Random Thoughts of Wuxia

[PJ]

Wanyan Honglie, you dog bastard!

[PJ]

Qiu Chuji is an idiot.

[Mido-Ban]

how did they brush their teeth? use the toilet? shampoo? some characters say they don't shower for months. how did girls deal with periods?

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Hm, why did they not dub Zhou Xun's husky voice w/ a clear one?! Would've given her performance a 9 instead of 8.5. Why the hell did Li Yapeng sound and act so retarded?! What a letdown compared to XAJH 2000's LHC.

[Shi-Potian]

Why the hell did Li Yapeng sound and act so retarded?! What a letdown compared to XAJH 2000's LHC.

cuz he played a mentally deficient character, it was the same in hu ge's 2007 version.

[So Yen]

Is Yang Tiexin suppose to be a descendant of the Yang warriors?

[ByTmE]

If Zhao Min was a dude..."he" might be the kind of wuxia dude a girl could fall for.

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cuz he played a mentally deficient character, it was the same in hu ge's 2007 version.

GJ being slow doesn't necessarily mean that he has to sound that annoying. LYP's take on GJ's voice was an overacting. I just watched some episodes of LOCH 2008, it is one of the worse adaptations but at least the unisex-looking dude who played GJ in that series didn't sound as if 3/4 his tongue was cut off or something.

[Shi-Potian]

lol at hu ge being unisex, plastic surgery can do that i guess

[Ken Cheng]

When wuxia characters eat at restaurants, are those bowls, cups, plates, and chopsticks clean?

[Han Solo]

When wuxia characters eat at restaurants, are those bowls, cups, plates, and chopsticks clean?

Do you think they care?

They probably wash once a month, and judging by TVB, only ever wear one piece of clothes.

Han Solo

[So Yen]

When wuxia characters eat at restaurants, are those bowls, cups, plates, and chopsticks clean?

And you always see all of them always (or most of the time) have a lot of money, but you don't ever or rarely see them work.

[hoatran]

And you always see all of them always (or most of the time) have a lot of money, but you don't ever or rarely see them work.

Yeah! How did those sect made money? How did Quan Zhen sect built those halls? or Zhang SanFeng's Wu Dang sect built those temples?

[Guo Xiang]

Yeah! How did those sect made money? How did Quan Zhen sect built those halls? or Zhang SanFeng's Wu Dang sect built those temples?

Maybe the students paid school fees? Or do those sects really teach for free while providing food and lodging?

For Taoist and Buddhist sects, they probably had civil supporters, just like Shaolin.

[PJ]

I think the last novel I read is changing my life. Proof that reading wuxia fiction is NOT a complete waste of time.

[ByTmE]

I think the last novel I read is changing my life. Proof that reading wuxia fiction is NOT a complete waste of time.

What's the last novel you read?

I wonder how ancient maidens applied eyeliner or curled their eyelashes? Did the wuxia maidens carry the ancient equivalent of travel makeup kits? These are important things I'd worry 'bout should I ever be sucked through a vortex.

[Dirt]

Guo Jing must have been very desperate just before the fall of Xiang Yang. Even knowing how the killing and suffering that the 9 Yin manual caused Jiang Hu, he still agreed to having the Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre made.

Or was that the key? The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre would be so coveted that a righteous hero in Jiang Hu would choose to destroy the weapons and thus find the manuals inside? That another Guo Jing will rise and restore the Song?

[Ken Cheng]

Guo Jing must have been very desperate just before the fall of Xiang Yang. Even knowing how the killing and suffering that the 9 Yin manual caused Jiang Hu, he still agreed to having the Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre made.

Or was that the key? The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre would be so coveted that a righteous hero in Jiang Hu would choose to destroy the weapons and thus find the manuals inside? That another Guo Jing will rise and restore the Song?

I think that the preparation of the Heaven Sword and the Dragon Sabre wasn't a last-minute plan carried out as the Mongols crashed the gates of Seung Yeung, but a long-term contingency plan that Gwok Jing and Wong Yung began putting into place not long after ROCH ended. The Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre were not shoddily-made weapons; they were among the best-constructed weapons in the history of wulin. The plan to copy out the texts of the 9 Yum Jen Ging and the Mo Muk War Tactics Manual also would have taken some time to carry out. None of this work was something that could be thrown together in just hours or even days before Seung Yeung fell. I think that to gather materials (well, it was basically the Heavy Iron Sword with some other metals thrown in), find and hire a top-level blacksmith, and devise a way to conceal the manuals into the weapons was a project that took months...and probably could only have been done successfully while Seung Yeung wasn't under imminent siege.

[Suet Seung]

Just a random thought I had some time ago, but didn't get a chance to post here until now.

When was cooking oil like corn oil, olive oil and the like invented? Didn't people used to cook using animal fat like pig fat and stuff to fry and cook food that requires oil? My point is...what did strictly vegetarian nuns and Shaolin monks cook with? I don't think they're allowed to eat fried food that used animal fat to cook it. So was it mostly boiled and steamed food?

[Ian Liew]

Just a random thought I had some time ago, but didn't get a chance to post here until now.

When was cooking oil like corn oil, olive oil and the like invented? Didn't people used to cook using animal fat like pig fat and stuff to fry and cook food that requires oil? My point is...what did strictly vegetarian nuns and Shaolin monks cook with? I don't think they're allowed to eat fried food that used animal fat to cook it. So was it mostly boiled and steamed food?

Most likely - vegetarian food was really "qing" in those days. None of the mock fish, mock duck, mock charsiu (which tastes better than real charsiu) and other stuff which vegetarians eat these days. It's fine if you're eating it for health or humanitarian reasons, but some religious people (not all, for sure) I know refuse to even eat those, and insist on the bland stuff. Does them credit, I think. When my granddad died we had some nuns for his funeral, and I remember being quite shocked when the nuns recommended a restaurant for my uncle to get food for them, and it was like steamed soonhock fish, and other kinds of exotic stuff which I couldn't believe was vegetarian. Maybe in spirit it really isn't.