and how could i forget the multiple greasy bottles of soy sauce, vinegar, and cooking wine beside the stove!!!!pic.twitter.com/kldA9u4pOj
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that jello looking dish is red-braised pork belly, made with stuff like dark soy sauce, sugar, ginger, and star anisepic.twitter.com/EZoyAyId8x
Fei Fei's upcoming stepmom gives her a mooncake in a tin that LOOKS VERY MUCH LIKE THE TINS I USED TO STORE MY STATIONARY IN WHEN I WENT TO SCHOOL IN CHINA ASDFLKJAS; stationary cases can get WILD, i made airport security gasp once when they opened mine and 3 tiers sprung outpic.twitter.com/wpxhBGP6D1
it's implied that this crane is Fei Fei's mother's spirit trying to get her to move on. cranes are seen as very spiritual animals in Chinese myth.pic.twitter.com/60E6GZVKvJ
oh fun fact about China's space program! A lot of their stuff is named after myths, so you have the Chang'e lander (left), the Yutu / Jade Rabbit rover (depicted on the right), a planned Heavenly Court space station, and morepic.twitter.com/u8hapjVPJq
THE WHOLE ONLINE SHOPPING SEQUENCE IS REPRESENTATION OF CHINA'S VERY VERY ROBUST E-COMMERCE INDUSTRY LOL well maybe it's robust in America too but here in Canada I have to wait at least a week for anything to be delivered...while in China everything comes in 2-3 dayspic.twitter.com/Qx9ulamLzx
here comes the ugly Chinese winter school uniforms....they basically only come in red or blue...how i suffered aesthetically.... also in China you stick with a single class and classroom for every subject! the teachers are the ones who have to move aroundpic.twitter.com/8A1ZCLGjwK
and it's totally true that the classes have a ranking poster somewhere to praise all the best-scoring students while the kids with the worst grades are constantly shamedpic.twitter.com/JRWSNT4exm
the poem written on the board is that famous Mid-Autumn Festival poem by Song dynasty poet Su Shi / Su Dongpo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuidiao_Getou …pic.twitter.com/MbZMu1sibK
they actually had her build a functioning rocket as;dlkjf This is big "anything you can do, some 12-year-old Asian child out there does it better than you” energypic.twitter.com/Ptd9LSKFf4
look it's the GAY MOON LIONS well the movie calls them lions, but if they're winged then they're probably also inspired by pixiu, a myth creature that looks like a winged lion with short antlerspic.twitter.com/v1b4iKhifX
Lunaria in this movie is a completely original design, but in myth, Chang'e lived in the Guanghan Palace, with only Jade Rabbit as company also some dude Wu Gang who got banished to the moon to try and cut down a tree that continuously heals itself. so like Chinese Sisyphus.pic.twitter.com/ZulZZET6YC
and then look it's Chang'e! Or 3D cartoon me, apparently!pic.twitter.com/N49rAeOTa8
i've seen some mainland Chinese complaints about this Chang'e being "too Western" and "different from Eastern beauty standards" but honestly...i love her idgaf let Chang'e be fierce 2k20pic.twitter.com/KWNzltIxQj
in one version of the Chang'e story she turns into a toad the moment she arrives on the moon as a punishment for her greed so this is probably a reference
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Ping Pong is here because Chinese people dominate the sport and they're proud of it loooooool like at the Olympics the top contenders are usually Chinese vs Chinese. there is no suspense.pic.twitter.com/RgNw0j6D4K
LOOK AT THIS GODDEEEEESS (i mean she lost the match but we don't care)pic.twitter.com/GdkS2f9yTe
ken jeong is here but did...did they name his character after the Gobi Desert? i switched it to Chinese subs and he's named Jello there instead lolpic.twitter.com/f18uExKoPx
also in English the Jade Rabbit is making a "potion," but in Chinese he's making "medicine," as he does in Chinese mythpic.twitter.com/Ja8exEbBU5
it's implied that the final missing ingredient for the potion is love, which Bunjee managed to give damn what is this instalove going on herepic.twitter.com/EpnGcqWZdM
The two lines of Mandarin that Chang'e sings aren't translated in the English subs, but I switched to Chinese and they mean "I wish you everlasting love in every lifetime"pic.twitter.com/CZ13Hy1S3T
it's telling that the first thing Gobi assumes after Fei Fei says her dad is remarrying is that her mom passed away instead of "they got a divorce." Unfortunately, there's still a lot of stigma associated with divorce in China. Parents are pressured to "stay together for the kid"pic.twitter.com/mTLoEsdcwp
Jade pendants worked as contracts in ancient Chinese law!! The terms were carved onto it, then the pendant was broken in half, with each party carrying a piece. This pendant probably held Chang'e and Houyi's promises to each other.pic.twitter.com/uruagdIJLg
it's not explained why this is the last time Chang'e and Houyi can see each other, but they're singing "Thoughts of missing you are hard to bear; I wish I could be with you"pic.twitter.com/hgZtzq2HPd
Chang'e is depicted in Tang-dynasty-style makeup a lot because that's the era where women looked most...spiritual and heavenly (how do i translate the connotations of 仙 lol) also plug for my thread on this style of makeup https://twitter.com/XiranJayZhao/status/1301303017656909826?s=20 …pic.twitter.com/zbMReaCR9P
Chang'e and Fei Fei's shared grief is what connects them, i wasn't ready for this
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Chang'e looking so pretty while Fei Fei's out here dressed like the Michelin man tho (but i will say, this style of coat is very common in China)pic.twitter.com/SSztMZIpM6
see, getting a little brother is actually very terrifying for an Eldest Daughter in an Asian Family because u nEVER KNOW IF YOUR FAMILY IS GONNA FAVOR HIM IN ALL CASES but i assume this is gonna work out for thempic.twitter.com/wSriXc6nkm
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