#Yu Yan

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Yu Yan and her studio share hanfu photoshoot

[weiyi-swy]

my main tav yu yan :3 theyre a paladin!!!!

[devdas5z]

Yu Yan in Rollacoaster Magazine

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【 Shining Nikki TW+CN 】

• Exclusive Collection

• Spring Festival 2023 (Chinese New Year 2023)

【 Shining Nikki TW+CN 】

• Exclusive Collection

• Spring Festival 2023 (Chinese New Year 2023)

Sunshine Changhong, Only a Shadow of a Thousand Mountains.

Walking on the bustling market in Yu Country, Yu Yan suddenly felt, had he ever been to a more grotesque place?

There...is there still someone waiting for him ?

Suit Display ::

Original :: Rì guàn chánghóng (日贯长虹)

Recolor :: Thousand Mountains (只鬋千山)

Collection :: Exclusive

8th Exclusive • 瑩瑚歲景

Spring Festival 2023 ( Chinese New Year 2023 )

Designer :: Yuyan (羽焱)

Rarity :: UR

Attribute :: Cool

Type :: Exclusive • Pavilion

Date :: 17—29/01/2023

Design Concept ::

The clouds are all over the sky, the sky is dim,

However, everything here is inferior to the red golden flames in the young man's eyes.

He brushed his hand across his chest,

The shark pearl fell into the sea level in an instant, where the girl's sleeping place is,

It is also the place where the sea and the sky kiss.

[k-airportstyle]

Yu Yan - September 20th 2023

[91m10]

I love your OC's! Yu Yan is particularly good. Would it be alright to request a drawing of her?

Yes, of course! I'd love requests for them. :-)

[mn3m0s1n3s]

"Yu Yan" (Fable) by Faye Wong. 2000.

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— Yu Yan via Weibo

[xielianhua]

Yu Yan for OMNI Magazine

[karaage-chicken]

౨ৎ 喻言 ౨ৎ

[weidaoduzun3]

Commenting on a Line and Commentary from the Yellow Emperors Hidden Agreement 黃帝陰符經 as Commented by Yu Yan 俞琰 (1258-1314)

In [human] nature there are skillfulness and clumsiness; they can be hidden and stored.

Commentary by Yu Yan:

Among people, there are those who have knowledge and those who are foolish. Therefore their nature differs in skillfulness or clumsiness. With regard to [the statements] "great knowledge seems to be foolish" and "great skill seems to be clumsy," (they mean that] one's nature is hidden and stored within and is not perceived by other people. There fore it says, "in [human] nature there are skillfulness and clumsiness; they can be hidden and stored."

Why would one hide their intelligence; their skill? This is not saying to be “fake” or to come across as ignorant or appearing to be “skillful” by hiding ones “clumsiness.” There is a few things that come to mind on why it’s best to “hide our skillfulness and clumsiness.”

[NOTE: this is not an explanation on *how* to hide these things. The *how* can only be transmitted from teacher —>student from my understanding. I am musing on this for my own understanding. I am in no way encouraging anyone, nor myself to starting “hiding.” This is just to explain and help myself understand why it is good to “hide”].

For when we display our intelligence or our clumsiness so blatantly, these create preferences. To have human based preferences is a big no no in the Zhuangzi (chapter 2) and Huainanzi (1.5). The Huainanzi has this to say about preferences and our perception of them:

"When perception comes into contact with things, preferences arise. When preferences take shape and perception is enticed by external things, our nature cannot return to the self, and the heavenly patterns are destroyed."

Zhunagzi chapter 2 齊物論 gives a long dialogue on why “this is” & “this isn’t” truly misses the mark of things:

[2.11.15] "In such a way the Sage brings about harmony by taking “it is” and “it is not” and let’s them rest on the potter’s wheel of Heaven."

[12.12.4] "The manifestation of “this is” and “this is not” is what diminished the Dao."

[2.14.14] "Everyone else distinguishes things in order to impose their views on each other. Therefore, I say that in such “distinction” there is a failure to recognize."

Thus when we overtly and blatantly display our intelligence and or clumsiness, we create artificial perceptions of “I am this” and “I am that” or “I am not this” and “I am not that”. Such an err. Heaven makes our distinctions for us; Heaven has divided the ten-thousand kind of entities, and the seasons into their proper and respective places. We should follow Heaven and accord ourselves with its spontaneity 自然; for our own ziran is the same of Heavens.

So to circle back to the Yinfu Jing — the “statements” Yu Yan refers to are from Laozi 45. What do they mean? I think this is a teaching that alludes to the last of the three treasures 三寶 as mentioned in Laozi 67: 不敢為天下先. Literally it means “dare not to be first.” When we “dare not to be first” or more Simply be modest, we comply with Heaven and it’s own natural and spontaneous distinctions. For by hiding our skill and clumsy natures, we encourage the One Hundred Families to not have preferences set towards us.

This is why indeed “great knowledge seems to be foolish” and “great skill seems to be clumsy”. For when great knowledge makes itself known, we fail at 不敢為天下先, Which destroys Heavenly patterns and bars our nature from returning to the self (Huainazi 1.5).

Furthermore, this is further confirmed by Heshang Gong and his commentary on the Laozi 45: "Great skill seems as though clumsy."

大巧若抽，大巧謂多寸術也。若拙者，亦不敢見其能。

Great skill means abundantly talented and skilled. Those who "seem as though clumsy" simply do not show their abilities.

This why those who “do not show their abilities” namely the things hidden and stored as mentioned in the Yinfu Jing, seem to be clumsy, but truly they are not. For people who hide have returned to the true essence of reality 無極 — Ultimate Nothingness.

So, in conclusion as I understand Laozi 45 and the things “hidden and stored” in the Yinfu Jing — this brings about a certain clarity and tranquility that brings all under Heaven into alignment. We should let go of our preferences, or rather we must know when to stop having so many of them. For biases and preferences are evolutionary built into us for survival purposes. This is something neither you nor I can get around. Ideally, when I and the reader gains a teacher in such profound mysteries — we can learn how to properly do this without harming ourselves.

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Yu Yan in two looks for ELLE Style Awards 2023

[weiyi-swy]

more yu yan, some gale, a group pic sketch and my solo run durge joshua HAHA i want him to aggressively pursue halsin but idk if halsin will still like u if ur like. the durge . LMAOOOOOO

[devdas5z]

Yu Yan in OK Magazine

[bishy437]

obsessed with yan wushi and his two rotten kids

[k-airportstyle]

Yu Yan - July 6th 2023