#wind from luoyang

[hundredthousandtimes]

PERIODDRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK 2023

Day 4: Favorite time period/era:

Tang dynasty:

The Tang dynasty, or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. Historians generally regard the Tang as a high point in Chinese civilization, and a golden age of cosmopolitan culture. The Lǐ family (李) founded the dynasty, seizing power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire. (source: wikipedia) In general, garments were made from silk, wool, or linen depending on your social status and what you could afford. Furthermore, there were laws that specified what kinds of clothing could be worn by whom. The color of the clothing also indicated rank. During this period, China's power, culture, economy, and influence were thriving. As a result, women could afford to wear loose-fitting, wide-sleeved garments. Even lower-class women's robes would have sleeves four to five feet in width. (source)

Wu Zhou dynasty:

Zhou, known in historiography as the Wu Zhou  was a short-lived Chinese imperial dynasty that existed between 690 and 705, when Wu Zhao (commonly known as Wu Zetian) ruled as empress regnant. Despite Wu's infamous rise to power, there is evidence that suggests women were granted more privileges during her reign, and China was in a state of great prosperity during her rule.  Wu Zetian greatly enhanced the prestige and effectiveness of the civil service recruitment tests, filling government positions by skills demonstrated in written examinations, and opening them up to men of all classes. (source: wikipedia)

[ghostcitymaster]

Wang Yibo

[take-me-to-gusu-emperor]

Wang Yibo✨

[thedramaden]

THE C-DRAMAS I'VE WATCHED THIS YEAR (2022)

DEAR DIARY | 我的巴比伦恋人 (2021) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

STORM EYE | 暴风眼 (2021) ⭐⭐⭐

FALL IN LOVE | 当她恋爱时 (2019) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

LOVE AT NIGHT | 夜色暗涌时 (2021) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

THE LONG BALLAD | 长歌行 (2021) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

THE UNTAMED | 陈情令 (2019) - REWATCH ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

WHO RULES THE WORLD | 且试天下 (2022) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

LOVE LIKE THE GALAXY | 星汉灿烂 (2022) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

LUOYANG | 风起洛阳 (2021) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

FALLING INTO YOUR SMILE | 你微笑时很美 (2021) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

LOVE BETWEEN FAIRY & DEVIL | 苍兰诀 (2022) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

LOVE IS SWEET | 半是蜜糖半是伤 (2020) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

IMMORTAL SAMSARA | 沉香如屑 (2022) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

FIND YOURSELF | 下一站是幸福 (2020) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

A ROMANCE OF THE LITTLE FOREST | 两个人的小森林 (2022)⭐⭐⭐⭐

I've Fallen For You | 少主且慢行 (2020) ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

She & Her Perfect Husband | 爱的二八定律 (2022) ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐⭐

CURRENTLY WATCHING:

The Blue Whisper | 与君初相识 (2022)

LET'S NOT FORGET THE MINI DRAMAS:

HER ROYAL HIGHNESS | 长公主在上 (2022) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Story of the Demon Cult Leader and the Decent Miss | 教主和小师妹的故事 (2019) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

A Practical Guide to Being a Superstar’s Assistant | 明星助理实习指南 (2022) ⭐⭐⭐

LEGEND OF YUNZE: SEASON 1-2 + SPECIAL | 云泽传 (2021) ⭐⭐⭐⭐

LEGEND OF YUNQIAN | 云芊传 (2020) ⭐⭐⭐

THE KILLER IS ALSO ROMANTIC | 念念无明 (2022) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (MY FAVORITE!!!)

AMERICAN & BRITISH EDITION | K-DRAMA EDITION

CLICK HERE FOR LINKS TO THE MINI DRAMAS

[swiftletinthecloud]

I don’t know what to watch. 

Finished A League of Nobleman rewatch on 2/23/23.  Just finished rewatching Lockwood & Co as well. 

Do I continue Our Blooming Youth? Start part 2 of Island?  Continue Luoyang, Miss S, or Checkmate?  Start Starry Love based on all the mutuals’ posts?  or just rewatch Mr. Queen?

[chinesedramaoutfit]

Astonishing outfit of Lady Yao

[gwarp]

Luoyang will be broadcasted on TV in China💚

Luoyang's famous glutton, proficient in all kinds of arts, Baili Hongyi (Wang Yibo), will reunite with you and solve the puzzle of Fengqi!

From April 3rd, every night at 19:30, Beijing Satellite TV’s quality theater will be there~

© YBO Weibo

[deathcupcake]

After a year-long wait, the Luoyang Nendoroids arrived and now Wu Siyue and Baili Hongyi can judge everything I do. Also still lamenting the fact that no Gao Bingzhu was made, because he was the whole heart of the show.

I mean, Bingzhu would have been so adorable. *tear drop

[bookshop]

pardon me i'm just overwhelmed by wang yibo (as usual)

It's just, this kid, THIS KID, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND LET ME EXPLAIN

— he has to battle his way up through the ranks of YG to get to debut, in another country, away from his parents, while barely a teenager, all while learning a second language, and he not only does it, but according to legend he and Lisa are the only two foreign idols in YG history to graduate the program with all As

— and then his debut gets canceled and he has to go back to China and Yuehua and restart his entire career without much support at all from his agency, and he just does it, he starts the grind all over and just fucking does it

— he isn't even Yuehua's first choice for Day Day Up's new host competition, and they submit him only because he speaks Korean and that's good for the show, but then Wang Han sees him backstage one day and sees how hard he's working on his dance routine and immediately knows that Yibo is their next host, and not only is he an incredible addition to the show, but he stays on DDU longer than he reasonably should given how massively famous he gets, and he's so beloved that when he returns for Hunan's 2022 NYE concert, the network rolls out the red carpet and treats him like he's their hometown son and Wang Han is like, "Our Yibo has come home" (And Luoyang is the girlfriend in the distracted boyfriend meme lol but ykwim)

— he has to submit his comp shots twice just to even get an audition before anyone takes him seriously for The Untamed!! Except then the moment they see him, they immediately know he's their Lan Zhan

— he's the "pretty idol" throwaway captain for SDC3 and you can tell this when you watch the editing for the first episode because the comments for Yibo are all about how hot he is, and he comes in last place after the first captain's dance, and it's clear nobody really takes him seriously, but then the second he opens his street auditions, the tone of the entire show changes and from then on, for the next two seasons, he is completely unstoppable, his talent and intelligence and strategic thinking and competitive drive are so raw and exciting to watch that he basically takes over the entire show, the ratings more than double from s2 to s3, his fandom grows even more massive, and the dancers all fucking LOVE HIM. like dude he wins street dance of china so hard that within three seasons he's basically co-producing it and he's literally given a writing credit.

— The director of Being a Hero doesn't think he's old or mature enough to play Chen Yu and then Yibo sits down and talks to him about why he wants the role and the director realizes that Yibo basically is Chen Yu, he's the focused hard-working persevering single-minded actor of his dreams, and Yibo winds up giving a performance so moving it makes the director cry and declare, "That? That's acting."

— he jumps from no ranking at all to 9th place to #2!!!!!! within TWO YEARS on the Forbes China 100 Most Powerful people list between 2019 and 2021

— Duhua famously didn't take him seriously or treat him well for most of their long contractual relationship, oh shit, because now according to YH's latest investor report for Q3-4 2022, he singlehandedly brings in 90% of the profit for her entire company, a shareholder, the "top talent," and the one who has to pay whenever Uniq gets together because he's "the boss"

— Yibo goes from being the SDC underdog to being so respected that when Da Peng is looking for a dancer to star in his street dance movie, he asks all the best street dancers what actor is capable of doing the moves, and they all unanimously tell him: Wang Yibo. Da Peng winds up telling the press on Weibo Film night 2022 that he wrote the whole movie for Yibo, and that "if there's no Yibo, there's no movie"

— Cheng Er, director of Wuming, claims he has no idea who Yibo is, and just decided to cast him in a supporting role in his film because he looks the part of a Republic-era spy. And then he sees Yibo act, and he sees Yibo immerse himself in the part, and he sees how hard Yibo is willing to work and how committed he is, and he rewrites his entire movie until Wang Yibo is the main fucking character; Wang Yibo, in his first major film debut, acts his way into the lead and earns rave reviews from across the globe, including the goddamn new york times

Every time you think people will have finally figured out that you do not underestimate Wang Yibo, you learn of some new example where Yibo, once again, has had to prove himself in an industry that perpetually writes him off and doesn't take him seriously at first — only for the people around him to be absolutely blown away by his talent and dedication and mesmerizing star power.

And this happens over and over and over again. And he just does the work, always, every time, without complaint, and every time the result is something surprising and unexpected and fantastic and such a mark of his incredible passion and talent

— and every time I think my heart can't possibly grow any more sizes over Yibo, he proves me wrong

[mademoiselle-red]

because I am an uneducated fool, I wrote a whole post on the meanings and origins of Li Lianhua/Xiangyi and Di Feisheng’s names and did not know until someone on bilibili mentioned in a video, that Di Feisheng’s name is from a poem by 李白 Li Bai (tang dynasty) 🤦‍♀️

春夜洛城闻笛

谁家玉笛(di)暗飞(fei)声(sheng)，散入春风满洛城。

此夜曲中闻折柳，何人不起故园情。

my rough translation:

title: hearing a flute on a spring night in Luoyang city

Whose home is the sound of the flute coming from? It disperses in the spring wind into every part of Luoyang city.

In tonight’s melody I heard the song of “breaking willows” (willow branches were broken off and gifted to friends as parting gifts in ancient china). Who wouldn’t feel nostalgic for their home?

[the-archlich]

How did the Emperor wind up with so many bandits helping him during the time of the junta? Except for Dong Cheng, it seems like most of his commanders were bandits. (Yang Fang, Han Xian, Li Le, etc.) I'd have thought bandits would be more likely to capture him and try ransoming him to the junta, or some other warlord who would pay to have the emperor as their 'guest'/prisoner.

Honestly, we could probably convey some things better if we referred to these groups as militias instead of bandits. This particular group has a pretty clear history.

The Way of Great Peace gathered followers throughout the 170s, leading to the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184. A large number of former Turbans gathered together in Hedong. Yang Feng, Han Xian, Hu Cai, Li Le, etc. became their leaders. It's impossible to say for certain that any of these men were Turbans themselves, but it's likely. Over time they were joined by some others, including a group of Xiongnu under Qubei.

Because of the group's location (basically just north of the midpoint between Chang'an and Luoyang) Dong Zhuo sent Niu Fu to contain them. During this time the Hedong camp was joined by refugees from Luoyang and the surrounding area.

After Dong Zhuo's death, the Li junta made peace with the Hedong army, who helped them take over Chang'an. Yang Feng appears to have remained in Chang'an with the junta while others returned to the camp. When Yang Feng was escorting the emperor away from the junta later, it was natural for him to call on these allies.

Some of them clearly hoped to profit from the situation, like Yang Feng and Han Xian. For his part, Li Le seems to have just been a genuine Han loyalist. He answered the call for help, escorted the emperor to safety, and then returned home where he died of illness. (I think I said he was killed in a feud previously but I was mistakenly thinking of Hu Cai, who also returned to Hedong.)

[garden-ghoul]

Happy Gushiwensday Shabbes! We have a new poet today, one Ouyang Xiu, with one of his many poems to the tune of "Jade Tower in Spring."

Before the banquet, let me say: I do mean to come back. I want to say it to your face before I choke on tears. To be a living person is to be a fool for love, but our pain doesn't matter to the wind and the moon. I'll sing you a goodbye without writing you new words; a tune can teach the heart to knot itself so tight. We must see all the flowers in Luoyang, that peony town before the spring wind bids farewell again.

original text and notes under the cut.

玉楼春·尊前拟把归期说

尊前拟把归期说，欲语春容先惨咽。人生自是有情痴，此恨不关风与月。 离歌且莫翻新阕，一曲能教肠寸结。直须看尽洛城花，始共春风容易别。

Not much to say about this one---in many ways this is a refreshingly straightforward poem compared to a lot of the ones we translate! My main objectives here were to make it sound and feel good to recite, thus the metered verse and some extra alliteration.

your face --- it says "spring face" here, which is part of a metaphor I confess I don't understand about charming women? I would have liked to get the word spring in my translation because it feels like a bit of a motif, but it's a little too awkward in English.

fool for love --- 情痴 as a binome means lovesick or infatuated, but literally translated is like "foolish passion."

the wind and the moon --- I know the moon is a famously romantic object, and this is the second time now we've seen spring winds and flowers as a metaphor about fleeting passion. So I feel like this is a comment on how humans imbue these natural things with a lot of meaning, but that meaning only exists to us, not to the things themselves.

without writing you new words --- refers to the practice of writing new lyrics to old tunes, as Ouyang Xiu has done for this poem. I feel like it implies all human sorrow about love is the same, within error.

a tune can teach --- 教 would be better read as make or cause, but like, alliteration.

the heart to knot itself so tight --- very evocatively reads "the intestines knot an inch wide," like all that length and softness is becoming a tiny hard tense ball of unnameable emotion.

that peony town --- from Gushiwen's annotations, Luoyang was famous for its peonies. I've added the epithet for meter.

the spring wind bids farewell --- Gushiwen's plaintext translation suggested that the speaker and his lover are departing from the spring wind, I think, rather than the other way around? But I feel like the thing winds DO is they come and go 容易 easily.

[aboxthecolourofheartache]

me, a fool: I shall reblog some gifs from Wind from Luoyang, because I am enjoying it!

me: Ah. Every post is about Wang Yibo. I am a fool.

[thedramaden]

Luoyang

[swiftletinthecloud]

After The Blood of Youth, I’m trying to figure out what to watch next 😭

Started and watched 2 episodes of Moonshine. Fun and fast pace. Adore the FL but found the ML irritating despite his cool intro.  He’s a stickler for rules in a way that’s annoying and ignorant, not in an endearing way like say Xiao Chong in The Blood of Youth. And so far, I find the SML Crown Prince more intriguing.

Started and watched 4 episodes of The Golden Spoon. Intriguing, but I’m also getting a case of SML where the SML is way more endearing than the ML.  He has so much trauma and such a manipulative and abusive family. And he gets jerk around by the ML and his golden spoon into situations the SML has no knowledge of and didn’t ask for, rips in and out of a loving family that he longs for and cherishes, then will probably have to deal with whatever consequences the ML left behind for him when the ML was /him/. Also don’t want to read English sub at the moment.

Yes, yes, yes both MLs will probably grow with the story and learn to care about more important things/have their priorities shift, but at the moment, they’re just giving off major I-want-to-either-slap-them-or-punch-them-in-the-face vibe.

Started a bit of the first episode for Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist season 2, but while I like the main characters and the clinic fam, I miss the case-by-case with the political fighting only in the background more than the right in your face political infight that season 2 is starting with right off the bat. I’m not really in the mood for political infighting right now.

Finished maybe the first two episodes of Unchained Love, but again, not in the mood for political and court/palace drama

Watched the first 8 episodes of Song of the Moon with my mom, but I don’t care enough about the story or the either main characters to want to continue.

Kind of the same with Light Chaser Rescue. I know it should give the same slice of live vibe like You Are My Hero/ You Are My City and Fortress, but so far not as endearing although I do like the second couple here better. The ML’s face makeup is just too white that’s it’s distracting.

Bossy Husband Who Loved Me & Secretary Bai Wants to Resign Everyday - started a bit of both yesterday, but not in the mood to read English Sub and they’re both too comedic and silly at the moment for me.

I’m in the mood a mystery solving drama, something similar to The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty or The Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty and so far Luoyang is giving me that vibe for the moment. Let’s hope my interest remains and nothing irritates too much like Moonshine and The Golden Spoon for the moment. 

[chinesedramaoutfit]

Fascinating Lady Yao