#Base in Chinese history

[lesdrawsposts]

Another post <3

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

chinese guzhuang fashion

[yinyuedijun]

gunning straight for the racism and colonialism narrative w this one because I love to be cancelled

[ms-hells-bells]

the alien hearing is proof that actually nutjob men are taken 1000x more seriously than any woman ever in the world.

[spotsupstuff]

here's a neat vid, go watch it if you haven't yet

there's Some things that i don't completely agree with personally, like attributing the Third sin to Materialism rather than Connection (i'd argue that the Ancients had no big issue with being materialistic, considering their golden attires and such- and that going with Connection overall better addresses both the core of Materialism and relationships overall) and then attributing the word Dynasty specifically to asian cultures but that's more history/word definition beef more than anything djgklsjlcgjkd

oh how i'd love to have a debate with this guy about Ancients...

[taihua]

The next historical conundrum for tonight: as of the present timeline story in TGCF, Xie Lian makes reference to monks and bodhisattvas, so Buddhism is part of the cultural landscape in which they operate. Thus the present timeline is at least comparable to the Han dynasty, ~200 BC to ~220 CE, but it could also be as late as the Tang dynasty where Buddhism was at its height of popularity in China (~600-900 CE)

If we assume present storyline = Han dynasty, then there would not have been a prominent Buddhist presence in Xianle kingdom, but it could be if the present storyline = Tang

and yes this is all to justify one nonessential but dramatic sentence in the fic I started writing

(My other timeline notes are that anything after the Yuan dynasty doesn't make sense for a tgcf comparison because that's when you start getting more foreign presence in China and there's nothing in the text that suggests they're at that point. Also Qing dynasty is a completely different culture which makes it questionable in terms of its usefulness for fic research)

[todayisafridaynight]

Strongly agree on the learning experience it’s honestly wonderful. The moment of ‘hol up a minute that can’t be right wtf is this’ to ‘i’m now gonna spend 5 hours researching the topic in depth so I can make it right. In my mind :)’ and then being blessed with knowledge you wouldn’t have gained otherwise.

Thank you rgg I know this silliness is just a ploy to promote education in the yakuza fandom

And to their defense they do decent research when it comes to the political scene, especially within the actual organized crime, and reflect on it subtly in the games so that’s nice

Very clever strategy on their part to get people to sign up for modern japan history classes really

[lanliingwang]

maybe I should start sharing historical/fengshen yanyi jiang ziya info on here so that a) fate fandom's perceptions aren't completely based on his first story appearance in tunguska (often in a negative sense) and b) it could be a catalyst for summoning fate jiang ziya

[annoyingbitch83]

I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT HOW ZHANG HAO KISSED HANBIN'S NECK AND THEN THEY HAD DATING ALLEGATIONS ON THE IFRST DAY ON THE JOB!??1?1

[burningthegallows]

anybody else still thinking about lltg?

[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

[hesitationss]

reading this LA Times article about chinese americans in Eureka, CA…racism is insane. it’s also interesting to have documentation of the thought process behind specific actions because at the turn of the century when plague his america, they actually were burning down the buildings in chinatown to “kill the disease” and the chinese ppl that white america was scapegoating at the time; and by that point chinatowns were own and built by chinese merchants/clan heads rather than being rented by the white man. but it is hilarious that kicking an entire minority out of a county could by seen a good christian (1st pic) non violence lmfao when 25 years prior they were slaughtering Indigenous ppl (3rd pic).

similar things were happening in canada too esp the part about being kicked out of towns. esp in the prairies, my friend who is Blackfoot was looking in their town’s archives and actually found an ancestor who was a chinese worker. and another friend’s husband who’s great grandfather was a chinese slave in peru. i really wish we were not eradicated from labour history, there is so much survival and so many ways that family has been found despite how christians see our lifestyles…

[rachel-sylvan-author]

"Imperial Woman" by Pearl S. Buck

Thank you @deannalovesbooks for the rec! It's the first time I heard of it, and it's very good! ❤️

[unidentifiedfuckingthing]

the RETVRN way people talk about preindustrial clothing manufacture is grating and somehow i just saw a blog post saying that corsetry is like, an agent of the divine feminine because the female spine naturally yearns for the edwardian s-bend posture and not the modern Male Posture women have been forced to adopt (???) but its actually so crazy learning about how much ingenuity went into perfectly maximizing the utility of clothes back when they were reasonably valuable

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Worse still, one of his colleagues wrote, even formerly respectable families

are mad for wealth and eminence . . . Taking delight in filing accusations, they use their power to press their cases so hard that you can't distinguish between the crooked and the straight. Favoring lavishness and fine style, they drag their white silk garments as they roam about such that you can't tell who is honored and who base.

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

[atlas-atsus]

I have literally never seen any discussion of this film outside of the class I watched it in why is that this was such a horrifying film please we need to talk about it