#liu chenxiang

[deadshadowcreature]

Draws with Procreate

#my art #comic #shitpost #the last six drawings are requests after I got 3000+ followers on Twitter #lmk #lego #monkie kid #lego monkie kid #nezha #third lotus prince #longnu #MK #qi xiaotian #erlang shen #yang jian #liu Chenxiang #Chen xiang #lotus lantern #Nezha and Chen are now cousins I don’t make rules

[acoraxia]

[NOT SHIP]

Nephew vs Uncle; two dancing immortals

#lego monkie kid #lmk #lmk sun wukong #lmk lady bone demon #i forgot their dynamic name #my bad #lmk erlang shen #liu chenxiang #I HOPE HE MAKES A BRIEF APPEARANCE SOMEHOW #SOBS SOBS #🐶☀️ #☀️❄️ #false gods #lmk forest fires

[antidotefortheawkward-art]

Lotus Lantern is a story about breaking the cycle

[ID: A three page comic done in white and shades of purple. Characters are uncolored, but have shading.

1. The first panel shows Liu Chenxiang with a determined expression from the shoulders up. Behind him is a shot of his torso and arms, gripping his axe. Text next to him reads, "Liu Chenxiang, son of son of Yang Chan and Liu Yanchan, came upon a mountain with axe in hand." The second panel shows Chenxiang, on the ground, facing his uncle as he approaches Mount Hua. There is somewhat skewed perspective, following the mountain as it reaches into the sky, accented by the clouds haloing it and Erlang Shen. Erlang Shen is on a cloud in front of the mountain, accompanied by XiaoTianQuan. Text on the mountain reads, "Intent to cleave open the cold stone." The perspective on the text matches that of the mountain. The third panel melts into the second panel- the grass beneath second panel Chenxiang's feet melting into the abstract background behind third panel Chenxiang. Here, Chenxiang is lifting up hi axe behind his head, preparing to strike. Text next to him reads, "As his uncle once did so many years ago."

2. A silhouette of two figures, a brother and sister with backs turned to one another. The lower parts of their body are obscured by clouds, which appear to be spilling out from a mountain which is separating the two. These clouds and this mountain serve as a backdrop to a young Erlang Shen crying and running into the arms of his smiling, teary-eyed mother as they reunite. His mother has her arms out to hug him. Text at the top of the page reads, "A tale told once before." Written on the silhouette of the brother reads, "A brother and a sister at odds." Written on the silhouette of the sister reads, "A mother imprisoned." Written on the mountain separating the two reads, "And a son, with love powerful enough to move mountains."

3. The first panel shows Erlang Shen from the shoulders up, looking down at Chenxiang with a disapproving gaze. Text on either side of him reads, "Erlang Shen had lived this tale once before" and "It had been his own story once upon a time." The second panel shows a skewed top-down perspective on Chenxiang as he stands atop a somersault cloud in the sky, glaring up at his uncle with an angry expression as he holds his axe. Text on either side of him reads, "So then why-" "-did the face looking back at him..." Third panel is dark and contains only text. It reads, "Remind him of someone else entirely?". Fourth panel shows a zoomed-in shot of Sun Wukong's face during the havoc in heaven, with an angry expression echoing Chenxiang's. There is a dark purple gradient from the bottom of the page to the top of the page.

End ID]

#my art #lotus lantern #liu chenxiang #chen xiang #erlang shen #yang jian #sun wukong #also in case youre wondering why sansheng mu isnt in the picture in the recounting of erlang shen's tale 👉👈 got plans for that #hi everyone....... im back............... #to recap: things in life happened. things in life are much better now but im gonna be very busy. #this and the five next things i post are gonna be things i finished drawing before i disappeared and it might be a while for me to* #*post after that but. good to be back.

[quitealotofsodapop]

OOOHOOO!!! Cómo va a reaccionar Azure a que no solo el sucesor del amor de su vida no solo es su sucesor si no que es su hijo. Y como van a reaccionar el Camel Rigde que ahora el "eslabón débil" es capas de hacerlos tapetes con la mirada y que se quedó con su traidor líder, y no solo eso sí no que tienen tres adorable hijitos que es capaz de partir montañas, usuario del caos y una medio demonio gato que posiblemente puede hacer una era del hielo

Translated via google:

"OOOHOOO!!! How is Azure going to react to the fact that not only is the successor of the love of her life not only her successor but also her son. And how are Camel Rigde going to react that now the "weak link" is capable of making them look at each other and that he stayed with his traitor leader, and not only that but that they have three adorable little children who are capable of breaking mountains, chaos user and a cat half-demon who can possibly make an ice age"

I can imagine Azure is a little... shocked.

The release of the Scroll of Memory happens at the same time as Shadowpeach's wedding reception on Flower Fruit Mountain, meaning that most of the guests are dragged into it. Azure showed up "just at the right time" to stop the Curse from spreading.

His plans are a lot more calculated this time round, gaining support and endearing himself more to the gang before dropping the bombshell that he intends on keeping SWK and Mac in the scroll until the Brotherhood's plans are completed.

Azure: "It's surprising to me that Sun Wukong has appointed a successor after all this time. He wasn't exactly a mentor type in our Brotherhood days. Then again he was always parental towards his fellow monkey yao." MK: "Probably helps that I'm his kid too so..." Azure: "Kid??" Bai He (cat demon) & Chenxiang (human?): "Us too!" Azure: "Excuse me???" Mei (dragon) & Nezha (diguised demon): "He's kinda our dad too." Azure, finally noticing the destroyed wedding reception: "...Was there a wedding going on?"

It takes Azure Lion a while to ask about the kids' other parent, he just assumes SWK slept around during the last 1000 years. Eventually he pokes around Flower Fruit Mountain enough to find some baby photos of all the kids together (you know Wukong is the type to hoard his kids drawings and photos) with SWK + a monkey yao he isn't sure if he recognises.

Azure, astral projecting during the kids' mission through the scroll: "I would like to ask a personal question; has Sun Wukong ever... settled down before? With a life partner, I mean." MK: "Yeah! With our mom!" Azure, disappointed: "Oh. Are they a monkey yao like you? Or are they something else?" Bai He, proudly: "Our mom is The Six Eared Macaque! That wedding we were at was theres!" Azure, astral form glitching: "WHAT?" *so shocked he stops projecting* Chenxiang, the most paranoid of the situation: "...guys I think he had a crush on dad." MK, in denial: "Nah! He said they were just bros back in the day! He was probably just caught off guard by mom and dad being together after so long!" Mei: "MK, he def had the hots for Monkey King." Chenxiang: "And he did not seem happy about who mom is..." MK, desperately: "No... thats so gross..." Nezha: "I agree with Mei and Chen. Although the Azure Lion has been on good behavior for the bodhisattvas since the Camel Ridge incident, he has turned his back on the Celestial Realm before. His appearance at the wedding was no mere concidence. I would keep our wits about us until we find and release the others."

*Later, after Azure releases them and the reincarnation gang, but refuses to release SWK and Mac*

Chenxiang: "...Told you he had the hots for dad." MK: "Leave me alone, I'm still grossed out about it." Nezha: "That's what you're upset about?! There's a group of former rebels running around, trying to restart their cause, and forming a whole coup, Mr Tang is gravelly injured, and that's what you're upset about!?" MK: "Mom and dad just got married ok! I didn't want today to go wrong for them!" Bai He: "But now mom and dad are stuck in that magic scroll Uncle Lion has." :'( Mei: "Oh man... Momcaque is gonna kill that fake-uncle Lion when we get him out!" Chenxiang, shuffling nervously and muttering: "I mean... whats so wrong about getting back at the Celestial Realm? I've done it before."

The Brotherhood's coup certainly doesn't go as planned... but not failed per say...

Especially since the kids find out that someone important on the Celestial side has been holding a candle for Azure for all these years, in the same way Azure has been for Sun Wukong.

And love fixes everything right?

#lego monkie kid #lmk #lmk s4 spoilers #the monkey king and the infant #the monkey king and the infant au #lmk shadowpeach au #shadowpeach #lmk azure lion #lmk liu chenxiang #liu chenxiang #qi xiaotian #lmk bai he #lmk lbd's host #lmk mei #lmk nezha #long xiaojiao #lmk tmkati au story events

[ruibaozha]

I hope this question doesn't bother you, I only know the 1999 Lotus Lantern movie (if anyone wants to see it, it's subtitled in English on yt) but I wanted to ask, are there other accessible Lotus Lantern media? I think I only know two versions of the story and the TV show.

Hello! I've been looking for a free to access PDF of the story itself, but this website has a very solid translation and I have used a few of their translations of Canonization of the Gods sometimes. I can personally verify it's validity.

https://pages.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/chtales/story011.html

I also located a TV series under the same name. There aren't subtitles available though.

This also falls into Chinese Opera, first popularized during the Tang Dynasty. I have added links to both part one and two on Youtube. I hope this is what you've been looking for, despite lacking translations.

#chinese opera #chinese culture #chinese dance #chinese history #chinese literature #chinese mythology #chinese folklore #the magic lotus lantern #the lotus lantern #erlang shen #er’lang shen #yang jian #liu chenxiang

[mstrchu]

happy year of the rabbit...!

#happy LNY or belated LNY if you celebrated it yesterday!! #a moment and a memory. ooogugh fambily #new gods yang jian #yang jian #erlang shen #sansheng mu #yang chan #liu chenxiang #if you care about me at all please dont look to hard at the perspective thank you #art tag #btw pls never hold rabbits like in the second pic sbdsbbdbd #ok i promise i will talk about something else for a while now

[themetallicnemesis]

I finally got to watch lotus lantern a while ago, and i wanted to draw chenxiang with my swk

#jttw #sun wukong #lotus lantern #liu chenxiang #art #my art #edit: oh yeah almost forgot to add #i based my chenxiang design a lot on some of antidotefortheawkwards art so you guys should really check out his stuff

[the-monkey-ruler]

I was watching Lotus Lantern 1999 and apparently Wukong had already finished his journey and ascended to Buddhaism when he started training Chenxiang. Do the other versions of Lotus Lantern have the story placed at the end of Journey to the West? (however, I could be wrong because I watched the movie in Chinese language)

Yeah, all versions of them are after his journey, at least the ones that include Wukong as his mentor. It only makes sense both in verse and out of verse. Wukong would have no time narratively on his journey to train Chenxiang since it isn’t in Xiyouji at all, and Wukong wouldn’t be qualified to train Chenxiang when he was still in the middle of his own character arc to be in a proper place story wise to be a mentor. I have yet to seen any Lotus Lantern story that involved Wukong as a mentor during his journey. You will see that all Lotus Lantern productions that involve Wukong has a mentor have him already enlightened such as seen in Lotus Lantern (2020) 天界异闻录：宝莲灯, Lotus Lantern - Floating Fairyland (2021) 宝莲灯·赤子之心, Lotus Lantern (2020) 天界异闻录：宝莲灯, Lotus Lantern Prequel (2009), Lotus Lantern (2005), and Lotus Lantern (1999).

Though there was a movie Monkey King: The One and Only (2021) 大圣无双 (this is a Wukong fighting an evil clone of himself movie) where Chenxiang actually made a cameo appearance in the middle of Wukong’s journey, where they seemed familiar with each other but it was an antagonist relationship (this isn't exactly a high-quality movie so please don't take it too seriously). Wukong needed Chanxiang's ax so it looked like Chenxiang completed his journey to save his mother but they never showed how he and Wukong were connected since it wasn't about Chenxiang. He was more of a reference than anything else.

But timewise Yes, it only makes sense that Wukong trained Chenxiang after the journey.

#anon ask #anonymous #anon #jttw #journey to the west #sun wukong #xiyouji #ask #lotus lantern #Liu Chenxiang #erlang shen

[sketching-shark]

You know it can be pretty fun and funny to compare and contrast Xiyouji retellings but it is genuinely wild just how different the stories of Sun Wukong’s tudis are.

Tudi #1: An unnamed prince of the Jade-Flower District in India that the pilgrim group passes through on the way west & who becomes an amazing martial artist under Sun Wukong’s tutelage. Is also endowed with “divine strength” by the Monkey King. He’s a minor character, but he clearly admires and respects his shifu

Tudi #2: Liu Chenxiang, the demigod hero of “The Magic Lotus Lantern” folk tale. Faced many hardships and traumatic events on account of his uncle Erlang Shen killing Liu Chenxiang’s father and imprisoning his mother Sansheng Mu underneath a mountain for the crime of falling in love with a mortal. Some versions of the story say that Sun Wukong was his shifu in the martial arts. The Monkey King is also often presented as the one who made a magical axe that allowed Liu Chenxiang to split open this mountain and be reunited with his mom. His relationship to Sun Wukong is a little more tense, but overall he’s presented as admiring and being very grateful to his shifu.

Tudi #3: Qi Xiaotian, the generally cheerful protagonist of the cartoon Monkie Kid who Cannot Catch A Break Ever. Mr. “Have-Some-More-Trauma-While-Everyone-Dunks-On-Your-Shifu-all-while-Sun-Wuking-frequently-makes-things-worse” himself. Seems to still at least love the Monkey King, but a part of him also seems to be wondering why. Oh no.

#xiyouji #journey to the west #jttw #the magic lotus lantern #monkie kid #liu chenxiang #qi xiaotian #sun wukong #monkey king #just thought it would be worth bringing up that there is a precedent for Sun Wukong being presented as a objectively good shifu #even when he's not the main character

[crazysaru99]

When your first disciple (bb) reincarnates...

¿Es la reencarnación de Chenxiang en MK Theory?

Me encanta <3

#my art #lmk sun wukong #lmk #lmk mk #monkie kid #lmk fanart #liu chenxiang #sun wukong #vuelve a ver a su bb <3 #Si liu tiene ese mismo mechón rebelde de Mk

[mythologyfolklore]

Erlang Shen: Wukong, this is my Family. Everyone, this is my Wukong.

Erlang Shen:

Erlang Shen: wait—

Sun Wukong: no, he's right, i am his Wukong

Sansheng Mu: YES! IT FINALLY HAPPENED! *dances around them like a very happy little girl*

Liu Yanchang: *doesn't understand gay stuff but will accept it, if it means his brother-in-law will leave them alone* Congrats.

Chenxiang & Nezha: About fucking time.

Jade Emperor: NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

#journey to the west #the lotus lantern #erlang shen #sun wukong #sansheng mu #liu yanchang #chenxiang #nezha #jade emperor #incorrect quotes #sansheng mu ships jiankong harder than us

[antidotefortheawkward-art]

沉香 chénxiāng, agarwood A type of wood commonly used for incense. Trees afflicted with heavy stress are highly preferred over their healthy counterparts, as it is their infected heartwood that provides agarwood's valued fragrance.

[ID: A portrait of Liu Chenxiang from the waist up, looking forward solemnly. He is holding a mountain-shaped incense burner which is emitting incense smoke. Where the smoke crosses his face, features of a young Erlang Shen are visible instead, including his Heavenly Eye. Behind Chenxiang is a split log of agarwood, the inside of which is infected and blackened. Where the incense smoke crosses the log is desaturated, making the log appear more like a mountain. The shadow of the log extends upwards and where it intersects with the smoke is colored like a 青绿山水 painting. Over the shadow is written “香炉墩 (Lit. Incense burner, Fig. Only son in the family)” from right-to-left in golden seal-script. A red stamp to the right of the text reads "宝莲灯 (Lotus Lantern)." End ID]

#my art #lotus lantern #chinese mythology #liu chenxiang #chen xiang #illustration #translations in image description #沉香你长的越来越像你舅舅。。。 #chenxiang looking like the spitting image of erlang shen at his age is so.......... like erlang and sansheng are identical twins but. yknow #the whole thing of chenxiang very literally repeating erlang's story near beat for beat #also the dynamics of lighting incense specifically as a demigod. #because you usually light incense to pray to a god. OR to pay respects to your ancestors. #tfw your ancestors are gods. tfw your other ancestors are humans and youre not supposed to pay respects to them #also not entirely relevant or that deep but. i like the symmetry of patriarch puti being sun wukong's sifu and chenxiang being swk's tudi #human with tree imagery (bodhi tree) and again human with tree imagery (agarwood)........ #also no i am not going too heavy on the mountain symbolism with the incense burner bc thats based on a historical artifact <3

[quitealotofsodapop]

¿Te cuento algo del arbol genealógico Celestial? Liu Chenxiang fue discípulo del mismísimo Rey Mono uwu

translated via google:

"Shall I tell you something about the Celestial family tree? Liu Chenxiang was a disciple of the Monkey King himself uwu"

Well I already knew that part about his past history with the Monkey King, but ty for reminding me of something. I'm considering having Liu Chenxiang show up at some point in the story; either as a trapped immortal or as a reincarnation, looking for his old master.

Chenxiang: "Sifu! I finally found... you???" Dad!Wukong: *wearing crocs, cargo shorts, and a hawaiian shirt. Holding one of the kids* "Yea?" Chenxiang: "...ok wow. The years really have gone by fast." Macaque, thinking: "1+ New Son acquired"

He would be the worried Big Brother of the kids.

#liu chenxiang #lmk liu chenxiang #liu chen xiang #dad sun wukong #the monkey king and the infant au #the monkey king and the infant #lmk shadowpeach au #shadowpeach #sun wukong #six eared macaque #liu er mihou #Sun Wukong and Macaque are MK's parents #shadowpeach being parents

[iridescent-scrolls]

“Is this working..? Ah! hello! Liu Chenxiang here. Feel free to ask me anything if you wish to!”

#a humble fragrance | liu chenxiang #an unveiling | intro post

[lotus-protector-official]

...wait so he's

Fused with the lantern???

How does that happen?

“He was given the power to achieve his honorable wishes- my best guess is the lantern chose him because he was worthy.”

#third lotus prince | nezha #question on a stray petal | ask #concealed ones | anon #filial fragrant beacon | liu chenxiang

[themetallicnemesis]

Funny little modern day Lotus Lantern au, that's pretty much just an excuse for me to draw my Wukong with cool outifts

#yes swk could have just used magic to disguise himself on that first image #but hes tired so he just grabbed a cap hoped nobody on the grocery store would recognize him and called it a day #jttw #journey to the west #xi you ji #lotus lantern #sun wukong #liu chenxiang #erlang shen #xiaotian quan #art #my art