"There is a Bao Qingtian in Kaifeng, who is unselfish and discriminating between loyal and traitors." In the 1990s, a Taiwanese TV series "Bao Qingtian" became popular all over the country, which shows the people's reverence for Bao Gong.
In 1994, Zhou Xingchi's work "Nine-Pin Sesame Official" was born, and a lot of the soundtrack in the film quoted the theme song of the TV series "Bao Qingtian".
Today, the great hermit will use this classic movie "Nine Pin Sesame Official" to deeply interpret how difficult it was to be an honest official in ancient times.
1. The ideal is very full, the reality is very skinny
This is a popular phrase on the Internet in the past few years, which is about the huge gap between ideal and reality. Most of us, when we were children, had a dream of being a hero and a good person, just like the little Bao Longxing - to be a clean official and catch all the corrupt officials and bad people.
But in the movie, when Bao Longxing enters the society, he will find out that being a good person has to pay a lot of price. If condensed into one sentence to describe a good person, it is the courage to suffer, willing to contribute, and not afraid of sacrifice .
But what about being a good or bad person? Or how about some bad people?
Two, embarrassed
We always scoff at a certain type of bad people, and say that they are embarrassed. But if we change our angle and regard ourselves as the scorpion, we will find that shy's choice has a certain rationality.
If you were a puppy, would you choose to cooperate with a wolf or a sheep?
Sheep are cowardly and selfish, they can run faster than you when they are in trouble, they can't help you except applauding you when watching the fun and scolding you when the wolf is away;
The wolf is strong and exquisite, and will not be stingy to give you some bones after eating big meat. In addition to not treating you as a wolf, there are still some benefits.
The strength of wolves is that they are not only protected by wolves, but also make you do something wrong, so you won't be so "wolverine", just like what the master said when he enlightened the young Bao Longxing: Lord Chang just hopes Seeing his son, Bao Longxing will never be embarrassed.
look! What a natural reason for this, and it will not make you feel that you have sullied your reputation. If you were that one, how would you choose?
3. To be a good person, you must have the ability to be worse than a bad person
Many young people who are not yet deeply involved in the world have a hard time understanding this truth. Moved with emotion, understood with reason, these high-level words are written on the archway after the event, and they are useless to solve practical problems.
Just like the first half of the movie, Bao Longxing, who is obviously inexperienced, is too weak against Master Fang. Only want to save people's heart, but there is no way to save people.
Bao Longxing went to the scene to investigate secretly in the middle of the night, but was caught by the lackeys of Lord Chang who had been waiting there, and was falsely accused of sabotaging the scene.
If you want to defend justice, you have to know the bad water in Master Fang's stomach, and then you know how to deal with it.
4. To be an honest official, you need strong support
In the face of wolves and wolves protecting each other, if you want to be a reincarnated Duke Bao with Confucian ideals, you need the support of tigers. You will ask, wolf eats sheep, how can tiger take into account the life and death of sheep?
Tigers are the king of beasts that maintain the balance of the ecological chain. Sheep are not scary, but a large group of sheep, under the leadership of the wild wolf, will burst out with amazing power, which is taken into account by the tiger, so from the immediate interests, the tiger will protect the victim sheep at the right time.
This is the necessary condition for wanting to be an honest official in ancient times - to have the top support of the capital.
5. If you want to be a young man with ideals, you must be down-to-earth
When you are young, who does not have dreams and passions, so why are there so few people who realize their ideals in the end? Aside from luck, most of the young people are ruined by their superiors and inferiors.
Just like Bao Longxing, being induced and designed by others, in the final analysis, he has too little experience and weak ability. So where does the great ability come from? Where can I find rich experience?
practice.
The worse the place, the faster it grows. Many young people have great ambitions, but they have low skills, disdain for this, do not want to do that, and imagine that they can find a path to success by reading more and thinking more, naive!
A few years ago, there was a popular media person who launched an app to get a lot of young people to pay for knowledge. As everyone knows, in order to eliminate anxiety, what people sell to you is precisely anxiety.
You seem to be very busy yourself, thinking that you are receiving new knowledge all the time, brushing your teeth and listening to it, taking the subway to listen, but it is actually a fake busy. If there is no time and opportunity to practice, what is the use of telling you the sunflower collection?
Just like the secret book of Bao Gong in the film, it is actually useless for practice . It is better not to read if you only read.
Sitting and talking is the most pointless thing. The dynasties that advocated thinking and empty talk were all bullied by foreigners without exception. The reason can be summed up as follows: thoughts without practice are castles in the air, and they are useless in solving practical problems.
Therefore, if you are a young person who is about to be inferior to society, the Great Hermit advises you to take advantage of your youth and experience more exercise. Only those who have practiced it will have a correct understanding of the world after entering middle age.
Where did Bao Longxing grow up? brothel. Do you think it's absurd? Wrong, not absurd at all.
Where is the real world? The Great Hermit believes that the brothel is definitely a place. Only in the place of cross-flow of desire, you will see the most real people of all colors and so on.
Office buildings, offices, which are not suits and shoes, talk about strategy, talk about development, in these places, what you see are superficial things.
6. Bao Zheng can live, but Bao Longxing cannot
Going back to the ancient story, why is it also asking for the people's life, Bao Zheng can die peacefully and live forever, but Bao Longxing can't?
Because Bao Zheng has become an archway and a star, under the halo, any wolf pack that holds grudges will not wait for an opportunity to take revenge, because this is a very dangerous thing, the emperor will protect it, the people will protect it, and the court will protect it. Protect it, the nation will protect it.
But Bao Longxing can't, because the shining time is too short, he withdrew from the stage of history. Although adults Chang received the lunch box, Eunuch Li was still there. At the end of the film, the emperor was gone. Without the protection of the emperor, he was extremely afraid .
Therefore, officials such as Bao Zheng and Hai Rui can die peacefully, but Bao Longxing is more fortunate and less fortunate. He leaves the emperor's protection. Maybe one day he choked to death by brushing his teeth, drinking tea, or sleeping.
7. The charm of oriental culture: for the country and the people
This is the charm of oriental culture, which cannot be experienced by western culture, which is a commercial nation. In Western culture, people naturally seek profit, seek profit and avoid harm, and carry the seven deadly sins. Therefore, it is necessary to use laws to limit them, and various laws to limit them.
But Eastern culture is different. Confucianism is about loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. This is a kind of spirit, a kind of selfless spirit. It is the existence of such a spiritual core that in the long history, batch after batch of Confucian scholars have gone one after another to defend Taoism.
This is also the reason why the Great Hermit is never pessimistic. If you follow the thinking of Western culture, then the history of feudalism is too dark, all people are profit-seeking, and there is no justice at all.
In the eyes of the great hermit, it is precisely the simple Taoist thought of Taiji and the two rituals, combined with the spread of Confucianism, that in the thousand-year history, some people pursue Lizi, and many people live to save face. Black and white are mutually exclusive, creating a brilliant oriental culture.
8. Summary
Master Leopard, Shangshu, Acrobat Girl, Ruyan, these characters are all representative, and the space is limited, so I won't start talking about them. "Nine Pins of Sesame Official" is a deconstruction of ancient power by Stephen Chow, or the local culture of Hong Kong.
Due to geographical restrictions, even in the most glorious era of Hong Kong films, the interpretation of the ancient history of our country by film works has always been limited.
You can't see such large-scale historical dramas as "Yongzheng Dynasty" and "Da Ming Dynasty 1566", but more small-scale palace fight dramas like "Golden Branches" and "The Twelve Emperors of the Qing Dynasty". Yan history.
Of course, in addition to the above limitations, the interpretation of history by Hong Kong films also has its own unique aspects. For example, Confucian culture and Western culture are often concentrated in one character.
Just like when Bao Longxing said goodbye to the acrobatic girl, one second he was the bright spring and white snow in my heart, and the next second he became a liba person who you are not allowed to mess outside.
The power of culture is powerful, so powerful that it can't be seen or touched, but it can guide people's behavior. Just like Bao Longxing in the first half of the film, a greedy and lecherous person, he will feel the honor of being a good official and an honest official after the people praise him after the child presents a big red flower.
This honor is not invaluable, but it makes people extremely proud.
This honor is not a high-ranking official, but it makes people yearn for it.
This is the power of culture, and this is the source of our nation's endless life.
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