Review Detail of Gourmet_DAO in Universal Knowledge of the Dao
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I wonder if the Chinese have blue eyes? What does eye color matter? Maybe some kind of magic ability? But entertaining, the first chapter makes you read further, it is interesting! From the first sentences the author managed to captivate the reader! Respect! Sick lungs, the mother could cure - with koumiss, steppe air, having gone to the sea, with blue hunters, with young moss - parmelia, and raw pumpkin juice. True, this knowledge became available only in the 11th and 16th centuries of our era and knowledge was transferred along the Silk Road. I wonder what time the novel is going on? Or is it a fantastic world? Sect? Despotic father. Impulse, emotions, loss of common sense ... and here is a sect ... an immortal ... risky heroine! Oooh .... book pervert ???????? This is definitely something new! Books have always been associated with wisdom, knowledge, and here it is like this ... Again ranking .... like in Kinzadza ... red pants, yellow ... entertaining ... where is East, there are clans, sects, hierarchical relations, gradation ... by color, by force, by money, by power. .. Cheating abilities ???? Magic item ???? Aah ... it's not a Tao ... it's a romance ... Tao is immense, Tao covers everything, Tao is incomprehensible ... The path of enlightenment is difficult! This is not the typical DAO about which I read - from the Chinese author Pu Sunlin - Monks Wizards and Stories about Unusual People, author of the 18th century. The spells of the Taoists, short stories of the 17th century, Feng Menluna, Lin Manchu, Li Yu. This is a European DAO ... but also a rather curious, understanding of DAO through the prism of the European mentality. And this is partially reminiscent of modern stories about DAO. But still, this is not the DAO itself ... but only its imitation. Since nothing is said about DAO itself ... The path of the cultivator is based on the comprehension of the doctrine of the path of enlightenment ... on the other hand, anyone who talks about what DAO understands, deviates from PATH, who does not talk about DAO, then he understands it. DAO is shorter than a very tangled thing ... and probably not a Chinese to understand him 100 percent will fail. Thanks to the author for an interesting story, it is easy to read.
Universal Knowledge of the Dao
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Thank you for your review ! I would like to clarify a few things, I am french, and I don't know a lot about chinese culture. It may sound like cultural appropriation but I really like that kind of novels and I wanted to give it a try. I apologize if it seems rude, but I never claimed to be accurate or anything, this is just a story for readers, not to look to deeply into it !
I just read several original Chinese novels of the 16-18th centuries, novels of the 20-30s and 60s-80s of the 20th century, there is a slightly different philosophy, another world, DAO is incomprehensible ... but at the same time understandable. When you read your work, IMHO, the European understanding of DAO is immediately conspicuous ... In order to better understand DAO, in the Western sense, you can read a short book - "The Tao of Pooh) - a book written in 1982 by American writer Benjamin Hoffom. " There everything is clear and understandable, if that ... And so of course, the author has the right to write everything that his creative inspiration tells him. As I noted, a literary critic, who completely rakatal my story, that before writing a novel on historical themes, it was necessary to feel the atmosphere, to write, as it were, those people who lived in the 15-17 centuries could use the old speech turns and not modern. Well, that sort of thing. respectfully
d3trois:Thank you for your review ! I would like to clarify a few things, I am french, and I don't know a lot about chinese culture. It may sound like cultural appropriation but I really like that kind of novels and I wanted to give it a try. I apologize if it seems rude, but I never claimed to be accurate or anything, this is just a story for readers, not to look to deeply into it !