Happy Chinese New Year

[tanithryudo]

Got up at 3 AM to watch the 4x provincial spring festival galas.

I regret nothing. XD

The experience:
东方卫视 gets major props for having the best quality youtube livestream. (and fastest to update youtube with individual vids)
北京卫视 gets a + point for having a youtube livestream, but then a - point for laggy/choppy quality.
江苏卫视 does not bother with youtube as always, but picks the prettiest songs
百花迎春 ...eh, s'okay stage I guess. Point for releasing the whole show early on weibo?

The songs:
百花迎春: The nth performance of 《生活总该迎着光亮》 so nothing new there.
东方卫视: A happy-go-lucky medley collab w/ some operatic showoff. Then a very very "spring" song in 《和光同春》 with very beautiful CGI SFX.
江苏卫视: 2x Beautiful songs and stabs you in the feels.
北京卫视: Kiddie channel comedy hour, excellent coda for the "night". XDXDXD

Oh and also:
浙江卫视: Zhou Shen is not in our gala but we're gonna name-drop him anyway as going to be in our upcoming variety show.

In other news, happy new year!

Comments

[cashew]

I spent most of the New Year being bleeeeeeeeeh because I had the most inopportune time to get hit with the cramps. 😭 Glad to hear you had a better day than I did. 💕

Did you know traditionally the year of the tiger is considered a bad luck year? I can't wait to see how much worse things can get... 🙄 Maybe happy thoughts will ward off the bad juju.

[tanithryudo]

Wasn't aware it's a bad luck year. Discrimination against felines?

[cashew]

I think it has more to do with the tiger being an apex predator rather than it being a feline.

[tanithryudo]

Errr, dragons and snakes are predators too. Dragons even eat people in some myths!

[cashew]

Dragons are gods and are supposed to be chaotic neutral. There's just as many helpful dragons as there are dangerous ones.

Snakes aren't apex predators. And ancient people probably saw plenty of eagles and hawks eating snakes to get over their evolutionary fear. (Also, snake worship was a thing in Ancient China until around the late 周 dynasty, so...yeah, snakes are also kind of a chaotic neutral force.)

[tanithryudo]

Isn't tiger worship also a thing? What with 白虎 / 白虎堂 / etc.

[cashew]

The tiger worship is more lost than the dragon/snake worship and also less codified. 女娲 is part snake and integral to the creation myth that persisted well into even the late 清 and 民国 era. Meanwhile, 白虎 kinda fell out of favor around the late 唐 dynasty with the increased popularity of Buddhism. (Not to mention 白虎's job was to eat tyrants and its appearance is considered a bad omen, thus feeding into the bad year/bad luck stuff, again.)

[tanithryudo]

I still think it's feline discrimination. :p

[cashew]

:p

At least tigers are a metaphor for powerful military officials? And local warlords? That's a positive association, right? ^_^;;;