#jiang sect

[retiredpeach]

Sky surfing

Wwx & jc

#wei wuxian #wei ying #mdzs jiang cheng #jiang cheng #mdzs fanart #mdzs au #mdzs art #mo dao su zhi #mo dao zu shi #modaozushi #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the untamed wwx #wwx fanart #wwx my beloved #mdzs wwx #wwx #jiang sect #jc #the untamed #digital art #drawing #illustration #digital drawing

[lewiscarrolatemybrain]

Hilarious thing that just occurred to me: The Jiangs wearing purple robes is honestly just as gaudy and ostentatious as the Jin putting gold on everything

Even if we assume that only the inner clan members wear robes dyed actual purple, and everybody else does robes that have been dyed red and then blue, that's still an insane amount of money and effort. Historically, true purple dye was so crazy rare and expensive that in most places it was reserved for actual royalty, and double-dyed fabrics had to be done with extreme care and skill or they would be splotchy and uneven -- more blue in some places, more red in others, the purple different shades.

It's funny to think about WWX and JC being like "ugh the peacock" as if their lowest disciples don't wear robes that only the most skilled master dyers could achieve. Like the inner members of the Jiang Clan aren't walking around in several layers of true purple silk. Jiang Cheng's underwear could feed a village through winter and Wei Wuxian has the gall to act like the Jin are too showy about their wealth.

#MDZS #The Untamed #Wei Wuxian #Jiang Cheng #Jiang Yanli #Jiang Fengmian #Yu Ziyuan #Jiang Sect #Worldbuilding

[monkeymakoko]

You heard him. It always works.

(Read from left to right) 💜💚

#sangcheng #nie huaisang #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #gransmaster of demonic cultivation #cql #my art #fanart #the untamed #monkeymakoko #nie sect #jiang sect

[pakhnokh]

Jiang Sect girl original character commission for anon :) (If you'd like to commission me, DM me! :D)

#commission #jiang sect #mo dao zu shi #oc #original characer #mdzs #the untamed #grandmaster of demonic cultivation

[jcs-singular-slut-strand]

Jiang Cheng had what, 3 months? To gather up rogue cultivators to be his disciples? And yet when we see him with Lan Wangji on their hunt for Wei Wuxian he actually has quite a significant amount

Baby girl was clearly doing something right

#oh sect leader jiang? jiang cheng? jiang wanyin? #he offered to buy me breakfast if i joined his sect and now I've been here for 5 years #what a charming young man #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #the untamed #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi #jiang sect #lotus pier #sunshot campaign

[frankencanon]

Absolutely obsessed with the idea of Jiang Cheng, in the wake of the Jiang Sect's massacre, just massively overdoing it with the defensive measures in Lotus Pier:

It was bad enough when they were first rebuilding, but in the nearly two decades that followed every single time Jiang Cheng had a nightmare about his family dying and/or Lotus Pier burning down, he would immediately get up and start working on the defensive arrays, or the evacuation plans, or so on...

People think of the Impure Realm as an impenetrable fortress, but after Lotus Pier burnt down and was rebuilt? No other sect could stand a chance against Jiang Cheng's obsessive paranoia.

Lotus Pier has everything from defensive arrays, to evacuation plans and saferooms, to secret codes and signals known only to the disciples, to hidden underground and underwater tunnels, to booby traps, barriers, poison gas, etc etc etc...

Never again will Lotus Pier be sieged—not if Jiang Cheng has anything to say about it.

#lotus pier #jiang clan #jiang sect #yunmeng jiang #jiang cheng #the untamed #headcanons #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #cql #chen qing ling #mdzs headcanons #cql headcanons #the untamed headcanons #jiang fengmian #jiang family #jiang yanli #yu ziyuan #madame yu #wei wuxian #twin heroes of yunmeng #yunmeng shuangjie #yunmeng duo #yunmeng bros #twin prides of yunmeng #yunmeng trio #yunmeng siblings #yunmeng #yunmeng prides

[peculiardollart]

Hairstyles for women of the Jiang sect!

Jiang Men

Jin Men and Women

Nie Men and Women

#MDZS #Grandmaster Of Demonic Cultivation #The Untamed #Jiang Sect #Jiang Yanli #Yu Ziyuan #tagged for visibility reasons #none of these are meant to be a specific person #also I drew this on a new laptop and I think the colors are off #so if this looks kinda wonky I apologize #MDZS Worldbuilding Project

[carrot-felisidad]

I read somewhere that The Gusu Lan's simplicity in terms of fashion sense is often overlooked, as it reflects their discipline and resolve towards cultivation. But then I also noticed that YunmengJiang's flashy purples are often overlooked, too. Like, my man Jiang Cheng is the most well-dressed man out there, and Jiang Yanli was always Aesthetic Goals TM. Wei Wuxian may be in his simple blacks and reds, but compared to other sect robes, I find his robes elegant and fashionable.

Although in terms of flashiness, Lanling Jin clan may be the winner, but I find their robes tasteless, with their brand logo in front, like rich people who wear bad fashion as long as the prints louis vuitton or chanel are visible.

But Yunmeng Jiang? *Chef's Kiss* All adaptations understood the assignment that this is the kind of family that supports all the local tailor shops. Each sibling has their own shop because one shop cannot accommodate their NEEEEEED for fashion robes. Meanwhile, Lan Wangji has been wearing the same robes since he was 18. He probably only has two sets that he washes everyday. Meanwhile, Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng:

#Yungmeng Jiang is the fashion sect #lanling jin is that new money international student #Gusu Lan is white shirt wearing nerd #nie sect is cargo pants wearing martial arts kid #mxtx #mxtx mdzs #Jiang sect #Lan sect #Jiang Cheng #Jiang Yanli #Wei Wuxian #Lan Zhan #Lan Wangji

[murderedbyhomework]

I have zero idea if someone has pointed this out before but mxtx is a genius in symbolism.

So the representative flower for the Jiang Sect is the lotus flower （蓮花）, and the Jin representative flower is the peony （牡丹). There's this very famous piece of literature that represents the symbolism these flowers hold in Chinese culture, namely 《愛蓮說》, which about translates to "sayings out of love for lotus". It's like an essential part of Chinese literature curriculum for any Chinese student, and it compares the values the daisy flower and the peony flower represent against the values the lotus flower represent.

The lotus is heralded as the saint/role model (君子) of flowers, as it represents purity, perseverance, independence, upstanding moral values in general, and most importantly, the ability to remain pure/untouched even while living within filth. A lot of these values coincide with the Jiang Motto "Attempt the impossible", or rather attempting to do the right thing even when it seems impossible. And in a way, the Jiang siblings all represent some aspect of the lotus flower. Jiang Yanli grows up kind and soft spoken even with a mother like Madam Yu, and believes in Wei Wuxian even when the entire cultivation world despises him. Jiang Cheng displays perseverance and independence in how he rebuilds the Jiang sect, and while I don't want to get into the debate of whether or not he's a really good sect leader that cares about the commoners, or his morals in general, one irrefutable fact is that he rebuilt the Jiang Sect to it's former glory at a very young age, something that should be nigh impossible. And Wei Wuxian, while not morally pure, does attempt to do the thing he considers right, against all odds, which is actually what led him into the messes he gets into. And of course, he grows up on the streets for ages 4 to 9, yet manages to keep on being kind and selfless instead of growing bitter, retaining his morals and the teaching his mother ingrained in him. So really the Jiang siblings to greatly embody the values of the lotus flower, something I bet mxtx intended.

As for the Jin sect, having the peony as their representative flower really is the best insult mxtx could've come up against them. The peony, in Chinese literature, embodies wealth and Conventional beauty. 《愛蓮說》 goes a step further and criticises people who love the peony flower to be following the masses, and that by liking the peony flower, people are prioritising wealth, power, reputation, or are more keen on leaning on the powerful so they're safe and Conventional instead of prioritising doing the right thing and having the right values. Which of course, is a perfect reflection of the Jin Sect. Jin (金 in chinese) literally means gold, and it's reflected in how the Jin sect is presented to be wealthy and quite frivolous in spending. It also reflects how the cultivation world chose to follow Jin Guangshan, and later Jin Guangyao in condemning Wei Wuxian, because the Jin Sect has great influence, wealth, and power, and in the end it's safer and easier to go along with them.

Tldr, mxtx was an absolute genius with her using flower symbolism to represent the Jin and Jiang sect values, as well as the role they play in mdzs.

#mdzs #the untamed #cql #wei ying #jiang cheng #wei wuxian #jiang wanyin #jiang yanli #jin guangyao #jin guangshan #Jin sect #Jiang sect #Flower symbolism #Meta #Of sorts

[mo-chibee]

Bun jie jie

<3

#art #sketch #digitalart #mdzs #illustration #mxtx #wangxian #cute #theuntamed #cql #jiang yanli #shi jie #weiying #weiwuxian #lotus pier #jiang siblings #jiang sect #xiao zhan #wangyibo #wangji #lan wangji #lanzhan #bunbun #bunnies #fanart #untamed fanart #mdzs fanart #xuan lu #yizhan #purple ribbon

[vozaho]

Los líderes de secta hablando mientras su chamaco los escucha.<3 (JL está confundido pq JC sonríe x una vez KAKDKS)

#jin ling #jin guangyao #meng yao #jiang wanyin #jiang cheng #chengyao #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #lianfang zun #jgy #mdzs #otp #sandu shengshou #jiang sect #jin sect #jiang cheng x meng yao #jiang cheng x jin guangyao

[yunmeng-jiang]

one of the canon-adjacent modern au tropes i would like to see more often is the jiang family running an orphanage but kind-of-almost adopting wwx themselves while also treating him as an unpaid tutor for the other kids. jiang cheng thinks he's an orphan too up until the day he asks his mom if his parents died or if they just abandoned him and she yells at him and says he's grounded for an entire year or until he learns to appreciate his family

#the untamed #cql #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #jiang sect #mxtx #mo xiang tong xiu #orphanage au stuff #the orphanage au

[lewiscarrolatemybrain]

Reading about the cultural and social importance of bathing throughout Chinese history (because I am exactly the kind of person who spends hours reading about the cultural and social importance of bathing throughout Chinese history for no particular reason on a Tuesday night) and obviously now I'm imagining the sects all lowkey competing with regards to their public baths -- or at least the ones meant for visiting disciples and dignitaries.

The Jin are obviously doing The Most and being incredibly tacky about it. The floor of the bath is made of gold tile that dull super quickly and the whole tub needs to be frequently drained so the tiles can be deep cleaned and polished, and of course once they're shiny they reflect light up and through the water in a way that's actually really distracting. The bath bean has crushed pearls and seventy four different types of flowers in it. The benches are intricately engraved and inlaid with gems in places that pinch your butt when you sit on them.

The Nie have a natural hot spring that they have turned into their main public bath. The massive cavern houses a number of varying-sized pools, some of which interconnect and others of which are freestanding. The free standing pools are typically treated with different soaks to give the water various medicinal properties (most often for things like muscle aches or minor injuries, but also for skincare and such.) I imagine the Nie recipe for bath-bean would include animal fat and pancreas, making it very rich and cleansing.

Part of me wants to say the Jiang would just bathe in the lake but that seems cheap to me, so instead: Through a combination of well-placed pipes and clever array work, the Jiang bath house feels like a mini indoor rainstorm, with water falling in thousands of warm droplets from the ceiling above to fill the pools, which are more shallow that a typical bath would be. There are built-in overhangs you can sit under to get out of the "rain" while still being in the water. If requested the rain can be "turned up" and the lights dimmed, and cymbals crash so you feel like you're really standing out in a raging thunderstorm, which some people find incredibly soothing and others find terrifying. I can't think of anything unique for the bath bean other than lotus flowers but I do think, given the proximity to the river, that mud wraps would be a common treatment offered.

The Lan... probably have the worst public baths, actually. They may not even actually have a public bath at all. If they do have one, it's not meant to be a place of luxury or entertainment, although of course it would be tastefully decorated and comfortable. Rather they'd find some way to make public bathing less about socializing and more about silently meditating while pretending you aren't surrounded by other naked people. I guess the cold springs kind of sort of count as a public bath but not really. Bath bean smells distinctly medicinal, but obviously whatever is in it works, because the Lan all look Like That.

The public bath in Qishan stopped being a popular attraction when Wen Ruohan stopped having visitors, but for years their bath was one hell of a marvel. Massive, bronze statues of phoenixes would be heated until glowing-hot and then lowered into the stone tub, filling the air with thick steam. Patrons would sit around the room on their benches, sweating it out until the statues had cooled enough for the water to be safe to enter. If you wanted a cold bath, the adjoining room was also home to a massive bronze statue, this one of a dragon that sat in the center of the tub and poured cool water out of it's mouth. Bath bean was made with plant ash rather than rice or soybean powder, and the water was all treated with volcanic ash.

And, because I am Me, the Wei sect: I'm imagining a dark hall deep in the cave systems, the floor lined with man made in-ground pools of varying sizes not entirely unlike the Nie baths, however these pools aren't connected to an outside water source or each other. There are illusion arrays carved into the walls that send out glowing, ghostly shapes of fish and otters and other river creatures swimming through the air. The pools are filled through overhead pipes that pour water, oils, and herbal mixtures into the pool, and each pool has access to it's own set of labeled levers, so a person or group of people can customize their bath while they're having it, adding more cool water, hot water, or various add-ins. The bath bean is more of a paste due to the addition of a ton of collagen. (They get it from the kitchen's bone broth. The bones are not human, but that doesn't stop visiting disciples from scaring each other about it. Don't piss off the Yiling Louzu or you'll end up in the soap.)

#MDZS #The Untamed #what do i. Tag this as #Nie Sect #Jin Sect #Lan Sect #Jiang Sect #Wen Sect #Yiling Wei Sect #Worldbuilding #??? #This is silly ignore me

[monkeymakoko]

Sandu Shengshou is also human.

#sangcheng #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #nie huaisang #nie sect #jiang sect #mdzs #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #cql #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #fanart #inking #my art #monkeymakoko

[seineko]

ok, let's talk about jiang cheng.

i hate the two extremes that the fandom has when portraying jiang cheng's character.

he's either the best brother the world has to offer or the worst scum of the beings that ever stepped his foot on the planet.

not many actually acknowledge the canon jiang cheng.

(note that i'm neither speaking against him nor for him so take every sentence without any emotion behind it. also, this is written by a person who doesn't like jiang cheng as a character but doesn't hate him - at least most of the time - either, so do with that what you will.)

he lead the siege against the burial mounds in the grief of losing his sister, the person who he loved the most in the world. but it was stupid that he, of all people killed wei wuxian with the reason being wei wuxian killed his sister, when jiang yanli so clearly sacrificed herself so that wei wuxian could live.

he was entirely jealous of wei wuxian since he was a child and has taken decisions in his adulthood with jealousy and envy many times. but it is also important to note that ever since he was a kid he did not have the acknowledgement of his father and all he had in the form of his mother was a person who constantly compared him to someone he wanted to (and to an extent, succeeded) love as a brother, berating him for not being as good and taking put her jealousy and trauma on her child, making him a shell of negative emotions. the latter doesn't, by any means, excuse the former (i cannot stress this enough), but the former cannot be said without acknowledging the latter.

jiang cheng's feelings towards wei wuxian are very complicated for both us as an audience and himself too. he cared for him and wanted him by his side. the fact that he at least cared for wei wuxian is shown when he distracts the wen guards onto himself so that wei wuxian is not caught by them. like it or not, jiang cheng did sacrifice his core for wei wuxian as wei wuxian did for him. and he wanted wei wuxian to be always by his side, it's clear when he speaks about the broken promises between them. but, at a lot of times i felt that he treated wei wuxian as a subordinate more than a brother even though he wanted to treat him as a brother, but he never really realized that he didn't actually treat him the way he did. (correct me if i'm wrong here but this is how i interpreted it.)

jiang cheng is a hypocrite (like a lot of people in this series). he always speaks about wei wuxian's debt to the jiang sect, but he completely brushes aside his own debt to wen ning and wen qing and doesn't even attempt to help them when they're in a dire situation. in fact, he led the siege that killed their family in the burial mounds. lotus pier was fallen and he could not afford to anger the entire cultivation world, but if he holds someone else as to how they should regard a debt, he himself should regard it the same.

fandom has created the divide where either jiang cheng becomes this ray of sunshine for wei wuxian and helps him by turning his back against the entire cultivation world, which is disregarding what his very character is written for, giving into the societal pressure and someone who runs on negative emotions due to his upbringing. or, he is the evil person who doesn't acknowledge the sacrifice made by wei wuxian and demanding that it doesn't matter if he gave his core to jiang cheng because he owes the jiang sect. an action of wei wuxian that jiang cheng evidently has very strong feelings for and sends him into an emotional mess (granted, it doesn't take much for him to go into an emotional mess). and i hate both versions just as equally.

talking specifically about jiang cheng and wei wuxian's relationship, i personally believe that there is no reconciliation. there is an silent agreement that they do not hate each other and an acknowledgement of what has happened between them (silent, because it is never actually spoken about in detail after the mess of emotions that is guanyin temple), but they cannot put what has happened behind them and treat each other like they did during their teenage years, as much as people would love to see that. they can be nothing more than two people who shared a past and cannot be anything less than that either.

wang zhoucheng softened jiang cheng's character for me along with the writing for cql i admit, but it has also made me see things that i otherwise wouldn't have after looking at the sheer bitterness that the adult jiang cheng was in other adaptations.

either ways, i can't bring myself to completely like his character. i dislike his character for a lot of things he did. a lot of actions he has taken without having to bear the consequences of them while every other person of 'lower standing', in their eyes, has to bear the consequences of not only their own but also others has left a sense of bitterness in me that i don't think can ever leave.

there are many other things that i haven't spoken about, but it just pissed me off a bit to always see either 'good brother jiang cheng' or 'scum of earth jiang cheng' and the rarity of the actual jiang cheng.

on a side note, i hate yu ziyuan. she had a powerful core and a husband who would've listened to her but all she did in life was let bitterness consume her to such an extent that she fucked up the life of both her own son and an orphan, even forcing her daughter to take up the role of a mother at a young age. she could've been so much more but she decided to waste her entire life having jealousy and envy over a woman who never actually directly did anything to her, going as far as to abusing the said woman's son (emotionally, if not physically before the lotus pier fell).

i don't have any strong feelings about jiang fengmain's character but he could've done a lot to help jiang cheng by just acknowledging him. he wasn't a good parent and it can never be excused by how shitty his relationship was with his wife.

the only jiang who deserves everything is jiang yanli. precious, precious shijie.

#jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #jiang sect #jiang yanli #jiang fengmian #yu ziyuan #wei wuxian #wei ying #mo dao zu shi #chen qing ling #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #the founder of diabolism #character study #character discussion #what i feel is #canon jiang cheng #yunmeng jiang #wen ning #wen qing

[jcs-singular-slut-strand]

YOU TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE CITY, NOT THE CITY OUT THE MAN ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

#jin ling #the untamed #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #yunmeng jiang #jiang sect #lotus pier #yunmeng clarity bell