The reason for the failure of the movie "Sedek Bale" at the mainland box office

Without talking about those big truths, in simple terms, it is mainly the difference between the three views. Originally, the fight against the Japanese invasion would have made the mainland audience very identifiable, but when they saw the Sedek Bales out of the grass hunter's head, the pile of skulls in front of the house and the head pillar, and the human head pillar, this sense of identity disappeared.

In particular, the main reason for the rebellion of Sedek Bale against the Japanese invaders in the film is that the Japanese forbade them to hunt heads in the grass, undermining their traditional customs!!!

Japan's forcing them to cut down giant trees considered gods, forcing women to work as servants (women are often raped), discrimination against even those who received Japanese cultural education from an early age, the highest-educated and lowest-paid positions in police stations, the lack of promotions, and the unfair treatment of children attending Japanese schools, these episodes that can make mainland audiences feel a great sense of identity are either a few shots or only a few lines without a single shot.

Instead, the Sedek Balees slaughtered women and children, their own Japanese friends (a Japanese man confronted with a butcher knife and said why, aren't we friends?). The reasons said by Sydek Bale are not to rebel against tyranny or aggression or to make friends with you just to deceive, but to kill you and then go to rainbow bridges to be friends. The attributes of the savage headhunters overshadow the attributes of the anti-Japanese warriors, which will disgust the mainland audience, because the massacre of women and children and the massacre of friends in our ethical and moral concept is incorrect (even if many people have had the idea of drinking horses in Tokyo Bay to make Japan not grow grass), even if this situation really occurs, it is necessary to comfort themselves with a bright and righteous righteousness.

The ethics of the Sedek Balees are completely different from ours, and even ice and fire are generally unacceptable. The plot alone can't make mainland audiences have enough sense of identity (Cedek Bale's behavior will be reminiscent of the historical conflicts between Han and headhunters) and the box office will naturally fail.

Headhunting, a traditional custom that Saidek Balai regarded as life, was not far away from us and still occurred frequently in the southwest region sixty or seventy years ago, and was eventually eliminated by the new China.

That is to say, even the new China, which has the most tolerant and preferential treatment for the minority people, is extremely barbaric and backward, and it is also necessary to eliminate them if they are replaced by the people's government to govern them. Some young people in the southwest of the mainland did not hunt passers-by until liberation to use sacrifices, (including but not limited to adults, disaster removal, disease elimination, celebration, spring ploughing, harvest, and worship of gods) Wa, Yi, etc. have the habit of erecting wooden stakes on human heads. After liberation, all the People's Liberation Army exploration teams were killed, and now they use bull heads for performances in folk villages, which used to be human heads.

In the 1950s, when the People's Liberation Army was passing through the Wa area, it was hunted by a tough Wa man, alarming the Central Committee and the Central Authorities, because it was an ethnic issue that could not intensify contradictions, and the army had to negotiate with the other side, and the final result was to spend silver to buy the heads back, hand over the guns of the slain People's Liberation Army, and the request to hand over the headhunters was rejected, because the headhunters were regarded as heroes, which was their biggest concession.

In October 1950, during the celebration of the first anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China, Mao asked the Wa to change this custom. The Wa leader La Meng did not hesitate to refuse, not only refusing to abolish the habit, but even refusing to replace it with other sacrifices. There was no way, Mao could only express "hope" -- to discuss and discuss what methods to use to replace it. In the end, it did not play an immediate role.

Three years later, a large-scale insect plague occurred in Western League, the grain was sharply reduced, and the incident of beheading and sacrificing the valley spread rapidly the following year, and the situation of mutual hunting between villages was common. Six years later, the Western League insect infestation broke out again, and the following year encountered a drought, and the clouds of the hunter's head sacrifice wooden drum rose again:

On February 18, Yongguang Village hunted a head in Trapped Horse Village;

In March, the Yuesong tribe Amo Zhai cut down the first one of the Yuxi Village people. The head of the Yuxi tribe prepared to lead more than 40 villages under its jurisdiction, and each village cut off one head of Amo Village;

On April 27, more than 100 armed forces in the village of Sleepy Horse attacked Yongguangzhai;

On May 18, Yongguangzhai dispatched more than 200 people to attack the village of Trapped Ma;

The Working Committees of the CPC, the Western League, the government, and the government, with the assistance of the armed task force, coordinate and resolve everywhere, and sign contracts with localities, troops, and local people, and similar situations are not allowed to happen again. However, not only were the heads of the surveyors cut off, but even the PLA soldiers stationed in the Cangyuan Wa Mountains were also unfortunate. The final solution was also unexpected, with the troops spending money to buy heads back from the "beheading heroes".

Eradication, on the other hand, is still out of reach. It was not until 1958, when the whole country was in the great, leap, and advance, that it was satisfactorily resolved through the method of "liangshan good man". Beginning in August of that year, the troops demanded that the Wa people's Western League and Cangyuan County ban beheading and sacrifice valleys.

There was a head man with more than 50 guns in his hand, who fiercely objected that beheading was the etiquette of our Wa people, even if it was Mao, we still had to cut the beheading! Wei Yingchang, then secretary of the Ximeng County CPC Committee, was also on fire, shouting, "If you want to cut off your own, you can cut off your own, how can you cut off others?" Well, I'm also a Wa, today we pour the wine first, you take the knife, I hold the gun, after the wine is drunk, you first cut off the heads of your side, and then I will cut off the people on my side! "We all poured the wine and wanted to drink, he said no, and then he said it was over." From that time on, no beheadings have been seen", and the practice of mass headhunting finally ended in 1958.

The Wa sacrifice only uses human heads, and human heads with blood are even more frightening. The deity it worships is Ceres, which belongs to the Sheji sacrifice. Every year during the spring sowing season, heads are hunted for sacrifice in order to harvest or repay ceres. A group of men lurked on the side of the road outside the village, saw strangers passing by, suddenly jumped out from behind the tree, cut off his or her head, put it into a white background, pinstriped coarse dirt cloth satchel, and then the warriors gathered around the man with the head on his back to the village, stuffed a chicken head into the mouth of the human head, and placed the head on the human head pile, and the priest sang "Beheading Tune" and prayed to Ceres for a good harvest.

Afterwards, the priests scattered the soil from the blood of the human head into the field, and it was said that the crops would grow well. It has long been said that when hunting the head, it is the most auspicious to hunt a man with a beard, saying that such a head is more conducive to the growth of grain. This, of course, was motivated by a homeopathic sorcery, and the thickness of the beard seemed to herald the growth of the grain. As long as the headhunter is a person outside the clan, whether it is the Han or the Wa themselves, or people of other ethnic groups, they will become the object of headhunting. There is a local proverb that makes outsiders creepy: "Wooden drums ring, people itch their heads." ”

The last headhunting of the Wa people was in 1959, in Ximeng County, a friend from Yunnan told me that the specific location was in Yue song Village, Ximeng County, also a village near Myanmar, and the person who was hunted was a girl who was said to have a bit of dementia. Later, some folklorists investigated the wa headhunting customs, and now there are still survey materials of the headhunting at Yunnan Nationalities University, as well as some 8 human skulls that were used for sacrifice.

The map made by Kangxi, the Imperial Palace Overview, does not see the whole island of Taiwan, but only draws the western half of the island, which becomes a crescent-shaped territory at sea.　The reason why the eastern half of Taiwan disappeared from the map was not because it could not be mapped, but because it was still an unnaturized aboriginal territory or "fanjie", so the imperial court only practiced passive management.

The aborigines of the Qing Dynasty can be distinguished by "cooked" and "raw" according to the degree of Sinicization. The Han Chinese and the Shufan ethnic group have been living in taiwan for a long time, and their languages and customs are barrier-free, and they have intermarried with each other and get along harmoniously.

During the Kangxi Dynasty, there was an aboriginal sports troupe that went to Beijing to perform: "Ten Mada Fanzi were selected from Taiwan and sent to them." I asked these people to be familiar with North Road in Zhuluo County, Taiwan. The fans there have learned to run since childhood, and they are still fast and endurance. ”

Later Qing emperors recruited taiwanese leaders to pay tribute to the capital, so that they could witness the majesty of Tianzi and the prosperity of the capital, and there were many rewards. The Qianlong Emperor once had a birthday banquet, where he met with the chief of The Shufan and rewarded each leader: "A hat of six pins of squirrels, a satin gray rat skin for officials, a sheepskin python robe, a silk jacket, a pair of satin boots, a pair of cloth socks, a silk thread with a hand towel..." and so on.

However, between the Han and Shengfan, they still competed with each other for territory, water or cash crops, causing many bloody conflicts. Shengfan would "come out of the grass" to cut off the head of the Han people, and the Han people would capture shengfan to make fan oil and refine fan people's ointment to retaliate.

Lan Dingyuan, a famous Fujian official during the Kangxi Dynasty, came to Taiwan to serve and wrote the book "Eastern Collection", and put forward the following suggestions: Killing people in life is a common affair in Taichung. Although this generation has a human form, it is completely ignored, wearing a forest flying basket, like a bird, beast, ape, who cannot be touched, and who cannot bear it, but it is not as good as it is. Only on the way through which the pass must be, the parade set up ambushes, opened fire, and showed his might, so that he was afraid and did not dare to come out.

In the early days, the method used by the Qing government was to dig ditches and bulldoze soil at that time, make boundary monuments, and isolate the scope of activities of the Han people and Shengfan, called "Earth Cow Boundary", and the official called "Pass". The boundary is divided into two parts, "earth cattle" and "ditches", the earth cattle part is trapezoidal and uplifted, and the part of the ditch is deep and downward, and the tools used in the past are simple, which is enough for isolation. There are few traces of earth cattle and deep ditches today, but many boundary monuments have been preserved, such as the current Taipei City MRT Shipai Station, which is the site of an ancient boundary monument.

There is a difference between cooked fan and raw fan, do you really think that the Qing Dynasty is a fan han family? With the increase of the Han population, the land that can be reclaimed within the boundary is getting worse and worse, and the private reclamation of Han tenants across the boundary occurs from time to time, resulting in an endless stream of incidents of "Shengfan" in Neishan killing Han people because they resisted the invasion of reclamation.

In order to maintain local social stability, the Qing government again established the policy of separating ethnic groups in the 25th year of Qianlong to strengthen the policy of ethnic isolation, with the main purpose of using "Cooked Fan" to forcefully garrison the near mountain pass where "ShengFan" was infested, to take charge of the desert outside the near mountain boundary, and to prevent the Han people from crossing the border and reclaiming privately. There are 18 passes in the mountain area of Tamsui Hall, of which in the Houlongxi River Basin are Jiazhige Pass and Maoli Pass.

In the Shigang District of Taichung City, there is a "Monument to the Demarcation of the Boundary" from the Qianlong period, which records: "Each earthen ox is two feet long, one zhang wide at the bottom, eight feet high, and six feet wide at the top." Each ditch is fifteen feet long, one foot wide and two feet wide, and six feet deep, and the people are forever forbidden to overstep their private reclamation

The incident that occurred in qianlong in the thirty-first year (1766) of Houlongxi at Qihuzhuang (located in the west of Maoli, in present-day Erhu Township, Xihu Township, Miaoli County) can be used to illustrate the relationship between the Qing government's demarcation policy of "familiar fans" and "raw fans" outside the boundary, Han Chinese who crossed the border and reclaimed privately, and local governments.

According to the song of Su Chang, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, the people of The Shell Zhuang once shot and killed the "Shengfan" of the Youwu Naishe who went out of the boundary to catch deer, so that the "Shengfan" took revenge, waiting for the villagers to cross the border in search of cultivating cattle, and were chased to Zhuang by the "Shengfan" and killed fifty-six people. Vice President Su Chang immediately sent Taiwan Dao Yu Wenyi to investigate and handle the case.

In 1874, 54 Ryukyu crew members encountered a typhoon and landed in southeastern Taiwan, where they were killed by the local Shengfanpaiwan people due to poor communication. Japan blamed the Qing court in this way, and the Qing government replied: "The people who are born outside the country are left to your country to deal with whether they are guilty or not." ”

　　The Japanese side then sent troops to Tainan, the "borderless boundary", and there was also the intention of gradually encroaching on Taiwan behind it. The Qing court heard the news and urgently dispatched 6,500 people of the Huai Army to Taiwan to support, fortunately, after the Japanese army came to power, there were many sick people, unable to fight for a long time, so they withdrew after receiving the Qing Dynasty's casualty pension of 500,000 taels, and the two sides negotiated peace.

At that time, Shen Baozhen and Liu Mingchuan, sent by the Qing Dynasty, were very clear in their judgment of the situation. In order to consolidate their territory and avoid the rumor among the great powers that the land was not part of the Qing Dynasty, they lifted the sea ban on mainland Han people going to Taiwan; the Han people who were already in Taiwan also had a mountain ban to prevent them from entering the central mountainous areas for reclamation, which was also lifted at this time.

　　This series of active policies is called "Kaishan Fufan", of which "Kaishan" refers to the construction of roads, and today there are two major roads on the east coast of Taiwan Island, namely the Suhua Highway in the north and the Nanhui Highway in the south, both of which were built by Shen Baozhen and were called North Road and South Road.

　　There is also a middle road connecting Nantou to Hualien, which is now called the Batongguan Ancient Road, which is not accessible to vehicles but has been preserved as a monument.

As for Liu Mingchuan, he also left behind more than a hundred kilometers of railways from Keelung to Hsinchu, and established a postal and telegraph system earlier than the mainland.

On the other hand, after opening up the territory of the indigenous peoples that had not been entered in the past, "Fufan" refers to strengthening the sinicization of the indigenous peoples, setting up schools to teach mathematics and Chinese, offering various preferential policies such as gifts of food, clothing and seeds, hoping to accelerate ethnic integration, and at the same time forcing Shengfan to abandon the custom of grass production, and suppressing them if there is resistance.