When I saw the last episode of Quanyou S1 in the summer of 2011, I was shocked to the point of confusion:
Wow, how can the protagonist die! ? What about the wolf family?
Will Ed be resurrected? But after watching the next few seasons, I completely gave up: even if some people were resurrected seven or eight times, Ed Stark would not survive.
Why does Ed Stark have to die?
The question that was puzzled before, this time walking on the stone road of York in the Middle Ages, I finally came up with the answer.
① Winterfell is York City
Fans of Quan You should have been analyzed by the big cows: the main story of the first to second seasons, Uncle Martin is mainly taken from the "War of the Roses" in the United Kingdom .
"Ed Stark" is the leader of the Yorkist "Richard York" , and "Cersei" is the leader of the Lancaster "Margaret Anjou" .
The wolf’s house is the white rose, and the lion’s house is the red rose.
According to the main line of this story, "King Robert" is the "Henry VI" of intermittent mental illness .
"Joffrey" is the "Prince Edward" that "Margaret" got pregnant 8 years after being married .
Geographically, the entire "Westero" is the British island of Great Britain (you can find it if you look closely at the credits of Quan You);
"Junlin City" is London (the clue in the opening is too obvious), "Extremely Great Wall" is the "Hadrian's Wall" that resists the Scots "savages", and "Northern" is the ancient kingdom Northumbria in the northernmost part of England. "Winter City" is naturally York City.
Thinking of this level, and stepping on York's stone pavement, I was very excited.
② The real history of Winterfell
During the Eastern Han Dynasty in 122 AD, in order to avoid the savages from going south, the gay Roman Emperor Hadrian ordered the construction of a "neither long nor extinct" wall between England and Scotland, which was 3 meters high and 122 kilometers wide.
During the Western Jin Dynasty in our country in 305 AD, a general named "Constantius" happened to resist the invasion of savages near the Great Wall. Due to the abdication of the first two Roman consuls, Constantius was promoted to the new consul of Rome.
Unfortunately, he passed away shortly after being promoted. His son Constantine was "added in yellow robe" by soldiers in York and became the new emperor of Rome.
Twenty-four years later, the emperor moved the capital of Rome to the Greek city-state Byzantium and renamed it "Constantinople" . This city became the second prototype of King's Landing.
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, 200 years later, England entered the "Seven Kingdoms Era" , and the military town of "York" in the ancient Roman period became the capital of " Northumbria " ( Northumbria) .
In 1066, during the Southern Song Dynasty , York was destroyed after the "William Conquest" ( "Aegon Conquest" in the book of Ice and Fire); "William the Conqueror" rebuilt various castles in York.
In 1664, during the Qing Dynasty in our country, Britain won the Anglo-Dutch War. In order to commemorate the victory, the name of the Dutch in New Amsterdam in the Americas was changed to the name of the British king (former "Duke of York")-N ew York (New York) - — The world has been changed as a result.
Stepping on the stone road in York, I sighed about my previous ignorance: I am actually putting these clues together now!
A radiant joy filled the whole body, and the frozen hands in "Winter City" were also excited and flexible.
③ Grandpa Martin's method of constructing the world
Come back to why Ed Stark must die. This depends on the routines of Grandpa Martin's worldview construction.
The biggest feature of "A Song of Ice and Fire" is that although there are many characters in it, the story of each character is complete and vivid, and the actions are completely in line with the personality and mood of the time. There is no illogical place; the geographical location of each city, The climate, vegetation, customs, and political system are all very detailed; even ethnic migration, religion, and mythology are all self-contained.
In such a complicated situation, every detail of every line is so vivid, and it is absolutely impossible to rely solely on the imagination of a person for decades.
The only workable explanation is: "A Song of Ice and Fire" is the same as "A Dream of Red Mansions"-everything is a restoration of reality.
It's just that what the Dream of Red Mansions restores is personal life experience; and the restoring pattern of "A Song of Ice and Fire" is even bigger, which is the entire history of human civilization.
"Westeros" is the British Isles, "Essos" is the Eurasian continent, "King's Landing" is the combination of London and Constantinople, "Gap Sea" is the English Channel; "Nine Free City States" It is the coast of Italy, "Braavos" is Venice; "Valyria" swallowed by volcanoes is southern Italy; "Slave Bay" is the North African coast of the Mediterranean Sea; "Dothraki" is the steppes of Central Asia; "Dorn" is Spain under Muslim rule...
The prototype of "Son of the Forest" is the Celts; the prototype of the "Horse King" is a combination of the Hungarian leader Attila and the Mongolian Great Khan; the "Iron People" are the Vikings; "Dal" people are Germans; "Unsullied" are Mamluk slaves...
The belief in the "seven gods" is Christianity; the belief in the "old gods" is the Celtic druid religion; the religion in the "king of light" is the Zoroastrianism in Iran; the "harpy" is the belief in ancient Egypt; "God of a Thousand Faces" is the Islamic Assassin sect of "Assassin's Creed"...
The more you understand the details of world history and urban history, the more similar these descriptions become! Reading books and watching dramas becomes an advanced jigsaw puzzle game, isn't it full of fun?
However, Grandpa Martin is not simply "plagiarism", and like we Chinese construct "dragons", organically put together the characteristics of ABCD animals to form a new image.
For example, the three silly, her growth path is combined with Sophie Marceau's "Isabella of France", Cersei prototype "Margaret", and later the shadow of Elizabeth I.
Knowing the greatest secret of Grandpa Martin's writing, I can understand: why Ed Stark must die.
Because in real history, he really died.
And his death directly advances the advancement of human history; to make everything behind it conform to realistic logic, he must die.
④ After Ed Stark died
In the real history, Richard "Ed" , Duke of York , the "Guardian of the Country ", is not so "upright", and even has the flexibility and insidiousness of a little finger.
Henry VI's mental illness often broke out, which made all factions covet the military power and throne. The queen "Margaret" from France wanted her son to succeed to the throne, while Richard York believed that she was the most suitable heir.
The Queen considered that the Yorkists did not dare to kill the emperor, so she "crowned the emperor to order the princes"; while York played the banner of "pure king's side" and "Edward is an illegitimate son", and the queen & the Earl of Somerset stood upright.
In the next few years, the two armies faced each other many times, winning each other;
But every time "Ed" wins, he always considers the benefits of war and the legitimacy of the throne, and has never killed Henry VI. The queen and prince can always escape, and then make a comeback.
But in December 1460, Richard ("Ed" in the play) and his second son ("Bran" in the play) were beheaded during a battle with the queen; the queen brought them a paper crown and placed it on the city's head. .
This is the final story of the first season of Game of Thrones.
However, when Grandpa Martin described Richard York's offspring, he cunningly changed a prototype. Therefore, the destiny and history of "Robo" are not exactly the same.
In real history, Richard's eldest son Edward ("Rob" in the play) reorganized the rivers and mountains in the north, and he did not "die before he was a teacher".
He eventually captured London and inherited the throne of England.
Although he did violate the marriage contract with his ally (and married someone he loves), his ally betrayed and expelled from England, and Henry VI and the Queen were restored.
But in the end, he took the fleet from the Netherlands and captured London. This time, he simply killed Henry VI and completely cut off the queen's desire to restore.
This is the phased story of the "War of the Roses", and "Robble" is the famous merchant king "Edward IV" in British history .
This merchant king betrayed the marriage contract and married a merchant widow; under her matchmaking, the king made a lot of money by doing business with foreign agents through agents. But the nature of war is fighting, and the nature of politics is economics.
During the 23 years of the reign of Edward IV, the export of wool raw materials was restricted and only finished woolen products were exported; the wool in Europe was basically from the United Kingdom. This is just like when we banned the export of accessories during the Sino-US trade war and only exported finished mobile phones. Same.
In short, the UK has made a lot of money in the past few decades. The War of the Roses + the Black Death reduced the British population, and laid the foundation for the mercantilism of the Tudor dynasty, the enclosure movement, the invention and improvement of the steam engine, and the bourgeois revolution of the Stuart dynasty.
The dragon and "fire" that hatched from the east of the European continent are not the prototypes of the gunpowder that broke the European chivalry system?
⑤ SOME REFLECTIONS
In 2011, I had not yet started to implement global travel plans, and most of the history books I read were Chinese versions in China. At that time I felt that:
Grandpa Martin knows Chinese history well. He said that these things have all happened in Chinese history. Did he "learn from" us?
But in recent years, after having the opportunity to see the world with my own eyes and see more first-hand evidence in other languages, I can only say: The stories that happened in Chinese history have truly happened countless times in countless countries;
National self-confidence caused by ignorance is not true national self-confidence.
Drama may be a world of subjective expectations, but it is not the real world, just like why Ed Stark must die.
Although I read a lot of books on the surface, I still don't know anything about the real world. Fortunately, the interest has not diminished, so it is not too late to make up for it.
Original: Official account xizhciat
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