#chinesefolklore — Public Fediverse posts

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar: Today is #MonkeyDay so here’s my Sun Wukong the Monkey King, hero of Chinese folklore (& throughout Asia) as well as the 16th century novel by Wu Cheng’en, ‘Journey to the West’.

Before embarking on his humorous epic adventure (and ultimately helping to recover Buddhist sutras) this irrepressible character was born from a stone, becomes a King of monkeys,🧵

#linocut #printmaking #SunWukong #Monkey #MonkeyKing #peachesofimmortality #folklore #ChineseFolklore

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar: Today is #MonkeyDay so here’s my Sun Wukong the Monkey King, hero of Chinese folklore (& throughout Asia) as well as the 16th century novel by Wu Cheng’en, ‘Journey to the West’.

Before embarking on his humorous epic adventure (and ultimately helping to recover Buddhist sutras) this irrepressible character was born from a stone, becomes a King of monkeys,🧵

#linocut #printmaking #SunWukong #Monkey #MonkeyKing #peachesofimmortality #folklore #ChineseFolklore

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar: Today is #MonkeyDay so here’s my Sun Wukong the Monkey King, hero of Chinese folklore (& throughout Asia) as well as the 16th century novel by Wu Cheng’en, ‘Journey to the West’.

Before embarking on his humorous epic adventure (and ultimately helping to recover Buddhist sutras) this irrepressible character was born from a stone, becomes a King of monkeys,🧵

#linocut #printmaking #SunWukong #Monkey #MonkeyKing #peachesofimmortality #folklore #ChineseFolklore

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar: Today is #MonkeyDay so here’s my Sun Wukong the Monkey King, hero of Chinese folklore (& throughout Asia) as well as the 16th century novel by Wu Cheng’en, ‘Journey to the West’.

Before embarking on his humorous epic adventure (and ultimately helping to recover Buddhist sutras) this irrepressible character was born from a stone, becomes a King of monkeys,🧵

#linocut #printmaking #SunWukong #Monkey #MonkeyKing #peachesofimmortality #folklore #ChineseFolklore

Bonus #ArtAdventCalendar: Today is #MonkeyDay so here’s my Sun Wukong the Monkey King, hero of Chinese folklore (& throughout Asia) as well as the 16th century novel by Wu Cheng’en, ‘Journey to the West’.

Before embarking on his humorous epic adventure (and ultimately helping to recover Buddhist sutras) this irrepressible character was born from a stone, becomes a King of monkeys,🧵

#linocut #printmaking #SunWukong #Monkey #MonkeyKing #peachesofimmortality #folklore #ChineseFolklore

Been informed by a friend that pinyin rendered by a screenreader is rubbish, so I'm going to put all the pinyin at the end of threads like this and hashtag with "tones" so screenreaders can mute.

一九二九不出手
Yī jiǔ èr jiǔ bù chū shǒu

三九四九河上走
Sān jiǔ sì jiǔ hé shàng zǒu

五九六九沿河看柳
Wǔ jiǔ liù jiǔ yán hé kàn liǔ.

七九河開八九雁來
Qī jiǔ hé kāi bā jiǔ yàn laí.

九九加一九，耕牛遍地走.
Jiǔ jiǔ jiā yì jiǔ , gēng niú biàn dì zǒu.

#ChineseFolklore #Katja #Tones

九九加一九，耕牛遍地走.
Nine nine plus one nine, the oxen (for plowing) walk all over the land.
About 90 days after winter solstice, it's time for spring planting.

The best part about the nine-nines rhyme is that different areas have different versions, based on their cultural/temperature differences.
Because Chinese culture is not a monolith. 💗

There is one verse somewhere about fleas... and if the homeless will survive.

#ChineseFolklore #Katja

五九六九沿河看柳
Five nine six nine see the willows along the river

This is when it gets warmer and you can see the budding willows.

七九河開八九雁來
Seven nine river opens eight nine geese come
About 50 or so days after the solstice, the river ice melts and around 70 the geese return.

#ChineseFolklore #Katja

Nine nines and then spring is officially here. The third and fourth Nine have the chilliest days.

There's even a rhyme! Although. No one who knows the Chinese should be surprised. We love our rhymes.
Translation to follow, but the English won't rhyme, sorry.

一九二九不出手
First nine second nine hide your hands
(so cold you should wear gloves/mittens or the like)

三九四九河上走
Third nine fourth nine walk on the river

#ChineseFolklore #Katja

Saw @dynamicsymmetry say "Yes, the days are no longer getting shorter - so cling to that, because the cold is STILL COMING FOR YOU and at some point the light will be all you have"
and
according to Chinese folk-knowledge, it is known that after winter solstice we move into "the nines", aka the coldest period of the year.

As in, yes, the cold is absolutely coming for you.

#ChineseFolklore #Katja #Solstice