There is a sense of the movie "Zishan Fish Recipe"
We are all on the verge of blackening
Text/Valley in the middle
The highest-rated douban movie in 2021 came from South Korea's black-and-white film "Zishan Fish Recipe", 8.5, which won the Oscar for best male lead film "Father Trapped in Time" (8.8).
There is a hunch that there is still a month left in the first half of 2021, and if not unexpectedly, she will be the best film in the first half of the year.
From the director to the actors, it is a big cast.
Jun-ik Lee, a former advertiser, has won all the awards in the Korean film and television industry.
In 2005, he directed the costume film "The King's Man", which broke the record for the number of moviegoers in Korean film history and won the Best Director of the 43rd Korean Film Grand Bell Awards;
In 2013, he directed the feature film "Suyuan", which won the 34th Korean Film Blue Dragon Awards, the 50th Korea Baeksang Art Awards and the 51st Korean Film Daejong Awards best director nominations;
In 2014, he directed the costume film "Si Mourning" with good reviews.
The first male protagonist, Xue Jingqiu Kyung-gu Sol (as Ding Ruoquan), born in 1968, is a very well-rounded actor in South Korea, and together with Song Kang-ho and Choi Min-sik, he constitutes the "troika" of the male acting school in the Korean film industry.
Bian Yo-han Byun (as Zhang Changda) On October 17, 2014, Bian Yaohan played "Han Shilu" in his first TV drama work "Unborn", and was even praised as "a new generation of stealers", which was greatly welcomed by the audience.
Jung-eun Lee (as Ding Ruoquan continued to be the string) starred in two Korean god films "Parasite" (as Wen Guang) and "Defender" (as the owner of the apartment).
At first glance at the title of the film, a film based on a zoological book is expected to become the best movie in the first half of 2021, which is somewhat incredible.
A traditional scholar- and scholar-doctor, a book about natural objects.
My first feeling is whether it will be a story similar to Li Yu and Zhang Dai.
"Zishan Fish Recipe", manuscript from the Collection of the Institute of Korean Studies, Kyu Jangkaku, Seoul National University
Non also!
It's not just a movie about fish recipes.
Looking at it, two lightning bolts passed by, and the mood was difficult to calm down.
A lightning bolt is related to life, and a lightning bolt is related to the times.
It can be said that these two lightning bolts passed through the year of Chunjo (1801) of the Joseon Dynasty to 2021.
Movies about personal stories will always cut the dimension of time to the most unsatisfactory section of the individual.
The male protagonist of the story is a real figure in Korean history, Ding Ruoquan (정약전, 1758-1816). His father was Ding Zaiyuan, the pastor of Jinzhou, and his brothers were all from meritorious backgrounds, and he was an important minister of the imperial court at that time, and he himself served as a Shingkyunkan classic and a soldier Cao Salang.
But in the year of pure ancestors, there are difficulties in the family.
This difficulty is not due to the Ding family's extraordinary thoughts on the road to power, but the turmoil in the whole of East Asia in the process of ideological change.
When European colonization came to East Asia, the elites of China, Japan and South Korea were thinking about how to meet this era.
In 1783, he became a jinshi in the middle of the Sima Examination, and in 1790 he expanded the liberal arts and the first, and then traveled with Li Barberry, Li Chengxun and other people who accepted Western academic ideas, thus accepting Western almanac mathematics and then embracing Catholicism.
Lesson plans became the most frequent cases in East Asia in the nineteenth century.
In order to meet xixue, the Ding family made great sacrifices, and his brother Ding Ruozhong died in the Xin You's evil prison, and he and his brother Ding Ruoyong were assigned to remote areas.
In the eyes of the imperial court, his brother Ding Ruoquan had a more thorough understanding of Western studies and was more dangerous.
In fact, South Korea now regards Ding Ruoyong as the master of Korean traditional culture and the founder of the Real School, similar to the status of Mr. Wang Chuanshan in China.
There are more film and television works about Ding Ruoyong in South Korea than Ding Ruoquan. Song Joong-ki and other big kas have starred. A brief note is as follows -
In the 2007 MBC TV series "Li Qi", Song Changyi played Ding Ruoyong
In the 2009 OCN TV series "Ding Ruoyong", Park Jae-jeong played Ding Ruoyong
In 2010, KBS TV series "Sungkyunkwan Gossip" Ann Uchi Sang as Ding Ruoyong
In the 2012 movie "Passing Away with the Wind", Song Joong-ki played Ding Ruoyong
In the 2016 KBS TV series "Moonlight Painted by Clouds", Annei Sang played Ding Ruoyong
2009 OCN TV series "Ding Ruoyong"
But in the movie, Ding Ruoquan's worldly insight and personal settlement are superior to his younger brother Ruoyong.
The interaction between the two brothers after being assigned was carved by the director into the Song Dynasty Su brothers, who comforted each other through letters, manuscripts, and disciples, and at the same time expressed the differences between the two.
This is a major technique for the film to harvest Chinese literati fans.
The disciples of The Harvest are still intoxicated by the commentaries of the traditional poems, the Sages.
Ruo Quan's disciple was a young man who was skilled in fishing on the Black Mountain Island that he had assigned, and his name was Zhang Changda.
Changda is also a real historical figure, mentioning Zhang Changda in the preface to Ruoquan's "Zishan Fish Recipe". It can be said that "Zishan Fish Recipe" is a co-author of Changda and Ruoquan.
If the story stays here, there is no need for the director to start the camera.
The director packaged the character of Changda as a kind left by Zhang Jinshi who came to Zishan, and was the result of a famous figure in the imperial court.
Changda also secretly left the island to find his biological father, hoping that his father would write his name into the family tree so that he would be eligible to take the meritorious name and get ahead.
This request was rejected by his father.
In the movie, the two are each other's mentors and apprentices, Ding Ruoquan teaches changda scriptures, and Changda teaches ruoquan to know fish.
Even now, many people will think that Ding Ruoquan did not think about the development of the country and the annotation of the sages during the distribution period, but stayed on this kind of carving insect and insect technique, which was too wasteful of life.
Don't you know that the "Treatise" records Confucius's famous words -
Zi Yue: "Boy He Mo Xuefu poetry?" Poetry can be happy, can be observed, can be grouped, can complain; the father of the things that are far away, the king of the far things; and the names of birds, beasts, plants and trees are known more. ”
In some film platforms, I have seen some people commenting on this film, and there are many praises for this film, but it is rare to see anyone understand this film from the famous words of Confucius.
This sentence may be what Confucius said to a student who did not seriously read the Book of Poetry or whose understanding of the Book of Poetry only stayed in the formal rhyme, and the tone was not generally heavy, almost to the point of hating iron and steel.
Ding Ruoquan read Confucius thoroughly.
When the highly accomplished Changda was puzzled by the University, Ding Ruoquan asked him to read the Analects directly, believing that it was the original Confucian classic, and that the later Zhu Xi had alienated Confucianism in order to please the imperial court.
In a sense, Confucius's above famous sayings are the most classic exposition of later practical studies in the Confucian classics.
In the eyes of the Master, there is really no distinction between the arts and sciences, and the Book of Poetry is not a patent for liberal arts students, but a must for all social elites.
Let's go back to the movie.
Ding Ruoquan, who was familiar with the Confucian classics, should be the lowest valley of his life after he was assigned to Montenegro, but with a solid foundation of the Book of Poetry, he learned and used the famous sayings of his master.
At the low point of life, you can use poetry to express and dispel condemnation (can be happy, can be observed).
He uses a lot of his verses in the film
The maodian fire is about to be extinguished
Watch the stars say goodbye
Pulse hey rain speechless
Strong desire to turn the throat into a roar
Montenegro Super Super Sea Air
Junhu hu is in this
……
My brother's ancient poems are not covered either—
The north wind drove me
The line meets the sea
My brother is fierce
It's in the vicissitudes
Widowed
Don't be an orphan
The above poems come from ancient poems, and they are not old-fashioned, which can be described as the true expression of temperament, and those old cadres who are still staying in rhyme and doing poetry should seriously read the poems of the Ding Ruoquan brothers to wake up?
Poetry, how to help Ding Ruoquanguan (can be observed)?
Montenegro, for the literati of the time, was no place to be civilized.
In the era of reading, Ding Ruoquan read the entry about Montenegro in the geography book compiled by Yingzu era:
900 miles from the capital
There were 283 households
Male Ding 361
Female dependents 344
He never dreamed that he would be sent to Montenegro because he had received his love of Western studies and believed in Catholicism.
The so-called white Montenegro, in the eyes of the literati at that time, was a piece of darkness, and there was no civilization to speak of.
But after coming to Montenegro, he found that in fact, the abundant products here, especially the abundance of seafood, are the guarantee of the country's prosperity.
Therefore, he changed the black mountain to Zishan, which is a treasure land that can nourish the Korean people.
Yes, when Su Dongpo was exiled to Lingnan, who would have thought that Guangdong would become the largest province in the latest census book Chinese?
A person's learning is not that the number of poems written exceeds that of the Qianlong Emperor, but that his vision is like a torch and can be applied through the world.
Montenegro borders us, and as fishing resources become more scarce, fishermen in China and South Korea often clash in this area.
When Ding Ruoquan spent a full fifteen years practicing the Zishan Fish Recipe, our literati fell into the official arena.
If, at the time of the controversy, one of the people's "Zishan Fish Recipes" is ironclad evidence, what about ours?
In the film, the director still hints at the conflict between China and South Korea,
For example, when Changda began to understand Ding Ruoquan's thought, it began to teach the children on the island in Korean, rather than using Chinese, changda believed that for the country to develop, it was not only necessary to break through the shackles of its own country but also to abandon the shackles of Chinese culture.
I have to say that director Li Liyi is a master, such a sensitive topic, he can easily solve it.
Can group, but also how to say?
When Ding Ruoquan came to the island, he did not regard himself as a scholar and a doctor, and regarded himself as superior, but mingled with the people and even married a local widow.
In fact, Ding Ruoquan really took two wives.
From his brother's poems, it can be seen that he came to Montenegro without his family.
What is even more valuable is that when he found that the area around Montenegro was rich in fishery resources, he was not enjoying the food there, but using his own knowledge to exchange his knowledge of marine fish, and wrote the famous "Zishan Fish Recipe" for the rest of his life.
Zi Yue: No words, no strangeness, force, chaos, God. He also wrote another book, which is also shameless to Confucianism.
The legend of a famous cow ear wandering in the sea for five years, from The South China Sea to China and back to the island of Montenegro.
After listening to this personal account, Ding Ruoquan wrote it down, called "The Beginning and End of the Drifting Sea"
"The Beginning and End of the Drifting Sea", a manuscript from the collection of the Singan Cultural Institute in South Jeolla Province
With stories, mingling with the masses, such a joyful way,
Ding Ruoquan used it.
In stark contrast to him is his younger brother Ding Ruoyong.
After he distributed the allocation, he was also writing books, writing "The Table of The Testament of the Scriptures" and "The Letter of the Shepherd's Heart".
Or use the Confucian set to explain the new world.
These books of his can be said to be the so-called inner saint and foreign king's way advocated by Chinese neo-Confucians.
Speaking of Neo-Confucianism, there is really a joke.
My college dissertation had featured the work of a university scholar who studied Neo-Confucianism, but after graduating from college I read in the press that the leader of Neo-Confucianism was controlled when he went abroad. The reason is that patriotism is business, and going abroad is life, it is a great irony of Neo-Confucianism.
If "Zishan Fish Recipe" only tells the story of a male protagonist, it will be monotonous.
The climax of the storyline is propelled by Changda.
At that time, if a person wanted to gain fame, he needed a master to introduce the circle.
Changda became famous by being a correspondent of the teacher Ding Ruoquan.
When he sent some of the teacher's letters, poems, and poems to the teacher's younger brother Ding Ruoyong, RuoYong found his proud disciple and Changda to pair the poems.
This was an epidemic in the social arena at the time.
Whoever is right and right will be famous in the world.
Under the influence of the teacher's practical learning, Changda is rough on the outside, but on the inside it is beautiful, and his poems are right, unlike Ding Ruoyong's disciples, who can only harden some ancient poems, or rigidly set "Kasa Weng Rhymes", but like Ding Ruoquan, activate ancient poems and activate life, and everything can be right.
Seeing this, I think that in college, I only memorized the analects of the Confucius's phrase "the name of many grasses, trees, birds and beasts", and reading her benefited from the movie "Zishan Fish Spectrum".
When Zhang Jinshi heard that his illegitimate son was so prominent, he took the initiative to come to the island and said that he wanted Changda to enter the family tree and use it to obtain a meritorious name.
Life itself is not tough, even Lao Tzu is not willing to help.
The young people who practice lying flatness at the moment should take a look at their heads.
Young people, after winning the name of the jianghu, they drifted.
He thinks the teacher's worldview is too dangerous.
Cut it in two.
From then on, the master and apprentice were on their own.
Changda took his family with his father and passed round after round of examinations to win the jinshi.
He bought an official position through his father and entered the decadent bureaucratic circle.
The greatest sorrow in life is that when you reach the other shore and find that this is not what you want, when you look back, you find that it has taken half a lifetime to do so.
Born in Montenegro, Changda was unable to participate in the bureaucracy of the fish and meat people.
On the verge of being blackened, Changda chose to fight, even nearly killing his superiors when he was angry with the people.
When he came to the master's house with his family back in Montenegro, the master had just passed away.
Ding Ruoquan died in the book case when writing the Zishan Fish Recipe.
When he opened the letter given to him by Master Ding Ruoquan, he burst into tears.
At that time, when he rebelled against the law and scolded the master for being poisoned by Western values and being a dangerous element of the country, how happy was he?
The master did not remember the old vendetta, but worried that his disciples would not be able to integrate into the corrupt bureaucratic system, and the words in the letter were warm, like a whip whipping himself.
The warmer it is, the deeper it is pumped.
When we re-read the preface to "Zishan Fish Recipe", just over two hundred words, not to praise the significance of our own book, but to praise Changda's understanding of the fish world.
"Zishan Fish Recipe" is not just a book, nor is it just a movie.
It is how the people who are in distress in life are like fish, and how they comfort each other.
Perhaps this kind of humanity can be excavated, and the film can empathize with fans.
At present, the world seems to be a big chase, but it seems to have returned to the era when Lao Tzu's old and dead did not interact with each other.
At this time, looking at the "Zishan Fish Recipe", pushing forward two hundred years from Ding Ruoquan, I heard the cries of Gu Yanwu and other elites of the traditional Chinese practical school.
Pushing half a world backwards from Ding Ruoquan, the foreign affairs movement of the sages such as Zeng Guofan and Zhang Zhidong was in front of him.
Most of the people trapped in the middle school and the Western school cannot become Zeng Zhang, and it is difficult for Ding Ruoquan.
More is Changda, hovering between tradition and modernity, wandering inside and outside the system, on the edge of blackening and semi-blackening.
Ding Ruoquan is our eternal idol, and we can only look back on it.
Changda, which is ourselves, how to return to our homes on the edge of blackening is a lesson we will take all our lives.