Guys I rewatched the trailers more closely and the ost mv and I am so scared that we are getting a sad ending 😭 and I'm so conflicted like I'm here for the angst yes I wanna cry my eyes out but I also wanna see my cuties be happy 😭
If you happen to know, how does Li Landi speak compared to WJY? I am studying Chinese and sometimes I found her…
I'm not familiar with Li Landi and I haven't watched Love of Nirvana, but I checked out a short clip and I thought she was quite easy to understand, it can always be a mixed bag though 😂
This is probably on the extreme side but I didn't grow up in China and my mum wanted to make sure my Chinese was very good so she made me watch a loooot of 1987 Dream of Red Chamber as a child. The language is very well spoken in these, but it may even be a little over the top for these days.
read somewhere that a higher-pitched voice is usually preferred for female leads??? i'm glad they let WJY dub…
Not sure about that tbh Zhou Xun is famous for her deep and melodic voice and is considered to be one of the best. But it is true that for 'innocent' roles they prefer higher voices.
As a native Chinese speaker I am so surprised at how good Wu Jin Yan's voice is!
Probably non Chinese speakers don't really get it, but Chinese needs to be quite precise, and when someone in a Chinese drama doesn't speak in a clean crisp way its quite hard to understand and it's super irritating. I love Bai Lu but unless I read subtitles sometimes I don't understand her because she doesn't speak so clearly. (Still watch everything she makes tho lol) I always thought if Wu Jin Yan is dubbed that she must have an issue with that but her voice and enunciation is pretty good, I really like her deep voice. Funnily enough Liu Xue Yi and especially Wang Xing Yue are also pretty good at it so I had no idea why she got dubbed in the Double.
Rewatching Kunning Palace with my mum was super interesting because she is a native chinese speaker, whereas mine is quite mediocre, so of course she has a deeper understanding than I do. So btw if you didn't know the Shu in Xue Shu's name (consort xian) means 'to lose' which is pretty hilarious. The Wei in Xie Wei means 'dangerous' whereas Ju'an means 'safe'. My mum thought it was super interesting that the two names he chose for himself have opposite meanings. I feel that it really shows his internal struggle. He's got this dark thirst for revenge and is willing to go low to achieve it, but he's also an intelligent scholar with a strong sense of justice and morals.
I find it so funny how the ML is being harsh with the FL so that she can become more talented and smart but can’t…
Couldn't agree more! I love this! He won't let anyone criticise her, he has such a high opinion of her in spite of her flaws, and I find it so sweet :)
I had an interesting thought about Kunning Palace the other day that I'd like to share. So when I first saw the…
Firstly, as we know, when Xie Wei was around seven years old he was forced to surrender to Pingnan Wang as the crown prince. He had to stay in the courtyard with the dead boys in the snow until his father came to invade the city and he was exposed, Pingnan was driven away... we know the rest. However I suspect that Xie Wei's experience during this time is probably much worse than what they show during the drama. Naturally, the Duke of Xue did not come to save the city, the very next day, there's at least a couple of weeks gap here. After realising that I felt so bad for Xie Wei, because just imagine a seven year old spending weeks with rotting corpses of other boys his age, probably sleeping there, and eating snow to survive.
Secondly, during his crazy snow episode on the way to the capital, (though this was never mentioned in the drama) I think that this was the first time that ever happened. At some point Jiang Xue NIng mentions that Jinling, (where Xie Wei spent his life with Pingnan Wang) is in the South and that snow is impossible there. Therefore it's likely that the trip to the capital with her is actually the first time he saw snow since that particular day.
I looooove Kunning Palace so much, and there was so much interesting material they could have expanded on more. This is just me wishing for 100+ episodes lol.
I had an interesting thought about Kunning Palace the other day that I'd like to share.
So when I first saw the scene when Xie Wei went crazy on his journey to the capital with Jiang Xue Ning I though it was a little bit cringe. But after thinking about it more, I started to understand it better.
This is probably on the extreme side but I didn't grow up in China and my mum wanted to make sure my Chinese was very good so she made me watch a loooot of 1987 Dream of Red Chamber as a child. The language is very well spoken in these, but it may even be a little over the top for these days.
Probably non Chinese speakers don't really get it, but Chinese needs to be quite precise, and when someone in a Chinese drama doesn't speak in a clean crisp way its quite hard to understand and it's super irritating. I love Bai Lu but unless I read subtitles sometimes I don't understand her because she doesn't speak so clearly. (Still watch everything she makes tho lol) I always thought if Wu Jin Yan is dubbed that she must have an issue with that but her voice and enunciation is pretty good, I really like her deep voice. Funnily enough Liu Xue Yi and especially Wang Xing Yue are also pretty good at it so I had no idea why she got dubbed in the Double.
So btw if you didn't know the Shu in Xue Shu's name (consort xian) means 'to lose' which is pretty hilarious. The Wei in Xie Wei means 'dangerous' whereas Ju'an means 'safe'. My mum thought it was super interesting that the two names he chose for himself have opposite meanings. I feel that it really shows his internal struggle. He's got this dark thirst for revenge and is willing to go low to achieve it, but he's also an intelligent scholar with a strong sense of justice and morals.
Secondly, during his crazy snow episode on the way to the capital, (though this was never mentioned in the drama) I think that this was the first time that ever happened. At some point Jiang Xue NIng mentions that Jinling, (where Xie Wei spent his life with Pingnan Wang) is in the South and that snow is impossible there. Therefore it's likely that the trip to the capital with her is actually the first time he saw snow since that particular day.
I looooove Kunning Palace so much, and there was so much interesting material they could have expanded on more. This is just me wishing for 100+ episodes lol.
So when I first saw the scene when Xie Wei went crazy on his journey to the capital with Jiang Xue Ning I though it was a little bit cringe. But after thinking about it more, I started to understand it better.