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The movie "Flower Card Romance" series describes the story of three teenagers who are married by flower cards.
Flower card romance
Left: Chihaya Ayase Middle: Taiichi Manashima Right: Shin Umiya
The heroine is Ayase Chihaya, while the other two teenagers are her boys, One is Taiichi Majima and the other is Shin Mitani.
The whole story is connected by flower cards, interspersed with teacher-student love, friendship, and a love triangle between the heroine and the two male protagonists.
The film's success lies in the clever use of the waka on the flower card (a Japanese poem composed of 31 characters in five sentences of 57 and 577) to express the mood of the protagonist at that time. The whole work blends the art of waka and the emotions of the characters, showing the power to shake people's hearts.
Song cards
Many people may not understand what the flower card is, the flower card is the "Ogura Hundred People One" (100 japanese song works between Emperor Tenchi and The Emperor Shunde), the correct translation should be the song card, the flower card is another kind of card without a japanese song, just because the Taiwanese side mistakenly translated as "flower card", it has been used this name. The flower card in the movie is called Goryodo, which is the so-called song card, and the song card records the content of one hundred people in Kokura.
One of the hundred people of Kokura is deeply influenced by ancient Chinese poetry, and the language is condensed, short and contains rich feelings.
But just like the traditional Chinese poetry, which has been handed down from generation to generation, Japanese waka has also spread to the homes of ordinary people in a unique way, spanning thousands of years, and has become a pastime after tea and dinner.
So, how did waka cross thousands of years and pass it on to the present day?
In ancient China, the ancients memorized the Four Books and Five Classics wildly, they forgot to eat and sleep, and they hung their beams and thorns, just to get a meritorious name and get ahead.
In contrast, Japanese waka learning is much easier because it uses games to allow everyone to experience the fun.
Waka used to be a japanese court game. In ancient Japan, the uchiha had a very unique requirement, that is, he had to master the three skills of calligraphy, orchestra, and waka. This view can be corroborated in the Pillow Kusanagi, when Emperor Murakami's concubine Yoshiko was not yet in the palace, and her father Fujiwara Shii taught her:
"First of all, you should learn calligraphy. The seven-stringed piano should be played more than everyone else. In addition, it is necessary to memorize the "Ancient and Modern Collections" and the twenty volumes of songs. ”
From the Heian period to the Kamakura period, the game form of "Kakuhe" (i.e., the Japanese song contest) was developed, and the "Kagaku" was very similar to sumo wrestling, and the singers who participated in the song were divided into two groups, and for the specified proposition, the left and right groups each composed a japanese song, and the judge decided to decide the winner or loser. Women can also participate. Now it has developed into a red and white song festival, so from the red and white song festival held every year in Japan, we can glimpse the grand situation of competing in waka at that time.
There is also a form called poetry, also called fighting poetry, which is a competition between Chinese poetry, and women cannot participate.
There is also the so-called poetry combination, that is, Chinese poetry and waka compete with each other, which is also very interesting. It is described in the "Collection of Harmony and Han Lang Yong" composed by Fujiwara Gongren, and the earliest song combination was the Minbu Qingxinghei family song collection held in the first year of Renhe.
poetry contest
However, waka was not a kind of elegant art limited to the nobility, and it also entered the eyes of the general public through the competitive competition of Gorudo. The song cards on The Song Ofura are 100 of the 100 Japanese songs in Kokura. People who play cards should grab the song card with the next sentence in the fastest time according to the previous sentence they heard.
It sounds easy, but in fact, in order for a person to grab this card at the fastest speed, he must be familiar with these 100 japanese songs and have a strong memory and reaction ability, and he must also shoot fast, which is an urgent need for physical strength, so "Gerudo" is also jokingly called "fighting skills on tatami".
In "Flower Card Romance", Qianye will lie tired on the ground after each game.
Fight the monk
In addition to "Karuto", there is also a "playing monk" draw game (Japanese "Shopkeeper めくり", turn to the monk card to play all the cards in the hand before the card is played again), children who do not know the pseudonym can also play, the cards are also printed with the head of the Waka and the singer, but the rules of the game are different, the person who gets the most cards wins. Although "playing the monk" does not need to remember the waka, when seeing the waka on the cards for a long time, the child will subtly remember the content of the waka.
Japanese waka, which is suitable for all ages, has been passed down in the form of a game.
The broadcast of "Flower Card Love" can be said to have set off a climax of Japanese songs in Japan, and many students voluntarily signed up for the Song Liu Duo Competition, and the number of participants also rose. This is all due to Japan's cultural export effect.
In addition to "Flower Card Love", the famous anime detective Conan we know has also produced a theatrical version of "Tang Hong's Love Song", using song cards to connect criminal cases, and also set off a wave of song cards.
Japan has done a very good job in the promotion of anime, film and television, stimulating the visual senses of the people, and in addition, for the people's sense of smell and taste, Japan has also made sufficient efforts. There is a Kokura-san-san in Kyoto, and a special one-hundred-person Senbei has been launched. On the bag of each piece of Xianbei is written the waka and the corresponding singer's head.
This adds new added value to a hundred people on the basis of fun, which is delicious to read and delicious.
And such a xianbei can also be used for games, after grabbing this card, we will silently eat the xianbei, is it more interesting to stay in such a song?
Some merchants directly printed one of the hundred people on the cookie and made it into a song brand pancake.
The beauty of culture and the beauty of food are one and more than a feast for the eyes and mouth-watering.
Such snacks are perfect for giving gifts as souvenirs, but their practical waka gift making is a custom that has existed since ancient times. According to historical records, in the Heian period, noble men and women often exchanged gifts and wrote a poem to express their hearts.
Moreover, in the Heian period, "thing name" poetry was also popular, that is, the name of the thing was hidden in the waka, which is somewhat similar to the riddle. When giving gifts, it is interesting to give such a famous poem.
There is such a poem in fujiwara's "FujishoKuji".
Only asagiri of the peak where the wild goose comes does not clear (Karino Kururu Mine no Asagiri Harezu only) The unsungness of the world (the yuutsu of the undaunted)
This sentence means that the geese are flying, but the morning fog on the mountain peak has not yet dissipated, and my heart has not been cleared at this scene, and my mind is full of the pain of those people who have experienced in the world.
In this verse there is a walnut (くるみ), the walnut we eat. When the walnut is given away, this song is attached, which has its own elegant atmosphere.
In this way, Japanese waka stimulates the senses in a unique way, penetrating into every corner of Japanese people's lives and bringing them a different experience.
The pain is deep, and the memory is cut.
The spread of culture is never easy, and every mighty cultural spread has the pain of political change.
The democratic rule of law preached by the European Enlightenment was reinforced by the vast regime changes. Qin Shi Huang burned books to pit Confucianism to consolidate power, and Confucianism was able to continue for thousands of years.
It is the countless people who have experienced the pain of culture in the course of historical changes and preserved the memories of these cultures.
In "Flower Card Love", there is no suffering of the destruction of the country and the death of the family, only the youthful emotional story of young boys and girls.
However, such a story makes every audience become a "person in the play" and experience the sadness of the growth behind the waka.
Let's take a look at the wasa song clip in "Flower Card Romance".
When Oe and Hanano were talking about Chihaya's love triangle, they talked about a very famous song contest in Japanese history, in which two waka songs of no distinction were born, and they were both included in one hundred songs.
The two songs are based on the theme of first love, one by Hei Kanemori and the other by TadaoMi.
My love is in a sneaky color To the question of the person unexpectedly and things ------------------------
Translation: Acacia is full of colors, and I can't hide my heart. Why bother? Biased to ask questions.
The poem describes a man who has a crush on a woman and tries to hide his feelings, but how can the feelings be hidden?
Koi Sate fuwa's name is still alive It's unthmanched that I can't help but think about it. INTERVIEWER MIBU Tadami
Translation: Spring girl first admired love, but I hope to avoid people's words. Who expected the whispers to be fast, and the wind was full of smells in the world.
The poem describes a man who likes a woman, but has just begun to fall in love, and gossip does not go away.
The relationship between the heroine and the two male protagonists in "Flower Card Love" is the true portrayal of these two poems, one confession, which is well known to everyone, while the other silently puts his love in his heart and silently guards the heroine. The feelings of the two sides are comparable, so who will the heroine choose?
In the final round of the battle of destiny (that is, the song card that determines the victory or defeat), this emotion is even at its peak.
When reading the cards, the two male protagonists did not hesitate, grasped a card that suited their mood, and the love of the first love and the song card were cleverly fused together.
Let's look at the scene where Chiaha searches for a lost card after Taiichi leaves the Kapai Club.
If you look at the ringing one I can just remain in the moon of Ariake. INTERVIEWER Left Minister Gotokdaiji
Translation: In the early night, the sound is broken. Searching for nothing, the moon is long.
At the moment of finding the card, Chihaya understood the bitter feeling of her friend leaving.
Imagine how you would feel when the millennium song card was passed to you?
The charm of the song card is that the state of mind when playing cards is integrated into the waka, which is a deep spiritual resonance that spans thousands of years.
Because of resonance, so profound.
"Sense", that is, feeling is the core of the whole film, but also the core of cultural communication. The feeling is the power of every word you experience when you chant and sing. There is a very magical scene at the beginning of the movie, the celebrity Zhou Fangjiuzhi has not heard the first word, and only according to the breath of pronunciation, he got the correct song card.
This is the power of feeling, and the emotions in the song resonate with people, so that they can not hear it, and the prophet card face has the inheritance of the waka.
In fact, the inheritance of Waka is not smooth, and Waka is the same as the ancient Chinese text, because it involves obscure classical grammar, and was once beaten into the cold palace.
However, Waka reduces the sense of boredom and fun through the way of games, and also approaches the public through film and television promotion and food, adding a sense of intimacy.
During their long contact with Waka, the Japanese people experienced the deep feelings behind it, just like Chihaya in "Hanagi Love Affair", falling in love with Waka and passing on this culture.
bibliography:
1. "One Hundred People in Kokura - Appreciation of Japanese Classical Japanese Songs" Liu Derun
2. "Japanese Poems Of Komae" Yoichi Katagiri