10-03-2024, 12:03 PM
Told well is the rub, isn't it? You wanted a local English speaking Shaolin monk. Yanxing has a better grasp than most here.
As a writer, I do have that luxury of correcting the speech, or at least making it grammatically correct (because no one speaks correctly on a grammatical level, and it's far worse for ESL speakers). But later, I tried to preserve that 'accent' when transcribing because I felt it gave more color.
The Chan Wu Yi (Zen, martial arts, medicine) has been propounded by the Abbot for the last decade plus. He's done a lot of work to bring forth the medicine, establishing a new series of halls devoted to a research clinic and produced several OTC medicinals. Keep in mind that Yanxing is a Yan, a disciple of the abbot, so he touts this three treasures notion.
The rising steam is Chinese character radical breakdowns. It's not widely known, more of a scholarly thing. A lot of martial arts are folk traditions, a.k.a. mingjian. That is in part why I suggested that you read 72 consummate arts, to get a sense of how wildly abstract this field can be. It's a lot of interpretation and variation. That old game of Chinese whispers couldn't be more real.
You got a chuckle out of me with Bryant's 'so' prefix. You're spot on there.
As a writer, I do have that luxury of correcting the speech, or at least making it grammatically correct (because no one speaks correctly on a grammatical level, and it's far worse for ESL speakers). But later, I tried to preserve that 'accent' when transcribing because I felt it gave more color.
The Chan Wu Yi (Zen, martial arts, medicine) has been propounded by the Abbot for the last decade plus. He's done a lot of work to bring forth the medicine, establishing a new series of halls devoted to a research clinic and produced several OTC medicinals. Keep in mind that Yanxing is a Yan, a disciple of the abbot, so he touts this three treasures notion.
The rising steam is Chinese character radical breakdowns. It's not widely known, more of a scholarly thing. A lot of martial arts are folk traditions, a.k.a. mingjian. That is in part why I suggested that you read 72 consummate arts, to get a sense of how wildly abstract this field can be. It's a lot of interpretation and variation. That old game of Chinese whispers couldn't be more real.
You got a chuckle out of me with Bryant's 'so' prefix. You're spot on there.
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