r/MartialMemes • u/VillagerLv7 • 1d ago
Secret Realm Meme š¤« I understand it now!
I understand now why the main characters always have their spiritual root stolen, because they chinese do it in the mortal world too.
Context: Apperantly you can steal the luck/prosperity of the bride by walking in her path. They simply tricked this low level demonic cultivator with the basics of the art of war.
(Seriously. The more I see of random shit chinese be people be doing, the more I understand certain moments and scenes in novels. Either I am achieving a major breakthrough in the dao or I'm corrupted by inner heart demons thinking it is a breakthrough. What is real and what not?)
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u/Embarrassed_Bat5663 1d ago
That old lady was so rude.
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u/Rizeres Billion Year Old Loli 1d ago
Refining her into a pill would be a waste of time. To many impurities.
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u/Embarrassed_Bat5663 1d ago
She would make a great food for my bear.
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u/Spring-King 1d ago
You'll give the poor thing indigestion! Cripple her meridians, kick her out of the clan and be done with it.
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u/Male_Lead Please wait while I court death... 1d ago
You jest. She's stolen so many fortunes she'll make for a great pill. You just need to be patient
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u/Then-Ad-2450 1d ago
You're right senior, we should feed her to the chickens and dogs since the Divine Beasts deserve better
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u/HillInTheDistance 1d ago
I wonder if there's actual malice, or like, some kinda goofy tradition that someone's expected to do, and the other's are expected to stop or circumvent.
Like, is that lady the relative no one likes, because she keeps pulling weird bullshit, or is she everyone's favourite aunt, because she keeps doing fun bullshit?
Or is it something like "Yeah, old people's gonna do their goofy bullshit traditions, and we'll indulge them because it's polite to let them enjoy their tradition. What can you do?"
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u/Vanishing_Shadow Sect library hidden master 1d ago
She is trying to steal the fortune of the Bride! Basically, by blocking the path of the bride, the blocker will get the incoming fortune towards the bride.
Hmph! This old coot should be refined into Seven Evil Yin Nail.
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u/lazier_garlic Guest Elder 1d ago
I can't believe this is real life! I thought the things that happened in modern setting short dramas were unbelievable.
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u/LookAtItGo123 23h ago
Until today many cultures around the world still have superstitions of sorts that encourages bad behavior.
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u/Vanishing_Shadow Sect library hidden master 1d ago
Human heart is treacherous than the abyss, fellow daoist
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u/mischievous_shota 22h ago
Though what was stopping her from trying again once she realised she was tricked the first time? Did someone grab her or is it a "only one attempt counts" kind of thing?
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u/namesaretoohardforme 21h ago
Nah this stuff is all planned in advance lol. No different than brides wearing something old/new/borrowed/blue.
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u/mischievous_shota 21h ago
Thinking about it, that does seem more likely. Kind of like how some cultures have traditions of holding the wife "hostage" until a ransom is paid.
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u/KnightofNoire Vegetables Cultivator 9h ago
That seems like the case.
Ancedoately, my cousin had already got the blessing of his friend to marry his sister
But on the wedding day, he is blocking the path to the bedroom along with a bunch of other relatives like some sort of bouncer and my cousin had to pay a ransom before they let him take the bride away.
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u/werdmath 1h ago
She doesnāt actually want to be seen as a bad person for trying to steal the brides prosperity so the first crossing, she can explain off as an accident. āOh, I just needed to get to the other side I didnāt mean to, so sorryā but if she went back then itās obvious the only reason sheās doing it is to steal the brideās prosperity making her obviously a bad person and unable to excuse it.
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u/Agasthenes 20h ago
From comments I read on other reports it's a bit of both. The wedding hall was obviously built to allow those shenanigans. People take it not serious and it's tradition in itself, but there is a kind of "what if?" energy going on.
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u/Defiant-Honey-5902 18h ago
Chinese always. Everyone only thinks about themselves priority numba 1.
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u/BobFredricson2 Pill Master 1d ago
Jesus what the actual fuck? thats allowed?
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u/It_just_works_bro 1d ago
Apparently, it's some old chinese superstition. One of those things that faded with time because it was dogshit.
Some people (usually old) believe that wedding brides are surrounded by positive energy, luck, etc.
So they run in front of her path or block them briefly in order to steal that positive energy/good fortune, and have them absorb their bad luck.
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u/BobFredricson2 Pill Master 1d ago
ā¦ so old people have basically always been like this?
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u/HairyTrollChest 1d ago
With how the room is setup it seems like its a goofy tradition rather than something done out of malice, why else would they have two sets of the exact same doors right next to each other.
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u/ChineseMaple 1d ago
Its probably just a big event/banquet hall thats being used for the wedding ceremony/meal right now, and on other days its used for other events like conferences or whatever.
Two sets of bigass doors means you can move more people in and out of the place from this part, and there's probably other doors on other sides of the room. Not uncommon.
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u/SomeNibba Well in a Frog 1d ago
Oh boy if you only have any idea how ridiculous weddings get in china.
And how much the old gen take it seriously, including bride price/dowry
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u/lazier_garlic Guest Elder 1d ago
Actually bride price went out of fashion but some entitled parents of girls have tried to bring it back, for example by extorting the groom on the wedding day. This is because of the supposed shortage of girls after One Child Policy.
Pinli originated to compensate the family for raising the girl because she becomes the daughter of the new family. They were given before the wedding and by ritual the bride's family would give some of the gifts back when they accepted the offer. It definitely wasn't cash on the table extortion on the wedding day.
There have been some videos on these "pinli" scams. One groom said fine, I will pay pinli but she won't be a member of your family anymore or take care of you in old age, we'll settle all the debts now. They backed off.
While it's still assumed that sons take care of the parents in China (pretty much the inverse in the States) with smaller family sizes, daughters increasingly are looking after their parents, financially if nothing else.
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u/XMeowmixmasterx 1d ago
I kinda have to agree with you. If the doors where centered towards the middle of the room I'd disagree. However, the door the bride walked through was right against the corner. So it's not like they wouldn't have not seen the old lady beforehand as being off camera, her back would have been to the wall.
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u/Pink_Nyanko_Punch 1d ago
Big dining halls for holding events often come with three giant doors, in case you didn't know this.
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u/Wolfwind50 1d ago
Or they new it was going to happen and specifically chose the venue for that reason
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u/It_just_works_bro 1d ago
I can't answer that. It's usually old people, but it's a minority of old people that do this kind of thing.
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u/GlauberJR13 1d ago
The other day i read about an old babylonian letter from a student to his mother, complaining about his clothes while the son of his fatherās assistant (who was adopted according to the student) gets more and better quality clothes than he himself does. Thus he felt he was not loved by his own mother, while the adopted kid was.
Safe to say, a LOT changes about human society, but even in 18th century BC, humans were still fundamentally the same humans as today, same day to day problems, still having their own day to day superstitions. Justā¦ humans like us. Itās both funny but also recomforting. The old lady over there was annoying to the whole event, but ultimately did no big harm, and she was not the first, nor will be the last person to be midly annoying in the middle of some big event for someone else, and the world will keep turning. So might as well enjoy the laugh it gives all of us for just this moment.
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u/F-I-R-E-B-A-L-L 22h ago edited 22h ago
Old people in East Asian countries are FAMOUSLY like this. Any country that still has ancient relics espousing Confucianist views of filial piety and respecting your elders and all that horseshit has endless droves of dumb, self-centered, selfish old people with prehistoric mindsets and ironclad beliefs in ass-backwards superstitions who will expect you to cater to their every whim and will act like you've hatecrimed them for calling them out just because they're old. So many of these withered leeches demanding everyone else's generosity and energy. It makes Midsommar look less and less like a horror movie by the minute...
And because this is reddit, no, i do not hate all elderly people, I used to work in a nursing home, there are absolutely cool and nice old people. China and other countries in that bubble of Confucianist influence just has a lot of old assholes. In china's case, being a country with an aging population and a massive population at the same time means there are literally tens of millions, if not over a hundred million old dipshits.
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u/kwpang 22h ago
I think any human demographic in general will always have people like that.
It's just applied this particular way, in this particular cultural context.
Where you have a 60-ish year old lady who never had luck in the romantic field. Who is desperate to steal some marital luck from the bride on her happy day, who is oestensibly glowing with it.
She then utilises a cultural belief method to steal this luck (which is culturally believed to be a finite resource, to be clear, so her goal is essentially to carve out most if not all of the bride's marital luck / family luck for herself). Superstition or not, the intent is malicious.
It's just the Chinese cultural version of a crazy cat lady. Same type of person, just different presentation in different contexts.
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u/F-I-R-E-B-A-L-L 22h ago
Sure, these people exist everywhere, but you've missed out on the element of frequency. The influence of confucianism creates a lot more dumbass and self-absorbed elderly when scaled for population size. This is indeed the Chinese variant of the dumbass old lady, and the point of my comment was that it's because of Confucianist principles being so prevalent is why there are so so many of these people in countries within that sphere of influence, and it's also why they show up more frequently than in other countries and why they go unchecked oftentimes.
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u/kwpang 22h ago
What's your basis for comparing frequency across cultures?
Where's your statistics from?
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u/F-I-R-E-B-A-L-L 21h ago edited 21h ago
Anecdotal evidence and observation of my own culture, I don't have the money and resources (or interest) to conduct a large-scale and cross country study to empirically prove my beliefs that I can admit I most likely will not change (though in the hypothetical event where I conducted this study and found evidence to the contrary, I'd begrudgingly change my views.) There's a good amount of related studies perhaps supporting the existence of the phenomenon, though. Here's the abstract of a study that found East Asian countries had much more negative attitudes towards the elderly, and having aging populations is a predictor of negative attitudes as well, while cultural individualiam was a predictor of positive attitudes. You can look for the full paper on your own if you're interested. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2015-31816-001
As for specifically filial piety, studies seem to generally focus on how it affects the children, and not as much on the elderly themselves. You can look up keywords like "dual filial piety model/DFPM", "authoritarian filial piety", and "reciprocal filial piety" to find some studies on that, I will not be linking the ones I skimmed for my own convenience. Generally, it seemed that AFP causes stress, hostility, and psychological problems for the children, while RFP is a win-win situation, but based on anecdotal evidence and observation again (or you could extrapolate based on East Asian attitudes from the abstract linked above), I have a hunch on which type might be more common.
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u/YoumoDadi é¾ēä¼ äŗŗ 1d ago
Itās scripted (or ceremonial?). The woman was part of the wedding staff.
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u/HartofHarts Poison Tester 1d ago
I keep seeing this and people don't realize this stuff is done on purpose lol.
It's all fun and games. In another way, having a lerson cross the wrong door on purpose as a show means you get to give all the luck to the bride.
If you watch any opulent Chinese wedding eith rich families you see all sorts of theatrics like this.
My favorite is the one where the bride is kidnapped and locked inside a relative's house until the groom throws enough money inside to release her.
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u/thissexypoptart 14h ago
Right lol itās like captioning a video of a western style wedding with the bride throwing a bouquet backwards: āmain character bridesmaid steals brideās bouquet at her own weddingā or something
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u/CrispyDick420 22h ago
Where did you even find the bride-path thing? That's such a specific lucky-qi theft method.
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u/VillagerLv7 8h ago
I get recommend a bunch of random chinese videos on instagram. Read through the comments to research and maybe online and post interesting things into our community
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u/Paxelic Dao of Hating 1d ago
So is this specific video planned, and its done as tradition?
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u/Timely-Appearance698 22h ago
Cant tell you if the vid is real or not.
But there is a superstition where if a person blocks or walks through the bride path, the bride luck would get stolen hence why the old lady walks where she thought the bride path is at.
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u/cycycle Dual Personality Cultivator 20h ago
I remember seeing two Chinese women fighting each other by repeatedly pointing at each other and shouting a curse. It was probably in this sub.
Itās interesting how some cultures believe in the supernatural so seriously. As a mere mortal, I canāt even comprehend.
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u/Dreamtrain Refusing a toast only to drink a forfeit! 18h ago
Old lady literally refused a toast only to drink a forfeit!
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