on thinking Thousand Autumns
[crossposted from dw]
While I'm online instead of falling asleep:
<<锦瑟>> 李商隐 (Li Shangyin)
锦瑟无端五十弦，一弦一柱思华年。
庄生晓梦迷蝴蝶，望帝春心托杜鹃
沧海月明珠有泪，蓝田日暖玉生烟。
此情可待成追忆，只是当时已惘然。
Ok, I've never paid that much attention to late Tang poetry (yes, I'm an unlettered oaf), and I have to admit that this poem caught my attention just now solely for the last bit in the third line: 玉生烟 (Yu Sheng Yan). Which is the name of Wu Yanshi's disciple in Thousand Autumns! Not sure if the author did take the name from this poem or if it's just a coincidence (or from another poem) but it is so adorable that I'm squeeing inside. (Tho' the poem is supposed to be a sad poem. But.) From what I gathered, 玉生烟 means a misty haze caused by sunlight on (jade)stone and refers to something ungraspable (I think?). Is it intended to be a sly reference to Yu Shengyan's very, very slow realisation of his shizun's infatuation with Shen Qiao? :))))
All the more delightful because this lyricism contrasts with Yan Wushi's terrible penchant for puns (Li Qingyu... tou).
***
In order to avoid writing my Yuletide fic (I know, I'm procrastinating, as usual), I started watching Crossfire Episode 1 on YT (穿越火线) and binged-watched it over the week. Fast-forwarded some of it, mostly when they were shooting at each other... Loved the earlier storyline of how e-sports started in China, the team's struggles and the prejudice against gaming especially professional gaming.
(There's two storylines, one starting in 2008 and one starting in 2019, and it's surreal to see a narration of how the 2019 team makes it to the national championship in 2020-2021 (!!!) and then flies to Singapore in 2021 (!!!!) for an international competition. Well, they probably made this in 2018-2019 and could not have anticipated the pandemic. Still.)
I watched it for Wu Lei (hello Fei Liu!) but ended up enjoying Lu Han's character more. The last episode was satisfying in that they caught the baddie at last but there's a lot of nationalist jingoism and of course, they had to defeat the Japanese team first (ahhhhh, China, never change).
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By the way, I was grumbling the other day that Xiao Zhan didn't seem to have learnt the flute while filming the Untamed... turns out that he did learn it, there's bts. I guess the scenes where it didn't look right to me was... probably me? -_-; (Or the way that that they filmed those scenes, hmmm).
While I'm online instead of falling asleep:
<<锦瑟>> 李商隐 (Li Shangyin)
锦瑟无端五十弦，一弦一柱思华年。
庄生晓梦迷蝴蝶，望帝春心托杜鹃
沧海月明珠有泪，蓝田日暖玉生烟。
此情可待成追忆，只是当时已惘然。
Ok, I've never paid that much attention to late Tang poetry (yes, I'm an unlettered oaf), and I have to admit that this poem caught my attention just now solely for the last bit in the third line: 玉生烟 (Yu Sheng Yan). Which is the name of Wu Yanshi's disciple in Thousand Autumns! Not sure if the author did take the name from this poem or if it's just a coincidence (or from another poem) but it is so adorable that I'm squeeing inside. (Tho' the poem is supposed to be a sad poem. But.) From what I gathered, 玉生烟 means a misty haze caused by sunlight on (jade)stone and refers to something ungraspable (I think?). Is it intended to be a sly reference to Yu Shengyan's very, very slow realisation of his shizun's infatuation with Shen Qiao? :))))
All the more delightful because this lyricism contrasts with Yan Wushi's terrible penchant for puns (Li Qingyu... tou).
***
In order to avoid writing my Yuletide fic (I know, I'm procrastinating, as usual), I started watching Crossfire Episode 1 on YT (穿越火线) and binged-watched it over the week. Fast-forwarded some of it, mostly when they were shooting at each other... Loved the earlier storyline of how e-sports started in China, the team's struggles and the prejudice against gaming especially professional gaming.
(There's two storylines, one starting in 2008 and one starting in 2019, and it's surreal to see a narration of how the 2019 team makes it to the national championship in 2020-2021 (!!!) and then flies to Singapore in 2021 (!!!!) for an international competition. Well, they probably made this in 2018-2019 and could not have anticipated the pandemic. Still.)
I watched it for Wu Lei (hello Fei Liu!) but ended up enjoying Lu Han's character more. The last episode was satisfying in that they caught the baddie at last but there's a lot of nationalist jingoism and of course, they had to defeat the Japanese team first (ahhhhh, China, never change).
***
By the way, I was grumbling the other day that Xiao Zhan didn't seem to have learnt the flute while filming the Untamed... turns out that he did learn it, there's bts. I guess the scenes where it didn't look right to me was... probably me? -_-; (Or the way that that they filmed those scenes, hmmm).