#zhang zongchang

[prohibitionprincesses]

Feibo Girl

For much of China, the phrase “Roaring Twenties” may have a less jovial meaning. While the U.S. is in the middle of its Jazz Age, China is in the middle of its Warlord Era. The end of the Qing Dynasty has seen China is split into waring fractions called cliques, with those living in the country suffering the worst violence. It’s an especially dangerous time to be a woman.

Fortunately, the Fa family lives in Shanghai, where the wars usually aren’t as close, and women’s rights are blossoming. Heavy with Western influence, the neon-lit city is “the cosmopolitan Paris of the East.” It’s an even blend of old and new. Ancient-looking ships sail past modern skyscrapers, and pedestrians push wooden carts next to buses and trollies. [Link] It’s a good thing the women of Shanghai have more opportunities, because the warlords impose high taxes on their people, and ill veteran Fa Zhou can no longer work. His wife brings in some money sewing trendy qipaos, but it’s not enough to cover necessities and the warlord’s taxes. So Mulan takes it upon herself to save her family from financial ruin.

She first tries getting a job at a cabaret called the Lucky Cricket. Her mother and grandmother help give her the makeover needed to transform Mulan into a winking Feibo Girl—a Chinese flapper. Then, hesitantly, Mulan bobs her hair using a long, sharp family heirloom. But despite her best efforts, Mulan’s clumsiness clashes with the cabaret owner’s inability to listen, resulting in a show that entertains everybody for all the wrong reasons. While the patrons laugh wildly and snark that the performer is “on fire,” the literally inflamed owner loudly fires Mulan.

Ashamed, Mulan sits in the family’s garden, deep in thought. Near an opened window, Grandma belts out to American jazz on the radio. Grandma’s dance session is interrupted by an announcement from Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, a political and military leader seeking to reunite China and put an end to the warlords. He is recruiting soldiers for what he calls “the Northern Expedition.” Mulan—athletic, strategic, crafty, and often mistaken for a boy—perks at the announcement.

Since Mulan has already been bobbing her hair and binding her breasts per Western flapper fashion, all she really needs is a fake name. She enlists in the National Revolution Army under the alias “Ping.” Joining her are a tiny dragon sent by her ancestors, and the mascot from the Lucky Cricket. Training with both swords and machine guns, “Ping” initially causes some mayhem (thanks in no small part to pranks from her comrades). But by the time the troop boards the train out to their first battle, Ping is one of the most promising recruits Captain Li Shang has ever seen. Control of the railways is crucial to the warlords’ power, and most battles are fought near tracks. While squeezed onto the train and speeding through the country, the soldiers’ songs about girls worth fighting for are punctuated with harrowing scenes of massacred villages. They pull to a stop at a town that’s been burned to the ground, where Li Shang’s father lies among the dead. This is not the work of just any warlord. This was the infamous “Dog-Meat General,” Zhang Zongchang. A particularly ruthless and incompetent ruler, Zongchang is the most feared of China’s warlords. Mulan’s ingenuity leads to the troop’s first major victory, when she creates an avalanche that buries Dog-Meat’s most important railroad—with most of his troops still onboard. While in the infirmary, Mulan’s true sex is revealed. At first, Shang and the other men don’t know how to feel. But it turns out that a woman may be exactly what they need in their next move against Zongchang. The Dog-Meat General has a harem of 30-50 women, who are assigned numbers because he can’t remember their names. And he forgets their numbers. The guy is just asking for this infiltration. Mulan’s experience at the Lucky Cricket cabaret is now inviable. She drills the men on how to dress and act like attractive ladies, and the operation is soon underway.

Ling, Yao, and Chien Po giggle behind their fans as Zongchang boasts of his supposedly enormous masculinity. Meanwhile, Mulan and Shang quietly move to free the captured Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. Along the way, they rescue another prisoner, from Zongchang’s kitchen; the Dog Meat General’s name has several possible meanings, but he does indeed enjoy certain canine dishes. Mulan saves an energetic pup from the butcher, and names him Little Brother. Though not the brightest pooch in the word, Little Brother sniffs out Sun Yat-Sen’s holding cell.

Back at the harem, it’s time for the next phase of the plan. This requires the drag-queens to take out some guards, which means another distraction is needed. Luckily, the Dog-Meat General also fancies himself a poet. Mushu and the cricket take over the job of distracting him, by claiming to be his new typists.  Cri-Kee hops from ink to paper, taking down what the Dog Meat General dictates, while Mushu observes. The finished poem reads: You tell me to do this,

He tells me to do that. You're all bastards, Go fuck your mother.

"Poem about bastards" by Zhang Zongchang[b]

Instead of applause, this poem is followed by an explosion of fireworks detonating all around his military base. Mulan has finally destroyed Zongchang’s army beyond salvaging. The Dog-Meat General himself is killed by an officer avenging his father; Li Shang blows his smoking pistol with satisfaction. Shang follows Mulan back to Shanghai, where they begin a new life together in a unified China.

AN: This picture came out looking very similar to the design that Jacquelynn Harris gave Mulan in her Disney flapper series. I assume this is because we both based the outfit on Mulan’s matchmaker attire, and her hair on actress Anna May Wong. The background border is clipart.

On the story: In the old version of my Disney flapper series, I set all the stories in the U.S. Someone suggested that I look at non-Western fashion from the era, and I dismissed the idea, ignorantly assuming that the Roaring Twenties only happened in the West. This time around, I decided to check if anything interesting was happening in China in the 1920s…and wow, what a rabbit hole! So many things fit so perfectly with Disney’s version of Mulan, especially with that bizarre Zongchang character. I’d never personally create an Asian villain with “dog meat” in his name, but the Dog-Meat General is one of those “can’t make this sh-t up” historical figures. Of course I took liberties with how the history actually played out, as Disney often does; but all of the personal traits described, from the numbered harem to the literal dog meat to that poem, were real. And yes, he was killed by an officer avenging a relative.  To anyone so inclined, here are a couple of incredible time-capsul videos from China in around this time period.  Up the Wangpoo River to Shanghai (1920s)  A video with sound and color from 1929

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[whatevergreen]

Visiting Pengai Pavillion A poem (allegedly) by Zhang Zongchang What a pavilion Place is fucking nice If the gods can get here I’ll take a seat too Have a drink by the window Sing some songs to the ocean Play some cards I think I’ll get drunk

#zhang zongchang #chinese warlord #wheezing

[cringywhitedragon]

so I was listening to Tokugawa Cup Noodle Kinshirei and it kinda made me want to look up some odd things relating to warlords/shoguns and I remembered a Sam O Nella video

This one hails from China and is a bit more recent in terms of history, thanks to a man by the name of Zhang Zongchang, aka the Dogmeat General.

And well…

He was pretty crazy.

Plus he wrote poetry that is literally something that would make any average 7 year old (or someone like me with a bit of a warped sense of humor) laugh their ass off.

No cup noodle bans but you did have a guy shoot a ton of artillery into the sky over a drought and sky deity (who happens to share the same first name as this man).

Just look at his Wikipedia page and watch the original video:

#reshi rambles #sam o nella #Tokugawa Cup Noodle Kinshirei #weird history #Zhang Zongchang #Youtube

[helpmeimblorboing]

Zhang Zongchang cannot be a real human man

He once proclaimed that he would return in a coffin if he lost a battle and, when he lost, he paraded through the city in a coffin, smoking a cigar

He was called a "General with three long legs" by Shanghai's prostitutes in reference to his penis size. Absolute chad

General 86 because his finest piece was as long as 86 silver dollars stacked on top of each other

These are some of the titles he gained :

Three Don't Knows": Based on Zhang's alleged lack of knowledge about how much money he had, how many soldiers, and how many women in his harem.

"72-Cannon Chang":This nickname might also have been connected to the alleged length of his penis.

His last words were "No good"

He wrote these:

Praying for Rain

Jade Emperor, your last name is also Zhang;

Why do you give Zhang Zongchang such a hard time?

If you don’t make it rain within three days,

First I will turn your temple upside down,

Then I will blast your mom with a big cannon

A poem about bastards

You tell me to do this

He tells me to do that

You're all bastards

Go fuck your mother

"

Zhang's father worked as head shaver and trumpeter, and was an alcoholic. His mother was an exorcist and "practicing witch".

Later that year, he was living quietly in Beppu, Japan, with his mother, though he was thrown into the spotlight again when he "accidentally" shot Prince Xiankai (憲開), a cousin of the deposed emperor Puyi. According to Zhang the gun he was holding while standing at his hotel window happened to go off and shoot the young prince in the back, killing him instantly, though it was more likely he killed the playboy prince for dallying with one of Zhang's many concubines. He was charged, found guilty by a Japanese court and given the choice between 15 days' imprisonment or a $150 (US) fine. He chose the fine.

His funeral attracted family members, ex-retainers, paid mourners, and "the curious"; the funeral procession stretched for 2 miles (3.2 km).

He loved to boast about the size of his penis, which become part of his legend. Zhang was a "well-known womanizer", and kept some 30 to 50 concubines of different nationalities, who were given numbers since he could not remember their names nor speak their language.

He was strongly influenced by a Daoist diviner, Tong Huagu, who had allegedly convinced the warlord of his powers by successfully prophesying that a train would derail. It was rumoured that the diviner had ensured this outcome by bribing some peasants to sabotage the tracks. In summer 1927, a famine struck Shandong particularly hard, and Zhang Zongchang was reported to have gone into a temple of the Dragon King to pray for rain. When this failed to improve the situation, Zhang returned to the temple. In his fury, he slapped the Dragon King's statue several times, and ordered his artillery to shoot into the sky for several hours. He also intended to build a shrine devoted to himself, including a large bronze statue, at Daming Lake.

Holy fuck.

Zhang Zongchang ? More like Zhang Zongchad

"the Chinese warlord Zhang Zongchang, who ruled Shandong during a turbulent period of civil war and was known for his exceptional brutality and sexual exploits, kept his elderly mother near him at all times. Even on campaign, he gave her a personal railcar to accompany his army in."

I can only dream of being this based

#chinese history #zhang zongchang #warring states era #specifically #post-pu yi #based #zhang zongchad #warlord #funny #history

[cryptotheism]

Guy who is an angry western chauvinist because he feels like Chinese history has funnier warlords.

#Zhang Zongchang Posting

[gezora]

Coming back to Tumblr to give a list of some of my favourite Wikipedia articles before peacing out indefinitely again. I hope you all enjoy, and feel free to add your own faves for others to read:

Zhang Zongchang, China's "basest warlord."

Tarrare, the closest thing I think there ever was to a real-life demon.

Dyēus, the progenitor deity to Zeus and Týr, among others.

A list of Egyptian pharaohs, many of whom are unnamed and likely never existed.

Elvis sightings. What it says on the tin.

The 2016 clown sightings. Remember that?

The Lost City of Z and Percy H. Fawcett, the loser who went looking for it

Porphyrios, a big asshole of a whale.

Mocha Dick, another big asshole of a whale.

The Demon core, and by extension any article on the Manhattan Project.

The Gombe Chimpanzee War, for when you wanted to be reminded how evil chimps actually are.

Wendigo, particularly the sections on the wendigo as a concept and so-called "wendigo psychosis."

The Man in the Iron Mask, the guy not the movie.

Yahweh and Yahwism, an interesting predecessor to the Abrahamic faiths.

#wikipedia #fun facts #history #mythology #religion

[romanceyourdemons]

that cao cao may have written some pretty nice ditties, but when it comes to warlord-poets i’m afraid he can’t hold a candle to zhang “the general with three long legs” zongchang, author of such divine lines as these:

Mount Tai is on the blackish side.

Its top is thin; its base is wide.

If you flip it upside down,

its base is thin; its top is wide.

(tr. ran, loquatiously)

You tell me to do this,

He tells me to do that.

You're all bastards,

Go fuck your mother.

(tr. unattributed, wikipedia)

#ryddles

[desudog]

Zhang Zongchang was born to be a blogger tbh

[2urban2fantasy]

Try not to answer this based on morals, just try to figure out who was the most effective

[yu-gi-oh-slavia]

zhang zongchang, the dogmeat general, china's most based warlord,

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.21

452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. 1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed. 1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia. 1797 – A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists. 1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales. 1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia. 1828 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah. 1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine. 1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto. 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory. 1866 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor becomes the first American woman to graduate from dental school. 1874 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition. 1878 – The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut. 1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated. 1896 – An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing. 1913 – Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars. 1916 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins. 1918 – The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. 1919 – German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany. 1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution. 1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup. 1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue. 1929 – In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops. 1934 – Augusto Sandino is executed. 1937 – The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War. 1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga. 1945 – World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the German forces in the Battle of Monte Castello on the Italian front. 1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America. 1948 – NASCAR is incorporated. 1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". 1952 – The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 1958 – The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. 1965 – Malcolm X is gunned down while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. 1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. 1972 – United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations. 1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. 1973 – Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people. 1974 – The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. 1994 – Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia. 1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. 2013 – At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad. 2022 – In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.

#Events

[ceadgearst]

Zhang Zongchang (my favorite warlord-poet)

Me and the dog meat general

Mumbling at a table looking mental

A pen tonal bottle of liquor stands inbetween us

The trust we have to save each other a sip

I wish time didn’t exist so we could could coexist

#poetry #original poem #poem

[sleepylion]

Zhang Zongchang, the Dogmeat General

#youtube

[vicvinegarandhughhoney]

have you watched the new sam o'nella video?

yes and it was incredible, i genuinely don't understand why we don't learn about these people in history class. Zhang zongchang deserves a spotlight 💀💀

[balteathus]

Zhang Zongchang, the Dogmeat General

#Youtube

[whatevergreen]

Zhang Zongchang (1881 – 3 September 1932)

General and Governor of Shantung (Shandong) Province, Zhang was described as China's basest warlord. He was the most hated, and one of the most bizarre.

An opponent of the Nationalists and Communists, he was part of an unsuccessful alliance which sought to oppose Chiang Kai-shek and prop up the corrupt government in Peking (Beijing).

Zhang is not somebody I'd normally draw attention to however it's hard not to be fascinated.

His origins are unusual, his father was an alcoholic who worked as a head-shaver and trumpeter. His mother was a practising witch who performed exorcisms, and who remained with him until her death.

In his youth Zhang became a club bouncer and a bandit, heading his own gang. He became a revolutionary of sorts during the 1911 revolution and joined the army, eventually leading his own division. However finding himself on the losing side during the second revolution (1913), he later murdered one of the founding members of the Republic who had rebelled, in order to prove his loyalty to the new Vice President Feng Guozhang.

Into the 1920s he rose in the ranks, eventually leading his own army. He took control of Shanghai and Nanking (Nanjing) for a time in 1925, and then was appointed Governor of Shantung Province. He included women in his army, and numerous White Russians.

Zhang was heavily involved in the drug trade, and was an opium addict himself. He was also an alcoholic, a gambler, and a sex addict with up to 50 so-called concubines.

His rule of Shantung was disastrous. Excessive taxes, and over-issue of provincial and military paper money that rapidly became worthless caused chaos and poverty. He lived flamboyantly in the provincial capital and brutally supressed any opposition: he had the editor of a critical newspaper shot. Rebel groups began to form in the countryside, and were often successful against his forces.

Zhang is known to have travelled with a coffin, and publicly announced that he would come home in this if he was defeated in battle. When his troops were forced back during one campaign he indeed had himself paraded through the streets, sitting in his coffin and smoking a cigar.

He gained many nicknames including 'Dogmeat General', 'Monster' and 'Lanky', however at least three nicknames including 'Old Eighty-Six' were in reference to the size of his penis. Equal in length to a stack of 86 Mexican silver dollars apparently.

Zhang was also noted - and joked about - for taking his aging mother with him practically everywhere, except on military campaigns.

In the end, his military actions against the Nationalists were a failure and he was ousted in May 1928, fleeing to Japanese controlled Manchuria. He made various attempts to regain power in his remaining years.

During this period he "accidentally" shot and killed a cousin of the last emperor Pu Yi and was given a choice between a 15 day prison sentence or a fine! He paid the fine.

Another story relates how Zhang had deposited a quantity of his military paper money (Provincial Army-Note of Shantung) and provincial bank notes at the British owned HSBC bank branch in Tientsin (Tianjin). A few years after his defeat he snuck in to the city to withdraw funds from his account, no doubt hoping that he would be paid in current notes. The bank however paid him in the very now worthless notes of his regime that he'd deposited. He wasn't in a position to protest.

In 1932 he was assassinated by the nephew of an officer he had killed. Despite the justified widespread hatred of him, his funeral procession stretched for over two miles, though many came out of curiosity or were paid to attend.

Zhang wrote hilariously bad poetry (though some claim others wrote it to slander him):

Visiting Pengai Pavillion

A poem (allegedly) by Zhang Zongchang

What a pavilion Place is fucking nice If the gods can get here I’ll take a seat too Have a drink by the window Sing some songs to the ocean Play some cards I think I’ll get drunk

Also...

Poem About Bastards

You tell me to do this, He tells me to do that. You're all bastards, Go fuck your mother

During a famine and drought in 1927, Zhang prayed for rain in a temple of the Dragon King (a rain and guardian god). When this failed, he returned and slapped the statue of the deity several times, shouting and swearing at it, and threatening to destroy the temple. He then ordered his artillery to shoot into the sky for many hours, after it which it apparently rained. He (or someone) wrote a poem to commemorate the event.

His other known brush with religion was a failed attempt to build a shrine to himself at Daming Lake, but he was ousted before it's completion.

#zhang zhongchang #china #history #warlords