Really weird sinographs, part 4

A video introducing 70 obscure Chinese characters (shēngpì zì 生僻字):

The person singing the song seems to be inordinately proud of these strange, difficult characters.  He says things like "each stroke is a story" and invokes "5,000 years of history", neither of which is accurate.  He exclaims, "let the whole world recognize them" and exalts, "Chinese characters are all over the world, so we yellow-skinned people should raise our heads proudly".  He claims, "[deploying] their level and oblique tones [you can] write them into poems".

At 0:50, he shows a series of eight scary looking characters with the "guǐ 鬼" ("ghost; spirit; apparition; demon") radical.

By far the best part for me, though, is at 2:04 when he annotates the sounds of many of the rarest characters in his collection with Hanyu Pinyin (Romanization) and lets you feast your eyes on that for more than ten seconds, though few will know the meanings of all these uncommon graphs.

The second half of the song basically repeats the first half, but at the end he adds a verse about the beautiful musicality (yōuměi xuánlǜ 优美旋律) of the sounds of the characters.

Readings

• "Really weird sinographs" (5/10/18)
• "Really weird sinographs, part 2" (5/11/18)
• "Really weird sinographs, part 3" (5/15/18)
• "How many more Chinese characters are needed?" (10/25/16
• "Character crises" (6/15/18)
• "Chinese character inputting" (10/17/15)
• "Is there a practical limit to how much can fit in Unicode?" (10/27/17)
• "The unpredictability of Chinese character formation and pronunciation" (2/6/12)
• "Writing Chinese characters as a form of punishment" (11/1/15)
• "Mystical Taoist Sinographs" (5/2/18)
• "Spectral Sinographs" (7/30/18)
• "GA" (8/6/17) — for characters with the "ghost" radical

[h.t. Zeyao Wu]