In this animation, the object of Nezha's struggle has changed. From "Fengshen Romance" and "Nezha Raid in the Sea" to challenge the local evil force Dragon King, to realize personal value, shouting "Who I am, I will say it myself."
When Ao Bing and Nezha carried forward their subjective initiative to fight the thunder, Chentangguan was destroyed again. The people of Chentangguan did not have the opportunity to shout "Who I am is what I say." They don't talk about the precariousness, and they have to endure oppression from both monsters and Nezha. Who can have the opportunity to discover their own personal value? If you are a fart in Chentangguan, then:
You live in the Shang Dynasty, then you may be a yellow race, but you may also be black, or even an Englishman;
Archaeological discoveries show that there are many black skulls in the Yin and Shang tombs. Archaeologists speculate that these skulls are homologous to Andamans, Papuans or Australian aboriginal blacks. In addition, a few skulls similar to the early British and Eskimos have been found. Said white skull. The Shang Dynasty fought and expanded for many years, capturing a large number of prisoners from different regions.
The biggest role of blacks and whites is to sacrifice to gods. You should be glad that you are a yellow race like the people in "Nezha", then:
Your average age is only eighteen years old, which can explain why the old man in Nezha has a strong prestige among his clan even though he is blind. Because in the eyes of those who don't live to the age of twenty, he is an existence that is close to immortality. (Lin Wanxiao's "Average Life expectancy and Life Expectancy of People in my country's Past Dynasties" in "Life and Disaster", No. 5, 1996)
Most of the food you eat is cereals, and Li Jing eats meat, so when Cao Gui was debating, he would call the upper-class people "meat eaters". But Chentangguan is close to the sea. If you are lucky enough to stand on the street when Nezha is in the sea, instead of being pinned down in the house, then the fish falling from the sky will make you excited, and it is likely that you will use it to worship the Dragon King. After all, your protein sources are only mice and rabbits, and at most shellfish you picked up while wandering around the beach, Li Jing's birthday party for Nezha had a chicken in front of everyone. It was a grand feast. Even Li Jing, at most a scholar-bureaucrat, according to commercial law, the most meat he can get is fish, and the best is sheep. He invited the whole village (in fact, most of the organizations of the Shang Dynasty were tribes, and the language had not yet fully evolved) to a banquet, and it was estimated that he had paid all his salary for the past three years;
The emperor raised Tailao and sacrificed to Hui (cattle, sheep and pigs); the princes raised special cattle and sacrificed Tailao; the lord raised young cattle (sheep and pigs) and sacrificed to special cattle; the doctor raised special animals and sacrificed to Shaojao ; Scholars eat fried fish and sacrifice to special students; common people eat vegetables and sacrifice to fish. ——"Mandarin·Chu Language"
The streets of Chentangguan should be covered with human excrement. This problem has not been solved in the Qing Dynasty.
Your favorite thing to do is to watch the celestial phenomena at night to guide your planting, and to make sacrifices to the gods. It can be seen that the sacrificial items are much higher than the daily items. The battle between Nezha and Ao Bing, in the eyes of the people in Chentangguan on the street, is simply the collapse of faith: you dedicate your lifelong hope to the gods, and sacrifice the meat you saved to the gods. The truly powerful people destroy your houses at the flick of a finger in order to realize their personal worth.
Of course, they may also be excited to see such a big natural disaster, after all, most of them died inhumanly. Although there were already doctors in the Shang Dynasty, doctors were also officials. As a commoner of Chentangguan, you can only choose to fend for yourself, or use wine to anesthetize yourself before dying from illness (it is said that wine was invented in the Xia Dynasty).
The people of Chentangguan are not the worst, in Nezha's eyes they are just "idiots". There is a lower class even lower than them, and that is the Dragon Palace. I like this change very much. The director intends to present a class-oriented social form and reveal the irrefutable truth of "winning the king and losing the bandit".
What the "idiots" despise are "yokai" and dragons. He is not without divine power, but a victim of political changes. Heavenly Court is no longer a symbol of justice in "Nezha", but a cloud of oranges, full of deceit and ideological use. Not only did they use the bureaucracy to suppress the Dragon King (Dragon Palace is actually a Heavenly Prison, which is exactly the same as what happened to Monkey King Bi Ma Wen), but they even built the Dragon Clan into an inferior and cruel demon in popular culture.
Although the monsters are of low status, they still have the ability to resist; the common people do not seem to be at the bottom, but they have no way to jump up the ranks. If Ao Bing and Shen Gongbao were successful, for the common people, it would just be a change in the objects of fish and meat sacrifices. The huge crack that presents the double space is exactly the place where "Nezha" is completely different from the adaptation of previous mythological works. Neither "Journey to the West" nor "The Return of the Great Sage" have ever (perhaps did not dare) find inspiration on the issue of class.
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