#xiyoubu

[loyaltykask]

The translations are done!

So if you are aware and keeping up with the Progress then please let me to be the first to let you know that the translations for all 52 episodes the 2009 Monkey King cartoon done!!

I’m super excited that soon the 2009 series will be watchable for any English viewer and hopefully a lot more people are able to enjoy the series as well!

Now while the translations are done, I’m still going to need to take some time to put all the translations into the videos. Hopefully that won’t take more than a month or two but I’m still new to this whole video editing and hopefully I’ll get the hang of it soon!

I would like to thank @teamknees and MK stan for offering to be a beta reader for the translations! This will go long so much smoothly with their help.

All in all, just glad that it’s all downhill from here. I’m not sure if I want to release the videos slowly 1 by 1 or just all at once.... Well I’ll get a videos done first but I’m going to keep my options open! Can’t wait to get started!

[journeytothewestresearch]

Who raised paramita and the rest of sun wukong's children?

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!

A Supplement to the Journey to the West (Xiyoubu, 西遊補, 1640)

King Paramita and his four (unnamed) siblings don't actually exist. They are figments from a dream world created by a fish demon to distract Monkey. The novel mentions in passing that Sun Wukong and Princess Iron Fan are a couple with five handsome sons. But this comes as a shock to our hero upon learning second hand (a good representation of this realm's transitory nature).

Journey to the South (Nanyouji, 南遊記, c. 1570s to 1580s)

As for his other children, Jidu, Luohou, and Yuebei Xing, this novel never mentions anything about a mother. Perhaps they have different mothers, and then the entire community helped raise them. Monkey is after all the king of the primates on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit. As the alpha, he would have his pick of any girl monkeys.

But I should point out that Sun doesn't show any interest in sex in the standard 1592 version of the story. One paper suggests that this was a response to an early-Ming play in which he is cast as a sex fiend.

Those wishing to learn more about the Monkey King's literary children can read my article:

The Monkey King’s Children

Last updated: 07-13-2022 Modern media occasionally depicts Sun Wukong with children. Examples include the book series The Monkey King’s Daug

[glamygdala]

As you think what king paramita would look like, you have some idea of the clothes he wears, like his hairstyle, some image, I want to make a fanart of him for the only image he can find, it's not very helpful for me

Hmmmm well as far as I know @maidenofthecloud King Paramita is literally part of an illusion crafted specifically to trap the Monkey King, so I'd say that gives you a lot of free reign in his design as to how much like a monkey yao or how much like a human you want him to look! You may however want to keep in mind that in the "real" world Princess Iron Fan only had a son with the usually VERY yaoguai looking Demon Bull King, but it seems to commonly be taken as fact that Red Boy inherited very few, if any, yaoguai-ish traits from his father. And this one illustration of King Paramita makes him look like he has a completely human form. Not to say you have to stick with that of course, but it may be one thing to keep in mind! (Or it could be that he has both a human guise and a more monkey yaoguai-ish true form that he hates, given that from what I understand Xiyoubu puts Sun Wukong and King Paramita on very bad terms with each other). The other thing is that since in Xiyoubu King Paramita faces down Sun Wukong on a battlefield during the Tang dynasty, you may want to research the clothing, armor, and hair styles styles of upper-class and ruling individuals from that era to get a sense of how his appearance could be a little more "historically accurate." You may also want to look a little more into how Princess Iron Fan is portrayed, as she is A) supposed to be his mother and B) presumably the only parent who had any real role in his upbringing since its said that King Paramita facing down Sun Wukong on a battlefield was the first time the two had "met."

Hope that helps a little!

[maidenofthecloud]

Sun wukong is king yama's replacement as judge of the dead

Sun wukong with an intimidating face looking a Recently dead and very scared qin hui, He changes his expression to a quiet smile with a soft voice said

Sun wukong: well, prime minister qin hui, as I am new to being a judge of the dead, I have decided to start with something simple for you

Qin hui: *sigh of relief*

Sun wukong: ¡¡ someone bring the boiling oil !!

[loyaltykask]

Can anyone who knows Chinese help?

Hey so like in my last post I was excited because I was directed to ll 52 episodes of Monkey King 2009 CCTV! Super happy!

Bad news is that is all in Chinese and has no English subtitles options making it very hard for any English watchers to enjoy. Super Sad!

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av12784222

So guess who’s making a very stupid decision to download all 52 episodes of Monkey King 2009 and translating its Chinese Subtitles to English by hand despite only have a 30% understanding of the Chinese language?

I already have two scripts of subtitles done and if things go as planned i should be done in about... 4 months

I am asking for someone with a good understanding of the Chinese language to beta read my script before I start putting them in over the videos.

Let me make it clear you do not have to translate anything, that taking on all the grunt work but I would like someone to help when it comes to names/places as google translate doesn’t distinctly understand when something is a name or not.

What I’m asking is for someone to watch 52 episodes of a cartoon while have my script side-by-side and just say “Yeah thats close enough” or making proper edits when I mistranslated something.

If anyone is interested or willing please let me know, this is a long term project and I’m hoping to get two scripts done per week.

PS The premise of the show is all about Sun Wukong living on Flower Fruit mountain and befriending the monkeys on there through several shenanigans and dealing with heaven. THIS IS ALL BEFORE THE ACTAUL JOURNEY TO THE WEST. A lot of the General Ba and Beng, Marshal Ma and Liu and of course the co-star of this show Six-Eared Macaque starring as Sun Wukong’s best friend (and not to spoiler but this does take a Villain Origin StoryArc if you get what I mean)

[loyaltykask]

Monkey King-Kids Animation[episode01,CCTV]

Monkey King TV Animations produced by CCTV Animation on year 2009. It is derived from the Chinese classical novel – The Journey to the West, and the major fi...

I’m an bout to loose my shit because I can’t find the rest of these videos in English and I KNOW THEY HAVE TO BE OUT THERE If anyone has any idea of where i can find the rest please hit me up

[journeytothewestresearch]

You wouldn't happen to know if anyone has translated A Supplement to the Journey to the West, have you? I found a few online links to the book, all in Mandarin, and have been google translating it to read but of course, I feel like I'm missing a lot of content to things.

I know it is not that popular or that well-known but I still really think it's an interesting and fun addition to JTTW inspired stories.

There are two translations, actually:

Dong, Y., Lin, S. F., & Schulz, L. J. (2000). The Tower of Myriad Mirrors: A Supplement to Journey to the West. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan.

Dong, Y., Hegel R. E., & Li, Q. (2020). Further Adventures on the Journey to the West. University of Washington Press.

I've only read the first one.

Both are available on libgen.is (a great resource for book PDFs). Once you click on the respective links below, select "get" at the top to download a PDF.

http://library.lol/main/8D3A13F5D9E9A9AE156069612B85B91E

http://library.lol/main/14BD8C38157C6475C8FA1E207535D9DFF

I've never had a problem downloading from the site. I know it's very popular with professional scholars. This is because scholarly books tend to be very expensive.

For those not familiar with A Supplement to the Journey to the West (Xiyoubu, 西遊補, 1640), it's an unofficial sequel to the original 1592 edition of JTTW. Please see my article here:

A Supplement to the Journey to the West: An Overview

A Supplement to the Journey to the West (Xiyoubu, 西遊補) is a sixteen chapter Chinese novelette written in 1640 CE by Dong Yue (董說). It acts a

[loyaltykask]

Macaque and Medicine?

Hey does anyone have the article about the Six Ear Macaque being related to Healing/Medicine?

I thought it was just fan-made but a friend of mine said there was some basis for it and while they can’t find the link where they saw it.

So if anyone has like the article or pics, or even how their healing/medicine concept may be inspired by other JTTW media that would be awesome to know! Please send it my way I so want tot learn more!