LXC1008Week2020
Lan Xichen's Birthday Week Celebration
This event is an online fan theme week dedicated to creating fanworks for Lan Xichen, a character in the novel Mo Dao Zu Shi. The character's birthday is on October 8.
The event will run between October 1-October 8, 2020.
Rules
We welcome all types of Lan Xichen pairings and Lan Xichen-centered works, either romantic or platonic! Our aim is to honor the kind-hearted Sect Leader of the Gusu Lan and to celebrate his birth with the honor and care he deserves.
We abhor ship hates. We don’t condone any animosity amongst Lan Xichen ships and we want to run this event as smoothly as possible and please do respect the content creators with their choices. Sect Leader Lan doesn’t tolerate it!
We accept all kinds of fanworks in any form (i.e. manhua, donghua, CQL, audio drama, etc) and in any language. Fanfiction, fanarts, pinboards, playlists, cosplay, etc, you name it. Be creative as our esteemed Sect Leader is well-versed in arts. He would surely appreciate everything.
Some works might contain triggering warnings/harmful contents and do make sure they are appropriately tagged, especially with works containing R18/NSFW! We want to keep this event safe for minors. Some examples are but not limited to: major character death, gore, extreme violence, non-con, etc.
Please do make sure to tag your works with #Happy1008ZewuJun2020 so we can properly retweet! We want all works to be appreciated and have the participants browse easily!
For works uploaded in Archive on our Own, we ask you to upload it under the Happy1008ZewuJun2020 collection. This will group all the works for easier navigation.
We are using two social media accounts for this event, namely Twitter and Tumblr. We won’t do any cross posting and it’s entirely up to the content creators for their desired account to use.
Schedule
Each day will have a set of prompts. You may use any or a combination of the prompts to create your fanwork.
Day 1 - 红包 hong bao; daisy; innocence
Day 2 - 长寿面、面线 longevity noodles, mee sua; amaryllis; pride
Day 3 - 红鸡蛋 red eggs; daffodil; new beginnings
Day 4 - 寿桃包 longevity peach buns; hibiscus ; delicate beauty
Day 5 - 家人 family; rosemary; remembrance
Day 6 - 祝福 blessings; edelweiss; courage & devotion
Day 7 - 欢宴 celebration; lily of the valley ; purity, happiness, luck & humility
Day 8 - Free Day; gentian; justice & victory
Prompts
To help you with the theme week prompts, here are some information on each of them which may not be familiar to you.
The details to be updated as each prompt is announced on social media.
You may refer to the table or the images for details. (Click on the thumbnails to view them.)
Flowers
| Day | Flower | Meaning/Symbolism |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daisy | innocence, purity, new beginnings, true love, sun, farewell/departure, cheerfulness |
| 2 | Amaryllis | pride, passion, love, beauty; purple amaryllis - spiritual side of life; orange amaryllis - good health and happiness; white amaryllis - purity and innocence; pink amaryllis - friendship; yellow amaryllis - happiness and good luck |
| 3 | Daffodil | new beginnings, rebirth, creativity, inspiration, renewal/vitality, awareness/inner reflection, memory, forgiveness |
| 4 | Hibiscus | fleeting beauty of fame and personal glory; red is for love and passion; white for beauty and purity; pink is for friendship and all kinds of love (platonic or romantic); purple is for mystery, knowledge or the higher class |
| 5 | Rosemary | remembrance, love, lust, memory and mourning; during ancient times, rosemary sprigs were used in funerals; for weddings, it symbolizes love, loyalty and happiness. |
| 6 | Edelweiss | deep love and devotion; also notoriety, adventure and sacrifice |
| 7 | Lily of the Valley | good luck and happiness; delicacy, kindness, humility and tears |
| 8 | Gentian | justice and victory; also symbolizes passion, charm, loveliness, sweetness |
Chinese Birthday Traditions
| Day | Tradition | Meaning/Symbolism |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Bao/Red Packet | Red packet containing money, usually in auspicious numbers like 88, 128, etc. Token of good wishes given on auspicious occasions such as birthdays, Chinese New Year. |
| 2 | Mee Sua | Longevity noodles are given to people celebrating their birthdays to signify long life. |
| 3 | Red Eggs | The peeling of the red shell symbolizes rebirth. |
| 4 | Longevity Peach Buns | Sweet buns that look like peaches and filled with lotus paste or red bean paste. They are given to people to wish them long life. |
| 5 | Family | - |
| 6 | Blessings | - |
| 7 | Celebration | - |
| 8 | Free Day | - |
Contact
The event is organized by the Lan Xichen's Hanshi Discord Server. You may contact the mods through the server or the listed social media pages below.
twitter: @lxc1008week2020
tumblr: @lxc1008week