The day before yesterday' Teacher's Day, I watched a Korean movie that had a little to do with the teacher- "Zishan Fish Recipe". A film adapted from real historiographical material, and it is a little ashamed to say that it is a Korean film. This costume history film, rich in Confucian philosophical ideas, was actually made in South Korea.
The entire film is presented in black and white, with only the final seascape changing color once.
I thought that black and white had some special meaning, but after watching an interview with the director, the director said: In line with the story setting, black and white is a way to save budget.
Well, then, let's concentrate on the story.
The protagonist, Ding Ruoquan, was once a court official who was proficient in Traditional Chinese Studies and knew Western Studies, and was sent to Black Mountain Island because of the persecution of Xin You. Even if a talented person is exiled to a small place in Montenegro, the local people still have a reverence for such literate people.
In Montenegro, Ding Ruoquan became acquainted with Zhang Changda, an inquisitive fishing expert. Ding Ruoquan took the initiative, learned that he wanted to seek learning, and offered to help Changda, but Changda refused.
In Changda's eyes, Ding Ruoquan was a person who was infringed upon by Western religions and betrayed the ideas of his ancestors. But in fact, Changda admired Ding Ruoquan's knowledge in his heart, and he respected and feared both. In Changda's heart, an official like Ding Ruoquan, who was full of poetry books, had the image he depicted. So when Ding Ruoquan ran towards Changda regardless of the image, Changda said this: As a two-class person, why do you run like a subordinate.
The story paves a lot of groundwork for Ding Ruoquan to become interested in fish, and from the first time he eats, he is being fished by Amway.
The difference in people's thinking may be here, the same thing, in Ding Ruoquan's eyes is a book that can be recorded as a book for posterity to read, but in Changda's eyes, it is useless common sense that others do not want to know.
Man, awareness is important. After Ding Ruoquan realized how shallow his knowledge of fish was, he saw that the fish's thinking diverged, and there were more problems.
Never proud of his high learning, he and Changda worship each other as teachers, he taught Changda to ask, Changda taught him to identify fish, and helped him complete the "fish recipe". Changda also seemed to have found the steps, seizing this opportunity to ask Ding Ruoquan for advice.
Ding Ruoquan's polite temperament coupled with profound cultural accomplishment, there is no shortage of women's worship, has been taking care of the women he eats and drinks, and finally had two children with him. And this later Lady Ding, in the era of patriarchal society, thought about the status of mothers is also impressive. After returning home, Changda, who was taught, actually took the initiative to help his mother do things.
Ding Ruoquan asked Changda from the beginning, "What do you do as a fisherman?" Dalits can't be examiners and can't make money.
Changda is Shu out, and his father is an official. It is precisely because of this relationship that Changda has always had the desire to engage in politics. He had seen enough of the corruption of officials and the oppression of the people, and he wanted people to see his rule and serve his ideal country.
Ding Ruoquan, on the other hand, had seen the official scene and was already extremely disappointed in this system. He accepted Western learning, not treason, patriotism, and could not bear to lag behind the West in national thinking. He wanted no monarchy, and in Changda's view, this idea was unrealistic, how could he rule a country without a monarch?
The different political concepts of teachers and students also paved the way for Changda to bid farewell to teachers later.
Under the tutelage of Ding Ruoquan, Changda's knowledge progressed rapidly, from not being able to write poetry to exporting chapters, and with the help of his father, he finally left The Black Mountain Island and went to the inland examiner. Of course, this also marks that he and his teacher Ding Ruoquan are about to start parting ways.
Young people, who are not involved in the world, think that they can change the corrupt officialdom, but they are advised to go along with it.
In the end, the picture that made Changda erupt was very dazzling, even if it was a black and white picture, you could feel the bloodiness rushing out of the screen.
Three-month-old children are also taxed, and men can be said to be cornered, cutting off their own life roots in front of the government, and women clutching the life roots of men, crying and complaining to officials, and being beaten severely.
And Ding Ruoquan, who left Montenegro Island, has always been in poor health, and has been writing fish recipes until his death, but he really has the stubborn energy of the ancient literati.
Unfortunately, Ding Ruoquan did not wait for Changda before he died, but he expected Changda to visit him.
Ding Ruoquan left a letter to Changda, which contained the following sentence:
"Changda, although it is not a bad thing to live as a crane that constantly flies upwards, even if the mud is dirty and dirty, it also chooses to live like Zishan, desolate and desolate but full of vitality and freedom, and it has never been a meaningful thing..."
The teachers are all mentioning Changda in the end, even if they are all filthy officials around, don't be like them, deep evil, good in their hearts. How to live was Changda's choice, but he had the will of a crane, and in the end he failed to endure this corrupt officialdom and returned to Montenegro to continue his life.
Since I couldn't apply what I had learned, I chose to live with my nature.
"Zishan Fish Recipe" is not originally called "Zishan Fish Recipe", Ding Ruoquan originally remembered the name "Black Mountain Fish Recipe", because the name of Montenegro is "obscure and terrible", so Ding Ruoquan and his family changed their name to "Zishan", "Zi" is also the meaning of "black". ，
The whole film infiltrates us with philosophy, making us think about how to live, how to be born and enter the world, and the film has a lot of Confucian discussions that make me impressed by this Korean film.
You can look through the filth, withdraw from this world, be a hermit, flow with the filth, or get out of the mud without staining, and find your own pure land in the filth.
How to compromise with this problematic society, how to look at the uncleanness of this society, how to live, are all their own choices.
We allow different forms of society to exist, allow people to have different aspirations, and people think differently, which creates social pluralism.
This Chinese philosophy filmed by Koreans is unfortunately gratifying.