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[–] radix@lemmy.world 150 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The ninth wind is the strongest.

[–] acidbattery@lemm.ee 138 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The ninth wind comes from within.

[–] Biggles@lemmy.myserv.one 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Confucious say, man who fart in church must sit in own pew.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge 3 points 2 days ago

Man who wipe with a wrist watch have shitty time

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I love when a short chain of two comments have the same upvotes. People came here, liked the comments and thought:
"Yep, succinct. No notes."
and moved along.

Beautiful.

 

Ahhh now I've fucked it

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Natanael 5 points 2 days ago

Mixed rain and snowfall

[–] plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 days ago

It was the friends we made along the way

[–] 474D@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Really came here with variants of the same idea but you nailed it lol

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 71 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sounds like the Chinese variant of Diogenes at work, I'd love to hear more details - was this something that really happened or a clever tale constructed later? If those people were real, what else did they produce?

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Apparently the poet was "Su Dongpo" and the friend was "Fo yin" if you google the names together, this story comes up.

Super random but there is also apparently a dish named after the poet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongpo_pork

[–] lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Damn, this guy went super hard.


On the Birth of a Son

Families when a child is born

Hope it will turn out intelligent.

I, through intelligence

Having wrecked my whole life,

Only hope that the baby will prove

Ignorant and stupid.

Then he'll be happy all his days

And grow into a cabinet minister.

This made me laugh

Thanks, that should be enough for diving down a research rabbit hole!

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

All parables and proverbs are made up, with old characters added to give fake legitimacy.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Now you gonna tell me old man Yu didn't have his family raze down that mountain?

Very true - although I'd add an "almost", at least in a few cases, authentic letters - or for the modern era, recordings - can at least root the fundamentals in something that actually happened. (Although even then, whatever gets tossed around as a parable/proverb will be heavily embellished and/or stripped of context, of course).

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure it’s illegal to lie if the text is yellow and scrolls from the bottom of the screen in 3D.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

my culture good, foreign culture bad

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Uhh wrong thread?

[–] Eldest_Malk@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Some hot air, I’d imagine.

[–] match@pawb.social 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

who decides how many winds there are, anyways

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

When Chaos energy enters into the material world; the Choatic energy refacts into eight winds of magic.

There is:

  • Hysh (Light)
  • Chamon (Metal)
  • Ghyran (Life)
  • Azyr (Heavens)
  • Ulgu (Shadow)
  • Shyish (Death)
  • Aqshy (Fire)
  • Ghur (Beasts)
[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

I think you forgot Psychic, Water, and Fairy types.

[–] yuri@pawb.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i love when lists like this include “metal” bc you can get a vague idea of when they were conceived.

it’s a little like how everytime a standout hit movie or game comes out, without fail it’ll be topping “best x of all time” lists for a year or so. at least until the next big exciting thing releases lmao

[–] match@pawb.social 5 points 2 days ago

Is the vague idea of when they were conceived... Han dynasty China?