The heavenly court is a grand event, and the immortals are like clouds.
Today is the day when the Heavenly Court holds its "annual meeting."
The light of the sun filled the sky, and guests from all over the world were invited.
Whether it is the Great Luo Golden Immortal or the lonely and nameless Little Immortal, they can gather here.
Yuan Gong is no exception.
Yuan Gong is an employee of Tianting.
The working hours are not the "996" of the ordinary world, but the "007" (0 o'clock work, 0 o'clock off, 7 days a week).
Immortals don't need to rest.
Therefore, Yuan Gong himself has been rotating the shaft for three thousand years under high-intensity work, and his body is still great, which does not affect the work efficiency at all.
Now that he had a hard time meeting, he could finally rest for a day, but he was bumped by his boss.
Originally, it was a grand ceremony where the immortals gathered, but Yuan Gong's superior pointed at his nose and said, "Your official position is small, and you can't go." ”
He waved his hand as if he were saying, "Go and continue to guard the Book of Heaven, 007 must not slacken off."
Maybe it was caused by long-term oppression, or maybe it was because the "immortals" were too dry.
Yuan Gong decided to take a look at what the Book of Heaven, which he had guarded for three thousand years, was.
The name of the book of heaven is "Ruyi Treasure Book".
There are 108 spells recorded, and if you learn them, you can turn the clouds and rain and the flesh and bones of the living dead.
At the end of the book, the eight characters on the book:
"The way of heaven is selfless and will be preserved for future generations."
See here,
Yuan Gong slowly punched out a question mark:
What should be passed on to future generations, the heavenly court should guard gaha itself?
This hidden pie is also a little childish.
Yuan Gong, an atmospheric small employee, decided to bring this "fire of magic" to the mortal world.
Proficient in carving techniques, he carved the contents of the Book of Heaven on the stone walls of the mortal world, waiting for those who belonged to him.
It is said that Yuan Gong used hammers and chisels every time he attacked.
This must be his own weapon.
Yuan Gong's behavior naturally could not escape the eyes of the Heavenly Court, after all, there were still short bosses who stared at Yuan Gong at work at any time.
Employees do not go to work, but also secretly work part-time to spread the fire of "Prometheus"?
The Heavenly Court resolutely sent a professional catcher, Lei Gongdian Mother, to arrest him.
During this period, Yuan Gong tried to justify himself with the "heavenly path selflessness" in the Book of Heaven.
Good guys, don't say okay, this statement does not show the connotation of the heavenly court stinginess?
Don't you want to go to work? Then punish you for being a social animal.
In the end, the Heavenly Court punished him for guarding the Heavenly Book he had carved in the mortal world, and 007 worked non-stop.
And can not contact with mortals, whenever the incense burner smokes, must go to heaven to report to work.
Yuan Gong: That's it?
Laughing to death, not bad at all.
He didn't even have a boss to bother him every day.
Just laughing and laughing, Yuan Gong cried;
And left the tears of the social animals.
The social animals cry, cry, not sin
After this, the plot must be very familiar to everyone.
Originally, it was the egg birth of the swan egg, because the mother did not have a public morality, pulling the egg in the air, so that the "high-altitude egg throwing" fell into the hands of Yuan Gong.
The fox took advantage of Yuan Gong's report to heaven and stole the elixir incarnation.
In the end, he even ate and took it, and robbed the egg and fled.
The mirror that Yuan Gong hangs in the cave has a monitoring function and a playback function.
As soon as he opened it, he saw the old fox throwing flattering eyes at him, and Yuan Gong was silent.
Although the eyes suffered from the disaster of innocence, the results were gratifying.
Yuan Gong, who knew everything, chased him out, and the egg was also freed from the fox's hand.
Successfully incubated, he successfully met with Yuan Gong.
After the last time he found that he could not reason with the Heavenly Court, Yuan Gong also learned well.
He concealed his identity and taught Ozai how to print the Heavenly Book in the cave while he was debriefing, thus completing the two of them' master-apprentice status.
In doing so, not only can the egg be born as a medium, but also the book of heaven can be brought to earth as a blessing;
In the same way, Yuan Gong would not be allowed to violate the agreement in divine punishment that "no contact with mortals" was allowed.
However, he did not expect that the fox could toss out so many moths.
Unable to steal the Book of Heaven, they are still just swindling;
After stealing the Heavenly Book from the hands of The Egg Sheng, they successively colluded with the low security, the county order, the prefect, and the emperor, causing disaster to the world.
In the end, it was Yuan Gong who intervened to suppress the three demons.
Unfortunately, things got big, and Yuan Gong was once again arrested by the Heavenly Court's full-time arrest of Lei Gongdian Mother.
The ending of the story is open-ended.
Yuan Gong was captured and returned to the Heavenly Court, and his future was uncertain;
Egg Sheng has learned all the spells, and the future is uncertain, and it is difficult to see the way forward.
Rather than saying that "Heavenly Book" is a complete story, it is better to call it the beginning of the story.
The "tinder" does not really come to the human world until the end of the story, and what will the human world with the "tinder" become?
There are too many possibilities in this, and ordinary people cannot predict it.
"Heavenly Book" is a very enlightening animation.
In the eyes of modern people, it is very classical art, but also very beautiful and charming.
At the time, however, it was a maverick.
("Tianshu Qi Tan" 1983 edition of the movie poster Empty Collection of Anime Archives)
The pursuit of "strangeness", "fun" and "beauty" in the animation is brought to the extreme in this animation.
Not all creators have the courage to use their inspiration and imagination in their works, in fact, most creators dance "with shackles".
Compared with other animations in the same period, "Tianshu Qitan" is only more eclectic than "dancing posture".
At that time, animation was still based on the image of "Tall and Complete" as the mainstream, and works such as "Heavenly Book" were undoubtedly "rebellious cubs".
The biggest reason why the crew can be so free is because "Tianshu Qitan" was originally an animated feature film prepared by the British BBC and The Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio to cooperate on "The Legend of Ping Demon".
The adapted script was originally provided by the British side, and it is said that the director was shocked after reading the script.
And expressed a refusal.
Later, the team of Shangying created a new script and shared the new script with the British partners.
The BBC was equally shocked by the script.
The other party said: This script is too good, but we can't afford to invest it.
Their own children only have their own pain.
In the end, the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio still hardened its own scalp.
So this is the current "Heavenly Book Strange Tan".
It is not without reason that this anime is called a childhood god by many people.
Leaving aside the unruly and plump plot of the story itself, the details of the film and the care of the production team alone are enough to make it stand out from the crowd of anime.
The animation scenes make extensive use of the "traditional dot dyeing and splashing technique" to draw ink landscapes;
In terms of composition, it is also deeply rooted in ancient rhyme, that is:
"From the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain is said to be high and far, from the front of the mountain to peep behind the mountain is said to be far-reaching; from the near mountain to look at the distant mountain is said to be peaceful and far".
In addition to the distance of the landscape, there is also the joy of the garden.
In the plot of the collusion between the fox and the prefect, the prefect's mansion has a pavilion and a water pavilion, a weeping willow arch bridge, and strange flowers and stones.
There are Mandarin ducks playing in the water in the small lake, hinting at the "peach blossom luck" between the prefect and the pink fox.
The subsequent appearance of the pink wall moon gate and the Wenzhu Lake stone shows the spiritual garden of traditional scholars.
It is the wicked and the literati, the layman and the elegant.
This is the prefect's corner.
There are many more details like this.
Horsehead Wall: A building where beauty and practicality coexist.
Zaoi: The essence of the decorative arts of the canopy of traditional Chinese royal and religious buildings.
(The part above the old fox's head is moi))
Eight auspicious offerings:
The so-called eight auspicious, that is, "white lid, lotus, treasure vase, goldfish, long knot, Falun, Conch, Treasure Umbrella" and other eight patterns.
An auspicious symbol of Tibetan Buddhism.
Pull-out bed like a small house:
Male fox sleeps on a marble-faced arhat bed:
Lamp hanging chair for floor seating:
There are also tilians, fish-patterned bowls, vases with cracked ice chips, pot doors, dragon and lion dances, birds and phoenixes, waist drums and so on
Chinese elements such as these, as well as historically recognizable cultural relics and ancient patterns, are used in this animated film.
From the perspective of film production, "Heavenly Book" is undoubtedly excellent;
But its excellence is not limited to the production and plot, but also its cultural connotations.
Unlike pure juvenile animation, "Heavenly Book" does not abandon the adult animation part.
When I was a child, I watched this work only as a joke, and finally the prisoners were ambushed and the teacher and apprentice were separated.
After 38 years of re-examining this work, I found that what it really explored was the awakening and sinking of human nature.
In "Heavenly Book", even the Heavenly Emperor is full of "human nature".
He will steal food, the roots of his ears will be soft, and the wind will be rain.
All the gods have jobs, superiors and subordinates, and the boss's oppression and contempt for employees.
The so-called Heavenly Court is no different from the mortal society.
So they also had selfish intentions.
The Book of Heaven clearly states that "the Heavenly Dao is selfless and will be passed on to future generations", but the Heavenly Court sealed it and even sent Yuan Gong to guard it.
The attempt is only to secure one's own position.
When it comes to the logic of the plot, the author has not understood why the Heavenly Emperor did not destroy the Heavenly Book in the cave, but punished Yuan Gong for guarding it.
This undoubtedly contradicted the original intention of the Heavenly Court to block the Heavenly Book.
Besides, looking at Yuan Gong's unconvincing and unconvinced look, doesn't this imply that Yuan Gong has made a mistake again?
The author once wondered whether this was because of the implication of the word "heavenly selflessness" in the Book of Heaven;
In the darkness, the fate of the Book of Heaven has long been predestined;
But later, after brushing up the logic of the whole film, the author suddenly realized that perhaps the actions of the Heavenly Court itself are not important, but only the "awakening itself".
The existence of the Book of Heaven symbolizes power and infinite possibilities, it is merely a tool.
Yuan Gong regarded it as a blessing to bring to the human world, but he did not know that such a blessing was a double-edged sword.
In the hands of the egg, the Book of Heaven brings the people unlimited longing and hope;
In the hands of the fox, the Book of Heaven became a breeding ground for desire.
Careful observation of the plot setting, you can find a very interesting thing:
Neither the egg nor the fox had ever subjectively used the power of the Heavenly Book.
All they do is use the Book of Heaven to meet people's needs.
If the people want to drive away the locusts, the egg will drive away the locusts; the old man wants to have sound limbs, and the egg will help him to restore his legs;
And what the foxes did was only to satisfy the greed of the county order, the prefect, the emperor and others.
From these details, the director's intentions can be easily captured:
The contest of good and evil in human nature is transformed from abstract to concrete, forming two sides of the egg and the fox.
Then again, the "evil forces" that the fox encountered were also extremely interesting.
From the low-security to the emperor, the greater the power of man, the weaker the human nature.
The county order will at least care about the comfort of his mother, and when he arrives at the emperor, he will only be left to "regard human life as grass and mustard".
Isn't this a satire on feudalism?
And egg-born is not a purely good person.
Because the monk had been kind to him, he also died because of the fox, so the egg life saved the two people.
However, the two monks were already evil people, and the subsequent impact of saving them was undoubtedly negative.
It is reasonable to say that the egg student who is a good person should not save these two people, but the director still arranges such a plot.
The ultimate purpose of this is undoubtedly to emphasize one point - eggs are not human.
And this is also the fundamental reason why Yuan Gong is assured of egg birth.
Egg Sheng is the protagonist of "Heavenly Book", but it is also the most special existence.
He is not human, but he has assumed the role of the continuation of human fire.
In the final analysis, it comes down to the word human nature.
Human nature is changeable, while eggs are difficult to change, and it is most appropriate to have him as a "fire" to continue the human world.
Here is also a plot in which the end of the anime, Egg Sheng "engraved the Book of Heaven in his heart".
It was only at this time that Yuan Gong's mission to bring fire to the human world was completely completed.
The theme of "Heavenly Book" is very ambitious.
It does not demarcate the boundaries of good and evil, nor does it depict the brilliance and darkness of human nature, it simply presents "human nature has good and evil."
Of course, this has to put aside some of the plot settings of "attacking feudalism".
The existence of the Book of Heaven is like technology, whether it can help mankind to achieve glory, or like a firework blooming in an instant, no one can say clearly.
And this is also the root cause of the final open-ended ending.
The existence of eggs can undoubtedly help human beings.
But how to apply it, the decision-maker is still the human beings themselves.
Whether it is to sink into enjoyment in the flow of materialism, or to pursue longevity in harmony and nature, no one can peek into the future.
The fire is still there, and life goes on.
The so-called "Heavenly Book Strange Tan" is just the beginning of another story.