On the hot search as soon as you shoot, Shanghai Meiying deserves to be the national team of China animation.


Special feature of 1905 film network The animated film is released.After a lapse of 38 years, this film officially met the audience in the cinema for the first time. Perhaps, the saying of "returning a movie ticket" has been redefined in this film.


And this is Shanghai Animation Film Studio (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Meiying") behind the film, the second film work handed over this year after Tyrannosaurus Tu Tu with Big Ears in Action in the National Day file.

 

The two seemingly independent works are actually a kind of "inheritance" of the film maker to some extent. Mr. Wang is the co-director of the film "The Story of Heaven". At the same time, he also participated in the art work of the first season of the drama series "Tu Tu with Big Ears".

 

From the "old" to the new, and then renovate and repair the "old". In the past few years, Shanghai Meiying has always presented its "treasures" to everyone in the best form.

 

The charm of Shanghai Meiying is not only on the big screen.As early as last year, the "China Animation Alliance" gathered and customized a promotional film for the Beijing Winter Olympics, saying, "My old grandson is coming!" Who’s feelings have been ignited?

 


When the "Zhu Rong" rover landed on Mars, Shanghai Meiying took out the concept film of the 4D sci-fi cartoon "Fluorescent Fire". After watching it, anyone who didn’t marvel at it was still online.

 

Inheritance of "repair"


The story of Shangmeiying is as wonderful as its cartoon characters, but this time, let’s start with "The Story of Heaven".

 

In 2019, the main visual poster of Shanghai International Film Festival designed by Huang Hai was released, which surprised everyone. And this poster is based on the animated film produced by Shanghai Meiying.



In that year’s screening list, Shanghai Meiying also released two restored works, one is the full version of "Make a scene in Heaven" and the other is the 2K restored version of "The Story of Heaven".After the invoice was issued, "Tian Shu Qi Tan" became one of the fastest sold-out films. This is somewhat unexpected. After all, in the past, most of the animated films mentioned by the audience were "Make a scene in Heaven".

 


Making a scene in Heaven was completed by Shanghai Meiying in 2011. It is precisely because of this achievement that Shanghai Meiying saw hope that "classics will never go out of date". As a result, in 2018, Shanghai Meiying restarted the restoration work of "Tian Shu Qi Tan".

 

This repair work is not easy.Because of the limitation of early technical conditions, the storage medium of the original film is film. The film itself is very fragile, even if it is well preserved, it will inevitably cause some damage. The director of Shanghai Meiying told us that the team invested a lot of manpower and energy to repair the sound and picture.

 


Behind the simple expression, there is actually a very complicated process technology. In the end, the basic restoration of the film was completed by Shanghai Film Technology Factory and Shanghai Meiying, which ensured the basic content of the work and realized the work of "glue revolution". It is reported that the film has been repaired in the 4K version. This also caused the film to finally meet the audience after two years after the screening of the last film festival.

 

For many viewers, this is a "youth return". Memories of the movies I saw when I was a child are all emerging one by one, and even the "sequel legend" about this movie is not broken.

 

For Suda, the release of this film has not only fulfilled his dream, but also completed the unfinished story of his predecessors in Shanghai Meiying.


Mr Yunda Qian, the co-director of this film, is her university teacher. At the Shanghai premiere of the film, the 93-year-old director Yunda Qian appeared. Facing the recognition of the audience, he also said humbly, "I feel that we have not done enough. If we can do it in the future, we will do more work."

 


However, what is the release of such a film to the audience?Suda doesn’t want to emphasize the box office. After all, the release of this animated work is difficult to demonstrate with the box office itself. "Going to the cinema is not just about paying for feelings."


In Suda’s view, this restoration can make the audience feel better about "The Wonder of Heaven" and break the previous cognition on the small screen. No matter the sound or the picture, more different details can be found.

 

The vitality of IP


Suda has been busy for the last two months. I was interviewed by various media for Action of Tyrannosaurus Tu Tu with Big Ears and 4K Commemorative Edition.

 

Although these two works are presented to the audience with a brand-new look, we can’t ignore the fact that it has been 38 years since "The Story of Heaven" and the drama series "Tu Tu with Big Ears" has been updated, but it has been more than 15 years since the first season. It seems that from the outside world, these two works are already "past tense".

 

Suda seems to have become accustomed to these discussions, and bluntly saying that economic benefits are definitely not the purpose. "I understand that everyone has such a voice, because in the past, we did not produce a large number of new films, and we also understand the expectations of the audience."


In fact, the restoration of "The Wonder of Heaven" is to use digital technology to make the film glow with new vitality.

 

On the basis of the original film’s 89 minutes, a special behind-the-scenes feature was specially added at the end of the film, including some creative materials, restoration process and interviews with old artists. This is a tribute to the older generation of animation artists, but also a kind of China animation inheritance.

 

At that time, there were many ingenious ideas of old artists in the creation of the film "The Wonder of Heaven", but now it seems a little clumsy.

 

For example, in the four words of the title, the blue-black background pattern presents a "special effect" of flowing fusion. It is the old artists who pour blue-black paint into a basin and add solvent to make the paint "flow", thus shooting this wonderful "special effect" scene.

 


The TV animation "Tu Tu with Big Ears" with more than 100 episodes grew up with the post-90s and post-00s, and it was created by Shanghai Meiying for the purpose of making original and high-quality cartoons to reflect the life of contemporary children.The image of "Tu Tu" unexpectedly became popular on the short video platform two years ago, which made everyone see the vitality of IP.


From the small screen to the big screen, the movie version of Tu Tu with Big Ears has been striving to integrate the spirit of the times into its works and track the topics of social concern. It involves filial piety culture and pension topics.

 

It seems to be a mature drama IP, but this creation is not easy for Suda. In this movie, there is no collision between justice and evil, just want children to watch it with relish and touch them with emotion.

 

It doesn’t matter if you have doubts, it also represents the expectations of the audience.For these IPS in their hands, Suda said, "The old IP, because it was already there, we will repair it and develop it, and maybe it will take less time; Then the new work needs a process of incubation, cultivation and creation. "

 

As for the excessive public opinion of "fried cold rice", the speed is also accepted according to the order. The hard work behind the classic repair is no easier than an original IP. Classic IP needs to maintain its vigorous vitality, which can not be presented by simple preservation. "We are not completely copying the past to sell tickets again, but to create in depth again."

 

Not only the restoration of movies, but also the IP image authorization of Shanghai Meiying from a very early age.Especially at the beginning of 2019, the collection of doll toys, in which "Tian Shu Qi Tan" cooperated with a fast food brand, even sold as high as 500 yuan on a second-hand trading platform.

 


This series of IP authorization, actually from another level, is also the activation of IP.Of course, in terms of IP authorization, Shangmeiying pays great attention to whether the cartoon image is suitable for the brand. "Every IP has its own personal design, and we also value the concept of communication that can be set by someone in the future brand communication."

 

The story continues


"Innovation and inheritance" is the brand concept written by official website of Shanghai Meiying.

 

Reasonable IP authorization and development, as well as the restoration of classic films, are the best footnotes made by Shanghai Film and Television. To combine "inheritance" and "innovation" organically, we have to mention Meiying’s ink animation.

 

As early as the 60th anniversary of Shanghai Film Festival, it was announced that it would restart ink animation and launch the first feature film of ink animation. At that time, the official also released a 2-minute trial film, which attracted a lot of attention once it was spread.

 

After a lapse of four years, what is the progress of this project?Suda told us that the film is scheduled to be completed by the end of next year and is scheduled to be released in 2023. The duration of the film will be about 90 minutes, with almost no dialogue, and the story will be promoted by music. "It can be said with great pride that this will be the first animated feature film in China and even the world."

 


The 3D version of the official announcement has also made progress. "We will make a bold attempt to break everyone’s previous understanding of the image of the Monkey King in" Big Sky "and make a brand new the Monkey King in a three-dimensional space, which will be more in line with the aesthetics of young people as a whole."

 

In addition, the new Snow Child, which was created by directors Lu Hengyu and Li Shujie, will also be produced accordingly. In the future production process of Shanghai Meiying, there will be more than a dozen works coming out one after another.


In the face of marketization, Suda said frankly, "Not blindly pursuing the click-through rate and the box office, how to make a good work that can stay is the first thing that our creators should consider, and don’t produce a pile of cultural garbage."

 

With the special promotional film of the Winter Olympics going off again, the outside world is increasingly looking forward to the progress of the "cartoon universe" of the American film. At the beginning of this year, they launched the drama "Beautiful Film Paradise", but this short drama did not leave much sound. Su Da told us not to worry. They really saw the concept of "movie universe" and are creating an animated film "Make a scene in cartoon city", which combines the IP of Shangmeiying with real life.

 

No matter from the outside world, Shanghai Meiying is slowing down or speeding up now; Is it being questioned "fried cold rice" or insisting on bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new? They are always carrying on the good memories of several generations with a pen.

 

As Suda said, Shanghai Meiying is the national team of animation in China, which shoulders great responsibilities. It cannot just pursue commercial animation, and it is one of the responsibilities to inherit and innovate the art of its predecessors.


Find out the background of natural resources. The third national land survey was launched in Sichuan.


On February 28, 2019, Sichuan Province held the third national video conference on promoting land survey. Deng Gan


Pujiang carried out field investigation. (Photo courtesy of Pujiang County Planning and Natural Resources Bureau)

Land is the foundation of nature, the source of ecology, the key to production and the foundation of survival. Beautiful Sichuan, with a land area of 486,000 square kilometers, ranks the fifth in the country, with all landforms except the ocean. How many types of land are there in this vast land? How is the production and utilization? How to divide land ownership? These problems are closely related to our lives.

In October 2017, the State Council deployed and launched the third national land survey; In September 2018, the State Council decided to adjust to the third national land survey (referred to as "Three Tunes"). The purpose of carrying out the "three adjustments" is to comprehensively find out the national land and resources, comprehensively find out the current situation of national land use, comprehensively grasp the true and accurate national land basic data, improve the natural resources investigation, monitoring and statistics system, strengthen the socialized service of natural resources information, and meet the needs of economic and social development and natural resources management.

At present, the third national land survey in our province is taking the completion of county-level land survey and database construction by the end of May 2019 as the time node to implement the 100-day attack in accordance with the requirements of national unity. The unified data update will be carried out with December 31, 2019 as the standard time. Complete all tasks in 2020.

In the face of huge natural resources, how can Sichuan find out? How to touch it?

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From "Land" Survey to "Land" Survey

Take the step of unified management of natural resources

According to the relevant requirements of the Land Administration Law of the People’s Republic of China and the Regulations on Land Investigation, China conducts a survey on the basic national conditions and national strength of land every ten years.

Before the "Three Tunes", China had conducted two national land surveys. The first time was a detailed land survey from 1984 to 1996; The second time was the land survey in 2007-2009. Based on the data of two detailed investigations and surveys, the data are supplemented and updated every year according to actual changes. Different from the previous two surveys, this survey was renamed, and the "land" survey was changed to "national territory" survey.

From "land" to "national territory", although it is only a word difference, it highlights the new characteristics of this survey. Behind the "renaming", it reflects the new strategy of the central government’s decision-making, implements the new tasks after the institutional reform, and promotes the new requirements of objectivity and authenticity. According to the institutional reform plan of the State Council and local people’s governments, the competent department of natural resources will be established to uniformly exercise the duties of the owner of natural resources owned by the whole people, and uniformly exercise the duties of controlling the spatial use of all land and ecological protection and restoration. Compared with the third national land survey, the classification of the third national land survey has undergone major changes, and a series of mergers and adjustments have been made. In particular, to meet the needs of building ecological civilization, wetlands have been regarded as first-class land types, and gardens have been adjusted to plantation land, and the first-class land types have increased from 12 to 13. The "three tones" emphasize the authenticity of the data more clearly, and clearly delete the order of determining the land types of "tillage, garden, forest and grass". In order to meet the needs of multi-sector overlapping management, the marking of patches (on the survey work map, land units with basically the same landform and land use type are divided into one category, and then the units are sketched on the topographic map to become patches) is innovatively implemented.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Provincial Department of Natural Resources, the transition from "land" to "national territory" has taken an important step in the transition of centralized and unified investigation of natural resources, laying a solid foundation for the unified exercise of the duties of the owner of all natural resources assets of the whole people and the unified exercise of all national land use control and ecological protection and restoration duties.

In fact, "three adjustments" is the first step of unified management of natural resources. "Only by laying a good foundation can we create conditions for development and utilization."

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From "Jiulong Water Control" to "A Set of Data"

Find out the family background and lay the foundation for high-quality development

The "Three Tunes" is an important survey of basic national conditions and national strength after China’s development entered a new stage, which not only involves the construction of ecological civilization, but also relates to a series of natural resources conditions and basic judgments of national conditions and national strength for China’s second century struggle goal. "Carrying out the third national land survey is of great significance for thoroughly implementing the decision-making arrangements of the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the Eleventh Provincial Party Committee, comprehensively promoting the high-quality development of the province and promoting the governance of Sichuan to a new level." The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Department of Natural Resources said.

This institutional reform has made it clear that the natural resources management departments should make unified plans for land and space, and uniformly control the use of all natural ecological spaces. Inconsistency in the basic data, coordinate system, planning period and control rules of previous spatial planning will be solved, and the division of space management rights will be more clear, so as to achieve non-stacked space control of a single national space and provide a solid foundation for drawing a blueprint to the end. The basic data for the compilation of land spatial planning depends on the "three tones".

From the perspective of ecological resources protection, the situation of land, water, woodland, grassland, wetland and other resources formed by the "three adjustments" will provide a basis for the overall protection, system restoration and comprehensive management of lakes and grasses in landscape forests and fields. Only by comprehensively finding out the ecological land conditions such as forest land, grassland and wetland in the whole province can we optimize the three boundaries of ecological protection red line, permanent basic farmland and urban development boundary, effectively implement the control of land space use, effectively carry out the action of greening the whole Sichuan, and promote the continuous improvement of ecosystem functions in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

From the perspective of high-quality economic development, finding out all kinds of land use conditions will provide a basis for scientifically compiling the province’s land spatial planning and better optimizing the pattern of land development. By reasonably determining the total amount, location and structure of land supply, we will continue to promote industrial transformation and optimization and upgrading, and further promote the supply-side structural reform.

Under the background of natural resources management reform, the work of "three adjustments" is very rich in content. "In the past, the current situation of land use was mainly investigated by the land department, the forest and wetland resources were investigated by the forestry department, the grassland resources were investigated by the agricultural department, and the water resources were investigated by the water resources department … The data and survey standards of various departments were different, resulting in data overlap and waste of administrative resources." The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Department of Natural Resources said that on the basis of the second national land survey and referring to the original survey data of forestry, agriculture, water conservancy and other departments, this survey broke the investigation mode of "Jiulong Water Control" and formed a bottom plate and a set of data.

To implement the unified national deployment and requirements, provinces, cities (prefectures) and counties (cities, districts) have set up the leading group for the third national land survey, headed by the main leaders of the government or leaders in charge, with the deputy secretary-general in charge and the main leaders of natural resources departments as deputy heads, and the leaders in charge of all relevant departments as members, and set up the leading group office and corresponding working groups, especially the technical guidance group, to promote the related issues to be handled resolutely in accordance with the "three adjustments" technical regulations.

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From traditional means to "internet plus"

Top-level design of technology to realize data traceability management

On the basis of relevant national work requirements, our province, in combination with the actual situation, organized forces to pay close attention to the top-level design of technology, worked out the implementation plan and technical specifications, defined the objectives and tasks, work content, division of tasks among provinces, cities and counties, organization and implementation, technical methods, etc., and reported them to the Ministry of Natural Resources for the record. Unified production of the province’s transportation and water conservancy network, survey boundaries, control area and other basic control key data. Establish a provincial-level "Internet"+proof platform, and formulate management measures for indoor and outdoor verification of quality control of achievements in the province.

In order to make the statistical data more accurate, from June to August, 2018, the provincial "three-adjustment office" held nine training courses, with a total of more than 5,500 people trained and more than 4,400 social workers trained professionally. In order to test and strengthen the training effect, the training also specially arranged the examination link, and finally 3800 people passed the test.

Before the "Three Tunes" work was rolled out on a large scale, our province adopted the pilot method to try first. In addition to the national pilot of new land survey technology in Daying County, our province has also identified four provincial-level pilot demonstration areas and counties, namely Jinjiang District of Chengdu, Renhe District of Panzhihua City, Longmatan District of Luzhou City and Changning County of Yibin City, to carry out the work of "three adjustments" in an orderly manner. "The investigation work in these pilot demonstration areas and counties has played a good role in leading the demonstration and laid the foundation for the full implementation of the’ three adjustments’ work in the province." The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Department of Natural Resources said.

The survey base map is the basic data of the "three tones", which relates to the overall accuracy of the survey. To this end, our province organizes special personnel to regularly connect with the national "three-adjustment office" and the Provincial Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Bureau, track and implement the production of survey maps, and collect and distribute them in time. At present, the achievements of all counties in the province have been obtained, covering nearly 486,000 square kilometers, including 3.653 million map spots, covering an area of nearly 53.815 million mu. The Provincial Department of Natural Resources also docked relevant units such as civil affairs, ecological and environmental protection, housing and urban construction, transportation, water conservancy, agriculture and rural areas, forestry and grass, surveying and mapping, railways, etc., and did a good job in collecting basic investigation data.

"Internet"+proof platform is the "secret weapon" of "Three Tunes" work. The "Three Tunes" adopts an achievement quality assurance system with "Internet"+proof platform as the core, which assists the interpretation of high-resolution remote sensing images, and the relevant departments of the state and province conduct internal verification through on-the-spot proof photos, which is highly reliable. At the same time, when the field investigators take photos at the scene, they correspond the information such as angles and coordinates with the field photos one by one, which ensures the authenticity and accuracy of the survey data.

Chengdu Qingbaijiang explores "three tones"

Make the survey detailed and the data solid

In mid-January, Longwang Village, Renhe Town, qingbaijiang district, Chengdu. The fog in the morning has not dispersed, and investigator Yan Quanlin has started a day’s work. Sichuan Chuanhe Surveying and Mapping Geographic Information Co., Ltd., where Yan Quanlin works, is responsible for the third national land survey in qingbaijiang district. It is normal for them to go to villages to check the land use situation.

This is a microcosm of the third national land survey in our province. How to do the investigation? What’s the use of investigation? This can be seen from the practice of this small village.

How? "Three adjustments" to the end, the verification does not leak a place.

Basemap is the basis of investigation, which is issued by the state. Based on the latest orthophoto image, according to the image characteristics, the land use types are interpreted patch by patch, and the land use patches are extracted, which is made with reference to the results of the 2016 land change survey database. In order to make the details clearer, Qingbaijiang invested more than 5 million yuan to carry out aerial photography of the whole area at a large scale of 1: 2000. "As small as a tree and a Zhang Shitou table, it can be reflected on the map."

According to the requirements of the "three adjustments", it is necessary to accurately find out the use type, area, ownership and distribution of each piece of land in urban and rural areas throughout the country and establish a land survey database. "What we have to do is to go to every household and truthfully reflect the current situation of land use." Yan Quanlin said.

In the field investigation, investigators will carry a tablet computer with them, which contains an electronic version of the base map, which has the function of positioning, can navigate for investigators, and can also sketch directly if they encounter inconsistent spots. "In the last round of investigation, because the base map was not clear enough, some houses were not seen on the map and were ignored, which caused great inconvenience to farmers." Liu Guanghai, deputy director of the Third Dispatch Office in qingbaijiang district, said that the district has set up leading groups for the Third Dispatch at all levels, and included village cadres in the contact list of the township "Third Dispatch" groups, and followed the investigators to visit the households to ensure that there were no omissions.

It is worth mentioning that, while carrying out the "three adjustments", qingbaijiang district further investigated and verified the collective land ownership, collective construction land use right (including homestead use right), contracted management right, agricultural land use right and forest right, and asked the villagers’ groups to investigate the collective land ownership, so as to lay a solid foundation for vector graphics management of natural resources in the whole region.

What do you think? In-depth publicity is known to everyone, and only by finding out the base can we revitalize resources.

"They often come to investigate, and we all know that they are welcome." In Longwang Village, the "Three Tunes" are not just propaganda documents posted in the village committee office, but major events that every household really cares about. With the cooperation of the masses, the work of "three adjustments" in Qingbaijiang ran out of "acceleration".

From the beginning of the "Three Tunes" work, the town called a meeting of village cadres to convey the connotation of the "Three Tunes" work to the grassroots in time and to fully explain the significance of the "Three Tunes" to rural development. Longwang Village has also held many meetings of members to popularize the knowledge of "Three Tones". Longwang Village is located in a deep hill with poor living conditions. "When there is a drought in summer, we have to drive to pull water up." Xiao Peng, director of the village, said that the survey showed that more than 90% of the villagers were willing to move to the foot of the mountain.

On January 16th, relevant people visited the village and found that every villager could say a few words about the meaning of the "three tones". In Xiao Peng’s view, a clear investigation of the base will lay a good foundation for the next implementation of the increase and decrease linked project. For villager Liu Weicheng, the significance lies in "finding out how wide the house at home is, and then moving to the community and calculating the compensation, it will be clear."

By increasing or decreasing linked projects, villagers will move to concentrated residential areas, which will change the production and living conditions and expand the development space of the village. "We intend to introduce social capital and build a rural tourism project." Xiao Peng said that only by making clear the stock in the village through investigation can the project be planned smoothly and lay a good foundation for rural revitalization. "The people are very supportive of this."

"Three Tones" Tips

A few days ago, the Office of the Leading Group for the Third National Land Survey in the State Council issued the Technical Questions and Answers of the Third National Land Survey, which sorted out 70 specific operational problems and treated the "intractable diseases" encountered in the survey. Some problems are selected here to provide reference for the work of "three adjustments"

1, the new cultivated land in the land consolidation project area, in the investigation whether according to the land consolidation project documents to determine the scope of cultivated land map?

Answer: The plots with cultivated land at present, whether it is land consolidation, farmers’ independent development or reclamation projects, should be investigated according to the field cultivated land scope, and the map boundary should not be determined according to the consolidation scope.

2. The field is irrigated land, which was originally managed according to paddy field. How to investigate?

Answer: For the paddy field survey of paddy-upland rotation, for the irrigated land used for a long time. If the investigation is irrigated land, evidence must be given on the spot.

3. How to investigate the map spots where the land use registered with the right is inconsistent with the actual use?

Answer: According to the actual situation, it is not allowed to investigate directly according to the approved use or planned use of land.

4. There are a large number of rural houses of 100 to 200 square meters in some areas. Is it allowed that the minimum area of construction land in some counties and districts is 100 square meters?

A: All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) can improve the survey accuracy of construction land in their own provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and reduce the minimum area index on the map, but the accuracy of the whole province (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) should be guaranteed to be uniform.

5. The cultivated land that has been abandoned for a long time is covered with shrubs, and the ridges of cultivated land are still clearly visible. How to investigate?

Answer: According to the current situation, it is forest land. If farming can be resumed after cleaning, the attribute "Farming can be resumed after cleaning" shall be marked.

6. How to investigate the villagers planting fruit trees on the land registered as cultivated land in the contract certificate?

Answer: According to the current investigation, it should be investigated as plantation land, and it should not be investigated according to the registered use of the contract.

7, within the scope of the village, the field for farming purposes, whether according to the facilities of agricultural land survey?

Answer: If livestock and poultry are raised centrally in a village, it shall be investigated according to the protected agricultural land; if it is within the scope of concentrated contiguous villages, it may be marked with the attribute of 203.

8. How to investigate the green land inside the factory? Answer: The green forest land and grassland in the completed factory are investigated according to the industrial land.

9. There are many kinds of land types (such as pits and ponds, weeds, woodlands, sporadic construction, etc.) in the map spots interpreted by the state according to images, and the field situation is complicated. How to investigate?

A: The information and scope of map classification provided by the state are for reference. According to the present situation on the spot, the map spots should be divided and the land types should be determined respectively if the minimum area on the map is reached; Those that do not reach the minimum area on the map are merged into adjacent land types. If it is inconsistent with the country’s interpretation of land types based on images, it is necessary to take photos and give evidence on the spot as required.

10. Can fields, roads, ditches, etc. be represented by single-line linear features?

A: No. Linear features such as roads, ditches and rivers that meet the above standards should be re-vectorized according to the field investigation results and image characteristics, and represented by patches. (Mi Fang Tan Wei)

Is it so difficult to make a good love movie? Learn the masterpiece of love film "Mo Di"

Wen Fei Fei

Nowadays, there are too many romantic films and too few good ones. This love biographical film "Mo Di", which is based on a true story, has a good reputation, giving people a sense of intimacy and the power to move people to tears.

Watching movies at "the most beautiful love", but seeing a beautiful life in it.

The story is adapted from the real experience of Canadian folk artist Momo Lewis and her husband Everett Lewis. In the film, the heroine Mo Di suffers from congenital rheumatoid arthritis, and her walking posture is a little weird. Due to various experiences, she doesn’t want others to feel that she is a burden. By chance, she went to the home of a fisherman Everett with a quick temper to apply for a maid. They got to know each other, gradually fell in love with each other, and finally spent their lives together.

The couple lived in that humble cottage all their lives, but their stories spread all over Canada and America.

Just like the film title "Mo Di", the story content of the film is extremely simple, but it is very warm and delicate. The film is set in a rural town in Canada, and there are only a few simple scenes, and even the actors are exceptionally few. However, the touching and inspirational love story of the protagonist is like a pot of sake. The longer Mika is, the more beautiful the artistic conception is, the more attractive it is.

Looking at the whole film, there is always an invisible force that affects the heartstrings of the viewers. The film of nearly two hours does not feel lengthy.

                     

Everything has cracks, so that sunlight can enter.

It can be said that the background color of Mo Di’s life after her parents’ death is almost gray. Obviously, she has caught a bad card of fate-physical disability, being dependent on others, and a mercenary brother, who is unloved, unemployed and has no home of her own. With such a life, will you feel sorry for yourself and sink into depravity? Mo Di, the hero of the film, may have given us the best answer.

At the beginning of the film, Mo Di lived a life similar to being under house arrest in menstruation’s house. The slightly cold tone set off Mo Di’s depressed psychology, which aroused the audience’s depressed mood.

Because her body and mind are under control at the same time, Mo Di is very eager for independence. Even a low salary of ten cents a month means different things to her.

Therefore, she limped a few kilometers with her legs full of longing and came to work in Everett, a fisherman, in order to move towards a new life and freedom.

Life as a domestic helper in Everett’s house is also not satisfactory, and Mo Di ranks behind dogs and chickens in this family.

Small town residents are talking about Mo Di being Everett’s love slave.

Even my aunt said to Mo Di, you make me sick!

Nevertheless, Mo Di doesn’t seem to care about these rumors, and she still enjoys and pursues an independent life.

Even when she gets along with her master Everett, she treats her as an equal, even though Everett always emphasizes that she is the master, and even does it.

In the face of such an encounter, Mo Di still didn’t flinch. She went back to her room, touched the paint with her finger as a brush, painted flowers and plants on the wall, and immersed herself in the quiet painting world. All her sadness seemed to leave her.

The floating life of 3 thousand is fixed, and the painting is full of love.

When God closes a door for you, he will also open a window for you. Although life is not satisfactory, Mo Di has always kept the greatest hot pillow for life.

The film uses contrast in many places. For example, Mo Di enjoys a person’s happiness in the corner of the bar, comparing with others’ wanton indulgence in the bar, and showing Mo Di’s miserable life situation in details with her bright and cheerful paintings, which highlights Mo Di’s strong yearning for freedom and superb artistic talent, and the valuable spirit of persisting in painting in such a difficult environment.

There are two kinds of scenery in the film, one is the vast scenery of Nova Scotia outside the door, and the other is the scenery written by Mo Mo.

The endless grassland, the vast sky, the warm hut, the harbor of home in the depths of the wilderness and the poetic life bring Mo Di a smart creative space. Because of the inconvenience of her legs and feet, Mo Di can only record the world she observed from her small window by painting. Poetry and distance in her heart pour out through her pen, and painting is the external display of her inner world.

In the plot of the film, the artistic plot of Mo Di’s painting runs through the film.

When Everett scolded her, Mo Di secretly painted on the deserted wall. When talking to Everett about salary, Mo Di’s only requirement for salary is enough paint. No matter what happens in life, Mo Di’s solution is painting. In her paintings, the complexity of the real world does not exist, but only the beautiful pictures presented by the interactive combination of lines and colors, and everything is arranged in such a vibrant and orderly way.

In her world, life can be so simple that she even has a window in front of her.

The comfortable and melodious soundtrack is in sharp contrast with the bumpy experience of the hostess. Slow music is accompanied by calm narration, without intensive lines and deliberate rendering, but the touch brought to people is heartfelt. The brush falls, the music rings, and the soft lens leads us into Mo Di’s simple and beautiful paintings. In Mo Di’s paintings, the world is more agile, everything is clear and full of beauty: there are three black cats hidden under the flower tree, the sky and the grass are connected in the purest color, deer drink spring water, chickens feed, dogs run, weeds sway, and there are fierce conflicts between sadness and brightness, quiet and lively, clear and clear. All this makes it impossible to look away and listen to the words of her heart in her extreme ink.

She paints because she loves it, and she paints everything she loves. Life is bleak, but Mo Di’s paintings are always sunny and bright. She never thought that her paintings would be appreciated, bought and collected. In the world of painting, she cured the pain of life, found a brand-new self, softened the hard Everett, and changed and warmed their lives.

Although this is a biographical film, the ups and downs of narrative and emotional dormancy and explosiveness are amazing.

Mo Di decorated the colorful hut with a brush and got the happiness she dreamed of with a sincere heart. Her greatest luck is not painting talent, but having a lover who will always protect her, a sincere and lovely lover like her.

When Mo Di’s paintings were very popular, she always sold them for only five dollars.

Faced with the rare "false name" of the president’s letter asking for a painting, Mo Mo said that he would not give him anything unless he sent the money together.

Mo Di and Everett are not flattering, hypocritical, simple and pure. These two "freaks" who are rejected by the mainstream society are in harmony with each other. From then on, they will join hands for life, warm each other and achieve each other.

In the movie, there are many touching dialogues. You can feel the certainty and sincerity that penetrates the screen just by reading the words. The man who was originally grumpy and fierce in appearance can also become tender and delicate for love and touch the deepest softness of the audience.

The whole movie has a slow rhythm, but it shows the protagonist’s simple and pure love and pursuit of a better life to the fullest. Iselin Walsh, the director, abandoned the gaudy shooting technique and focused on the psychological portrayal of the two protagonists. Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke gave a superb performance to the audience, but accurately grasped the current mood and emotion of the characters.

The camera slowly shows the world in which they live. The connection between the beginning and the end of the film, all the details in the scene and all the elements in the painting are the delicate manifestations of the female perspective in the film directed by this woman.

Looking at the whole film, there is no unnecessary part, the editing is smooth and natural, there is no complicated story, and the blandness echoes with warmth. Just the right touch, just the right tears, even after reading the last word, the music just stopped, everything is just right, "just right" is the most comfortable and charming force of this film.

Of course, the film has both successes and shortcomings. A biographical film about a folk artist, the protagonist Mo Di’s fate is bumpy, and her inner strength of tenacity and optimism is enough to prop up a memorable celebrity biographical film. However, the expression of the whole film is restrained, and the suffering is not greatly exaggerated, and the drama conflict is not used to promote the plot development. The slightly dull narrative method is not wonderful enough for the audience who rely on external drama to satisfy the sensory stimulation.

As a romantic film, the focus is on the relationship between Mo Di and Everett, and the angle of purely explaining their relationship with love is not large enough. Mo Di and her husband do not have the traditional "love", so it is not convincing enough.

Despite some shortcomings, "Mo Di" is indeed a moving art film, without huge twists and turns, without heartbreaking love and hate, but with delicate and silky warmth and love.

In the film, menstruation said to Mo Di: Only you in our family are happy in the end.

Mo Di, a lame woman with arthritis, was once regarded as a burden by her family, but eventually she became the only one in the family who gained happiness. All this is not because she is lucky enough, but because she really knows life, accepts herself, treats others well, and is good at finding little beauty in the nuances of life.

At the end of the film, Mo Di died of illness, and Everett said, I used to think you were not perfect. Mo Di once opened Everett’s cold iron gate in a short life, but now, the key to open the iron gate has been lost, and Everett is so lonely.

Since then, I have no intention to go to the fine night and let him go down to the west wing in the bright moon.

What the film inspired me the most was not the whole process in which painting influenced Mo Di’s life, but how the emotional connection between her and Everett deepened with Mo Di’s awakening to independence.

The significance of painting to Mo Di is not just to find a hobby that can fill her heart and get a certain economic return, but to find a brand-new personal value, relieve the pain and pressure of life, and connect and influence her relationship with others.

From Mo Di’s paintings, Everett learned about the world in Mo Di’s eyes and her way of looking at the world. From Mo Di’s serious attitude towards painting, Everett realized Mo Di’s dedication and enthusiasm for life, which made Everett more and more aware of the heart of this ordinary and special woman-Mo Di. From indifference to respect and appreciation, the two of them have touched a deeper emotional connection, and Mo Di’s desire to live with Everett on an equal footing and grow old together has gradually come true.

Whether we can love and love ourselves is closely related to the extent to which we find ourselves and understand each other. Not everyone can accurately express their inner feelings, and sometimes even fail to express their feelings. Therefore, it is worth exploring and learning to find a way to express ourselves and get along with others.

More self-expression is helpful to self-awareness and the establishment of intimate relationship. We know ourselves more and more and understand each other, which is an important foundation for a more quality relationship. Whether painting, writing, writing poems or singing, it is the way we observe and record our life, and it is the expression of our inner feelings, the embodiment of our hearts and thoughts. Sincere expression is conducive to our mutual discovery and integration, and the flow of emotions will naturally occur.

At the end of the film, Mo Di’s narration slowly sounded. "The scenery outside the window is always changing, covering the whole life, and the warmth and coldness of life have already been reflected here."

Perhaps the company of morning and evening is the warmest and moving appearance of love. I hope that all lovers in the world can "win the hearts of one person and never leave each other", and I hope that domestic love films can also be made like this!

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New Year’s Eve: a reunion dinner, a reunion year.

  When it comes to New Year’s Eve, what comes to mind? Have a delicious jiaozi, eat the warmth of the New Year’s Eve, or stick Spring Festival couplets and window grilles?

  "In the sound of firecrackers, the old year is over, and the wintersweet smiles in the spring." In fact, its connotation is far from being as simple as a New Year’s Eve dinner. In the folk, "Chinese New Year" is a time period. From the early years and even the Laba Festival, people prepare new year’s goods, clean houses … and are busy welcoming the New Year. New Year’s Eve is the first "highlight".

  Data Map: On the Lunar New Year’s Eve, the entrance of ditan park in Beijing was decorated with large door gods and red lanterns. China News Service reporter Hou Yushe

  The Legend and Origin of New Year’s Eve

  New Year’s Eve is also called New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Eve, Big Dark Day and so on. In most cases, there are thirty days in December of the lunar calendar, so it is also called New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Eve. When there is a small moon in December, the New Year’s Eve will become the 29th, and some areas will be renamed Erjiu.

  Many people have done textual research on the meaning of the name New Year’s Eve. Literally, the original meaning of the word "except" is "go", which is extended to "easy", that is, alternating; The original meaning of the word "evening" is "sunset" and extended to "night", which vividly illustrates the alternation of the old year and the new year.

  It is said that there was a monster named "Xi" in ancient China, which was particularly fierce and often hurt human beings. Until one day, a child named Nian told everyone the way to get rid of the evening beast: it was afraid of red, fire and explosion.

  According to the method taught by the children, everyone really drove away the evening beast. To celebrate, people put on new clothes and hats one after another and went to their relatives and friends’ homes to congratulate them. The day when Xi was driven away in 2008 was called "New Year’s Eve".

  However, according to "Lu Chunqiu Ji Dong Ji", the ancients used drums to drive out "the ghost of plague" on the day before the New Year. This is another way of saying the origin of "New Year’s Eve".

  Data Map: The picture shows people choosing Spring Festival couplets. Photo by Lu Ming

  Stick grilles, Spring Festival couplets … The taste of the year is also in it.

  In the early morning of New Year’s Eve, many families will get up early and put up Spring Festival couplets at the gate. Spring Festival couplets are also called spring stickers, peach symbols, etc. The characters are neat and dual, and they simply express their expectations for the New Year.

  It is said that the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets in the New Year originated in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, Spring Festival couplets became both exquisite and artistic. Liang Zhangju’s monograph "Poems on Spring Festival couplets" discussed the origin of couplets and the characteristics of various works.

  There are many kinds of Spring Festival couplets, which can be divided into frame pairs, spring strips and bucket squares according to the places of use. The "frame pair" is attached to the left and right door frames, and the "spring strips" are attached to corresponding places according to different contents, and so on.

  In the folk, people also like to stick various paper-cuts on the windows, that is, window grilles. At the same time, the word "Fu" is pasted on the door, wall and lintel. Sometimes, the word "blessing" will be pasted upside down, indicating that "the blessing has fallen (arrived)"

  In addition, the word "Fu" can also be finely carved into various patterns, such as longevity, longevity peach, carp jumping over the dragon gate, abundant grains, dragons and phoenixes, and so on.

  A New Year’s Eve dinner, a reunion year.

  New Year’s Eve is extremely important for China people. In addition to welcoming the old and welcoming the new, it is one of the customs at this time to have a reunion dinner and keep the old.

  Liang Shiqiu also said in the article that the Chinese New Year needs to be in his hometown to have a taste. "It’s bleak to travel, and there is only a sigh in the next year. How can there be a little joy?"

  Data Map: jiaozi. Photo by Wang Yuyang

  In the past, some dishes for New Year’s Eve were prepared a few days before the Chinese New Year. In the north, jiaozi on the first day of New Year’s Eve is also wrapped up at 30 nights, and the sounds of chopping vegetables and meat are woven together with laughter to form a cheerful movement on New Year’s Eve.

  On New Year’s Eve, a table was filled with rich New Year’s dishes, and the whole family sat together to have a reunion dinner, enjoying both delicious food and a happy atmosphere for the New Year.

  Generally speaking, there will be hot pot on the dining table, which symbolizes the prosperous days; In some places, you must eat fish. "Fish" and "Yu" are homophonic, symbolizing that "Jiqing has more than enough", and also pinning the good wish of "having more than every year".

  There are these taboos in the old days, and I look forward to a smooth new year.

  In order to express the meaning of getting rid of the old and welcoming the new, there were many taboos on New Year’s Eve in the past. For example, don’t say unlucky words such as ghost, death and murder, don’t break dishes, don’t speak ill words, and don’t spill sewage.

  Data Map: Citizens in Huludao, Liaoning Province enjoy a sumptuous New Year’s Eve dinner with their families at home. China News Agency issued by Haiyang Photo

  Especially at the New Year’s Eve, if some tea fruits are finished, you should say "I’m happy" or "too much" instead of saying "no" … These auspicious words are the "homework" that people must do, and adults should teach their children to say them, otherwise the New Year will not be smooth.

  Before the New Year’s Eve dinner, many families will prepare offerings to worship their ancestors. After Zuling is invited, no one can occupy the seats on both sides of the altar; Of course, we must not make noise or swear, otherwise we will disrespect our ancestors.

  Nowadays, with the passage of time, many taboos on New Year’s Eve have been broken, and the old customs are developing in a more scientific and healthy direction. But the only thing that remains unchanged is people’s attachment to their families: it is also the most rare happiness for the whole family to spend the whole year together. (Reporter Shangguan Yun)

Calling "Taiwan Province artists didn’t provide enough disaster relief", Cai Qin choked: the words were misinterpreted.




  Cai Qin criticized Taiwan Province artists for not working hard enough for disaster relief, which caused many Taiwanese stars to refute fiercely! On June 2nd, Hong Kong Oriental Daily reported that when Cai Qin attended the "512 Caring Action in Performing Arts" in Hong Kong, he felt that Hong Kong artists were very United in disaster relief, and that people in Taiwan Province did not do enough, so he felt ashamed!

  A word attracted strong dissatisfaction.

  As soon as this report came out of the street, Taiwan Province’s entertainment circle was in an uproar, and many Taiwanese stars shouted grievances one after another, causing great dissatisfaction among artists in Taiwan Province, including Gao Lingfeng, fei chang and Wu Zongxian! Because according to the report, Cai Qin is "ashamed" of Taiwan Province artists and thinks that Taiwan Province artists "haven’t done enough", which makes many people feel aggrieved.

  It is reported that fei chang, the big brother of the variety show, pointed out that "there is only a thin line between seeking fame and attracting jade. What kind is she?"? I think everyone is very clear. " He thinks that Cai Qin’s remarks at the moment have deeply hurt the image of Taiwan Province’s entertainment circle. Therefore, fei chang suggested Cai Qin: "We should sincerely apologize to the artists in Taiwan Province for this remark." At the same time, fei chang said to all Taiwan Province artists who have participated in the disaster relief, "Don’t be discouraged by Cai Qin’s speech."




  Gao Lingfeng, another Taiwan Province variety show host, is also very excited. He revealed that he only saw Cai Qin’s words through the relevant media at present, but if Cai Qin did say so much, he thought it was inappropriate. "An artist should be cautious when he reaches a certain level. So she should look at how much she has done before judging others. "

  Wu Zongxian, the king of variety in Taiwan Province, asked: "Then I want to know what she did?" He said that if Cai Qin felt that Taiwan Province’s entertainment industry was not doing enough, he should do more by himself.

  Having been hit by the "921 Taiwan Province Earthquake", artists in Taiwan Province can better understand the pain of the "512 Wenchuan Earthquake", so they spare no effort in earthquake relief. On May 18th, just six days after the earthquake, a four-hour disaster relief party was broadcast live in Taiwan Province, and more than 100 entertainers from the island gathered in Taipei to participate in the charity performance, raising a total of NT$ 227 million. Since May 12th, artists from Taiwan Province have taken the lead in donating money and actively participated in various relief benefit performances. Ceng Zhiwei of the Hong Kong Performing Arts Association also attributed the complete success of the "512 Caring" campaign to the concerted efforts of artists from the three places.




  Did you really say that you are "ashamed" of Taiwan Province artists?

  If we look at it this way, it seems that Cai Qin’s criticism of Taiwan Province artists is really inappropriate, but the question is, the so-called "Cai Qin accuses Taiwan Province artists" is just news reported by a Hong Kong media. Is this really the case? The reporter found the recording of Cai Qin’s backstage interview that day. The text is as follows:

  Cai Qin: I really admire the Hong Kong entertainment industry today. I think Hong Kong’s entertainment industry will always move us as Taiwan Province artists. Therefore, I remember here that during the last 921 earthquake in Taiwan Province, Hong Kong could immediately call on all the whole entertainment circles in just one week to help us in Taiwan Province. The gym held a concert to raise money. This disaster relief for Sichuan is not the first time. I think it is still so exciting. The character of Hong Kong people is affectionate and righteous.

  Judging from the above interview, Cai Qin is indeed full of praise for the series of caring actions of Hong Kong artists. However, it seems that we can’t find anything that directly criticizes or accuses Taiwan Province artists. It doesn’t mean that Taiwan Province artists are not doing well or not doing enough to admire Hong Kong artists and point out that Hong Kong artists are moving.




  Judging from the current situation, this report by the Hong Kong media seems to be out of context and one-sided speculation. In the days of earthquake relief throughout the country, many stars have stepped forward and adopted various methods to help the relief work. However, such media reports that deliberately create contradictions are obviously irresponsible and should even be condemned, while some stars are credulous of a few media reports before they know the truth, which seems to be too hasty.

  In response to Cai Qin’s statement that "Taiwan Province artists are not United enough", Christine skillfully responded with wisdom: "I think what Sister Cai Qin means is not that we are not United, but that we are called upon to be more United. I don’t think her starting point is necessarily to criticize our artists in Taiwan Province. Maybe she wants us to rally more strength. Therefore, our younger generation will definitely abide by her precepts, and then we must gather our strength. " In contrast, Christine, who is also an artist in Taiwan Province, is relatively mature, and her attitude of "correcting what you have and encouraging what you don’t have" is worth learning from.




  Cai Qin donated more than 2 million Taiwan dollars.

  The reporter learned that after the earthquake, Cai Qin has done a lot of actions to help the disaster-stricken areas, and she donated 500,000 Taiwan dollars. At the time of the earthquake, Cai Qin was in the United States and participated in the donation at the first time. The total amount of the two donations has exceeded NT$ 2 million. However, Cai Qin is very low-key about the amount of donations. She hopes that artists will exert their influence, "infecting society to do good, not comparing numbers."




  Cai Qin: I won’t say anything if I am misinterpreted and wronged.

  "Since everyone is doing propaganda for the disaster area, they will not say anything if they are wronged." Cai Qin said. The large-scale theme party of "Cross-Strait Reconstruction with One Heart" was recorded in Starlight Studio last night.

  Cai Qin said: "Everyone’s strength is very small, including myself, but everyone’s love is very strong when they come together." As for the rumor that Cai Qin criticized Taiwan Province artists for not being active enough in disaster relief activities during a charity performance in Hong Kong, she explained: "Actually, I never said such a thing at all. My original words are: Hong Kong can mobilize 500 artists and 1,000 volunteers in such a short time, which shows that it is very experienced and worth learning. "

  As for the original intention being misinterpreted by the media, Cai Qin said that he was unwilling to pursue it further. "Since it is news about disaster relief, I won’t say anything if I feel aggrieved. I believe that we will be very United and will do a great job. "

Editor: Liu Li

Lu Yu’s tea, I heard that he didn’t take fame and fortune: tea smells like the past.

  Grandpa’s tea has a taste called home.

  Lu Yu’s tea is said to be neither famous nor profitable.

  Grandpa’s tea tastes good.

  Lu Yu’s tea is like a splash-ink landscape painting.

  The sandstorm of the Tang dynasty for thousands of years is still blowing.

  — — Vincent fang and Jay Chou’s Tea Made by Grandpa (Excerpt)

  When I was young, I listened to "Grandpa’s Tea" sung in the streets and lanes, so I liked to sip the jasmine tea that Grandpa had just brewed. In the sweet tea fragrance, I guessed the appearance of Lu Yu thousands of years ago and wondered whether the landscape-like Tang tea was as elegant and free as him. Until today, I saw a seemingly unremarkable model of white porcelain tea set in the "Ancient China" exhibition hall of China National Museum, and finally understood Lu Yu’s unique, lofty and carefree elegance.

  White porcelain tea set and Lu Yu statue

  Five Dynasties (907-— 960)

  It was unearthed in Tangxian County, Hebei Province.

  Collected by China National Museum.

  At present, this set of tea sets is rich in categories, including an air-stove tea pot for boiling tea, a tea mortar for grinding tea powder, a slag bucket for holding tea residue and a tea bottle for ordering tea, and a white porcelain portrait with a long scroll in hand. If you look at it carefully and listen to it, you will find that every little thing seems to be telling the story of tea.

  Since Lu Yu was born in the world, the world has learned from each other.

  — — Song Mei Yaochen

  This set of tea sets is mostly used for decocting tea in Tang Dynasty. What is interesting is this white porcelain portrait. Who is the portrait and why is it put with the tea set? Scholars began to speculate.

  It is recorded in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Biography of Hermitage: "When you drink tea, you will be worshipped as a tea god when you are in the shape of Tao Yu." It turned out that because of the far-reaching influence of the Book of Tea written by Lu Yu, since the late Tang Dynasty, tea sellers have regarded Lu Yu as a sacrifice to the tea god and also offered a small statue to put in a tea stall. At that time, whenever tea ware was bought to a certain amount, the store would give away a statue of Lu Yu, which was similar to the means of sales promotion of today’s merchants. This figurine was unearthed together with this tea set model, so it is supposed to be Lu Yu, the tea god with the Tea Classic.

  ▲ Lu Yu porcelain statue.

  Although the tea culture in China has a long history, according to the literature records, early tea may have been used as a food. As a special beverage, it should be no later than the Western Han Dynasty. By the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, tea had once become a luxury drink, which was a symbol of scholar-officials boasting of simplicity.

  After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, tea became more popular, from the royal family down to the common people, all loved tea, and tasting and discussing tea became a fashion. However, it was not until Lu Yu wrote Tea Classic that tea culture was systematically combed and written. Lu Yu was fascinated by tea art, carefully studied the experience of predecessors in making tea, and constantly summed up the practice, creating a book "Tea Classics".

  ▲ Lu Yu’s "Tea Classic" book shadow.

  The Book of Tea is divided into three volumes and ten sections, which systematically summarizes the knowledge of the origin, production, utensils and other aspects of tea at that time, setting a precedent for Chinese tea art. With the rapid popularization of the Book of Tea, Chinese people are paying more and more attention to the taste of tea itself, which is more elegant, more exquisite and more ceremonial. The appearance of Tea Classic promoted the prevalence of tea ceremony in Tang and Song Dynasties, and influenced every aspect of politics, economy, culture and life in Tang Dynasty and later generations, becoming one of the three largest tea books in the world.

  Gong Le Tu is partially anonymous.

  The painting reflects the elegant scene of tea and drinking by the court ladies in the Tang Dynasty, and the ladies hold it as porcelain tea set of Yueyao.

  Yueyao green glazed lotus leaf with tea cup

  Tang (618— 907)

  Unearthed in Heyi Road, Ningbo City in 1975

  Collection of Ningbo Museum

  As soon as the fragrant spring is combined with milk, it is fried to make the beads boil.

  — — Don Pi Rixiu

  The way of drinking tea in Tang Dynasty was different from today. Instead of soaking, it was boiled. When drinking tea, first crush the tea cake into tea powder, boil the water from the pot and always pay attention to the boiling degree of the water. When it boils, it will be "seasoned with salt". When it boils, a bowl of water will be filled out, and the tea powder will be put into the pot for boiling. When it boils again, it will be poured back into the pot to "cultivate its beauty". When the tea soup is cooked, share it with everyone and drink it while it is hot. If you want to cook a good pot of tea, it is necessary to have an air furnace and a tea pot. The first words in The Four Instruments of Tea Classic show their importance.

  ▲ "Xiao Yi Earns Lanting Map" (partial) was passed on to Yan Liben in Tang Dynasty.

  Tea drinking in the Tang Dynasty is elegant, and the temperature of boiling water is quite particular. "The Five Boils of Tea Classics" said: "It boils like a fish’s eye, with a slight sound as one boiling, and the edge of it is like a spring and beads as two boiling, and the waves are three boiling." There are also many descriptions of boiling water in Tang poems, such as "rabbit hair is light and fragrant, and shrimp eye soup is fine and full of waves" (Lv Yan’s Dayun Temple Tea Poetry); Another example is "a fragrant spring with milk, fried and boiled." When you look at the crab’s eyes splashing, you can see the scales rising at first sight "(Pi Rixiu’s" Tea in Tea "). "Shrimp’s Eye", "Crab’s Eye", "Fishes" and "Spring and Beads" describe the appearance of bubbles rising from small to large in the water before boiling, and the water is already boiling when the waves are surging. The vivid description is not as accurate as the thermometer-type numerical expression today, but it is full of vivid poetry and meaningful aftertaste.

  Gold-plated lotus petal silver saucer

  Tang (618— 907)

  In 1957, Pingkangfang site in Tang Chang ‘an City, Xi ‘an, Shaanxi Province was unearthed.

  Collected by China National Museum.

  The words "Zuo ce makes the house tea storehouse" are engraved in the saucer foot.

  When I woke up at noon, I only felt the silence of the earth, and the sound of a cup of tea when the new tea was smashed in the bamboo grove.

  — — Tang Liu Zongyuan

  The tea mortar in the tea set is shallow and has no glaze on the inner wall, so it should be used for grinding tea powder. In the Tang Dynasty, tea cakes must be crushed into tea powder before they can be decocted in water. Therefore, grinding tools such as mortar, grinding and grinding are essential. Liu Zongyuan, who loves tea, also wrote "Shan Tong knocks on the tea mortar across the bamboo" in My Occasional Works in Summer and Day.

  ▲ Tang Dynasty Yue Kiln Celadon Teapot.

  In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the tradition of making tea with tea powder in the Tang Dynasty was continued, and images such as tea mortar were common in poems and murals in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. After the tea-boiling method rose in Ming and Qing dynasties, tea no longer needed grinding and drinking, and the tea mortar slowly withdrew. However, today, many places still retain the tradition of tea smashing, and we can still see the figure of tea mortar in the tools of tea smashing.

  ▲ Gannan Hakka tea.

  The more common tea grinding tool is the tea mill. "The Four Instruments of Tea Classics" says that "the grinding trough is best made of orange wood, followed by pear wood, Sang Mu, tung wood and zhe wood." Recently, many ceramic tea mills have been discovered in archaeology. It can be seen that in the Tang Dynasty, tea ceremony flourished, and tea mills made of ceramics, wood and stone were more convenient to use and spread.

  In 1987, the discovery of the underground palace of the Tangta in Famen Temple made the royal treasure that had been treasured for more than 1000 years reappear in the world. A complete set of Tang Dynasty court tea set was unearthed in the underground palace, which is the earliest, highest grade and most complete court tea set known today. In the underground palace, the "Monument to the Clothing Account of the Gifted Props and Gifts for the Real Person" was also unearthed, which recorded in detail the names and other information of the offerings, including a set of exquisite grinding tools: the gold-plated flower silver enamel shaft and the gold-plated Hongyan tattooed silver tea trough. The shaft and the tea trough are used in a complete set, and the usage is similar to that of grinding herbs with traditional Chinese medicine today. The shaft is covered with gold-plated flowers and the silver-plated tea trough is covered with gold-plated Hongyan, which is magnificent and represents the highest level at that time.

  Gold-plated silver ball shaft, gold-plated Hongyan tattoo silver tea trough

  In 1987, the back room of the Tangta underground palace of Famen Temple in Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province was unearthed.

  Famen Temple Museum

  The fire in the soup bottle speaks for itself, and the wine lamp is the first to make spring.

  — — Song Yang Wanli

  Tea bottles, also known as soup bottles, are used for heating or holding hot water. Tea bottles are generally short-flowing, and may be mixed with holding pots for pouring warm wine at first, and then slowly separated from wine utensils. A porcelain vase unearthed in Xi ‘an, Shaanxi Province in the third year of Taihe in the Tang Dynasty (AD 829) was similar in shape to a pot-holding one, and the ink book at the bottom was "old"

  The words "home tea club bottle" show that at the latest in the middle Tang Dynasty, this kind of holding pot has been used as the exclusive tea bottle for tea sets.

  Tea bottles were generally not needed when frying tea in the Tang Dynasty, and there was no relevant record in Tea Classic, but it was an indispensable part of tea ordering in the late Tang Dynasty. When ordering tea, first boil water in a bottle, put the tea powder in a bowl, then hold the bottle and pour water into the bowl to make tea, and then blow it properly.

  Lushan kiln snow ash glaze soup bottle

  Tang (618— 907)

  Collected by China National Museum.

  The process of tea-ordering and water injection is somewhat similar to that of hand-brewing coffee today. When water is injected, it is necessary to control both the water flow speed and the water quantity, and the amount and weight of each water injection are particular. It turned out that the flow of holding the pot was short, and the water quantity and speed were difficult to control, so it was difficult to meet the demand. So the flow began to lengthen slowly, and the volume of the tea bottle gradually decreased, making it lighter and easier to order.

  According to Mr. Sun Ji’s textual research, the white porcelain tea set and Lu Yu statue in the National Museum of China, the tea bottle and the tea pot came out together, "showing that it was in the period of alternating frying tea and ordering tea". A small tea set, not only let us appreciate the elegant demeanour of fried tea in Tang Dynasty, but also get a glimpse of the rise of tea and feel the continuous development and evolution of China tea culture.

  Poetry is not tired of pounding fragrant teas, and it is appropriate to listen to elegant plays on the spur of the moment.

  — — Japan’s Emperor Xie ‘e

  1500 years ago, with the spread of Chinese culture, tea culture gradually went to the world. In the Tang Dynasty, Japanese monks Zuichi, Konghai and others sailed across the sea, came to China to study culture, and brought China’s tea drinking methods and tea seeds back to Japan.

  Emperor Emei (Hong Ren, year 810-824) admired Chinese culture and loved tea. He not only ordered the planting of tea trees, but also left a poem "Never tire of pounding fragrant teas when reciting poems, but should listen to elegant plays on the spur of the moment". Under the vigorous promotion of Emperor Xie, Japanese aristocrats appeared the trend of imitating China people to taste tea, and later generations called it "Hong Ren Tea Style" because of its year number "Hong Ren". During the Silla period in North China, tea culture was imported in an all-round way, and tea was spread and developed from the upper class, monks and scribes to the people, and tea was planted and made. Tea culture has thus developed into a distinctive feature of East Asian culture.

  "Liu Yu bubble tea, I heard that fame and fortune don’t take, he took a thin horse in the end of the world. The sandstorm of the Tang Dynasty for thousands of years is still blowing. " In fact, it’s not only the sandstorm that has traveled through the Millennium, but also the fragrant tea that China people are attached to. China people love tea, its elegant and mellow quality, the lingering aftertaste and the lingering smell of home. As Mr. Lin Yutang once wrote, "As long as there is a teapot, China people are happy everywhere."

  About the author:

  Yang Yue, Ph.D. in history, is an associate researcher at the National Museum of China. He is mainly engaged in exhibition planning and implementation, museum policy research, etc. He has presided over or participated in many key projects of the National Social Science Fund and cultural think tank projects, and has published articles such as Archaeological Observation of the Zodiac Pattern in the Epitaph of Liao Dynasty, Comparative Analysis of the Tombs of Xianbei and Han People in Luoyang Area, and Textual Research on Wuchuan Military and Political Affairs in the Northern Dynasties.

  Producer | Xiao Jingfang Yang Xinhua

  Overall planning | Weng Huainan Liang Li

  Editor | Liang Li Yu Ling

  Production | Hu Qi

Reading music Jeff Chang Shin-Che’s "Overfire": Yes, yes, I started to sing like crazy again. …

Reading Jeff Chang Shin-Che’s "Overfire" in Music.

The song "Going Too Far" is really a classic in Jeff Chang Shin-Che’s music library. On July 8, 2023, I went to see the Jeff Chang Shin-Che Concert in Fuzhou for the first time, and the first song I sang was "Overfire", which was almost a chorus of the whole audience. How can people not remember it deeply?

This song has a deep pain, but it also has a feeling of no resentment, but it seems that it has all ended. Sometimes it even feels that it has ended before it started. Sometimes, is it completely released to give freedom to the other party? There is no answer, only through. After scenes of crazy years for love, after a deep commitment for love, and after a struggle for right and wrong, do you release and fly?

If these are all too much, then let go, let go, and set you free. Just turn around and turn around, and the affectionate scenes will be gone? I don’t know what the dream is, will it be broken, and the short-term pain will still suddenly come to mind at an unknown time of the year. Turbulent emotions, such as waves beating against the giant glass of high-rise buildings, just can’t get in, still! But the voice that resounded through Genting plunged the whirlpool of feelings deeper and deeper until it was unforgettable, right? Can’t forget it.

Therefore, listening to this song "Overfire", the fault of tearing and the drifting away of commitment become clear and profound at night! Clouds are like smoke, and if alcohol evaporates, it will disperse when walking. Do you think that the kind of moths that used to throw fire is a kind of "fire"? But those who don’t come back can’t come back, and even more whispers can’t change anything.

Just listening to this song "Overfire", I just seem to think about him or her, but I have fallen into the precious "entanglement" of being loved and loved, let go and left, and gradually I can’t go back. Really? Yes, I started singing like crazy again.

Original text, reading music corridor.