#sinosphere

Architectural polychrome painting developed in China as 彩画 (cǎihuà), a system of decorative color applied to beams, brackets, and ceilings. Flourishing from the Tang dynasty onward, it combined symbolic palettes, geometric grids, floral medallions, and mythological motifs. Built around the Five Colors (五色) system, derived from Five Elements (五行) cosmology, with the five core colors being: blue/green, red, yellow, white, and black.

This visual system spread to other regions in the Sinosphere. In Korea, it is known as 단청 (Dancheong), a highly systematized temple painting tradition that preserved many foundational decorative principles.

Buggy loves flashy things so I can let ♀️🤡wears extravagant accessories right? Right? Like a set of golden semaine on 1 hand, a pair of jade on the other, countless necklace of different length. Her every steps follows by sounds of gems & metals jingling together.

Which is highly impractical & uncomfortable for a pirate. I guess canon 🤡only cares abt how much he can sell them for & not wearing them. The 1 who wears a bunch of rings in canon is 🐊thou. But 🐊leading from shadow & his DF ability allows him to do so.

-Fem Shanks & fem Buggy played a a strip card game. We know 🍶's better at this (cover story) so♀️🤡kept losing her accessories. While♀️🤡was on the verge of tear letting them go, ♀️🍶became impatient bc it'd take forever until the first piece of ♀️🤡' clothes to drop.

♀️🤡didn't know that if she changed her strategy & took off her clothes first, that would have 100% distracted ♀️🍶& significantly increased her chance to win 🤭.

-♀️Shanks isn't interested in jewelry*that much* Most of hers came from Buggy's"left-over"

♀️🤡:too cheap,i don't want/I'm bored of this 1.

♀️🍶:*OMG♀️🤡gave me a token of love*

-♀️🍶was peer-pressured into open an ear piercing hole but enjoyed laying on♀️🤡thighs for the service

List summary: 新夏、夏向、夏涼、夏艷/夏艶、琉夏、夏樂、夏怡、夏悅、夏嬉、夏歡/夏懽、梨夏、夏梅、夏蓮、莽夏、青夏、勇夏、承夏、平夏、峰夏、and 夏緒！ (Keep reading ’til the end to discover their meanings, readings, pronunciations, guide to etymology and history, and more linguistic knowledge!)

Is it just me or has this summer been unnervingly chilling for us tropical islanders? 🌞🥶

Check out this summer-inspired name bank I’ve been working on for the past 5 months!

Each name was…

→ meticulously hand-picked like exotic cherries 🍒

→ carefully translated to the best of my ability 🉑

→ and then packed with a mini beginner’s guide to 夏 (the Han character/Chinese character for “summer”, used throughout the Sinosphere) 📖

→ which contains its standard readings in many languages: Mandarin Chinese, Dungan Tili, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Wu, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese! 🀄

(If you need info on any other topolect, dialect, or time-specific variant not mentioned here, just ask away! I’ll see what I can do for ya!)

👉🏼 An incredibly versatile character, it’s impossible to run out of given names containing/based on 夏!

The possibilities are endless, and the only limit is our imagination! 💡

👉🏼 If we visit the Wiktionary entry for 夏, we’ll see a whole lot more linguistic variants & historical hypotheses on this ancient grapheme dating back to 2070 BC, and even a reconstruction of its Middle Chinese & Old Chinese pronunciations based on recovered millennia-old scripts! 😱

👇🏼 Comment “Wiktionary” and I’ll send you the link to read further. It’s very interesting to read, whether you’re a curious beginner or a veteran Sinologist.

❓ QOTD 1: Which name stood out to you in particular? 🤔

❓ QOTD 2: Do you know what the difference is between “reading” and “pronunciation”? 🗣️

👇🏼 Also also also, let me know what you think of this list! 📜

Is it interesting enough? Are the tables mathematical enough? Are my font choices weird enough? Have I managed to convince you that I’m secretly an omniscient Taoist immortal from the 16th century BCE here to steal all the trees off your backyards, or should I try harder? If so, what other attempts at floor-length grocery lists should I make to satisfy your most honourable expectations?

Remember—your plants are at stake here! 🧚🏼‍♀️🌲🌳🌴

【Historical Artifact Reference】:

Ming Dynasty Royal Portrait:

・Portrait of Empress Xiaoduanxian (Chinese: 孝端顯皇后; 7 November 1564 – 7 May 1620) In ceremonial dress (翟衣/di yi)

・Nine Dragons and Nine Phoenix Crowns of Empress Xiaoduanxian (※This Phoenix Crowns only for important ceremonial occasion which call “礼冠/Li Guan” wear with ceremonial dress(翟衣/di yi) 

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Unearthed from Ming Dynasty royal mausoleum Ming Dingling (明定陵)  , is a mausoleum wehre Wanli Emperor, together with his two empresses Wang Xijie and Dowager Xiaojing, was buried.

In addition to this phoenix crown, the Empress has another phoenix crown for other occasions.

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Collection of the National Museum of China.

This phoenix crown is 35.5 cm high, 20 cm in diameter, and weighs more than 2,000 grams. It is inlaid with hundreds of high-quality gemstones of various colors and decorated with more than 5,000 fine pearls.

[Hanfu・漢服]Chinese Ming Dynasty Traditional Clothing Hanfu (翟衣) & Phoenix Crown (鳳冠)  Reference to Ming Dynasty Relics & Empress Portrait

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【History Note】

Diyi (Chinese: 翟衣), also called known as huiyi (褘衣) and miaofu (Chinese: 庙服), is the historical Chinese attire worn by the empresses of the Song dynasty and by the empresses and crown princesses (wife of crown prince) in the Ming Dynasty. 

The Diyi also had different names based on its colour, such as yudi, quedi, and weidi. It is a formal wear meant only for ceremonial purposes. It is a form of shenyi (Chinese: 深衣), and is embroidered with long-tail pheasants (Chinese: 翟; pinyin: dí or Chinese: 褘; pinyin: hui) and circular flowers (Chinese: 小輪花; pinyin: xiǎolúnhuā). It is worn with guan known as fengguan (lit. 'phoenix crown') which is typically characterized by the absence of dangling string of pearls by the sides. It was first recorded as Huiyi in the Zhou dynasty(1050–221 BCE).

The Diyi follows the traditional Confucian standard system for dressing, which is embodied in its form through the shenyi(深衣) system. The garment known as shenyi(深衣) is itself the most orthodox style of clothing in traditional Chinese Confucianism; its usage of the concept of five colours, and the use of di-pheasant bird pattern.

【 Influence to Other Country】

Korea

Korean queens started to wear the Diyi (Korean: 적의; Hanja: 翟衣) in 1370 AD under the final years of Gongmin of Goryeo,when Goryeo adopted the official ceremonial attire of the Ming dynasty. Same as the early Korea Joseon, were bestowed by the Ming Dynasty.

According to the Annals of Joseon, from 1403 to the first half of the 17th century the Ming Dynasty sent a letter, which confers the korea queen with a title along with the following items: 翟冠(Ming womens whose husband held the highest government official posts can wear this kind of crown,different from Ming Empress Phoenix Crown 鳳冠), a vest called 褙子(Beizi), and a 霞帔(Xiapei). However, the Diyi sent by the Ming dynasty did not correspond to those worn by the Ming empresses as Joseon was considered to be ranked two ranks lower than Ming.

Instead the Diyi which was bestowed corresponded to the Ming women's whose husband held the highest government official posts. In the early Ming Dynasty period, the Diyi were given to Korea Joseon By Ming, but after the Ming Dynasty reformed the clothing system, The Ming Dynasty bestow the 大衫( Dà shān) to the Korean queen instead of Diyi. The Diyi worn by the Korean queen and crown princess was originally made of red silk; it then became blue in 1897 when the Joseon king and queen were elevated to the status of emperor and empress.

it then became blue in 1897 when the Joseon king and queen were elevated to the status of emperor and empress.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the system of China granting clothing to Korea was interrupted. Korea Joseon were forced to become tributary state of the Qing Dynasty. Korea Joseon carried out "nationalization" based on the costumes bestowed by the Ming Dynasty in the past.  But according <Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty Volume 46> "嬪宮冊禮時, 旣有翟衣, 則當有翟冠, 而我國匠人不解翟冠之制。 考諸《謄錄》, 則宣廟朝壬寅年嘉禮時, 都監啓以: ‘七翟冠之制, 非但匠人未有解知者, 各樣等物, 必須貿取於中朝, 而終難自本國製造, 何以爲之?’ 云則宣庙有: ‘冠則制造爲難。’ 之敎。 “

Although Korea Joseon has Diyi,but no craftsman know how to make 翟冠(Di Guan), and the materials needed for make 翟冠(Di Guan) need to be taken from China (which need money for that). After all, it is difficult to manufacture in Korea. Therefore, Korea Joseon has not worn 翟冠(Di Guan) since the fall of the Ming Dynasty and change it to 대수머리(大首머리)

Korea "nationalization" process↓

대수머리(大首머리)

Japan

In Japan, the features of the Tang dynasty-style huiyi was found as a textile within the formal attire of the Heian Japanese empresses.

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안영하세요, I've been on hiatus a bit because I'm been ill. But I'm back now and I'm really happy because I've basically found a way to hack my language learning to the point I can actually use it to not only maintain but also improve my Mandarin level (the language I really don't want to lose)

你们好! 我没有写那么多因为我生病了。但是，我会过，和我很喜欢因为我发现能侵截我的语言学习的办法。这让我不但保持我的中文水平，而且提高我的普通话能力，因为我非常不想失去这个语。

Ok, so Hotel Del Luna is a bit old at this point but I wanted to use something where I didn't feel any time pressure because I'm using it to learn languages.

对，现在，满月路管比较老，但是，我想过我没有感觉任何时间压力的事，因为我用它学语言。

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Conveniently, netflix has the option to add simplified chinese subtitles. As I already know mandarin, this means I can watch in Korean and follow along in simplified chinese. I'm semi fluent but it is still pretty hard at this point, so I'm also watching at a reduced speed. Just not so slow that it looks weird or is impossible to watch.

随手，netflix 有加普通话字幕的机会。因为我已经学到足够普通话，这让我看到这个电视剧在韩语，同时，蹑踪(niezong)用普通话。我一半流利，但是，还艰难在这个时点; 所以我也用更慢的速度。就是不太慢，否则看一下比较怪，不能看到。

The process is when I come across mandarin vocab I don't know, I look it up and note it down, creating a vocab list. At my current mandarin level, I'm roughly able to figure out the meanings of words based off the radicals in the characters, so I don't need so many repetitions to remember the vocab.

当我发现不知道的普通话词汇时候，我的办法包括看一看在词典和写到，创造词汇目录用普通话。我现代汉语的水平让我弄懂(nongdong)词汇的意思用汉子的偏旁，所以，我不需要爱那么多重复记得这个词汇。

This vocab is then serving as a list I can look up in Japanese and Korean (my two target languages!) These ones are a completely different story as they're totally new to me.

这次会然后为我能在韩语，日本语(我两个目标语言)检索的目录。这都是很不一样的故事，因为她们对我完全新的。

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Along with Vietnam, Korea and Japan are part of what has been known historically as the sinosphere, a geoup of countries which have been influenced by china. But this doesn't mean the languages are similar at all!

跟越南，韩国，日本，都是中国领过国的一部分，也被中国影响。但是，他们的语言非常不一样。

By combining them here, I've tried to use the show as a theme for my studies and for compiling vocab, not due to any similarities between the languages. However it seems to be working, because I'm genuinely feeling motivated to study for the first time in a while.

为了结合他们这里，我尝试用电视剧为学习题目，汇集词汇，但是这不由于任何期间语言的相思。然而，看来工作的很好，因为我第一个时间感觉激励学习。

☆ THE VOCAB LIST ☆

한국어 🇰🇷

나무 - tree

닫다 - to shut

잊다 - to forget

즐겁게 하다 - to entertain

특별한 - special

운명 - fate

빈둥거리다 - to loiter

정영 - passion (as in enthusiasm or excitement)

열망 - passion (as in sexual desire or romantic attraction)

강렬한 - intense

日本語 🇯🇵

術 、 しゅ - tree

閉じる、とじる - to shut

忘れる、わすれる - to forget

楽しむ、たのしむ - to entertain

特別な、とくべつな - special

運命、うんめい - fate

彷徨う、さまよう - to loiter

情熱、じょうねつ - passion (enthusiasm, enjoyment)

欲望、よくぼ - passion (romantic or sexual desire)

激しい、はげしい - intense

普通话 🇨🇳 🇭🇰

树 - shu - tree

闭上嘴 - bi shang zui - shut your mouth

遗忘 - yi wang - forget

戴 - dai - to entertain

殊 - shu- special

缘分 - yuan fen - fate

徘徊 - pai huai - to loiter

痴情 - chi qing - passion (romantic or sexual with connotations of foolishness coming from the first character, meaning 'stupid')

强烈 - qiang lie - intense

Expectation of Diên Hựu Pagoda and Liên Hoa Đài (Lotus Terrace or Một Cột Pagoda in modern time) during Ly - Tran Dynasties. Based on the 3D restoration by Sen Heritage.