Cangse Sanren (藏色散人, Cángsè Sànrén) was a pupil of the famous Baoshan Sanren, a rogue cultivator and the martial sister of Yanling Daoren and Xiao Xingchen. Despite having several suitors after leaving her teacher, she married the servant Wei Changze. She was the mother of Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji's mother-in-law.
Appearance[]
She is described as having been beautiful.[1] In Wei Wuxian's few memories of her, she was dressed in white.[2]
Personality[]
Based on information provided throughout the Novel, it is subtly implied that Cangse Sanren's personality is similar to that of her son Wei Wuxian's: outgoing, mischievous and straightforward. Wei Wuxian's few memories of her include the notion that she was always laughing.[2]
She once shaved off Lan Qiren's goatee, and this same act is then repeated by her son Wei Wuxian when he was sent to the Cloud Recesses for his studies.[3]
She seems to have been selfless in nature, as she taught her son that he should "remember the things others do for you, not the things you do for others. Only when people don’t hold so much in their hearts would they finally feel free.”[4]
History[]
Baoshan Sanren was known to take abandoned children up her mountain to learn cultivation, implying that Cangse Sanren had once been a street child. At some point, she left the celestial mountain and presumably, like all who departed Baoshan Sanren's mountain, she agreed to never return.[5] According to Xiao Xingchen, her outstanding cultivation was well-known among Baoshan Sanren's disciples even after she departed.[1]
At some point, she visited the Cloud Recesses. Lan Qiren's rule-following nearly cost Jiang Fengmian and Wei Changze their lives during a night-hunt, and Cangse Sanren shaved his beard in retaliation.[3]
Jiang Fengmian fell in love with her, but she eloped with his servant Wei Changze.[6] Unfortunately, the two of them were killed during a night-hunt while their son Wei Wuxian was still a small child.[1]
Animation Divergence[]
In the animation, Wei Wuxian inherited her eye shape and her personality.[7]
Trivia[]
- 藏 can have two different pronunciations: zàng and cáng.
- 散人 means "person of leisure"; while this tends to indicate people with no jobs or nothing to do with the world, it also contrasts rogue cultivators (Cangse and her teacher) with the rest of the Cultivation Clans.
- In modern times, the most famous "man of leisure" would be Luo Guanzhong, also known as Huhai-Sanren. He was attributed with authoring Romance of the Three Kingdoms and editing Water Margin, two out of the Four Classical Chinese Novels.
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