#jingshi

[korpikorppi]

Guys, I just now noticed one more interesting little detail in the Untamed!

You know the names of the buildings in the Cloud Recesses: the lecture room/hall Lanshi (兰室, Lánshì, "Orchid Room"); Yashi (雅室, Yǎshì, "Elegant Room") – the reception room/hall; the spirit-summoning room/hall Mingshi (冥室, Míngshì, "Underworld Room" or "Room of Darkness"); Hanshi (寒室, Hánshì, "Frost Room") - Lan Xichen's residence; and Lan Wangji's Jingshi (静室, Jìngshì, "Quiet Room"), right?

The character used to write the "shì", room, in the names is 室, here seen in the Lanshi and the Yashi (the names are read from right to left):

As a side note, the Lan seem to use the traditional rather than the simplified characters, so the "lán" in the Lanshi is written with 蘭 rather than 兰.

BUT. Not so in the Jingshi! Instead of the 室, a slightly different character is used for the "room":

My trusty dictionary did not know the character in question, so I started to look at what was different:

As such, the character 凶 (xiōng) means act of violence, murder, evil. An evildoer. A murderer. And as Lan Xichen told Wei Wuxian, we know who lived in the Jingshi before it became Lan Wangji's residence: "It is the place where our mother lived in the Cloud Recesses".

So, it seems that when the house became Madam Lan's prison, the character was changed to reflect her crime, denoting the place as the quiet room of a murderer. Accentuated by the reversed colours of the sign:

This has probably been quite self-evident to anyone who actually speaks and reads Chinese, but was quite an oooff! to me as I realised. One more killer detail in CQL 😟.

And while I was at it, I just had to check what it says above the gate (seen here when LWJ returns home with the Emperor's Smile):

As far as I can read it, the characters are 影竹堂 (yǐng zhú táng), which I freely translate as "Bamboo Shadow Court". An apt name for the place.

Hopefully it offered some solace to Madam Lan.

And oh, I just have to add! As Hanshi is the Sect Leader's residence, Lan Xichen is living in their father's house, while Lan Wangji is living in their mother's. And the two houses are more or less identical, down to the furnishings (just check the scene where Lan Xichen confronts Wen Chao and his muddy boots in ep8 vs. The Wangxian Scene in ep43). So did Qingheng-jun have the house built for his wife, identical to the house she was not allowed to live in? That is quite plausible, in universe. Out universe, they probably had only so many buildings to shoot in :).

#jingshi #madam lan #lan wangji #cloud recesses #theuntameddaily #all the details they put in #the untamed #cql #cql meta #translations and explanations #my translations #so they might be questionable #random late night thoughts #korpikorppi #mine

[dizzydandelionsandhyperhydrillas]

No resentment, no energy.

Just peaceful toot-toot!

#mdzs #mdzs fanart #mo dao zu shi #mxtx mdzs #mxtx #wei ying #mo xiang tong xiu #mxtx fanart #wei wuxuan #chengqing #jingshi #i would have blurred the blush but its too cutttte! #I just wanted to try backgrounds and am disappointed #but I'll definitely get better! #the stairs are weird i know... #abd the tree whatever it is... #but i love the chimes!

[daynight139]

Morning!Lanzhan!

#mdzs donghua #anime and manga #art #mdzs fanart #donghua #wei wuxian #wei ying #digital drawing #fanart #digital fanart #lanzhan #morningmdzs #jingshi #red ribbon #white ribbon #cloud recesses #wangxian fanart #wangxian #lanwangji #lanwangjiweiwuxian

[akakumoeteru]

Was it just a dream...?

#魔道祖師 #忘羨 #mdzs #wangxian #my art #my art 2021 #忘羨ワンドロワンライ #drawn for JP fandom's WX 1 hour drawing/writing challenge #prompts were jingshi and dream #backdate later

[pastelcheckereddreams]

The Jingshi in Autumn by nikkidraws

Turns out, I didn’t mess it up after all 😅 although I’ve been reliabily informed by my bestie that that bridge looks likes it’s rising from the pond similar to the Loch Ness Monster. I may put this up on my shop over at INPRNT depending on interest - so let me know! I plan on doing a lot more of these kind of marker projects in future.

Speaking of my shop, there’s also currently (July 2023) a storewide sale of up to 40% off your order, and $5 wordwide shipping 👀 If you like my CQL set design saga, why not check out my set blueprints? Or you can head over to my kofi if prints aren’t your thing. I’m still a fairly new artist so I appreciate your support 🙏

#nikkidraws #the jingshi #cql #set design #cql sets #cql fanart #mdzs fanart #the untamed fanart #the untamed #the untamed set design #chen qing ling #wangxian #lan wangji #wei wuxian #cloud recesses #promarkers #architecture sketch #chinese architecture #xianxia #the chinese fantasy architecture saga continues

[fistfuloflightning]

He had his father’s directions to Gusu, but the journey was longer than he thought. He had gotten lost again and again, guided back by the weasel spirits Wen Qing and Wen Ning, had been given spiritual gifts from the tree spirit Xiao Xingchen, had been given food by the eager wolf-dog Jin Ling.

But when he arrived in the mountains, Lan Sizhui realized all that meant nothing, as he did not know how to reach the city in the clouds. He did not have Lan Wangji’s ability to summon clouds nor would Bichen respond to him the way it had to his mother. Helpless, he found himself staring longingly into the sky.

A great gust of wings and Wei Wuxian landed beside him in a whirlwind of black and white and scarlet. “Uncle! You followed me,” Lan Sizhui said in surprise.

The crane bent his long neck to look into the boy’s eyes. “Did you think I would not? I hatched alongside your father’s river, have guarded it and him, and cherish him like a brother. Do not think I would not protect his son when he is unable to.”

Lan Sizhui felt like a little boy again, taking his first steps with his hand fisted in his uncle’s feathers, wobbly and uncertain, and felt that all over again. Relying on Wei Wuxian’s strength to keep himself moving forward.

Lan Sizhui returned his face to the billowing, gold-touched clouds high above. Somewhere hidden in them was the great city his mother had left to see the world below, and had returned to a captive. “I have been given aid to get here, and gifts, but all of it would be for nothing if I cannot sprout wings.”

Wei Wuxian clacked his beak in thought.

“I will take you,” he decided. “It was I who first urged your mother to leave the Cloud Recesses to visit the world below, despite her being forbidden from doing so. Never before have I cherished the consequences of my actions so dearly.” The crane touched his scarlet forehead against Lan Sizhui’s.

The boy gripped Bichen tightly, steeling himself. His mother was waiting. “Very well. I do not know what waits for me above, but at least I have a fierce protector in you, Uncle.”

“Always.”

Gripping his shoulders securely, Wei Wuxian carried him into the sky. And with every great wingbeat, Lan Sizhui could feel himself grow closer to his mother, her presence like a bright beacon.

#mdzs #mdzs au #idk what to call it #the cloud maiden and the river god #zhancheng #jiang cheng #lan wangji #female lan wangji #lan sizhui #wei wuxian #idk why I keep turning wwx into birds 😆 #he’s very bird-oriented in my head #he’s been a crow and now a crane 🤷🏻‍♀️ #this au is kinda cowherd/weaver maid inspired ig #jc’s anchored to his river and lwj is sealed in the jingshi #good thing their kid is the perfect mix of both and able to go wherever the hell he wants #(with help from his fave uncle ofc) #my art #mdzs art #my writing

[pointdotiozao]

"This close, when Lan Wangji lifted his gaze it was all he could see. He’d been wrong in his guess; the panicked expression in his eyes was not fear, but the desperation of a man who sees a desert pool after only leagues of mirages, and is not sure if this one at last is real."

- A quiet room, a night, a dawn, Chapter one: a night, by BarbV

#the untamed #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #fanfic #wangxian #that's some half-assed jingshi I'm sorry #myart

[lotuslate]

post canon WWX in all of his happy glory ☀️ commissioned by @nthngtoseehere-blog 🌼

a follow up to this piece 🥀

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#mdzs #mdzs fanart #wei wuxian #wei ying #mo dao zu shi #the grandmaster of demonic cultivation #jessbye #egg #was sooooo happy to work on this commission u dont even knowwww #guys theres so many juxtapositions i included in this w the original piece #and ive already talked abt it on twitter but im gonna say it here too #ITS THE SKELETON ARMS/LAN RIBBONS AND BONE CROWN/SUN RAYS AND BURIAL MOUNDS/JINGSHI WINDOW #AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH #I have so many feelins

[chrononautintraining]

pale shadows of forgotten names Fandom: The Untamed Pairing: wangxian Rating: Teen and Up Word Count: 56, 517 Summary: To protect the Wen, Wei Wuxian throws himself on the mercy of the Lan Sect. To protect Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji marries him. To protect them all, Lan Xichen orders the Yiling Laozu's seclusion in the Jingshi. But the Jingshi had another occupant in the past. One who lingers on, furious to think that history might repeat.

#chrononautical writes #the untamed #wangxian #complete #madam lan lives #jingshi mystery #pov play #fandom trumps hate

[stiltonbasket]

the Jingshi kitties are happily going on Kitty Adventures? One of them is in the middle of the pond in a pot. There's two kitties on the roof. A kitty is stuck in wwx's closet?

Wangxian are at their wits' end. When the cats were still tiny kittens, their adventures rarely went any further than trying to scale their strangely-shaped mother cats (i.e., Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, and Xiao-Yu) and sleep in their hair fur; but now, they're climbing up the chimney in the kitchen and stealing Forbidden Items from the Mingshi. ;-;

#asks #the jingshi kittens!

[ozymandien]

haven’t drawn him in a while and that’s simply unacceptable, so here: lazy hanguang-jun with bunny

#pov: you're wei wuxian in the jingshi #lan wangji thinkerism is back #my most special girl i love him #this looks like a quick sketch but it actually took me a few hours cause i haven't practiced lineart in sooooo long #i hope u like him as much as i do <3 this was fun #lan wangji #lan zhan #lan wangji fanart #mdzs #cql #the untamed #mdzs fanart #the untamed fanart #my fanart #myart

[llycaons]

#cql txp #I think it would be fun to see a large sample size so it would be cool if this was reblogged! #personally im torn between like four options #I still am the LP boat ride the jingshi and koi tower #I'm probably forgetting or missing a bunch too #they just have so many!

[random-mdzs-thoughts-dumpster]

The way in which the flashback starts in the untamed is so funny.

JC: who are you?

WWX: Trustfall! (except there's no one to catch him)

#The untamed #cql #And then he woke up in the jingshi #So lwj took him to gusu while he was unconscious #The 30 episodes in between distracted me so much I just realized this

[catseyenebula]

#missed the jingshi😔 #mdzs #wangxian #time for a rewatch #animal crossing

[miles-of-heart]

Madam Lan was framed.

The only one to believe her is Cangse Sanren, who eventually uncovers the truth. But just before she can reveal the evidence that will prove her friend's innocence, Cangse Sanren and her husband are killed in a "nighthunt accident."

Anyway that's my headcanon of the week: It's all connected.

#Someday years after the end of canon #wangxian find old letters hidden under the floorboards of the Jingshi #and realize they're from Cangse Sanren to Mama Lan #and start looking for the truth of what really happened to their mothers #cql headcanon #madam lan #cangse sanren #plot bunnies up for adoption

[pastelcheckereddreams]

New attempts at drawing the Jingshi are in progress. I'm still just winging the whole drawing in perspective thing, but I'm excited about this one.

#nikkidraws #the jingshi #cql fanart #wip #work in progress #wangxian house #wangxian