Horizontal vertical can not fly the one reading Jun 丨 彤子
What's missing.
Flying is the dream of all mankind in ancient times, and if you can't fly yourself, you must let the characters in the paintings and the characters in the story fly. But in terms of flight posture, there are still subtle differences between China and the West.
As we all know, Chinese gods and immortals mostly use a standing posture when flying, and most of them still stand very upright.
The Western group of "new generation flying enthusiasts" led by Superman prefer to use horizontal flight.
So why do Chinese immortals generally fly vertically, while Western immortals prefer to fly horizontally?
The destination determines the way to fly
The Chinese gods and immortals have "strongholds" in the heavens, and the relevant contents of the "Heavenly Palace" are recorded in the Tianbu Volume VI of the Taiping Imperial Records: Tiangong, Ziweigong also.
"Ziwei Palace" is an extremely complex "Celestial Palace", and the "moon" in Chang'e's Moon is the "Guanghan Palace" in Ziwei Palace.
Moreover, the ancient Chinese believed that the heavens had nine layers (36 floors), and Hong Xiuquan mentioned in the "Commandment to Zeng Yujing": "Only by throwing away all feelings can we go straight to the ninth heaven." ”
Therefore, chinese immortals mainly "rise and fall" between a certain layer and a certain layer of heaven, occasionally going back and forth between the earth and the Ziwei Palace. This more vertical trajectory of action makes their flight mode more suitable for comparing real-life rocket launches.
Whether it is satellite launch, or lunar exploration, Mars exploration, spacecraft launch is mostly longitudinal launch, which can minimize the air resistance when rising, help the spacecraft get rid of the earth's gravity, and smoothly lift off.
Of course, there are rockets that fly sideways, but flying vertically is the mainstream
There may be friends to say, chinese immortals flying is not so vertical, the body has a certain angle of inclination.
This is more like a rocket, the rocket will also fly at a certain angle after liftoff, this oblique flight is a flight trajectory designed by researchers through strict calculations, which helps to save fuel for spacecraft.
In contrast, the "flying enthusiasts" such as Western Superman cited by netizens, Yi Yuejun believes that they do not represent the real Western immortals, because their "ingredients" are too complicated.
Aliens with underwear on the outside;
A tech kid with a lot of money;
And mutants bitten by spiders...
A common feature of this group of people is that they often use the "off-site" flight mode of Flying From New York to Manhattan, which makes them more suitable for flying like airplanes.
After all, they didn't have a stronghold like the Heavenly Palace. Most of the flight relies on the hammer thunder god Thor, can be regarded as a Western immortal with an "official account", and his hometown is in "Asgard", which can perfectly interpret the "three" flight modes.
One: Thor flies upright
Two: Thor flies sideways
Three: Thor can't fly...
What we need to note here is that Thor, the god of thunder, used "horizontal superhuman flight" when flying in his home, which is still different from the Chinese gods.
The Chinese gods "panned" in the sky and still stood and flew
This shows that the flying posture of Chinese and Western immortals is also influenced by different cultures.
Cultural background influences the way you fly
Art is the carrier of culture, and it will also reflect the philosophical thinking behind it.
We all know that Chinese ink painting pays attention to "freehand", and Western oil painting pays attention to "realism". Ink painting "freehand" is influenced by the philosophy of yin and yang in Zhou Yi, while Western oil painting "realism" is influenced by the ancient Greek philosophy of "imitating nature".
"Zhou Yi" not only influenced Chinese painting creation, but also influenced people's way of thinking. Ancient Taoism believed that it was reasonable for immortals to stand and fly: "Immortals, or those who are immersed in the clouds and fly without wings; or ride a dragon on the clouds, and go up to the heavenly steps..." The interpretation of the body in the "Han Classics" is "jumping up", which sets the tone for the flight mode of chinese immortals.
We have already said that the immortals jump up and jump up to where to go
In the TV series "Journey to the West", when the Tang monks and apprentices returned from taking the scriptures, they adopted the method of "riding on the clouds", although it was a "short flight from a different place", but the four masters and apprentices each stood straight.
Not only the TV series, but also the "Dunhuang Murals", a treasure of Buddhist art that blends traditional Chinese Confucian understanding and Taoist thought, also presents a group of immortals standing on the clouds. The immortals must not only achieve the Taoist "body" and "fly without wings", but also conform to the "upright" posture of Confucian etiquette.
Sitting like a bell, standing like a pine, the form is not scattered
The Chinese gods did not need to make a flying posture to prove that they were flying, and the clouds around them already represented them in the sky. This way of expression is like the "freehand" of Chinese ink painting, which is "freehand flight".
The opposite of "freehand flight" is the Western "realistic flight".
Western philosophical thought makes "realistic flight" fly more reasonable and "imitates nature", adding bird wings to the back of the characters and imitating the way birds fly.
In contemporary film and television works, the size of angels' wings is much larger than that of early paintings, which is also the result of converging on the idea of "realism". Because small wings cannot drive the human body to fly, they need to be replaced by large wings that are reasonably proportioned.
An angel in the magical movie Slayer Warrior
The angels of "realistic flight" should be rectums like birds, so they wear "fart curtains"...
Even without wings, Western friends who practice the theory of "imitating nature" will insist on flying horizontally, because this can "align" with most flying animals on the earth.
Western people did not blindly "look at the same", through the imitation of flying animals, invented the "gliding wing" and "wingsuit flight" and other flying movements that fly sideways.
Wingsuit flight
Gliders
These movements all adopt a "horizontal flying" posture, but can't imitation animals "fly vertically"?
Differences in the way of riding and flying
In fact, after foreign netizens mastered the technology of "flying horizontally", they also unlocked the new way of playing "flying vertically".
The girl who rode on the wingsuit pilot thoroughly experienced the joy of being a Chinese god.
As long as the "mount" flies steadily, not the gods can fly vertically
Do not imitate
A long time ago, some netizens said: "In China, those flying sideways are mounts. "Many chinese gods and immortals have their own mounts, and when riding mounts, they are "upright" on the mounts.
There are also many "dragon-riding" characters in Western film and television works, such as the dragon mother riding the dragon in "Game of Thrones", and the Avatar riding an alien bird on Pandora's star, but they are accustomed to "lying" on the back of the mount, so that the body and the body of the mount remain "parallel".
Differences in the flight posture of this ride may be affected by three factors:
1. Not bound by Confucian etiquette
2. Avoid being overturned by strong winds during flight
3. Reduce its own air resistance to save physical strength for the mount
The best riding posture based on aerodynamics is a boon for patients with hemorrhoids
They are all flying masters, so why should they care about this speed difference? In short, contemporary Western "flying enthusiasts" are indeed keen to "fly sideways".
That one read jun can only wish that they will keep flying in their own airspace, in case they fly into Chinese airspace and are seen by any Chinese immortal, it is easy to cause trouble...
bibliography:
Wei Mi. Research on the Mount of the Immortals in the Novels of the Pre-Song Dynasty[D]. Liaoning University, 2016.
Chen Zhihua. A Brief Analysis of Freehand Factors in Western Painting[J]. Literary and Artistic Life: Late 2012(2):2.
Gao Huaimin. History of Pre-Qin Yixue. Guangxi: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2007: pp. 320, 333-334
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