What are books? What do we study for? Books record the experiences of our ancestors from generation to generation. It is a living person telling us their life experience... They tell us that the meaning of life is to carry on the past and carry forward their wisdom. A person's life will encounter various difficulties and even disasters, and human history is a history of disasters - floods, earthquakes and other natural disasters can instantly destroy our hard-built homes, and wars are even more tragic... (The short film uses tornadoes common in the United States as a metaphor for many disasters in the world.)
We eat food every day to continue our physical life, but what gives us the courage to face life's problems? What do we rely on to get out of the abyss of pain? That is the wisdom of the predecessors. When we find those similar experiences to us from the book, a mysterious force from an unknown corner of the world comes to us even across the obstacles of time and space, giving us the vitality of life and the courage to struggle! The short film highlights the value of life and the richness of human civilization through the contrast between black and white and color.
When disaster strikes and civilization is devastated, what is the meaning of life? Only by stepping on the road of civilization can we regain the dignity of life!
The value of books lies in reading, and the value of civilization must be spread. Giving roses to people, the fragrance in your hands, and spreading civilization, you have done a great job! How to make a book truly belong to you, only after reading every word of it, opening up a whole new world with its ideas! The short film seems to use an extremely exaggerated method to express the process of governing the book, and the moment when the book "lives" is when we are intoxicated and share the same fate with the characters in the book.
Books must not be left on the shelf. Reading can make us forget all the troubles of fame and fortune in the world, and enjoy the spiritual happiness of pure self, which is a kind of happiness that cannot be achieved after any other desire is satisfied! These principles are vividly demonstrated in this section of the film. In addition to these, when modern medicine appears powerless in the face of ancient books, we seem to feel a kind of irony - the technological progress that we modern people are proud of can really wake up the seemingly ancient legacy left by our ancestors. Wisdom? Or even we fervently believe that we can replace them...
We have to wonder if the progress of science and technology really equals the progress of human civilization? When we encounter hardships and suffering in reality, should we go back to our original heart, to the most simple and true feelings without any impurities? Using one heart to awaken another - this is the great wisdom of our predecessors, not our self-righteous technical cleverness.
"Those who know are not perplexed", the great wisdom of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign are often interlinked. You see the writer in the film. At the beginning, he was sitting in his small building, facing the rigid reinforced concrete buildings. make a few words
Later, he sat under the big tree, like a great philosopher, in the dim morning light, when all things awakened, "Looking up at the greatness of the universe, looking down at the prosperity of categories", the surging thoughts flowed quietly in the pen...
He seems to have completely absorbed the essence of human civilization, comprehended the profound meaning of the operation of all things in the universe, and integrated the self-regulation of life and the laws of operation of the universe into one! , fully aware of every behavior of his own - it is always in the direction of human civilization. In this way, the passive and lazy life in the past (the days when I was woken up by the alarm in the film) was changed.
A person's life is limited, but the long river of human civilization should flow continuously. When the woman in the flying book called out to the destitute writer, he didn't understand what was going on, what was calling him, and he hilariously threw his own book into the air.
And in the palace of human civilization (on the surface, it seems to be a library, the writer becomes the curator, and I prefer to regard it as a symbol of the essence of human civilization), he finally understands What I have learned and created throughout my life is passed on.
So when he gave the book to those who were as miserable and confused as he was at the beginning, their lives were suddenly lit up (the little boy in the film turned the book and his whole person suddenly became colorful. Interestingly, using Our idiom "opening the book is beneficial" is so appropriate to describe this situation)!
In the end, he was old, but this strengthened his belief even more, and his aging body suddenly returned to a young state - this seems to tell us: although personal life is limited, as long as you integrate into the long river of human civilization Go in and you will be young forever!
When he finally understood the true meaning of the inheritance of human civilization, he also rode on Feishu and started the mission given to him by human civilization—the journey of civilization inheritance—this inheritance can be real and visible (such as giving lectures everywhere), and also Can be symbolic (put one's life experience in a book for others to study). In this way, "Flying Book" has the meaning of "inheritance".
When his book friends were immersed in the sentimentality of farewell, the most touching scene in the film happened: an ignorant little girl (should be no more than five or six years old) came here under the guidance of the book written by the author, she peacefully Sitting at the door, began the life of a scholarly companion. This undoubtedly has a huge spiritual impact on modern people who are immersed in material enjoyment. The inheritance of human civilization should start from childhood. It is better to teach them to embark on the eternal road of civilization! Ancient and modern, China and foreign countries, in the same way, no exception!
Although this film is a foreign cartoon, I was very surprised to find that there are so many similarities between Eastern and Western cultures, or in other words: the essence of human cultures is the same. This writer went from an ordinary person to the end where his portrait was hung on the "Wall of Sages" (if you think this is a library, then this wall may be hung with the portraits of successive curators, but I still prefer I would like to regard them as the sages and prophets in human history, those great souls who lead us), how well this is in line with the Confucian spirit - "everyone can become a sage"! And the last little girl has embarked on this sage road of pursuing noble souls since she was a child.
Do we yearn for those noble souls every day? Have we ever thought about integrating our life into the splendid river of human civilization?
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