I cannot read grass/cursive _(´ཀ`」 ∠)_ Though apparently if you hand write enough it becomes clear (muscle...understanding of where the shortcuts occur?). I think I’ve seen Gongsun daniang as a character in some games? Can’t remember where though. The third from last line [When pleasure is at its height, sorrow follows. The moon rises in the east] is so very directional — feels almost like a description of a movie/video moment. I feel like chinese/brush calligraphy is very close to dance though, even if western calligraphy with nibs doesn’t work out that way (I say, blithely swooshing away at it with flex nibs and shiny ink) there’s a video out recently that I’ll try to find of a performance of the Lan Ting Xu, a famous Wei-Jin era piece of calligraphy. 㸌如羿射九日落 About the shooting the suns line, there’s no comma or pause in the original, so maybe it’s just this translation! Re title did you ever see one of those poems that in these days would be an i stagram post, I think li bai or someone with full date + tagged people in the picture.....they title poems like I label test tubes XD Her dance is...I’ve never quite seen this particular way it gets used 剑器, where it’s sword....artifact? probably not the right word. Qi 器 is -ware, machines, things created by artifice etc https://baike.baidu.com/item/剑器/198168 I see it’s some kind of ceremonial object, or at least not an actual blade, which makes sense. Most dances from ancient (Xia dynasty on) times that were recorded are the shamanistic formal kinds for seasons turning, rain, large enterprises/events etc, all the way attenuated into the Tang as just performances now... But back in the day you’d get the aristocrats participating in the dances too!
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Re: 31. 觀公孫大娘弟子舞劍器行 Guān Gōng-sūn dà-niáng dì-zǐ wǔ jiàn-qì xíng
Date: 2021-11-13 07:16 am (UTC)I think I’ve seen Gongsun daniang as a character in some games? Can’t remember where though.
The third from last line [When pleasure is at its height, sorrow follows. The moon rises in the east] is so very directional — feels almost like a description of a movie/video moment.
I feel like chinese/brush calligraphy is very close to dance though, even if western calligraphy with nibs doesn’t work out that way (I say, blithely swooshing away at it with flex nibs and shiny ink) there’s a video out recently that I’ll try to find of a performance of the Lan Ting Xu, a famous Wei-Jin era piece of calligraphy.
㸌如羿射九日落 About the shooting the suns line, there’s no comma or pause in the original, so maybe it’s just this translation!
Re title did you ever see one of those poems that in these days would be an i stagram post, I think li bai or someone with full date + tagged people in the picture.....they title poems like I label test tubes XD
Her dance is...I’ve never quite seen this particular way it gets used 剑器, where it’s sword....artifact? probably not the right word. Qi 器 is -ware, machines, things created by artifice etc https://baike.baidu.com/item/剑器/198168
I see it’s some kind of ceremonial object, or at least not an actual blade, which makes sense. Most dances from ancient (Xia dynasty on) times that were recorded are the shamanistic formal kinds for seasons turning, rain, large enterprises/events etc, all the way attenuated into the Tang as just performances now...
But back in the day you’d get the aristocrats participating in the dances too!