"In my life, I have dedicated my whole body and mind to a cup of tea."
The Japanese tea ceremony master Senritsu has devoted his life to the tea ceremony and exploring beautiful things. At the end of his life, he persevered to the last moment for his faith, he was the originator of the Japanese tea ceremony, and he was a "master" who was beautiful.
The torrential rain poured down, mixed with cold, revealing the sadness, three thousand soldiers were guarding outside, just to get rid of the tea ceremony master on this side of the pure land, but they could not break the strong heart of Qianlixiu, how ironic and ridiculous the king's fear at this moment.
The 2013 film "In Search of Senritsu" tells the legend of the tea ceremony master's life. The film uses flashbacks, and the scene at the beginning of the film is presented where Qianlixiu is besieged and forced to commit suicide. The words spoken by Qian Lixiu under the eaves of the dripping rain are full of deep meaning, revealing helplessness, but they are also the feelings of his lifelong pursuit of tea ceremony but ultimately forced by the power.
One of them is" "In my life, all my body and mind, I have dedicated a cup of tea." "It's a summary of the spirit of his tea ceremony. Qianlixiu already had Huigen before he really immersed himself in the tea ceremony, he could turn ugly bamboo knots into beautiful things, and his master affirmed Thatrihu's search for beautiful hearts. Senritsu fuses beauty with the tea ceremony, both of which he pursues all his life, but beauty hides sadness, and the charm of tea is disturbed by power. What first brightened Oda Nobunaga's eyes was the scene of the night moon in his small lacquer box that far surpassed the "Mirror Flower Water Moon", and then became Oda Nobunaga's tea ceremony master. There are countless people who have come to admire it, and there have been many people who have a dismissive attitude, even if they do not understand the tea ceremony at all, they can be completely impressed after seeing Senritsu. Cherry blossoms that go into the cup with the wind, flower buds that reflect the earthen walls, and cool porridge that retrieves memories, whether it is artistic or spiritual, Qianlixiu can always make people feel like a spring breeze. His realm is supreme but he is never moved by fame and fortune, admired by countless people and does not hesitate to impart his spirit, he explores the tea ceremony to the extreme, and also guards the beauty to the end.
"It's not just weapons and gold that can shake the world." When Qianlixiu came to the end, he saw through the human heart. Since Hideyoshi ascended to the throne, Senritsu has been persecuted in various forms. A vain, jealous, and extremely jealous man will certainly not bring peace to the people. Among the various wrong choices, it was Qianlixiu who gave him the right advice and helped him to return to the right path continuously. Long ago, when Hideyoshi was angry with Oda Nobunaga, he visited Senritsu to seek final comfort, and Senritsu never disappointed, he used cold porridge to evoke Hideyoshi's humble but pleasant past, let him remember the preciousness of the moment, and interceded for him. However, for those who have such kindness, Hideyoshi is ungrateful step by step, he has lost the root of the tea ceremony, he is not a good monarch, and when he loses the hearts of the people, he is deeply jealous of Senritsu. Even though Senritsu had never done anything, Hideyoshi had pushed him to death step by step. What can make the world shake is also the human heart. The heart of tranquility, the heart of humility, the heart of loneliness, the heart of desire, the human heart is unpredictable, it is difficult to control, and the position of the monarch, without restraint, must be left to those who have a stable heart, otherwise, the world will be chaotic.
"Only beautiful things can make me bow my head." After talking about the tea ceremony road of Senrihu, the film turns into the deepest "beauty" in his heart. This sentence is used to answer the person who came to take the incense burner, just put into the palm of a incense burner, pinning the hibiscus flower that blooms forever in his heart. When he was young and crazy, Senrihyu met a captive from the Goryeo kingdom, a stubborn, determined, and beautiful woman. Almost at first glance, Qian Lixiu touched her carefully, because her smile touched her heart, and finally decided to save her before she was sent away. However, the weather was not satisfactory, and the two who were forced into a dead ended up in a small cabin, watching the withered hibiscus flowers bloom again, and the language barrier conveyed their hearts. In just a few days, the joy was far better than the rest of his life, and he felt that this life was enough, and the two would go to Huangquan together, but Qian Lixiu put down the poison in the end. Shame and grief wrapped around him, but in the midst of the yin and yang, he learned the meaning of the other party's last words, "Please live well", and the most poignant love is just that.
Qian Lixiu spent the next few decades remembering her, and he only wanted to bow his head to the beauty, not a simple love, but a heartfelt love.
The narrative of the main film is unique, not a simple flashback, but a nested flashback. From the date of The Cut of the Stomach of Senritsu, recalling the time of the previous twenty-one years, telling him about the long road of pursuing the tea ceremony, and retaining a few doubts in this memory, taking the incense burner that appeared many times as the cause, further leading to flashbacks in the memory, interpreting a short but moving love born of "beauty", just like a flash in the pan, like a dream. This narrative method is nested layer by layer, as if the mystery veil is slowly unveiled, which can not only create a higher artistic conception, but also better show the inner emotions of Qianlixiu, from shallow to deep, from beauty to poignancy, and spread the valuable and respectable pursuit of the tea ceremony master in the depths of the audience's soul.
In addition, the film adopts a fragmentary narrative method, and on the large scale, it is bounded by "Twenty-one years ago of Li Xiu Cut Belly" and "Twelve Years Ago of Li Xiu Cut Belly". On the one hand, it weakens the narrative atmosphere, enhances the artistry, increases the authenticity of the characters and strengthens the spirit of the tea ceremony; on the other hand, the scene transformation words echo the beginning every time they appear, reminding the technique of flashbacks, and also allowing the audience to continue to feel sad on the basis of the known ending, which can resonate with emotions.
Qianlihu searches for beauty, but beauty is dangerous, it is easy to be remembered but fragile and fragile, and it is even more difficult to care for and protect the beauty of this inch or moment. Qian Lixiu's spiritual realm in his life was extremely high, which meant that he would not pursue fame and fortune, but it was difficult to have both, and there were advantages and disadvantages. The respected but unambitious in the midst of chaos are bound to be jealous and alienated by the king. Qian Lixiu had no intention of participating in right and wrong, but the red dust was not chosen by anyone, and was ultimately bound by fate. Qianlihu once said that the beautiful things he discovered would eventually become legendary, in fact, he himself became a legend. The calmness of death broke the right and wrong of the world, Qianlixiu was besieged by three thousand soldiers, but he could protect this "most beautiful incense burner", Hideyoshi's final laughter announced the pain in his heart, and when Qianlixiu raised his sword without changing his face, the audience already understood: Yes, this is the tea ceremony master, Senritsu.