#Jianghu

[koglasain]

Jianghu Daddies Calendar 2024 is now open for preorders (⁠灬⁠º⁠‿⁠º⁠灬⁠)⁠♡(⁠｡⁠・⁠/⁠/⁠ε⁠/⁠/⁠・⁠｡⁠)

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Just a few sneak peaks from our artists!

#art #fanart #danmei #word of honor #山河令 #cdrama #jianghu #daddies #thousand autumns #yan wushi #yifu #the blood of youth #mdzs

[tasendagallery]

#toy photography #toy photoshoot #toys #minifigures #toy collection #toy collector #sylvanian families #toy community #word of honor #wen kexing #zhou zishu #ah xu #wenzhou #junzhe #zhang zhehan #gong jun #faraway wanderers #shan he ling #tian ya ke #jianghu #wuxia #gelato

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

On the one hand, it's really great to have a partner who is also interested in wuxia/xianxia. It's pretty niche here in the US, but I can talk about cultivation and jianghu and orthodox vs unorthodox and he knows what I'm saying (though he uses the Korean murim instead of the Chinese jianghu, lol).

On the other hand, he keeps calling Mount Hua "Mount Hoo-a" and it makes me want to stab my eardrums.

#wuxia #xianxia #cultivation #jianghu #murim #mount hua

[candont]

After the jade crumbles and the flower wilts,           he pursues the carriaged coffin in misery. The stars turn and the Dipper spins, as lamentations narrate Jianghu

#jianghu #wang dulu

[amongdragons]

Martial Buddhist Monks – Not Only Shaolin

Martial Buddhist Monks existed and acted quite early. #MartialArts #ChineseHistory #ancientChina #ChineseCulture #ChineseMartialArts #TangDynasty #secretSocieties #buddhism #buddhist #buddhistMonk #warriorMonk #shaolin #MingDynasty #ShaolinMonk #Wuxia

The association of militant monks with the Shaolin monastery has become one of the modern cultural patterns. However, this is a rather late stereotype that did not arise before the Tang. Pre-Tang Buddhist monks have also been protagonists in historical rebellions and prominent actors in the martial environment. What prompted them to take up arms, violating the prohibitions of vinaya, and how did…

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#ancient China #Buddhism #Buddhist #Chinese history #Chinese martial arts #Jianghu #martial arts traditions #Qing dynasty #secret societies #Shaolin #Tang dynasty #traditional martial arts #Wuxia

[aweri11]

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#jianghu #bilibili comics #saved the public enemy by mistake

[saltyreina]

I love this manwha so much its so fucking funny. Immah need everyone to check it out and simp over Yi Zaha with me 🥺

#the return of the crazy demon #yi zaha #murim #jianghu #its so fuckin hilarious #im not joking i was cackling all not #either my humour is broken #or they just fckn funny #and hes so prettyyyyy #hes so pretty #like honest to god #so beautifuuuul

[wuxiaphoenix]

TV Series Review: Strange Hero Yi Zhi Mei

AKA The Vigilantes in Masks (2011, sometimes listed as 2010). Five out of five stars here, you can tell when the plum and cherry blossom scenes are green-screened but the rest is very well done, and the story just rocks.

I know I’ve mentioned that the Imperial Coroner would make a fun Leverage cross, but if you’re looking for “Leverage in Ancient China”, this is the series that so far comes the closest.

In fact, if you’ve watched the premiere ep of Leverage and you then watch the first 4 eps of Strange Hero? You may be throwing popcorn at the screen in helpless laughter, because if the writers didn’t directly riff off Leverage they took a lot of inspiration from it.

Though the rescue of Li Ge Xiao is definitely unique to this show. And it is an awesome rescue, that shows that even though he is a convicted criminal, the men he led in the Jǐnyīwèi years ago believe he’s been railroaded and still intend to help... as much as they can get away with.

...Which is another bit of Leverage similarity. Five years before the show started, Li Ge Xiao was second in command of the Jǐnyīwèi, the Brocade-Clad Guards of Ming China. He was a cop. More specifically, he was the secret police. Someone who investigated undercover at least part of the time - which is likely how he survived his first death sentence and escaped....

Yes, I’m also reminded of the A-Team. Because in the first ep Li Ge Xiao isn’t handed a team, he goes out and finds specific people to do the job. Three “chivalrous strangers,” the ex-bandit Chai Hu (hitter), the light-footed thief Yan San Niang, and actor/impersonator He Xiao Mei (grifter, also later medic). If you have a problem, if no one else can help you, and if you can find them....

Ahem.

I do have two grumps with the show. The first being a bit of Artistic License - Medicine. The first time mercury shows up as a poison in-show it’s mostly played straight. The second arc of episodes it shows up in? Noooot so much. They really should have used some other hallucinatory/violence-inducing compound. Even if they had to make it up.

Second, and this is a warning to anyone who wants to show this to kids - starting around ep 20, the humiliation conga Ying Wu Qiu (current head of the Brocade-clad Guards) as a much younger Bao Lai Ying goes through that shows how he became a villain and why he hates Li Ge Xiao so much is... really intense. And a bit stomach-turning. Older teens will probably be fine with it, younger kids not so much.

OTOH if you can watch those eps, it’s a sobering take on, bad things happening to people are no excuse to become a bad person. Ying Wu Qiu isn’t a horrible person because he went through hell; Li Ge Xiao goes through at least as much hell, and still tries to help people. Ying Wu Qiu is a horrible person because there’s something fundamentally wrong with his character. He has no ethics, no pride in himself as a person, none of the innate dignity that makes a person say “this is the line I won’t cross, because it would be wrong”. All that matters to him is that he stays alive and has the power to get what he wants. He has nothing he’s willing to die for... and that means he loses everything that really matters. Sure, he has political power, wealth, concubines. But there’s no one who loves him. No one who’s willing to pick him up when he falls down. No one worth coming home to.

In contrast, our heroes might like living, but there are things they are willing to die for. They’ve lost a lot in their lives, and sometimes they’ve retreated to selfish behavior. But when the chips are down they do the right thing - no matter what it costs.

In that vein, the show writers really picked the right setting for our heroes to shine in, because historically the Imperial Court at this time was horribly corrupt, including the Guards, so “vigilantes working outside the law” really are the good guys. Nicely done.

So if you’re looking for a show that draws clear distinctions between right and wrong, supports people looking after their families, and gets in the rock-and-hard-place aspects of people trying to pick the least wrong thing to do when all choices are either bad or illegal - this is a good one.

It also has loads of action, engaging characters, and a slow-burn attraction between San Niang and Ge Xiao that feels very, very realistic in both how long it takes and the various missteps on both sides. (That, and the various other people in their lives dropping gleeful hints of “you like him/her, you really do!”)

[Jiang Hu] Strange Hero Yi Zhi Mei Ost Opening

The first ep.

#strange hero yi zhi mei #leverage #tv review #yi zhi mei #jianghu #ming dynasty #vigilantes in masks #Youtube

[socratetris]

A break down the culture and philosophy influences of Warframe’s new VEILBREAKER questline

#video essay #video games #Warframe #digital extremes #first person shooter #third person shooter #scifi #sci-fi #youtube #youtuber #games #gaming #pc games #story #culture #Ancient Egypt #philosophy #africana philosophy #Confucianism #jianghu #rigveda #rig veda

[niteshade925]

I have seen 江湖/jianghu being explained in a post here on tumblr as something like an alternative to society.  Not really.  Jianghu is more like a metaphor for society itself, just fictionalized and romanticized to varying degrees in different works.  For example MDZS, which that post mentioned.  There is a reason why the Jin clan is depicted that way, wearing that style of robes and sporting the color yellow/gold whenever possible.  Same for the Wen clan, or the Nie clan, or the Lan clan, or the Jiang clan.  The vast vast majority of wuxia and even xianxia stories are meant to reflect reality.  This was what I was going to write about in that post I promised about “exiting society”/出世 that never came to fruition.  A lot of things in life are like magic tricks.  Many people look at magic tricks and believed in the existence of magic, they think there’s something grand and fantastic going on.  In reality it’s just some practiced hand movements and little mechanisms, but you don’t explain magic tricks, because it takes the magic away.  Same with real life.  There are some things that exists, but are not meant to be talked about, because to most people, revealing it dashes their perception of.....everything, and they become gloomy and depressed.  Very few will come to appreciate and accept those hand movements and mechanisms, the truth of reality.

Edit to add:  this is why personally I don’t like MDZS all that much.  Jianghu exists whether you like it or not, and as the saying goes, “where there’s people, there’s jianghu” (有人在的地方就有江湖).  No one can truly “exit” jianghu, like WWX and LWJ did at the end of MDZS.  There’s another quote from Wang Kangju during Jin dynasty (266-420), “the lesser hermit retreats to the wilderness, while the greater hermit retreats within society and government” (小隐隐陵薮，大隐隐朝市), which is an infinitely better and more practical advice than just “exit society”.

#jianghu #shower thoughts #sort of #:) #江湖 #mdzs

[weabunsstudios]

Come join me in my jaunt around the Jianghu! Wandering Sword for the Win!

#Wandering Sword #jianghu #xianxia #wuxia #twitch streamer #weabuns #girlgamer

[koglasain]

The Jianghu Daddies Calendar carrd is up!

This is a 2024 calendar featuring different 'daddy' characters in Chinese fiction, specifically martial arts fiction.

It contains full illustrations from artists from all around the world! And what makes it even better? When it comes with stickers!

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#Jianghu #daddies #calendar #fan project #artists #cdrama

[auntymatter]

12/10/2023

I'm playing with dolls again. I'm turning Mattel dolls into Wuxia characters (Not specific characters, just types).

BTS doll with a face tweak and my first (and possibly last) rerooting (it was very tedious and the hair got everywhere).

#custom barbies #1:6 scale #Wuxia #Jianghu

[candont]

When the springs dry up and the fish are left stranded on the ground, they spew each other with moisture and wet each other down with spit—but it would be much better if they could forget each other in the rivers and lakes.

https://daoistgate.com/jianghu-the-hidden-world/

#jianghu

[amongdragons]

Southern Shaolin

Excellent research on the (never-existing) "Southern Shaolin":

#chinese martial arts #jianghu #ancient china #chinese history #brotherhood #martial arts traditions #kung fu #artes marciales #martial arts #shaolin #Southern Shaolin #secret societies #shaolin monk #chinese mythology #chinese folklore #old china #wuxia #wuxia novel #qing dynasty #ming dynasty #chinese culture #wushu #shaolin kung fu #shaolin fantastic

[foxofninetales]

One of the big differences I've noticed from getting into Chinese dramas is how spoiled you get from gifsets of shows you've never watched. You see a gifset from an American show of one person cradled in another person's arms, pierced with multiple arrows and spitting blood, and suddenly you've been spoiled for a major character death. You see the same thing in a Chinese drama and you've gained a net zero information wise.

#cdramas #great for people who don't like spoilers #terrible for those of us who are trying to figure out how a drama ends #was that the epic final sacrifice or just another day in the jianghu