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sicklyworm · 1 day

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CALLING ALL MXTX FANS.

I've recently stumbled across the information that nail polish originated from China and dates back to 3000 BCE. It was worn to signify social standing REGARDLESS of gender.

Do you get where I'm going with this?

#Draw the MXTX cast with nail polish

#mdzs #svsss #tgcf #mxtx #mao dao zu shi #scum villain #scum villian self saving system #heaven official's blessing #danmei #xianxia #wuxia

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solacestea · 1 month

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hanfugallery · 6 months

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chinese hanfu by 羽月司衣局

#china #hanfu #fashion #chinese fashion #guzhuang style #mens hanfu #xianxia

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driftwoodwolf · 3 months

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xianxia au razor!!

find me on twitter @/driftwoodwoof

#razor #genshin razor #razor genshin impact #genshin #genshin impact #原神 #xianxia #wolves #artists on tumblr #my art #fan art #this was drawn for the xianxia zine

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fateandloveentwined · 11 months

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wuxia, xianxia, and cultivation differences meta

translations: wuxia 武俠, xianxia 仙俠, and cultivation 修真/修仙 (xīuzhēn/xīuxiān)

think i've seen posts on this eons ago, and i'm pretty sure there are tons of these online, but since this has been written up already let's just have another one.

wuxia 武俠

wuxia and xianxia sound similar, but basically for wuxia it is about the pugilistic world (江湖 jiānghú). It is relatively more down-to-earth, and people practice martial arts ("kungfu") in their current life -- they do not do it to become xians (仙) and gods (神) however.

Like Thousand Autumns and Faraway Wanderers/Word of Honor, it has more historical background and ties to the current court and kingdoms, because people are living in the moment and concern themselves with worldly issues.

Martial arts may seem unrealistic, but in view of chinese fantasy it would be considered "real". It consists of fighting moves and internal energy, which they call qi or nèigōng (內功), and at times you see people flying around, climbing hills and jumping across rooftops which is qīnggōng (輕功).

xianxia 仙俠

A level up would be xianxia, where characters in the story cultivate to become xians (and gods, like in the heaven official's blessing). They don't really care about earthly issues here now, because their ambitions lie beyond the current world, and cultivation, getting stronger, and an immortal life are majorly all their goals.

You may not always see them working towards that purpose, such as in mdzs they are considered a lower-xianxia society (低魔), meaning people don't go through all the steps of cultivation and only stay at the stage before the "golden core" stage.

In xianxia, characters still learn basic fighting moves aka. martial arts, but to direct the internal energy they use línglì (灵力), zhēnqì (真气), and fǎlì (法力), all xianxia terms you commonly see. "neigong" is practically nonexistent in this genre. That's why people building up their "neigong" instead of "lingli" are likely never going to be able to cultivate.

cultivation 修真/修仙

A subgenre in the xianxia category would be cultivation. Characters actively go through the stages of cultivation, and likely for the MC, because they are the main character, they successfully become a xian and exit the world at the end of the novel.

There are many stages of cultivation, usually defined at the beginning of the novel in the synopsis, and a typical example of the different levels would be this:

练气，筑基，金丹，元婴，化神，炼虚，合体，大乘，渡劫

And with a cursory search, an English translation would be something like this, albeit not with all the cultivation ranks identified.

Qi condensation (练气), Foundation establishment (筑基), Core Formation (金丹), Nascent Soul (元婴), and the names after that vary too greatly with translation and fandom so I'll jump straight to Immortal Ascension

extra info: getting into the philosophy of it all

It'd be interesting to note that the word "xiá" (俠) permeates all these genres. This is something akin to the concept of "hero", but not at all also, and I'd love to speak more on this but this post has already gone way longer than I hoped it would be, so perhaps another day.

Regardless, it is interesting to note that wuxia has a greater emphasis on "xia" than xianxia. (some joke that cultivation doesn't have the word "xia" in it, and much of that is because characters have foregone heroism and focused on gaining powers and working towards ascension instead). As a result, wuxia is more confucianism-oriented, though not without its taoism and buddhism influences.

xianxia, on the other hand, is mainly derived from "dào" (道), from taoism, which is another lengthy concept if I ever get to it.

And some may have heard of the "farming" genre, 种田 (zhòngtián). This has to do with golden fingers (mary sues) in imperialistic china, earning a wealth of money, and all that. It has nothing to do with cultivation, alike they sound in english.

that's it for now, hmu if you wish to ask/discuss!

(and apologies for the pinyin translations, hope it's understandable still! formally writing pinyin they are supposed to be two separate words not one.)

#danmei #mdzs #word of honor #cdrama #thousand autumns #cnovel #wuxia #xianxia #cultivation novel #chinese language #chinese #fate's meta

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komaneko-kun · 2 years

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snakey boy sketch

#zhuzhi lang #svsss #mxtx #svsss fanart #danmei #xianxia #my art #eight balls you were a worthy opponent #please treat him well...#sobs

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feral-queercore-punk · 5 days

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the xianxia trope of riding your alive swords like skateboards is the funniest shit. the fuck you mean a character is getting traumatised so badly it alters the plot? bro is literally just cruising

#boutta do an ollie above the clouds #what as i swoop in and steal ur man with my sweet tony hawk pro skater moves (starts a war)#xianxia #mxtx #wei wuxian #this is about him yes #that scene where hes yeeted into the burual mounds is hilarious im sorry #mo xiang tong xiu #mdzs

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dailyasiandramas · 1 year

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