The Adventures of Tintin: No matter how old you are, you must be brave, upright, and loyal

For young people living in a fast-paced steel forest, love is probably a luxury, but friendship is not. The definition of a friend may vary from person to person, but there must be a universal resonance when it comes to importance.

The classic partner on the screen, the friendship between Tintin, his puppy Snow White, and his friends who are on adventures together have a deep impression on many people.

Since his birth on January 10, 1929, Tintin, a cartoon character who has been wearing a beige trench coat and a stubborn tuft of hair on his head for decades, has deeply influenced generations.

Ding Ding, written by Belgian cartoonist Hergé, has an independent personality, brave, upright, wicked, travels the world, makes friends all over the world, and treats friends with absolute loyalty.

Perhaps it is the same as everyone's dream of becoming a scientist when they are ignorant.

Ding Ding and his friends

Changxin is what many people say about The Adventures of Tintin.

There are many characters in the whole series. Hergé takes Tintin's adventure as the main line and builds a huge narrative structure, a magnificent "tintin universe". Each of the characters is three-dimensional and full, with its own backstory, but not overwhelming.

Ding Ding is smart and brave, calm and calm in the face of danger, and never backs down in the face of danger. Although he is a reporter, he has been given the responsibility of a detective in the follow-up.

Baixue, this dog that many people mistaken for a Schnauzer is actually a kind of terrier - "Fox Terrier". Although this dog is small, it is brave, strong, loyal and friendly. It's a copy of Tintin's dog world.

It never leaves Tintin for half a step. Whenever Tintin is in danger, Baixue always comes forward as soon as possible. Correspondingly, Tintin will also go to the sword and the fire for it.

The impatient Captain Haddock is a friend of Tintin's on board, a grumpy alcoholic who accidentally saved Tintin's life because of his love of drinking. With Tintin and Baixue, he has a strong and daring attitude that has been passed down in the same vein, and it is natural to be a good partner.

If Captain Haddock is "unhappy" around Tintin, then the DuPont brothers are the "headless" needed by the plot. They are confused, topsy-turvy, and always doing a disservice, contributing to all kinds of unreasonable dramatic conflicts in the play.

Think of The Adventures of Tintin as a cartoon version of Indiana Jones, depicting the real-world adventures of Tintin and his friends with geographic and cultural accuracy.

In Hergé's writings, Tintin travels all over the world, and his footprints are almost all over the world. His journey began in the former Soviet Union, from Egypt's Nile River to China's Tibet, to South American Indian tribes, and even landed on the moon before the Americans. .

Tintin in America

Tintin in America

Tintin in Congo

Tintin in Dublin

Tintin on the Moon

A world without love

It is a world without lovehtml Several big men followed a dog around the world, "nosy" all over the world.

Because of his obsession with finding the truth and eradicating evil, Tintin is always in trouble, but he always has a group of friends around him to deal with the crisis together. There is also the dog Bai Xue, who will never leave Tintin's side, to accompany Tintin on every journey of his adventures.

Douban netizen Maoren said, "The biggest influence of Tintin on me is that I fell in love with the Wirehaired Fox Terrier, and by the way, I also love Schnauzer. It is estimated that many people are the same as me. When you are troubled or depressed, just look at Tintin, and your mood will change. It’s so relaxing. It is especially recommended for those who have lost their love. In a world without love, isn’t it wonderful to live on friendship alone?”

Ding Ding and his friends travel around the world, and those who watch can also learn from their own reality. Take it out of life and follow their adventures to see the world.

Hergé once wrote in "Letter to Tintin": "There was a period of time, when I was young, my ideal was to be a person like you." In a small city on the plateau, there is a bookstore for renting children’s books by the roadside. It costs 2 cents a book. I gave up the desire to suck popsicles, and came to return the magic that El Tropic gave me. I’m still looking at it. There are several bathrooms and bedsides. Ben, I think, I will see 70 years old."

"Whether it is 7 years old or 70 years old, different age groups will have different perceptions when reading Tintin. This is a book that can be read for a lifetime." There is freedom and peace

"The Adventures of Tintin" is different from other classic books in that it showed a real China to the world early in the 1980s.

Ding Ding in Tibet

Douban netizen Brahms recalled seeing the Chinese plot in "The Adventures of Tintin" when he was a child and described it this way, "This kind of feeling is half the feeling of home, half the feeling of a fellow countryman. Especially in China 20 years ago In an age of international isolation and marginalization, this kind of feeling is something that today's children cannot understand. To use an inappropriate analogy, it is like the feeling of a countryman suddenly discovering a good relative in the city."

This is not the West The perspective's wishful thinking of exoticism stems from the real transnational friendship between Hergé and his Chinese friend Zhang Chongren.

After taking Tintin to "travel" through the Soviet Union, Congo, and South America, Hergé turned his attention to the mysterious China. Due to the breadth and depth of Chinese civilization, Hergé was well aware of his limitations. Through the recommendation of a friend, 27-year-old Hergé met Zhang Chongren, a Chinese student of the same age who was studying in the Oil Painting Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels.

Hergé and Zhang Chongren

The two hit it off at first sight, just like Tintin's friend willing to help Tintin, Zhang Chongren helped Hergé to understand the customs of China. For several weeks, Zhang Chongren told Hergé in detail about China's history, literature, politics, art, and even its customs.

The wonderful oriental story broke Hergé's original stereotype of Chinese people with long braids, and gradually changed the subconscious Western perspective of condescending to other civilizations, and became more tolerant and open. To a certain extent, this greatly influenced his subsequent creations. In addition to adventure, he took freedom and peace as eternal themes.

In 1932, when the painter began to create the story of Tintin's journey to the East, he drew a map of Asia for the readers of "Little Twentieth Century".

Hergé's rigor in his creation is reflected in the fact that he is not only satisfied with listening to curiosity. Just go through the story. After writing, Zhang Chongren reviewed the draft of the story, confirmed it, and then converted it into a pencil draft. Zhang Chongren decorated the streets, characters, and Chinese character plaques.

Details in "The Adventures of Tintin"

During their interaction, Zhang Chongren gave Hergé a copy of "Paintings of the Mustard Seed Garden" and taught him the traditional Chinese technique of single-line drawing. Hergé used it in his comics, and the style of painting changed drastically, and since then he created the Ligne Claire painting method in European comics.

I have to say that this is really the highest level of benign development of friendship. In the creation of "Blue Lotus", the two worked closely together, and their friendship deepened day by day, becoming lifelong close friends.

The plot of "Blue Lotus" has many direct references to the development of the friendship between the two. Zhang Chongren also has his own unique image in the book, which is well known by the majority of Western readers - Tintin's good Chinese friend: Zhang.

Ding Ding and Zhang

In the comic, Hergé euphemistically expresses the feeling of re-acquainting China with a small story - the detective Thomson Brothers came to China in the 1930s wearing a flower-pin top belt and a robe and jacket, thinking that "" Dressing up like the Chinese, and as a result, he was surrounded and ridiculed by everyone and made a fool of himself.

Hergé should never have imagined that nearly half a century later, there are still many people in the Western world, like the Thomson brothers, who, with limited imagination, regard distorted stereotypes as Asian styles with arrogance and arrogance, and feel complacent about them.Perhaps they should, like Hergé and Tintin, broaden their horizons and take the initiative to embrace this globalized world.

This year marks the 92nd anniversary of Tintin's birth. In the world of comics, Tintin's image has not changed in the slightest.

It has been almost a century, and the children who have watched Tintin grow up are getting old, but the spirit conveyed by Tintin has not faded. Vive le Tintin, Vive Friendship!