A martial arts drama that is serious, I haven't seen it for a long time.
Don't get me wrong.
Sir is not talking about the fairy spirit, not the ancient puppet of you and me.
It is a heroic legend that really happened in the troubled times when the nation was in danger, and mediated a grand narrative with personal strength.
Originally, it was almost halfway through this year, and it felt like there was no hope.
I didn't expect an airborne soldier to come.
I can't wait to give domestic martial arts a new answer
Tianxingjian
Screenwriter Bai Yicong, an old acquaintance of online dramas, his representative works "The Three-Body Problem", "Old Nine Gates", "Ghost Blowing Lantern: The Essence of the Ancient City" and "The Dark One".
But this time is slightly different, compared with other martial arts dramas that are mostly adapted from classic IP, "Tianxingjian" is an honest original, and the background is set in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, focusing on a test of the screenwriter's literary and historical skills.
The cast is luxurious.
Many familiar faces, a wave of feelings killing.
Hey, how many childhood memories of the post-90s.
The lineup is so bloody, and the texture is stable?
Hold your horses.
You must know that in addition to good actors, the most indispensable thing in martial arts dramas is the most important: the story.
The real rivers and lakes and martial arts will always be an imaginary community of human desires.
01
"A Treasure Map Leads to a Bloody Crime"
Many martial arts stories can't escape the "old three":
Treasures, heroes, rivers and lakes.
In the first case, it can be a weapon, a cheat, a treasure:
For example, Jin Yong's Yitian Sword Dragon Slayer, the forty-two chapters in "The Legend of Deer and Ding", or Li Zicheng's treasure in "Snow Mountain Flying Fox", strung together the fuse of the entire martial arts restlessness.
The same is true of "Skywalker".
The last year of the Qing Dynasty.
After the death of Emperor Guangxu and Cixi, a legendary treasure surfaced.
One night, the Qing court discovered that Wenyuan Pavilion had been stolen and the treasure map was missing.
This is a great fortune that can save the country.
The treasury is depleted
I also had the idea of hiding the altar in a pure place
As a result, the Qing court, which was short of money, had no choice but to put down its head and shake people urgently.
谁来?
They fished out the door three knives (played by Qin Junjie) known as "Di Renjie of the Qing Dynasty" from the prison.
Both civil and military, the roots are red, and the children of high cadres.
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Combined with the folk rumor that "the Qing Dynasty is going to change the sky", the door three knives saw the key at a glance:
This thief is not trying to steal the picture, but trying to steal the country.
Who wants to rebel? Is the League a revolutionary party?
Fortunately.
At this time, in a small town in Tianjin, there was a major homicide case, and nine people were killed.
△ Lao Xing: My mother, it affects my career
The deceased was a group of people in suits, suspected to be members of the Alliance who had returned to China.
And the murderer is a Lingxi person dressed as a foreign race.
What does this have to do with treasure maps?
After investigation, it was found that this group of Lingxi people was actually a big sword faction on the rivers and lakes at that time, and the head Zhuo Bufan (played by Liu Yuning), they were instructed by others to steal the treasure map and kill those in the know.
These nine people are for
Fight someone who holds a clue to the treasure
Figure money?
No.
They crave a name that comes from authority.
No matter how much we have achieved in martial arts
It is still regarded as an outlier and difficult to become orthodox
And this "righteousness".
Only Prince Qi, the prince of the Qing Dynasty on whom they relied could give it to them.
That's right.
The story is finally clear now
Prince Qi was one of the few radicals at the time, insisting on deposing the emperor and changing the centralized system to a constitutional monarchy, and was an out-and-out careerist.
The Sword Sect was pretentious, but it still needed official endorsement and had to be subservient.
And what about Prince Qi?
Although he needed funds to carry out a coup d'état, he did not believe in these reckless people in his heart.
So one side seeks change, the other side seeks fame, and on the surface they cooperate in treasure hunting, but in fact they have different minds.
Zhuo Bufan held a treasure map and struck first.
The door three mantis catches cicadas, waiting for the opportunity to move.
Don't forget.
And a yellow finch
There is a small catcher named Wang Jialuo (played by Pang Hanchen) in the place where the Tianjin murder occurred, and he followed Zhuo Bufan and others to the death, trying to arrest him.
He doesn't believe in any authority.
It has become the only variable between the various forces.
Old-fashioned, careerist, revolutionary, scavenger.
There are even the Japanese who are eyeing each other.
A bloody case caused by a treasure map has begun.
02
"Changes unseen in 3,000 years"
Perhaps you also realize that in this story, the context of the times is extremely important.
Martial arts novels are keen to set the background in troubled times, because only in the era of "great changes" can the "unchanged" spirit of chivalry be reflected.
This is also an important reason why martial arts novels became popular during the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.
And the second meaning of martial arts.
It is under the appearance of martial arts competition that tells the story of people in troubled times
Society has changed dramatically.
Chivalry remains the same.
However, the difference between "Tianxingjian" is that it talks about "change".
What do you mean?
The background of the drama is set in the second year of Xuantong.
Other words.
In the following year, the Qing Emperor issued an edict of abdication, and the Qing Dynasty officially ended.
In such a situation, if we look at these forces, we will find that no one really follows the old ways and tries to be the followers of that decaying dynasty.
They're all looking for change.
It's just that the "route" is different.
For example, the door is three knives.
In fact, at the beginning of the series, the political tendencies of the three knives have been explained.
In 1898, Emperor Guangxu initiated the Hundred Days Restoration.
The Qing Dynasty was crumbling, and the Son of Heaven stood in front of the humble dragon chair and told his ministers about the bleakness of the dynasty.
Today's state of the world
It is a crisis unseen in 3,000 years
Beaten track
Be a stick in the mud
It will only make our country more and more backward and weaker
In the long run, the country will not be a country
I hope you all here
Be able to make it their mission to be a strong country
Face up to reality and work hard
Here's a brilliant shot.
Guangxu stood against the light, and in front of him were courtiers kneeling down.
He looks like a light source, and he seems to be an opinion leader, but in fact?
Vague.
It seems to be a metaphor for the difficulty of change, and the imperial power he represents has long been in decline and flourishing.
At that time, standing beside him was the door three knives.
The imperial guard who maintains the imperial power is his first identity.
Guangxu's words are sonorous, and the words are in his ears.
But what happened next?
The six gentlemen of Wuxu were killed, and Emperor Guangxu was imprisoned in Yingtai, Zhongnanhai by Cixi.
Three years later, the Xinchou Treaty was signed, and Li Hongzhang ceded the land and paid compensation.
The 12 years that Men Sandao was imprisoned were also the 12 years that the Qing Dynasty did not see the light of day.
That's it.
When Men Sandao took over the treasure map task, the belief in his heart came more from the past.
He believed that the Qing court's new policy would be successful.
Coupled with the international optimism on the surface, this made the Qing Dynasty in his memory not the dilapidated appearance in front of him, and the memories that were still in his ears strengthened his heart to change.
The subordinates are determined to break Loulan
The same is about change.
What about the others?
Prince Qi represents a new concept that is not broken and cannot be established.
As the prince of Heshuo, his son-in-law is among the Beiyang warlords, and he himself is a pro-British faction, and he has an iron fist in terms of real power and ideology, and has radical capital.
Here's a little easter egg.
The Prince's furniture is usually dominated by antique treasures, but there is another treasure in Prince Qi's mansion.
A complete set of medieval knight's armor with a cross-shaped pane on the back.
Compared to other arrangements, it is a bit out of place.
But even so, Prince Qi was still placed in the most conspicuous place to further confirm his Europeanized thoughts.
However, here's what's interesting
As a vested interest in imperial power, Prince Qi couldn't help but be infected by foreign democratic ideas.
He despised the cowardice of the royal family, but he denied the power of the grassroots, which was essentially the old-fashioned theory of blood.
And not much thought about the people.
Can those hot-headed revolutionary parties achieve great things?
A peddler and a pawn, can he understand how to be diligent in government and love the people?
So, is this "change" anti-martial arts?
No.
Rather, this is a kind of uncertainty peculiar to martial arts stories.
Today, when we watch historical dramas, we inevitably have some God's perspective, because we know what happened, so as to estimate everyone's fate, life and death.
But martial arts are different.
Chivalry is the layer of uncertainty sandwiched between the court and Li Min.
Chivalry is the only variable in troubled times.
For example, in addition to the two forces in the Forbidden City: the sword faction led by Zhuo Bufan, or the idealist's small catch, their existence is actually a kind of "ambiguity".
No one knows what will become of them, and no one knows what will happen to them.
In the face of the destruction of the country, people are dying.
What will be the so-called martial arts justice?
The Qing Dynasty is dying.
What about those ants who are accustomed to serving the court?
If you say, at this moment, they may still be stuck in their insistence on identity.
Then sometime in the future.
Will they lose their attributes and re-examine their significance to the times as a person who stands up to the sky?
What's so hard about reading the books of the sages
The hard part
Speak the voice of the sages to others
Ultimately.
A treasure map that seems to be a fortune that everyone is vying for and leading the ups and downs of troubled times.
Actually.
Good and evil, good and evil, internal and external troubles.
The size of the world.
will become an afterimage of the times.
And such an ending, whether good or bad, is already the limit of what a person and a chivalrous can do.
Because it's like that line says.
Human life is short.
The long life is still a dynasty after all.
03
"100,000 skull blood"
Xu Haofeng once said that one of the charms of martial arts is that there are Chinese in it.
Because at the end of the day.
The perspective of martial arts never stays in the temple, but more from the appearance of all beings at the bottom.
And this.
It is also the third layer of martial arts: rivers and lakes.
The rivers and lakes of "forbiddenness by force".
Vibrant rivers and lakes.
Therefore, for Sir, this will be a key element in considering whether a martial arts story is implemented or a castle in the air.
In "Tian Xingjian".
We can see a lot of scenes, trying to get close to the real China in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.
For example, a detail.
In the opening song, some black and white images flash from time to time.
This is history itself.
The militia who can't use guns, the children of the alleys who smoke big cigarettes, the "Business Daily" founded in the 29th year of Guangxu......
All kinds of pictures are stacked into the old images of Beijing in the 20th century.
That's right, compared with traditional martial arts, which leaves more brushstrokes to all kinds of sweeping monk characters, the characteristic of modern martial arts is to focus more on small people.
What else can you do in troubled times?
The people drew from the camps, but they sought food and clothing.
Different regions, with different cuisines (add a chicken leg to the prop group).
△ Pancake green onions, squirrel fish, steamed yellow croaker, hairy crab
Folk acrobatics.
Sugar painting, fire-breathing, shadow puppetry.
There seems to be no sign of chaos in sight, and everyone is going on to live as usual.
But.
Here's a detail that's hard to notice, without mentioning.
Qing troops crossed the border.
It was a person who was in a hurry, or a hawker who set up a stall on the side of the road to do business.
They all spontaneously avoided the officers and soldiers before they came to them, for fear of some collision.
The stress of the people quietly unveiled the deepest story of martial arts.
It turns out that no matter how grand the narrative is, no matter how boiling the change, in the final analysis, it is still at the cost of people's livelihood.
People seem to live in peace.
As a matter of fact.
In the face of the Qing soldiers, the foreigners, and the "new authority" that will emerge without knowing when they will come, they can only be in danger at all times.
The sinister nature of the rivers and lakes lies not only in the court.
It is more about diffusing the desires of a small number of people and copying the misery of the majority of people.
With only a few episodes of the series aired so far, we can't get a glimpse of the full picture, but what we can see is that the creators are actually interested in working in this direction.
And try to create the appearance of all beings.
Like what.
Such beings, in addition to the common people, there are also literati who died depressed after the cancellation of the imperial examination in the opening film.
The white flags with filial piety, loyalty, courtesy, righteousness and shame became the hanging rope for their self-destruction.
A killing machine as a villain.
It was created by the mediocre Qing government and the cool late Qing dynasty.
Qian Qiben is not in the rivers and lakes
In fact, he is a killing machine cultivated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs
After the violent death of the Empress Dowager Ci'an
It was in that year that he fled from the Ministry of Internal Affairs
- Can you continue to kill?
- Can kill
And it's more expensive
All the money he received, though
will burn it directly to his wife and children
If the decline of the Qing Dynasty is compared to an endgame.
Then it is obvious that the abandoned son is even more uncaring.
Sure enough.
Qian Qi spent half of his life as a killer, and his final fate was also to be killed, forming a reincarnation.
The footage here injects a touch of sadness into his ending
Before Qian Qi died, he looked at the sky.
The leaves fluttered and swirled, fluttering and falling, and all that was left in my ears was the chirping of faint crows.
Besides.
Sir also wants to talk about someone, Tang Yu.
A small character with a scene of only a few minutes.
As one of the few people in the Sword Sect who has ever studied, he has no enthusiasm in his heart, but he has nowhere to show it.
I finally found the Alliance.
His dream was to join the revolution and save the country and serve the country.
"Fight for 100,000 skull blood, and we must save the world."
But what about the end.
Because of the treasure map incident, the Sword Sect was dealt with by the two forces of Men Sandao and Hunting Kuai, and they were outnumbered after all.
Tang Rain.
As the name suggests, man died on a rainy night.
Note the footage here: the green leaves splattered with blood, contrasting with the red flowing in the rain, reflect the passing of life in every square inch.
and the final scene that belongs to him.
That poem, that unpaid ambition.
What the Chinese martial arts are like, no one can bite to death.
But at least.
"Skywalker" is trying to give its own answer.
It tells you plainly
Whether it is a martial arts person, a temple bureaucrat, or you are from the grassroots, you can have a vision for the future and seek your own one-third of an acre of land in troubled times.
What's next for the treasure?
It's important, but it's not important anymore.
Because the charm of martial arts never lies in a monotonous result.
It is inward, it is to show the triumph and frustration of several generations, the world is bustling, all rooted in the times and acting on the times.
But outwardly?
It's a recoil left for today.
Connected to today's realities.
How many of today's young people remember this loyalty and pride?
Ultimately.
The existence of martial arts may not lie in how entangled and strange it is.
Rather, it will always provide a template for later people, a posture to face problems and face reality calmly.
Therefore, even if they disappear for thousands of years, countless heroes and heroes have been reduced to the smoke and dust of the wheels of the times.
But as long as there is martial arts.
These Chinese self-mirrors will never fade, and the courage of absence can be represented.
In a world that goes even downward, we will unswervingly move upward.
Even if fate is unpredictable.
Even if the world is unpredictable.
It's still going hand in hand, and it's not endless.
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