#ao run

[meltesh28]

(gripping your shoulders in a normal way) please watch nezha 1 and nezha 2 its really good

[pooldue-jail]

Official cn Nezha art for the lunar new year!!

Wishing everyone the best of luck for the year:))

[cloudy-rina]

I finally finished this… omg actually took me a billion years 😭😭 all the details- but it’s worth it!

My QUEEN, my DIVA Ao Run 💅🏼💖 I love her sm

[monkeyzilla]

Omg forgot to post this

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Ao Bing's father and aunty. His father is Ao Guang敖广, Longwang of the East Sea, and his aunty is Ao Run敖闰, Longwang of the West Sea. (lóngwang龙王 means sovereign of lóng龙)

Scholars used to use the word loong but its pronunciation is significantly different from the Chinese character "龙". Long is better but still not the same. The aunthentic pronunciation is more like [lɔ:ueng] and it's pinyin is lóng.

Translators use the word dragon merely to facilitate better understanding, but the Chinese "龙" and the Western "dragon" are vastly different, fundamentally distinct, much like two creatures that aren't in the same dimension.

The Chinese 龙lóng is a sacred mythical creature; they are considered holy beings, existing in a dimension above that of mortals. They hold the responsibility of controlling the wind, lightning, thunder, clouds and rain, regulating the weather, and blessing the abundance of crops. The copulation of 龙lóng with nine other creatures gave birth to various divine beasts, each bearing some characteristics of the 龙lóng, but the true 龙lóng is regarded as the purest and most noble of all.

In China, many people claim to have seen lóng, with plenty of folk records both before and after the founding of the People's Republic. In the internet era, there are also many videos of lóng. One of the most famous is footage taken by a college student on her dormitory balcony on a cloudy day, where a lóng appears in the thunderclouds and then turn its head to gaze the girl. Another notable incident is the CCTV live broadcast of the Gaoyou Lake lóng water spout event (interestingly, CCTV later edited the live footage, changing the scene of a real lóng spiraling and disappearing in a flash to show three ridiculous birds that didn’t follow the rules of perspective). These videos can be found on Bilibili if you want to check them out. I think the dormitory and Gaoyou Lake videos are real like they're truely lóng (the dorm one is especially striking because it looks exactly like the watery ink long on ancient Chinese paintings, with an extraordinary and otherworldly vibe, exuding an overwhelming sense of oppression). Other real videos show that lóng can fly at incredibly high speeds, like lightning. Folk culture says lóng can switch between physical and ethereal forms at will, which is why they can move so fast. There are also many fake videos to get clicks online, so one gets to use their own judgment. It’s widely believed that lóng appeared as early as the creation of the world, and they made a pact with the ancestors of Chinese people and have been protecting the 'Celestial Realm and Divine Land of Huaxia'华夏神州 ever since. In the unique Chinese twelve shengxiao生肖 culture, lóng is the only mythical creature—the other eleven are common animals. Some scholars think that when shengxiao was created, many people had actually seen lóng and accepted that they're real, which is why it became one of the twelve shengxiao.

[raccocoo]

I put too large a burden on you. I never even listened closely to you. I apologize. I only wanted to use my experience to give you a good life. But now I see, the experience of the older generation is but the past, and may not be right for you. You must walk your own path. From now on, follow your heart.

—Ne Zha II 2025 dir. Yu Yang

[sinoheritage]

Qinghai Lake 青海湖 is China’s largest lake, located in Qinghai Province. The lake varies in size, its surface area was reported as 4,489 km² in 2007 and 4,186 km² at another time, showing its fluctuating nature as an alkaline salt lake.

In Tibetan Buddhism, the lake is revered as sacred water, while Chinese folklore links it to divine realms and powerful deities. It is sometimes described as a magical mirror or a place of spiritual pilgrimage, where rituals such as sacrifices and circumambulation are performed for good fortune.

Mythologically, Qinghai Lake is associated with Ao Run, one of the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas, making it the West Sea in Chinese cosmology. Ao Run is sometimes linked to the White Tiger of the West, both representing western Chinese divine power.

Chinese folklore about deities like the Queen Mother of the West (Xiwangmu), the Monkey King's adventures, and local legends of monstrous creatures and dragon kings further reinforce the lake’s image as a divine realm and a liminal, sacred space between worlds.

[awallflowerdraws]

The Four Dragon Kings