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The 2019 version of " Fen Shen Yi " starring Luo Jin , Wang Likun , Yu Hewei , Deng Lun, Hu Jing , and 2019 version of " Fen Shen Yan " is about to be completed. This domestic mythical TV series with ratings and complaints, topics and complaints. Before the launch of " Icebreaker ", it caused a huge viewing trend in the calm end of April and early May.
Although the 19th edition of "The Romance of the Gods" has good data in all aspects, overall it is still more derogatory than praise.
This mythical TV series adapted from the classical masterpiece "The Romance of the Gods". It appeared in the post-era era of domestic dramas "Langya Bang" and "The Legend of the Sea". However, it inherited the 2013 Huace "The Heroes of the Gods" shoddy, joking classics, and cater to fashion.
can only say it is a pity, sadness, lament and hate, because the European and American epic fantasy American drama "Game of Thrones" has just been completed, although the eighth season is recognized as an epic-level unfinished work all over the world. However, "Game of Thrones" still reaches a level that is difficult to reach for domestic dramas at the production level (that is, the special effects level).
Originally, in the post-era era of "Langya Bang" and "The Legend of the Sea", there were " Night ". In the future, the production level of " Jiuzhou Piaomiaolu " and "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an" will continue to bring closer European and American dramas. "The Romance of the Gods" filmed in 2017 is a domestic drama production model filmed in the pre-Langya Bang in 2014.
uses a playful and classic magical adaptation, and the performances of some actors have reached a certain popularity. But this still makes it difficult for film and television works adapted from Chinese fantasy culture. Until now, they still have no production level and have reached the level of the American drama "Game of Thrones".
But the accumulation of Chinese fantasy culture is really deep.
On the surface, Chinese fantasy culture has various divisions such as myths and legends, fairy tales, folk legends, martial arts fairy tales, fantasy fantasy , etc.
seems very complicated and confusing, but if you want to summarize, there are only a few most fundamental cornerstones.
Chinese mythology and legend system
Chinese mythology and legend can basically go from Pangu to the story before the "Fengshen Romance of the Gods" " King Wu's defeat of Zhou ". There are too many myths, stories, and historical culture. If divided from the time period, Bo Guang believes that it can be roughly divided into three stages.
The first stage: Creation Myth
Creation Myth basically starts from "Pangu to the sky" to " Nuwa Creation of man". This stage tells the story of the creation gods and the innate gods.
There is an obvious phenomenon among these gods, and they are born as gods. According to the current more "scientific" view, they belong to the cosmic civilization at level 7 or above.
Creation gods and innate gods also have the understanding of the universe and the earth, as well as the earliest Chinese ancestors, mainly from 0 to 1, from nothing to something, as the beginning of everything. For example, they opened up the universe of heaven, earth, set the sun, moon, stars, and created human beings, and the real origin of all things.
The second stage: the gods myth
The gods myth is from "Nuwa created humans" to Zhuanxu's "Jedi Heavenly Connection". This stage tells about acquired gods.
Acquired gods also have a distinct characteristic. They appeared in a later era compared with the creation gods and the innate gods. Or, they are simply the descendants of the innate gods, , , or the descendants of the innate gods.
The most typical example is the Five Emperors. No matter how many types of the Five Emperors are divided, the one recognized as the ancestor of the Five Emperors is Xuanyuan Huangdi. According to existing data, Huangdi is the son of Shaodian and Fubao . Yandi is the son of Shaodian and who have the 未分 , etc.
In addition, the acquired gods are obviously no longer creating the origin of the universe and all things.It is even more different from the dedication and sacrifice of the creation gods of China and the innate gods, acquired gods clearly show certain human struggles.
Such as Huangdi fights Chiyou , Xingtian Wuganqi, Gonggong and Zhuanxu fight to be emperor, Gonggong's anger hits Buzhou Mountain, Fire God Zhurong fights Gonggong , etc.
Bo Guang believes that acquired gods should be the transitional stage of early Chinese civilization, from primitive human tribal civilization to small-city civilization.
The third stage: hero myth
Hero myth is from "Zhuanxu's style of the Jedi Heavenly Pass" to the story before "The Romance of the Gods".
Heroes in the hero myth, they are born with divine power, but they are not gods. In fact, some information also divides the Five Emperors era into "hero myths".
Then, according to the division of major myths and events, the myth of gods should be "Nuwa created humans" until " Huangdi fights with Chiyou ". But Bo Guang felt that the battle between Huangdi and Chiyou was a transition from early tribal civilization to small-state civilization. Let’s take a look at the Zhuanxu family “ Jedi Tiantong ” in the myths and legends.
Zhuanxu cut off the passage between the world and the heaven. It is obviously much more difficult for the gods on earth to easily reach the heaven. This not only in the Chinese myth system, but also led to the emergence of a large number of cultivation groups "Immortals". And from the early Chinese mythology.
After Huangdi fought against Chiyou, he entered the era of the Five Emperors. After Zhuanxu's "Jidi Tiantong", such as the later Dayu , which later controlled the flood, the mythology was when the flood was a big flood. Dayu's father Gun stole Huangdi's Xiran to control the flood. Huangdi was furious and sent the fire god Zhurong to kill Gun.
Gun's corpse did not rot for three years, and Huangdi sent the god of fire Zhurong to dig open Gun's belly again, so Dayu came to the world. And things like Dayu control floods are typical of "heroes".
Other myths and allusions include Hou Yi who shoots the sun, which is obviously a typical "hero myth". Even if there are various arguments between Houyi and Dayi , if we follow the myth that Houyi and Chang'e were later recognized as a pair of pairs, "Chang'e Flying to the Moon" will also require the immortal elixir given by the Queen Mother of the West. This time is obviously after the Zhuanxu-style "Jedi Heaven Pass".
Bo Guang believes that the 'hero myth' is the transitional stage of China from a small city to the early Xia Dynasty and Shang Dynasty, this great power civilization.
If the Chinese myth is divided into three stages.
Creation gods and innate gods create the universe, the world, the sun, moon, stars, and the origin of all things; acquired gods establish the universe, stabilize the world, and divide all things; heroic myths are to save the world, establish the country, and educate all things.
In fact, Bo Guang's division is not important at all, because the Chinese myth system has a significant feature, that is, compared with the Western gear-like Greek myth system, Chinese mythology is too vast and complex.
Whether it is the myth system that has been passed down from ancient times in China, or various professional or unprofessional reviews in modern times. This has led to the Chinese myth becoming a myth system that is connected to each other, but is quite contradictory, extremely large, but quite chaotic.
However, the Chinese myth and South Korea created the world because of "cultural inferiority complex". They created a single one for 2,000 years, but the myths and allusions in the middle are almost blank. Apart from , Tanjun , there are not many gods, and the "myth jokes" of several people are different.
No matter how complicated and confusing the Chinese myth, there are still many overlaps. But from the perspective of film and television popular culture, there are absolutely countless stories that Chinese myths can write.
We have the myth of creating the world, such as Pangu creating the sky and Nuwa creating humans. There are Jingwei who reclaimed the sea, Kuafu Zhuri and Dayu control the flood, this unyielding myth of conquering nature. There is also the war between Yan Emperor and Huang Emperor, the battle between Huang Emperor and Chi You, this epic myth of the origin of Chinese civilization.
Not to mention, later online novels such as "The Origin of Buddha is the Tao" created by "The Origin of Buddha".
Chinese myth system is definitely a huge treasure house for film and television popular culture. However, the domestic film and television industry is hard to describe the film and television transformation of Chinese myths at present.
Chinese mythology film and television works include the 2006 TV series " Jingwei Reclamation ", the 2015 " Dashun " directed by Wu Ziniu , and then in 2016, the recognized mythological bad drama " Ancient Love Song " starring Huang Xiaoming and Song Qian , etc.
Of course, there are countless film and television works involving various stages of Chinese mythology, and there are definitely countless film and television works related to mythology and gods. But at present, there are very few "big" works in China, such as myths and legends, or mythological systems.
This ‘big’ refers to a commercial masterpiece with large companies, big investments, big directors, big stars, big publicity, big productions, and anyway, it is a business masterpiece with concentrated resources.
Let’s compare it with European and American films and television works that shoot Western myths.
No matter whether it has anything to do with these myths in the history of European and American countries, there are indeed many popular culture works filmed. This is not about the Marvel superheroes. "Thor" involving Nordic myths, and "X-Men Apocalypse" involving Egyptian myths.
Other Egyptian myths include " Gods War Eye of Power" in 2016, " Pharaohs and Gods " starring Christian Bale in 2014, and then the origin of Western myths, and "Noah's Ark: Journey to Creation" in 2014.
is followed by Greek mythology. European and American countries that consider themselves the successor of "Greece" and " Rome " civilizations, and countless works of Greek mythology have been filmed.
In 2011, " God of War" starring Henry Cavill , " God of War" starring Henry Cavill in 2014, and "Son of Zeus: Hercules" starring Dwayne Johnson.
2010's "The Battle of the Gods" and then the sequel in 2012 " Wrath of the Gods ". If we push the time a little earlier, the United States also filmed a movie in 2004, starring superstars such as Brad Pitt , and is a very famous Greek mythological film " Troy ".
As for European and American film and television culture, there are more elements of Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology, and Western mythology. If you don’t believe it, please think carefully about the dress of the characters in Paradise Island in DC "Wonder Woman", and then to Atlantis in "Aquaman".
The importance of Western myths and the derived popular culture are reflected in all aspects, and have formed strong cultural soft power, which in turn has influenced the whole world.
The domestic reason may be the immature reason of the film and television industry, or other reasons. In the film and television version of Chinese mythology, except for the TV series listed above, there are few A-level productions like European and American countries.
Currently, there is a larger work. There is a TV series in 2015 led by Zhang Jizhong , which tells the battle between Huangdi and Chiyou. This is the first TV series that Zhang Ji filmed after "New Journey to the West".
results have not been broadcast until now, the reason is unknown. Later, Zhang Jizhong cut it into a movie "The God of War Chiyou", which was also not released.
In addition, a big news was revealed in April 2016. Hong Kong director directed by Johnnie To and produced by Wei Jiahui . He will film the Chinese mythological " Huangdi vs. Chiyou ". The news promotion at that time was: the film is expected to invest 1 billion to create a series of trilogies like China's "Lord of the Rings".
But since 2016, there has been no news of any advancement in this project.
That is to say, such a vast and vast Chinese myth, coupled with the "precious stream" system of a large number of online novels. Apart from a few unappreciated TV series in China, there has been no A-level film and television work so far.
This is so bad for a native civilization and the only ancient civilization that has continued to this day in terms of its derived popular culture. This is definitely a very unfortunate thing, and even if it continues for a long time, it will become a matter of deconstructing Chinese culture.
Some viewers must have expressed their disbelief, you are definitely exaggerating it.
How many Chinese teenagers are there because of the influence of Western constellations and popular culture? For Greek mythology and the gods of Western mythology, the story allusions come from the mouth.
To give a few examples, Taiwanese musician Wu Qingfeng appeared on Hunan Satellite TV this year. In the third episode, Wu Qingfeng sang a song he wrote "Unfinished", which originated from the story of Greek mythology Xerxesfos constantly pushing huge rocks up the mountain.
Bo Guang doesn’t know anyone else. Anyway, as a self-media worker, Bo Guang often sees comics, animations, games, film and television dramas, and popular culture on the Internet. Even articles written by domestic media and cultural workers. Quote the spirit of a god in Greek mythology and a story of a mythological allusion to express one's own point of view.
21st century is the Internet age and the information age, and popular culture has become the main way of dissemination of cultural soft power and even ideology. In recent years, the spread of ancient Chinese culture and spirit has been widely spread. Which two works do you think are?
One is the costume idol drama "Langya Bang" at noon sunshine. It talks about the "childish heart" and the other is the sci-fi film " Wandering Earth " in the 2019 Spring Festival. It does not talk about collectivism advocated by modern times. A sentence that is often said when it is released is:
Only a nation with 5,000 years can write a grand plan for 2,500 years.
So, do you think the film and televisionization of Chinese myth is really important?
2019 version of "The Romance of the Gods" was born, and a similar attempt could have been made. However, this TV series did not try this way. In the future, before "The Legend of Nine States" and " Congratulations 2" will be broadcast, there will be no domestic costume drama with particularly strong production levels in China, and may catch up with British and American dramas.
Future domestic fantasy costume dramas need to work hard!
