Intro: Why are Wang Anshi and Wenji herself’s versions of these poems not a bigger deal? They’re not even linked from the wiki, are they even mentioned? Are these considered the best treatments to that extent?
Tfw the book goes with some fucking weird pinyin—what’s the t’ang dynasty, are you spelling it Sung dynasty bc it’s past tense, that’s not necessary bruv
It’s really interesting that people copied the painting very closely, rather than just doing their own thing?
So the calligraphy style is essentially a ‘font’ modelled after a particular Emperor’s handwriting? By the way: what do they mean when in NiF they say the emperor’s sister’s husband has a declaration in the Emperor’s own hand above their gate—it’s not like the emperor came and painted a sign. Does the emperor write on a board and then someone installs that board, or is his writing on paper enlarged and then his handwriting copied by an artist?
‘A Chinese’ this is always so weird
I’m really kind of shocked she’s going to walk away from young children? Like it makes sense in a Chopin ‘Awakening’ way, but it’s not at all what I expect to happen in this kind of story.
Here’s a thing about how the ‘flute’ is actually a stringed instrument, just to destabilise Yinharn’s worldview.
1. Kinda poignant treatment of the structure of the interior courtyard (is that the right term for like—civilian rear palace?) as a structure she assumed she could trust, of violated containment/chastity. In a way she’ll have more freedom on the steppe even in being a captive, but what’s the point of being Freer in a really circumscribed world she can’t even communicate in?
Does this guy next to the chief have a leopard pelt? How?
Really cool detail work on these roof beams
This horse armour looks shit like it’s just a blanket
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Re: 1. The Abduction of Wen-chi
Date: 2021-09-06 09:28 am (UTC)Tfw the book goes with some fucking weird pinyin—what’s the t’ang dynasty, are you spelling it Sung dynasty bc it’s past tense, that’s not necessary bruv
It’s really interesting that people copied the painting very closely, rather than just doing their own thing?
So the calligraphy style is essentially a ‘font’ modelled after a particular Emperor’s handwriting? By the way: what do they mean when in NiF they say the emperor’s sister’s husband has a declaration in the Emperor’s own hand above their gate—it’s not like the emperor came and painted a sign. Does the emperor write on a board and then someone installs that board, or is his writing on paper enlarged and then his handwriting copied by an artist?
‘A Chinese’ this is always so weird
I’m really kind of shocked she’s going to walk away from young children? Like it makes sense in a Chopin ‘Awakening’ way, but it’s not at all what I expect to happen in this kind of story.
Here’s a thing about how the ‘flute’ is actually a stringed instrument, just to destabilise Yinharn’s worldview.
1. Kinda poignant treatment of the structure of the interior courtyard (is that the right term for like—civilian rear palace?) as a structure she assumed she could trust, of violated containment/chastity. In a way she’ll have more freedom on the steppe even in being a captive, but what’s the point of being Freer in a really circumscribed world she can’t even communicate in?
Does this guy next to the chief have a leopard pelt? How?
Really cool detail work on these roof beams
This horse armour looks shit like it’s just a blanket