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In station B, there is such an animation that makes netizens wait for three years to wait for an episode update.
In January this year, a new episode returned to the line, and the bullet screen brushed up the "lifetime".
"Chinese Ancient Poetry Animation" is an original series of animations that are slower than Luo Xiaohei's update, originally known as "Chinese Choir".
In 2016, it released the first two episodes of "Yuanri" and "Acacia", and it got a high score of 9.2 on Douban.
Although only 6 episodes have been updated in 7 years, each time it starts, it can set off a wave of memories to kill.
This exquisite and short animation makes the ancient poems come alive. Many people left a message that this is one of the best animation series in contemporary China.
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The beauty of the world is nearby
The latest updated episode 6, "Wing Mei", tells the story of Qing Dynasty bamboo carvers Zhou Hao and Mei Niang.
There were several plum branches in the corner of the wall, and Ling Han opened it alone.
Haruka is not snow, for there is dark incense to come.
Under the cover of fog and bamboo forest, a plum tree stands on a single stone, elegant and beautiful.
When he was a child, in order to protect the plum tree, Zhou Hao was bullied by other boys and beat his nose and face swollen. The bond between the teenager and Mei began.
Zhou Hao learned bamboo carving with his master since childhood. One day, he practiced at his desk and only listened to a voice from behind:
"Zhou Hao, greedy and lazy!"
Zhou Hao was so frightened that he thought it was the master who had come, but he didn't expect to see a little girl.
The girl's name is Mei Niang, she is barefoot and has plum blossoms on her head, which is the embodiment of the plum tree.
After the first encounter, Mei Niang grew up with Zhou Hao and accompanied him to carve bamboo to watch him paint Plum.
In Mei Niang's eyes and movements, there was gradually a heartbeat that could not be hidden.
But all she could do was to break a plum blossom and say when Zhou Hao shared the Merlin she saw during her travels:
"Read all the flowers and thousands of trees, and may the king remember this branch."
Zhou Hao is an elm head.
The young man had ambitions in his heart, in order to carve the Xiangfei bamboo pieces that his master gave him before his death, Zhou Hao went out on a journey to find the most beautiful things in the world.
Unfortunately, after traveling through the mountains and rivers, Zhou Hao returned home sick after experiencing a snowstorm.
At the time of his death, it was Mei Niang who did her best to save his life.
Just before Zhou Hao left, Mei Niang specially dressed up and wanted him to carve himself once.
But at that time, Zhou Hao thought that the lady was ultimately flashy, and only the elegant and elegant things like Meilan Bamboo Chrysanthemum could be carved.
Wang Guan has a poem, "The water is the eye wave, and the mountain is the eyebrow peak gathering."
When she finally saw Mei Niang during her illness, the silhouette of Mei Niang appeared in front of Zhou Hao's eyes - her eyebrows were bamboo, her ears were full of rivers, her lips were plums, and her hair was like branches.
He suddenly realized that the so-called "supreme beauty" is not necessarily a magnificent landscape and scenery.
It turns out that Mei Niang, who has been accompanying her, is the most beautiful person she has been looking for for many years.
But at this time, Mei Niang, who used her life to save her beloved, turned into a wisp of falling plum and disappeared forever.
At the end of the short film, there is a biography of a real historical figure:
"Zhou Hao, Jiading people."
Revered as a generation of grandmasters of bamboo carving...
But throughout his life,
Never carved a lady,
Plum blossoms have not been carved either. ”
Screenwriter Li Xia'en captured this imperceptible detail, combined with an anecdote of Zhou Hao in "Bamboo Man", and thus expanded his imagination and told a story of obsession and hatred.
Some people may wonder what Zhou Hao carved on the Xiangfei bamboo left by the master?
The answer is, nothing is carved.
"One is that it cannot be carved, because the true beauty cannot be carved;
When you lose a precious and beloved, all the things related to it will not be able to bear to look at, because it will make you feel pain in your heart;
The third is not a moment, because it has been engraved. ”
This is the creator's interpretation of the ending, and it also engraves the endless "hate" into the hearts of countless viewers.
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Bring ancient poetry to life
The name "Chinese Choir" originally derived from the album of the same name composed by Jiading composer Yi Fenglin.
The songs on the album are based on 16 popular ancient poems, which were later combined with Jiading folk tales and legends to create the current series of animations.
Although the length of each episode of the animation varies from a few points to twenty minutes, under the clever collision of poetry and history, the poetry "comes alive".
Red beans are born in the southern country, how many branches will be sent in the spring?
May the king pick up more, this thing is the most acacia.
"Xiangsi" was originally a poem that the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei pinned on his friends, but it was also very appropriate to use on the famous Qing Dynasty scholar Wang Chutong.
Wang Chutong is known as a red bean idiot. He and Liu Niang were originally a pair of green plum bamboo horses.
But one is a poor student, the other is a big girl, and there is an insurmountable difference between the two.
When he was young, Xiao Xiu, who had just opened his love, gave Liu Niang a red bean; before getting married, Liu Niang, who could not decide his own fate, could only leave him with a silk paw embroidered with acacia.
The red beans that witnessed all the feelings of the two became the sustenance of the rest of their lives.
The mother's hand is threaded, and the wanderer's body is clothed.
The seams are tightly sewn, and I am afraid that I will be late.
Whoever says anything will be rewarded with three Chunhui.
"Wandering Zi Yin" was written by the Tang Dynasty poet Meng Jiao, while the animation is based on the Qing dynasty historian Wang Mingsheng.
Wang Mingsheng's family was poor, and he took the first big exam in his life, "Boy Test", and the other children wore new clothes to take the exam, and he only had tattered cotton jackets.
The night before the exam, he dreamed that a huge loom was fulfilling his wish, but when he woke up the next day, he found that his mother had really made him a new cotton jacket overnight.
The mother's fingers are broken, but she weaves the mother's love of "one stitch and one thread" into the cotton jacket.
The water is bright and sunny, and the mountains are full of rain and rain.
If you want to put the West Lake than the West Lake, light makeup is always appropriate.
In "Drinking on the Lake After the First Sunny Day", the great talent Lou Jian is facing the frustration of falling off the list.
While rafting with friends, Lou Jian was depressed. At this time, a girl on the ship woke him up: There are countless emperors in the past, and how many can be remembered by future generations?
Light makeup is always appropriate, in the middle or not, in fact, you can see a good scenery.
Unsatisfactory things in life are often eight or nine times. The people in the story opened Lou Jian and comforted every frustrated person in front of the screen.
Whether it is love, family affection, or life interests, home and country feelings, each episode of "Ancient Chinese Poetry and Animation" has a different theme, but it is also related to the most simple emotions and the common memory of the nation.
The New Year's weather of the old street in "First Day"
The condensed words in the poems still retain their charm in the changes of the times for thousands of years.
The real historical story makes the sentiment in the poem more concrete and clear.
What gives the poem a soul is the classical charm that is vividly expressed in every frame.
In different stories, hand-drawn paintings also have different styles.
"Night Thoughts" tells the modern story of the Western invasion period, and the painting style is more watercolor, with a sense of combination of East and West.
As a "Liaozhai" style story, "Wing Mei" is more Chinese romantic, and the hand painting is closer to ink painting.
Zhou Hao crossed the mountains and rivers to find zhimei, but at the end of his life, he found that zhimei was nearby.
The production team said that in the process of continuous creation, they also read different styles, and suddenly looked back, only to find that a brush, a river of ink color suitable for the color, is the most beautiful treasure.
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Three years out of one episode of the details control
Every detail of the characters, scenes, costumes and so on in "Ancient Chinese Poetry and Animation" is repeatedly examined according to historical data, and strives not to let go of a single flaw.
A scene, or even an object, can be stripped away and glimpsed the creator's caution in his work.
For example, the plum tree that runs through the whole episode in "Wing Mei" is quite exquisite.
Director Peng Qingzheng said that they repeatedly deliberated and tried many combinations of plum bamboo, but they all felt mediocre, until they finally found a plum tree called "weeping plum" in the Wanmei bush.
It has the character of Mei who is not afraid of Ling Han, and like a woman's flowing hair, it is extremely agile and graceful, "and I suddenly feel that it is none other than her."
In addition to referring to the actual scenes, many scenes in the animation also conceal ancient famous paintings.
When Zhou Hao went out on a trip, the willow waves and warblers and quyuan wind lotuses seen in the West Lake were all filmed in real ancient paintings.
As early as the beginning of the creation, the production team of "Ancient Chinese Poetry Animation" was famous for its "detail control".
In the episode "Yuan Ri", in order to recreate the Spring Festival atmosphere of the small town of Jiading 400 years ago, they consulted a variety of records of the Jiading Fangzhi of the Ming and Qing dynasties on the New Year festival.
This restores the diamond horns of the sacrificial stove, the red lantern without spikes, and the story and legend of the "Lunar New Year Soup".
In terms of background and character settings, it is also based on paintings and works such as "Nandu Fanhui Map", "Lantern Map", "Jiading Fourth Mr. Diagram" and other paintings and works.
Although each episode of the animation is only twenty minutes long, it is full of foreshadowing, so that the characters and plot are vivid enough.
The portrayal and laying of many details has also become a part of the audience's willingness to capture.
For example, in "Acacia", hearing the news that Liu Niang is about to get married, Wang Chutong crashed into the car selling pears on the way to her home, indicating the final separation of the two.
The couplet in front of liu niang's house is a confirmation of the relationship between the two.
Green plum bamboo horse, two small no guess when it is "the transmission of poetry books is really interesting, blossoming flowers and grass long-distance feelings.".
Lovesickness, when they are concerned about each other, it is "flowers fall to add fish shadows, and willows want to accompany the spring swallows".
Doomed to no chance, when the sixth lady finally marries someone else, she is "cleverly borrowing flowers to add moon color, and enjoying the spring supper on the autumn night".
A door separated the lives of two people.
On the basis of the aesthetic picture, the production team also integrated a lot of ingenuity into the audio-visual production.
For example, the various wonderful transition designs in the animation can always cause the amazement of the bullet screen.
The episode "Night Thoughts" tells the story of Gu Weijun, the first diplomat of the Republic of China.
The elderly Gu Weijun was interviewed and recalled the bad behavior of the Japanese army in occupying the three eastern provinces, and the picture used the changes outside the window to rewind the timeline back to the war period.
This scene is based on the works of Japanese animation master Imatoshi, and the storyline is smoothly connected with montage transitions.
There are also many details in the animation that are worth chewing on, which makes people can't help but look at it frame by frame to dig up and interpret and trace history.
From one episode in half a year to one update every three years.
Faced with many problems such as insufficient manpower, forced production cycles, and costs exceeding budgets, "Chinese Ancient Poetry animation" has not slackened off in the slightest, and has been looking for the most ideal form of creation, insisting on year after year.
This focus brings the original Chinese story to the audience.
It is not only an animation, but also a picture of the times.
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