In 2016, Wang Wei, the former CEO of Tudou Network, released a very Chinese-style animation movie "Little Door God". The story takes place in the contemporary earthly town of Jiangnan and the divine world. The Door God Shendi and Yu Lei are two brothers. Because in recent years, the human world no longer pays attention to the gods and immortals, the economy of the divine world is depressed, and the small gods such as the door gods, the land lord, and the eight immortals are facing the danger of being laid off and unemployed. The door god Yu Lei decided to go to the human world and do something earth-shattering to prove the value of the door god. Yu Lei and Shen Di came to the human world one after another, met Xiao Ying and Yu'er, a single mother and daughter in the town, and then a series of unexpected interesting and thrilling stories occurred...
The story tells that in modern society, few people have paid attention to the door god, and the scene of the door god posted in the New Year in the past has disappeared, and everyone is busy making money and enjoying a fast-paced life.
On the town's commercial street, there is a century-old shop "Ying Ji Wonton Shop", and Xiao Ying, a single mother, returned to her hometown from the hustle and bustle of the city with her daughter Yu'er.
The soup of "Ying Ji Wonton Shop" has been boiled for hundreds of years and is a famous delicacy here.
Xiaoying returned to her hometown to inherit the wonton shop that her mother had been running all her life.
In the Divine Realm, there was also an economic crisis in the Divine Realm, and the unemployment rate of the Immortals remained high. The management of the Divine Realm is also trying to seek change, and the rules for the gods and immortals are increasing.
The Door God Yu Lei and Shen Di were also subject to various controls in the Divine Realm, and even any items flying up from the Human Realm could not be touched. Yu Lei felt depressed about the state of doing nothing every day, and thought that there was no point in what had been done. However, the door god Shendi was very Buddhist, and felt that it was enough to have a job in the divine realm now.
The night god who patrolled the night sent a new order to the door god, saying that in the future, there would be a new management system in the god realm, and he would come every day to punch in. And the door god is carried out index management, taking the door god New Year painting posted in the human world as the standard, if no one posts the New Year painting, it will be dismissed from the door god position of Yu Lei and Shen Di. According to statistics, at present, only one family in the town still has a door god New Year painting, and Yu Lei and Shen Di are facing the risk of unemployment.
Yu Lei and Shen Di and The Land were also required to go to the Heavenly Palace for re-employment training. In the Heavenly Palace, many immortals were training together, and the immortals felt helpless that the human world had forgotten the divine realm.
The divine training that looks very similar to Ma Yun brings various immortals to sing "I love change" to inspire the immortals to actively transform. Yu Lei, on the other hand, was indifferent.
The God of Wealth, who had successfully transformed, taught all the gods and immortals to dance together for exercise training, and the door god Yu Lei was dismissive of this.
The poor land lord was announced by the trainer to be laid off, and even the robes of the work were taken away.
The land lord was very depressed, and recalled the story of the taishang laojun subduing the monster "Nian". After the "year" was subdued, the world was too peaceful for too long, and the human world forgot the role of the gods.
After Yu Lei knew, he wanted to release the "nian" and let the world know the role of the immortals. However, Shen Di was worried that after the "nian" was released, the human world would be chaotic again. Yu Lei asked the land lord where the three seals that sealed the "year" were, and the land lord told him that the three seals were in the town.
Xiaoying's ravioli has always been a traditional taste, has never changed, and the business is getting worse and worse. However, the newly opened fast food restaurants near Xiaoying's home have many varieties and are very popular with children.
In order to destroy Xiaoying's wonton shop, the owner of the fast food restaurant found two driving cement loading trucks to block the door of Xiaoying's house. The fast-food restaurant owner pretended to be a hero to save the United States and beat them away. The toad wants to eat swan meat and wants Xiaoying to marry himself, but he did not expect to be sent away by a bowl of pepper soup by Yu'er.
Yu'er has no children to play with her in the town and wants to go back to the city with her mother Xiaoying, but Xiaoying says that she will keep the wonton shop left by her grandmother. Rain was very unhappy, angry, and left the house.
At this time in the Divine Realm, Yu Lei decided to go to the human world to find "Nian", but Shen Di let him get by. At this time, the Night God sent a courier from the Heavenly Palace to them, pointing out that their location was extremely low and they were close to being laid off. Yu Lei, enraged, disregarded the dissuasion of the gods and went down to the human world privately.
Rain saw stray dogs bullying little frogs and using stones to drive away stray dogs, but was chased by a group of stray dogs. At the critical moment, he was saved by Yu Lei, who was just under the heavens. Yu'er felt as if Yu Lei had a déjà vu and blurted out that she liked Yu Lei's protection, and Yu Lei gave her a jade pendant.
Yu Lei found the first seal to seal the "Nian", but he did not expect that it was his friend the Giant Spirit God who was guarding it. The Giant Spirit God learned that Yu Lei had come to the human world without permission to open the seal that sealed the "Nian", and told him that the consequences would be very serious. After the Giant Spirit God pretended to fight with Yu Lei, he immediately retreated.
Yu Lei used his sword to open the first seal that sealed nian. A large carp sealed by the seal turned into a golden dragon and flew away.
Shen Di was lonely in heaven alone, and he didn't know when Yu Lei would return.
The ravioli shop suddenly ran out of water and wanted to go to the stream. At this time, the owner of the fast food restaurant came over and said that there was no water in the stream, and he pretended to be kind enough to take the water pipe to Xiaoying, and then asked his men to put laxatives in the bucket. The diners of the Little Wonton Shop began to have diarrhea after eating the ravioli and were reported as unhygienic. The health inspector came to inquire and asked Xiaoying to dispose of the hundred-year-old soup but Xiaoying refused, and had no choice but to close the shop.
At this time, the giant spirit god ran to the divine realm and told the god that Yu Lei had broken the seal he was guarding. He wanted to go out and hide, so that Shen Di would be careful.
At this moment, the sacred tree guarded by Yu Lei and Shen Di suddenly aged and began to collapse. In order to find Yu Lei, Shen Di also came to the human world through the New Year painting, but he did not expect to arrive at Xiaoying and Yu'er's home.
On Halloween, Xiaoying came to the bar with Shendi to party with The Rain. In the bar, the fast food restaurant owner and his men pestered Xiaoying to dance, and Shen Di couldn't look at them and drove them away. Shen Di danced with Xiao Yingyu's mother and daughter and became the best partner of the night.
Shen Di came to the human world again, and Yu'er found the health supervision office and persuaded the health inspector to come to the store again. When Yu'er cleaned up the portrait of the Door God, she recognized that shendi and Yu Lei were originally door gods.
When the health inspector came to the Xiaoying Wonton Shop to check the hygiene, he found the owner of the fast food restaurant next door who was ghosting. Fast food restaurants were closed for rectification. The little wonton shop can operate normally.
Shen Di took Yu'er with yu'er and followed the jade pendant that Yu Lei gave to Yu'er to find him.
At this time, Yu Lei came to the second sealing place. Unexpectedly, the second seal was protected by the flower fairy. However, Yu Lei gradually grew older after opening the seal. Yu Lei fought with the flower fairy in order to open the second seal. At this time, Shen di and Yu'er also found this place through the guidance of Yu Pei. Yu Lei took advantage of the flower fairy and opened the second seal, but the flower fairy was sucked away by the black hole of the seal opening.
Because the second seal was opened, a large number of locusts appeared in the human world, and the flowers of the human world withered. After The divine di accused Yu Lei of opening the seal, the human world suffered a disaster.
The plum petals brought by the rain accidentally fell into the wontons, and suddenly became popular with the children. For a while, many people came to eat plum wontons. However, Yu'er told her mother Xiaoying that there were no plum blossoms in the plum blossom forest, and Xiaoying decided to change the ancestral recipe. Started selling various types of ravioli. Business at the ravioli shop is getting better and better, and there is a long queue of diners waiting outside the door to eat the ravioli.
Local children also came to play with Yu'er. In the blink of an eye, the New Year is over, and Yu'er sends all the New Year paintings to everyone to post.
Yu Lei's private deeds were finally discovered by the Night God, who threatened to report the divine books that made fun of Shen Di and Yu Lei, and was locked in a vat by the angry Shen Di, and then went down to find Yu Lei.
The wonton shop business is too good to affect the fast food restaurant business, the fast food restaurant owner kidnapped Yu'er, threatening her to hand over the secret recipe, just at this time Shendi arrived. Drove away the fast food restaurant owner.
Yu Lei came to the third sealing place, but he did not expect that it was actually the Gate Temple, which was full of statues of Shen Di and Yu Lei. The old man in the door temple told him that the third seal was in this door temple. Yu Lei insisted on opening the third seal, destroying all the statues of himself, and in the end, Yu Lei still found the third seal, a sword split it, the door temple collapsed, the "year" was released, and the human world changed into darkness.
At this time, the sacred tree that was guarded by the door god was threatened, and it turned out that the sacred tree that the door god had been guarding was "Nian". "Nian" raged in the human world, suddenly igniting firecrackers, and the sound of firecrackers scared away "Nian". Yu'er found out and beckoned everyone to come and set off firecrackers to drive away "Nian". The townspeople worked together to set off firecrackers.
In the Divine Realm, Yu Lei and Shen Di join forces to fight against Nian. Finally, with the help of the people in the human world and the music box left by Yu'er's grandmother, Shendi and Yulei finally defeated nian. Calm has also returned to the world. The residents of the town have gone home to put on the New Year paintings.
Because the matter of the "nian" being released was known to the Heavenly Palace, the rating examination of the Divine Realm was also stopped, and everything returned to its original state. Shen Di and Yu Lei opened a snack bar in the Divine Realm.
If "Little Door God" only does not look at the content, but only looks at the picture, it is simply exquisite to the extreme. Each frame can be taken out individually as a desktop. As far as the content is concerned, the meaning is also more profound, exploring the integration between tradition and modernity, how to improve traditional culture and adapt to the development of modernity, which is the theme that the author wants to express.