An entire universe in a ceiling: in the Beijing Ancient Architecture Museum 北京古代建筑博物馆，a preserved Ming dynasty caisson ceiling from the Longfu Temple. 隆福寺. Concentric rings house stacks of buildings. A star chart, the cosmos, in the centre.

This is extremely modern AU Zang Hai tbh

Oh man I actually finished a fic for the first time this year 😭

Thread of references to Chinese history and legends in #MCTNA: I can't promise this is comprehensive, I'm just tickled by these and wanted to share.

Very late #wipwednesday: The Depths of the Sea, now more than 20,000 words.

Re last repost: It takes real time, effort and skill to do decent translations. Show respect for those who have the expertise and put in the work.

Every time I see an uncredited translation screenshot I want to qrt saying "credit?????" Credit translators jfc.

I've said Romance of the Three Kingdoms so many times so let's have a different answer: The notorious 90s anti-corruption thriller The Wrath of Heaven, based on real events and banned in China, which I read probably way too young. gaodawei.wordpress.com/2021/03/25/p...

One of the things that gets lost in translation is how rhythmic & fun to read the prose of the original Journey to the West is. Best way I can describe it is "Imagine if Dragonball was Written instead of Drawn" Esp. when for most of its existence, this is how story would've actually been read:

During his Nars livestream the presenter asked XZ about fans discovering that they could see different images by shining a torch on the art that came with his album. He confirmed that it was intended as a clever easter egg. #XiaoZhan

no srsly if your feed feels off check out this section. some massive overreaching in the filters going on here despite the fact my base settings are extremely permissive 💀

helpful list of baihe translations by actual humans (self-identified) compiled by @/true0blue.bsky.social: baihehumantl.carrd.co

#wipwednesday 14k later the end is in sight. The Depths of the Sea, ZZX POV.

I'm a broken record about this but CL's 2019 EP is so good. open.spotify.com/album/6v5UJu... #kpop

I love fanfiction. I love that prolific writers have secret accounts on AO3. I love that professional writers get their start writing yaoi. I love that your doctor or lawyer or mailman could be writing fanfiction in their free time. I love that we all have our little blorbos and comfort stories

Aw, XZ popped on Weibo to promote Shu Qi's directorial debut, Girl (Shu Qi was his mentor on X-Fire) #xiaozhan

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

This scene brings me such joy and I love when it makes my friends shriek the same way 😊 #legendofzanghai

Re previous reposts: I referenced this story in my Red Cliff fic which is also named after it archiveofourown.org/works/35760253

the idiom 高山流水, now a symbol of rare, resonant connection, where one heart plays and another truly understands. 2/2

High Mountains Flowing Water (高山流水) wasn’t just music. It was soul recognition. When Bo Ya played the qin, only Zhong Ziqi could truly hear the peaks and rivers in each note. After Ziqi’s death, Bo Ya broke his instrument in grief, vowing never to play again. Their story gave rise to 1/2 #folklore

#Yuletide signups end in just over 24 hours, FYI! (2:00 pm Pacific time)

#wipwednesday back after a break with more Legend of Zang Hai

10 years since XZ decided he was too hot to work in an office for bad pay and the people judging the first rounds of auditions for X-Fire evidently agreed. (10 years ago, the first episode of X-Fire was recorded. This is a fancam of XZ's performance of Cruel Moonlight for that ep.) #xiaozhan

Weibo hot trend: "A single person (XZ) made an entire town go viral" XZ's new show #smalltownremedy is filming in the relatively unknown city of Jinzhou, which is now all over social media for the passionate response of the local people to his presence. #xiaozhan

hmm

Share someone who looks stylish in a hat

made a meme to express our feelings about #thespirealm yes it is a blatant ripoff of that one guardian meme, i'm gay not original #致命游戏

Who’s your favorite Jedi (wrong answers only)

Just watched episode 7 of #legendofzanghai again with @nubreed.bsky.social and @frankles.bsky.social and my brain is high on this amazing show again. Also: him.

XZ is announced as the lead of the upcoming iQiyi drama 小城良方 (小城 = small town and 良方 = an effective prescription/remedy). The show is an adaptation of the novel 飞刀, which tells the story of a genius doctor who is forced to return to his hometown after suffering an epic downfall. #xiaozhan

There's something wonderful and funny about having a fandom in law. Like, I don't go here, but my friend does, so now I know random shit about F1 teams or wrestlers or kpop groups Then you see something about their brainworm and you bring it to them like a crow, like "I saw this and thought of you"

Obligatory link to Xiao Zhan and Na Ying having just the best time performing the Chinese version of ABBA's Gimme Gimme Gimme youtu.be/uq4mOo4i_-A?... #xiaozhan

Yuletide Signups are open! #Yuletide yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/128413.html

Using ChatGPT

yeahhh. a foundational piece of this movement its insistence that trans people are unreliable narrators, even on ourselves. this limits our ability to spread info outside our own circles, however true said info is! if your credibility has not been eroded in this way you gotta pick up the baton

Finally got around to reviewing my favourite historical (danmei) novel of 2024: www.tumblr.com/stickmarione...

It says K-pop doeneun hyungdeuls - hyungs who have become K-pop. But sounds very close to the original title. It also says sasip boys. Sasip means 40, as in their ages. A masterpiece

Drake sitting there reading about how good the judge thought the song was and how everyone really enjoyed it

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

XZ Weibo post: "For Fu Yixao, General Fu!" He reposted frequent collaborator Li Qin's post with a clip from her currently airing show Fated Hearts. (General Fu Yixao is the name of her character.) Li Qin comment: "Thanks Zhan-ge, looking forward to Shaobai!" #xiaozhan

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 🥮 The #diebao Weibo account is celebrating with a chaotic behind the scenes video with plenty of silly XZ (him saying "what's up, gege" took me out) #xiaozhan

The single is out now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXRt... Produced by XZ Studio and Tencent Music. #XiaoZhan

Me and the homies stroking the silkiest beards imaginable and watching some episodes of Romance of the Three Kingdoms (1994) - Fansubs by @hanzhonglang.bsky.social

Go on Twitter -> See that people who don't speak Chinese at all, let alone fluently, are still posting "translations" and passing them off as anything like an accurate representation of the actual posts and getting hundreds of RTs

We are being spoiled today part infinity: XZ Studio birthday photoshoot vlog, posted in 2 parts because it's over 3 minutes long #XiaoZhan

🎂 #xiaozhan

So many gifts today! The #diebao Weibo account posted some more Ren Shaobai footage for XZ's birthday #XiaoZhan

🎂 #xiaozhan