#sun erniang

[writerkatsblog]

Which character in Shambhala has the best drip and which one is a fashion disaster?

If he could get away with it, Fei would be the absolute biggest fashion disaster. He'd LOVE to dress up in all kinds of loud colors and prance around in them.

As for best dressed, I'd probably hand that title so his sister Erniang. Even Hai with all her skill admires Erniang as a weaver. She's very skilled with her hands and is always good with detailed pattern work.

[sarcophagid]

initially my idv oc was just a one off i wanted to do for fun so i could get away with not thinking super hard and just making her a scary killer but now i have a 23 page lore doc and i need to come up with why shes a scary killer

[the-wintry-mizzenmast]

笛花 Dihua/Feihua prompt fill for @kingsandbastardz The groupchat had a burst of inspiration from @lyselkatz's post-canon fanart of silver-haired Li Lianhua and bearded A-Fei, and wanted to play around a little.

[Being officially dead doesn't mean they no longer solve problems. Dead bodies keep appearing with distressing regularity.]

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Normally, a dead body found in the streets of Jia Town isn't their problem. But three bodies scattered in different places in one night? Even Li Lianhua's old fox ears begin to twitch as the news breezes through the morning market bustle. 

“Don't,” Di Feisheng warns, as his husband stops to inspect some radishes being sold by Sun Erniang and ever so casually inquires about the strange nature of the injuries found on all three corpses.

She claims she doesn't know much, but the excruciating detail with which she is able to describe the blood which was seeping from the corpses’ eyes, nose, and ears, and the bloom of black bruising on their necks when they were discovered, means that the farm wife rumor mill has been hard at work.  

After he's wrung out every last scrap of detail that Sun Erniang knows—for her neighbor's cousin’s brother-in-law works at the local yamen—Li Lianhua turns and deposits an armful of radish and cabbage in the woven basket Di Feisheng is holding. The farmer has been well-rewarded for her information, he observes.

Li Lianhua turns, bidding her a good day. He cozies up to Di Feisheng, relieving him of the basket and uses the excuse of steering him through the crowd to hang off his arm so they can convene in low tones. 

“So, A-Fei,” says Li Lianhua lightly. “Do you think this is the Qiankun Wudu Shou 乾坤五毒手 or the Tiangang Xuanwu Zhi 天罡玄武指?”

Di Feisheng strokes his beard thoughtfully. Since his retirement from Jianghu ten years ago, between the travels, the sunsets, and the chores to do around Lotus Tower, he's managed to amass quite the collection of esoteric martial arts tomes. Between the two of them, there's not a single technique that can escape their discerning eye, but that doesn't mean that the old fox should be poking his snout where it doesn't belong. If the Emperor ever gets word that Li Lianhua yet lives…well, Di Feisheng doesn't need to remind his husband of how suddenly the quiet life they've managed to lead will come to a juddering halt.

“I'd have to see the bodies myself to know for sure,” Di Feisheng hears himself saying, even though he knows where this is going to lead. 

“Exactly what I was thinking,” Li Lianhua agrees, with a mischievous grin playing about the corners of his mouth. “The yamen is that way,” he says, nudging Di Feisheng to turn right down the next street. 

“Don't worry,” Li Lianhua continues, before Di Feisheng can even open his mouth to voice his concern. “Sun Erniang’s neighbor’s cousin's brother-in-law works there. They won't tattle on us.”

Di Feisheng merely grunts, and lets his husband lead him onto the next mystery. It's only been a week since the last one. He begins to wonder whether they are somehow cursed, or if his husband is just terrible at minding his own business. Perhaps it's a bit of both.

[vivienna-vivid]

Favorite of the 108 Stars of Destiny?

HOW did tumblr not notify me of my brother in arms' message? Death to this Hellsite. Sun Erniang, easy-peasy. I love all the important stars but this cannibal inn keeper has me by the choke hold. They hate her for her girly whimsy. And the atrocities and lack of impulse control.

[the-sad-oracle]

it's all "make your own food" this and "baking for bake is a love language" that but when i, Sun Erniang the Female Yaksha and 103rd Hero of Liangshan,

it's all "make your own food" this and "baking for people is a love language" that but when i, Titus Andronicus,

[angedhoublevet-blog]

Wu Song (left) and Sun Erniang, produced in Mianzhu, Sichuan province

[cyborg-squid]

Fanservant: Assassin Zhang Qing+Sun Erniang

I keep having really weird Fanservant ideas, and I’d say this one ranks up there as one of my weirdest, likely because of how the characters role in the Water Margin both perplexes and interests me.

Zhang Qing and his wife Sun Erniang (also known by the nicknames ‘The Gardener’ and ‘Female Yaksha’), the Execute and Strong stars * respectively, appear a couple different times in the novel to assist larger profile characters in their journeys, mainly by providing them with lodging, food, friendship, and directions to wherever the nearest bandit stronghold is. But most concerningly... they also run what’s known as a “Black Tavern” (there are a couple others in the novel), where they take in travelers seeking lodging, drug their wine, kill them while they’re sleeping, steal their stuff.... and then butcher and cook them, mincing their meat to put into meat buns, tanning their skins like leather, rendering their fat to make candles, and then feeding the human meat buns to other customers. The way that they meet some of the larger characters in the novel is that either the drugged wine or their underlings fail to bring the big guys down, Zhang and Sun tell them to stop and then make friends with their fellow ‘heroes’ of the underground.

And these are some of the good guys! Yeah, no, really. I can barely believe it myself. The Water Margin has a mix between morally grey guys and guys that get really caught up when doing vengeance, but what this couple is doing is on a whole different level, yet it’s just really presented and accepted as a thing that regularly happens. They’re not even the only ones among the Stars of Destiny who do it, the guy nicknamed ‘Dry-Land Alligator’ also runs a cannibal tavern which also acts as a lookout station for Liangshan marsh.

It’s this sort of extreme villainy, that the more heroic and moral characters of the novel are just fine with, that really got me thinking about them and led me to their first skill, Hero-Assisting Villains. This skill reflects the pair’s role in the novel, of acting as guides and helpers to warriors like Lu Zhishen and Wu Song while perpetrating ignoble crimes. Mechanically, in a Holy Grail War, this would have them able them to support and ‘buff’ their own Master (or other allied Servants), through either boosting the Master’s physical abilities (after having eaten a ‘meat’ bun) or providing them with stolen armaments. 

And speaking of stolen armaments, notable among the items they’ve acquired are a pair of daggers mentioned as having been forged from ‘snowflake steel’ and that groan during the night. Groaning Knives are their second skill, each  of the couple having one of the knives, which, combined with each of theirs training and skill in martial arts, enable them to engage in direct Servant vs Servant combat, despite being of the Assassin class. With this skill, as long as they have the daggers, their martial skills are roughly equivalent to that of a mid-rank Lancer or Saber.

The third skill focuses more on Sun Erniang and her unique nickname of Female Yaksha. This skill synthesizes her existence with that of the mythical Yakshas featured in Buddhism, Jainism, and Hindusim. They often appear as trickster like spirits, helpful yet mischievous, but can be much more wicked at times, with the Female Yaksha here being one of the latter. With this skill, she has access to low-level powers usually held by Yaksha, so long as she is in a compatible environment, such as forests or wilderness. She can do things like exert control over water, turn herself basically invisible in trees/bushes/the like, and inflict painful hexes upon opponents.

They also have the standard Assassin class passive of Presence Concealment C, though it can rise to A+ if Sun Erniang is able to use her skill properly. 

I’m kind of stumped at the moment for what their Noble Phantasm should be, I’m leaning towards some sort of combo attack with the two of them, focusing on the aspect of the two of them being summoned as a pair.

As for their role in a Holy Grail War, it really depends on the ethics of their Master and whether or not they’d let them go Soul Eater-y in order to obtain magical energy+meat for Hero Assisting Villains. The couple did, in life, have prohibitions against killing exiles, monks, or prostitutes, so the couple is likely to do basically some haggling in order to receive permission to kill, perhaps, if their Master is inclined to do so, going after wicked non-Magi in the HGW area or helping their Master pursue a personal grudge. Regardless of initial compatibility, I’d feel like this Assassin would consider themselves to be friends with their Master, even if the Master doesn’t think so, and Assassin would be willing to go against their Masters wishes or break rules the Master set if they believe it would be in the best interests of their Master. Combat wise, they’d be pretty standard Assassin stuff, gathering power in the shadows and preparing sneak attacks and ambushes, with the advantage of being able to catch foes initially off guard with the fact that there’s two of them.

*Basically all of the important characters in the Water Margin are numbered as one of the ‘Stars’ of the 108 Stars of Destiny, divided into the 36 Heavenly Spirits and the 72 Earthly Fiends. FGOs Yan Qing is the Skillful star, Shi Jin (fused with Liz) is the Minute star, Huyan Zhou is the Heavenly Force star.

[kaibutsushidousha]

My random Water Margin Phantom Servant ideas: Sun Erniang fuse with Amanozako, Lu Zhishen fuse with Xuong Cuong/Moc Tinh/Tree Monster, Lin Chong fuse with Cat Sith, Hu Sanniang fuse with Nemesis and Yang Zhi fuse with Arioch

Cool, now make your own post in your own blog detailing them.

[the-sad-oracle]

With regards to the Tang Dynasty Cannibalism, the most infamous case of this was ALLEGEDLY the siege of Suiyang in 757 during the An Lushan Rebellion. The city was besieged and running low on supplies and in order to hold off the rebel army longer, the city's commander Zhang Xun had the garrison resort to cannibalism of the civilian population in order to keep them fed and motivated. According to tradition, around 30,000 people were eaten but some (like Sima Guang) think it was much lower, if anyone. While he did severely damage and inflict massive losses onto the rebel army, the city did eventually fall and Zhang was killed (there was a meme that went around claiming it was a Decisive Tang Victory but it was not, he did lose in the end). After that, Zhang was held up as a paragon of loyalty and determination against all odds by some people (especially in the Southern Song Dynasty, for reasons of PATRIOTISM) while others questioned whether the cannibalism really was necessary.

Also with the cannibalism in Water Margin, there is so much amongst the heroes! There is one bit where they roast a corrupt official and eat him to get revenge for actions he did against one of the heroes. And as for the innkeeper cannibal hero, there are two! A husband and wife duo- Zhang Qing the Gardener and Sun Erniang the Lady Yaksha, who run a murder/cannibalism inn. They are basically the 12th century Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett but with some degree of morality (for example, they don't harm sex workers or monks or wanderers with good vibes).

WHAT DO YOU MEAN TANG DYNASTY CANNIBALISM?? /gen /that sounds so interesting /pls ignore if you don't feel like talking about this

Oh ho im always down to chat about history. I actually cant name any specific instance of tang dynasty cannibalism, since my knowledge of chinese history stops after 300 CE, but in general the cultural attitude towards cannibalism has been fairly pragmatic. It's not considered a moral event-horizon you can't return from. Of course, every society has instances survival cannibalism, e.g. you’re under siege/ theres a famine/ some other infinitely nuanced circumstance. But outside of actually history, cannibalism shows up in basically every single story. Not even as a major plot point it’s just there.

Take the 4 great classics:

Romance of the three kingdoms: a hunter kills his wife and uses her flesh to feed the virtuous Liu Bei. This is framed as a noble and selfless act. bonus autocannibalism; Xiahou Dun eats his own eyeball due to *checks notes* filial piety.

Water Margin: i cant remember the name of this guy, but there was this inkeeper who was killing passerbys and feeding them to the guests. He joins the main lineup of heroes. This is never brought up again.

Journey to the west: every demon wants to eat the Tang Monk’s flesh to gain immortality. Happens every 10 pages. Not technically cannibalism by the standard definition but it is a) consumption of human flesh and b) they are humanoid/are embodiments of human vice. So im gonna count it. my blog my rules.

Dream of the red chamber: havent read it and at this point im afraid to ask.

Historical tidbit: Lingchi (death by slow cuts) was sometimes followed up by selling the person's flesh to the crowd, either as medicine, or if the person had committed a particularly egregious crime, it was a way for the people to show their hatred. The phrase "the people want to eat your flesh" is a byword for "they fucking hate you, dude." though this is more to do with desecration of a corpse than the actual consumption, because if a body is destroyed, the spirit will not be whole in the afterlife.

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[outpostsofbabel]

On Names

Demigods and Semi-devils is a phrase that comes from Buddhist scripture. Many Mahayana scriptures describe how eight non-human beings looked on as Buddha preached to bodhisattvas and monks. In the Lotus Sutra, for example, it is said that these eight beings “beheld from afar the dragon’s daughter becoming a buddha”. These eight mystical beings may resemble humans, but they are not human. Chief among them are the Deva and the Naga; the other six are the Yaksha, Gandharva, Asura, Garuda, Kimnara, and Mahoraga.

According to Buddhist scripture, Deva are gods but not supreme beings; they merely enjoy greater and longer-lasting karmic rewards than mortal men. Buddhists hold that everything is transient, and therefore even the Deva must die. There are five signs of a Deva’s imminent death: their clothes will be soiled, the flowers on their head wither, their bodies will stink, sweat will come out of their armpits, and they no longer delight in their place. These are the five great sorrows of heaven, and they are a Deva’s greatest sorrows. Indra is the leader of the Deva.

Naga are dragon gods. The dragons in Buddhist scriptures are not so different from those in the tales of our own country, except that they have no feet, and pythons are occasionally called dragons. In actual fact, the Chinese understanding of dragons and dragon kings is largely derived from these scriptures. Buddhist scriptures make mention of the Fifth Dragon King, the Seventh Dragon King, the Eighth Dragon King and so on.

The ancient Indians revered dragons. They felt that the dragon was the strongest of all creatures living in the water, and that the elephant was the most powerful of all creatures living on land. This is why greatly-respected personages are called “dragon-elephants”*. When someone says that “a dragon-elephant approaches from the west”, this refers to an eminent monk that has come from the west. In ancient India, people believed that rain was water that dragons took from the sea and scattered on earth. The Chinese also accepted this belief. The almanacs indicate how the number of dragons carrying water impacted rainfall for the year. One of the dragon kings was called Sagara, and his eight-year-old daughter spoke of the scriptures to the Shakyamuni Buddha, became a boy, and attained enlightenment.

The Yaksha are a type of demon, and some have been termed the “Eight Yaksha Generals” or “Sixteen Great Yaksha Generals”. The original Yaksha were gods that ate demons, were nimble and agile, as well as brave and secretive. The Vimalakirti Sutra divides the Yaksha into three categories: those that live on earth, those that float in space, and those that live in the fork between night and day. These days, when we speak of Yaksha, we typically refer to demons. But in the Buddhist scriptures there were many good Yaksha. Indeed, the task of the Eight Yaksha generals was to protect all the beings of the world.

The Gandharva are spirits that neither eat nor drink, but subsist on fragrances. They are the chief beings that wait upon Indra, and their bodies give off a fragrance. In Sanskrit, gandharva means “inscrutable change”. For that reason, magicians are also known as gandharva, and mirages are called gandharva cities. Their fragrance and music are faint, indistinct, and hard to capture.

Asura are a unique race of spirits because the males are terribly ugly, while the females are exceedingly beautiful. The King of the Asura often goes to war with Indra and the Deva, for the Asura have beautiful women but not good food, and Indra has good food but not beautiful women. There is a mutual jealousy and a desire to possess what the other side has. Every battle between the Asura and Indra sets the earth into tumult. For this reason, the aftermath of terrible, corpse-strewn battles are known as “asura grounds”. The King of the Asura is typically defeated in these battles. Once, after being roundly beaten, he had nowhere to hide and slipped into the hollows in a lotus root. 

The King of the Asura is irascible, stubborn and quick to jealousy. When the Shakyamuni Buddha speaks of the four domains of mindfulness, the Asura king is quick to speak of the five domains of mindfulness. When the Buddha speaks of the 37 qualities conducive to enlightenment, the Asura king is quick to say that there are 38 qualities. There are many examples of this in the Buddhist scriptures. The King of the Asura has great power and ability, but he is often deliberately contrary and his mindset is “the more chaos, the better”. He is also very suspicious. In the Great Treatise on the Perfection of Wisdom, it is written that the King of the Asura “was frequently suspicious of Buddha... when Buddha spoke of Five Clusters, he said there were six; when Buddha spoke of the Four Noble Truths, he said there were five.” The Five Clusters and Four Noble Truths are all basic concepts in Buddhism. But the Asura king feared that Buddha deliberately left out one of each because he sided with Indra.

The Garuda are large birds with many solemn colours on their wings. They have a large growth on their heads, which contains a lucky jewel. These birds have sorrowful cries and eat dragons. The old myths say that the general Yue Fei was the reincarnation of a “mythical, golden-winged bird”. The Garuda is that bird. The Garuda need to eat one dragon king and 500 smaller dragons each day. When they are about to die, they spit poison and are unable to eat. They fly up and down seven times before flying to the Jingganglun Mountains to die. During their lifetimes, Garuda accumulate a great deal of poison in their bodies from all the dragons they eat. When they die, this is released and they burn to death. All that is left of a dead Garuda is its heart, which has the clarity of green glass.

In Sanskrit, Kimnara means “the one who looks like man, but is not man”. Kimnara look like men but have a single horn on their heads, which is why they have been given this name. They enjoy music and dancing, and bring happiness to Indra.

Mahoraga are huge python deities. They have a man’s body and a snake’s head.

Demigods and Semi-Devils is set during the Northern Song Dynasty. It is a story of the Dali Kingdom in Yunnan.

The Dali Kingdom was a Buddhist kingdom, and its kings were Buddhist. They often set aside their station to take up monkhood - a very strange and unique phenomenon in our country’s history. Of the Dali kings, Shengde, Xiaode, Baoding, Xuanren, Zhenlian, Shenzong and others abdicated to become monks. The South King in The Legend of the Condor Heroes was a Dali king. Demigods and Semi-Devils takes place before the events in that book. This book takes place between the Yuanyou and Shaosheng eras, around 1094 AD.

The eight beings classified as demigods and semi-devils have their own characteristics and magical abilities. Although they are beings from outside our world, they experience the joys and pains of the mortal world. This novel does not contain such mythological beings, but merely uses these beings from Buddhist scriptures to represent certain characters. This is similar to how Sun Erniang in The Water Margin is known as the Female Yaksha, or Ou Peng as Golden Wings Brushing the Clouds.

* I couldn’t find a proper translation for this term.

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Water Margin, Sun Erniang, nicknamed "Female Yaksha" and her husband Zhang Qing, nicknamed "Gardener" 母夜叉孙二娘 与 菜园子张青 by Dai Dungbang #watermagin #chinesepainting #painting #artoninstagram #finearts #illustrationartist #husbandandwife #水浒传 #水浒 #figurepaintings #brothersforlife （在 Shanghai, China） https://www.instagram.com/p/CH95U-qnT6z/?igshid=1rtpbb3yv09z0

[writerkatsblog]

Happy Mother's Day to Daci Lien, Pan Shui, Wang Longnu, Gu Dasao, Sun Erniang, Xia Dandan, and best mom Sun Hai! And also Omi's robot mom I suppose.

They're all best moms!! Every last one of them loves their children and are respected for all they are and all they so.

Robo Crud can go suck expired oil slag tho

[sarcophagid]

yuanji notes:

i really hated the idea of making yuanji have a 100% awful childhood and hating her family. in the og water margin even though sun erniang and her husband are lowkey terrible people for the murders, they're a happy couple. the other characters just didn't really gaf about their morality for plot armour reasons and i wanted to carry that absurd positivity into the sun family. they just work 👍

yuanji is kind of (very) spoiled because they really wanted a child but couldn't conceive and she's a blessing and everything they ever wished for etc. etc. yuanji's biggest weakness is her paranoia, she consistently thought that she had been abandoned when they separated. (the idea that 'they wanted her but didn't need her')

it didn't matter where the meat came from and it didn't matter if the food was 'authentic'. the customers were paying for a fantasy in the first place.

i wanted to do cannibalism that was not too serious or intimate it was just awful irreverent and mass produced. the sun family doesn't actually eat people. its the people they sell to that eat people. and in a sense the people they sell to are buying a human product in the first place, in an almost touristy way.

yuanji's 'real' past life before her adoption involved some sort of medical education. when she was found she had just poisoned the crew of a cargo ship with tetrodotoxin a few days earlier before hiding in a barrel.

i was tossing around the idea that she was related to a doctor oc i had who also lived in the late 1800s. but this wasn't a serious plot thing just a detail for fun

in the initial stages the only two characters i had in mind were ripper and yuanji (this was back when it wasn't serious and i just wanted to do a one page action comic with unga bunga blood and violence). because cyanide is both a poison and a part of the prussian blue molecule i thought it would be fitting to make her outfit blue since they're involved in poison and painting respectively

i'll do a drawing of this later but the game had an animal theme

bane's obvious deer-hunter prey-predator reversal situation.

jack is a boar. this was the weakest one, but yuanji would refer to her families victims as pigs, given pigs potential proclivity for cannibalism despite their perceived domesticity paralleling the unwitting cannibalism of their customers.

yuanji is often compared to a wolf. both in the idiomatic term 'white eyed wolf' (ungrateful person, referring to her wondering if she should give up searching for her family), and as a 'wolf in sheeps clothing' (hiding her past as a thief and murderer during her stay at the manor).

andrew was a sheepdog. this was mostly a reference to his tumultuous dynamic with yuanji as a wolf in sheeps clothing, first seeing her as pure and innocent and later developing a scathing hatred when he finds out about her past. there was also the detail that despite him and yuanji both aiding morally dubious people, yuanji did it of free will and andrew did it out of necessity - paralleled by the domestic dog and the wild wolf.

[writerkatsblog]

"Erniang's first ever gift to Qing during a Qixi festival was a flower crown, because her original gift idea ended up not working out."

May I ask what the original gift idea was?

Cooking is more her speed than anything else, so she had wanted to give him some specially made buns with cute designs.

Unfortunately something went wrong with the meat and Fei, who she had given one to taste test, ended up getting a really bad case of food poisoning from it. So they were a complete wash. Leading to the flower crown.

Poor Fei spent that Qixi festival being nursed by Hai in between running to the bathroom while Erniang and Qing were having their tender moment.

[writerkatsblog]

I'm technically a day late but Happy Qixi festival! Does Shambhala have the Qixi festival? It's connected to the cowherd and weaver girl so I'd imagine yes?

If so, what would Fei/Hai do to celebrate? Something super cheesy and sweet? How about the other couples from Omi's family? Can we get some cute happy funny stories/headcanons from back when they were still, uh... alive and being cute and happy and funny?

Oh! I didn't even realize til you pointed it out, anon! Happy belated Qixi Festival! And yeah, I definitely think that they have their own version of the festival!

I think the festival is something celebrated village-wide. Basically a big old party celebration where newlyweds and longtime couples alike celebrated their love. Because of their unique version of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl story, I think they have some traditions unique to the village. One of which being sort of a couples walk. Two volunteers stand on either side of Mazu River, holding a rope between them. Then one of the couple will cross through the river to the other side, where their partner is waiting with a towel to dry them off. Sort of symbolic of the journey the Cowherd took every year to meet the Weaver Girl, and how the Weaver Girl took care to greet and thank her husband for making the journey to see her. Another common game done for fun in Shambhala is that married women will set out pieces of their embroidery work and see if their husbands can discern which ones their wives made. It's not an especially serious competition, and it's not uncommon for the wives to play jokes on their husbands by copying the embroidery styles of their friends to dupe them into picking the wrong ones on purpose just to razz them.

Pretty common in the village for people to give the women and girls of their families hair accessories and combs, or toys for the younger girls. For the men it's common for them to be given alcohol (for the adults) or toys (for the boys), though it's also not uncommon for some of the older end of the boys on the scale to be snuck a sip or two of the alcohol for the occasion. Unmarried couples will usually give each other black chicken feathers (natural or dyed) as gifts, representing magpie feathers.

Qiaoguo is a common treat. A lot of fish shapes, but birds are another common image for the treats because of the magpie part of the story. Lots of fresh fruits are shared on the occasion, a regular unofficial festival game ends up being a competition where people see how far they can spit the fruit seeds (Omi's great grandma Lien is the longest running unbeaten record holder in the village).

One year when they were teenagers, two of the rope holders were Fei's friends, and he concocted a plan to impress Hai by having them hold the rope taut so he could tightrope walk across the river. He got halfway across before he stumbled headfirst into the river, splashing Hai in the process. But instead of getting mad when he made his way sheepishly to shore, she just tackled him into the river and splashed at him playfully. That year the tradition turned into a water fight, but no one was particularly mad about it.

Back when they were younger, Boqin and Lien would end the night's festivities by slipping away so they could watch the stars together up on the mountain. Instead of the usual gifts, Lien would make him scarves and hats so he wouldn't be too cold when he went up in the colder months to stargaze. Boqin, who's a dab hand at whittling, would carve wooden combs and hair accessories for her that looked like snowflakes.

No matter how hard she tried to trick him, Zhenwu has never once failed to recognize which needlework was Shui's in that particular festival game.

The first time Xi and Dasao tested out the wheelchair they made for him in public was at one of the festivals. One of the wheels ended up cracking due to a miscalculation on its construction, but they still had a good time together, with Dasao helping him around by carrying him. And they were right back to working on it again the next day to make sure that didn't repeat itself.

Shancai and Longnu kept the last gifts Dandan and Niu ever gave each other during the Qixi festival. They made sure to put them onto their shrine every year so the two can join them in spirit.

Erniang's first ever gift to Qing during a Qixi festival was a flower crown, because her original gift idea ended up not working out. It ended up being a tradition between them in the end, with him picking her a bouquet of flower and her making a crown to give him when he gave her the bouquet.

[writerkatsblog]

🌹- What's this oc's biggest fear

Zhang Qing

Anything happening to Erniang and their unborn child.

Also spiders. All the legs freak him out.