So the actress for Diaochan looks super-familiar and I tried to figure out why, but aside from a cdrama years ago that I dropped halfway through because it was long and I got bored, she hasn't been in anything else that I've seen. I think. (There is a period of my life in which my parents made the viewing decisions, and I didn't bother remember the names of any of the Chinese historical dramas we watched, and there is a large likelihood that she was in something I saw at that point in my life.)
But it turns out, I have seen some of her music videos before. Who knew.
Anyway, I thought you might be interested to know that Diaochan is one of the Four Great Beauties in Chinese history. Presumably, there were many beautiful women, but there were only four who were Historically Significant enough to get legends. So her legend is that she used to take baths outside at night (I think my parents told me she would take baths in milk, to make her skin more porcelain-white), and the moon was ashamed that it wasn't as beautiful as she was, and so it would hide behind clouds whenever she showed up.
(The other beauties did things like stun birds so much with their beauty that the birds would fall from the sky and then presumably die when they hit the ground.)
i think the actress was in Tian Long Ba Bu and was the one that ripped her transplanted eyes out before picking up Qiao Feng and stepping off the cliff together.
And that was far from the craziest thing that happened in Tian Long Ba Bu. You should check it out if it's available in English subs, I think you'll like it?
Ohoh that's actually my favorite ZJZ adaptation of LouisCha novels. ZJZ is behind almost all the adaptations Royal Tramp, HSDS, I know ur favorite is RoCH...but DemiGodSemiDevil is the most glorious angst fest in louischa's wuxialand. I fear for ur sanity Mousie!!!!
Lol, there's also this one where the fishes would forget to swim when she's close by and so they'd drown. Together these beauties could've opened a restaurant.
But it turns out, I have seen some of her music videos before. Who knew.
Anyway, I thought you might be interested to know that Diaochan is one of the Four Great Beauties in Chinese history. Presumably, there were many beautiful women, but there were only four who were Historically Significant enough to get legends. So her legend is that she used to take baths outside at night (I think my parents told me she would take baths in milk, to make her skin more porcelain-white), and the moon was ashamed that it wasn't as beautiful as she was, and so it would hide behind clouds whenever she showed up.
(The other beauties did things like stun birds so much with their beauty that the birds would fall from the sky and then presumably die when they hit the ground.)
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WHAT IS THIS...
Ah, cdrama.
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I fear for ur sanity Mousie!!!!
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Plus, I have a thing for Jimmy Lin, so here I come.
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