Catch me over on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/ying God. What a Big Diaspora Mood™. I'd already watched the story teaser on Genshin Impact's RUclips channel before I played the story quest, but in the context of Shenhe's backstory this hit even HARDER. Wanted to share some thoughts I had after. Trust me when I say that I could have ranted another full hour trying to communicate the feelings that welled up in my chest as I watched Beijing opera showcased and celebrated on the global stage in such a truly magnificent way, with all the delightful multicultural influences that make Genshin Impact the game it is. It remains to be seen whether the regions we get next will have a similar level of respectful attention to detail in terms of honoring the cultures they're inspired by, but I'm excited to see how it all unfolds!
Kinda late on this as I just saw the cutscene the other day but....playing thru the story then the opera...The way it was told and with the visuals....I had to tell my friend to stop talking and had to mute myself on Discord because I was sniffling like mad. The singing was beautiful and made me feel like I ACTUALLY got a reward for doing something even though in truth all it was was listening.
i didn’t fully understand yun jins opera voice when she was first officially revealed- i didn’t make fun of it or anything, but it was definitely jarring to hear; i’ve never seen or heard any chinese opera before this. but let me tell you. when i heard her sing and perform in game i cried a bit😭😭 her singing is so beautiful and it gives me chills every time i hear it, i have it saved in my playlist and i’m so happy they put it the game and that they kept it in for all the languages. i think it’s really wonderful that a video game is opening up to so many different cultures and introducing people to them!!! i can’t wait to see what they bring us for the other regions too :-) even if the cultures seem foreign or strange to us at first, i hope we can learn to appreciate them !
I hate to tell you this, but REAL Chinese opera sounds more like that isolated voice clip than this song. The harsh nasal tones and separated vibrato was HEAVILY toned down to create a much more western and less harsh fused style. Don’t get me wrong, I still love it, but I just don’t want people thinking this song was 100% authentic and that most Chinese opera sounds very close to this, it really doesn’t. Doesn’t mean it sounds bad, but this was definitely a bit of a halfway compromise between the two styles.
@@spiderdude2099 i appreciate the info! i would still be interested in hearing the real thing tho after seeing her song, and i think it mightve influenced others to feel the same :-) i kinda figured it wasn’t exactly the same as the real deal but it was nice to hear anyways
Yeah sadly, this is a spinoff genre of songs based on Beijing opera singing style (京歌), rather than the opera style itself (京剧). The actual opera is every bit as inaccessible and harder to appreciate musically/aurally as the stereotypes make it out to be, which is a shame as a dying artform. But given that it's dying, if even one young person out of a hundred who checks out the original opera style after hearing this derivation from Yunjin decides to immerse themselves more and even become a part of it, them Yunjin's character will have singlehandedly given this art hope for another generation.
Nothing to be ashamed of, its common to find foreign and unfamiliar things "odd", it might even strike us as funny without intentionally being disrespectful. It doesn't matter if Yun Jin's singing isn't "Real Chinese Opera" as people say, if the song got an emotional response as strong as actually crying? Then you did more than just appreciate it. Let's just say you've "acquired a taste" things like it might not be your favorite, but its no longer just a funny sound to you.
Genshin KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK with this cutscene. This is art. Yang Yang’s singing, the music, the animation. And the fact it’s a beautiful tribute to an actual historic Chinese art form. I’m hoping Mihoyo can bring some Korean culture to the game, because I know they will do it justice!
They brought some Mongolian instrument and some culture & landscape to 2.6 Chasm update. So beautiful. So maybe we'll have some other east Asian representatives into the game in the future too!
@@JimRaynor2001 Well Inazuma covers Japan so I was Hoping Enkanomiya would have been Korea, but alas it was Greece. Sadly it seems the remaining regions won't be able to fit Korea in them :(
@@myhlosic I was hoping it would cover South Korea in one of the regions, as I am part Korean myself and was curious to see how mihoyo would portray it, especially with how beautiful they made Liyue and Inazuma. Sad knowing that won’t be the case😢
You know what's even better? We saw Yun JIn's opera performance for free!!! Like, an amazing performance, amazing visuals, amazing vocals? For free!?!?!?
4:02 is so relatable :(( As a Chinese person who was born/grew up in Canada, it felt amazing to see something i've heard of briefly as a kid (chinese opera) be included in a game that's so popular internationally, but it was also disheartening to see so many ppl on western social media just criticizing and insulting Chinese opera when yun jin's teasers started coming out. On the bright side, there are even more ppl who have become interested in learning about Chinese opera and Chinese culture in general, which is pretty cool. As for the diaspora feeling, the mixed feelings and the painful in-betweenness are so relatable 🥺 for me, there are times when I feel like I can't relate with a lot of my friends here because they aren't interested in Chinese media, like dramas, music, celebrities, etc. At the same time, I've only experienced bits and pieces of Chinese culture from what my parents and grandparents taught me, so it can be hard to fully relate to some of my international friends from China. At the end of the day, I'm at least happy that Chinese culture is being more widely spread and appreciated through games like genshin or dramas. ☺ ALSO I CANT- 2:18 has me in tears and chills every single time ;A;
but most westeners still hates the way chinese opera was in this game for some reason(as seen from polls on gaming sites), the only positive comments were from asian viewers like japanese, korean, vietnamese or thai people...i guess it's just too foreign sounding for them to appreciate it.
@@lyhthegreat I'm not asian, but I think the chinese opera was amazing in this game!. Specially because they blend the traditional chinese instruments with western instruments giving it an original and creative sound while keeping the chinese culture.
@@lyhthegreat Yes, there are cultural differences in appreciation. I am Chinese, and maybe I have not met many people in the upper class, but the young people I know have never been interested in Western classical music. They prefer East Asian music ( China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea), of course, are not interested in old-school Chinese opera, and young people are pursuing new and innovative things.
@@martiddy I totally agree, it's the same as the vast majority of young people in China don't like to listen to their own country's traditional old school opera.
I'd never heart this style of opera, and yeah, first time was a bit jarring, but I still ended up crying by the end. And every time I heard it afterwards. And I don't even have any connection to Chinese culture, so I image it must be absolutely flooring for someone who does!
The adepti-like creatures appear in a 2400 year old book called "The Classic of the Mountain and the Seas" which is like the Chinese Silmarillion, a legendary history of China. I recently picked up a big illustrated edition in Chinese which is so beautiful, it actually has a character that looks identical to Cloud Retainer. As a Chinese diaspora I'm so thankful for what they've done and continue to do with this game. Little by little I hope that our friends in the West or anywhere will have an interest in Chinese civilization. Due to historical circumstances it wasn't exported for people to really understand, but things are changing, what this game did was a very good example.
Well adepti is more a Taoism concept. Despite The Classic of Mountain and Sea originated around same period of time, they are nothing related. Also the Taoism back then was nothing like we know in modern time. Lao Zi did not talk about adepti, he talked about philosophy more than mythicism. It was his apprentices and later generations who actually dived into the mythical taoism as we know today.
The first time I hear Yun Jin's opera singing and along with the amazing animation about Shenhe's backstory, and for the first time I feel that I was witnessing an epic retelling of an ancient story.
When I was still a toddler, my family travelled to China. Yun Jin's performance suddenly brought back a memory that I went to Beijing's Traditional Opera Museum. The surge of emotions that ran through me when I watched the cutscene made me realize that I was lucky enough to see it (somewhat) live, and of course now that I'm older, I'm able to appreciate the beauty of the Chinese culture more
What you said about the in-betweeness resonates with me so much and in so many ways of my life, and I believe for many other immigrants or children of immigrant parents and probably even mixed children too. While I am American and identify as American, I never feel like I am completely American as I like to keep in touch with my culture and roots, but yet no matter how much I like to keep in touch with the Chinese part of me, I will never be fully Chinese either. Sometimes it feels quite painful to know that I am a part of both, yet not a part of either, especially as tensions grow between the countries and sometimes I feel like and outcast on both sides. All this to say I have quite the identity crisis and I don't think this is going away anytime soon 😂
Yes! You put it into words. It's like your too American for your or your family's culture, but too of that culture for America. It can also make you feel like an outsider in your own family; especially if you come from a family of immigrants.
Dude same cause I’m adopted, but I still for some reason grew up still feeling very connected to the culture. It was hard for me to understand who I am cause despite being Chinese, born in China, I always felt out of place. Then even with my adopted family, I still felt out of place. Even with people, who had no business with my family and Is relationship and such, outside of my family, it just worsened the feeling. The con of internationally adoption (this is a joke)
The last part where she goes, “where she is bound- a home” always gets me for some reason. Idk I get so emotional to those sort of words when someone fits in, finally. And how’s she stretches it out makes me just go, “🥺”
I related to so much you said in this video! As a Chinese Singaporean, even though I studied Chinese formally for 10 years in school, my proficiency is shockingly bad and I never learnt Classical Chinese either. When I first saw the teaser of Yun Jin singing in opera, I admit I was like huh wtf?? I’d seen bits of opera on TV before but was never into it because I never understood the appeal. But when I finally watched the cutscene, I got so emotional like you and it finally clicked! I feel like I have a newfound appreciation for Chinese opera that would never have happened if it wasn’t for this game. Editing to add: Thanks for uploading videos to RUclips! I love your content but don’t have time to watch streams, so these clips are great!! :)
Wahh another Singaporean Chinese! I definitely feel the same way, playing genshin has made me feel more in touch with many aspects of Chinese culture I didn't expect to connect with. I wish I was more proficient at Chinese and more well versed in Chinese folklore/legends so I can fully appreciate the detail that goes into the game but it has definitely given me something to talk about with members of my family from an older generation. Chinese opera isn't even popular in SG but I've heard it here and there and I'm glad it's given it's due spotlight and preservation. It's always nice to see a part of you being represented somehow.
ayee another fellow singaporean chinese here!! 😆 and you couldn’t have said it better, even after studying chinese in primary and secondary school i was never(and probably will never be) fluent and proficient in chinese. i knew us chinese had deep culture but i never learnt to properly appreciate it for what it is. genshin impact has taught me so much about my own culture and i am ashamed that i have come to only appreciate it now. yunjin’s performance was the breaking point for me; it gave me so much emotions and i realized how much of my culture i have strayed away from! i’m so proud to be a chinese 🥰🙏❤️
@@Shanmalon Hello fellow Singaporean Chinese hahaha my comment found its intended audience! Yea, I wish I knew more about Chinese folklore/legends too. I usually don't even consume Chinese pop culture like TV shows or music, so my interest in the Chinese aspects of Genshin came as a real surprise to me! But yea it's just so nice to see our culture being represented in a game like Genshin, in spite of how disconnected I'd been from it previously.
@@kousclouds Thanks for commenting, it's great to see other Chinese Singaporeans relating to my experience as well! Not being fluent and proficient in Chinese is something I'm a bit sad about - sometimes I have nightmares about having to do Chinese exams and not being able to write any of the characters... even though I haven't been in school for like 10 years lol.
I can relate this as well, my Chinese is not very good especially since I had a bad foundation(especially speaking) when it comes to learning Chinese and even after graduating both primary and secondary school, it’s still very very bad 😅. I honestly never knew when I started playing genshin it can bring me back to my cultural roots with the geography, the food and now this opera which makes me appreciate my culture even more:)
it’s really incredible seeing such a niche aspect of chinese culture showcased in such a mainstream game. it’s so nice seeing people become interested in chinese opera. and yeah it’s really a mixed bag of feelings about this because of the reasons you stated. - a fellow chinese diaspora person
I don’t think it’s niche though. Pop and opera mix was actually a bit popular few years before, but then it happened most people copied music and melody from j pop songs.
As someone from the Diaspora who can’t even speak Mandarin or my father’s dialect, Genshin has been so comforting to me in a way. It’s silly but I has made me want to try learning a bit of Mandarin, just because why not? I cried numerous time while watching Yunjin’s opera and even now, after listening to it again and again, I still feel very emotional about it. You expressed why so perfectly. By the way I just love your videos a lot. You’re so full of energy and cute, keep up the good work :)
I think shenhe’s story itself really resonated with me as never quite feeling like I ‘fit in’ anywhere as a UK born Chinese person, and I guess the second part especially of yunjin’s opera, where she sang about shenhe finally finding her home in her new found friends and being accepted, that part really made me sob
As an American white male who has had mixed exposure my whole life to the eastern world I've always been fascinated by Asian media especially music. This was absolutely beautiful and I never thought it was weird even the very first time during the live stream. Yun Jun is wonderfully talented, I hope this isn't the only performance we get to witness from her.
I actually lost it when Yunjin started narrating in between song. 😭 I’m also really happy that something so big in relation to China or Chinese culture is getting positive attention around the world. It was pretty disheartening these past couple years with all this negativity and hate centered around Chinese people. 🥲
There's so much negativity surrounding China and their political actions that as a Chinese person myself I tend to forget all the good and beautiful aspects of my culture. I'm glad that genshin was able to bring about a smile on my face during this quest
I think the whole existence of Yunjin and this quest line is kinda like mihoyo realizing how popular this game has become and deciding to try to use this platform to introduce a global audience to chinese culture, in this case beijing opera. I mean they were apparently playing genshin music in the winter olympics for fucks sake, this game has become a huuuuuge cultural phenomena and I think its really cool that they decided to try and slip some real cultural performances in this game. I’m not sure how much I trust mihoyo’s capacity to tackle cultural aspects with this level of nuance and love for the other regions, but if they did bring this same care and energy for regions like sumeru and natlan I think it would be great.
I didn’t really like her singing when I watched the livestream that first showed it. I hadn’t heard Chinese opera before, so I didn’t expect something like that and I was just like ‘huh, not my thing, but it is really cool they took so much effort to do something like this!’ And then I proceeded to cry when I listened to it in game and read the lyrics 🥲 I won’t say it’s my favorite type of music now or even close to it, but I appreciate it for sure. I think it’s super cool that a game like Genshin can show people from all over the world certain traditions and parts of a countries culture I wouldn’t have known otherwise. I really hope they keep this up!
This encapsulates a lot of what I love about your videos and streams, ying! It’s thoughtful, full of feels, I learn something new - and then you also hit us with the humour to boot. Thanks for uploading this moment to yt! One of my favs!
The song was so good. I think a lot of the players, regardless of culture, teared up a bit with it. Me included. The arrangement was excellent. And about representation and mourning, I may not be Chinese-American but I kind of get it because something similar happened to me this year, watching Encanto. I'm a Venezuelan living in Spain so I'm not Colombian and it's not MY culture, but from all the Latin American countries they're the closest to my culture since we're neighbors and we have things in common that made me resonate hard. And seeing the characters eating arepas made me so soft? It's so silly, but true. Not even my other latine internet friends get it. The houses look like traditional colonial-style houses too. This is the closest I've seen to my homeland from Hollywood (Venezuela is more used as jungle filming set), and it's also delightful to see Colombian rep that's not drug dealers and mafia tbh. The movie is really good and relatable too which just makes it better
it's so true though haha after going through shenhe's story quest, hearing and listening to Yun Jin's opera at the end made me feel so emotional I was trying to hold back tears. felt a bit silly for it but watching your video and reading through the comments knowing that I'm not alone in this is nice. what you said about growing up in a diasporic community was incredibly relatable growing up as a Chinese diaspora myself (greetings from Laos!) I too ugly cry so hard when watching Coco every time because the themes resonate so hard even though the culture is so incredibly different. I grew up on american/english media and live in an English speaking household with asian parents that almost exclusively use English when speaking despite living in a southeast Asian country. Lots of complicated feelings about culture to go around haha. Thank you for relaying your thoughts, made me feel like I wasn't alone and I hope you keep doing what you love
i cried when i first saw it and then i started crying again when you teared up ;-; something other people see as a small cultural detail can mean so much to other people and that's why i love genshin
I remember when my family and I visited Beijing in 2008 and observed many cultural shows, but we never got to see the opera since it was always full. Liyue stories always take me back to the rich culture that I was able to experience. Thank you for sharing your thoughts as a Chinese diaspora! You really articulated it well. While no longer a diaspora, I grew up outside my home country and the "in-betweenness" you described was perfect. I am able to celebrate that I am now in a country where I can freely speak my language and be understood...but at the same time, I mourn the childhood experiences that I never get to have since I grew up somewhere else. Anyways, great singing!!
When Mihoyo revealed Yun Jin's voice, I was completely surprise ! :OO As a French, this style of music was sooo new to me, I didn't know how to react. I watched other Chinese opera videos on RUclips and found it fascinating because it's so far from my idea of opera. I loved the completely new sounds and how the performers interpreted. And when I watched the scene in the game I cried. That voice made me feel so many emotions at the same time, it's amazing ! And I want to congratulate Hoyo-Mix for this perfect mix between the Western mix with the Chinese instruments/voice. They did a really good job ! To put it in a nutshell, it was a wonderful discovery. Thanks so much 杨阳 for this performance.
i ugly cried the first time i saw the cutscene tooo😭😭 and you really put into words how i was feeling ..being american born chinese is truly an experience!! but im grateful to genshin (as silly as it sounds) for truly making me appreciate my culture more :,)
The emotional experience watching her performance were so awesome I am speechless. I cried as well, it hits to your heart of the story and it's essence. I am also excited to hear other nation's music especially Natlan and Fontaine. Hope MiHoYo will feature an opera singer there too!
The last time I listened to Chinese opera was with my great grandmother and at the time I hated it, but now after she passed, this made me cry. I miss her and this reminded me of her. My biggest regret was not appreciating it more
Honestly this video emotional brain dumb makes me so glad that RUclips recommended me to you. Growing up in a American household that only speaks English with only my mother and a quite closed minded grandmother I wasn't exposed to different languages growing up other than the standard Spanish classes you get forced into as a kid. So watching this video made me appreciate hearing Chinese Opera for the first time there's a part of me that wishes I could understand it for how it truly is meant to and maybe that's why now I try to expand my palette by listening and watching different cultures. Anyways long almost 1am brain rambling aside! I love the content you make, i wish you and your family safe and easy times and to a better 2022 Ying! ♥️
I used to not like chinese opera and id be in my room while my grandma blasts it on the radio but this cutscene and the song made me cry, i rewatched this at least 10 times already, the traditional aspects of the performance and modern instruments are amazing tgt i grew up listening to chinese opera but didnt understand why my grandparents like it so much, but now i think i do
i don't play genshin impact and this was my first time hearing chinese opera. and WOW. i'm in tears right now, what a beautiful way to convey imagery and emotion. i'm in love.
i went into this with no leaks or anything and wasn't expecting a cutscene, I wasn't paying that much attention to the quest except for shenhe's stuff, then this played and I fully didn't expect a cutscene of this scale to play, it was so pretty and it made me cry lmao
What a lovely opera you sang at the end... Won't spoil it so everyone can enjoy it 😌 I'm glad they kept the original chinese dub, it was something new and beautiful to experience! 🎶🤩
Thank you for talking at length about the emotional impact of this scene, what it meant to you and the future of the game. I also ugly cried but for a different reason. I am not Chinese, but I grew up isolated and hated by my father, sacrificing myself to protect my sister, and it was frightening how similar Shenhe's story was to mine. I'm now on medication that feels like Shenhe's red ropes. I, too, saw the cutscene before actually reaching it in game and thought it was badass. After hearing the story, I cried so hard. She's lonely, but there are those who know her heart, and stand with her to fight injustices. What a lovely sentiment for someone like me to hear.
i know i already commented on this LOL but i came back to it because i literally still listen to this song at least ONCE A DAY- and i literally cry every single time 🧍🏻 and then, i (finally) put my game voiceover BACK in Chinese, and i was going thru all of my personal S tier characters' lines (Yun Jin included), and one of her actual voicelines is sung in the same way, and I CRIED AGAIN AT LITERALLY ONE SUNG LINE?????? literally crying everyday i can't fully appreciate the depth. (i literally never stop listening to all of Liyue's OST tbh 🧍🏻).
I am so incredibly thankful to Genshin for letting me experience such a beautiful and ancient culture, it’s opened my eyes to this part of the world. It’s wonderful to be able to experience and see how amazing and vast this incredible this old world we live in is and to learn to see things through my own eyes and not through the media that is portrayed in my country. I’ve switched to CN for around 8mths now and won’t be going back, there’s something different in experiencing these stories in it. Genshin dragged me into a whole different side of the world and I adore it for it. I loved seeing your take on this cutscene and I 100% agree with everything you said! Looking forwards to more!
Beautiful hearing you react to this and tell your perspective. I can definitely relate as someone who is Puerto Rican but grew up in the United States and is now unfortunately disconnected from the culture in a way I can never fully bridge. It's a very complicated feeling.
Ngl, when I first heard her sing (her singing voiceline) I kinda thought it was weird, it was my first time ever hearing Chinese opera and I thought that this performance wouldn't be my cup of tea. Man, I was fucking wrong. When those curtains revealed yunjin and she started singing, my face was permanent awe. By the end I don't even realize my eyes getting watery, I guess yunjin really proved me wrong.
yunjin's performance really brought me to tears. ive always been so enamored with chinese culture ever since i was little so i did all i could into discovering about it and recently it was chinese opera through genshin impact. to see you happy here makes me happy too, ive heard from so many other friends who were overjoyed at the fact other players worldwide love to play this game and people opening up to their culture. i come from republic of moldova (a tiny country situated in eastern europe) so all my life i have never gotten close to representation in the videogame industry but knowing that genshin impact has brought light onto this culture gives me hope that one day, i will have a videogame character from my background. that alone brings me to tears. :') great video!
I love your insights and 'rants', you articulated everything perfectly and I resonated with your expression appreciation of the effort Mihoyo/Genshin puts into representation/cultural exposure. You really hardly ever see such pure representation of Chinese culture in a globally known and popular video game and done with such tact and artistry too! I teared up while listening to you 😭😭 And you can still be so funny while you're at it ahsiabsjab I can't usually catch your streams cuz timezone diff and stuff but I love watching your yt vids 🥺, the editing is great too hahahah
I've watched this video a lot, but was the first time I watched the "my turn", and... well hell, I never knew I would get rickrolled in that type of situation.
Its so awesome to see this representation in genshin and have it show chinese opera singing to so many people because the singing is so beautiful. Im not chinese myself but i think its really cool that you and tons of other chinese people get to see this representation in genshin :)
Hello, I'm Mexican and have no business listening to a chinses opera , but i bawled my eyes with ying. She said everything that I felt. Even if I was not the one with my culture being portrayed, i enjoyed it SO SO much, Truly culture appreciation
First video I'm watching of you and I do agree that knowing the context makes it hit even harder than if you didn't know it. I love it so much and I swear I always get chills every single time I watch it ;u;
I can't put into words how much I love Genshin and how this scene and singing with Yun Jin made me just feel so blissfully happy! The way you expressed yourself for it really resonates with how I felt! I am not Chinese but learning and experiencing culture through methods like this is just the best to me. I will never get tired of listening to this, and I've dived a bit deeper into more traditional chinese opera because of it 💙
I’m sooooo glad you added the full unedited version!!!!!!! It didn’t even feel like 10 min at all. Your feelings and thoughts were delivered so well 😭 I loveeee Chinese Opera and I wish I could understand it better as well. There are times when my great aunt would explain to me the meaning of some Chinese songs and how it’s so hard to translate because there’s meaning and history behind each character. And it’s just those moments I regret 😭
One thing I love about Yun Jin’s Singing Actress is miHoYo could have easily cast a young woman just because she’s young. But they chose Yang Yang for her skill. It’s clear that miHoYo definitely cares about their story, even if they fall short in other places. Yun Jin’s singing wouldn’t work without Yang Yang’s gorgeous voice
Chinese Singaporean here. My mom used to be be part of a Chinese opera troupe as her hobby but she left it when she had me (and later my sister). She likes to sing it from time to time still in the bath but like what you said, growing up I don't really understand the dialects etc and also kind of handwaved it away from time to time, asking her to lower her volume sometimes just because we live in a HDB flat (housing development board apartments) here and neighbours might be disturbed by it. When Yun Jin's leak came out and I saw her poise and motions and immediately gave my mom a look at it, and I think she approves of the accuracy of it. Needless to say, when the Yun Jin opera cutscene came out, I also linked her to it. Till date, I think that's the one and only Genshin Impact video I ever shared with her
this is definitely going to be me when sumeru is released (assuming they do middle eastern rep well lol 🛐) but as someone who's mixed asian and born in america i dont have the connection to my cultures that i wish i did
While I'm not Chinese I still get that feeling of seeing your language in a game. For instance my language of Afrikaans had only been in 2 games mgs5 in one interrogation scene and in farcry 2 where my language is that of the mercenaries fighting the player and I've yet to meet an Afrikaner who didn't like being yelled at in our own language or who hasn't yelled back in our language🤣🤣
I fell in love with the Erhu when I heard the Dragon's theme in Breath of the Wild. Then some time later, I got into a couple of SK produced dramas of historical chinese stories, so I had a small intro to Chinese opera through those. That and my last job having plenty of Mandarin speaking customers visiting made me want to pick up the odd phrase here and there. I'm glad I found your channel
It's insane how you actually managed to more or less fully encapsulate how I feel watching her performance and playing genshin especially as someone who started chinese classical dance just a few years ago and started to really fall in love with the style and the nuance behind it, seeing her move the way I do is just incredible
lmao that was a very good ted talk xd. what ying said basically summed up majority of what I felt the first time I saw it but more especially because I didn't even grow up watching bejing opera because of how busy my parents where moving constantly. it's so lovely and heartwarming that bejing opera, something that I am never going to understand fully, got the opportunity to be showcased to the entire world. big props to mihoyo on this one
I cannot comprehend my emotions well, when i see something cute, exciting, beautiful or things that send good goosebumps on my body i start tearing up bc of how much i smile and how warm i feel i cried a lot during yunjin's opera cutscene.
I remember when my friend showed me the video during lunch break at school and from how amazed I was, I definitely went emotional. It's hard to convince people that there are a lot of good things about the Chinese culture as Western media, if not always, usually portrays otherwise. The closest good thing that pops into people's brain when the Chinese culture is brought up is no other than Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee or the animated Disney movie "Mulan" which isn't bad but it's not accurate and never really did a whole justice. Seeing such grand piece of one's culture being portrayed on a platform that people of all genders, age, race, nationality and etc could see definitely is something worth shedding tears over
i agree with every single point you mentioned here. its so so nice and wonderful to me how different people all around the world could be in some ways but in some other similar, like all these things related to culture and stuff , its really really beautiful to me and i do believe yeah from an outsider point of view it may not be too much or maybe just a little but to someone who can actually understand how it is it would be something truly different in their eyes. like how when a group of people get represented to outsiders and such it may not be that much but to them it may mean so so much that words cant even describe i find it really great that mihoyo is using all of the cultural things and putting it into a wonderful story and also introducing many people to new stuff and culture like me for example, after that cutscene i did infact go and watch some chinese opera cause i liked it so so much , it can be pretty impactful but yeah it was also great getting to see your reactions and also the singing at the end
This might sound a bit silly, but I've always loved the Chinese Opera singing style because a friend of my parents used to sing karaoke at parties in the style, so when people initially reacted negatively it hurt something inside myself. It almost felt personal? Like witnessing a ton of microaggressions all at once. I hope that once people saw it in game they got over that initial rejection, but it still hurt. I'm also Chinese American and what you described of the inbetween, I just understood. It's hard to put the feeling into words but I think you got the gist of it. This opera cutscene also made me emotional. When it started I just kind of sat back in my chair and let it wash over me. It's crazy how much being represented an affect a person haha. You never notice how much you're missing out until it's right in front of you. Ahhhhhhhhhhh
Same here at 1st i found it funny her voice...but whn i playd the story nd saw the cut scene..i was like wtf goosebumps tears idk....was sooo ... can't explain that feeling....i loved it nd watched the song part alot of times in the utube.....idk how many times i watchd
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God. What a Big Diaspora Mood™.
I'd already watched the story teaser on Genshin Impact's RUclips channel before I played the story quest, but in the context of Shenhe's backstory this hit even HARDER. Wanted to share some thoughts I had after.
Trust me when I say that I could have ranted another full hour trying to communicate the feelings that welled up in my chest as I watched Beijing opera showcased and celebrated on the global stage in such a truly magnificent way, with all the delightful multicultural influences that make Genshin Impact the game it is.
It remains to be seen whether the regions we get next will have a similar level of respectful attention to detail in terms of honoring the cultures they're inspired by, but I'm excited to see how it all unfolds!
Google says diaspora means Jewish living outside of Israel, is that how you're using it? I'm not a native English speaker and so I'm confused a little
Kinda late on this as I just saw the cutscene the other day but....playing thru the story then the opera...The way it was told and with the visuals....I had to tell my friend to stop talking and had to mute myself on Discord because I was sniffling like mad. The singing was beautiful and made me feel like I ACTUALLY got a reward for doing something even though in truth all it was was listening.
Inazuma and Sumeru were amazing and Fontaine is looking good right now. But Sumeru was definitely my favorite!
i didn’t fully understand yun jins opera voice when she was first officially revealed- i didn’t make fun of it or anything, but it was definitely jarring to hear; i’ve never seen or heard any chinese opera before this. but let me tell you. when i heard her sing and perform in game i cried a bit😭😭 her singing is so beautiful and it gives me chills every time i hear it, i have it saved in my playlist and i’m so happy they put it the game and that they kept it in for all the languages. i think it’s really wonderful that a video game is opening up to so many different cultures and introducing people to them!!! i can’t wait to see what they bring us for the other regions too :-) even if the cultures seem foreign or strange to us at first, i hope we can learn to appreciate them !
I hate to tell you this, but REAL Chinese opera sounds more like that isolated voice clip than this song. The harsh nasal tones and separated vibrato was HEAVILY toned down to create a much more western and less harsh fused style. Don’t get me wrong, I still love it, but I just don’t want people thinking this song was 100% authentic and that most Chinese opera sounds very close to this, it really doesn’t. Doesn’t mean it sounds bad, but this was definitely a bit of a halfway compromise between the two styles.
@@spiderdude2099 i appreciate the info! i would still be interested in hearing the real thing tho after seeing her song, and i think it mightve influenced others to feel the same :-) i kinda figured it wasn’t exactly the same as the real deal but it was nice to hear anyways
Yeah sadly, this is a spinoff genre of songs based on Beijing opera singing style (京歌), rather than the opera style itself (京剧). The actual opera is every bit as inaccessible and harder to appreciate musically/aurally as the stereotypes make it out to be, which is a shame as a dying artform. But given that it's dying, if even one young person out of a hundred who checks out the original opera style after hearing this derivation from Yunjin decides to immerse themselves more and even become a part of it, them Yunjin's character will have singlehandedly given this art hope for another generation.
Nothing to be ashamed of, its common to find foreign and unfamiliar things "odd", it might even strike us as funny without intentionally being disrespectful.
It doesn't matter if Yun Jin's singing isn't "Real Chinese Opera" as people say, if the song got an emotional response as strong as actually crying?
Then you did more than just appreciate it. Let's just say you've "acquired a taste" things like it might not be your favorite, but its no longer just a funny sound to you.
I listen to it on repeat on Spotify- for hours
Genshin KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK with this cutscene. This is art. Yang Yang’s singing, the music, the animation. And the fact it’s a beautiful tribute to an actual historic Chinese art form.
I’m hoping Mihoyo can bring some Korean culture to the game, because I know they will do it justice!
They brought some Mongolian instrument and some culture & landscape to 2.6 Chasm update. So beautiful. So maybe we'll have some other east Asian representatives into the game in the future too!
@@JimRaynor2001 Well Inazuma covers Japan so I was Hoping Enkanomiya would have been Korea, but alas it was Greece. Sadly it seems the remaining regions won't be able to fit Korea in them :(
@@myhlosic I was hoping it would cover South Korea in one of the regions, as I am part Korean myself and was curious to see how mihoyo would portray it, especially with how beautiful they made Liyue and Inazuma. Sad knowing that won’t be the case😢
Her name is yu jin
@@Keychan64 yun Jin*
You know what's even better? We saw Yun JIn's opera performance for free!!! Like, an amazing performance, amazing visuals, amazing vocals? For free!?!?!?
AND a live version too!!!! FOR FREE!!!!!
Well we fought for it tho.
And it was amazing 👏
4:02 is so relatable :(( As a Chinese person who was born/grew up in Canada, it felt amazing to see something i've heard of briefly as a kid (chinese opera) be included in a game that's so popular internationally, but it was also disheartening to see so many ppl on western social media just criticizing and insulting Chinese opera when yun jin's teasers started coming out. On the bright side, there are even more ppl who have become interested in learning about Chinese opera and Chinese culture in general, which is pretty cool. As for the diaspora feeling, the mixed feelings and the painful in-betweenness are so relatable 🥺 for me, there are times when I feel like I can't relate with a lot of my friends here because they aren't interested in Chinese media, like dramas, music, celebrities, etc. At the same time, I've only experienced bits and pieces of Chinese culture from what my parents and grandparents taught me, so it can be hard to fully relate to some of my international friends from China. At the end of the day, I'm at least happy that Chinese culture is being more widely spread and appreciated through games like genshin or dramas. ☺
ALSO I CANT- 2:18 has me in tears and chills every single time ;A;
but most westeners still hates the way chinese opera was in this game for some reason(as seen from polls on gaming sites), the only positive comments were from asian viewers like japanese, korean, vietnamese or thai people...i guess it's just too foreign sounding for them to appreciate it.
@@lyhthegreat I'm not asian, but I think the chinese opera was amazing in this game!. Specially because they blend the traditional chinese instruments with western instruments giving it an original and creative sound while keeping the chinese culture.
@@lyhthegreat Yes, there are cultural differences in appreciation. I am Chinese, and maybe I have not met many people in the upper class, but the young people I know have never been interested in Western classical music. They prefer East Asian music ( China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea), of course, are not interested in old-school Chinese opera, and young people are pursuing new and innovative things.
@@martiddy I totally agree, it's the same as the vast majority of young people in China don't like to listen to their own country's traditional old school opera.
I'd never heart this style of opera, and yeah, first time was a bit jarring, but I still ended up crying by the end. And every time I heard it afterwards. And I don't even have any connection to Chinese culture, so I image it must be absolutely flooring for someone who does!
The adepti-like creatures appear in a 2400 year old book called "The Classic of the Mountain and the Seas" which is like the Chinese Silmarillion, a legendary history of China. I recently picked up a big illustrated edition in Chinese which is so beautiful, it actually has a character that looks identical to Cloud Retainer. As a Chinese diaspora I'm so thankful for what they've done and continue to do with this game. Little by little I hope that our friends in the West or anywhere will have an interest in Chinese civilization. Due to historical circumstances it wasn't exported for people to really understand, but things are changing, what this game did was a very good example.
Well adepti is more a Taoism concept. Despite The Classic of Mountain and Sea originated around same period of time, they are nothing related. Also the Taoism back then was nothing like we know in modern time. Lao Zi did not talk about adepti, he talked about philosophy more than mythicism. It was his apprentices and later generations who actually dived into the mythical taoism as we know today.
The first time I hear Yun Jin's opera singing and along with the amazing animation about Shenhe's backstory, and for the first time I feel that I was witnessing an epic retelling of an ancient story.
When I was still a toddler, my family travelled to China. Yun Jin's performance suddenly brought back a memory that I went to Beijing's Traditional Opera Museum. The surge of emotions that ran through me when I watched the cutscene made me realize that I was lucky enough to see it (somewhat) live, and of course now that I'm older, I'm able to appreciate the beauty of the Chinese culture more
What you said about the in-betweeness resonates with me so much and in so many ways of my life, and I believe for many other immigrants or children of immigrant parents and probably even mixed children too. While I am American and identify as American, I never feel like I am completely American as I like to keep in touch with my culture and roots, but yet no matter how much I like to keep in touch with the Chinese part of me, I will never be fully Chinese either. Sometimes it feels quite painful to know that I am a part of both, yet not a part of either, especially as tensions grow between the countries and sometimes I feel like and outcast on both sides. All this to say I have quite the identity crisis and I don't think this is going away anytime soon 😂
Yes! You put it into words. It's like your too American for your or your family's culture, but too of that culture for America. It can also make you feel like an outsider in your own family; especially if you come from a family of immigrants.
Dude same cause I’m adopted, but I still for some reason grew up still feeling very connected to the culture. It was hard for me to understand who I am cause despite being Chinese, born in China, I always felt out of place. Then even with my adopted family, I still felt out of place. Even with people, who had no business with my family and Is relationship and such, outside of my family, it just worsened the feeling. The con of internationally adoption (this is a joke)
The last part where she goes, “where she is bound- a home” always gets me for some reason. Idk I get so emotional to those sort of words when someone fits in, finally. And how’s she stretches it out makes me just go, “🥺”
I related to so much you said in this video! As a Chinese Singaporean, even though I studied Chinese formally for 10 years in school, my proficiency is shockingly bad and I never learnt Classical Chinese either. When I first saw the teaser of Yun Jin singing in opera, I admit I was like huh wtf?? I’d seen bits of opera on TV before but was never into it because I never understood the appeal.
But when I finally watched the cutscene, I got so emotional like you and it finally clicked! I feel like I have a newfound appreciation for Chinese opera that would never have happened if it wasn’t for this game.
Editing to add: Thanks for uploading videos to RUclips! I love your content but don’t have time to watch streams, so these clips are great!! :)
Wahh another Singaporean Chinese! I definitely feel the same way, playing genshin has made me feel more in touch with many aspects of Chinese culture I didn't expect to connect with. I wish I was more proficient at Chinese and more well versed in Chinese folklore/legends so I can fully appreciate the detail that goes into the game but it has definitely given me something to talk about with members of my family from an older generation. Chinese opera isn't even popular in SG but I've heard it here and there and I'm glad it's given it's due spotlight and preservation. It's always nice to see a part of you being represented somehow.
ayee another fellow singaporean chinese here!! 😆 and you couldn’t have said it better, even after studying chinese in primary and secondary school i was never(and probably will never be) fluent and proficient in chinese. i knew us chinese had deep culture but i never learnt to properly appreciate it for what it is. genshin impact has taught me so much about my own culture and i am ashamed that i have come to only appreciate it now. yunjin’s performance was the breaking point for me; it gave me so much emotions and i realized how much of my culture i have strayed away from! i’m so proud to be a chinese 🥰🙏❤️
@@Shanmalon Hello fellow Singaporean Chinese hahaha my comment found its intended audience! Yea, I wish I knew more about Chinese folklore/legends too. I usually don't even consume Chinese pop culture like TV shows or music, so my interest in the Chinese aspects of Genshin came as a real surprise to me! But yea it's just so nice to see our culture being represented in a game like Genshin, in spite of how disconnected I'd been from it previously.
@@kousclouds Thanks for commenting, it's great to see other Chinese Singaporeans relating to my experience as well! Not being fluent and proficient in Chinese is something I'm a bit sad about - sometimes I have nightmares about having to do Chinese exams and not being able to write any of the characters... even though I haven't been in school for like 10 years lol.
I can relate this as well, my Chinese is not very good especially since I had a bad foundation(especially speaking) when it comes to learning Chinese and even after graduating both primary and secondary school, it’s still very very bad 😅. I honestly never knew when I started playing genshin it can bring me back to my cultural roots with the geography, the food and now this opera which makes me appreciate my culture even more:)
it’s really incredible seeing such a niche aspect of chinese culture showcased in such a mainstream game. it’s so nice seeing people become interested in chinese opera. and yeah it’s really a mixed bag of feelings about this because of the reasons you stated.
- a fellow chinese diaspora person
I don’t think it’s niche though. Pop and opera mix was actually a bit popular few years before, but then it happened most people copied music and melody from j pop songs.
As a Mexican I have never heard Chinese opera, and it made me cry so much her singing is so good. It really makes you appreciate other cultures.
As someone from the Diaspora who can’t even speak Mandarin or my father’s dialect, Genshin has been so comforting to me in a way. It’s silly but I has made me want to try learning a bit of Mandarin, just because why not? I cried numerous time while watching Yunjin’s opera and even now, after listening to it again and again, I still feel very emotional about it. You expressed why so perfectly. By the way I just love your videos a lot. You’re so full of energy and cute, keep up the good work :)
I think shenhe’s story itself really resonated with me as never quite feeling like I ‘fit in’ anywhere as a UK born Chinese person, and I guess the second part especially of yunjin’s opera, where she sang about shenhe finally finding her home in her new found friends and being accepted, that part really made me sob
As an American white male who has had mixed exposure my whole life to the eastern world I've always been fascinated by Asian media especially music. This was absolutely beautiful and I never thought it was weird even the very first time during the live stream. Yun Jun is wonderfully talented, I hope this isn't the only performance we get to witness from her.
I actually lost it when Yunjin started narrating in between song. 😭 I’m also really happy that something so big in relation to China or Chinese culture is getting positive attention around the world. It was pretty disheartening these past couple years with all this negativity and hate centered around Chinese people. 🥲
There's so much negativity surrounding China and their political actions that as a Chinese person myself I tend to forget all the good and beautiful aspects of my culture. I'm glad that genshin was able to bring about a smile on my face during this quest
yeah 2:17 was my favorite part of the song, the part when she switched from her normal voice into the opera voice to continue the song.
I think the whole existence of Yunjin and this quest line is kinda like mihoyo realizing how popular this game has become and deciding to try to use this platform to introduce a global audience to chinese culture, in this case beijing opera. I mean they were apparently playing genshin music in the winter olympics for fucks sake, this game has become a huuuuuge cultural phenomena and I think its really cool that they decided to try and slip some real cultural performances in this game.
I’m not sure how much I trust mihoyo’s capacity to tackle cultural aspects with this level of nuance and love for the other regions, but if they did bring this same care and energy for regions like sumeru and natlan I think it would be great.
literally made me cry for a couple minutes lol. love Yun Jin
holds ur hand i cry with u
I didn’t really like her singing when I watched the livestream that first showed it. I hadn’t heard Chinese opera before, so I didn’t expect something like that and I was just like ‘huh, not my thing, but it is really cool they took so much effort to do something like this!’
And then I proceeded to cry when I listened to it in game and read the lyrics 🥲 I won’t say it’s my favorite type of music now or even close to it, but I appreciate it for sure. I think it’s super cool that a game like Genshin can show people from all over the world certain traditions and parts of a countries culture I wouldn’t have known otherwise. I really hope they keep this up!
This encapsulates a lot of what I love about your videos and streams, ying! It’s thoughtful, full of feels, I learn something new - and then you also hit us with the humour to boot. Thanks for uploading this moment to yt! One of my favs!
; v; this makes me very soft, I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
The song was so good. I think a lot of the players, regardless of culture, teared up a bit with it. Me included. The arrangement was excellent.
And about representation and mourning, I may not be Chinese-American but I kind of get it because something similar happened to me this year, watching Encanto. I'm a Venezuelan living in Spain so I'm not Colombian and it's not MY culture, but from all the Latin American countries they're the closest to my culture since we're neighbors and we have things in common that made me resonate hard. And seeing the characters eating arepas made me so soft? It's so silly, but true. Not even my other latine internet friends get it. The houses look like traditional colonial-style houses too. This is the closest I've seen to my homeland from Hollywood (Venezuela is more used as jungle filming set), and it's also delightful to see Colombian rep that's not drug dealers and mafia tbh. The movie is really good and relatable too which just makes it better
I also felt the same with encanto, i am also Venezuelan but like the arepas, some mannerisims, is great
*YUN JIN: THE VOICE OF LIYUE*
She just is. Especially how she sings in the traditional ancient tongue of Liyue ❤️💛⛰😉
it's so true though haha after going through shenhe's story quest, hearing and listening to Yun Jin's opera at the end made me feel so emotional I was trying to hold back tears. felt a bit silly for it but watching your video and reading through the comments knowing that I'm not alone in this is nice. what you said about growing up in a diasporic community was incredibly relatable growing up as a Chinese diaspora myself (greetings from Laos!) I too ugly cry so hard when watching Coco every time because the themes resonate so hard even though the culture is so incredibly different. I grew up on american/english media and live in an English speaking household with asian parents that almost exclusively use English when speaking despite living in a southeast Asian country. Lots of complicated feelings about culture to go around haha. Thank you for relaying your thoughts, made me feel like I wasn't alone and I hope you keep doing what you love
i cried when i first saw it and then i started crying again when you teared up ;-; something other people see as a small cultural detail can mean so much to other people and that's why i love genshin
I tear up and get chills everytime I listen to Yun Jin's opera.
the "rick roll" at the end surprised me so much but I loved it 😆😆😆 this was a lovely video 💖💖💖
I've watched this at least 10 times now. I still cried ;-; it's so beautiful.
I remember when my family and I visited Beijing in 2008 and observed many cultural shows, but we never got to see the opera since it was always full. Liyue stories always take me back to the rich culture that I was able to experience. Thank you for sharing your thoughts as a Chinese diaspora! You really articulated it well.
While no longer a diaspora, I grew up outside my home country and the "in-betweenness" you described was perfect. I am able to celebrate that I am now in a country where I can freely speak my language and be understood...but at the same time, I mourn the childhood experiences that I never get to have since I grew up somewhere else.
Anyways, great singing!!
Yun Jing is my favorite ❤
She even adjusted the plot for shenhe in the Opera, this brought tears to my eyes as well
When Mihoyo revealed Yun Jin's voice, I was completely surprise ! :OO As a French, this style of music was sooo new to me, I didn't know how to react. I watched other Chinese opera videos on RUclips and found it fascinating because it's so far from my idea of opera. I loved the completely new sounds and how the performers interpreted. And when I watched the scene in the game I cried. That voice made me feel so many emotions at the same time, it's amazing ! And I want to congratulate Hoyo-Mix for this perfect mix between the Western mix with the Chinese instruments/voice. They did a really good job ! To put it in a nutshell, it was a wonderful discovery. Thanks so much 杨阳 for this performance.
Every time i see this cutscene I always get goosebumps. It’s, just so good.
not even joking when i say every time i rewatch this cutscene i tear up it’s just so pretty her voice, the song ugh i love it sm
best genshin cutscene i literally dont think anything could top it
i ugly cried the first time i saw the cutscene tooo😭😭 and you really put into words how i was feeling ..being american born chinese is truly an experience!! but im grateful to genshin (as silly as it sounds) for truly making me appreciate my culture more :,)
The emotional experience watching her performance were so awesome I am speechless. I cried as well, it hits to your heart of the story and it's essence.
I am also excited to hear other nation's music especially Natlan and Fontaine. Hope MiHoYo will feature an opera singer there too!
The last time I listened to Chinese opera was with my great grandmother and at the time I hated it, but now after she passed, this made me cry. I miss her and this reminded me of her. My biggest regret was not appreciating it more
Honestly this video emotional brain dumb makes me so glad that RUclips recommended me to you. Growing up in a American household that only speaks English with only my mother and a quite closed minded grandmother I wasn't exposed to different languages growing up other than the standard Spanish classes you get forced into as a kid. So watching this video made me appreciate hearing Chinese Opera for the first time there's a part of me that wishes I could understand it for how it truly is meant to and maybe that's why now I try to expand my palette by listening and watching different cultures.
Anyways long almost 1am brain rambling aside! I love the content you make, i wish you and your family safe and easy times and to a better 2022 Ying! ♥️
I used to not like chinese opera and id be in my room while my grandma blasts it on the radio but this cutscene and the song made me cry, i rewatched this at least 10 times already, the traditional aspects of the performance and modern instruments are amazing tgt
i grew up listening to chinese opera but didnt understand why my grandparents like it so much, but now i think i do
i don't play genshin impact and this was my first time hearing chinese opera. and WOW. i'm in tears right now, what a beautiful way to convey imagery and emotion. i'm in love.
i went into this with no leaks or anything and wasn't expecting a cutscene, I wasn't paying that much attention to the quest except for shenhe's stuff, then this played and I fully didn't expect a cutscene of this scale to play, it was so pretty and it made me cry lmao
I feel the same thing with Celtic stories and mythology.
It simultaneously makes me proud of my lineage and sad that I don't know it better.
меня тоже до слез это доводит, каждый раз. очень чувственно
i cried and i still cry when i hear this, knowing that i’ll never fully understand it. it’s something unexplainable..
What a lovely opera you sang at the end... Won't spoil it so everyone can enjoy it 😌
I'm glad they kept the original chinese dub, it was something new and beautiful to experience! 🎶🤩
Thank you for talking at length about the emotional impact of this scene, what it meant to you and the future of the game.
I also ugly cried but for a different reason. I am not Chinese, but I grew up isolated and hated by my father, sacrificing myself to protect my sister, and it was frightening how similar Shenhe's story was to mine. I'm now on medication that feels like Shenhe's red ropes. I, too, saw the cutscene before actually reaching it in game and thought it was badass. After hearing the story, I cried so hard. She's lonely, but there are those who know her heart, and stand with her to fight injustices. What a lovely sentiment for someone like me to hear.
YES EXACTLY found family stories are SO GOOD 😭 I'm glad you were able to find comfort in this story!!!
I'm not Chinese , but when I listened to this the first time, I nearly cried, it was one of the best cutscenes I 've ever heard and watched
When I saw that cut scene it gave me chills, it almost made me cry 😭
i know i already commented on this LOL but i came back to it because i literally still listen to this song at least ONCE A DAY- and i literally cry every single time 🧍🏻
and then, i (finally) put my game voiceover BACK in Chinese, and i was going thru all of my personal S tier characters' lines (Yun Jin included), and one of her actual voicelines is sung in the same way, and I CRIED AGAIN AT LITERALLY ONE SUNG LINE?????? literally crying everyday i can't fully appreciate the depth.
(i literally never stop listening to all of Liyue's OST tbh 🧍🏻).
Watching your face transform from excitement to longing and convey that bittersweet melancholy is really touching. ngl it got me tearing up too😭😭😭
Such a beautiful moment T.T you expressed everything so well!!
I am so incredibly thankful to Genshin for letting me experience such a beautiful and ancient culture, it’s opened my eyes to this part of the world.
It’s wonderful to be able to experience and see how amazing and vast this incredible this old world we live in is and to learn to see things through my own eyes and not through the media that is portrayed in my country.
I’ve switched to CN for around 8mths now and won’t be going back, there’s something different in experiencing these stories in it.
Genshin dragged me into a whole different side of the world and I adore it for it.
I loved seeing your take on this cutscene and I 100% agree with everything you said! Looking forwards to more!
3:15 I... was holding back my... tears
Beautiful hearing you react to this and tell your perspective. I can definitely relate as someone who is Puerto Rican but grew up in the United States and is now unfortunately disconnected from the culture in a way I can never fully bridge. It's a very complicated feeling.
"ok im done *sniffle*" ying i loved this and hearing your thoughts on the topic was super insightful !!
cries into your arms!!!! Wipes my snot on ur sleeves thank you lovi
Ngl, when I first heard her sing (her singing voiceline) I kinda thought it was weird, it was my first time ever hearing Chinese opera and I thought that this performance wouldn't be my cup of tea. Man, I was fucking wrong. When those curtains revealed yunjin and she started singing, my face was permanent awe. By the end I don't even realize my eyes getting watery, I guess yunjin really proved me wrong.
yunjin's performance really brought me to tears. ive always been so enamored with chinese culture ever since i was little so i did all i could into discovering about it and recently it was chinese opera through genshin impact. to see you happy here makes me happy too, ive heard from so many other friends who were overjoyed at the fact other players worldwide love to play this game and people opening up to their culture. i come from republic of moldova (a tiny country situated in eastern europe) so all my life i have never gotten close to representation in the videogame industry but knowing that genshin impact has brought light onto this culture gives me hope that one day, i will have a videogame character from my background. that alone brings me to tears. :') great video!
I love your insights and 'rants', you articulated everything perfectly and I resonated with your expression appreciation of the effort Mihoyo/Genshin puts into representation/cultural exposure. You really hardly ever see such pure representation of Chinese culture in a globally known and popular video game and done with such tact and artistry too! I teared up while listening to you 😭😭 And you can still be so funny while you're at it ahsiabsjab
I can't usually catch your streams cuz timezone diff and stuff but I love watching your yt vids 🥺, the editing is great too hahahah
I cry everytime I see this I can't even explain why as soon as i hear it I just can't stop the tears
I've watched this video a lot, but was the first time I watched the "my turn", and... well hell, I never knew I would get rickrolled in that type of situation.
I absolutely cried like a baby and I am obsessed with it I listen to it all the time
I’m a music major and the opera just hits me so hard
Its so awesome to see this representation in genshin and have it show chinese opera singing to so many people because the singing is so beautiful. Im not chinese myself but i think its really cool that you and tons of other chinese people get to see this representation in genshin :)
Hello, I'm Mexican and have no business listening to a chinses opera , but i bawled my eyes with ying. She said everything that I felt. Even if I was not the one with my culture being portrayed, i enjoyed it SO SO much, Truly culture appreciation
I remember the first time I watched it I sobbed like a baby,
im currently sobbing during class while listening to this master piece again
Ying with the Venti hat reallly looks adorable
Your response to the video is so fucking genuine and well worded, resonated with every bit of your emotions after watching the cutscene
I BURST INTO CRYING AFTER HEARING YUN JIN OPERA SHE SO BEAUTIFUL
I really love this reaction. The inbetweenness you describe resonates with all of us.
nevermind, you rickrolled me.
@@ShaheerS2 HAHSA;LAKSDJFLK OK MAYBE I AM KINDA SORRY
i cried the first time i saw it ingame!!!!
The cutscene was so beautiful and had me in tears…I always listen to it now
I got goosebumps and cried every time I listen to it.
First video I'm watching of you and I do agree that knowing the context makes it hit even harder than if you didn't know it. I love it so much and I swear I always get chills every single time I watch it ;u;
yunjin eyes so beautifull
I can't believe she rick rolled us so casually
I can't put into words how much I love Genshin and how this scene and singing with Yun Jin made me just feel so blissfully happy! The way you expressed yourself for it really resonates with how I felt!
I am not Chinese but learning and experiencing culture through methods like this is just the best to me. I will never get tired of listening to this, and I've dived a bit deeper into more traditional chinese opera because of it 💙
Thank you!! I have been waiting for your reaction to this!
I’m sooooo glad you added the full unedited version!!!!!!! It didn’t even feel like 10 min at all. Your feelings and thoughts were delivered so well 😭
I loveeee Chinese Opera and I wish I could understand it better as well. There are times when my great aunt would explain to me the meaning of some Chinese songs and how it’s so hard to translate because there’s meaning and history behind each character. And it’s just those moments I regret 😭
One thing I love about Yun Jin’s Singing Actress is miHoYo could have easily cast a young woman just because she’s young. But they chose Yang Yang for her skill. It’s clear that miHoYo definitely cares about their story, even if they fall short in other places.
Yun Jin’s singing wouldn’t work without Yang Yang’s gorgeous voice
This literally gave me so many chills! Her singing voice is SO beautiful!!!
Chinese Singaporean here. My mom used to be be part of a Chinese opera troupe as her hobby but she left it when she had me (and later my sister). She likes to sing it from time to time still in the bath but like what you said, growing up I don't really understand the dialects etc and also kind of handwaved it away from time to time, asking her to lower her volume sometimes just because we live in a HDB flat (housing development board apartments) here and neighbours might be disturbed by it.
When Yun Jin's leak came out and I saw her poise and motions and immediately gave my mom a look at it, and I think she approves of the accuracy of it. Needless to say, when the Yun Jin opera cutscene came out, I also linked her to it. Till date, I think that's the one and only Genshin Impact video I ever shared with her
this is definitely going to be me when sumeru is released (assuming they do middle eastern rep well lol 🛐) but as someone who's mixed asian and born in america i dont have the connection to my cultures that i wish i did
Заявляю от всего сердца это очень трогательный момент! Каждый раз я плачу когда слышу это, потому что это очень сильно трогает меня!!!
Looved to hear u talking about your expirience ❤️, so deep!
While I'm not Chinese I still get that feeling of seeing your language in a game. For instance my language of Afrikaans had only been in 2 games mgs5 in one interrogation scene and in farcry 2 where my language is that of the mercenaries fighting the player and I've yet to meet an Afrikaner who didn't like being yelled at in our own language or who hasn't yelled back in our language🤣🤣
Every time I see this, I explode in tears, I love Yujin soooo much!!!!
I fell in love with the Erhu when I heard the Dragon's theme in Breath of the Wild. Then some time later, I got into a couple of SK produced dramas of historical chinese stories, so I had a small intro to Chinese opera through those. That and my last job having plenty of Mandarin speaking customers visiting made me want to pick up the odd phrase here and there. I'm glad I found your channel
ur ending summary was so inspiring... n then u started singing .. n i can;t stop lauighing
It's insane how you actually managed to more or less fully encapsulate how I feel watching her performance and playing genshin
especially as someone who started chinese classical dance just a few years ago and started to really fall in love with the style and the nuance behind it, seeing her move the way I do is just incredible
lmao that was a very good ted talk xd. what ying said basically summed up majority of what I felt the first time I saw it but more especially because I didn't even grow up watching bejing opera because of how busy my parents where moving constantly. it's so lovely and heartwarming that bejing opera, something that I am never going to understand fully, got the opportunity to be showcased to the entire world. big props to mihoyo on this one
Wow just seeing your emotion for this cutscene, gave me a new appreciation for the real cultural reference expressed through Chinese Opera!!
2:16 i always cry when this part comes up her singing is amazing i love chinese opera
I cannot comprehend my emotions well, when i see something cute, exciting, beautiful or things that send good goosebumps on my body i start tearing up bc of how much i smile and how warm i feel i cried a lot during yunjin's opera cutscene.
I remember when my friend showed me the video during lunch break at school and from how amazed I was, I definitely went emotional. It's hard to convince people that there are a lot of good things about the Chinese culture as Western media, if not always, usually portrays otherwise. The closest good thing that pops into people's brain when the Chinese culture is brought up is no other than Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee or the animated Disney movie "Mulan" which isn't bad but it's not accurate and never really did a whole justice. Seeing such grand piece of one's culture being portrayed on a platform that people of all genders, age, race, nationality and etc could see definitely is something worth shedding tears over
Same reaction dear. Always makes me teary.
i agree with every single point you mentioned here. its so so nice and wonderful to me how different people all around the world could be in some ways but in some other similar, like all these things related to culture and stuff , its really really beautiful to me and i do believe yeah from an outsider point of view it may not be too much or maybe just a little but to someone who can actually understand how it is it would be something truly different in their eyes. like how when a group of people get represented to outsiders and such it may not be that much but to them it may mean so so much that words cant even describe
i find it really great that mihoyo is using all of the cultural things and putting it into a wonderful story and also introducing many people to new stuff and culture
like me for example, after that cutscene i did infact go and watch some chinese opera cause i liked it so so much , it can be pretty impactful
but yeah it was also great getting to see your reactions and also the singing at the end
I was vibing so hard i learned how to snap my fingers 😂
I don't know why but this cutscene mad me cry, I think her singing was too beautiful for me to handle
This might sound a bit silly, but I've always loved the Chinese Opera singing style because a friend of my parents used to sing karaoke at parties in the style, so when people initially reacted negatively it hurt something inside myself. It almost felt personal? Like witnessing a ton of microaggressions all at once. I hope that once people saw it in game they got over that initial rejection, but it still hurt. I'm also Chinese American and what you described of the inbetween, I just understood. It's hard to put the feeling into words but I think you got the gist of it.
This opera cutscene also made me emotional. When it started I just kind of sat back in my chair and let it wash over me. It's crazy how much being represented an affect a person haha. You never notice how much you're missing out until it's right in front of you. Ahhhhhhhhhhh
Same here at 1st i found it funny her voice...but whn i playd the story nd saw the cut scene..i was like wtf goosebumps tears idk....was sooo ... can't explain that feeling....i loved it nd watched the song part alot of times in the utube.....idk how many times i watchd
I cry everytime I watch this. It’s crazy. No matter what the tears just start flowing on their own.