History YMMV / QinsMoon

* EvilIsSexy: Wei Zhuang, Chilian, Baifeng and Da Siming all qualify.

* UncannyValley: A lot of scenes in Season 1 has really stiff animation and the characters have dead faces that do not match with their lines. Thankfully season 1 has been remastered with season 2 graphics, where the animation has improved and the characters express more emotions, although the animation still isn't very fluid as the newer seasons. Season 1 would be remastered again with season 6's graphics, drastically improving the visuals and animation.

* GottaShipEmAll: Especially in the Chinese fandom, doesn't help that the show has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. It even went as far of having a popularity poll category exclusively for ships.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n98M0wGcug Snow Jade Flower]]", Snow Lady's {{Leitmotif}}.
* BaseBreakingCharacter: Tian Ming, the protagonist himself. A lot of fans don't like him for being [[BrattyHalfPint too annoying]], [[{{Jerkass}} being disrespectful to everyone around him]], and [[SpotlightStealingSquad taking up screentime for characters who deserve it more]]. But others find him [[{{Moe}} adorable]], hilarious, and has shown [[TookALevelInKindness genuine]] [[TookALevelInBadass character development]]. It's no surprise that [[http://weibo.com/p/1001603914566986794080 he doesn't rank very high in popularity polls]]; even Yan Lu beats him by one place, [[EnsembleDarkhorse despite not even having half the screen time as he does]].

** Priestess of Birth has placed very high on popularity polls and has a lot of fanart even though [[TheVoiceless she has zero speaking lines]] and is only a minor villain at best. [[ADayInTheLimelight She even starred in her own [=OVA=].]]

* EvilIsSexy: Wei Zhuang, Crimson Snake, White Phoenix, and Priestess of Death all qualify.
* FoeYay:
** Wei Zhuang and Ge Nie, as Wei Zhuang is absolutely devoted to fighting against Ge Nie and vows that only he should be the person who should kill him. Season 5 has eventually [[spoiler:made them BackToBackBadasses during their mission on rescuing Dao Zhi and Pao Ding.]]
** Likewise, Dao Zhi likes to mess with White Phoenix and Zhang Han, and engages in quite a bit of SnarkToSnarkCombat with both of them. It was also joked in-series that the Priestess of Birth is interested in him. It doesn't help that official wallpapers and specials like to show White Phoenix and Dao Zhi off facing with each other. In fact, if you put them in the same party in the Mobile RPG [[UpToEleven their speed increases due to them competing on who's the fastest]].
** During their DesignatedGirlFight, Crimson Snake traps Snow Lady in an illusion, gets up really close to her and taunts her, which includes complimenting her looks.
** The Manhua adaptation of season 5 has Crimson Snake cradling the comatose Duanmu Rong in her arms and touching her face.
* FoeYayShipping: There's ''lots''. There will be at least some fanart for every FoeYay ship possible, which can range from Wei Zhuang/Ge Nie, Crimson Snake/Snow Lady, White Phoenix/Dao Zhi, Zhang Han/Dao Zhi, Dao Zhi/Priestess of Birth, Star Wraith/Tian Ming, Shen Qi/Yan Lu, and it goes on.

** The end of the trailer for Season 5 has Ge Nie and Wei Zhuang look like they're going in for an intense battle as their allies watch... only for it to cut to them playing the Qin's Moon mobile game intensely on their phones. Chi Lian, Hidden Bat, Snow Lady, and Dao Zhi look shocked, while White Phoenix and Gao Jianli look completely unimpressed.

** Crimson Snake spent her life locked inside her castle and later watched it burn down.
** White Phoenix is a cold blooded assassin but at the end of ''Birdsong in Hollow Valley'', he witnesses the deaths of his friends and could not do anything about it, and Wei Zhuang had to tell him how weak he was to rub salt onto the wound.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Everyone to an extent is this, however the one who has the most ships is White Phoenix, he has been shipped with Crimson Snake, Priestess of Birth, Nong Yu, [[HoYay Wei Zhuang, Ink Crow]], and [[FoeYay Dao Zhi]].

** Star Wraith's unsettling interest in Yue'er, and [[spoiler:then taking control of her in season 5.]]

** Gao Jianli/Snowlady (Xue Nv) is Gao Xue

** Ink Crow/White Phoenix is Mo Feng/Ink Phoenix

* {{Shipping}}: Especially in the Chinese fandom, doesn't help that the show has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters. It even went as far of having a popularity poll category exclusively for ships.

* TakeThatScrappy: Detractors of Tian Ming were ''very'' satisfied when Snow Lady threatened to decapitate him in [[EstablishingCharacterMoment her introduction scene.]]

** [[spoiler:Duanmu Rong's HeroicSacrifice.]]
** [[spoiler:The death of Ah Gang, who was sent to find reinforcements only to be told that the King of Yan has abandoned the kingdom and gets taken hostage by the Qin soldiers. He gets taken back to Iron Hammer to tell that there is [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption no hope left for the Yan army to fight back against the Qin]]. Ah Gang then gets stabbed by Meng Tian and dies in Iron Hammer's arms.]]

** [[spoiler:Xiao Ling's death, even though he initially tried to blame the girl who would be named Priestess of Birth when they were caught. He entered the Yin-Yang School to find his missing sister, and when he asks to know about her status before he dies, he only gets [[{{Troll}} played with by Star Wraith]]. When the girl finds herself unable to beg for his life and is pressured by the Yin-Yang leaders, Xiao Ling ''urges'' her to kill him and purposely draws out her full potential, then drops his guard, lets himself take the full brunt of her attack, and throws himself into the pit. What makes it even worse is the suggestion is that Shao Siming ''is'' the sister he's been looking for all along.]]
* UncannyValley: A lot of scenes in Season 1 has really stiff animation and the characters have dead faces that do not match with their lines. Thankfully season 1 has been remastered with season 2 graphics, where the animation has improved and the characters express more emotions, although the animation still isn't very fluid as the newer seasons.

** Yue'er. She has witnessed the massacre of her kingdom and the murder of her father. Her father has also left her heartbroken mother for another woman, she gets forcefully taken away by her best friend by the Moon Goddess and then brainwashed into being a Yin Yang disciple, and lastly [[spoiler:her father has been revealed to be alive the whole time only to die before they could see each other again]]. Many would wish she gets a happy ending.
** Tian Ming becomes this during season 3. The pressure of [[spoiler:being the new Mohist leader, a choice that he never made, is only worsened by the Mohist chiefs' lack of trust in him and belief that Prince Yan Dan had made a poor decision.]] It doesn't help that when he and Shaoyu become students at the Confucian School, he gets bullied by all the disciples and to a lesser extent, even the teachers. He breaks down twice, venting out his feelings to [[spoiler:The Unparalleled Demon, a former enemy that tried to kill him very early in the series.]]

* EarWorm: Due to the series's rather limited soundtrack, a lot of the music can become this.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The promotional trailers and specials.
** The end of the trailer for Season 5 has Ge Nie and Wei Zhuang look like they're going in for an intense battle as their allies watch... only for it to cut to them playing the Qin's Moon mobile game intensely on their phones. Chi Lian, Hidden Bat, Snow Lady, and Dao Zhi look shocked, while White Phoenix and Gao Jianli look completely unimpressed.
** Zhang Han has a mock interview about the events, which include a lot of retakes with Dao Zhi's arrest, to Zhang Han's annoyance.

* AwesomeMusic: Even though the soundtrack is very limited and can occasionally become MoodDissonance, it's still very beautiful.

** Tian Ming himself becomes this during season 3. The pressure of [[spoiler:being the new Mohist leader, a choice that he never made, is only worsened by the Mohist chiefs' lack of trust in him and belief that Prince Yan Dan had made a poor decision.]] It doesn't help that when he and Shaoyu become students at the Confucian School, he gets bullied by all the disciples and to a lesser extent, even the teachers. He breaks down twice, venting out his feelings to [[spoiler:The Unparalleled Demon, a former enemy that tried to kill him very early in the series.]]

* ArchivePanic: The show currently has been running since 2007 with over 100 episodes. It doesn't help that season 5 at first released new episodes at the end of every month, then it eventually became bi-weekly. Each season has been getting longer and longer as well; season 1 had 10 episodes, season 2 had 18, season 3 had 34, season 4 had 37, and season 5 currently has over ''60'' episodes and counting.

** The opening theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKUOO6TENTg Moonlight]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n98M0wGcug Snow Jade Flower]], Snow Lady's theme.

* ArchivePanic: The show currently has been running since 2007 with over 100 episodes. It doesn't help that season 5 at first released new episodes at the end of every month, then it eventually became bi-weekly. Each season has been getting longer and longer as well; season 1 had 10 episodes, season 2 had 18, season 3 had 34, season 4 had 37, and season 5 currently has over ''50'' episodes and counting.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Priestess of Birth has placed very high on popularity polls and has a lot of fanart even though [[TheVoiceless she has zero speaking lines]] and is only a minor villain at best.

* JerkassWoobie: Crimson Snake spent her life locked inside her castle and later watched it burn down.

** [[spoiler:Ink Crow and Nong Yu's deaths. Heck, the [[DownerEnding entire ending of ''Birdsong in Hollow Valley'']] is this.]]

* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler:Ink Crow]]