The White Cat's Divine Scratching PostCh120 - Xuan Pin

 

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玄牝=the origin of everything in the universe. It comes from Tao Te Ching, a fundamental text for both philosophical and religious Taoism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching 

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Chiyou (蚩尤) was a tribal leader of the Nine Li tribe (九黎) in ancient China. He is best known as a king who lost against the future Yellow Emperor during the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors era in Chinese mythology. For the Hmong people, Chiyou was a sagacious mythical king.

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水晶宫: Dragon King’s palace appeared in the classical novels like “The Investiture of the Gods” and “Journey to the West”.

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Idiom – Meaning clashes will happen between opposing factions

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(Orb, Tortoise, Mirror)These three things are references of the Three Sacred Treasures in Japanese mythology (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Regalia_of_Japan). This combination of “the orb, the sword, and the mirror” are also referred by some other works. The “Three Talisman” in Sailor Moon, carried by Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune, and Sailor Pluto, is an example: the orb= the Garnet Orb, the sword= the Space Sword, the mirror= the Deep Aqua Mirror. In YuYu Hakusho, these three items are “Three Artifacts of Darkness” stolen by Kurama, Hiei and Goki: the orb= The Orb of Baast, the sword= the Conjuring Blade, the mirror= the Forlorn Hope.

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(He is the main character of one of the most famous webnovels in China these years. It’s about the TV series based on a very popular novel “Daomu Biji” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Tomb) , which was criticized for its draggy story-line and poorly done special effects. Fans of the novel also commented that the plot and characters deviated too much from the original novel because of the censorship. The main characters in the novel were tomb robbers but in this TV series, they became protectors of the antique. “Give the antique to the authorities” was the line of Zhang Qiling, which was frequently quoted to satirize the bad adaptation and the censorship and then “give somebody or something to the authorities” became a trendy sentence structure at that time.

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  1. so taibai continent is really real. it’s not just taishi’s nonsense. maybe there’s someone important to mingyan there? a lover? and before he died, he wanted to see them?