@rensuzugamori - Tumblr Blog

occasionally, you will discover an artist who drew roughly 300 beautiful pictures of your favorite characters over the course of a month and then never touched them again. you must accept this as a gift.

amimiiiiir

Some xiyao~

#xiyao

amimiiiiir

Today in the cook it yourself series: sangyao

Let's see how long it took me to paint it now 🥀

#I CHEERED #mdzs #Ive been thinking about them #SangYao

yugiohz

DID MY YAOI STICKERS ARRIVE

yugiohz

it was my bachelor’s degree 😑

#me

abimee

0v9

seeing this image in 2026 is like seeing an old friend who I've dearly missed

jacky-killian

I don't do "art studies," i draw "wrong" until I get an epiphany from god

suddenlystolen

A Piece of a Filial Pious Heart: Jin Guangyao through the Lens of Filial Piety

“The Jin Guangyao in my eyes and the Jin Guangyao in your eyes – as well as the Jin Guangyao in the eyes of the world – are all completely different people.”

Lan Xichen says these fateful words in episode 43 of CQL. And honestly, I think it’s really interesting to see the varied “Jin Guangyaos” in the eyes of different people in fandom!

Everyone weighs differently — how much Jin Guangyao’s varied motivations (from ambition to the search for dignity) contributes to the choices he ultimately makes; and even the choices available to him in the first place!

But in the English-speaking part of the fandom, I think what’s less explored is how much of a hold the traditional Chinese virtue of filial piety (孝 xiào) (deference to one’s elders, usually parents) had over Jin Guangyao’s motivations and choices available to him.

I suspect that an appreciation for how deeply entrenched the virtue of filial piety is in Chinese culture might make one more likely to be sympathetic to Jin Guangyao as a character. After all, the many self-defeating decisions that we see Jin Guangyao make regarding his father and mother — so much of it feels startlingly similar to stories of filial piety celebrated in Chinese culture. In countless other parables and proverbs about filial piety, Jin Guangyao would be valorised. But in MDZS, what we have is a tragedy.

In this post, I’m going to try to get at this, through exploring how filial piety might have influenced Jin Guangyao, namely through two of his fateful decisions — to continue serving his father even as he was being abused and going back for Meng Shi’s remains. I’d like to suggest that both can be read as a deconstruction of filial piety, as part of MXTX’s broader deconstruction of traditional family values as a modern author. But caveat as always that this is heavily coloured by my own experiences with the value of filial piety :P And this post is going to be long….

Keep reading

nyxelestia

Great post. I have another layer to this, though I’m not sure how “relevant” it is. I’ve been joking a bit about the cultural uncanny valley experience of C-drama fandom when I’m “Asian but not Chinese/East Asian”, as I’m Indian. One thing they do share is filial piety, though it’s not articulated as such in Indian culture. (Or at least upper-caste Bengali culture, in my experience.)

While both Chinese and Indian cultures prize filial piety to an extent that’s difficult for Westerners to understand, there are a lot of differences between them, both in practice and in underlying philosophy. I don’t have the language or academic chops to lay them all out, but two differences came to my mind reading this post was the communal nature of filial piety as I understand it.

Putting under a cut, since filial piety is so often easily misunderstood when it comes to eastern vs western social paradigms:

Keep reading

suddenlystolen

Thank you @nyxelestia for adding on your thoughts :D! This was exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote in my post that I think it’s great to see people interpret Jin Guangyao’s story through their own cultural experience :) I especially liked your culturally informed insight that the tragedy of Jin Guangyao story lies not just in his abusive relationship with his father, but also how within the broader Jin family, there was no intervention to stop it. Like you’ve alluded to, part of it is due to there not being such a strong cultural expectation of communal interjection in chinese culture, part of it is also because of his status as a bastard son whose mother was not even accepted as a concubine. I’ll try to explore below the cut on his isolation from the broader Jin family — specifically through the example of the how his being given the wrong generational character cuts him off from those of his generation, as well as the broader genealogy of the Jin Sect. But alongside that I just realised that I didn’t cover the Chinese Buddhist conception of filial piety in my original post. I’ll be touching briefly on that as well :P

Keep reading

#jin guangyao