#xianxia xianxia xianxia

[heymeowmao]

2022.12.31 ° Modern Brothers’ Liu Yuning x Jiangsu Satellite TV New Year’s Eve Concert - 寻一个你 & 笑红尘

#Liu Yuning #p: weibo #he borrowed his yngs wardrobe for this #ajfkld #xianxia xianxia xianxia #oh wait- #if he sang 'Searching for You' in this #does this mean this is Dongbei Qingcang #?? #X'D

[somie]

Youll never guess what i cooked at 2 am this morning... yes its bedrock bros

Part 2??

#i got possessed #sbi fanart #in 2024... #my art #doodle #xianxia/wuxia au??? #bedrock bros #i miss them #sbi #xianxia au

[hanfugallery]

chinese hanfu by 羽月司衣局

#china #hanfu #fashion #chinese fashion #guzhuang style #mens hanfu #xianxia

[driftwoodwolf]

xianxia au razor!!

find me on twitter @/driftwoodwoof

#razor #genshin razor #razor genshin impact #genshin #genshin impact #原神 #xianxia #wolves #artists on tumblr #my art #fan art #this was drawn for the xianxia zine

[wynnnxy]

Spiderbing meets spiderzun from another universe! I hope this doesn't awaken anything bad in him ....

Continuation from my first svsss spiderverse au art!

#svsss #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #bingqiu #mxtx #scum villain's self saving system #spiderverse au #svsss spiderverse au #the start of binghes villain arc #i am way too invested in this little au of mine #spiderzun definitely based his outfit off his fave xianxia characters #he's a nerd like that #wynn arts

[solacestea]

even still water will inevitably be moved by the wind

#illustrator #fanart #artist #digital artist #illustration art #procreate #digital illustration #art #digital art #illustration #天官赐福 #beefleaf fanart #beefleaf art #beefleaf #tgcf shi qingxuan #tgcf he xuan #tgcf #tgcf art #tian guan ci fu #danmei #danmei fanart #heaven official's blessing #hob #mxtx tgcf #mxtx #wuxia #xianxia #sqx #hualian

[fateandloveentwined]

wuxia, xianxia, and cultivation differences meta

translations: wuxia 武俠, xianxia 仙俠, and cultivation 修真/修仙 (xīuzhēn/xīuxiān)

think i've seen posts on this eons ago, and i'm pretty sure there are tons of these online, but since this has been written up already let's just have another one.

wuxia 武俠

wuxia and xianxia sound similar, but basically for wuxia it is about the pugilistic world (江湖 jiānghú). It is relatively more down-to-earth, and people practice martial arts ("kungfu") in their current life -- they do not do it to become xians (仙) and gods (神) however.

Like Thousand Autumns and Faraway Wanderers/Word of Honor, it has more historical background and ties to the current court and kingdoms, because people are living in the moment and concern themselves with worldly issues.

Martial arts may seem unrealistic, but in view of chinese fantasy it would be considered "real". It consists of fighting moves and internal energy, which they call qi or nèigōng (內功), and at times you see people flying around, climbing hills and jumping across rooftops which is qīnggōng (輕功).

xianxia 仙俠

A level up would be xianxia, where characters in the story cultivate to become xians (and gods, like in the heaven official's blessing). They don't really care about earthly issues here now, because their ambitions lie beyond the current world, and cultivation, getting stronger, and an immortal life are majorly all their goals.

You may not always see them working towards that purpose, such as in mdzs they are considered a lower-xianxia society (低魔), meaning people don't go through all the steps of cultivation and only stay at the stage before the "golden core" stage.

In xianxia, characters still learn basic fighting moves aka. martial arts, but to direct the internal energy they use línglì (灵力), zhēnqì (真气), and fǎlì (法力), all xianxia terms you commonly see. "neigong" is practically nonexistent in this genre. That's why people building up their "neigong" instead of "lingli" are likely never going to be able to cultivate.

cultivation 修真/修仙

A subgenre in the xianxia category would be cultivation. Characters actively go through the stages of cultivation, and likely for the MC, because they are the main character, they successfully become a xian and exit the world at the end of the novel.

There are many stages of cultivation, usually defined at the beginning of the novel in the synopsis, and a typical example of the different levels would be this:

练气，筑基，金丹，元婴，化神，炼虚，合体，大乘，渡劫

And with a cursory search, an English translation would be something like this, albeit not with all the cultivation ranks identified.

Qi condensation (练气), Foundation establishment (筑基), Core Formation (金丹), Nascent Soul (元婴), and the names after that vary too greatly with translation and fandom so I'll jump straight to Immortal Ascension

extra info: getting into the philosophy of it all

It'd be interesting to note that the word "xiá" (俠) permeates all these genres. This is something akin to the concept of "hero", but not at all also, and I'd love to speak more on this but this post has already gone way longer than I hoped it would be, so perhaps another day.

Regardless, it is interesting to note that wuxia has a greater emphasis on "xia" than xianxia. (some joke that cultivation doesn't have the word "xia" in it, and much of that is because characters have foregone heroism and focused on gaining powers and working towards ascension instead). As a result, wuxia is more confucianism-oriented, though not without its taoism and buddhism influences.

xianxia, on the other hand, is mainly derived from "dào" (道), from taoism, which is another lengthy concept if I ever get to it.

And some may have heard of the "farming" genre, 种田 (zhòngtián). This has to do with golden fingers (mary sues) in imperialistic china, earning a wealth of money, and all that. It has nothing to do with cultivation, alike they sound in english.

that's it for now, hmu if you wish to ask/discuss!

(and apologies for the pinyin translations, hope it's understandable still! formally writing pinyin they are supposed to be two separate words not one.)

#danmei #mdzs #word of honor #cdrama #thousand autumns #cnovel #wuxia #xianxia #cultivation novel #chinese language #chinese #fate's meta

[sora2396]

reuniting at the end of a dream

My twitter

#sora2396 #honkai star rail #renheng #xingyue #刃恒 #hsr blade #hsr dan heng #hsr fanart #hsr #xianxia au #art by op

[mammutblog]

the classic i’ll kill you / you’re beautiful conundrum

#wuxia au #now it’s xianxia whenever clark is here hehe #superbat #bruce wayne #batman #clark kent #superman #my art

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

another reason i think that xie lian felt an instant connection on the ox cart is because he and hua cheng both grew up in xianle.

there are maybe 4 people still alive that grew up in that culture. based on my own experience, you can pick up on things like accent, cadence, references, and humor that suggest a person is from the same place as you without consciously noticing it. that sense of comfort and similarity probably played into their instant chemistry.

#thinking about how they are bonded together by being the only people who remember their dead culture... augh it kind of makes me want to cr #as much fighting as fengqing do they are really the only people who will EVER understand each other's childhoods #which. aughhhh #there's a lovely modern au fic by heavensturtle called ''i'm just there to admire you.'' where they talk about chinese diaspora go read it #fics that mention paradise manor being in the xianle style also make me want to bawl. especially when fxmq notice it #other people that remember xianle: qi rong. jun wu. mei nianqing. yeah. none of those people are easy to talk to #buried deep in the xianle quartets heads are things like xianxia silly bands and xianxia nickelodeon and xianxia hi chew that LITERALLY #NOBODY ELSE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD REMEMBERS. DOES THAT NOT MAKE YOU FEEL INSANE #the immortality in tgcf and how it affects memory and sense of self and relationships. ourgh #i speak #tgcf meta #tgcf #tgcf spoilers #i guess? #tian guan ci fu #tgcf books #heaven official's blessing #hob #xie lian #hua cheng #hualian #feng xin #mu qing #fengqing #xianle trio #xianle quartet

[komaneko-kun]

snakey boy sketch

#zhuzhi lang #svsss #mxtx #svsss fanart #danmei #xianxia #my art #eight balls you were a worthy opponent #please treat him well... #sobs

[zishuge]

watching xianxia is so fun because usually when i'm halfway through a drama and i want to reblog things, i have to be really careful when going through the tag and not look too closely at anything to try not to accidentally spoil stuff that happens later

but when i watch a xianxia drama and go through the tag i'm totally fine even if i look at everything because absolutely none of it makes any goddamn sense out of context. like i find gifsets of the main characters getting married. in one they're getting married to other people and in another they're getting married to each other. twice. then i find gifsets of those same characters dying in five different ways. in one scene one is dying in the other’s arms. in the next scene they’re dying together. someone straight up disintegrates into glitter. and i still have no idea if any of them end up alive or dead or married or alone or what on earth happens at the end

#till the end of the moon #love and redemption #love between fairy and devil #are the three i'm thinking of but i'm sure there are more that i haven't seen to which it applies #like... it's a dream! #it's their past life! #no it's their next life – they're reincarnated! #it's a different realm! #it's 500 years ago! it's 500 years later! it's TEN THOUSAND years ago! #it's both 500 years later AND a dream! #surprise she's a man! #xianxia is such a trip #i’m halfway thru tteotm rn and the gif sets are confusing lmao #my ramblings

[hanfugallery]

chinese hanfu by 清欢纪qing huan ji (theme: peacock blue 孔雀蓝)

#china #hanfu #fashion #chinese fashion #xiannv #xianxia #blue

[yea-baiyi]

reading xie lian’s POV is actually hilarious once you realise xie lian isn’t oblivious at all, he basically guesses most things immediately, he’s just taken the veteran autism tactic of “it’s too much effort to figure out when it’s appropriate to mention that i know something, so i’ll just pretend i don’t know until someone says it aloud”. sometimes it turns into a bit. the truth might be embarrassingly obvious, but social cues are hard, and xie lian has infinite time to wait for the other person to blink first.

#tgcf #autistic xie lian #xianxia jesus #meta stuff #like. he knows. for a great many things he knows instantly #and acts like he knows #but he’s not going to be the first to acknowledge it #because as an Autistic he has no sense of scale whether he has like. reasonable ground to say things. #like he’s old enough that i’m sure he could figure it out if he tried #but he’s tired he prefers to wait #like he knew who hua cheng was from the second he got on the ox cart #that’s why he baited hua cheng into the conversation #and hua cheng also knew this that’s why he let himself be drawn in #like. they’re 800 year old gods they know this #but also xie lian is like. is it rude to call him out. i have no idea. #so he kind of pokes around for evidence that would give him an excuse to admit he knows it’s hua cheng #but then when fengqing show up it’s funnier to pretend he doesn’t know #like. never say that xie lian isn’t committed to the bit in his old age

[somie]

Skeppy tries to troll me but i troll him first (more xianxia au cos it wont leave my brain...)

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#my art #doodle #xianxia au #technoblade #skeppy #erm #techno is the cnovel template protag change my mind #orphan duo

[solacestea]

#illustration #digital art #art #digital illustration #procreate #illustration art #digital artist #artist #fanart #illustrator #danmei #wuxia #xianxia #svsss fanart #svsss #mxtx #scum villain self saving system #moshang #moshang fanart #shang qinghua #mobei jun #shen qingqiu #luo binghe #sketch #doodle