What is WUXIA? (Chinese fantasy) 

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Its says 14hrs ago How is it possible

Ofc I do I watch them all the time

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He gets to comment on his video before we do

Omg you're right 😂. Also, in older series, they showed people jumping UP into trees by filming people jumping DOWN from a tree and playing it in reverse. It looked soo obvious.

@@Linfamy Ah damn. I've only seem a few of the ones that came out in the last decade, but there's still some definite wtf camera and special effects moments so I can only imagine what it might have looked like back in the day.

Rigged like... like they are a toddler pretending they are an air plane???

To be fair though, I prefer the fighting in the older series. They had actual choreographed fights that looked real good, unlike today's CG and 1 million closeup shots.

I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky

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Lol I agree and sometimes when you read too much of the wu xia mangas it gets boring because basically the same thing happens again and again

Pretty much explains Chinese martial arts =/ No wonder why they don't do well in MMA matches where ropes and props aren't allowed.

@@Sophia-wc9ys To be fair there isnt too many wuxia manga (I'm talking about the good series not the trash ones with sh1tty story.) A few of the series are like new generate from the same school so of course the techniques are similar.

TIL ThunderCats is a Wuxia

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I'm a wandering-sword-wielding-crusader, not a.... You know what, never mind.....

If you’re the Watcher, your home got blown up by a rampaging god.

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LOL. Heroes are homeless.

Oh totally, my brother. I'm Viet and grew up with those series.

Also very popular in Korea. We have several webtoons and webnovels that take inspiration from the worldbuilding of Jin Yong's wuxia. Some of my favorites would be the return of the blossoming blade and the legend of the northern blade.

@@stephenlee1664 yeah! I thought so! I thought is was wuxia genre when I first read it, but it's in korean. I was so confused😅

​@@LinfamyYou're vietnamese? Yet are making videos in English? 😅

​@@stephenlee1664Same. And I'm not East Asian. I'm Southeast Asian. Though my country isn't as close to Japan, China and Korea like Vietnam.

Hehehehe +2 Karma

Yea... That technique also means something else

Can I teach my girlfriend said sucking technique?

What is this technique?

@@crunchynuts9921 Well, you gotta learn first.

Omg that does sound like a fun class

Love your channel too

Funny seeing you here

your classes are better than mine, thats for sure

The interconnection between Wuxi and proto Wuxia and Chinese martial arts culture is fascinating. So many of the names of schools and techniques in Wuxia up until the mid 20th century were taken from actual schools and kungfu techniques (although reimagined in fantastic ways). But at the same time so many names of kungfu techniques themselves directly reference characters, things, and events in older stories like romance of three kingdoms, water margin, journey to the west, various plays, etc. You'd be surprised how many martial arts styles claim lineage from fictional characters from various novels or plays. Styles like Wing Chun, Hung Gar, Bak Mei, etc. all claim lineage to fictional characters from a novel written in the 1890's. That novel took the mythology of certain southern Chinese gangs and reimagined them into a Wuxia style epic. From there the story and characters from it where rewritten into a galaxy of other offshoot novels and plays. These various older stories really defined how martial artists view themselves and stories since then have continued to influence how both martial artists and the general public view Chinese martial arts. But again all these stories themselves absorb and reimagine actual practices from traditional martial arts, folk religion, local mythology, etc.

Qi is not “just” air. The concept of qi can be translated as air, but it has a more spiritual connotation. Daoist qi isn’t the same thing as the regular air you breathe in and out through your nose and mouth. It’s a more mystical energy.

In fact, a lot of mystic Chinese concepts (at least the ones I know of that originate from Daoism) are like this. Wuxing is a more famous example. “The Five Elements” is a notoriously inaccurate translation of the Wuxing concept because each “element” of the cycle (Earth Fire Wood Water Metal) doesn’t represent a material aspect of nature. It is very unlike the Greek concept of the four elements, which is probably the source of the misconception. There are both literal and non-literal connotations to the Wuxing cycle (which I prefer to call the “Five Motions”). They represent different emotions, senses, organs, stages of life, many many things. The base concept is basically the idea that all things in the universe shift, change, and interact with one another in sometimes invisible but constant and consistent ways. The concept of the “elements” is more like a visual demonstration that represents the cycle. The elements themselves aren’t literal.

Qi is the equivalent of prana in India, still translated as air but it has a spiritual concept of vital energy

Yeah his stories just suck you in. I also still listen to theme songs from the old movies 🎵😍

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I didn't know that! :D

so do they also have one about a squatting gopnik wandering around Chernobyl trying to recover his mayonnaise?

@Nom Anor maybe because Russia is right next door. Easier to spread

​@Nom Anor History of Martial Arts in the late USSR is quite unique, I guess. Themes need no translation - a wronged hero trains hard to master himself, become stronger, and fight against the oppressors. Actually, MA became so popular that practicing and teaching "Karate" (everything was put under this umbrella term) was made ILLEGAL. People still practiced it illegally in the literal basements, building their dojos themself. "Karate" at that time had a lot of mythical aura for the Soviet citizens. Anyone who practiced MA had to be real tough since he had a lot of opportunities to show his skills - when the word got out that somebody was a "karatist" many people would like to challenge him into a fight. Especially guys from SAMBO or boxing schools. "Let's see how good this "karate" of yours is!" So, this basically was a real wuxia at that time! BTW, many MA, boxing, and wrestling schools formed real organized crime gangs after 1991 all across the former USSR.

I for sure know that we are rare since I'm a chilean (latin america) wuxia fan, I've only ever come across one in my college but only virtually in the anime club jaja

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"I've been having these spells lately . . ."

I mostly only know Jin Yong's stories. Smiling, Proud Wanderer and Duke of Mount Deer are my favs 😍

@@Linfamy Ah that's cool, I mostly read Wuxia webnovels, you can find a lot of translated ones on a website called Wuxiaworld, they often play with the tropes of the genre and give modern takes on it, I'd recommend to have a look at it if you're interested in that

Thanks for suggestion 😀

Linfamy you only read wuxia but not xianxia, xuanhuan, etc?

Xianxia are also interesting, but they have a lot more fantasy elements such as flying, being immortal, spells, etc

Yes, sometimes very corny. And English translations make it even more corny, like names of techniques 😂

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sum it up, very entertaining. :DDDD

its like rupauls drag race, its addictive and though it can be trashy, its good kekw

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Quite the rabbit hole 😂

I was literally a baby when I first introduced to them. I've watched it since before I can read. And some of them, like Return of thr Condor Heroes, became my bedtime stories, a very simplified version of it, but still make me really wanted to know the real version. Even learned Chinese for 2 years so I can understand the real version, sadly I have no talent in language and though I did managed to know enough to watch without subtitles, reading the Chinese novel is a no-go. 😞😢

I am like this, though I started with dramas. Then I picked up enough Chinese just from listening to realise the subtitles weren't always accurate, so I started studying the language so I could understand better, then it goes on and on and on.

If we want to be more honest about it, 江湖 in wuxia is a reference to the marshland bandit societies the genre originally derived its heroes from. Today we associate riversides and lakesides as places of leisure and culture where people meet up, eat and drink, and recite poetry or have philosophical debates, but this is mostly thanks to the great parks built during the latter half of the Qing dynasty. In the early Ming 江湖 was a scarier place populated by men and women of questionable morality. Let's not forget where all the brothels used to be located.

@@andrewsuryali8540 we also see the term being frowned upon now because it's still closely tied to criminal groups in China. Of... course there's a very questionable morality to begin with, and it's hard to tell if they're written with a good degree of satire, like the Three Musketeers, or if they're to be taken straight as Ivanhoe or The Virginian.

@@bar1scorpio Late grandpa from mom's side was a jianghu man born in 1917 when the world was changing and the Southeast Asian jianghu societies were losing their way after the birth of the RoC. He had some great stories of his fights as a youth. Late grandma was a bit more cynical and liked to point out that he made his fortune smuggling guns to freedom fighters in the late '40s. He may or may not have dabbled in piracy too. Late grandpa from dad's side was a merchant from a merchant family and grandma used to quip that he was lucky my parents met when they did. Ten years earlier and thing might have been very different.Tigers don't marry cows. Grandma also used to say jianghu people were all cowards because they always ran away when the guns came out. I think this shows that, ironically, she believed in their propaganda.

Rivers and Lakes is actually an old traditional Chinese term that was repurposed and redefined for/by the modern Wuxia genera. In it's original context it actually meant something closer to "homeless" or "vagrant" although it also meant a lot more than that. Although I personally think the term "Underworld" is probably the best translation of it's actual use and meaning in Chinese culture. I also think it's closer to it's use and meaning in early 20th century Wuxia. But by the later part of the 20th century it had come to be used as basically just another way of saying Wulin "Martial Forest" (martial arts society). However within historical Chinese culture the term Jianghu described people who were not considered to be part of settled society. This included criminals, bandits, gang members, prostitutes, actors, travelling salesmen, travelling storytellers, puppeteers, travelling circuses, wandering fake monks and priests, wandering martial arts teachers (yes that was historically a very common thing. they were hired by farming villages when the villagers had extra money and downtime after the harvest, by villages in feuds needing extra training for their militia, or if skilled enough and lucky enough by rich people to teach their younger sons (older sons got actual educations)), beggars, etc. (yes there were also actual beggar clans. Just not the martial arts kind. Well actually there were sort of those too? the scummier poorer younger sons of banner families in Beijing actually made a "beggars clan" that worked the Manchu district of Beijing during the Qing dynasty. But that was more the younger unwanted sons of lower class rich clans, or upper class poor clans? anyways clans that had some money and power and military connections but not much by Beijing ruling class standards, basically the poor hillbillies of Beijing's upper crust military clans. So these young unwanted sons would dress up as beggars and go around on festival days and shake down businesses for food, booze, and money for prostitutes. Actual beggar clans also shook down businesses for food, booze and money but less in a threaten to beat you up way and more in the "every homeless person in this district is going to start using the doorway to your shop as a public restroom if you don't give up three hams and a barrel of wine once or twice a year" sort of way. The term was also sometimes used within East Asian Buddhism to describe wandering monks (ie Jianghu Seng). For some reason there was always a lot of water imagery in reference to homeless or underworld types in East Asia. For instance the term Langren "Wave People" is an old Chinese term which more directly translates to "vagrant" or "homeless". In Japan the same words are pronounced "Ronin" which referred to out of work Samurai. Despite that the term is really popular in modern times "Masterless Samurai" sounds so much more romantic and badass than more accurate translations like "vagrant" or "filthy bum" ("Ronin" was an insulting term and not something you would proudly claim). Even today in Japan people who work as bartenders, hosts, hostesses, prostitutes, etc. are said to be part of the "water trade". All of these names are ways of describing the uprooted unwashed masses dehumanized refuse washed around by circumstances from place to place. In many ways it's a very poetic and accurate description. Even today we don't help a homeless person, we punish them for being out in the open around "proper humans" in an attempt to flush them away somewhere else where don't have to see or deal with them. As far as possible origins go, Zhuang Zi does have one of the earliest references to "Rivers and Lakes", but it's being used in the literal sense of actual rivers and lakes however it is alluding directly to aimlessly drifting along the rivers and lakes (there's no getting together with people, it's just one guy by himself aimlessly drifting the waterways in a giant gourd). I don't think it has anything to do with the Water Margin as it's use predates the publication of that work. Although I imagine a lot of martial artists or gang members today would try to make that claim. But the thing is that rivers and lakes are not the same as marshes. Marshes were part of what were historically termed "Border Regions". This term didn't just reference the physical border of the country but also regions within the country that were not considered part of the jurisdiction of surrounding municipalities., regions which although theoretically part of the empire were not really policed or directly under the rule of imperial law, or regions in which ethnic minorities were given the rights to rule semi autonomously after swearing fealty to the emperor and being tasked with collecting taxes. So these border regions were dangerous unpoliced areas and often right inside the country near populated policed areas. The Liangshan marshes were considered a border area and were not directly under the jurisdiction of any surrounding area. This meant that in regions like this none of the surrounding municipalities would want to send a police force in to make arrests. Doing that costs money and if done comes with the possibility of failure which means punishment for those in charge. As it's not part of the area anyone in any surrounding municipality had to police they all wanted one of the other neighboring municipalities to deal with it. In cases like that the problem was often ignored until it got big enough for the provincial military to be ordered in. Actual rivers and lakes on the other hand were basically the highways of any premodern country including (especially) China. These were considered to be of very high importance as these are the avenues through which goods and people moved, trade was conducted, and taxes collected. Unlike marsh or especially rugged mountain regions the rivers, lakes, and canals were highly populated and policed and occupied a very different area in the imagination of period Chinese. The waterways were the main routes of trade and connected the country. As such they were also the areas in which wealth concentrated. Because of this they also attracted and concentrated things like itinerant entertainers, travelling salesmen, con artists, organized crime rings, petty thugs, beggars, people travelling to look for work, etc ie all the types of people historically described by the term "Jianghu".

Glad you like :D

Hahaha that's right! Blood can only come out of the mouth apparently 😅

I do wonder what that fake blood is made of also all the male leads seem to squeeze out the tears every few minutes

Who said the blood is fake? 🤔🤔🤔

Well now that thought is stuck in my head

Yeah I grew up on these too :D

Thanks for watching ;)

Ah, a cultured man.

Ooh, didn't know netflix had a show like that. Thanks for telling me

Good luck on your reading journey! The Condor Heroes trilogy is a classic (mostly the first 2 books). My favs are Smiling Proud Wanderer, and Duke of Mount Deer. There are some quality fan translations out there.

agree, Thank you !

It’s ki in Dragon Ball universe

@@martytu20 Which is exactly why "Chi" is an acceptable spelling. Tryna correct that $#!+ is just askin' for a fight.

ooohh the four classics :0

Let's see if he gets it done faster than OSP.

Thanks for the kind words. You've stuck around for a while! Yeah that space story is an original by me. It was fun to do, though my voice acting is terrible. Maybe in the future I can write and have people voice act. It may be fun. The wuxia reading is just a straight livestream reading. These are long books, can't possibly draw it all. Summaries, maybe. I already did the first stream, check it out in the videos section :). I'm thinking of doing it live every Sunday at 5:30pm PT. Stay safe!

Thanks for your service.

I think coiling dragon xianxia which is a more brutal version of wuxia

@@69Kazeshini meh it's definitely more flushed out and written better than most other LNs of the same genre in my opinion. But fuck if they aren't long as hell some times and just absolutely getting overused plot points chapter after chapter.

Thank you ;)

Well, if you think about it Star Wars is wuxia too. They use magic sword of light, can do things at a distance using a life energy called the Force, and the Jedi and Sith are basically the Shaolin Temple (sans baldness) facing off the Evil Sect. The modern wuxia genre in China has grown past its medieval fantasy world. The Long Hu Men universe (based on Tony Wang's comic series) is set in the modern era.

Historical fantasies with black and white magic unless there's more of them now that has nothing to do with the Chinese dynasties. If you read older novels like journey to the west, you find no chi, lightness skills, and acupuncture that freezes or stop bleeding/poisons. They would just call it magic in journey to the west. Also the book doesn't describe them flying through the air like they do in the action shows. I think that's just the special effect people and film makers doing that.

Woohoo!

That is a straight up GENIUS idea, we need more RPG content based off of non-western fantasy, I would be down to play something like that!

Ooh nice!

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@@Linfamy ♡

That's my childhood too. I love the old movies because they actually had choreographed fights. Nowadays, it's fighting with CGI and close-up shots.

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Haven't had boba in a while 😭

Woohoo!

Thank you =)

I'm actually one of your fans and it's an honour that you said thanks to mee🥰🥰🥰🥰

So the Condor Heroes trilogy is a classic (the first 2 are the most popular). My favs are Smiling Proud Wanderer, and Duke of Mount Deer. You can find many of them on RU-vid, but the English fan subs are usually horrid... People are telling me Netflix has some wuxia series too. Let me know how it goes =)

@@Linfamy thank you! Sounds like a good restart you gave me, thanks for taking the time to answer me.

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Oh and the names of the moves sound so corny in English XD