#longji

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Longji , Guangxi

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It makes me so sad seeing the playerbase hating on Yu Jing’s design and asking it be changed :((

I personally love her, she’s like the Dislyte version of Pinkie Pie and she’s got one of the most unique designs the game has given us in quite a while 💕

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Seven Days of Suffering: Rescue

I hear you whisper underneath your breath / I hear your SOS, your SOS I will send out an army to find you / In the middle of the darkest night / It's true, I will rescue you / I will never stop marching to reach you / In the middle of the hardest fight / It's true, I will rescue you - Lauren Daigle

Event Masterpost | CW: kidnapping, beating, discussion of murder | Text messages between Vincent and Chidi. Vincent has been kidnapped.

Transcript

C: Vincent

C: Vincent, we’re looking for you. Reply if you’re conscious and have access to your phone.

C: I don’t want to alert anyone with text notifications in case they’re making noise so I’ll stop now, but if you can tell us anything about your location, it will help. Reply as soon as you can, sir. Please. I love you.

V: im in atrunk. muted the phone

V: I love you

C: Thank God. I’m going to call you now but don’t say anything. I don’t want anyone up front to hear you. I’m just confirming it’s you.

Video Call, 1m 23sec

V: Why the fuck did you hang up

C: You have to conserve battery. Turn down your screen brightness, and turn on your phone tracking.

V: Please tell me it wont take that lng to get here

V: Im sorry I keep typing wrong

V: I am shaking a lot

C: It won’t, I’ll be there very soon. I just want to be able to keep texting you the whole time, okay? Breathe slowly, like we do together. I promise I will rescue you.

V: Tracking is on. Where am I?

C: Headed East, near the Italian border

C: The entire army is converging on your location. Are you injured, sir?

V: Yyes

C: How badly?

V: I don’t know. They just kidked things for a while. This isn’t for ransom is it

C: Are you in pain?

V: What a stupid question

C: It’s for the medical team that’s headed for you. Where are you hurt? And how much can you feel it? They need to know if you’re in shock.

V: I think my rigs are broken

V: Ribs. Fuck. I am not in shock I’m just shaking because my hands were tied up so long.

V: Anyway, I said is this for a ransom? I shouldn’t have to repeat myself Chidi

C: I don’t think so, sir. We haven’t been contacted for funds. My guess is a personal grudge. Did you see their faces?

V: No

C: Don’t worry. I’ll know who they are soon enough. They’ll be so sorry they ever touched you, sir. Their deaths will be slow and will involve ribs being torn out.

V: <3 thank you

V: I’m sorry I went off without you

C: NO. This is not your fault.

V: How longjis it going to be?                    

C: Not long. I am approaching by helicopter. Myrmidons in the area will reach you first, in a few minutes.

V: Thank you. Keep replying.

C: Of course, sir.

C: I love you so much. You have no idea what im feeling right now.

V: You’re being sentimental again Chidi

C: Yes. You have that effect on me, I’m afraid.

V: What are you feeling then?

C: Power. I could wipe nations off the face of the Earth. You make me strong, sir.

V: Sometimes I like you sentimental

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LMK S5 trailer, Chinese pantheon infodump, and some ideas

…Man, normally, I feel the urge to write fix-it AUs after rewatching episodes and coming across particularly bizarre theories and takes, not before the new season's even out.

Thanks, S5 trailer.

Consider this your spoiler warning, because the rest of this post will all be my personal opinions about a few major story beats that were revealed + the rough outline for a fix-it AU.

It's also a bit ranty, and features some criticisms of the general narrative, so if that's not your cup of tea, feel free to avoid this one.

Li Jing becoming JE/the regent of the Celestial Realm is just hilariously absurd. I mean, it makes a teeny tiny bit more sense than the "Nezha will be the new JE" fan theory, but that's not a very high bar.

1) In-universe, he had done a grand total of nothing while shit was hitting the fan, and only showed up after it was all over. Which, tbh, isn't too far from his role in FSYY. No, wait, at least in FSYY, he killed Luo Xuan via a pagoda to the head, after the guy had all his fire-based magical treasures neutralized and taken away by Princess Longji.

Yeah, congrats, LMK's Li Jing, you've somehow become even more useless than your FSYY and JTTW counterparts——which is a true feat.

2) Even if someone's making him JE/regent, it wouldn't be the Ten Kings. To put it simply: the Underworld doesn't have that authority. They are the most pathetic of all divine bureaucracies, who pretty much only show up to get pushed around and revive the occasional dead guy in JTTW (and I still love them).

Like, they ain't no Hades or Satan. Just the 10 judges of the Dead People Supreme Court. To heavily paraphrase Di Ting in the original JTTW novel:

"How much power do Underworld gods really have? (幽冥之神，能有多少法力)" "...Certainly not enough to stop a rampaging demonic macaque who's as strong as SWK, if I say the truth out loud in here and piss him off. Just send them to the Buddha, please."

An analogy: if the Celestial Host is the imperial court, the Underworld is the ministry in charge of judicial processes and prisons. They don't even have authority over the imperial censors who answer directly to the emperor, let alone the power to determine a successor to the throne during a major crisis.

If this was to make the tiniest bit of sense, Li Jing would be the one commanding THEM, not the other way around. Or if it's Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha himself giving orders to Li Jing…for some reason.

But we know that ain't happening bc of the show's strange aversion to showing Buddhist deities on screen, not to mention it would be very OOC for Ksitigarbha, whose job is granting relief and salvation to souls in the Path of Hell, not judging and punishing them like the Ten Kings.

3) If you must make Li Jing the emperor/regent, you have a more mythos-accurate and obvious choice than the Ten Kings, considering you already got the Four Divine Beasts involved!

Yes, I'm talking about their bosses, the humanoid "directional + elemental gods": Lord Father of the East (Wood), Queen Mother of the West (Metal), Emperor Zhenwu of the North (Water).

No South though...because our mythos can't agree on a single directional god of the South, but for shit and giggles, just imagine Zhurong, Yandi, Huaguang, and the Star of Fiery Virtues all sitting on the same narrow bench, staring awkwardly at each other.

Maybe we can have Ziwei, Great Emperor of the Central Sky and North Stars, who is one of the Four Sovereigns(四御) in Daoism (two of which could also be an alternate choice, but maybe a bit too obscure for foreign audiences).

He commands the stellar deities and heavenly bodies——which the Four Divine Beasts would technically fall under, as guardians of the four quadrants of the sky, each in charge of 7 Lunar Mansions.

4) But if you already have these deities, why the hell would any of them make Li Jing the regent? Wouldn't it be more likely for them to create a Celestial Council of Regents themselves, with Devaraja Li Jing under their command as the leader of what's left of the celestial army?

Like, you can still have them, or one of them, going after the gang and ordering Li Jing to put the fillet on SWK.

I can see Zhenwu the Demon-Vanquisher doing that, since the fillet isn't too different from what he did to Huaguang and a lot of the demons he subdued in JTTN: feeding them magical water/fire pills that would corrode/ignite their insides whenever they tried to resist.

(Yeah, compared to that, the fillet would look like the lenient option, since it's just pain and won't actually dissolve/cook you alive from the inside out...)

And it wouldn't be bc he thought SWK was to blame for the Brotherhood's epic fuck-up...somehow. Like, what even is that logic?!

I mean, I can kinda see the Ten Kings doing it as a pre-emptive "Don't blame us for our shitty security, blame that guy over there!" move...except they are no longer answering to any higher authorities who'd hold them responsible at that point!

"What about Li Jing?" You may ask. Yeah, WHAT ABOUT LI JING? Why does Li Jing have to get involved in this?

If he's forcing the Ten Kings to pass judgement on the gang (which surely doesn't look like it in the trailers), why's he enlisting the help of the weakest faction and not, y'know, his celestial soldiers and other gods?

If the Ten Kings get Li Jing to be their enforcer...well, how the Eighteen Hells did they manage that? What could the Ghost Supreme Court and their crappy prison-torture chamber-soul customs office complex even offer Li Jing as a bribe?

And if their goals were to avoid responsibilities by blaming someone else, how stupid did they have to be to actively involve/create a higher authority who can punish them once the cat gets out of the proverbial bag, instead of, I dunno, just stay where they are and keep their head down???

So in my fix-it AU, it's more of a "Better safe than sorry" scenario, where every demon working for the new Celestial Council must prove their loyalty via swallowing the water/fire pill, now that even more dangerous demons have escaped and are running around in the aftermath of S4.

And Great Sage and company are not exempt from that new law either——"If you are truly righteous and Not Like Them and not planning to rebel, what's there to be afraid of?"

Horrified by the Demon-Vanquishing Mansion's 16th century standards of "justice" and "mercy", they naturally would not have any of it, and thus the conflict begins.

Not only would this show the fallout of Azure's misguided rebellion——that, in trying to make a better world, he had made it 120% worse for both humanity and demonkind in less drastic and more realistic ways aside from dooming reality to irreversible destruction, it would also help with the major show-not-tell problem about Celestial cruelty bc the "good guys" in power saw no problem with this kind of shit.

If you want your lawful antagonists who take Order to its extremes, the warrior sovereign in black leading an elite army of demon-hunters + penal legions made of "reformed" demons would be a better choice than the Ghost Supreme Court, don't ya think?

(Fun fact: in Zaju plays, Zhenwu was often said to be the boss of Nezha and Erlang, so him commanding Li Jing wouldn't be too out of place either.)

Now, you may ask, why do I even care? After all, isn't it clear that the show is neither mythos-accurate nor trying to be, considering the JE got K.O.ed by a Bodhisattva's cat of all things?

Not to mention the season's not even out yet, so why jump to conclusions so quickly? Maybe the actual episodes will have explanations that make sense. Relax.

...Cause I don't mind less-than-stellar animations if the story's good, and since I keep noticing the less-than-stellar animations, it clearly isn't good enough.

Also, it's not like it's only the implications that are absurd——my problem is with the whole premise of "Li Jing becoming the new JE/Regent" and "The gang is prosecuted by the Ten Kings for bullshit reasons, even though these guys should not, and never have the power to enforce anything over SWK."

I don't like calling narrative choices "wrong" per se, and prefer to see it on a gradient of "least to most narrative potential". When it comes to adaptations, if the option that is faithful to the original work will result in a less interesting story, then I'll happily take the one that isn't as faithful and takes creative liberties, but makes a better story.

And here, I feel like being faithful to the Chinese mythos inspirations will add to the narrative potential instead of subtract from it, and the idea they come up with kinda...goes against how Chinese pantheons work, in a very simplified and "westernized" manner.

Mostly bc I am a Chinese Underworld mythos lover and think they deserve better than being ominous Hades/Grim Reaper knockoffs. And out of all the possible Chinese gods, Nezha's asshole dad is the least qualified or interesting candidate to fill in the power vaccum left by JE's death.

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re The Double: Intrigued by peach blossom goddess on MDL mentioning that the princess in this novel/drama might be inspired by the real Princess Taiping. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1012029

Wikipedia:

During the reign of Emperor Ruizong, she was not restricted by anything, the emperor issued rulings based on her views and the courtiers and the military flattered her and majority from every civil and military class joined her faction, so her power exceeded that of the emperor.

In 690, Empress Dowager Wu wanted to remarry Princess Taiping to Wu Youji, a grandson of Empress Dowager Wu's uncle Wu Shileng (武士稜). Wu Youji, however, was already married, and Empress Dowager Wu secretly had Wu Youji's wife assassinated so that Princess Taiping could marry him. 

Eventually, however, a rivalry developed between her and her nephew, Emperor Ruizong's son, Crown Prince Li Longji. Both of them were hostile in power-sharing and they fought for the monopoly over power. After Emperor Ruizong yielded the throne to Li Longji (as Emperor Xuanzong) in 712, the conflict came to the political forefront, and openly, the court became a manifestation of conspiracy rather than the administration of the empire; in 713, Emperor Xuanzong, according to historical records, believing that she was planning to overthrow him, acted first, executing a large number of her powerful allies and forcing her to commit suicide.

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I find this intriguing because I've seen criticisms of the princess storyline online - not the dramatic licence aspect, but in general the princess wouldn't have that kind of power & conflict. But history is often stranger than we presume.

Looks like subbers translated Palace of Desire on YT here. I checked it out, the translation looks excellent.

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Katherine Qiyu Su Dragon's Back/Longji, 2024 Oil, charcoal, ink on linen 45 7/10 × 35 in

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Apr 11, Xi'an, China, Beilin Museum (Stele Forest):

Continuing from the previous post about the museum... I have a LOT of pictures from this trip to Xi'an, almost 900 pictures total. For the sake of brevity, I will not post all of them.

Jingyun Bell/景云钟:

The Jingyun bell is a giant bronze bell cast in 711 AD (Tang dynasty), this bell was originally inside the Bell Tower of Xi'an/西安钟楼, and bear the inscription written by Emperor Ruizong of Tang/唐睿宗 (full name Li Dan/李旦). This bell is 2.47 m tall (~8.1 ft), has a circumference of 4.86 m (~15.9 ft), has a diameter (at opening) of 1.65 m (~5.4 ft), and weighs 6 metric tons (~6.6 US tons).

Fun fact about Emperor Ruizong of Tang Li Dan: apparently he has the nickname of "六位帝皇丸", or "Six Emperors Wan". "六味地黄丸" is the name of a prescription in traditional Chinese medicine, but here it's used as a pun. This is because Li Dan himself had been emperor twice, his father Li Zhi/李治 was the emperor (Emperor Gaozong of Tang/唐高宗) before him , his mother Wu Zetian/武则天 made him cede the throne to her and became emperor after his first reign (Emperor Zetian Dasheng/则天大圣皇帝), his older brother Li Xian/李显 was an emperor (Emperor Zhongzong of Tang/唐中宗), and finally after his second reign, he ceded the throne to his son Li Longji/李隆基 (Emperor Xuanzong of Tang/唐玄宗). So that's the 6 emperors, and they all came from himself and his immediate family.

Just in case that was confusing, here's his family tree:

One more fun fact about the bell itself: it provided the bell sound sample heard at midnight in CCTV New Year's Gala every year. The bell itself probably won't be sounded anymore for conservation purposes--it is over 1300 years old at this point. The bell currently inside the Bell Tower of Xi'an is a replica.

Classic of Filial Piety Set Upon Stone/石台孝经:

This stele is also among the most famous in the Beilin Museum, as it combines the calligraphy work of two emperors of Tang dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang/唐玄宗 Li Longji/李隆基, and his son, Emperor Suzong of Tang/唐肃宗 Li Heng/李亨, and also has excellent examples of 4 different scripts. Specifically, Li Longji wrote the Classic of Filial Piety/孝经 (a Confucian classic text) and annotated it in lishu/clerical script/隶书, then added comments in xingshu/semi-cursive script/行书. Li Heng wrote the title in zhuanshu/seal script/篆书 (see picture of the actual stele below), and a memorial written in kaishu/regular script/楷书 by Imperial College Chief/国子监祭酒 Li Qigu/李齐古.

Since the stele actually has inscriptions on all four sides, here's the complete rubbing:

Here's the pavilion over the stele, picture from Wikipedia. The bian'e/匾额 (can be understood as a sign) says "stele forest"/碑林 (read from right to left), and was by Lin Zexu/林则徐 (1785 - 1850). The exact reason why 碑 is missing a stroke at the top is unclear, but one thing is certain: that was one of the correct ways to write the character. It's just that modern standardized systems of written Chinese (both Simplified and Traditional) only accept 碑 as the correct form.

Cao Quan Stele/曹全碑:

One of the most famous steles in the museum. This stele, which praised Cao Quan's accomplishments, was written by Wang Chang/王敞 and was erected in 185 AD (late Eastern Han dynasty). It is important for two reasons, first is because it represents lishu/clerical script/隶书 at its full maturity by the end of Eastern Han dynasty. The second reason is because it provides a great source for scholars studying the history of that time, particularly with regard to the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

A closeup at the calligraphy:

Li Mountain Hot Springs Poem/骊山温泉诗:

This one isn't particularly famous, but it is one of my personal favorites from the exhibition. The calligraphy was by Prince Guo/果亲王 of Qing dynasty (full name Aisin Gioro Yunli/爱新觉罗·允礼) in 1735, and is in the xingshu/semi-cursive/行书 script.

Emperor's Calligraphy Work in Daguan Period/大观圣作之碑:

This stele is actually not part of the Beilin Museum's collection, since it's currently located in Zhaozhou, Hebei, China. I thought I should include it here, because the writing is in a script that I've never really talked about before, which is the shoujinti/"slim gold script"/瘦金体. It's a variation of kaishu/regular script/楷书 that's invented by Emperor Huizong of Song/宋徽宗 Zhao Ji/赵佶, who is the calligrapher here, hence the title.

A closeup of the calligraphy:

Stele of an Imperial Edict/加圣号诏碑:

By Zhao Shiyan/赵世延 in 1313 (Yuan dynasty). The content is an imperial edict in 1307 that posthumously bestowed the title of "Great Completer, Ultimate Sage and Exalted King of Culture"/大成至圣文宣王 upon Confucius. The purpose of this picture is just to show what the bigger steles really look like, as ink rubbings definitely don't do them justice. The top is decorated with two carved dragons, and the stele is mounted on a stone bixi/赑屃, one of the 9 sons of the loong that has remarkable strength and looks like a turtle (with teeth).

And finally a pagoda tree/槐树 outside the museum that is 1100 years old (planted at around the end of Tang dynasty):

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Forgot to ask when Taigong is doing his special chant why did he name those specific gods are they important to him and who are they exactly? I know that Yuanshi is Taigong teacher and that Nüwa is Daji’s boss.

Before me, the King Father of the East, Dongwanggong

Xiwangmu, the Queen Mother of the West, is a major figure that frequently appears in Taoist narratives due to her status as the one governing all the Xian women. In contrast, Dongwanggong, the King Father of the East, exists only as her mirror image, barely gets mentioned anywhere, and while he gets the equivalent status of governor of the male Xians, there are a handful of male Xians blatantly above him in the hierarchy. Also, archeological evidence of Xiwangmu's worship is quite a few centuries older than his, so it's pretty well accepted that he was created just to be her counterpart.

To my right, the Flame Emperor, Shennong

Shennong is one of the three divine sovereigns of China. A man with the head of a bull and a great elemental affinity for fire. He was crowned the god of agriculture for teaching humans how to grow crops, weave clothes, and practice commerce. He also earned his status as the god of medicine by testing hundreds of herbs and sorting which were toxic and which were healing. I guess Prometheus is a good comparison point for him, as they share the fire imagery and the history as a granter of knowledge. FGO has him as one of the two gods incorporated into Xu Fu's Saint Graph.

Behind me, the Queen Mother of the West, Xiwangmu

The aforementioned boss of the Xian women. She's originally described in the Classic of Seas and Mountains as a woman with a human face, tiger teeth, a leopard tail, and unkempt hair, but later texts beautify her. She's also responsible for the peaches of immortality and famously offered one to Emperor Wu. She's the goddess of criminal punishment, associated mainly with the five more cruel sentences (marking criminals with tattoos, scraping off noses, cutting off feet, castration, and execution).

Some of her cameos in myths include:

Being the Yellow Emperor strategy teacher, who he calls for help in the battle against Chiyou.

Giving the peaches of immortality to Hou Yi.

Offering a peach of immortality to Emperor Wu.

Being the mother who doesn't let Zhinu (better known by her Japanese name Orihime) be with her mortal lover for 364 days of the year in the tale of the Star-Crossed Lovers.

Hosting the peach party that Sun Wukong raided to steal the peaches of immortality early into the Journey to the West.

Lending her Flag of Clouds to Guang Cheng Zi in the Investiture (and being regularly mentioned as Princess Longji's mother).

To my left, the Mother Goddess, Nüwa

Nuwa is the world creator, who also created mankind in a collaborative project with her husband Fuxi. She has a major part in the Investiture, as you mentioned. After having the honor of seeing her, Emperor Zhou of Shang got too excited and wrote an erotic poem on her temple's walls. Very offended by this, she dispatched our lovely trio of Daji, Hu Ximei, and Wang Guiren to cause the downfall of his empire. However, Daji proved herself to be a callous overachiever and a bad influence on her two companions, so Nuwa sided against her own subordinates in the war.

However, her main myth is about how the primordial gods of fire and water picked up a fight with her and the battle resulted in a hole in Heaven, causing the water of the Milky Way to leak downward, almost causing humanity's extinction. Nuwa used all of her power to patch the hole with colorful rocks and to recover from that, she took a nap she still hasn't woken up from.

May the great Jade Emperor bestow his blessing upon us

Yu Huang Taidi, the Jade Emperor, is the emperor of the celestial realm. Officially he is the direct assistant of Yuanshi Tianzun, and that makes him the most important Chinese god as far as mankind is concerned because the Three Pure Ones above him don't concern themselves with the affairs of either the human or the regular Xian worlds.

under Torch Dragon Zhulong's radiant light!

That's the guy who controls when it's day and when it's night. His eyes are vertically laid in the center of his face, and it gets bright when he opens them and dark when he closes them.

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I have just discovered that in Investiture of the Gods/Fengshen Yanyi there's a character called Princess Longji who;

Is the daughter of the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother of the West/Xiwangmu. (!!!)

Was kicked out of heaven for failing to gather enough Immortality Peaches for the Peach Banquet.

Has water and rain powers.

Was friends/allies with Jiang Ziya and Yang Jian (proto-Erlang) when all the gods were fighting about the upcoming Zhao dynasty.

Fell in love with a mortal man on the opposite side of the conflict (two big celestial no-no's) named Hong Jin. They married as both a political move but had also fallen in love after fighting eachother for days on end.

Both her and her husband die in battle against Jinling Shengmu/Mother Golden Light (who is possibily Doumu/Mother of the Big Dipper, who've I drafted in the au as Xiwangmu's mother...)

You guys know how I had an idea forthe LMK au Guanyin being the reincarnation of the Jade Emperor and Xiwangmu's eldest daughter right? >:)

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Germ to Sperm

A vital role for a molecule called SRFS1 in spermatogenesis [the development of sperm in the testes] – insight for potential male infertility treatments

Read the published research paper here

Image from work by Longjie Sun and colleagues

State Key Laboratory of Animal Biotech Breeding, College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in eLife, January 2024

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Styling hair - Longji, 2019

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Katherine Qiyu Su

Dragon's Back/Longji, 2024

Oil, charcoal, ink on linen

45 7/10 × 35 in | 116 × 89 cm

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Guilin Rice Terraces, Longji, China

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I wanted to ask, has there ever been an immortal master (like Yuding, Taiyi or puti) had children or a wife? According to monkey-ruler, there is no rule that prevents them from having children or relationships since they are not gods, but I wanted to express your opinion. In most cases it is easier to interpret that they are dedicated to their teaching.

I feel like Sun Wukong is the only case of a master having children. but I feel like people don't consider it as canon so to speak.

This is less a direct answer to your question, and more of an exploration of Chan and Jie Sect marriage policies.

In one of my previous answers, I have mentioned that some scholars thought the Chan-Jie conflict was mirroring the historical conflict between Zhengyi and Quanzhen Daoists during the Ming dynasty.

And one of the evidence cited is quite a few Chan Sect members, like Jiang Ziya and Tuxingsun, are allowed to marry, which is true for Zhengyi Daoists but not Quanzhen Daoists, therefore the Jie Sect must be an expy of Quanzhen.

However, this doesn't really hold up to scruntiny, because Hong Jin, Princess Longji's husband, is from the Jie Sect, yet they still get married after his defeat.

None of these people are immortal masters, though. Just their students. Which may suggest that, like historical Ming sects, there is a divide between cloistered and non-cloistered Daoists: the former took a vow of celibacy and did not marry, while the latter did.

And man, the marriages in FSYY are not happy ones. The big three are arranged marriages: two of which are wartime marriages for political purposes and both involve a defeated foe. In Longji's case, it isn't as forced, in Deng Chanyu's case, it is absolutely forced.

Somehow, Jiang Ziya and Ma's peacetime marriage manages to be an even bigger whirlwind of toxicity, worsened by Jiang Ziya's terrible luck and business skills, until they get a divorce.

Like, at the end of the novel, after Ma commits suicide out of shame, she is deified as the Comet/Broom Star, which was also a slang for "jinx", a.k.a. people who brings bad luck.

(My personal HC is that Jiang Ziya just adds her name onto the Investiture out of sheer spite, and she spends her immortal life as the Celestial Realm's cleaning lady, getting the last laugh when Jiang Ziya's descendents in the Qi state got their throne usurped by the Tian clan.)

Also, the two wartime marriages are "divinely ordained" and "fated to happen"; in Longji's case, the god in charge of love and marriage, Old Man Under the Moon, came to persuade her personally.

You know, if I'm an immortal on either side, and happen to witness these marriages, I'll happily take my vow of celibacy and cloistered life because good fucking lord.

Edit: I guess Zhang Kui and Gao Lanying on the Shang side could be considered an unambiguously happy couple, if you leave out the "die in battle and get deified together" part.

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Longji Rice Terrace, China @steffan