Zhao Yunlan's quotations

[marycrawford]

(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?

Comments

[enviropony]

LOL, yeah, I don't see Zhao Xinci having much patience for lit or poetry. But I do see Zhao Yunlan learning that sort of thing just because he can, TBH. Not a lot, but I feel like he'd know the common classics. Like, he took that one mandatory Lit class and he aced it! He seems the kind to think that you never know what's gonna come in handy, and sometimes you need to pull a fancy quote out to impress the people who are giving money to your department. But it's definitely not his secret hobby or anything. :-)

[winter_blossom]

Oh, hey, not bad! I can totally see that, too.