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【Historical Reference Artifacts】:

China, Song Dynasty Mural Painting — “Female Attendant Donor”中国 宋代 壁画 ——《女供养人》

Northern Song Dynasty, China Mogao Cave 256.

北宋 莫高窟第256窟

Makeup Reference

Donor Figures (II), East Wall, Cave 61, Mogao Grottoes, Dunhuang, China

Five Dynasties Period (907–960)

The female donor wears a phoenix crown adorned with horn-shaped combs and buyao (swaying hair ornaments), along with multiple jade necklaces. Faint traces of floral facial makeup are still visible. She is dressed in a floral ceremonial robe decorated with folded-branch floral motifs from head to toe. This style of ceremonial attire, inherited from the Tang dynasty, was worn by women of the aristocracy during the Song dynasty. The donor is richly adorned in luxurious brocade garments, presenting an elegant and dignified appearance.

The television drama faithfully recreates this historical aesthetic. Its makeup design is inspired by the bold and opulent cosmetic styles characteristic of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period through the early Song dynasty, featuring with different shape of HuaYe/花靥(decorative facial ornaments) painted across the face.

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📸Photo：©China Historical Drama—

《Swords Into Plowshares / 太平年》

♦ 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿: 𝐙𝐡𝐨𝐮 𝐘𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐠/周雨彤

plays as Sun Tai Zhen（孙太真）

東京 1980年代

Gilded silver comb, China, Tang Dynasty, 618-907 AD

I am a safety-first creature. Of all arguments against love none makes so strong an appeal to my nature as “Careful! This might lead you to suffering”.

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.

But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

-CS Lewis, A Grief Observed

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience