Sun Quan (182 – 252), formally known as Emperor Da of Wu (literally “Great Emperor of Wu”), was the founder of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdomsperiod. He inherited control of the warlord regime established by his elder brother, Sun Ce, in 200. He declared formal independence and ruled from 222 to 229 as the King of Wu and from 229 to 252 as the Emperor of Wu. Unlike his rivals Cao Cao and Liu Bei, Sun Quan was much younger than they were and governed his state mostly separate of politics and ideology. He is sometimes portrayed as neutral considering he adopted a flexible foreign policy between his two rivals with the goal of pursuing the greatest interests for the country.
“Sun Quan the Emperor” is an original Luo Tianyi song that was featured in bilibili’s New Year Gala and became extremely popular within 2 days since its release. The song tells the story of the famous Three Kingdoms period in China and an epic for one of the emperors, Sun Quan (portrayed by Luo Tianyi). The Three Kingdoms consisted of Wei, Shu, and Wu. This song exceeded 100,000 views on YouTube. In April 2015, the song reached 1 million views on bilibili.
This is OctoEast, who say that they are all crazy about music. They enjoy adaptation, recomposing, and performing with traditional Chinese instruments. By trying different music styles with these instruments in their performances they hope that traditional music can be recognized and loved by people around the world.
The piece features in the film Our Shining Days (2017) where the heros form themselves into a traditonal chinese instrument band. They named their concert band “2.5 Dimension“, meaning a blend between 2D and 3D worlds, as the Otaku people refer to themselves as living in the second dimension. They perform at an Animation, Comics, and Games convention, and after initial rejection the crowd cheers for them.
Babymetalheads from China perform Metal on the country’s version of “The Voice”. The duo named Double Angel 打包安琪(Huang Anqi 黄安琪 & Liu Anqi 刘安琪) were contestants of the reality talent show “Sing! China” in 2018. The “Metal girl” is a nurse/tattoo artist She is from Wuhan, and was fighting the Coronavirus in Wuhan!
