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Did you know that titanic was inspired by a Chinese survivor?
The survivor's name was Fang Rongshan, from Taishan, Guangdong.
Forced to make a living, he crossed the ocean with his fellow countrymen at the beginning of the last century to find another possibility in life on the other side of the ocean.
But in that chaotic era, the yellow-skinned man was never treated, and even if he was a talented person, he was useless.
In desperation, he and several of his companions worked as boilermakers, and were later sent to the United States by an employment company, and the transportation they took was the world-famous Titanic.
As the largest luxury cruise ship at that time, and the first voyage, the Titanic ticket was not only expensive but also difficult to find. This is true even in the worst of third class.
According to a report at the time, first-class tickets were once sold to £870, and that was enough to buy a luxury car at the time.
Therefore, in order to save travel expenses, the company gave Fang Rongshan a group of 8 people, which was a third-class collective ticket.
Even so, the 8 young people did not show any remorse, but stepped onto the deck of the Titanic with a vision of a better future.
At this time, they would not know that this behemoth, called the unsinkable ship, would be forever silent in the depths of the ocean on the way to the first voyage.
On the night of April 14, 1912, 2 hours and 40 minutes after the Titanic hit the iceberg, the ship completely sank, and took 1514 living lives, including 2 companions of Fang Rongshan.
Unlike the other 5 rescued companions, Fang Rongshan did not have the luck of boarding the lifeboat at the beginning, but relied on a door panel floating on the sea surface, and was finally rescued by the lifeboat when his energy was exhausted.
In this regard, cameron, the director of "Titanic", once said that the inspiration for the rescue of the heroine in the movie was Fang Rongshan Benshan.
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The real Titanic has no lady first, only 6 Chinese who have been smeared for 109 years.
But the irony is that whenever this ship is mentioned now, the chinese people only think of the fairy love between Jack and "meat silk".
On April 18, 1912, the survivors of the Titanic arrived safely in New York, but the disaster for the six Chinese passengers had only just begun.
Many seriously ill Westerners angrily scolded that these Chinese saved their lives because they hid in lifeboats dressed as men and women.
Because in their eyes, Chinese are combed with long braids, and spreading their hair can disguise themselves as female beings.
The first to make this claim was the Titanic's owner, Bruce, who claimed that his cruise ship was unsinkable and therefore did not need lifeboats, so he reduced the number of lifeboats by 60%.
At the same time, it is also the cheeky face of the movie, regardless of the priority of women and children, secretly boarding the lifeboat.
In fact, it is not surprising that Bruce will do this, as the main person in charge of the shipwreck accident, he needs to divert the attention of the public, otherwise the target of the outside rumors will become himself.
And this is also the safest approach, because in the international environment, Chinese have been portrayed as selfish and ugly images, Bruce's words will not be contradicted, and no one will defend innocent Chinese passengers.
But a lie will never come true.
In the escape story full of survivors, Fang Rongshan, as one of the survivors, was enthusiastic about helping sailors paddle after being rescued, and also actively helped other search and rescue teams, which led the captain of a lifeboat to say: A big hero like Fang Rongshan is not too much to save 10 times.
Only under the smear of the media, few people are willing to believe that the Chinese headed by Fang Rongshan are innocent, so when they first arrived at the port of New York, they were suspected of being "stowaways" who refused to enter the United States because of the number of valid documents that sank to the bottom of the sea and their English was not fluent.
Not only that, but the Americans, who were right and wrong, crammed them into Cuban cargo ships.
At this point, these 6 Chinese who did not die, but did not have the blessing of the future, disappeared in the long river of history, until today, more than 100 years later, the 6 survivors who have long been dead have finally been wronged.
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In the 109th year of the sinking of the Titanic, Chinese, who had been wronged for a century, finally got rid of the label of national shame.
April 15 marks the 109th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
On the second day of the anniversary, British director Luo Fei and American researcher Schwank launched their documentary film "Six People".
In the film, the escape details of the 6 Chinese were put on the screen for the first time.
In previous Western media reports, the surviving Chinese have always been self-serving and despicable people who disregard women and children, but the truth is that they are in the third class cabin and accidentally found a lifeboat that was damaged and idle at the bow of the ship.
Before that, they had also obediently waited on the deck for rescue, but no one was willing to give kindness to the yellow-skinned them.
Not only that, they also invited the director of "Titanic" to be the supervising producer of the film, fully ensuring that after the documentary is released, it can be seen by the world to the greatest extent, just because one more person witnesses, the truth has more meaning.
It is not easy to explore the history of a hundred years ago, but the two more serious ones still threw themselves into the big project without hesitation, and after 4 years of investigation, after finding the descendants of 6 survivors, they let this covered up legend come to light.
In fact, as early as 1997, when "Titanic" was first released, James Cameron, a director who knew a lot of truth, also highlighted 6 Chinese survivors in the film, but in the main film, it was still tragically cut by the producer.
And this is also the reason why as an internationally renowned director, he will be a supervising producer of unknown documentaries.
In addition, James also specifically approached the copyright holder of "Titanic" and asked them to allow Luo Fei and others to use the film clips for free.
Nowadays, as the documentary spreads, more and more people know the truth behind the disaster.
Although the 6 survivors have long since passed away, the truth is the truth, which has its own power, and should not and cannot be washed away, hidden, and deleted.