yuletide | 2022 Yuletide Promo Post

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Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!

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Title: 幽恨诗 | Poem of Hidden Resentment - 安邑坊女 | A Woman of Anyi Lane

Media: Written word

Approx length: 100 words, including headnote

What is it, in summary?: It is a poem, given in a dream visitation, by a restricted upper-class woman of the Tang Dynasty relating her reaction to hearing the story of Mulan — and it hit her hard.

What do you love about it?: It’s proof that Mulan has represented freedom for Chinese women for a lonnng time. The woman is described as a wealthy man’s wife or concubine, who would have spent most of her adult life sequestered in her husband’s house, and she now knows that above the wave-rough confines of her life, there is someone who experiences the sun — and learning this feels like a slash in the gut.

So much heartbreak here.

And so much to learn between the lines.

Where to find it: It can be found in the anthology 全唐诗 | Complete Tang Poems (1705), in full here, as well as (with links to vocabulary aids) here and here. There are two relevant articles on Baike Baidu (PRC’s equivalent of Wikipedia), on the poem and the author, both including historical commentaries. I have seen a published English translation, but extensive Googling fails to find it anywhere free; my own translation is here.

Content warnings: Implied criticism of patriarchy as experienced by women.

Edited 2022-10-05 19:04 (UTC)