#yao chinese folktales

[snail-sir]

I love it when i get a creative burst and make like 10 artworks, but don't want to spam so I have to space them out... I got this one done like, last week lmao

I saw this dude all over my fyp this one random day, decided to go check the series out, and now I'm here with fanart hahaahha. I'm gonna have the rest of the cast posted as well 👍👍

Who doesn't love a funky little guy

[chinesehanfu]

【Chinese Animation “Yao Chinese Folktales” X Tang Dynasty Hanfu]

EP02-<Goose Goose Goose /鹅鹅鹅>Summry

The story of "Goose Goose Goose" is adapted from the tales of the miraculous " Yangxian Scholar/阳羡书生 " (also known as: Goose Cage Scholar/ 鹅笼书生 )  by Wu Jun, a writer of the China Southern Dynasty. 

 It tells the story of a young peddler who helped an injured fox scholar in the mountains. The scholar invited the peddler to drink and felt bored when drinking so he spit out his sweetheart rabbit monster from his mouth. Then, he also invited his sweetheart man out of his mouth. 

After a while, the fox scholar was drunk and took a nap beside the peddler; the rabbit monster took advantage of the fox scholar to fall asleep and spits out her lover who are a boar monster.The boar monster also took advantage of the rabbit monster to take care of the fox scholar, and spit out his lover from his mouth：A felmale goose monster.

And the goose monster unexpectedly made the pedlar's heartbeat.Thay talk a lot and the goose monster longing for the world beyond the mountain, and asking pedlar to take her out of the mountain, she will turn into a goose and live in his goose cage.

But suddenly, the fox scholar woke up, the boar monster quickly put the goose girl monster back into her mouth, and the rabbit monster quickly put the boar monster into her mouth, finally the fox scholar put the rabbit monster back into her mouth.

From the point of view of the theme, this work belongs to the type of story that explores the psychological changes of the human heart.

Many of the costumes and makeup of the Monster in the animation refer to Tang Dynasty & Ming Dynasty,China. For Example:

 “Blood Halo Makeup/血晕妆 from “安阳唐赵逸公墓壁画・仕女图/Anyang Tang Zhao Yigong's Tomb Murals”,Tang Dynasty,China. 

・China Ming Dynasty Portrait： Portrait Zhang Qingzi(张卿子) by Zeng Jing

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[maigo-san]

goose mountain au doodles to bring me out of an art slump. Might make more idk, I'm starting to like this au

[niteshade925]

OMG OFFICIAL MERCH

I NEED DIS

[lavenderinkart]

See the full image here.

Speedpaint available here.

[canmom]

Animation Night 141: short film night (donghua edition)

Hi everyone! Welcome to Animation Night, the night where we watch animation. We’re running mega late due to insomnia + travelling, so I will be brief.

Tonight the plan is to watch some exciting short animated films from China. First up we have the return of the mighty Shanghai Animation Film Studio.

You may remember from Animation Nights past that for a long time through the 50s and 60s, Shanghai Animation Film Studio was Chinese animation (donghua). They created many beautiful and experimental works, such as the astonishing ‘ink wash’ films of Te Wei, accomplished through an ingenious process of stacking up layers of cels to create the subtle gradients.

SAFS was squashed during the Cultural Revolution, its animators sent to the countryside, and animation was instead turned to heavy-handed propaganda films. Under Deng, the Shanghai animators returned for a brief last hurrah... but the chain of reproduction had been broken, and donghua went through a period where few films were being made, and only cheaply, with Chinese animators mostly working on outsourcing for other countries.

That’s changed in a huge way recently with the rise of what is now termed guómàn (国漫), referring to Chinese domestic animation and comics. Despite a hard-to-please audience at home, Chinese studios have been absolutely killing it lately... but Shanghai Animation Film Studio hasn’t really been a player. That’s changing now, AniObsessive reports, with the release of a series of four ~20 minute short films titled  中国奇谭 (Yao - Chinese Folktales) on Bilibili. A decidedly non-commercial project, with four teams and directors spending about two years on each film, it’s unexpectedly become an enormous hit in China:

Yao’s numbers have climbed dramatically since that report. After 15 days, with four episodes online, the series has topped 99 million views on its Bilibili page — and they’re rising fast. Users of the movie site Douban are often harsh critics of Chinese animation, and yet Yao currently scores 9.4 there, based on more than 132,000 reviews.

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Zhang Shengyan, the Bilibili VP, feels that Yao owes its popularity to its ties to China. Not just in the stories and art, but in the Shanghai Animation name — most people in China, Zhang says, have fond memories of the studio’s classics. Yao channels this tradition of artistry for the 2020s, and it may be the start of a new era for the company. There’s already talk of a second season.

So that’s exciting! The four episodes are titled Nobody, Goose Mountain, She-Wolf, and... I don’t have a translation available for the fourth one but in Chinese it’s 乡村巴士带走了王孩儿和神仙, which machine translation renders The Country Bus Took Away Wang Haier and Shenxian. They use a variety of styles from CG to traditional animation.

Our second item is also courtesy of AniObsessive, who have gone to the impressive effort of translating and subtitling a series called Mee’s Forest on their new Chinese Flash YT channel. The series is directed by Busifan, known for the incredible film Dahufa (The Guardian) which we watched back on Animation Night 46 and again on Animation Night 104. (Incidentally, AniObsessive also wrote a wonderful article about the creation of Dahufa, finding all sorts of obscure sources, which is how I know anything at all about Busifan.)

Mee’s Forest is an earlier work, beginning in 2009 about six years before Dahufa’s completion, but after Busifan had made a name for himself with The Black Bird series in 2004. At this time, Busifan had quit his telecoms job, and was working at small animation studios in Hangzhou, chafing against the limits of the industry. This series centers on a young monk who, left alone by his master, is embroiled in some kind of supernatural forest shenanigans. The animation has sparks of what we’d see in Dahufa, notably the abrupt, vicious fight scenes.

I love everything I’ve seen from the Chinese Flash scene and I’m sure this will be no exception. At the time of writing, we’re jumping the gun a bit, with only 15 of 16 episodes translated... but this concords perfectly with Yao so we’ll wrap it up later.

So, with apologies for the incredibly late start - please make your way to twitch.tv/canmom and we’ll be starting on the hour in about ten minutes! (23:00 UK time, 15:00 California time)

[lunatik19]

This is my first fan art this year😶 "Goose Mountain" (鹅鹅鹅) from the cartoon series "Legends of China"

[pantr0art]

Fox scholar ( 狐狸书生) 🦊

I really love him and also the animation in that style is pretty amazing ✨

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ENJOY!!!

[dyinggirldied]

Has been seeing a lot of Fox Scholar on social media so I want to try making him. If he invites you for a drink, will you accept?

[kibeebaribe]

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Fast sketch: Yao Chinese Folktales

[karadin]

Yao Chinese folktales - animated series no 2

This series has been very popular in China, each supernatural story is depicted in a different animation style, this episode featuring a fox spirit has been portrayed by many cosplayers

https://youtu.be/V3F7Y8pjiFk

             @coserxiaomeng  

[snail-sir]

Last part <33 I don't understand how her hair can work LMAO

But she's so cute

There's like, one more guy but he's a literal boar- I don't wanna learn how to draw furries rn amd dont wanna gijinkafy him so I'm gonna skip him hahahahha

[i-l0ve-thingd]

I’ve recently seen Yao Chinese Folktales..

Chat please hear me out..

[niteshade925]

刚看完小满和飞鸟与鱼。小满这集挺不错，虽然个人认为还是不如第一集小妖怪的夏天直白，但是能让人回味也是很好的。剪纸风格也非常喜欢。故事方面我更倾向于把小满的故事理解为成长过程而非单纯的克服恐惧。

据说飞鸟与鱼这集评价比较低，不过作为一个对爱情毫无兴趣的人我对这集的感觉还可以。其实我觉得这个故事最大的缺点是太短，没有足够时长让两个人物的感情自然发展，所以最后感到有些仓促了事。其次就是主题有点...混乱？一边是爱情，一边又是一个人在城市生活的孤独。呃....硬要说的话那也许可以解释为很多城市里的人都感到孤独，虽然和情投意合的人有短暂交集但最后都没有结果？总之这个故事可以按照feature length去拍，让剧情发展得自然从容一些，也许就不会是现在这样了。至于网上某些人吐槽白发女孩上网看片的情节，虽然设计落了俗套，但我没觉得这是多大的败笔。中国奇谭这个系列本来也不是给小孩子看的，我敢打赌小孩子根本看不懂这些故事。看众里有相当一部分都是成年人，成年人大多都有七情六欲的，爱情也不一定就非得是多么高雅圣洁的东西，没必要这么苛刻，只要能给观众看这两人是如何合情合理地走到一起去就算成功了一半。

[ruinxl0ve]

Lol i love the he

[anime-of-the-day]

Anime of the Day: Zhongguo Qi Tan

Alt title: Yao-Chinese Folktales

Released: 2023

Using a variety of methods and styles, this anime tells eight different stories from Chinese folklore. Each episodes runtime ranges from 10-18 minutes, so this is an easy way to add a quick breath of anime to your daily life.