#bai cha

[crimson-roses56]

T97 should write baihe with the incredible way she writes women...

...and the protagonist of a spin-off novel of QJJ would need to be Bai Cha... I am so sad about her and the other fellow women in the last chapters of Vol 5.

It would be so heartwrenching to read her story from her POV, in her timeline. I just... want to know more about her even though the topic of flesh trade is difficult to read.

[xiao-erlang]

I think one of the most underrated characters in Qiang Jin Jiu is Bai Cha. She started out with nothing; it was already very difficult for women to survive in times of war, and she could have simply chosen to save herself—she could have married a rich businessman, or a powerful official, and lived a very comfortable life.

But instead, she held compassion for all the women who became victims of the wars started by men. She did all she could to save those women and the children borne out of rape. She gave them a home and a chance to continue living, even if their very existence was rejected by everyone else on earth.

"Do you know what kind of people had the highest number of deaths on the banks of the Chashi River at that time?" Hairigu waited for a moment, but no one responded to him, so he answered his own question. "It's the women."

They were better off dead than alive. If they were by any chance pregnant, then they were guilty of the most heinous crimes. Not only would they be beaten up upon returning to their hometowns, but they would also even be burned to death.

“[…] Bai Cha was the guardian spirit of the banks of the Chashi River. Cuiqing's continuous expansion of the establishment buildings was, in fact, Bai Cha's idea. Having gained the power to supplant Cuiqing, she set up a sufficiently strong network in Duanzhou to take in these women and children.”

Bai Cha was the immovable force that stood in Amu'er's way in Gedale.

Bai Cha was always described as an unparalleled beauty, as if that was all she could ever amount to. She fought the bandits and the Biansha cavalry in the only way that was available to her, and saved countless lives in a war that makes no sound. The lives she saved were all lowly, and in the end she even died for these people, leaving only a Shen Zechuan behind.

[langliblade]

some qjj side characters from my six fanarts thing… yu xiaozai and bai cha!

[marichild]

bai cha lore....

[quotesthatiliked]

Hairigu’s mother was wounded. It was a wound unseen, a wound called “woman”.

-The ballad of Sword and Wine,Tang Jiuquing

[tea-kittenz]

Enjoying the last of this white tea from my stash.

Ye Sheng Zi Ya, the Purple Bud.

Love the herbal and elderflower notes. Very fresh but also warm and comforting. 💕🍵🍃

[danmeiexcerpt]

Shen Wei sometimes sat in the courtyard and watched Bai Cha play with their son under the eaves, and he would mistakenly think of themselves as a perfect match made in heaven living in conjugal bliss. There was a brief period when Shen Wei lost himself in the thought, because the expression in Bai Cha's eyes was too sincere. So sincere, he thought he was the man Bai Cha admired and adored the most when she fixed that gaze upon him.

But these were all shadows of the past, fleeting and ephemeral.

[joeyteatime]

hot brandy

As another year passes, I’m reminded of how lucky I am to have so many great people around me. 2016 turned out to be a productive but difficult year. From a graduate fellowship and a academic workload I was completely unfamiliar with, to my mother becoming seriously ill, to a full exhibition of a body of photographic work I’ve been working through for a few years, 2016 has had some major ups and downs. Overall, I learned a lot and will remember this year as being very formative. 

It’s also been a while since I’ve been able to sit down and slowly enjoy some tea. I finally had the time to do so with some of white2tea’s new white/black tea blend, hot brandy.