Snow child, egg birth, Nezha... With the repeated appearances of classic characters in domestic animation films, in the past few days, a national cartoon animation short film that helped the Beijing Winter Olympics has attracted a burst of tears from the post-80s and post-90s generations reminiscing about their childhood.
Nowadays, when you open the animation that you watched and forgot when you were a child, you will be shocked by the realism of life and the delicacy of feelings in childhood film and television works, detached from the realistic scenery in the real-life drama, and animation opens up countless worldviews and idealistic possibilities to us at the beginning of life in a very fanciful way of expression.
In 1980, Chinese cartoons had a big white. "Snow Child" tells a story of love and death. The mother rabbit is afraid that the rabbit is alone at home, so she makes a snow child to accompany the rabbit, and the snow child and the rabbit dance together, slide through the forest hand in hand, and establish an inseparable friendship.
The rabbit's house suddenly catches fire, and the snow child risks rescuing the rabbit from the fire, but he melts into a pool of water. The bunny woke up and couldn't find the snow child crying. The emotion of a child who does not want to be separated from his friends is so moving.
The little rabbit saw that the snow child had finally turned into a cloud and floated in the sky. Recalling the scene of the two playing together in the past, the melting and disappearing of the snow child is particularly sad. But this sentimentality is not negative and meaningless, it comes from the initial attachment and love that every child perceives in his heart.
Looking back again, we will recall the feelings of attachment to our partners at the beginning of life, and we will see the broad view of life and death that we did not understand in the past, and sublimate the initial sadness into an inner blessing. Our emotional education is to complete it little by little in this experience of the gathering and separation of the human world.
Tianshu Qitan is a hand-drawn animated feature film produced by Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio in 1983, and the whole story is recreated on the basis of Luo Guanzhong's "Biography of Ping You", with the simple values of classical Chinese chivalry to punish evil and promote good for the people, and with the vigorous idealism and dedication of the 1980s.
Yuan Gong was a small official in the heavens who guarded the Book of Heaven, he saw that the people were suffering from many diseases, and the Book of Heaven recorded 108 kinds of spells, which could cure diseases and conjure up various things, so he went down like Prometheus and carved the Book of Heaven on the stone wall of baiyun cave, so he was questioned by the Jade Emperor.
Yuan Gong was punished, but he did not change his original intention, he understood a lot of things that followed the Dao, the achievement did not have to be in me, he found the egg student, let the egg student take the paper to the cave to expand the book of heaven, pass it on to the world, to complete the unfinished business. Yuan Gong learned to change the way and found a space in the rules.
Egg Sheng is a pure child, Yuan Gong met Egg Sheng for the first time and asked him: "You are egg born, so it is called egg birth, is it?" "The language of the master and apprentice is so simple and lovely.
The egg is born without concern, and there is no greed in anyone. Egg students learn spells and help the people, there are locusts in the folk, eggs are born out of birds to eat locusts, county orders to plunder the property of the people, eggs will conjure up a large vat to change back the property of the people who have been looted.
Egg-born began by simply empathizing with the people, but eventually grew into a little hero against powerful exploiters.
The three foxes who ate the elixir adults stole the Book of Heaven were a mirror that reflected the greed of mortals. Because of their ability to perform spells, the foxes became the guests of the county order, the governor and the little emperor. The little emperor was happy from the beginning when he saw a bird, and then he was not satisfied when he saw the phoenix, and his desire was infinitely enlarged by the spell.
In the human world, magic is always believed, because people always have endless desires.
The three foxes who learned spells became more and more absurd in the human world. Yuan Gong destroyed Yunmeng Mountain, pressed three foxes under the mountain, and let Egg Sheng keep The Heavenly Secretary in his head, and then burned it. Yuan Gong put an end to the disaster and calmly waited to be captured by the Heavenly Court, the master and apprentice bid farewell with tears, and the human world was still shrouded in darkness.
The Book of Heaven represents the truth, and the truth will always spread to the human world, and Yuan Gong is part of the truth. However, the Heavenly Court wanted to keep the spell exclusive and guarded. The film gives this tragic ending of sacrifice for mercy a restrained treatment, and yuan Gong's encounter after being chained back to the heavenly court can be imagined. We don't know if Egg Sheng can go to heaven to save Master again, but we are touched by the righteous hearts of this pair of masters and disciples.
Drama has no roots, the love is not deep, and the root of "Heavenly Book" is conscience itself. Yuan Gong, as a god, did not protect the interests of his own group, but only because he saw the suffering of the world and decided to do something to change, the source of this heart is the conscience that Wang Yangming said. Egg birth is the inheritance and extension of Yuan Gong, Yuan Gong has left, and the Dao Dao will continue to remain in the human world.
The story of "The Legend of Nezha" begins with the chaotic world of Nezha's birth under the rule of the King of Lu, the newborn Nezha with a very destructive all-powerful narcissism, at the age of four, he can pull a full bow and let a Xuanyuan arrow shoot at the head of the bed of the King of Nezha, flooding the town of Qiantang, ignorance is the courage to break into one disaster after another.
As he expanded his exploration of the world, the discipline was pressed on Nezha one by one, and while he resisted, he also began to really see others. Understand the hardships of her mother and Taiyi Zhenren, and experience the suffering of the people of Chaoge City.
His mother taught Nezha Shan, ji fa brought Nezha faith, and Little Pig Bear taught Nezha how to care for the weak.
Father and pagoda represent disciplines and limitations in the process of growing up, since when do we see the maturity of Nezha? It was Nezha who used to fight against his father's pagoda, to the time when he was possessed by dark energy and was afraid that he would hurt the people and voluntarily entered the pagoda.
At the end of "The Legend of Nezha", Nezha killed Shi Ji, but he was possessed by Shi Ji's residual dark energy, his mind was confused, he became violent, and he escaped into the state of ignorance, and his mother entered the Valley of Darkness, holding Nezha and saying, "Thinking of the light in your heart, you can rush out, and your mother will illuminate the way out for you." ”
The decisive battle is sung, the Shang is destroyed, the King of Wu ascends the throne, Nezha defeats the demons and ghosts along the way, and the last level is to defeat himself who is possessed by darkness. When we grow up, we realize that Nezha is not a myth, and he summarizes the collisions we have had with the real world along the way.
When we grew up, we also understood the love between king Gong and DaiJi. Dai Ji fell in love with the King of Sui, who had only one side, and in order to find the immortal grass to become a beautiful woman in the world, even if he lost six lives, he was willing. She muttered in front of the mirror, "I hope he sees me and will like me." He will, he will. "The feelings of the self are so hot and pure here.
The King of Gong and Daji were finally buried in the sea of fire in the Star Tower, and at the moment when the mountains and rivers were exhausted, Daji did not want to be left alone, and the King of Gong said that he knew from the beginning that Daji was a fox, and that he had hurt the people of the world, and there was also a love that he did not want to live up to.
This is the part of the past childhood that I did not have time to see clearly. The king of Lu has fainted all his life, but the creator has given a romantic and tragic expression at the moment of the end of his life, in this cartoon, even if the villain character, we can see the moving part of human nature.
In addition to the classic domestic animation characters such as Snow Child, Egg Boy and Nezha, the story of two domestic animation films is quite "not simple".
"Sanmao Wandering" is not a fairy tale, but the real days of the old society. Sanmao is a child who knows best how to live in the present, he endures bullying in the most prosperous streets of Shanghai, but he never complains about others, and still maintains a kind and optimistic character. Sanmao thought again and again that he had found a home, thought he was about to live a happy life, and was abandoned by fate again and again.
In the last scene, Sanmao was adopted by the rich man Wu Zifu as his own son, and finally got the coveted affection, in the blink of an eye, a fire took away his relatives and became a wandering child again from the rich young master. Sanmao dug out a pocket watch with a picture of his new father from the ruins of the fire, and the cries floated overhead, resounding throughout the vast City of Shanghai.
No one knows what is left in Sanmao's heart after the great tragedy and great joy, when the end and the little leper holding hands and walking to the distance to continue wandering, they still believe that tomorrow is a new day...
Old Shanghai, what we remember is the prosperity of the lights and wine, but in fact, in the 1930s, due to the large number of foreign goods, the rural areas in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were generally bankrupt, the city was deformed and prosperous, the economy collapsed, the price of rice rose three times a day, the poor could not survive, and the rich fled. Zhang Leping's comics restore a kind of real suffering that has been endured.
When we were young, we understood stories, and when we grew up, we looked back at a history that was endured by specific people. "Sanmao Wanderer" shows the dark side, but it does not preach this darkness. The fear and pity that tragedy causes, its real meaning is to seek good. The more the evil of human nature is revealed, the more the pursuit of goodness in children's hearts can be stimulated. The impact of childhood on a person is profound, and it gives children a greater level of understanding of the suffering of a complex world.
When we grow up, we find that "Little Tiger Returns Home" is a hidden tragedy, the way home for the little tiger is very difficult, grassland, desert, plateau, snow mountain... From north to south, the little tiger's footprints traveled through almost all the terrain, each time almost meeting with the human friends who helped him go home, and each time missing out.
How good is "Little Tiger Homecoming" crying? Whether it is in the complete episode of Station B or under the ending song "Go All Out" by NetEase Cloud, a group of adults who recall their childhood cry out loud at the same time.
The plot of the separation of the little tiger and the mother can always evoke the fear of separation in the nature of mammals, abuse and cry for a generation of children, and then slowly grow up to understand that the creator let the little tiger finally not find the deep meaning of the mother. There are many things that people will linger on in their lives, but there are also many things that need to be pursued or established. The way the little tiger goes home is actually the way to grow up and go to the far side independently.
Good friends have found their homes one after another along the way, but Xiaohu is still alone. Little Tiger will never find his mother, but he has experienced a strong character, compassion and friendship, and trudged his life alone to become the true king of the forest.
When we grow up, when we look back at the story of the little tiger, we will find that the cartoon tells us in advance of the growth and loneliness that we have to experience.
"Little Tiger Homecoming" gives children a perspective inside the animal, the snow leopard is depressed and sad because of the separation from his wife who was knocked down by the hunter, the retired leader Lao Yan sheep sacrifices himself to fight the hunter in order to save the group, and the children's understanding and empathy for different animals in nature are accumulated in this kind of viewing. If you have an understanding of nature, you will have love and cherishing.
Many of the heartfelt perceptions that have followed the cartoons have grown up and forgotten, and the initial touches have been sealed in the animated world that will not change. In the adult re-reading, we realize that the creators have told us the secrets of the world in advance.
In that era of underdeveloped information, one story after another expanded the level of extension of our lives, and in a gentle and non-preachy way, we completed the education of truth, goodness, and beauty in our lives.
And it is this kindness that has become the most precious background color on our growth path.
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Written / And gmi
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