Joy to the world

[flemmings]

xsmoonshine draws a seasonal pic for the Woxin fans.

Selon qwerty:
Gou Jian did not approve of Fu Chai's new idea for bringing a little colour to the Spring Festival. (Ya Yu has no comment.)

Is this not magnificent? Thank you, qwerty.

"The King of Yue lives most plainly," said the ambassador of Xi. He lowered his voice. "Is it true he sleeps in his own stables?"
"Yes," said Wen Zhong. "He lies every night on a bed of brushwood so as never to forget the humiliation of his state in Wu."
"And I note he refrains from lavish meat and drink at meals as well."
"He drinks only gall, so as never to forget the bitterness of his captivity in Wu."
The ambassador's voice sank to a whisper. "And... the *hat*?"
Wen Zhong remained unperturbed. "It keeps his head warm. Have you ever *slept* in a stable?"

(As a writer, let me say how I burn with envy that I'll never be able to express Fu Chai's dorkiness, Gou Jian's Uncle Ming's smoulder, and Ya Yu's Ahh!Ya Yu-ness in a few simple strokes like this.)
(Wrote Yay Yu the first time; up there with Fab Li as a typo, and much more appropriate.)

Comments

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

You make santa hats entirely reasonable in woxin! That is beyond awesome! ♥

[rasetsunyo.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE GENIUS. 8D

As are you, flemmings!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Ah, but the santa hat was a present from the King of Wu! Gou Jian wears it as a perennial reminder of Fu Chai's insult! *And* because it keeps his head warm. Waste not, want not; if we're going to return Yue to its former glory we can't be picky in our economies.

[sho-sunaga.livejournal.com]

*giggles*
That is so cute and it(the hat) goes surprising well the historical costume!

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

aaaahhhh! So so so wonderful! amazing amazing. The art is wonderfully succinct yet speaks volumes and the little snippet accompanies it so beautifully! Genius!

Thank you both!

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

On a side note ... thank you for the lovely card! I received it yesterday!

I love it!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is that it does. Half the hats in Woxin are, well, head-dresses really: impractical and uncomfortable stuff-on-the-head, and the rest are skullcaps just waiting to fall off. Most of the robes look very much like dressing gowns (or nightgowns, in the case of Gou Jian's slave's hempen garment.) Meanwhile you can always see the actors' breath because the whole thing seems to have been filmed in winter, even when the cherry blossoms are falling.

A nightcap is exactly what the doctor ordered.

[sho-sunaga.livejournal.com]

I heard it can be quite freezing there.

BTW
http://streaming.yahoo.co.jp/sub/drama/taiwan/
I found this yahoo film site and one of the drama is named燃ゆる呉越is this it?

Also thank you for the wonderful sparkly card!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Alas, no, none of these are the same series, though they all look fascinating. (Wish I had an up to date computer...)

This (http://www.quick-china.com/movie/detail/dj11834.html) is it, or at yes.asia this (http://www.yesasia.com/global/%E8%87%A5%E8%96%AA%E5%98%97%E8%83%86-dvd-%E5%AE%8C-%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E8%AA%9E-%E8%8B%B1%E8%AA%9E%E5%AD%97%E5%B9%95-us%E7%89%88/1005162627-0-0-0-ja/info.html). It's entitled 臥薪嘗胆 or the simplified version thereof 卧薪尝胆. None of my Japanese googling has revealed anything with Japanese subtitles, though I've yearned to see it in Japanese ever since I started watching the extremely unsatisfactory English translation.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed. ^_^

[sho-sunaga.livejournal.com]

Oh that's too bad..But the drama is set on the same period http://www.vap.co.jp/goetsu/chara.html

Well I think now that you and M got me interested, I'll start hunting for more Chinese drama. I'm especially interested in the judge thing M mentioned!
Tsutaya has a catalogue of Chinese drama DVDs
http://lx02.www.tsutaya.co.jp/catalog/dvd/plist.pl?item=108&gr1=27&gr2=02

[feliciter.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU for this pic, made of complete and utter WIN ^_^

And to you, flemmings, for the unprecedented achievement of Santa-hat!Woxin fic.

[paleaswater.livejournal.com]

These looks like mostly Taiwanese series. I remember seeing a few mainland ones on a Japanese website somewhere, let me see if I can dig it up.

[sho-sunaga.livejournal.com]

Thank you!
I'm sure there are some...
Maybe if I go to China town in Yokohama..but then it would be in Chinese I think.

[incandescens]

The picture and story are both Totally Awesome.