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Zhao Yunlan's quotations
(I've searched back through the type:questions tag and couldn't find it, so if anyone has already discussed this, please link me?)
I love how Zhao Yunlan pretends to be a plebe and a know-nothing, which is clearly as much of an act as his good-time guileless bro is, because he also seems to quote highbrow things all the damn time.
It's both endearing and frustrating, because I don't speak a word of Chinese, and I would really really like to know more about the things Zhao Yunlan quotes - sometimes the subs helpfully tell me it's poetry, like the line he quotes to Shen Wei when they're in the mountains in the Wear My Jacket I Insist scene. And sometimes it's clearly a proverb/saying, like "trust those you hire/hire those you trust" and IIRC he also quotes from the Art of War somewhere?
Has anyone more organized and knowledgeable than me made a list of ZYL quotations, or sources, or anything?
And is it me, or does Shen Wei, the polished 10,000 year old Professor, not do this at all?
I love how Zhao Yunlan pretends to be a plebe and a know-nothing, which is clearly as much of an act as his good-time guileless bro is, because he also seems to quote highbrow things all the damn time.
It's both endearing and frustrating, because I don't speak a word of Chinese, and I would really really like to know more about the things Zhao Yunlan quotes - sometimes the subs helpfully tell me it's poetry, like the line he quotes to Shen Wei when they're in the mountains in the Wear My Jacket I Insist scene. And sometimes it's clearly a proverb/saying, like "trust those you hire/hire those you trust" and IIRC he also quotes from the Art of War somewhere?
Has anyone more organized and knowledgeable than me made a list of ZYL quotations, or sources, or anything?
And is it me, or does Shen Wei, the polished 10,000 year old Professor, not do this at all?