#the other notable one that made me cackle being “don't call me yu-gongzi... call me gong ziyu” | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

zishuge · 1 year ago

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hi! what was gong zishang's pun regarding yue gongzi? is it the bit about the matchmaking god? i watched with english subtitles so subtleties are lost in translation. Thanks in advance!

Yes! The matchmaking god thing. In Chinese mythology the god of matchmaking and love is called 月老 (Yue Lao) - with the characters that mean "Moon" (月 Yue) and "Old" (老 Lao) because he's said to be an old man who lives on the moon.

So when 月公子 (Yue-gongzi) was first introduced I think Gong Zishang first calls him "Yue-gege" (Older Brother Yue) and he says something like "It's possible that I'm much older than your older brother"

Then she says "月公子 (Yue-gongzi) looks even younger than Jin Fan... how could you be old (老 lao)? If you keep insisting that you're old, then I'll have to call you 月老 (Yue Lao)"

It's just... such a dumb pun on his name and also a fantastically stupid pickup line and it made me laugh so much.

#asks #tokumusume #i hope i explained that in a coherent way #my journey to you had a few of these dumb name puns and i loved every single one #the other notable one that made me cackle being “don't call me yu-gongzi... call me gong ziyu”#mild spoilers in the following tags #also interestingly when he said Yue as in the romantic moon #he said Yue as in “风花雪月” (Feng Hua Xue Yue) which is a saying that means romance or a love affair - literally “Wind Flower Snow Moon”#and of course as we find out later those are the families of the back hill #it's a nice foreshadowing that there's a fourth one missing bc you only ever meet 花 Hua (flower) 雪 Xue (snow) and 月 Yue (moon)#so the whole time you're kinda like wait shouldn't there be a 风 Feng (wind)? when do we meet him?#which is also sort of a pun because the “feng” 锋 in Wufeng 无锋 is a homonym for 风 so it could also be read as 无风 or “without wind”#is that why a-yun learned the feng family secret martial arts at wufeng??? idk i don't think that was ever fully explained #this drama played with language a LOT and i loved it #my journey to you

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