November 3, 2023
My dog,“HUG” celebrated 13th birthday.
In the case of a medium-sized dog, in terms of human age, that's about 80 years old. And if a dog's life is compared to the four seasons, it is almost time to enter the winter period.
However, there is no need to think of it pessimistically. Because, winter is the most comfortable season for Hug, who is resistant to cold👍🏻🐶💙
Also, with Nico coming to our pack, Hug seems to have found new purpose in her job as an “educator'', and was able to survive the difficult summer in a healthy manner. Ahhh, Hug! You are truly amazing💕 (And THANKS, Nico!!💕)
I always wish her health and happiness.
Dear Tumblr’s friends.
Hug is always grateful for your kind messages and daily support✨🐶✨🐾🐾
愛犬・ハグが13歳の誕生日を迎えました。
中型犬の場合、ニンゲンの年齢に換算すると80歳代に突入、犬生を四季に例えるならばそろそろ冬の時代に差しかかろうとする時分になりました。
しかしそれはまったく悲観するようなことではありません。なぜならハグは寒さに強くて(むしろ得意なくらいかもw)、巡る季節のなかで冬こそが実は最も快適にいきいきとすごすことができるからです👍🏻🐶💙
またニコが我が家にやってきたことで、いつもなら食欲が減退し、ぐったりしてしまう苦手な夏も、今年のハグは「教育係」としての仕事に新たな生き甲斐を見い出したためか、まだまだ老け込んではいられない!とばかりに実に健康的にやりすごしてくれ、そのまま身体も心もずっと良いコンディションを保っています。
ニコはまだまだ手がかかる年頃。これからも頼りにしてますよっ、ハグパイセンっっ!😉🐶🐾🐾
●十一月: 霜月ともいう。立冬(十一月八日頃)を迎えるがまだ寒くはなく、空も野山も澄みとおる頃である。暖かな日和が続くかと思えば、ときに時雨たり霜の降る日も増えてくる。
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House Jiang’s Lost Founder - Jiang Chi - Lost canon detail from the novel - Wen and Jiang, how their names foreshadow their fates
Did you know the man who founded House Jiang is named Jiang Chi 江迟?
This name is not included in any materials from the official novel, the Donghua and its character data sheets, or even the live-action drama Chenqingling.
The name Jiang Chi was mentioned only once in chapter 56, Sandu 12, The Three Poisons - 12, of the original web novel version of Modaozushi before it underwent rewriting and editing in 2016. Here is the full passage in which it was mentioned:
云梦江氏立家先祖江迟乃是游侠出身,家风崇舒朗磊落,坦荡潇洒,虞夫人的精气神与之完全背道而驰。而江澄模样和性子都随母亲,天生便不投江枫眠之好,从小诸般教导,始终调不过来,是以江枫眠一直表现得似乎不是太青睐他。
Lit: The ancestor and founder of House Jiang, Jiang Chi, came from a knight errand (traveling hero) background. His House philosophy revered open-mindedness, earnestness, purity of heart, fairness in dealing with people of all castes and backgrounds, and unrestrained by rules. Yu Furen's personality is in direct contrast with his House philosophy. Jiang Cheng had a similar personality as his mother and was naturally not a favorite of his father. Regardless of how much he was taught from a young age, he still couldn't understand this (the House Philosophy). This was the reason why Jiang Fengmian's behavior seemed to suggest a lack of favor.
I. The Wen and Jiang founder’s names and how they foreshadow their historical positions and final fates:
Wen starts things. Jiang ends them.
The Wen founder is named Wen Mao 温卯. Mao 卯 is an ancient word specifying the 4th shih (double hours) of the day, from 5-7 am in our modern time. Mao is also the time when court officials started their working days in ancient times. The royal court began with Mao.
In other words, Wen Mao’s name foreshadows the fact that he’s the one to end one era (the era of the cultivation sect) and begin another era (the era of the cultivation house/nobility). This was in the novel during Wei Ying’s first class in Cloud Recess. Lan Qiren asked Wei Wuxian who was the person that ended the cultivation sect era and began the cultivation house era.
On the other hand, the Chi in Jiang Chi 江迟 means late, slow, outdated, behind in era.
This name foreshadows Jiang Chi’s place as the “last of the herd” and “reluctant follower” in Wen Mao’s cultivation house era. Wen Mao started the rise of the house system and the ending of the sect system. Yet House Jiang, despite being called Jiang Shi like its historical peers (Wen Shi, Lan Shi, Jin Shi, and Nie Shi) had the system of a sect and not a house.
Because of how Jiang Shi was created and its system rooted in the sect system, House Jiang continuously prevaricated between being a sect (in all but name) and a house in the novel under Jiang Fengmian’s reign.
House Wen massacred House Jiang. The eradication of the original Jiang Shi is the spark that ignited the Sunshot War.
Wei Ying, the last member of House Jiang who still holds Jiang Chi’s philosophy, is key to making the defeat of House Wen possible.
Jiang Cheng, the last biological Jiang, headed the Burial Mound Siege and slaughtered the last of biological Wens, with the only surviving Wen child becoming a Lan.
II. The difference between a sect and a house:
There are overlapping areas between a sect / zongmen 宗門 and a house / shijia 世家. So it’s easy to mix up these two concepts. However, the novel highlights the key difference between these two systems itself.
Sects prioritize the inheritance of their philosophy and teaching.
Houses, on the other hand, prioritize direct bloodline hereditary.
This is crucial in things like deciding who the next generation leader will be, as well as the policy in treating their members.
Under the sect system, barring unforgivable mistakes or heinous crimes, the eldest disciple inherits the title of sect heir and next-generation leader.
Under the house system, the previous house leader’s son inherits the title of heir and the position of next-generation leader.
For example: under the sect system, Wei Ying is the heir and will inherit the leadership. Under the house system, Jiang Cheng is the heir and will inherit the leadership.
Similarly, sects place far less importance on a person’s caste and background and have fewer and less restrictive rankings. Sects are meritocratic.
Houses, because of their nature and the heredity that is central to their concept, have extensive and incredibly strict rankings of their members. Houses are nepotistic.
For example: Wei Changzhe was Jiang Fengmian’s sect brother under Jiang Fengmian’s father’s time. In the book, Jiang Fengmian called Wei Changzheng his sect brother. Wei Changzhe also accompanied Jiang Fengmian to Cloud Recess to study and met Cangse Sanren there. These are privileges not allowed to house servants. But from Jiang Fengmian’s time forward, because of Yu Furen’s influence, he was called a house servant.
In the novel, Yunmeng Jiangshi was a house undergoing a crisis of identity. It has the name of the house, the trapping of a sect, and constant chaos and confusion as to where it was going, the ranking and positions of its members (with Wei Ying holding the title of eldest disciple and still treated like a servant being the most glaring part), and who its next-generation leader would be.
Well, until the death of Jiang Fengmian and the eradication of the original Yunmeng Jiang Shi put a stop to that confusion. Jiang Shi under Jiang Cheng’s reign is a house through and through and completely disconnected from Jiang Chi’s House Philosophy.
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