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ahfeiandhisdao · 2 months

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So from Day 1 or 2, Kachine (the youngest in the cast) came right out and told everyone he thought Xiao Shunyao was the cutest of the cast and doubled down in it. Apparently, through living end working together, Kachine dealt with so much cute aggression that, with the others egging him on, he told XSY he wanted to RUA him (webspeak for like... squeezing/petting due to cuteness?)

And the result?

Thank you, Lord Kachine, for xsy's suffering 🙇‍♂️ 🤭

(Clipped from the mangotv preview for episode 11)

Hey, XSY made it to trending searches! :D

Cr forest spirit selfie: Kachine's Weibo

Oh and fyi, he's the one that begged XSY to let him put leaves on his ears when they went hiking

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ahfeiandhisdao · 2 months

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So for basically my whole life I'd grown up with and was resigned to accept that the chinese concept of formal/nice clothing of my and the previous generation has been western clothes. So at any awards ceremonies or performances, entertainers would show up mostly in western suits/dresses and maaaaaybe you'll spot the occasional cheongsam if they're going for a Wong Fei Hong vibe. Which, you know, kinda sucks if you have any concept of western cultural imperialism in asia.

So when the hanfu revivalist movement started, I was waiting to see when it would enter the mainstream -- my hope was for fashion designers to integrate traditional/dynastic elements into their work and make it common place enough that I can buy this shit online for ME. Because I WANT.

Though some of the designs can be a bit hit or miss, I am LOVING what various stars and entertainers are wearing out and about now.

Anyway - here's a collection of Xiao Shunyao's modern hanfu inspired/hybridized stage outfits from the last couple years. For his MLC performances, his stylists seem to be borrowing inspiration from his Di Feisheng and possibly other character costume silhouettes.

I'd been seeing a few comments about how his outfits play with gender - and some of his outfits do! But I think the interesting thing to discuss is from which standard is he playing with gender? Because from a western perspective, the things he does with his western suit tops, belting on top of the jacket for a tightly cinched waist, and the addition of a trailing skirt = femme. But if you're talking from a hanfu-hybridized pov, that's just a modern take on hanfu and having any of those elements is not inherently femme and would often read masc to me.

So these things aren't necessarily gendered because they exist traditionally in chinese men's clothing or costume designs (ie video games, comics, historical fiction illustrations and film, etc, so therefore in the modern lexicon of masculine/acceptable for men):

presence or lack of a skirt

silky, velvety, gauzy or sparkly material choice, esp in formal or stage clothing

short or long length of skirt

embroidery

flowers/floral/bird designs

folding fans

certain styles of makeup

beading, gold, tassels, jewels

non-chunky jewelry

headbands

widely flowing silhouettes

What XSY's stylists are doing with some western clothing items are interesting. I'm convinced there have been one or two western jacket tops made of thinner material that they're folding over the front, and belting down instead of buttoning (which then matches with his other outfits that are designed specifically to do this). Then they're adding a skirt, cloak or bracer element to it.

The western portions often bring a military minimalist feel which they balance with a more gauzy material in the skirt or cloak portions.

Things I think are playing with gender:

row 1 - image 1: red di feisheng-inspired outfit

The lace-up girdle is there to match the bracers in both material and style. And it's positioned to be similar to the heavy belt that Di Feisheng wears. HOWEVER. That style of girdle/corset-like clothing item can't be divorced from the modern idea of sexy leather corsets. So imo, this waist piece on that outfit was a choice. Especially when paired with his allergic-to-collars-higher-than-his-sternum necklines. And if you take into context how masculine yet female coded his character is in the drama, the whole look evokes that.

row 2, image 1: black western suit with belt on top, hat, cloak, black boots and not-visible but also a black tassel fringe skirt

Hat and cloak moves the intention of the outfit from western toward a more Asian slant, because alone, it looks like a western black suit with western heeled boots, cinched waist with a lady's belt (seated photoshoot) and western style tassel skirt. The suit top consists of a vest and a shrug-like sleeve portion that appears masculine at first glance. But take the shrug and pair it with the tassel skirt (I can't find the red carpet photos but here is a better view of the skirt when seated), and I think you got a look that's both intentionally edging toward the femme in a western sense but also confusing matters by hiding within the parameters of both western and chinese traditional male styling.

row 2 - image 2 : white asymetrical western jacket styled in a front fold-over style, gauze skirt, trailing pearl embellishments

The more traditional leaning version of this is the white outfit in row 3 that he wears to the Hi6 Hello Saturday variety show -- the skirt portion on that outfit is one I'd consider non-gendered. Row 1, images 2 and 3 are examples of masculine/neutral uses of gauze that plays with flow of form but isn't inherently femme. This stage outfit is very western-appearing masculine suiting, until you hit the skirt which is giving me long ballerina tie-on skirt with the additional swan/mermaid pearl strings. Imo, another example of deliberately using traditional masculine styling but switching it up with the combination of material choice and make that is feminine.

row 2, image 3: black space military boots, black suiting, black -silver ombre sequin trailing skirt and white gauzy shawl with black floral design

The over all design is going for a masculine military-feel. (think this outfit for shen langhun) But instead of a thicker military cloak, it's replaced with a woman's gauze shawl and a skirt that trails behind him very much like the back of a woman's formal fish-tail gown when he moves around. If you take into context Wang Herun's outfit is a white-silver sequined dress cut in a way to also give a space-military-queen vibe, imo they both coordinated their outfits to balance out with both femme and masc qualities.

Thoughts? I'm curious what others think about this.

While I wait for the CNY photoshoot for XSY's red and black look, here's him with his stage collaborators with a nice range of skirt lengths, period influences and material choices. The woman in the center is the one with the most military-fighter design out of the bunch. The dudes are all in variations of formal-wear-with-good-kicking-boots (and lots of crotch space).

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ahfeiandhisdao · 5 months

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A WILD YAOYAO APPEARED AND CHALLENGED FANS IN A DUEL

(highly fake lol or am I?)

In a recent event, Xiao Shunyao appeared in this outfit looking like a five course meal (*slurps*)

And Mr. Xiao's fans, without missing a beat whipped out the resemblance in their eyes XD

And suddenly a seemingly agitated (😆😆😆) a very against of his 'super saiyaan' resemblance Yaoyao appeared with screaming emojis XD and put it on blast in his own official account!

His post roughly translates to:

"Who did this! Show yourself, come on! :angry screaming emoji: x7"

Not only our dear Ah Fei posted it, he also kept up the 'angy big man' attitude in the comments where Fans clapped back maintaining the same vibe

First comment (user 无限不循环) roughly translates into : "hahahaha I can't tell who did but I can tell there is no difference"

To which our big bad rockstar replied with "I have all the informations : screaming emoji: x6"

Second comment (user 雨纷飞loveAD) roughly translates into : "I also wanna know who did this, they did a nice job hahahaha"

The star immediately raged with a challenge for a duel saying (rough tl) : "Come on for an one-on-one!" ('if you dare' being unsaid *AHEM)

Another user fueled the vibe with the comment (rough tl) : "Don't say it! Don't say so!"

To which a very oh-so-angry reply arrives saying : "You shut up! :screaming emoji:"

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I AM SORRY THIS IS SO HECKING HILARIOUS 😂😆😆😆😂😂😂😂 I tried to make it sound serious on purpose but needless to say this PLAYFUL BANTER between Yaoyao and his fans really acted like a gust of laughter. *fond sigh*

Hope this put a smile on your face too <33

Oh right, I have very little knowledge about Chinese language, hence the translations are majorly based on the weibo machine TL, only a bit modified. If I have done any mistake during the modification, feel free to correct me!😁

And take some Xiao Shunyao looking as fine as a snack 😋

This man is too hot to handle... 😩😮‍💨

#xiao shunyao #cpop #cr: weibo #playful banter of Aero and his fans #di feisheng #he angy #Xiao Shunyao is a snack #actually he is a full course meal

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ahfeiandhisdao · 7 months

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JUST wanted to let you all know these two has been wearing couple outfits since the day they had an appearance together.... episode 5, both wearing shades of green

And they did it again few times... I'll add them soon :))

#mysterious lotus casebook #FeiHua #DiHua #di feisheng #li lianhua #xiao shunyao #cheng yi

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ahfeiandhisdao · 7 months

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I see Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing, I approve 🤞🏼

Currently watching I Am Nobody.

Zhang Lingyu, why does it feel like you are wearing pyjamas all the time. Feng Baobao is awesome, the shipping container, shovels!! Wang ye and Zhu Ge Qing's fight was interesting, anybody else feel like shipping these two?

#Wang Ye and Zhuge Qing is a ship that MUST be sailed with at least 30+ fics on ao3 #if nobody does i will #i am nobody #drama watching #cdrama

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ahfeiandhisdao · 7 months

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The Lost Tomb™

The Endless Saga of two main character and the constant third wheel (who's also a main character... somewhat)

LISTEN I DIDN'T LIKE THIS GIRLIE ALWAYS STEALING THE PINGXIE MOMENTS BUT I didn't want her to die tho.... i was sad okay??? :((( STILL DOESN'T CHANGE THE FACT SHE THIRD WHEELED WITH ALL HER EXISTENCE-

(someone take my phone away from me)

#daomu biji #ultimate note #the lost tomb #xiao yuliang #zeng shunxi #joseph zeng #GIVE ME MY PINGXIE #pingxie #wu xie #zhang qiling

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ahfeiandhisdao · 7 months

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Xiao Shunyao

Aka our dearest Ah Fei in real life

However in this post, we are not going to talk about his biography, nope. We are about to focus on a much deeper aspect. *Sigh*

Simping!

Yes, more precisely simping about Xiao Shunyao's piercings and tattoos.

So let's buckle up and dive in!

Xiao Shunyao - Piercings and Tattoos

1. Eyebrow Piercing

Our beloved YaoYao sports a stunning eyebrow piercing in his left eyebrow. He mostly films after taking them out, so you might've noticed a scar there.

Picture courtesy to : AP and Ybybyb on weibo

2. Nip piercing

Ahem well, this might be partially mature themed and if you are uncomfortable with such, you might consider avoiding reading further.

Yes, Xiao Shunyao has a nip piercing and you can see that here. (Picture Courtesy: Xiao Shunyao Official Weibo)

Now, TATTOOS!

Yes. He has tattoos. SEVERAL of them.

1. HUSTLER

From the medias Xiao Shunyao had shared beforehand, his biggest tattoo is on his left bicep. It says 'Hustler' in decorated cursive. (Please note this is very old. About 10 years old. He might have modified it by now.)

Picture Courtesy : Xiao Shunyao Official Weibo (in the first image it might look that it's on right arm, but that's a selfie.

2. 23 a cute little curved ♡ and a little triangle

Even though the tattoos are unexplained and mostly covered probably because of China's broadcasting rules, Xiao Shunyao is often seen sporting a small 23 and curved heart tattoo. And further up, there's a litte triangle, just above 23.

Picture credit : Ybybyb on weibo (left) and Xiao Shunyao Official Weibo (right)

3. The Stripe Sleeve of Inscriptions (undisclosed)

There's quite a wide stripe of inscriptions tattoo running down his right arm, from inside of his wrist to all the way to the base of shoulder joint. Please note that this tattoo is also very old and might have been modified (mostly added new elements) in the mean time.

Even though it's undisclosed for whatever reason, from the look of it, it might be a Tibetan sloka script. But it's just an assumption.

Around 2013:

Around 2023 (only a sneakpeek):

Picture Courtesy: Xiao Shunyao Official Weibo and Xiao Shunyao fanclub on weibo

4. Five little stars! ⁠✯✯✯✯✯

One of his small tattoos, on his right wrist (outwards). There's five tiny stars, with one relatively bigger and an arc of four smaller ones and as @qinzai has pointed it out, the closest decipher of the stars representing the national flag of China.

5. TRAMP STAMP

LAST but definitely not the LEAST! THE LOWER BACK TATTOO!!!!!!! (OH MY GOD HOW CAN THIS MAN GET HOTTER!!???)

IT'S A SPIDER

even tho looked like a crab on first glance. However (Hot damn man??! Wtf)

Okay, this was it! Well, not really, I wanted to rant and simp more and flood with pictures but Tumblr limited the number of pictures. Hence I'll be posting sneak-peeks of his Piercings and Tattoos on twitter and link it in here! Take a look if you feel like ~♡

https://x.com/DiMenzhou/status/1708506967310991497?s=20

P.S. - I am thirsty bye-

#xiao shunyao #di feisheng #mysterious lotus casebook

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ahfeiandhisdao · 7 months

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I know most of my cdrama people avoid modern cdramas but I am telling you, you really gotta check out I am Nobody. It's already finished airing.

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ahfeiandhisdao · 7 months

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Di Feisheng in his next life as Li Lianhua's boyfriend :

"Babe, would you still love me if I was an armadillo?"

They’re talking about how feihua never fail to see through each other’s disguises in my notes and like yes it’s cute. But it’s also really funny to me because when you think about it they’re literally like