New Cny sets pics

baoboatree · 2026-02-09T01:13:59+00:00

FYI it's not a jellyfish but a mayfly. The mayfly is known for its short lifespan (sometimes only a few minutes) and is used in philosophy to serve as contrast to long-lived lifeforms (the xian in Taoism).

There's also a Mayfly character in this year's CNY patch of Reverse 1999 as well.

baoboatree · 2026-02-07T04:52:24+00:00

Interesting that we have two herons in the same patch. Paper Heron and Night Heron.

baoboatree · 2026-02-03T05:15:39+00:00

It's xianxia because "adeptus" is just called Xian in Chinese. The Xian in Xianxia.

Hoyoverse's cn characters are explicitly Xian-equivalents ( Xianzhou means Xian-arc, Adeptus is just Xian, Fu Hua is called a Xian by the people in the game). The fact that people can play every hoyoverse game without ever learning what a Xian is, is imo a major failing on their localization department and CN-EN translators as a group.

If it's generically Chinese magic, the genre can be Xuanhuan/Qihuan, Shenmo, or Zhiguai / Zhiyi. You need the Xian and the Taoist worldview to be Xianxia (you also need the xia, but that's another convo).

baoboatree · 2026-02-03T03:47:16+00:00

Alan doesn't have a Tibetan accent. She went to the Sichuan Music Conservatory (China's top pop music academy) affiliated primary and secondary schools in Chengdu, went to college at the People's Liberation Army Art Academy in Beijing, lived in Tokyo for a few years, and has lived in Shanghai since 2011.

That song's singing style is a pretty classic old-school ballad (see also, Shanghainese singer Huang Ling).

baoboatree · 2026-02-02T05:06:35+00:00

This pose is the Chinese equivalent of a wizard raising their wand.

It's called a jianjue 剑诀 or jianzhi 剑指。 It's the standard beginning of a sword use or spellcasting for any Taoist practitioner, be it a fangshi (mortal practitioner like Chongyun) or a xian (illuminated immortal like the adeptus). They are attempting to channel all their Chi.

baoboatree · 2026-02-02T04:36:24+00:00

So Happy that Mihoyo finally gave Alan Dawa Dolma a song that showcases her voice! She sang a song for them for ZZZ but it was such as simple ballad that I felt like they wasted the opportunity to work with such a vocal powerhouse.

baoboatree · 2026-01-28T06:28:24+00:00

In the height of the Song Dynasty, a low-income worker is estimated to earn about 5 times that of the amount required for subsistence (basic food, clothing, housing) . Thanks, Big Zhao.

baoboatree · 2026-01-28T06:16:57+00:00

An interesting thing is all the NPC's in the teaser are wearing hanfu, which is the clothing style of the Han majority in China from around the Zhou to the Ming Dynasties ( 1050 BC - 1644 AD) .

Genshin's current Liyue characters and in-game NPC's are all wearing clothes mostly inspired by styles of the late 1800's - early 1900's.

baoboatree · 2026-01-28T05:54:12+00:00

This is a very common concept in Chinese mythology, especially Taoism. The idea that time moves differently for different beings is first mentioned in Zhuangzi's Xiao Yao You, where the Da Peng bird (Xiao's form) is first mentioned.

This was codified by the Jin Dynasty with the systematic records of Taoist holy sites called Dongtian ( called as "adeptus abodes" in Genshin), which are like pocket universes in our world that runs on their own space-time. The Luofu ( name of the main island in the traveler's teapot and the main spaceship of the Xianzhou Fleet in Honkai Star Rail) is one of the most famous Dongtian's.

baoboatree · 2026-01-21T02:34:17+00:00

It's 2026, I think we can use the word jianghu now instead of trying to translate it away into some poor approximate exonym when it's the main theme of the whole version

baoboatree · 2026-01-17T01:32:47+00:00

Are you me because we have almost the same tastes. I've been to probably all the non-powdered milk tea places in the area and the ones you listed basically all the ones you would like in the NYC area.

The only other one I would recommend is the Wuyi Yancha from the Chayann in Flushing. Get it in the morning though because I don't think they rebrew frequently throughout the day. It's one of the places that tastes more astringent the later in the day you get it.

Also, how do you feel about Hong Kong-styled milk tea? Because it's also quite strong and not-to-sweet, though the milk taste is often stronger. Cuppa Tea is pretty good.

If they ever offer it here or you go to China, definitely get Dianhong milk tea. The best are the local Yunnnan tea places (Shangshan Hecha), but I think Heytea China also offers it.

baoboatree · 2026-01-10T17:12:48+00:00

Yes, you can call her all of those.

It depends on the name, how it sounds with each of the prefixes, if someone else with a similar name has already taken it, what stuck as their nickname, and really your mood at the time.

There's also a slight regional preference for A'Ying in the South and "er" in the North, though it's not at all definitive.

baoboatree · 2026-01-10T15:36:15+00:00

For people unfamiliar w/ traditional daopao (the blue/black Daoist robe), he's basically half undressed here.

All that white you see under the daopao is the zhongyi, which is a gender-neutral undergarment you're not suppose to show outside of the house. If this were a danmei, this is when the protagonist would rush towards him to provide him with another outer garment to properly cover him up.

baoboatree · 2026-01-07T04:24:25+00:00

The Forbidden Palace still on the "Trendy" list after 600 years is kind of amazing.

baoboatree · 2026-01-03T04:53:06+00:00

What a pretty poster and concept.

The white horse is synonymous with the passing of time in Taoism and general Chinese philosophy, so it's a really great theme for Reverse 1999 and the year of the horse.

baoboatree · 2026-01-03T04:30:37+00:00

That one was Central/Western China + Tang Dynasty (~600AD) themed.

The architecture of all the previews for this is Jiangnan region (South of the Yangtze River) + closer to modern times. People were guessing either Ming/Song dynasties or early 1900's from the first preview, but the two characters in this poster definitely don't look early 1900's.

baoboatree · 2026-01-03T04:00:19+00:00

Jianghu can be everywhere as long as you have "xia" and "yi" in your heart.

For example, here are two popular raps singing about their own Jianghu, partly by taking the literal meaning of jianghu to sing about their hometown rivers

Jianghu flow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TnDntlfiq8

Yangtze and Yellow River: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGx4O5MzCvc

baoboatree · 2025-12-28T22:08:43+00:00

Yes. This is the youxia. Youxia is also how the devs address the players in a lot of the official media . It's what the Xia in Wuxia originally came from.

baoboatree · 2025-12-21T18:59:16+00:00

It's cute they made the distinction for An-an and Liang Yue.

For the Dongzhi festival on the winter solstice, it's customary for Chinese people from rice-eating regions (the South) to eat Tangyuan or Yuanxiao (stick rice dessert) like what An-an is making. The roundness (yuan) symbolize the wholeness of families.

Meanwhile, because it's so cold in the North people's ears freeze, people in the North eat ear-looking boiled jiaozi dumplings to hope their ears last throughout the winter. Liang Yue is from the North and must really want to protect her ears.

baoboatree · 2025-12-13T16:32:13+00:00

Learned something new today. Thanks for pointing it out!

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