Comment on Anon thinks we're being bamboo-zled

theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, it’s 4chan. It says (or at least it used to) say that only a fool would take its stories as real right on the webpage

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  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s greentext so the pandas are fake and gay, that’s why they need to be artificially inseminated.

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    • Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dammit, even the pandas are Yuri.

      It’s inescapable.

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• ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  First mention by hhhhwhite people was in 1869, apparently. But mentioned in chinese texts as early as like 2000 years ago

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• finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just gave a brisk read through that article, btw your link is slightly off, and it doesn't seem to disprove the point much at all. What few historical Mo panda are referenced were called giant iron eating beasts in mythical tales, no artistic depictions, and most of the citations are improper/broken. One of them mentions Bencao Gangmu, a sort of catalogue of plants and animals with pictures, claims Mo panda being between Leopards and Elephants but a quick search did not reveal any such images unto me.

  Honestly, I'm convinced. Pandas are just painted or modified brown bears.

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  • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    most of the citations are improper/broken

    …citations… to books… not broken links lol.

    [19] (tr. adapted from Harper 2013: 185, 205)

    And on page 185, we find the exact text cited

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    scribd.com/…/Donald-Harper-2012-2013-The-Cultural…

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    • finitebanjo@piefed.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The wikipedia contributors were unable to link to a digitization of the book, that's what I mean by improper. I don't own a copy of books written in 223 AD, neither does my local library.

      The Donald Harper book you just posted was published in 2012.

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      • mech@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m following this exchange with steadily increasing fascination, still on the fence on whether Pandas exist.

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      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Say your library did, you would read this book in Classical Chinese? Or would you rely on a translation, probably published much later?

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      • theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s not how citations work.

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      • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Here’s a link to the Erya.

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