#chang'an

[niteshade925]

"Can't even dig a subway in Xi'an. If you dig too shallow you find artifacts from Tang dynasty. If you dig too deep you find artifacts from Han dynasty."

#lol #china #xi'an #chang'an #archaeology #last time I was talking with coworkers about how I want to go to xi'an for their barbeque and history #they asked me is xi'an old and I was like yea it's been a few thousand years #i didn't get why they look so surprised i mean that's just chinese history #until they said that's older than a lot of countries and i was like yea you're right #i guess for many chinese people 2000 years are but a flash #maybe because we can still read stuff from >2000 years ago which really closes that gulf of time #written language ftw

[cecilias-cool-stuff]

RIP Li Bai you would've loved tiktok

#li bai #chang'an #gao shi

[chinesehanfu]

【Minecraft】Took 15 months (2021.1.10——2022.3.25), Recreate the Daming Palace of the Chang'an, Palace of the Tang Dynasty in Minecraft  BY  唐大明宫项目组团队

Video BY @adamdyj：https://weibo.com/1357940320/LqZFtaKZ9

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Recreation Work Team: 唐大明宫项目组团队

Project team members:  y风起云飞扬y ，_江心秋月白_ ，契烬 ，江雨悠悠 ，哕味  

Q&A and guidance on building layout: 盛唐与长安，元狩四年未央雪，碧城山麓  

Rendering ： 三的平方乘以三 ，海geiegei 

Video Production： y风起云飞扬y

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#tang dynasty #china #chinesearchitecture #chinesestyle #chineseart #chineseculture #daming palace #chang'an #Minecraft #唐大明宫项目组团队 #y风起云飞扬y #_江心秋月白_ #契烬 #江雨悠悠 #哕味 #盛唐与长安 #元狩四年未央雪，碧城山麓 #三的平方乘以三 #海geiegei

[trcquotes]

Chang'an: This is what you need. Kurogane: A long sword. Chang'an: I see you are used to them. It is named Souhi. Kurogane: I don’t see a name. How do you know? Chang'an: Hu hu hu, that is my profession.

#Chang'an #Kurogane #Tsubasa Chronicle #Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle #Outo #Quote #Chang'an and Kurogane

[music-musou]

#Shin Sangoku Musou #Dynasty Warriors #Shin Sangoku Musou 8 #Dynasty Warriors 9 #Shin Sangoku Musou 8: Empires #Dynasty Warriors 9: Empires #Strength; Weakness #Strength Weakness #Chang'an #Junya Ishiguro #originally from Dynasty Warriors 8: Xtreme Legends #music musou #tune warriors

[mlc-melons]

Cheng Yi x weapons

Bo

Sword

Brush

Umbrella

BONUS: Xuan Ye, can you see??

Spear

#cheng yi #year of the dog #mysterious lotus casebook #dmbj #love and redemption #immortal samsara #dream of chang'an #fox spirit matchmaker #bb deserves the best fight choreography #he does it justice #he practices hard and it shows #wuxia

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Wáng HèRùn 王鶴潤

Wb update 2024.03.12 (2/2)

#wang herun #chinese actresses #hanfu #huafu #mysterious lotus casebook #the longest day in chang'an #dream detective #ruyi's royal love in the palace #yanxi palace princess adventures #always on the move #colourful bone #my precious #the last princess #cdrama

[nemainofthewater]

Best Character Surnamed : Cao

Come and vote for the best characters with the same surname!*

What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!

*note, the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often there will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.

Propaganda is very welcome! If I’ve forgot anyone, let me know in the notes.

This is part of a larger series of ‘best character with X surname’ polls’. The overview with ongoing polls, winners, and future polls can be found here

#poll #word of honor #winter begonia #romance of the three kingdoms #serenade of peaceful joy #longest day in chang'an

[awkwardtuatara]

Things I wasn't expecting to have so many feelings about: a film about the lives of Tang dynasty poets. Why is Chang'an San Wan Li (长安三万里) so good. It tells the story of poet-warrior Gao Shi's life through snapshots of the past that get increasingly close to the present, his interactions with poet Li Bai, and how they change as they grow older. Definitely recommended for:

Poets, poetry, and poet culture. This is at the centre of the movie. There are something like 40 poems quoted (in part or in full) at various parts of the movie so you can make a bingo card if you want-

Super complicated and captivating characters and character dynamics. You know. Gao Shi is the 35th son of a declining clan who struggles academically but is a great warrior, who meets Li Bai (merchant's son, so automatically disqualified from the exam you need to become a government official) as they both travel to get government positions in a way that doesn't involve taking the exam. Li Bai is super flamboyant, a larger-than-life personality, and Gao Shi is timid but firm in his beliefs. They travel and part ways, promise to meet again, Li Bai forgets about the promise but meets Gao Shi like they never left, and again and again they meet and part as Li Bai becomes famous for his poetry but loses his political ambition and Gao Shi continues trying to be a warrior despite being more well-known for his poetry. Again and again they make decision the other can't understand, and maybe they have no right to the other's life, but you can't shake past bonds so easily. wrestling naked in the mud when you were 20 let you become Captain at 40 led to you meeting him again in the midst of a treason plot... it's bittersweet and gets really complicated

Gao Shi and Li Bai are the central focus but their connections to other characters (loyalty, rivalry, mentorship) are also fascinating

Chinese history (can't really speak to the accuracy but all the events actually happened and the right people are involved)

the typical angst that comes with being incredibly devoted to a country that has denied you again and again that characterizes a lot of Chinese scholars

reflections on identity and desire, what characterizes who you are and how that changes through time and circumstance

poets getting drunk and writing really great poetry. li bai really did this a lot

amazing animation and great visuals. The cities look so great and the scenes with the cranes and the gods as Li Bai was narrating...

Great use of visual and audio motifs as well, connecting things as time passes

the voice actors did a really good job too - the characters are clearly the same but their voices change as they grow older

I just think it's neat

#ok the purpose of this post is mainly “talk about chang'an san wan li so you can finally stop thinking about it so much” #not really gonna tag it #but if you see this it's well worth the watch

[movielosophy]

You're here! Judge Dee's Mystery

#favorite #judge dee's mystery #大唐狄公案 #cdrama #the aesthetics are kinda resemble the longest day in chang'an

[niteshade925]

Xi'an/西安 regional specialties, including the "water bowl lamb" (水盆羊肉) featured in The Longest Day in Chang'an (skip to 1:48 for this dish). Btw for anyone who doesn't know, Xi'an is Chang'an, Chang'an/长安 is the historical name of the city.

I'm a huge fan of lamb and spicy food and honestly this sounds like heaven.

#chinese food #chinese cuisine #xi'an #chang'an #the longest day in chang'an #food #真想去一趟西安，这看得我都馋死了

[trcquotes]

Syaoran: Masayoshi-kun!—Oh, my head! Kurogane: More like his kudan! Sang Yung: Eh? Eh? Chang'an: You know each other? Sang Yung: Eh? Eh? Syaoran: N-no—I’m sorry.

#Syaoran #Kurogane #Masayoshi #Chang'an #Tsubasa Chronicle #Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle #Quote #Outo #Masayoshi and Syaoran #Kurogane and Masayoshi #Chang'an and Masayoshi #Kurogane and Syaoran #Chang'an and Kurogane #Chang'an and Syaoran

[dangermousie]

Oh, brother...aka keeping it in the (royal) family

I recently realized that for some reason “multiple brothers one girl” seems to be a popular category in costume dramas. I am not sure why such sharing is necessary in a polygamous society for fancy royals each of whom can get himself a whole harem, but I am not complaining that it appears any remake of the Hollywood classic “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” would clearly be changed into “One Bride for Seven Brothers, and Some of the Brothers Spit Blood and Die” if it were a cdrama. Here are some of the dramas at issue. 

Liu Shi Shi appears to be the queen of this subgenre to such an extent that I am vaguely wondering if it’s in her contract. We are gonna start with THREE of her dramas:

Bu Bu Jing Xin - Liu Shi Shi has not one, not two, but THREE hot royal brothers, played by Nicky Wu, Kevin Cheng and Lin Gengxin, pine for her time-traveling self. Since this is an exquisite (no, seriously, it’s amazing) period piece about loss and longing, she ends up with none of them, instead of a hot vagely-’cesty gangbang as one might expect from that set-up.

Lost Love in Times - poor Liu Shi Shi, she’s a sexy witch having to pick between William Chan and his shady brother Joe Xu. To make it even trippier, the two actors look like each other, to really hammer the whole “siblings want her” theme.

The Imperial Doctress - why bust what’s not broken? It’s the true and tried Liu Shi Shi and hot royal brothers formula. She’s a doctor who spends most of her time practicing medicine, escaping barbarians and creating feminism, not noticing that as she pines for one royal brother played by Huang Xuan, another royal brother, played by infinitely hotter Wallace Huo, is pining for her.

Gong/Jade Palace Lock Heart - if Liu Shi Shi is the queen of that set up, Feng Shao Feng is the king, what with this and Military Seal, both of which star Yang Mi. Clearly, there are worse ways to make a career than stealing Yang Mi from a royal brother. Here, Yang Mi is a spunky time traveler in the middle of Kang Xi’s sons’ fight for the throne. She first falls for Four but ends up with Eight. In between, she offers to bang Four to save Eight as one does. Gives a whole new meaning to sharing is caring and “have you brought enough for the entire class?”

Legend of the Military Seal - Yang Mi and FSF strike again. FSF is madly in love with his brother’s wife, and since she’s not afflicted by blindness, she shares his feelings. Surprisingly, but delightfully, happy ending ensues. 

Who Rules the World - more like which brother rules awesome Zhao Lusi’s heart. Going by the rule of “hottest brother wins,” Yang Yang gets the girl in a drama that is pretty yum yum.

Colourful Bone - one hot seriously whumped out royal brother and one whiny immature one, oh who should the heroine pick? This drama stands for the proposition that you should protect and save abused people, especially if they are hot men, since they will always turn out to be an emperor in disguise. This drama btw is one giant kinkfest for yours truly.

The Eternal Love - you could make THREE whole seasons out of timetravel and brothers into the same girl, who knew.

Dreaming Back to the Qing Dynasty - if you’ve seen Gong or BBJX, you know the drill. Horde of queued brothers queueing for the heroine.

(Mine and all my brothers’, that is -Ed.)

Princess Jieyou - Yuan Hong narrowly escaped the curse of fancying his brother’s woman in BBJX, being about the only sibling not in love with LSS in that one. But clearly, you can’t fight fate and shortly thereafter he’s got to be a sister-in-law luster in a drama of his very own. He is a barbarian general who falls in love with a woman only to discover she’s to marry his brother. Angst and deliciousness and eventual happy ending (the husband fulfilled the uglier brother’s duty by eventually kicking the bucket.)

The Promise of Chang’an - if you want to watch brothers with the same woman but no happy ending, and have already watched BBJX, I present this recent drama where Cheng Yi gets to, as always, suffer beautifully watching the woman he loves marry his annoying brother. Pretty much everyone dies at the end of this one, going off to a great big threesome in the sky.

Twisted Fate of Love - will Sun Yi pick the delicate Tan Jianci or the sexy as fuck bastard that is Jin Han? Being a smart woman, she picks the latter and my hormones rejoice.

Go Princess Go - this is a drama that parodied every cliche there is, so why not brothers into one woman? Who is actually a man in a woman’s body making it even more delightful!

Ashes of Love - even being divine, with women from three separate realms available will seemingly not prevent love interests being a scarce resource leading to sibling love rivalry. Deng Lun and Luo Yunxi duke it out ostensibly for Yang Zi but in reality for who can suffer more prettily. Deng Lun might get the girl, but LYX wins the suffering crown, so it all more or less evens out.

Princess Silver - are siblings in love with the same woman not spicy enough for you? How about TWINS in love with the same woman? One awesome (Aarif Rahman) and one psychotic (Jing Chao) want our heroine and both marry her at one point. Only the awesome one gets to bang her though. (But the psychotic one gets to stick meathooks through his brother in compensation for not being able to stick...ummm...meathook through the heroine, so it’s all OK.)

Secret of the Three Kingdoms - and now we are gonna go REAL PERV! If twins are not enough for you, seekers of strong sensations, how about IDENTICAL twins? Ma Tianyu replaces his dead identical twin brother as the last Han emperor and gets to woo Wan Qian (whose plan it was in the first place.) At least she doesn’t need to get used to a new face?

We are gonna end here and not get into father and son sharing the same woman a la Empress of China.

(Congrats to Aarif Rahman for getting to bang both his brother’s and his father’s wives on screen. That is an interesting niche.)

#cdrama #secret of the three kingdoms #princess silver #empress of china #twisted fate of love #jade palace lock heart #lost love in times #the imperial doctress #bu bu jing xin #ashes of love #princess jieyou #the promise of chang'an #legend of the military seal #colourful bone #dreaming back to the qing dynasty #go princess go #who rules the world #the eternal love

[mlc-melons]

Cheng Yi using weapons with his left hand.

He has fight choreography where he switches his sword from one hand to the other (both right to left and left to right).

#cheng yi #mysterious lotus casebook #dream of chang'an #fox spirit matchmaker #wuxia #the sword switching between hands is so smooth #the sword twirling with the left hand tho #i am unwell #i feel like the fight choreography could take more advantage of his ability to use his left hand #his right hand could be chained to something or injured and he could use a sword with the left

[lyselkatzfandomluvs]

Wáng HèRùn 王鶴潤

Wb update 2024.03.12 (1/2)

#wang herun #chinese actresses #hanfu #huafu #mysterious lotus casebook #dream detective #the longest day in chang'an #ruyi's royal love in the palace #yanxi palace princess adventures #colourful bone #the story of minglan #my precious #the last princess #always on the move #cdrama #tw: flashing video

[nemainofthewater]

Best character surnamed : Zhang

Come and vote for the best characters with the same surname!*

What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!

*note, the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often there will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.

Propaganda is very welcome! If I’ve forgot anyone, let me know in the notes.

This is part of a larger series of ‘best character with X surname’ polls’. The overview with ongoing polls, winners, and future polls can be found here

#poll #word of honor #league of nobleman #dmbj #oh my general #reset #couple of mirrors #romance of the three kingdoms #the king's avatar #longest day in chang'an #story of kunning palace #judge dee's mystery