Comments on: Wuxia, a key to Chinese language and culture https://www.hackingchinese.com/wuxia-a-key-to-chinese-language-and-culture/ A better way of learning Mandarin Sun, 11 May 2025 11:49:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: How to find a good Chinese name | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/wuxia-a-key-to-chinese-language-and-culture/#comment-132646 Sun, 11 May 2025 11:49:38 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4521#comment-132646 […] people often say it sounds a bit like a wuxia character, and people from the mainland tend to say it sounds like it comes from a drama set during […]

]]> By: The three roads to mastering Chinese | Hacking Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/wuxia-a-key-to-chinese-language-and-culture/#comment-127452 Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:19:58 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4521#comment-127452 […] guarantee mastery in all areas; it depends on what your interest is directed towards. If you’re interested in wuxia novels, this will lead to a lot of exposure to the written language, but you could also talk to people […]

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]]> By: Zhang https://www.hackingchinese.com/wuxia-a-key-to-chinese-language-and-culture/#comment-102568 Sat, 15 Oct 2022 14:10:25 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4521#comment-102568 thanks for sharing, i am late reading this article.
what is your opinion about xianxia?, wuxia is declining now and been replaced by xianxia, i miss the old day when my online friends called each other sute, sumoi, suheng, suci (shi xiong, shi jie, shi di in Hokkien language).
Even the poem of Li Mochou is so popular and often repeated by people, “ask the world, what is love?…” :p

]]> By: From Pixels to Pictures. (part 1) | Young, Gifted, and Geek. https://www.hackingchinese.com/wuxia-a-key-to-chinese-language-and-culture/#comment-76263 Wed, 05 May 2021 00:00:41 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4521#comment-76263 […] arts performed with then-cutting-edge wire work. This was two years before The Matrix, so wuxia-style fighting was still pretty new to US viewers. Many of the actors were trained martial arts […]

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]]> By: Review: The 1995 Mortal Kombat is the essence of “so bad it’s good” - Vox https://www.hackingchinese.com/wuxia-a-key-to-chinese-language-and-culture/#comment-75758 Sat, 24 Apr 2021 13:06:53 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4521#comment-75758 […] martial arts performed with then-cutting-edge wire work. This was two years before The Matrix, so wuxia-style fighting was still pretty new to US viewers. Many of the actors were trained martial arts […]

]]> By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/wuxia-a-key-to-chinese-language-and-culture/#comment-71276 Tue, 22 Dec 2020 19:31:02 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4521#comment-71276 In reply to Aewin.

Thanks for sharing! Those are very good suggestions and I’m sure there are other learners who also find related genres interesting. I actually haven’t read that much myself, but feel that I ought too!

]]> By: Aewin https://www.hackingchinese.com/wuxia-a-key-to-chinese-language-and-culture/#comment-71260 Tue, 22 Dec 2020 03:19:38 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=4521#comment-71260 It’s also worth mentioning that people interested in something similar but with a bit more fantasy flavor to it might enjoy the 仙侠 Xianxia or 玄幻 Xuanhuan genres. Xianxia tends to focus on Daoist protagonists striving for immortality while fighting demons and the like, and Xuanhuan similarly features folklore and mythology elements but with a less strong focus on Daoist cultivation while sometimes mixing in foreign fantasy elements.

If you’re interested in getting into those genres I recommend looking up a site called Immortal Mountain on WordPress. They have articles explaining some of the core concepts as well as some small lists of relevant vocabulary that are more specific to those genres.

Watching a translated Xianxia series was actually what got me interested in learning Mandarin!

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