The woodcutter does not hesitate to boil the sea for his loyal love: the color comic strip "Zhang Yu Boiling the Sea"

The colorful comic strip "Zhang Yu Boiling Sea", based on the meta-drama "Shamen Island Zhang Yu Boiling Sea", is a very famous mythological story. The main plot is the woodcutter Zhang Yu, who often plays the flute on the seashore, touching Princess Qionglian of the Three Princesses of the Dragon Palace. The two fell in love and were engaged. The tyrannical And violent Dragon King of the East Sea, forbade them to fall in love, and sent Qionglian to a black stone prison, and Qionglian's maid Mei Xiang stole the Three Treasures of Zhenhai from the Dragon Palace, delivered them to Zhang Yu, boiled the sea, and surrendered to the Dragon King. Qionglian and Zhang Yu finally won a free and happy love.

Li Haogu, a native of Baoding (present-day Hebei), a native of Dongping (present-day Shandong) and a native of Xiping (present-day Henan). The years of birth and death and the deeds of life are not examined, and the "Record of Ghosts" is listed as "the predecessors have died and the public talents".

"Shamen Island Zhang Yu Boiling Sea" is the only surviving mythological drama of yuanqu writer Li Haogu, and it is a good drama full of the spirit of comics. In the play, Zhang Yu can break through the shackles of the old ritual religion and dare to fight against the feudal ruling forces represented by the Dragon King, which has anti-feudal significance. The story of Zhang Yu boiling the sea is widely spread in our local area, reflecting the strong determination of the island youth not to be authoritarian and pursue beautiful love.

The story of "Zhang Yu Boiling the Sea" has been arranged and performed by many dramas such as commentaries and Yue operas, and the plot is also different. However, Zhang Yu's boiling sea section is an important plot.

At the same time, "Zhang Yu Boiling the Sea" has also been created as a comic strip by many famous comic strip artists. What you appreciate today is the comic strip "Zhang Yu Boiling Sea" created by Wu Guangyu, a famous comic strip artist in China, in the form of heavy color, which was once released in the form of four screens of New Year painting in the 60s and had a greater influence.

Wu Guangyu (1908-1970) was a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. In 1926, he studied at the Beijing Chinese Painting Research Society, and after 1949, he entered the Beijing Academy of Painting to engage in professional creation. He was a member of the China Beauty Association. Good at characters, take the Law song and Yuan, with heavy color in the brush, take more historical themes, myths and legends and costume characters into the painting, skillful brushwork, quaint color, vivid image. He is also good at comic strips. "Zhang Yu Boiling the Sea" is one of his masterpieces of comic strips.

Note: The above pictures are remade from my library, the clarity is not very high, hereby explained.