#南方

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【Part 3】 ◠‿◠ Women shopping ... terrible XD hahaha

「廣西桂林好聚落」: "若生靜巷 coffee shop" & "一顆橄欖"專賣店

若生靜巷咖啡 (@umarekawatta.coffee)地址：高雄市前鎮區桂林街58巷18號 時間：10:00~18:00、週一、週四公休 電話：(07)334-5685

一顆橄欖 UNE OLIVE EN PROVENCE (一顆橄欖好生活Uneolivetw) 地址：高雄市前鎮區桂林街58巷10號 時間：週二至週日9:00~17:00 電話：(07)331-6800

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Hizuru Minakata | Summer Time Rendering

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[Hanfu・漢服]Chinese Tang Dynasty Hanfu Photoshoots

我曾在春夜中梦到过一尾锦鲤

I once dreamed of a koi on a spring night

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👗Hanfu：@子颂东方美学游园惊梦

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方南町の「中華蕎麦 蘭鋳」で味玉そば1,100円の大盛り（＋100円）、つまみ300円とエビス中瓶500円。個人的に世界一好きな中華そばだが、立ち退きにより2024年9月20日に閉店。またどこかで営業してくれることを願っている。

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[xiakeponz]

my collection of dragons (imagery of dragons as depicted on artefacts exhibited at the forbidden palace museum and the chinese archaeological museum in beijing, china)

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THE WILD GOOSE LAKE | 南方车站的聚会, 2019

Diao Yinan

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The Wild Goose Lake (Dir. Diao Yinan, 2019)

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Hizuru Minakata | Summer Time Rendering

[jayswing101]

Hi hello I am currently rewatching Guardian and I think I've had a revelation. Has someone else probably figured this out before? Almost definitely. But I have connected the dots and am excited so I'm writing about it anyways. Spoilers for basically the whole drama ahead

So. Episode 5, there's the resolution of Wu Tianen and Wu Xiaojun's case, and Heipaoshi brings them to Dixing. After Shen Wei vanishes the guards who were sent to kill Wu Tianen and Wu Xiaojun, he asks Wu Tianen what happened to the team he sent up to search for the Hallows right? Wu Tianen says they were attacked by youchu, and he was knocked unconscious. When he woke up, everyone else was dead.

Except they weren't. Shen Wei says that the captain of the mission survived, only to later be shot and killed before Shen Wei can meet with him. Shen Wei then says "pity it's another dead end," and Wu Tianen drops a bombshell we don't even realise is a bombshell. He says the captain's wife was pregnant at the time of their failed mission.

The captain may have living descendants.

The next scene? Zhou Weiwei getting out of bed and disappearing out of her bathroom. Which implies that mirror!Zhou Weiwei is that captain's child. And, at the end of episode 6, Shen Wei and mirror!Zhou Weiwei talk and it's confirmed - the captain of the Hallows retrieval mission was her father.

But who was he? Why isn't he given a name? Just "my competent subordinate," or "the mission captain." Why aren't we told his name?

Because It's Zhang Shi.

His power is similar to mirror!Zhou Weiwei's, where they can both "be" someone else. He can possess people and take over their bodies that way, she can take on the appearance of anyone who offers her a face through the mirror. They're connected powers in a way, and we know from Shen Wei and Ye Zun that family members sometimes have similar powers to each other (Shen Wei's learning from observing vs Ye Zun's taking through absorbing/devouring) — so it makes sense.

And then there's also what Shen Wei tells Wu Tianen, that the captain was shot and killed. Except it's kinda implied that regular bullets don't work on Dixingren, that only dark energy bullets can hurt them. Who is the only person we know of, other than Zhao Yunlan, who has used the dark energy gun? Zhao Xinci. Who killed Zhang Shi's previous host body? Zhao Xinci.

As we find out in episode 31, Zhao Xinci shot and killed Zhang Shi's host with the dark energy gun. That's how he ends up becoming Zhang Shi's current host.

Zhang Shi is also one of like two Dixingren we see Zhao Xinci actually shoot in the drama too, which also adds to the likelihood of Zhang Shi being the captain of Wu Tianen's mission and mirror!Zhou Weiwei's father.

The only missing piece is connecting Zhang Shi to that mission to retrieve the Hallows. Heipaoshi tells mirror!Zhou Weiwei that her father was his subordinate, and that he had secret information that he never had a chance to report. Hearing that, mirror!Zhou Weiwei remembers her father mumbling: "山河水镇天南一方。"

The subtitles on YouTube (before we lost those videos rip) never translated that line, and I couldn't understand any of the words last time I watched Guardian, so I never caught it before. But I'm like 85% sure that what mirror!Zhou Weiwei says roughly translates to: "The mountains and rivers of the South are protected."

But what does that even mean???

Well. In the novel, the four Holy Tools are used to seal the four pillars that hold up the sky. The Longevity Dial for the East, the Ink Brush of Virtue for the West, the Awl of Mountains and Rivers for the North.

And the Lantern of the Guardian for the South.

That Guardian Lantern is that final piece, the thing that makes everything click.

Hidden at the SID for so long, no one even knows it's there. I think Zhang Shi was successful in finding one of the Hallows when Shen Wei sent that team to Haixing ~20 years pre-canon. I think he found the Guardian Lantern, and kept it hidden even from Zhao Xinci for all those years, hid it inside a box at the SID where no one would think to look into it, but where it would be safe from anyone else that was also looking for the Hallows.

And he succeeded in keeping the Guardian Lantern safe. No one knew where it was until episode 34, when Ye Zun accidentally activates the Hallows and the wormhole to Ye Olde Haixing sends Zhao Yunlan on an expected holiday.

In conclusion: Zhang Shi was the captain of the mission to find the Hallows with Wu Tianen, and mirror!Zhou Weiwei's father. Contrary to Wu Tianen's beliefs, Zhang Shi wasn't killed by youchu, he survived the mission and went on to find the Guardian Lantern, which he kept hidden somewhere safe until Zhao Xinci killed him. At that point, to continue protecting the lantern, he hid it at the SID, where it was overlooked and kept safe for years, until Ye Zun sets off the Hallows and Zhao Yunlan gets yeeted through time.

And the only way any of it makes sense is if you have the novel context to know that each one of the Hallows is tied to a cardinal point

[shihlun]

Ken Akimoto

- Nanking 戦線後方記録映画 南京

1938

[shirasuphoto]

作品入賞のお知らせ

作品入賞

この度、日本民営鉄道協会主催の「地方民鉄フォトコンテスト」で、湘南モノレールの写真がみんてつ賞に選ばれました。

受賞出来て光栄です、ありがとうございます。