Molson Hart

Small cherry mouth... Arms like lotus roots (we eat those too, btw) ...green bean eyes are a thing... In general, the Chinese have a saying that eating is greater/more important than the emperor, which is saying something for a country with dynastic rule for yonks and yonks.

Lots and lots and lots of food imagery, lots of flower metaphors, general plant analogies, so on and so forth. And it's hard-baked into us from a very young age. People will just throw idioms around, maybe 2 or 3 to a sentence, and just roll with it.

Anyway. This thread was inspired by a tweet about how rich in culture and context AAVE is and it reminded me of my own brush up against the "dominant cultural norm" of writing.

Okay, I'm sorry for this thread that will never die, but I was just reminded that the Chinese also have "garlic bulb noses" and I'm screaming right now because how did I forget that? The incomparable Jeanette also mentioned "curly hair like pig intestines" and

Also hi! Have a list of kennings! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_kennings …

Someone told me to never stop, so hey, I was just reminded that I do NOT have a "sunflower seed" face, which is a Good Thing because most women with that face so lauded as classically beautiful also have "thin" lives. Meaning they die brutally or in poverty. Or both.

Instead, I apparently have a "goose egg" face, which is mostly neutral, but at least it means I'm less likely to be ravished and carried off by a warlord and then die of a brokenheart in childbed. Better, apparently, than having a "mooncake" face, which, yeah.

Your semi-regular reminder that the Chinese have a system where they tell your fortune based on your facial features, much like palmistry, which has as its jargon instead of mound of Venus, but "almond eyes" and "facing-sky-nose".