In 1898, the British writer Morgan Robertson wrote a novel titled "In Vain."
The book is about a supposedly unsinkable luxury giant ship, the Titan, departing from Britain's first voyage to the United States, this giant ship is an unprecedented luxury passenger ship, and the ship is equipped with all kinds of luxurious equipment.
It was almost impossible to buy tickets for the ship, but just as these people were enjoying themselves on the ship, the huge ship crashed into the glacier, sank tragically, and eventually became a wreck at the bottom of the ocean that could not be salvaged.
Seeing this, I think you will say that I am familiar with this story, after all, the film and television drama "Titanic" does not know how many times it has been watched.
But I would like to say that the titanic is not based on this novel, but based on historical events that actually happened.
Perhaps, you would also think that Morgan Robertson's novel is based on the sinking of the Titanic, otherwise, how could the giant ship even have such a similar name?
Not only the name, but there are many similarities between the descriptions in the novel and the real historical events, all of which are the sinking of the first voyage, the sailing time, the route, the place where the shipwreck was, and even the speed of the collision with the iceberg was almost the same, and thousands of people were killed after the accident because the lifeboats were not enough...
Speaking of which, I think it must be even more important to think that this novel is based on the real shipwreck event.
In fact, this is not the case, because the Titanic shipwreck occurred in 1912, exactly 14 years after the publication of "Futile", so the book is also known as the Titanic Death Prophecy Book.
There are many hidden secrets in the real Titanic shipwreck, such as the fact that there are 8 Chinese on the ship, and in the end 6 people survived, they were abused after a difficult escape, and one of them, Fang Sen, returned home and bought a manor.
And our story starts with a documentary.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > the survivors of the Titanic</h1>
In April this year, a documentary called "Six" was released, the director and screenwriter are Luo Fei, and the documentary is about taking the audience to track down the six surviving Chinese on the Titanic.
Luo Fei had actually heard a long time ago that there were eight Chinese passengers on the Titanic, and there were six survivors in the end, and as a foreigner on the giant ship, the survival rate was very high.
However, through historical records, Luo Fei and others found that the news information of that year had almost no records and reports on the Chinese, so Luo Fei decided to look for the descendants of these survivors and find out the historical truth of that year.
As the investigation deepened, Luo Fei and the others became more and more indignant, because they found that after the sinking of the Titanic, almost all the survivors were sent to the port of New York, and almost all of them received heroic courtesy.
Only these six Chinese were deported by the United States within 24 hours, and as for their escape experience, they were maliciously denigrated by the Western media, claiming that the surviving six people were afraid of death, and even disguised as women to get the above lifeboats.
In order to give an explanation to the public and to give Chinese a proper name, Luo Fei gathered dozens of researchers and spent four years visiting more than 20 cities such as Beijing, Hong Kong, London, San Francisco, New York, and Toronto, and finally explored the historical truth that was submerged.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="46" > the miracles created by survivors</h1>
In titanic, we are all familiar with the scene where the heroine Ruth is finally saved, and her lover Jack places her on a floating wooden board in order to save her, so that Ruth is finally saved.
But in real history, Ruth was not the last person to be saved, and the last to be saved was a Chinese named Fang Rongshan (also known as Fang Sen).
At that time, he was lying on a wooden board, and finally miraculously survived.
In 1997, Before filming "Titanic", Cameron was already familiar with the story of Fang Rongshan, and in order to restore the real history as much as possible, Cameron even specially filmed the scene of Fang Rongshan being rescued.
You might say, why didn't you see this touching scene in Titanic?
This is because this paragraph was deleted, and in the film Ruth lying on the wooden board waiting to be rescued, the source of inspiration is Fang Rongshan, as for the reason for the deletion, first, it is because of the repetition with Ruth's rescue, and second, Cameron is not Chinese.
Fortunately, in 2012, the extended commemorative version of Titanic was re-released, and the deleted segment was also played:
In the dark sea, a Chinese man crouched on the door panel and cried out in Cantonese, and was rescued by a lifeboat that turned back.
In addition to Fang Rongshan, there are five other Chinese who survive, who are not rich and noble people on the ship, but boilermakers at the bottom of the status, and if they are placed in the film, they can only live humbly at the bottom of the luxury giant ship like Jack.
They worked more than 14 hours a day, and they were paid one-fifth of the salaries of white crews, and they all had one thing in common, that is, they were professional sailors, and naturally they knew how to escape from the sea.
Later, they survived, precisely because of the good nature of the water, as for the disguised woman in a lifeboat, this is nonsense.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="47" > Fang Rongshan and others were abused</h1>
This can't help but remind people of Ruth's fiancé, Karl, who hugged a little girl in order to escape, which is really disgraceful.
In the real Titanic incident, when the giant ship was about to sink and the lifeboat rescued, there was no so-called priority of women and children, and the priority was only those who had status.
Therefore, Fang Rongshan and others naturally have no way and cannot get on the lifeboat first, and as for those slanderous words, they are all deliberately fabricated by the Western media.
After Fang Rongshan and six others were rescued, they were sent to the port of New York, like the other survivors, but what awaited them was not a welcome, but deportation and abuse, and they were driven to a desert island to fend for themselves.
Fang Rongshan and others did not give up their belief in survival on the desert island, and later they boarded a ship passing through the desert island as cheap labor before going to Britain, but in Britain, the discrimination they suffered did not diminish in the slightest.
Fang Rongshan knew that only by returning to his homeland could he live with dignity like a normal person, so he worked hard to make money, and after accumulating some money, he bought a ferry ticket back to Hong Kong.
Fang Rongshan, who returned to his homeland, buried this legendary experience deep in his heart, but he worked hard, and after many years of accumulation, Fang Rongshan accumulated a lot of money in his hands, married his wife and had children, and even bought a manor in Hong Kong.
In this land, Fang Rongshan enjoyed free and equal treatment, bathed in the warm sunshine of the motherland, and presumably he must be satisfied.
Time flies, the years fly by, the Titanic has been sunk for more than a hundred years, and in the body of Fang Rongshan and others, we once again feel the grief of the former Chinese people being bullied.
Now, our Chinese nation has risen strongly, the great motherland is our strong backing, no matter where we are, we are connected with the motherland, no longer have to live humbly, today's China is strong, my generation can not forget history, but should work hard!
References: "Six", "Chinese Survivor Fang Rongshan on the Titanic", "In Vain", etc.
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