Appledog wrote:I've listened to six or so of the History of Xingyi podcasts, despite none of them having anything to do (at all) with xingyi -- even into the foreseeable future. Mainly because as an east asian studies minor I am interested in Chinese history, generally speaking. But this? Come on, most of the theories your passing around in this podcast have been discredited for over 100 years... it's so bad actually that I'd advise you take it down because it's essentially misinformation. I know it pays to be controversial but this one was a little too thin on facts to be credibly contentious. I like what your doing I am just getting a little frustrated at the endless mulberry bush I am being presented with.
Can you guys please do a podcast on the actual history of xingyi please? I mean I don't want you to do something that's not your style, but after six hours I was hoping to get something about actually xingyi and not a diversion into the bible (which no offence you completely butchered )
Trick wrote:Appledog wrote:I've listened to six or so of the History of Xingyi podcasts, despite none of them having anything to do (at all) with xingyi -- even into the foreseeable future. Mainly because as an east asian studies minor I am interested in Chinese history, generally speaking. But this? Come on, most of the theories your passing around in this podcast have been discredited for over 100 years... it's so bad actually that I'd advise you take it down because it's essentially misinformation. I know it pays to be controversial but this one was a little too thin on facts to be credibly contentious. I like what your doing I am just getting a little frustrated at the endless mulberry bush I am being presented with.
Can you guys please do a podcast on the actual history of xingyi please? I mean I don't want you to do something that's not your style, but after six hours I was hoping to get something about actually xingyi and not a diversion into the bible (which no offence you completely butchered )
How have you time to listen through it all ? .....I have not had the time on hands to listen through any of the podcast so I don’t know about it’s seriousness, but I suspect it’s all on the lighter side.....or maybe not since there are so many hours of supposed heresy ?
Giles wrote:Good to hear the true inside story at last. Just to clarify the Shaolin spear aspect: Marco Polo’s signature pasta recipe involved tomato noodles, which of course have a reddish tinge. (Yes, I know tomatoes come from America, which hadn’t yet been discovered by Europeans, but the aliens who built those temples in the Americas also transferred a few seedling tomatoes to Marco, alright?). Anyway, Marco was always looking for ways of drying his freshly made noodles. His great idea was to affix a bunch of tomato-red noodles just below the spear point, so that all the spear shaking and sweeping during training helped to dry the noodles in no time. Sorted! However, as time went by, the Shaolin monks unfortunately lost the noodle recipe – such is entropy – but to continue the spear tradition, they substituted some red horsehair for the original pasta delight. And even today, a Chinese spear will always, symbolically, have some of Marco’s best tomato noodles under the head.
everything wrote:so much stuff is making sense now
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