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kdram-chjh · 2 years

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Cdrama: Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty (2022)

Gifs of Intro of cdrama “Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty”

【FULL】高官溺亡黑猫现世天价红茶为何有血腥味？ | 唐朝诡事录 EP01 Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty | 杨旭文杨志刚 | 古代悬疑剧 | 爱奇艺华语剧场

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5V-xnWMBp4

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alleswatmijblijmaakt · 2 years

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Classical Musicians React: Ateez 'Guerilla'

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Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty

Episode 01

Okay, dat was veel in 1 keer. En wat is het met de zwarte thee. Waarom die heftige reactie van Lu Lingfeng als hij hoort dat die thee gekocht kan worden in zijn stad???

Het was wel aardig, maar niet iets waarvan ik zeg: daar wil ik snel meer van zien.

We gaan het zien.

Reunion: the Sound of the Providence

Episode 27

Pot Jan dikke me. Niet Wang Meng ook nog. Was Jia Kezi niet genoeg?

De mol zette de aanval in en nu weet het support systeem van Wu Xie wie het is. Bai Haotian zette een slimme zet, wat ik graag zag en de confrontatie zal niet lang op zich laten wachten lijkt me. Dat mag ook wel, want er zijn nog maar 4 episodes te gaan en dan is de serie klaar 😞

About Youth

Episode 05

Guang's ouders halen het bloed onder mn nagels vandaan. Verschrikkelijk. Streng zijn is 1 ding, maar dit is meer dan dat. Hij wordt duidelijk niet als zijn eigen persoon gezien en dat is niet oké.

Guang had een les gemist, omdat hij met Qizhang was gaan eten en zijn ouders hadden een gesprek met zijn tutor. De vrouw kon merken dat de ouders niet blij waren, dus zei ze dat het geen probleem was. Ze vertelde hen dat zijn cijfers nog goed waren, en dat hij weliswaar wat meer afgeleid was, maar dat hij ook levendiger en blijer uitzag. De reactie van zijn moeder toen de vrouw weg was? 'Ik zei toch dat hij zich raar gedroeg?' 😑🤨 das niet de reactie die je moet hebben. Afgeleid? Okay, iets begrijpelijker. Maar er wordt ook in dezelfde zin levendiger en blijer genoemd..... Teruggetrokken en down/niet blij is niet een toestand die je kind moet hebben!!!!

Ray en Jian hebben hun eerste zoen en eerlijk gezegd was het best wel in karakter dat zij van de twee couples de eerste zouden zijn. Al bracht dat natuurlijk wat complicaties met zich mee. 1 was er duidelijk niet helemaal klaar voor.

#reacttothek #Youtube #strange tales of tang dynasty #reunion: the sound of the providence #about youth #strange legend of tang dynasty #dutch

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ellsieee · 2 months

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I started White Cat Legend with low expectations and unfortunately it did not exceed those expectations in the end. I did finish it though, so it wasn't that bad, just nothing to write home about.

If there's one thing that guzhuang dramas do well, it's usually the angsty childhood friends turned enemies because of some misunderstanding trope. I will give props to the Li Bing/Qiu Qingzhi plot line. It was angsty, touching, and kept me guessing. I just wish it got more screentime.

Ouch. I felt for Li Bing here. He's too far away to see Qiu Qingzhi's face, otherwise he would know QQZ was shook up. 😢

When LB addressed QQZ as General Qiu, that was cold. QQZ was about to cry knowing LB was misunderstanding him so badly. You could see the pain in his face. He wanted to explain everything, but he knew he couldn't in order to protect LB.

Even after LB told him they aren't friends, QQZ didn't hesitate to save LB because QQZ still cherishes their friendship. I was a a bit pissed we didn't get to see LB visit QQZ while he was recovering. The man saved his life! It's the least he could do. 😑

Nooo! Poor QQZ. They just had to go the tragic route with this trope didn't they?

QQZ is about to die and all he wants to know is if they're still besties. 😭😭😭 QQZ was always looking out for LB. 😭 I would have translated this as "Of course. Of course we are." I think sure sounds a bit flippant for the situation. 😅

The fucking montage of their happy times together. 😭 They just have to break out hearts.

LB missing QQZ hours. This series is a comedy for the most part, but damn they really hurt me with the LB/QQZ story line.

#ngl i shipped them a little #i can't help myself #white cat legend #watching this series just made me miss strange tales of tang dynasty #when the heck is season 2 coming out?#i feel like I've been waiting forever #cdrama

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blackmoonlightexpress · 1 month

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Follow Your Heart has just received its airing license, likely to air Mid May

Follow Your Heart received its airing license yesterday. It'll most likely air mid May on iQiyi, going head to head against Joy of Life 2 on Tencent.

Even though they have been stingy on promotional materials, here's a few reasons to be excited about the upcoming drama (beyond being a Luo Yunxi costume drama of course):

A Studio Known for Dark Horse

FYH is produced by the iQiyi studio behind Strange Tales Of Tang Dynasty (唐朝诡事录), New Life Begins (卿卿日常), and Mysterious Lotus Casebook (莲花楼). iQiyi dramas generally have better quality control when it comes to production quality, and this studio (奇光) in particular is known for producing a disproportionate share of dark horses.

Song Yi

It stars Song Yi as the female lead, who's been the low key female lead of 2 of iQiyi's top 5 dramas ever. She's seen as a really solid actress with a strong track record with viewers.

iQiyi's Favorite Genre, with a Twist

It's suppose to be a light romantic comedy with a sprinkle of crime investigation and court politics, a genre that has done well for iQiyi where they have a large built-in audience base.

But there's a twist to keep things fresh. The male lead suffers from face blindness whereas the female lead has a mysterious disease that changes her appearance, and only the male lead can recognize her. This premise is actually inspired by a Kdrama (from which they've obtained the rights to adapt)

Cameo Appearances

Because of this, you can expect cameo appearances from a large cast of actors (some will be playing different versions of the female lead), including TVB veteran Yuen King Dan, Wang Yifei (Siying), and Sandrine Pinna (Legend of the Demon Cat).

Love is Sweet Director

FYH also reunites Luo Yunxi with Love is Sweet director Yu Zhongzhong for the third time. He managed to make Love is Sweet, a pretty unremarkable screenplay, interesting to watch. And he's also good at pushing Luo Yunxi as an actor (he's the one who told him "you should go home if you cannot act" which haunted him ever since.)

Personally, I think it's better to keep expectations low. Follow Your Heart is not based on a novel or any proven IP, so no one knows how good the story will be. While it is an S class production, it doesn't have the same level of investment or anticipation as TTEOTM. Finally, Luo Yunxi plays a more grounded character, with plain costumes and hair tied up, which looks... different.

BUT I'm definitely looking forward to watching it and keeping my fingers crossed that it'll be good!

#luo yunxi #till the end of the moon #cdrama #tantai jin #tteotm #love is sweet #follow your heart #yanxin ji

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ryin-silverfish · 3 months

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Chapter 27-28: Spooky Scary Skellington

(Finally getting back to the book club after a few busy months...)

Chapter 27:

-The White Bone Spirit is one of the most iconic demoness of JTTW, and, as JTTW Research's post on her origin suggests, is likely inspired by the White Tiger Spirit + the giant skeleton nearby in 大唐三藏取经诗话.

-However, when Tripitaka asked about the origin of said giant skeleton at the bottom of a fiery pit, the Monkey Pilgrim gave the strange answer that "This is the place where the Heir Apparent, Ming Huang, changed his bones."(此是明皇太子换骨之处)

-What does that even mean?

-Well, at first, I thought it was just referring to "Corpse Release"(尸解), where Daoists attain immortality by leaving behind a fake corpse——usually a transformed object such as cane, clothes or shoes——to literally trick death.

-Then I finally got to read "Birth of JTTW"(西游记的诞生) by Cai Tieying, in which he traces the "changing of bones" to a legend in the Song dynasty record, 默记.

-Summary: an assassin was sent to kill Tang Minghuang (after he basically abdicated due to the An Shi Rebellion), hit him with a hammer in his sleep, and the hammer just bounced off his head with a clang.

-Minghuang woke up and was like "Yep, I've been expecting this"; ever since he had consumed jade and a golden elixir of immortality under the advice of the famous Daoist Ye Fashan, his bones were transformed into literal jade.

-So if the assassin wanted to kill him for good, he gotta split open Minghuang's skull and take out the elixir——an advice the assassin promptly followed.

-That peculiar little trivia aside, there is a theory about SWK's ability to see through demonic disguises in the Chinese JTTW booksphere, which might explain why Tripitaka never seems to trust him on that regard.

-Unlike in TV adaptations, the "Fiery Eyes and Golden Vision" doesn't work like an X-Ray; rather, it's more like an infrared thermal camera.

-This means SWK can't literally see through a demon or immortal's disguise and perceive their true form, just the general "aura" around them in the form of demonic or auspicious Qi.

-Thus, when this aura is hidden by ambience Qi, altered to fit one's general appearance or less on-the-nose(as later chapters would show), SWK's magical vision also takes a dive in accuracy.

-Furthermore, prior to WBS, none of the demons they encountered had used a human disguise in order to capture Tripitaka.

-So even if SWK said "Hey master, I can totally see through demonic disguises" after he killed the demoness(which he didn't), without precedents, it's gonna sound like he pulled the ability right out of his ass, as a shoddy excuse to justify murdering humans——something Tripitaka did witness before.

Chapter 28:

-Fun fact: during the Qing dynasty, there's a big-budget opera adaptation of JTTW called 升平宝筏, exclusively performed in the royal palace. In this version, the White Bone Spirit and Yellow-robed Demon are actually sworn siblings!

-After Yellow-robed Demon kidnapped the princess, she was the one who helped talk her into accepting the marriage. So when she was killed by SWK, Yellow-robed Demon was furious, and, as revenge, kidnapped Tripitaka + turned him into a tiger later.

-Combining different arcs, much like adding unnecessary romantic subplots, is actually quite common in Qing opera adaptations of JTTW. This change, however, makes more sense than the others.

-First, it explains the "family" that WBS offhandedly mentioned, secondly, the two arcs are already sequential, so making the two demons related doesn't seem like that far of a stretch.

-The burning of FFM is heartwenchingly described, and arguably where most villainous characterizations of Erlang come from. However, hear me out——I don't think he actually did it.

-At the end of Chapter 6, after Erlang caught SWK, his brothers was like "Enough talk, let's take him to the celestial realm." To which Erlang replied that sorry, they were not recognized as part of the celestial bureaucracy and literally not allowed to meet the Jade Emperor.

"But don't worry, I'll go report to the Jade Emperor together with the devarajas, you six stay behind on FFM to do a thorough search of the mountain(搜山). Once you are done, return to Guankou, and right after I get the rewards, I'm heading straight back to share it with y'all."

-Indeed, in the next chapter, after the Jade Emperor gave him a lot of gifts, he said his thanks and returned to Guanjiangkou, where his temple was at.

-My theory is, Erlang did not lead the burning personally, or give a direct order to——he was still in the Celestial Realm, making reports while FFM burned.

-And his six sworn brothers, being hunters and martial men, interpreted "search the mountain" rather liberally in his absence and left out the details once he returned with their reward.

-Just as usual, another job well done, let's get the victory party started.

-Of course, whether Erlang was personally there, leading the burning, makes little difference to the monkeys of FFM; it wasn't him, but he sure as hell wasn't NOT involved either.

@journeythroughjourneytothewest

#xiyouji #journey to the west #jttw book club #jttw reading group #lady bone demon #sun wukong #erlang shen

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inksmearedpages · 3 months

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The Radiant Dragon of Celebration

Happy Lunar New Year!

In celebration of The Year of the Dragon, I’m going to tell you the story of one of my oldest OC’s. He was originally made for a Rise of the Guardians fic in 2012, but his back story and personality was rather stereotypical and shallow back then. I nearly forgot about him for a while, until I started getting into LEGO Monkie Kid in 2020. As he was a dragon of Chinese descent, he eventually resurfaced in my memory and I decided to revamp his entire character. He’s still primarily a Rise of the Guardians OC, but I would be able to add him into any LMK fic with very few changes needed.

So without further ado, this is the legend of Xin Zhiqiang, his discovery that would change the world, and his ascension into Ao Huang, the Radiant Dragon of Celebration.

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Our story begins in a small, rural village in the mountains during the late Tang Dynasty era (~800 - ~870 AD). Here, a boy is born to a pair of farmers. His life is simple yet happy, growing up loved and cared for by his parents and the other villagers. Tragically however, he looses both parents at a young age. He is taken in by a good friend of his parents, the local apothecary.

This man not only provides medicine for the village, but is actually a well studied alchemist and aspiring magician. He teaches Zhiqiang everything he knows, and Zhiqiang takes to the teachings like a duck to water. Curious, studious, and never one to let failures keep him down, Zhiqiang is a dutiful apprentice who’s efforts help the village thrive.

Zhiqiang soon surpasses his master’s skill, who in his old age retires. On top of keeping the village healthy, Zhiqiang begins to experiment with his alchemy and magic. During his tests, he accidentally creates a powder that reacts violently when exposed to fire. While not what he was trying to create, Zhiqiang is intrigued and replicates the powder to experiment further. He creates many different containment devices and ways for the powder to explode.

It has the potential for destruction, but Zhiqiang is more compelled by the potential spectacle. The hissing and fizzing as trail of the powder burns. The bright sparks and flames that are given off. The loud yet satisfying burst that he can feel in his bones when a packet of the powder is ignited. He begins to work on this powder in his spare time with a fervor, trying many combinations over a few years.

He eventually unveils his masterpieces to the village during one festival. Long sticks with bits of the powder on the end that fizz and spark as they’re waved around. Small bits of condensed powder wrapped in rice paper that snap and crackle when thrown against stone. But his greatest accompaniments were the tubes of bamboo that he would ignite and launch over the lake. They produced bright blasts of sparks and fire that lit up the night sky.

The villagers were amazed and awed by Zhiqiang’s inventions and insisted they be used for every festival or celebration. Pleased that his discovery was well received, he agreed, and continued to research and experiment with what he had named fire powder. Some villagers suggested he go traveling, showing his “fireworks” to the world and selling them to become rich. Zhiqiang declined, happy with his experimentation in the village he grew up in and loved.

His fireworks grew more complex and spectacular over the next few years and he began experimenting with using magic in their creation. Colors and shapes and even simple sounds not normally possible with alchemy alone began to appear much to the delight of the villagers. He even developed the ability to create the signature sparks and blasts with his magic alone. His master joked that he worked with the fire powder so much it now ran in his veins.

At some time in his mid twenties, the village seems to be struck by a strange ailment. It wasn’t a physical illness, but people would just… stop caring. They became listless, uninterested with anything beyond the basic necessities of staying alive. Simply surviving, but no longer truly living.

Alarmed by this malady, Zhiqiang does his absolute best to counter it. It seemed to affect the adults first, so he moved the children up the mountain to his workshop and home so they would not catch whatever this disease was. None of his medicines or magics seem to do anything to alleviate the symptoms. Work to provide food was still being done, so their village was not in danger of starving, but its spark of life was gone.

Zhiqiang refuses to give up and keeps trying. A few weeks go by, and then a month. He begins to grow anxious because while he has taken every precaution, he worries that he will eventually succumb to the sickness as well. The children manage to keep him in high spirits as they live with him. They manage to convince him to help them throw a festival in the hopes that maybe that will cheer up their parents.

He goes along with it, helping prepare food and decorations. He delivers them to the adults who give halfhearted thanks. He gets everyone afflicted to meet by the lake and with the assistance of the children, puts on a spectacular fireworks show.

To his shock, this seems to temporarily rouse the adults back to their old selves. They describe the feeling of wading through thick water, all their senses dulled. Nothing seemed to matter until the bursts of light and color and sound reawakened them. However, the following morning, they seem to slip back into their subdued state.

More determined than ever now, Zhiqiang sets to work. He installs magical stalls around the village that would constantly give off sparks. Every night he put on a fireworks show. Children and adults alike would carry around bundles of the long “sparklers” and light them if they noticed someone seeming to slip back into their listlessness. As his supply of fire powder began to deplete, Zhiqiang began relying more and more on his magic to create the fireworks, slowly exhausting him as he continued to search for a permanent cure.

Two weeks after discovering that his fireworks warded off the illness, a stranger who hid their features under a heavy cloak arrived. They walked through the village and wherever they passed, the sparklers and stalls would be snuffed out. The children, noticing this strange person and seeing their parents immediately fall back into lethargy, ran up the mountain to inform Zhiqiang.

Zhiqiang tells the children to remain in his home and goes to confront this intruder. He meets them halfway down the trail and demands who they are. The stranger simply begins to talk about the illness. How it has spread to every corner of China, and is rumored to have even seeped into the Heavens. How none have seemed to escape its grasp. Except here. Here where strange sticks give off sparks of fire and light.

Zhiqiang again demands for this person to reveal their identity. The person chuckles and remarks how curious it is that Zhiqiang hasn’t fallen ill himself. Usually its the children who take the longest to succumb. But succumb they do. They all do. They would make sure of it to ensure his ascension.

Alarmed at this, Zhiqiang asks if this person is responsible for the sickness. The stranger ignores him a third time and says how troublesome these strange fire sticks are. How he’ll need to get rid of them if he wishes to rule over the Heavens and Earth. How to ensure that they do not spread beyond this village, everyone here must die.

Zhiqiang, realizing this person is a threat, instinctively launches a magical firework at them. They manage to barely dodge, but their cloak catches fire. The person tosses it aside, revealing a demon with toad-like features. They laugh, realizing Zhiqiang is the one responsible for countering his Idle Mist. They’ll have to kill him first.

They fight, Zhiqiang attacking with his fireworks and the Idle Mist Demon spewing out clouds of fog to conceal his location. Zhiqiang, still exhausted and untrained in combat, is forced to give ground to the Idle Mist Demon. He retreats up the mountain, heading for his storage shed where he keeps a stock of fireworks that he hopes to use to change they tide of the battle.

Unfortunately, the Idle Mist Demon manages to catch him off guard as he’s preparing a large firework. He launched into his shed, where it immediately catches fire from him unfinished firework. Time seems to stop as Zhiqiang realizes he’s about to die. The amount of fireworks that have just been lit going off all at once will create a blast he could not survive. He’s failed.

Light from the full moon seems to pour in from the damaged wall and roof. A voice speaks to him.

What are you fighting for?

Zhiqiang immediately thinks of the children he told to stay in his home to keep them safe. Of the other villagers that are family to him. How the Idle Mist Demon would kill them just for a chance at ruling everything. How if they do win, life would be over. There would still be people left living, but the things that made life worthwhile would be gone forever.

He could not allow any of that to happen.

I can help you. But you will be forever changed from your fellow man. You would be able to walk amongst them for some years yet, but eventually you would have to live apart. Rarely seen or heard except by those who believe. Would you willingly give up your humanity and your place amongst them in order to save them?

Filled with new resolve, Zhiqiang unhesitatingly answers yes.

The moonlight grows impossibly bright and fills him just as the shed explodes. The Idle Mist Demon laughs over his triumph, when a enormous pillar of sparks and fire bursts from the wreckage of the shed. It flies through the air before solidifying into a dragon.

He had bright crimson scales, a mane of fiery orange, glittering black horns and claws to match his fire powder, whiskers that were lit at the ends like his sparklers, and glowing eyes that burst between every color imaginable.

Zhiqang looks down at the now terrified demon and roars. He has newfound control over his fireworks now and give the Idle Mist Demon no quarter. The Idle Mist Demon does not go down easily, but Zhiqiang manages to grab them in his claws and flings them into the air. He blasts them with a powerful firework from his mouth, launching them further upwards and ending them once and for all in a massive blast of rainbow flame.

His foe defeated, Zhiqiang surveys the land and sees what was hidden from his mortal eyes before. A thick mist covered everything, with more being spewed from horse-sized toads. He blasts one with a fireworks and it burns away swiftly. Zhiqang, now with a way to end the sickness apparently affecting all of China, goes first to his house to let the children know it is safe.

The children, awed by his new dragon form beg to go with him. They insist he’ll need their help finding all the toads in the nooks and cranny’s of the big cities. He gives in, and together they fly around the country, destroying any of the Idle Mist Demon’s toads they come across and dissipating the mist. A messenger of heaven approaches them and begs for some of his fireworks so they could free the Heavens from the mist as well.

It takes them nearly three days to find and destroy all of the toads and clear the mist. Zhiqiang flies them home to their village once their task is done. Exhausted, he reverts to a human form, and passes out.

When he awakes a few days later, he is met with a huge celebration from the villagers and a procession of messengers from various nobles. They wish to have him come to their cities so he may be honored and that their alchemists can learn of his incredible invention that cured them all of the idle sickness. He politely declines but says that he would happily teach anyone who made the journey to the village instead.

So many come to the village to learn, that a college is built nearby and the village grows into a bustling town known for its alchemists.

Zhiqiang teaches at the college for many years, taking on many apprentices who would go on to invent incredible things. Over time, it becomes apparent that Zhiqang does not seem to be aging. As the years pass and the people he knew as a human grew and aged and died, Zhiqiang began to think more and more of the words of the moon. It was when a new group of students walked through him, neither seeing or hearing him, that Zhiqang knew that his time among the humans were over.

Saying goodbye to those few who could still see him, he traveled to the top of the mountain to look down at his home for one last time. When the sun set, he gave one last fireworks display in tribute. As the last firework faded, he was approached by a person claiming to be a dragon like him. They explained that they’ve been keeping an eye on him, waiting for the right time to take him back to his master who wished to invite Zhiqiang into his court.

When Zhiqiang asks who this master is, he’s shocked to hear it is Ao Qin, the Dragon King of the South. He accepts the offer and follows the messenger to the Southern Dragon Palace. There he meets Ao Qin, who explains that Zhiqiang is the last living descendant of his first born son. He had fallen in love with a human woman and renounced his immortality to be with her. Ao Qin had been keeping an eye on their children and was pleased that Zhiqiang managed to awaken his dragon ancestry.

Ao Qin informally adopts Zhiqiang, renaming him Ao Huang in honor of his invention and his deed in saving all of China. Huang is taught the politics and customs of the Dragon Courts. He is also given his own domain withing a mountaintop valley rich with the materials to create his fireworks that just so happens to be close by to his human town. He is even put in charge of a fireworks show during every Solstice and Equinox council the four dragon courts have every year.

Huang grows into his new role with ease. Over time, he meets and befriends certain individuals. The sole survivor of the Sisters of Flight. A man made of golden sand. A loud and boisterous adventurer. A being that looks like a giant rabbit, but has an air of ancientness around him. He eventually meets a young Winter spirit as well.

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How he meets each Guardian and what occurs after I will leave out for now as they are relevant to a potential fic I may write with this character.

Unfortunately, while I have his back story all figured out, his personality is still a bit nebulous at the moment. I know he enjoys marbles and marble runs. He even creates little marble with perpetually exploding fireworks trapped within them to give to his close friends. But beyond that, Xin Zhiqiang/Ao Huang is still very much a work in progress.

Still! He’s come a long way from just being a modernized repeat of Jack’s back story.

I hope you enjoyed this little look into my oldest character! Until next time!

-Ink

#Ink Writes #The Radiant Dragon of Celebration #Rise of the Guardians #RotG #LEGO Monkie Kid #LMK #Xin Zhiqiang #Ao Huang #Fanfiction #Lunar New Year #Year of the Dragon

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the-monkey-ruler · 8 months

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New Journey to the West (1971)布袋戲新西遊記

Director: Huang Junxiong

Country/Region of Manufacture: Taiwan, China

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Number of Seasons: 1

Episodes: 20 Single Episode length: 50 minutes

Type: Retelling

Summary:

In 1962, Taiwan's first TV station "Taiwan Television Company" started broadcasting. On November 8 of the same year, Li Tianlu "Yi Wanran" was invited to perform the traditional puppet show "Three Kingdoms" with a Hokkien pronunciation on TV. This was the first time that Taiwan TV broadcast a puppet show. , but the ratings were not high, and it was canceled after only 25 episodes (each episode was 50 minutes). The person who really made the puppet show shine on the TV screen was Huang Junxiong.

Huang Junxiong's first puppet show on Taiwan TV was "Yunzhou Da Ruxia", which was broadcast on March 2, 1970, with a total of 114 episodes. In addition, Huang Junxiong also performed puppet plays such as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "New Journey to the West", "The Legend of Three Heroes of Liuhe", "The Great Confucian Hero", "New Legend of Jigong" (Mandarin dubbing), "The Legend of the Five Tigers of the Tang Dynasty", etc. The last one "The Legend of the Four Heroes of Yunzhou" ran from February 13 to June 16, 1974. At this point, Huang Junxiong's puppet show performance on Taiwan TV has temporarily come to an end, with a total of 8 performances and a total of 961 episodes, including 440 episodes of the Shi Yanwen series and Liuhe series 346 episodes.

At this time, because some plots of the puppet show were denounced as strange and confusing, and the pronunciation of the Hokkien language conflicted with the government's Mandarin policy, the Information Bureau ordered the complete suspension of the TV puppet show in 1974, and it was not until 1982 that the ban was conditionally lifted; At that time, the TV station and the Information Bureau agreed that puppet shows could be broadcast during the noon period of TV programs, but the three TV stations had to rotate the first Mandarin and the second Hokkien drama during this period.

The puppet show could not be broadcast on the two TV stations at the same time, so the three TV stations only It can broadcast puppet shows in turn, that is, each TV station can broadcast puppet shows for four months a year, and each puppet show can have a maximum of 30 episodes. Huang Junxiong's first puppet show after his comeback was the Taiwanese puppet show "Five Tiger Generals of the Tang Dynasty" broadcast on Taiwan TV. It started broadcasting at noon on June 14, 1982, with each episode lasting 30 minutes, a total of 30 episodes. Later, it was broadcast by "Five Tiger Generals of the Tang Dynasty". "The Legend of Three Heroes of Liuhe" took over; during this period, Huang Junxiong's Hokkien puppet show on Taiwan TV lasted until May 13, 1988. In the past 6 years, there were a total of 23 performances and a total of 668 episodes.

In addition, Huang Junxiong also performed two other Mandarin puppet shows on Taiwan TV: "The Monkey King" and "Burning the Red Lotus Temple"; at the same time, he also performed "Two Heroes of Heaven" on China Television with his sons Huang Qianghua and Huang Wenze. , "Feng Sword Spring and Autumn" and "The Lion Ranger" and other Hokkien puppet shows. In the 1990s, the people who led the puppet show on television were none other than Huang Qianghua and Huang Wenze's Pili puppet show!

The first Mandarin puppet show in the history of Taiwanese television, "Monkey King, the Monkey King" was produced by Huang Junxiong. It was broadcast on Taiwan TV from April 16, 1983 to October 8 of the same year, with each episode lasting 30 minutes, for a total of 25 episodes. The theme song "Sun Wukong" is a cover of "My Lady and I" (Girl and Me) sung by Japanese male singer Yukio Hashi in 1965. In fact, this song had already been rewritten by Huang Junxiong in 1971 and used as a Taiwan TV program. The theme song of the Hokkien puppet show "New Journey to the West", the singer is Li Zhuhui.

Source: https://bearpost.org/?p=47054

Link Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXXf-pDYDy8&t=89s

#New Journey to the West #布袋戲新西遊記 #新西遊記 #jttw media #jttw television #television #lost media #puppets #animation #retelling #sun wukong #tang sanzang #rewrite

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whitecatlegend · 1 year

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White Cat Legend s2e02 english subtitles

Here is the file! Also, I found some mistakes in ep1 + got my hands on slightly better video, so hopefully I will update both those files soon (I sincerely hope I will, at least. I have so much stuff to do, you have no idea. I need fewer hobbies, seriously)

Now, remember when I said this episode will probably not take too long to translate and sub? Well, I lied - or rather was seriously mistaken. Buckle up, here comes the rabbit hole.

This fucking frame. This single frame gave me so much grief...

If you've been following my manhua translations, you might remember that I mentioned seal script - an ancient form of writing that is mostly only used on signs and such even by Tang dynasty. It's a bit tricky to translate, but usually not impossible once you figure out the method. I happily tried to apply the method here and... failed. All dictionaries claimed that those characters simply didn't exist.

That got me thinking - this could probably be some kind of cipher, right? It's a secret message from a guard to a princess. It could definitely be a cipher.

Obviously, ancient Chinese cryptography doesn't work in the same way that Western does - you can't rely on coding individual letters. So, there were many inventive methods to conceal information. One of them comes with an interesting story.

In the beginning of Wu Zetian's rule (not as an official Empress, but as the Empress Dowager) she was met with severe opposition. Her opponents assembled troops and communicated in secret, but one of them was arrested, one of the secret letters falling into Wu Zetian's hands. The letter, strangely enough, only said "green goose" (青鵝).

Wu Zetian, after some thinking, disassembled those characters into separate strokes and components (十二月我自与), giving the meaning that in the month of December, that official was (going to start a rebellion) from within (the court)

Now, I tried to properly decode the message here, but it's a bit hard. I think the general idea is that someone passed through the gates between 7 and 9 am, but I'm honestly not sure how to interpret some of the parts of those characters (if anyone suddenly has more luck, please, please tell me, I probably spend several hours just on this thing and I want to know)

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kdram-chjh · 2 years

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Cdrama: Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty (2022)

Gifs of Ending of cdrama “Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty”

【FULL】高官溺亡黑猫现世天价红茶为何有血腥味？ | 唐朝诡事录 EP01 Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty | 杨旭文杨志刚 | 古代悬疑剧 | 爱奇艺华语剧场

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5V-xnWMBp4

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thesilversun · 8 months

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Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty is getting a second series.

Also - White Cat Legend - this look like some silly fun. Historical setting. Man meets cat, man tries to help cat. Cat turns into a man, who probably still needs help. So he takes him home and buy him cat toys apparently.