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Re: Yandi vs Huangdi myth confirmed
« Reply #15 on: September 03, 2023, 11:27:34 pm »
I was looking at a map of tropical climate regions in the world, and I saw Hainan. So I searched for Hainan food on YouTube, and I got this video.:


Notice how none of the dishes she mentioned has meat. Granted this is just one video, but still.

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Re: Yandi vs Huangdi myth confirmed
« Reply #16 on: September 06, 2023, 05:52:23 pm »
Mainstream journalism coverage!

https://us.yahoo.com/lifestyle/china-not-just-one-entity-132723370.html

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Although little-known in the west, China’s Jiangnan region has played a pivotal role in thousands of years of the country’s history.
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China’s Southern Paradise offers audiences an important opportunity to see sides of China rarely seen in the west. “China is not just one entity, in terms of climate, geography, language, ethnicity,” said Von Spee.
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The show travels all the way back to Neolithic times to exhibit grains of rice recovered from Tianluoshan, an ancient site that was discovered in the early 2000s, and that scientists believe was inhabited as far back at 7,000BC. Believed to be among the first rice cultivated anywhere on Earth
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From the stone age forward, China’s Southern Paradise covers multiple eras of Jiangnan’s history, corresponding with waves of migration that hit the region. Highlights include a rubbing of the Eulogy for Burying a Crane, an inscription in rock that dates to 6th century AD, and that has come to be known as one of the foremost masterpieces of Chinese calligraphy. It has inspired countless scholars to try to understand its eccentric memorial to the death of a beloved crane.

Only anthropocentrists would have trouble understanding something so self-explanatory. Here is also a wuxia song about cranes:



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Von Spee said she hopes shows such as China’s Southern Paradise will help to reduce tensions between China and the United States.

I hope so too! See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/china-and-united-states-relations/

Continuing:

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Especially now, as the US and China have a strained relationship, culture is our resource to transcend this tension. There’s nothing better than having an exhibition that counters biased ideas.

Such as the uniquely Western absurdity of classifying bloodlines of Hainan as "Mongoloid":


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Re: Yandi vs Huangdi myth confirmed
« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2023, 08:28:26 pm »
For the record, 0% of the songs I have posted here:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/counterculture-era/recommended-music-to-listen-to/

are mainland.
100% of the Chinese language songs are from Taiwan/Hong Kong/Singapore/Malaysia.

But don't you think this has more to do with China's history of Maoist Communism suppressing art and expression rather than the inferiority of mainlanders themselves?

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Re: Yandi vs Huangdi myth confirmed
« Reply #18 on: September 11, 2023, 09:39:51 pm »
I sincerely hope it is because of the former, which would mean recovery is possible (though it has not happened yet: https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/media-decolonization/msg16303/#msg16303 ). But even in the hypothetical event of recovery, I still predict northern musical inferiority. South Korea has never gone through communist suppression and Kpop is still the worst music in the world.

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Re: Yandi vs Huangdi myth confirmed
« Reply #19 on: December 04, 2023, 06:04:55 pm »


Promoting southern Chinese (and even Vietnamese) culture would also be a good way to improve Sino-Indian relations. For example, the prominence of Buddhism in Vietnam shows an alternative to the atheistic, materialistic, aggressiveness of the CCP mainland culture. I have even heard some Indians, who speak negatively of Chinese mainlanders, will speak positively about Vietnamese.

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Re: Yandi vs Huangdi myth confirmed
« Reply #20 on: December 04, 2023, 06:56:36 pm »
Does this look "delicate" to you?



And Ma is hardly "introverted" either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ma

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He became interested in English as a young boy and began practicing with English speakers in the Hangzhou International Hotel.
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For nine years, Ma rode 27 km (17 miles) on his bicycle every day to work as a tour guide of Hangzhou for foreigners in order to practice his English. He became pen pals with one of those foreigners, who nicknamed him "Jack" because he found it hard to pronounce his Chinese name.[17]
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In 1980, while he was riding his bike to practice English with tourists, he met Ken Morley, who was traveling with his family with the Australia-China Friendship Society.[18] Ken's son, David, became pen pals with Ma and kept in touch after the family left China. Years later, the Morleys hosted Ma in Australia, changing the course of his life completely.

"Promoting southern Chinese (and even Vietnamese) culture would also be a good way to improve Sino-Indian relations."

I agree. Just don't use the above meme to do it! (Even more absurdly, the supposedly "rugged" skull is drawn to be less robust than the supposedly "delicate".....)

Your old example (Ip Man vs Jin Shanzhao from the Ip Man movie) was better:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/chinese-question/msg12863/#msg12863

Yen in real-life is from Guangdong, whereas Fan in real-life is from Shandong.

Heck, let's look at the real-life Ip (also from Guangdong):





This is what we want people visualizing as the archetypical Yue skeleton.

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/human-evolution/aryan-bones/
« Last Edit: December 04, 2023, 08:46:22 pm by 90sRetroFan »

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Re: Yandi vs Huangdi myth confirmed
« Reply #21 on: December 04, 2023, 08:59:15 pm »
"I agree. Just don't use the above meme to do it! (Even more absurdly, the supposedly "rugged" skull is drawn to be less robust than the supposedly "delicate".....)"
Yeah, I disagreed with the Jack Ma reference but brushed it aside due to the other good points in the meme. However, I realize now that the drawings themselves are inaccurate.