For October, we’re summoning the synergy between algorithms and ancient systems. It’s tech meets tradition, spirituality, and the youth’s renewed fascination with fate, myth, and lore.
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Imagine a warrior who loses his head and simply grows a new face on his chest. That’s just one of the residents of ‘The Classic of Mountains and Seas’ (山海经), an ancient Chinese encyclopedia of mythical creatures and geographical formations that reads a lot like the SCP files, only written over 2,000 years ago.
The text is divided into mountain and sea sections, and scholars generally trace its earliest parts to before the 4th century BCE. Early readers treated it as a record of real places and peoples, but by the Ming dynasty, it was increasingly classed as fiction. And today, the monsters still regularly appear in Chinese pop culture and literature. Fiction or not, people have never stopped debating whether some of the monsters did once roam the earth.
This Halloween season, we are introducing six of our favorite monsters. Swipe to meet them and learn about their powers, their quirks, and their legends.
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Imagine a warrior who loses his head and simply grows a new face on his chest. That’s just one of the residents of ‘The Classic of Mountains and Seas’ (山海经), an ancient Chinese encyclopedia of mythical creatures and geographical formations that reads a lot like the SCP files, only written over 2,000 years ago.
The text is divided into mountain and sea sections, and scholars generally trace its earliest parts to before the 4th century BCE. Early readers treated it as a record of real places and peoples, but by the Ming dynasty, it was increasingly classed as fiction. And today, the monsters still regularly appear in Chinese pop culture and literature. Fiction or not, people have never stopped debating whether some of the monsters did once roam the earth.
This Halloween season, we are introducing six of our favorite monsters. Swipe to meet them and learn about their powers, their quirks, and their legends.
Follow @radii_media for more
#radiimedia #radii #shanhaijing #chinesemythology #halloween
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Still don’t know what to be for Halloween? We’ve got you. It’s been another year of memes on the Chinese internet, and this year’s crop is the best costume material yet. Here are six characters guaranteed to make you the most niche person at the party. Tired of chinamaxxing the regular way? This is the newest and coolest version.
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Still don’t know what to be for Halloween? We’ve got you. It’s been another year of memes on the Chinese internet, and this year’s crop is the best costume material yet. Here are six characters guaranteed to make you the most niche person at the party. Tired of chinamaxxing the regular way? This is the newest and coolest version.
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Electric sedan chairs are already dramatic enough, but being carried by jiangshi (僵尸), the hopping zombies of Chinese folklore, takes it to a whole new level.
Credit: 骑迹独轮车俱乐部-阿保
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Electric sedan chairs are already dramatic enough, but being carried by jiangshi (僵尸), the hopping zombies of Chinese folklore, takes it to a whole new level.
Credit: 骑迹独轮车俱乐部-阿保
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In these classical Chinese landscape paintings, Yoda is meditating in a pavilion, Meowth is slurping noodles with a scholar, and a battle droid servant is preparing tea.
Check out the amazing work of artist 跳跳虫一号 on RedNote, who paints in the traditional Chinese style, then slips in characters from Pokémon, Star Wars, and World of Warcraft, as if they’d belonged in the landscape all along!
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In these classical Chinese landscape paintings, Yoda is meditating in a pavilion, Meowth is slurping noodles with a scholar, and a battle droid servant is preparing tea.
Check out the amazing work of artist 跳跳虫一号 on RedNote, who paints in the traditional Chinese style, then slips in characters from Pokémon, Star Wars, and World of Warcraft, as if they’d belonged in the landscape all along!
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#radii #radiimedia #chineseart #pokemoncommunity #chinesepainting
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Lion dances are traditionally meant to scare away evil spirits, and this one definitely does the job right. Zero mercy from that mannequin head.
Credit: sheuelileong
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Lion dances are traditionally meant to scare away evil spirits, and this one definitely does the job right. Zero mercy from that mannequin head.
Credit: sheuelileong
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