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TheChibiRascal In reply to KolKolCat [2014-01-26 02:10:44 +0000 UTC]

lol I'm trying to do as much research on those spirits and gods as much as I can X3 I sorta know some stuff about them anyway so hopefully i can get away with it aha ^^

[btw what does the Chinese characters say???]

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KolKolCat In reply to TheChibiRascal [2014-01-26 15:55:53 +0000 UTC]

If you need any extra info I'd be happy to help. And if you want a story with lots of spirits and gods in it, 西游记 has lots of awesome characters in it. :3 (The title means Journey to the West. It's one of the four classics of Chinese Literature. You should have heard of it, if you're part Chinese. :3)

The other Chinese characters is the title to a book which is sort of like... horror stories written in the Qing Dynasty. It's filled with fox spirits and snakes and all that kinda stuff. A real rollercoaster. I'd read the simplified version rather than the original, written-in-old-fashioned-language if I were you... But I gather that you don't understand Chinese...?

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TheChibiRascal In reply to KolKolCat [2014-01-27 23:56:48 +0000 UTC]

Thanx so much for the info! :3 the books sounds really interesting but it would be awsome if I knew how to read chinese tho --' it's a shame really because I wasn't educated on my own damn country and language! D: do you know if the books have english translated ones that I can read?

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KolKolCat In reply to TheChibiRascal [2014-01-29 22:23:22 +0000 UTC]

Apparently this is a download:

ishare.iask.sina.com.cn/f/1775…

It's called Journey to the West. I've not seen many English translations, as the book's best known in China and in Chinese...... It's pretty crazy, if you look at it in a Western fashion, but a very well-known story and perfectly normal in China. You could ask your parents about it, if they have Chinese origins, or lived in China for some time. They will most definitely have heard of it in that case.

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TheChibiRascal In reply to KolKolCat [2014-02-01 02:48:20 +0000 UTC]

ah thanks so much! :3

I asked my dad but he hasn't read it before he's not keen on books lol

but I'll have a look at the summary of the story and the link you sent me anyway   

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KolKolCat In reply to TheChibiRascal [2014-02-01 16:42:38 +0000 UTC]

Remember it was written at least in the Ming Dynasty. Which was from about 1500s to 1700s. Don't expect it to be a thriller novel. And it loses some of its taste in English. I'm just saying that you can use it as reference for some Chinese mythology. 封神演义is another good book if you want lots of gods, spirits and demons. But when I say THAT the versions I've read were all children's versions, with pinyin and pictures, which made it all the more thrilling than it probably would have been otherwise. XD (I read most of these when I was relatively young, under the age of 10. XD)

Really? He doesn't know about the 四大名著? That's strange. :/ Did he not live/study in China at all?

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TheChibiRascal In reply to KolKolCat [2014-02-02 00:33:29 +0000 UTC]

I think I might as well have a look at the children's books I mean, why not? they have pictures! XD

and yah he did live in hongkong when he was younger before moving to london, but my dad's from a generation who's uneducated or not even bothered to study so... -.-

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TheChibiRascal In reply to CheshireNightingale [2014-01-26 02:07:15 +0000 UTC]

thanx so much! im glad you liked it :3

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CheshireNightingale In reply to TheChibiRascal [2014-01-26 15:37:19 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome   

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