Traditional Chinese Medicine and Bedtime: why the Lan bedtime is 9 PM

In the MDZS novel, MXTX specifies that the Lan strictly sleep from 9 PM to 5 AM. (And WWX strictly sleeps from 1 AM to 9 AM lol) Why this specific time? From the many times my grandma scolded me, this is bc of TCM beliefs. Venturing too far into the internet for this brings up a lot of woo of dubious historical accuracy, so I just called my grandma to ask, and I'm mostly recording this for future self reference.

(Flashback to ABC Chinese class in college when we'd take turns calling our parents for help.)

Anyway, my grandma says each of the 12 blocks of time (that Chinese timekeeping used to use) are associated with specific health implications. Therefore, you have to calm down and get ready for bed at around 9 PM and be asleep before 11 PM and wake up after 5 AM. The hours right before 5 AM are ~important to stay lying down~ so that your blood will circulate appropriately.

But then she went on to say that my grandpa (a professor) would always stay up late bc the late hours are the quietest and best for reading.

Untamed/MDZS vid recs!

I have to preface this by saying that my vocabulary around vids and general fluency in vid culture is seriously lacking, since I have historically mostly hung out on the fic side of things. As a result, I am less well equipped to appreciate the meta or broader trends in vids, and this recs list is necessarily more biased towards my own idiosyncratic tastes than an already inherently biased recs list of any flavor might be. But I have enough vid recs that I want to talk about them with people!

Bury a Friend by Rhea
I love the use of silence here, and how well timed the cuts and song are. The contrasts between sound / silence and motion / stillness also were really enjoyable. I think because the song choice has multiple layers of action that the vid teases out, I rewatched several times to get more of the clever cuts. I also liked the use of (not sure the technical term?) cutting short scene clips into an unrelated clip to place them in juxtaposition.

double knot by by pingvi
I think by pingvi's sense of timing and repeated motifs are excellent. I find the flashiness of the edit and the rhythmic layering of sound from the source really appealing.

the fault by Pteryx Videos
So there must be schools of vid thought and trends, right? I think Pteryx Videos must belong to the same one as by pingvi, with the emphasis on elaborate cuts and sound layering. There is a sense of -- urgency and motivation through the vid that makes me want to rewatch.

The Black Parade: An Untamed Vid Album by helcinda
First: this is a series of vids to a whole album. As a result of the length, it felt very different to watch, with more space to explore almost? There was much more a sense of storytelling, which -- and this is probably a personal failing on my part -- I am usually too impatient to sit through in a vid format. I guess it just needs to be 45 mins long for me to invoke the sense of falling into a story? I especially enjoyed the WWX one, which gave me more JFM as father feels than I think I've ever had previously.

Fuck this shit I'm out by shati
OK this is only 25 s long, BUT I liked it a lot! Perfectly represents Mianmian's POV lol.

So What. by NKZephyr Edits
Right, so possibly I love this because I love Jiang Cheng, which -- valid crit. But I loved the premise of WWX as uh, the cheating husband, and all the many, many angry JC expressions, interspersed with angsty retrospective scenes of their brotherhood.