#Chinese society

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少年的你 [Better Days] (Derek Tsang, 2019)

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“We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.” ~ Liam Callanan, The Cloud Atlas

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"Girl and Tree - Planche No. 13" by Zhang Xiaogang, 2009

Arty-Fact: Girl and Tree - Planche No. 13 belongs to the set of twenty lithographs from The Storyteller's Enchantments of Zhang Xiaogang. The lithographs were inspired by old family photos and represent Xiaogang's Family and Bloodlines series, where the artist explores the concept of family and collectivism in the Chinese society.

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Golden Orchid Societies

Golden Orchid Societies were communities of women in the Pearl River Delta region of southern China who chose not to marry, or not to live with their husbands. Golden Orchid sisters may have been asexual, aromantic, women-loving-women, or had other reasons to avoid traditional marriage.

Golden Orchid Societies generally consisted of small groups of five or so women, who lived together and pooled their financial resources. Instead of marrying a man, some Golden Orchid sisters had a solo wedding, showing their desire to remain independent from a husband. Like other weddings, these weddings were family affairs, with a banquet funded by the woman’s parents.

Many Golden Orchid groups lived together for their whole lives, and saved up to retire as a community.

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[Image description: Liang Jieyun, 85, and Huang Li-e, 90, two of the last surviving Golden Orchid sisters; they are two elderly Chinese women, facing the camera and photographed close up]

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Mandate Of Heaven And Supreme Justice

In the Zhou dynasty, the concept of the Mandate of Heaven, revolutionary for Chinese philosophy, emerged and took root for millennia. According to the then political-religious narrative, the Mandate of Heaven was given to the most worthy and righteous one. While from the very beginning it served as an encouraging rationale for overthrowing the Shang dynasty, more and more ambiguities arose as the…

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"Chopsticks in a bowl of rice is kind of... is like a hello and goodbye" - @julialepetit

[devonico]

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[unityrain24]

THIS IS SO COOL!! i did not know about this!!

basically the article is talking about "the golden orchid society", a society of chinese lesbians/wlw who rejected heteronormativity from the 1600s-1900s, also some ace/aro and even cishet women who rejected the standard. very cool read!!

[rongzhi]

The closer to the end the show it gets, the more cheesy the dumb “crackdown on crime” shit, the farther away from my screen I watch the show (I am across the room)

[mimirjoo]

First pass for a Prowler haunting a cyberpunk Binondo, Manila. Story details below the cut.

Lore time baby: - She and her sibling (this universe's Spiderperson) are half-siblings, the illegitimate children of some rich jackass who abandoned their mothers - She discovered her sibling's existence via a tip and found them after their mother died. She became their legal guardian from then on and provided money for their welfare. She was often away, but loving. - She fell in with the wrong people when she was younger and became a hitman for hire - Her sibling moves to Manila on a senior high scholarship to a fancy school and gets bitten by a radioactive spider during a tour of a lab, you know the drill. - She wanted to shield them from her experiences in the dark underbelly of the city, and when they discover her identity + she realizes she very nearly murdered her sibling in a fight her worst fear comes true. She loves her sibling more than life itself, but when his faith in her utterly shatters she's at a complete loss at what to do and runs away - She gets yeeted into Nueva York and goes on the run until she gets captured

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The Year of the Everlasting Storm (VVAA - 2021)

(“The Break Away”, Anthony Chen’s section)

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You speak of men who have long decayed together with their bones nothing but words has survived when a gentleman is in tune with the time he rides a carriage when he is out of tune he makes his way disheveled as he is. I have heard that just as the best merchant keeps his stores hidden so that he appears to possess nothing so the true gentleman conceals his abundant inner power beneath an appearance of foolishness. Rid yourself of pride and desire, put aside your fancy manner and your lustful ways. They will bring you nothing but harm.That is all that I've to say."

(Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu)

[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...

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Hall of Patriarchs: Little Shrine In The Grotto

A modest Hall of Patriarchs (祖師殿) in its austere simplicity. Dating from the Song dynasty (but probably much older), the temple is hidden in the Jinshui Grotto (金水洞), Yongtai mountains, the Mingshanshi (名山室), Fuzhou.

These mountains, listed in the classic source “The Book of Tao” (《道書》) the seventh blessed place under the Heavens, are associated with both Taoist and Buddhist saints. Their possible connection with the Seven Ancestors (七祖圖) of the White Lotus (白蓮) Sect is also curious.

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On this date in 2001, at the 73rd Academy Awards, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000) was named Best Foreign Film.

The four main actors all spoke Mandarin, but with different accents. Chow Yun-Fat had a Cantonese accent, Michelle Yeoh had a Malaysian/English accent, Ziyi Zhang had a Beijing accent, and Chang Chen had a Taiwanese accent. Because of the difficulty some Chinese-speaking markets had with the voices, some markets actually had a dubbed version (into standard Mandarin) of the soundtrack. According to Yun-Fat, he had to do twenty-eight takes of his first scene on the first day of shooting, because he had such difficulty speaking Mandarin. When asked in an interview with Time Magazine how he felt about his Mandarin pronunciation, he replied, "It's awful."

As Yeoh did not speak Mandarin, the script was presented to her phonetically with help from Mandarin-speaking crew members. In fact, her Malaysian accent can be heard throughout.

While Zhang's character is obviously highly trained and skillful in martial arts, the actress herself never had any official martial arts training at all. Instead, she used her dance techniques to learn her moves in these scenes as if they were a dance rather than a fight (which, in terms of creating and filming them, is actually not that far from the truth).

Taiwanese-born Hong Kong actress Shu Qi was originally cast in Zhang's role of Jiaolong Yu and worked on the film for several weeks, until her agent pulled her from the movie to do a Pepsi commercial in Japan. She has since changed agents. The first draft of the screenplay said, "You will note in the script that none of the fight scenes are described, and I will just inform you now that they will be the greatest fight scenes ever in the history of cinema, period." (IMDb)

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[babala-chongya]

Yoruichi is somali because I know she speaks Arabic it was once revealed to me in a dream

Akon is manchu but nobody knows because he doesn't care what others think of it (although that would imply he'd have that weird ass qing dynasty hairstyle with one singular lock of hair on the back of his head, look it up. I try to avoid thinking about it, he'd look like feyd rautha)

Ikkaku is at least somewhat chinese. Idk im biased maybe. But his bankai is literally a dao cmon