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Oh, fun fact to expand on that. The couplets can be made more interesting or challenging by adding more "rules" to the couplets. For example there is a couplet with an upper half consisting of 5 words, the problem was each of the words contained the symbol/word for the 5 elements in chinese culture, so the follow up has to follow a similar pattern. If i remember correctly, noone has found a perfect matching lower couplet yet.
Couplets are a popular form of poetry in china, particularly amongst the literati as it requires strong grasp of the langauge as well as a quick mind to be able to not only complete the couplet logically, but also poetically. In ancient china, it was even used as a way for scholars to duel, where they would take turns making up the first half, and the other party had to come up with a follow up within a set number of steps(they would pace while doing this)
Ah no, bowing to heaven and earth is part of the ritual of marriage. Its basically the chinese marraige equilavant of saying their vows. Iirc it goes "Bow to heaven and earth" then "Bow to your parents"(They would be seated in front of them, usually the father) and finally "Bow to each other.". After which the groom would raise the brides veil and kiss her.
They can get around that issue for their own tech no problem, that doesnt mean they would have addressed the issue of "how can we make low tech stuff that isnt ours perform at the same level of our tech". That would be like saying that we can make bow and arrows faster because we invented guns, all without actually interacting with the bow and arrow.
So the joke wasnt teanslated well here, when you say "make someone pay" in chinese, one of the phrases used is "rang ta hao kan" which roughly translates to "give him a good look(at the consequences)" or badly tranlsated to "let him look nice". Hao kan means good look or nice looking, hence Iris saying she already looks good.
I dont think its blaming the victim so much as stating that the scenario happening was expected due to the circumstances. Obviously though, even if she chose to wear that and it was a dark night, she shouldnt be accosted, and the people who did so are scum.
Its a phrase, I suspect rhe term used is Jia Huo, which is like a way to call a adult person a brat, and has connotations of a masculine nature which would translate into guy. A similar term in english would be "Bruh" when used to express your disbelief at someone irregardless of their gender.
Don't tell me you actually believe that chinese propoganda. Man, you denser than I thought.
I see ur mistake, im not american. And while the people there kept screwing themselves over, china still had it worse with how their governmebt handled it.