Vtuber Confucius - Ch. 10 - Ch. 10

[Liar]

Good job editing the MTL. There was one thing I was confused about when they were offered coffin food and they replied with "It is!"

I didn't quite understand that part.

 

[flootyfloofy]

Good job editing the MTL. There was one thing I was confused about when they were offered coffin food and they replied with "It is!"

I didn't quite understand that part.

It's because two panels before that Confucius was wondering if they stumbled upon a ghost market. The seller offering them samples of something that sounds like it comes from a literal ghost market made him basically exclaim "So it is a ghost market!"

 

[Carn109]

Damn Confucius got fat

 

[sssr]

Milkfish porridge DOES violate the tenets of proper Confucian cuisine, BTW. Confucius had very strict ideas about what counts as proper cuisine and those ideas have continued to shape Shandong (and to some extent Beijing) cuisine to this day.

I find it a bit funny that Confucius was happy about imperial sponsorship of Confucian temples. Emperors didn't exist yet in his time except as mythological ancestors (the 三皇五帝 or Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors) and in fact the imperial system itself runs counter to Confucian ideology initially. It required significant modification of Confucianist philosophy in the Han Dynasty to make it work in the imperial system. After all, the original Chinese empire of the Qin Dynasty was Legalistic in nature.

 

[maddery]

Do Confucius know archery irl?

 

[sssr]

Do Confucius know archery irl?

Yes. It's actually an important point in his biography. Confucius was raised without a father to teach him archery, so he taught himself the art of the bow. When he went to serve Duke Ding, part of the test for an official was archery and people were surprised that he was a good archer despite being self-taught.

In the Confucius movie starring Chow Yun-fat, this was a plot point that Chow emphasized by using the "wrong" technique for Chinese archery. Chinese bows are meant to be drawn with the thumb, like bows of the northern Eurasian steppe nomads, but in the movie Chow drew his bow with three fingers like a Western archer.

 

[PonpaErostar]

Where's so back!

 

[AeourDealgert]

Yey update