Now comes the many AUs I've come with (and might write about in the future), plus the end being the Boshan family (with their baby daughter Luna) dressed to go to Disneyland
Instead of travelling up to Chang'an,
I'll make mountain temples tired of seeing my face.
Whether life is vibrant or dull, I'll still look for joy;
Whether rich or poor, I'll live my life.
I'd rather live as me - can an official do that?
After travelling the world, I'm retiring to the hometown farm.
Pine and bamboo each make splendid friends
And mountain birds and flowers make great brothers.
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i think the sun is coming out today! here's a cheerful (in my read) poem by Song poet Xin Qiji (who liked to climb high towers) on the theme of "fuck this shit, i'm gonna retire" :D
Happy Gushiwensday Monday!! Today we have an artful and twisty poem by Xin Qiji called “Boshan Temple Composition.”
I don't follow the road up to chang'an.
I'm always at the mountain temple, where they've gotten sick of my chattering.
I seek to live cheerfully between perfume and porridge, oh yes---
in this life I walk between material and immaterial.
I work at my own pace; why do I need to be an official?
I've walked all over the world, but in the end I returned to my plow.
the only true friends are pine and bamboo, oh yes!
the only comrades I need are mountain birds and flowers.
notes and original text below the cut. this is a really good one.
The thing you need to understand is that Xin Qiji is being so funny. It’s not just in my translation, although that is the reason I chose to translate it like this. He’s just written a very funny poem, albeit one that deeply puzzled us when we were writing our first drafts.
the road up to chang’an --- obviously he’s saying he has no interest in going to the capital and its imperial court. I want to highlight here that you could read 路上 together as “up the road,” but 上行 is also a binome indicating the passage of something upward in a hierarchy. It can apply to things like submitting paperwork to an authority, but also you use it specifically for journeying (by train!) in the direction of the capital. I think it’s so neat that this idiom exists, and stands in vague conceptual opposition to the English “downtown.”
between perfume and porridge --- the first of a collection of great structural parallels. It reads 味无味 “flavorful flavorless,” which I interpret as being about either excitement or epicureanism. In lieu of a decent parallel phrase that also makes the meaning clear, I’ve used alliteration.
material and immaterial --- he’s being funny again. One way to translate 材不材 is as I have it here, which sounds rather lofty. Maybe he heard it at Boshan Temple. Another way to translate it, incorporating the binome 不材, is “talented and talentless.” I desperately wanted to think of a pun that would convey both meanings, but the connection between physical substance and ability doesn’t exist in English. Tragic.
oh yes --- it ended up in the same place in both verses, but neither of them is in the original poem. I added them to convey a lighthearted tone, a verbal wink to the reader: “We both know I’m being silly. You love it.”
The hill censer or boshanlu (博山爐 "universal mountain censer" or boshan xianglu 博山香爐) is a type of Chinese censer used for burning incense. Hill censers first start appearing in tombs dating to the Western Han (202 BCE – 23 CE).[1] Fashioned with a conical lid, the censers were designed to look like miniature mountains. The more elaborately crafted versions incorporate imagery of trees, wild animals, and humans among the rocky crags of the landscape. The scented smoked is vented through apertures in the lid, creating a scene reminiscent of clouds swirling around a mountain.[2]
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tell ya what on my first viewing I really didn’t appreciate how loudly the untamed is just shouting about how lucky lwj and wwx are that they get to be together but there’s really something at every possible turn
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Few questions about book, is there any canon mention of - 1) JC realize that his new core is wwx’s…. If the core can recognize swords and vice versa then I feel that there’s some semi-sentience going on? 2) JC having suddenly all capabilities WWX used to have….wouldn’t other ppl be suspicious? Or did JC tell no one about his core loss and subsequent surgery? Did the cultivation world think he became that good by himself? 3) does JC ( as wwx) promise anything in return to boshan saren( sorry I can’t remember her name properly!) Or was it completely pro bono?
1. no, jc is dumb. The fact that he always thinks the worst of WWX vs thinking 'hm maybe there's something wrong w WWX's cultivation hence why he's not carrying his sword', probably also helps him stay ignorant.
jc can unsheathe Suibian although it had sealed itself for anyone other than him and WWX but he never tried until the confrontation outside the ancestral hall. After the siege on the burial mounds JGY got Suibian and jc rushed to get Chenqing because he wanted to use it as bait in case WWX ever came back. He knew WWX wasn't using Suibian but he thought he cold lure/catch/and kill him if he came looking for Chenqing.
2. JGY suggests that it was suspicious that jc was more talented:
"I recall that you could never beat Mr. Wei in anything, in the past. Could you tell me how you rose above him after the Sunshot Campaign? Did you perhaps take any golden elixirs?”
when he's needling jc in the Guanyin Temple. So yes it makes sense jc got a more powerful core than his own from WWX so he was more powerful than before. But others probably just thought his cultivation advanced. jc obviously told no one about losing his core. rip poor WWX's core stuck in gross jc.
3. jc doesn't promise anything because he's calling in a favor promised to WWX by Baoshan Sanren, as Cangse Sanren's son. jc pretends he is the son of Cangse Sanren. It's not "pro bono". WWX just foregoes his favor from Baoshan Sanren by letting jc collect it. Which is why even in the cover story jc still owes WWX for his core.
Mountain-Shaped Incense Burner (Boshan Xianglu), -99, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art
During the Han dynasty, fantastical beliefs in immortality and exotic lands inspired the earliest three-dimensional landscapes. The conical lid of this incense burner, shaped like towering peaks, is associated with the mountainous Isles of the Blessed. These islands were described as the realm of immortal beings (xian) in the myth, superstition, and magic widespread in Han Dynasty Religion. Fragrant smoke wafting through holes in the lid of this incense burner would evoke such a mist-shrouded utopia. Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection
Size: H. 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.); diam. 19.4 cm (7 1/8 in.)
Medium: Bronze
I want an episode of doctor who where the tardis nav system malfunctions and after struggling the doctor manages to get it to lock onto something so they can at least land and they wind up on a planet with no way of knowing when or where but there are people at least and someone in passing mentions the face of boe is in town and the doctor is like oh!! The face of boe, this must be before he died, let's go for a visit while we're here, so they go into town to the building where the face of boe is supposed to be but they dont see him and she asks some kid he, have you seen the face of boe around here anywhere? And the kids like ya that's me, javic thane, face of boe, good to meet you, and flashes her a way too familiar smile and shes like oh shit we're in the boshane peninsula and this is jack pre-immortality oh no! And he was the one they locked onto because he is a fixed point in time and space always and forever and now the doctor has to repair the tardis while trying to keep this kid alive because his death means massive gigantic paradox and this planet has a habit of getting invaded all while keeping his identity a secret and dealing with her guilt over what hasn't yet happened to him and also hes kind of an asshole because being a tween model will do that to you
Can you do one where changes sanren and wei changze are both alive but on the night hint due to severe injury the both forgot their memories and only remember that they are married and get rescued by boshan sanren, and remember their son wei Ying at the fall of Lotus peir and help then save jfm, yzy, and jc for their son .With some Jang bashing
Hello Nonny,
I remember discussing something similar with my friends in another forum. We had fun coming up with various plots. This is a good idea with a lot of possibilities. I will definitely think about it after I have finished my pending series and if none of friends take up this idea.