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legend of ruyi | empress fuca’s ceremonial attire

#legend of ruyi #cdrama #cdramanet #gifshistorical #weloveperioddrama #perioddramaedit #qing dynasty #mine #empress xiaoxian #i get worse and worse progressively #but i love this loookkkkk

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the rebel princess: aesthetics from episode 26

#pretty pretty pretty #the rebel princess

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the story of yanxi palace 延禧攻略: costume appreciation

Chenbi’s pale pink outfit

#so pretttyyyyyy #the story of yanxi palace

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empress of the ming: the way this scene cracks me up every time

#hahaha love this #empress of the ming

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mother. i’m not a weak and incompetent daughter anymore. i’m the empress now. the leader of the six palaces. the mother of the empire. i did not disappoint you mother. i want to let you personally see me in these ceremonial robes of mine. mother, i so want you to hug me now. i miss you, i miss you so very much.

CHARMAINE SHEH AS HOIFA NARA SHUSHEN, EMPRESS NARA

THE STORY OF YANXI PALACE (2018)

#charmaine sheh's acting range though #*chef's kisses*#the story of yanxi palace

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legend of ruyi → ruyi’s purple jifu

#pretty pretty prettyyy #legend of ruyi

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serenade of peaceful joy: danshu’s zhenzhu zhuang

#so so prettyyyy #my girl danshu

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Princess Taiping (Taiping gongzhu), after 662– 713 (Tang dynasty), was the youngest of the three daughters of Emperor Gaozong (r. 649– 683) and the only daughter (and youngest child) of Empress Wu. Her family name was Li, but her personal name and the year of her birth are not known. She was one of the most politically active Tang princesses and exerted a great deal of personal influence over the Tang court.

According to the New History of the Tang Dynasty (Xin Tang shu), on the death of her maternal grandmother, Lady of Rong State, she was sent at the age of about six (in 670) to a Daoist temple (Taiping guan) established for her to offer prayers for her grandmother and also to receive blessings for herself. When, however, in 677 a powerful Tufan (or Tubo, an old name for a Tibetan) neighbor asked for the then thirteen-year-old princess as a bride for the tribal leader, Empress Wu found a legitimate excuse for refusing this match by ordering that the princess be installed as head of the Taiping guan. While it has long been accepted that Princess Taiping underwent ordination at a young age, Charles Benn claims that her ordination was “spurious. It is highly improbable that she was ever seriously inducted into the priesthood, actually performed any sort of liturgical or administrative duties in the abbey, or even left the palace.” Benn states that the princess was a nun in name only, a pretense that was finally dropped when she married for the first time.

Source: Lee, Lily Xiao Hong; Wiles, Sue. Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II (University of Hong Kong Libraries Publications)

#the coloring is so so prettyyy #princess taiping