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by TigerTally
Sun Mar 05, 2023 3:02 pm
Forum: Sanguo Yanyi Symposium
Topic: Did Cao Pi realize that he's emperor only because Jia Xu "murdered" Cao Ang?
Replies: 1
Views: 66

Re: Did Cao Pi realize that he's emperor only because Jia Xu "murdered" Cao Ang?

Cao Pi was pretty well aware of this, but not exactly in the way you were trying to suggest. For example, he did blame Zhang Xiu for the death of his dear elder brother, and that eventually resulted in Zhang's suicide. Also, Jia Xu actually "contributed" even more to Cao Pi's enthronement ...
by TigerTally
Sun Mar 05, 2023 2:54 pm
Forum: Sanguo Yanyi Symposium
Topic: Was Cao Cao actually vegetarian? Who were the other vegetarians?
Replies: 5
Views: 124

Re: Was Cao Cao actually vegetarian? Who were the other vegetarians?

Book of Wei (Weishu 魏書) by Wang Shen 太后每隨軍征行,見高年白首,輙住車呼問,賜與絹帛,對之涕泣曰:「恨父母不及我時也。」太后每見外親,不假以顏色,常言「居處當務節儉,不當望賞賜,念自佚也。外舍當怪吾遇之太薄,吾自有常度故也。吾事武帝四五十年,行儉日久,不能自變為奢,有犯科禁者,吾且能加罪一等耳,莫望錢米恩貸也。」帝為太后弟秉起第,第成,太后幸第請諸家外親,設下廚,無異膳。太后左右菜食粟飯,無魚肉。其儉如此。 This is the closest record I can find. It did mention Lady Bian and her ser...
by TigerTally
Sat Mar 04, 2023 4:10 pm
Forum: Sanguo Yanyi Symposium
Topic: Was Cao Cao actually vegetarian? Who were the other vegetarians?
Replies: 5
Views: 124

Re: Was Cao Cao actually vegetarian? Who were the other vegetarians?

If your definition of vegetarian is not very strict (i.e. accepting pescetarianism), then yes. The novel also had an episode featuring Dong Zhao as a vegetarian. I am not sure about what "arch something tumblr" had said, but it probably was referring to 四時食制 by Cao Cao, in which he promote...
by TigerTally
Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:52 am
Forum: Sanguo Yanyi Symposium
Topic: Project Feedback: New Romance of the Three Kingdoms Online Novel?
Replies: 155
Views: 2440

Re: Project Feedback: New Romance of the Three Kingdoms Online Novel?

That kinds of sounds like what CTEXT is doing. example: https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=en&chapter=288848 They have a "jump to dictionary" arrow to the left of each paragraph, after clicking on it you can see every character's reading and meaning. Openlit is also doing this in a slightly ...
by TigerTally
Tue Feb 28, 2023 6:48 am
Forum: Sanguo Yanyi Symposium
Topic: Cataloging Reign Years (for Online Novel, Encyclopedia, KMA)
Replies: 36
Views: 590

Re: Cataloging Reign Years (for Online Novel, Encyclopedia, KMA)

Maybe add a button to automatically generate and fill in simplified Chinese, pinyin etc (based on the traditional Chinese character inputted) from OpenCC or other libraries at the entry editor's interface?
by TigerTally
Tue Feb 28, 2023 3:37 am
Forum: Sanguo Yanyi Symposium
Topic: Three Kingdoms Questions (You Ask, We Answer)
Replies: 11152
Views: 1429868

Re: Three Kingdoms Questions (You Ask, We Answer)

Sun Quan was definitely not happy about the result of obtaining just several thousand of slaves/population at the loss of many soldiers, so he punished and killed the two responsible officers. We do not really know the exact reason. It could be that he thought the number should be larger, or that he...
by TigerTally
Mon Feb 27, 2023 3:56 am
Forum: The Pub
Topic: Has anyone tried chatGPT or character.ai? Anything creative?
Replies: 9
Views: 248

Re: Has anyone tried chatGPT or character.ai? Anything creative?

Have been using ChatGPT for a while, but not really a fan of it. It is pretty easy to trick it into coming up with something that you want to say it at the current version. I also don't understand why some people (who are definitely not interested in history or literature) claim that it could provid...
by TigerTally
Sun Feb 26, 2023 3:01 pm
Forum: Sanguo Yanyi Symposium
Topic: Project Feedback: New Romance of the Three Kingdoms Online Novel?
Replies: 155
Views: 2440

Re: Project Feedback: New Romance of the Three Kingdoms Online Novel?

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but isn't this just the sort of quirks in the translation you want to track down? If you are referring to the discussion on "legion" and wan 萬 in the other thread , then yes. But here I am referring to your reply, where you said that: For example 九尺 o...
by TigerTally
Sat Feb 25, 2023 6:11 am
Forum: Sanguo Yanyi Symposium
Topic: Project Feedback: New Romance of the Three Kingdoms Online Novel?
Replies: 155
Views: 2440

Re: Project Feedback: New Romance of the Three Kingdoms Online Novel?

For 九尺 (9 chi) , that may not really be a good example for our purpose here, especially when we are consulting BT's translation: Guan Yu's height: "a huge frame", "tall" Hua Xiong's height: "stalwart" size of the Altar of the Seven Stars at Red Cliff: "nine feet hi...
by TigerTally
Sat Feb 25, 2023 4:17 am
Forum: Sanguo Yanyi Symposium
Topic: Cataloging Reign Years (for Online Novel, Encyclopedia, KMA)
Replies: 36
Views: 590

Re: Cataloging Reign Years (for Online Novel, Encyclopedia, KMA)

I am not an expert in this area, but I used to think there should be a way to have an automated translation of a traditional Chinese character into simplified Chinese as well as pinyin, Wade-Giles, and decimal encoding without inputting them all manually. Pinyin and Wade-Giles may still require mino...