There are seven babies on a vine. Why are the Hulu brothers always unforgettable?

I watched Gourd Brothers many times when I was a child and recommended it to my son when I grew up. At first, he asked a question that I had never thought of before: Why is Grandpa so powerful? Is he a big boss?

What's so awesome about it? Twisting around on the cliff, agility, are all small things. When pangolin broke through Hulu Mountain, the demon wind turned the outside into ice and snow, and the birds and animals were instantly frozen into ice sculptures, while Grandpa standing at the tuyere was unscathed. ...

Ahem, let's call this "protagonist aura" for the time being!

pangolins

Pangolin lightly said, "It's my fault, I accidentally drilled through the mountain", and then introduced that snake essence and scorpion essence had been sealed for 9999, and turned to ashes a year later (if I were grandpa, I would shoot you).

Calabash Brothers

Grandpa, who is more curious than children, ran into the cave to find out, met pangolin, got gourd seeds, planted them in the soil, and then harvested seven grandchildren (shouldn't they be sons? )。 They are all stunted, but simple-minded, except for the purple gourd brainwashed by the snake essence.

Snake essence

The image of snake essence is wonderful, and the original painter's aesthetic view is quite advanced. Nowadays, the faces of many online celebrities are based on the template of snake essence-oval face, big eyes and small mouth. This also derived a stalk: goblin, let my grandfather go quickly! Later, in The Masked Singer, Tengger singer singers used this as his pronoun.

Scorpion essence

Scorpion essence is an ugly yes-man So far, I haven't figured out how this cross-species relationship came about. Maybe it is an exploited partner at best!

Looking back now, the villain in China's animation, the snake spirit's skill is the first. The seven gourd dolls have different attributes, but she can use each baby's weaknesses to break them one by one, and even use Ziwa to clean up his gourd brothers. This is a big heart!

If grandpa hadn't appeared at the critical moment with an artifact in his hand, the snake essence almost succeeded in refining it.

Some people say that the snake spirit guards the worthless stone because it is a stone that fills the sky, so it is inferred that the snake spirit is actually Nu Wa ... This interpretation makes me feel that the whole three views have been subverted.

In fact, I think what worries me most is that this cartoon is a scene of child abuse.

Megalithic clip

Iron puncture body

water logging

freeze

Blindness, burns, etc.

……

They are all cruel punishments designed by snake spirits according to the weakness of gourd dolls. Neither Grey Wolf nor Logger Vick dared to do so.

In fact, if we look back at China's cartoons from the 1980s to the early 1990s, we will find that many of them are mixed with the thoughts and visions of adults, with rich connotations.

This also benefited from the relaxed censorship system at that time, and the author had more imagination and freedom. So that era also produced many excellent cartoons, such as the sheriff's black cat, the Rubik's cube building, the wonders of heaven, the mirror flower edge and so on.

The above-mentioned films and Hulu brothers are from Shanghai Animation Film Studio. Japanese animation masters Miyazaki Hayao and Gao Tianxun once said that the animation of Shanghai Meiying Studio guided their enlightenment. Guess what? The childhood after 80s and 90s was basically contracted by Shanghai Film Factory.