝕃𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕘 (𝕊𝕚𝕕𝕖 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕣)

𝓑𝓮𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓭？

Yes, to Princess Ayleanna “Lea” Lynton of Aciras

𝓗𝓮𝓲𝓻？

Yes

𝓕𝓪𝓬𝓮𝓬𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓶

Guanchen Liu

𝓟rince 𝓩hou 𝓜ei is the heir to the Liangii throne and Princess Lea's husband-to-be. He is the illegitimate son of Emperor Ming Mei (who, as hard to imagine as it may be, was once young and foolish), and he was raised by his mother's brother, the captain of an infamous group of pirates and outlaws. As such, Zhou grew up a rowdy and rambunctious child, and this certainly didn't magically go away during his teenage years. 𝓩hou had just turned sixteen when he found a letter from his mother that brought his true heritage to light. Instead of waiting around for his uncle to find out, Zhou simply left him a note and slipped away to Xiajing, where he (quite literally) kicked down the palace doors and demanded an audience with the emperor. 𝓛ong story short, Emperor Ming confirmed Zhou's heritage and named him the heir to the Liangii throne, after some deliberation. The media has dubbed Zhou as the "long lost prince of Liang" or the "pirate prince", and Zhou has definitely lived up with his reputation-the dude has no idea how to be royal at all, despite his cousin Mai's best efforts. Zhou is now 23 years of age. He will be joining his cousin in Aciras two weeks before the wedding, as it is considered bad luck by the Liangii for the groom to see too much of the bride before the wedding.

[huttson-blog]

How Taiwan Is Becoming a Global Hub for Creative Content — Hollywood Reporter

Read more at the Hollywood Reporter

— by Melissa Locker: The creative class in Taiwan has been pushing the boundaries in culture for decades with groundbreaking films, books, music and, more recently, virtual reality projects. The nation is investing heavily in culture and the people that drive it, garnering attention from creative industries around the world…

Image courtesy of TAICCA

[the-archlich]

You mentioned before that Wu’s historians appear to have done some mucking around in Sun Jian’s life. What did they do exactly?

Probably the best example is a lengthy passage from Sun Jian’s campaign against the Liang rebels.

Zhang Wen called on Dong Zhuo by Imperial decree but he tarried for a long time before answering the summons. Zhang Wen reprimanded Dong Zhuo for this but he countered and would not obey. At the time Sun Jian was seated in attendance, and whispered in Zhang Wen’s ear: “Dong Zhuo acts and speaks arrogantly because he has no fear of being punished. He should be beheaded for not answering your summons in due time, according to military law.”

Zhang Wen said: “Dong Zhuo is famed throughout the lands of Long and Shu. To kill him on this day would impede the advance westwards.”

Sun Jian said: “My enlightened lord leads Imperial troops and your authority makes all under heaven tremble, what need do you have of Dong Zhuo? Examining Dong Zhuo’s words, he does not even pretend courtesy toward you and observes no respect to his superiors. This is his first crime. Bian Zhang and Han Sui have defied the law for more than a year and now is the time to advance and subdue them. Yet Dong Zhuo says that we should not do so yet. He is holding up the army and making the people uncertain. This is his second crime. Dong Zhuo has accepted his assignment but is without results. He answered your summons slowly and yet he acts proudly and holds himself highly. This is his third crime. The famed generals of antiquity, commanded their host with the symbolic Battle-axe and whilst on campaign, there were none who would not behead a man to show their authority. This is how Sima Rangju beheaded Zhuang Jia and Wei Jiang killed Yang Gan. Today my enlightened lord has extended his consideration to Dong Zhuo, but refrains from punishing him, thus rendering great harm to the authority of military law. This much is clear.”

Zhang Wen could not bear to issue the command and so he said: “You should return or Dong Zhuo may become suspicious.”

Sun Jian got up and went out. Bian Zhang and Han Sui heard of the great army that was approaching; their confederates and followers scattered and begged to surrender. The Imperial army returned after this but the court advisors held that they had not actually fought the enemy and so no honours were granted. When it was told, however, how Sun Jian had tallied Dong Zhuo’s three crimes and urged Zhang Wen to behead him, none did not sigh in admiration.

Rafe de Crespigny (in his Generals of the South) suspects that this story is a falsehood.

To make a long story short, the SGZ account (based on the Wu Shu) contradicts other versions, including the words of Dong Zhuo himself (spoken to the historian Liu Ai). It’s probable that Wu historians (potentially at Sun Hao’s command) altered their own records of Sun Jian’s campaign to cast him in opposition to Dong Zhuo, making them enemies instead of comrades.

Of it, de Crespigny says:

According to this, Zhang Wen brought his army to Chang'an, and from there he summoned Dong Zhuo. Dong Zhuo, however, was slow to come and when he did arrive he was discourteous and insubordinate. Sun Jian, who was in attendance on Zhang Wen, then presented a lengthy argument, with historical examples and allusions from the classics, urging that Dong Zhuo should be executed for his refractory behaviour towards his superior officers. Since the speech is described as being delivered in a whisper to Zhang Wen alone, it is difficult to see how it could have been recorded at the time, and it is impossible to rely upon the account as it is presented. It is, perhaps, just possible that at some stage in the campaign Dong Zhuo objected to his orders, and Sun Jian then urged Zhang Wen to punish him.

On the other hand, Dong Zhuo was in fact Zhang Wen's most successful commander. He had done well in the earlier abortive campaign under Huangfu Song, and he played a great part in the victory of Meiyang which eventually caused the withdrawal of the enemy to the west. Moreover, in the commentary of Pei Songzhi to a later part of the biography of Sun Jian, there is an extract from the book Shanyang gong zaiji which contains a record of a discussion of this campaign by Dong Zhuo himself. Like any version of direct speech in the histories, the passage must be suspect, but Dong Zhuo is described as speaking with the historian Liu Ai, and Liu Ai may well have kept a note of the incident.

According to this record from Shanyang gong zaiji, when Zhang Wen proposed to send Zhou Shen and Dong Zhuo in command of separate columns to the west, Dong Zhuo suggested that the two units should nevertheless co-operate, and that he should remain as reserve in the rear while Zhou Shen led his men against the enemy. His idea was that the rebels would be afraid to commit themselves against Zhou Shen for fear they would then be attacked by Dong Zhuo's force. Dong Zhuo was concerned that if  the two armies went forward independently, the rebels would beable to watch both columns, concentrate their forces where theywished, and attack them separately. In fact, this is what happened.The two parts of the imperial force were each caught by the enemyin unfamiliar country with extended lines of communications.Dong Zhuo was surrounded by the Qiang and had to trick his wayout, while Zhou Shen was also caught by a counter-attack andabandoned his baggage train as he fled.

Dong Zhuo went on to say that Sun Jian had proposed much thesame strategy to Zhou Shen as he had to Zhang Wen: that ZhouShen should use the majority of his troops to establish a securebase while Sun Jian went forward with a detachment. The enemywould be tied down by the threat of the main attack, and Sun Jianand his troops could raid their strong points and theircommunications without interference. An army of rebels would be afraid to engage any part of the imperial forces in a major battle,because they could be held in that engagement and crushed whenthe main body came up. Like Zhang Wen, however, Zhou Shenrefused to accept the strategy. 

The plan that Sun Jian proposed to Zhou Shen is also mentionedin Hou Han shu, and that account is clearly based on Shanyanggong zaiji. Surprisingly, however, the main text of the biographyby Sun Jian in Sanguo zhi makes no mention of his proposal.Instead, we are told that when the rebels heard how Zhang Wen'sgreat army was coming against them, they“separated and scattered and all begged to surrender. Then thearmy came home, but the imperial advisers held that since theyhad not actually fought with the enemy, it was not appropriateto give any rewards.”

This is quite wrong. The imperial army had fought a battle atMeiyang, but the rebels had not been scattered and they did notsurrender in any numbers. The account in Sun Jian's biography iscontradicted by all other records of the rebellion in Liang province.It may be that the biographer sought to explain why Sun Jianreceived no immediate reward when he came back to the capital, orhe may have been so concerned to show Sun Jian's disapproval ofDong Zhuo that it would have been embarrassing to describe them as suggesting similar strategies. In either case, this is one example of how unreliable such a text can be when the hero of the story is a minor figure in the events described, and when those events occurred at such a distance of time and space.