What do you think of the evil spirit that the magic boy came back after a half-life, that is, Nezha Jr.

First of all, congratulations to Nezha 16 hour box office for exceeding 200 million. 300 million should be almost enough today.

It should be said that Nezha is a landmark masterpiece of domestic animation, and it is also trying to open the "Goddess Universe" belonging to China culture. I will give an article about this later.

But before the film was released, Nezha's image and human orientation in the film had been the focus of controversy among some fans.

Some netizens even screamed: "Who moved our Nezha's heart!"

Let's talk about the past life of the role of "Nezha" today.

Uncover Nezha's historical realism and see where the small and medium-sized people in Nezha are.

Past lives in real Buddhist stories

Nezha's father is "Lee, King of Tota" Li Jing.

He is a figure in ancient mythology, a Taoist immortal.

At the same time, his prototype is the founding star of the Tang Dynasty in history. In Tang legends, Li Jing, Hulk and Hongfu are called "three outstanding men" together.

"King Tota" is the God of Wu worshipped in South Asia and the Western Regions, which translates into "King Vishnu".

It is one of the four great kings of Buddhism.

Later, in the early Tang Dynasty, in Khotan (now Hotan, Xinjiang), the belief in King Vishnu arose.

After this belief was introduced into the Central Plains, the result of sinicization was that King Pishamen of Tota broke away from the combination of the "Big Four" and became a single god.

Therefore, the famous "King Tota" Li Jing is the person who was kneaded together after Buddhism was introduced into the Central Plains.

In the Water Margin, Lin Chong was wronged and demoted to guard the Heavenly King Hall. The "Heavenly King" here is a solo shaman.

According to Buddhist scriptures, Nezha was the son of King Vishnu.

He often crusaded against the West, and followed his father posthumous title as "the prince" and "the third prince".

In addition to helping his father Tota, he also commanded a "Yamaguchi Group Army", which was invincible.

Religious books in the Tang Dynasty describe Nezha's "evil view on all sides";

In the book "Three Religions Seeking the Source of God" written in the Yuan Dynasty, Nezha is six feet tall and is twenty meters high today;

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Luo Guanzhong wrote the biography of three demons in Suiping. Nezha said, "Three heads are like three green hills, six arms are like six steep mountains, and blood is spattered all over your teeth."

Completely out of the word "beautiful boy".

Nezha in The True Story of Buddhism is a supernatural god who appeases the Three Realms. Before understanding Buddhism and becoming a true god, there is a premise:

That is to return your own flesh and blood to your parents.

Therefore, this position is in conflict with the Chinese culture in the Central Plains dominated by Confucianism.

Later, as Buddhism spread more and more widely in China, the localization of Buddhism became more and more profound, and the story and origin of Nezha also joined in various ways.

Su Zhe (Su Shi's younger brother) once wrote a poem about Nezha:

The North King has a crazy son who only worships Buddha but not his father.

The Buddha knows his folly, and the pagoda makes the father raise his left hand.

Children coming to see the Buddha's head are slightly similar to worshipping Buddha.

What does this poem mean? That is to say, Nezha is arrogant, arrogant, stupid and stubborn. He only knows the Buddha but not the father.

In order to dispel the suspicion of "unfilial", Buddha took great pains between father and son and came up with the method of "Tota" to make him worship Buddha like his father.

In a word, Buddha is filial.

This is the origin and original design of Nezha in Buddhism.

This kind of literary life

Su Zhe's Nezha Poems mentioned earlier.

During the Jiajing period, it was published by The Journey to the West in Wu Cheng'en.

Among them, Su Zhe's Poems of Nezha was launched, and the Buddha painstakingly managed it:

Nezha cut the meat, gave back his mother, gave back a little soul besides his father's bones, and went to the West to tell the Buddha.

The Buddha took the lotus root as the bone and the lotus leaf as the garment, and recited the curse of bringing back the dead, so Nezha was born. Later, he wanted to kill the king and avenge his bonesetting.

The heavenly king was helpless and asked for help.

The Tathagata put peace first and gave him a finely carved golden pagoda with Buddha bones in it. There is a Buddha on the pagoda, and Nezha is called to take the Buddha as his father to solve the grievances. "

This is Journey to the West's description of Nezha's life experience.

Decades later, during the Wanli period, "Kamikaze Gang" appeared, and Nezha's subversive style was greatly redrawn.

The author borrowed the personal design of Hong Zhong Haier in The Journey to the West, and designed Nezha as a beautiful boy with pink jade carvings. The scene of lotus resurrecting Nezha belongs to Taiyi.

Transform a Buddhist prototype into a Taoist child.

Here, the following story is familiar to everyone.

In the words of Shen Fengbang, Nezha said, "This son was born in an ugly era. He is a murderer. " .

Not only did he take a bath at the seaside, but he killed the hag patrolling the sea without a word; And you will find that Aobing is raw.

Angry and helpless, the old dragon king wanted to go to heaven to sue the court and beat him up at the gate of heaven.

"My father is the head of a town. I take a bath here in summer and the hag scolds me. I killed him, it doesn't matter. "

"I have no patience, so killing him two lives is also a trivial matter. Even if you are an old fool, you might as well do something. "

Small things that seem "harmless" to human life. So, in the end, I ended up in a tomson pass from scratch.

In fact, this is the author Shen Fengbang's satire on social unrest, rampant powerful people and disregard for human life.

At the same time, I also hope that a Yamaraja-style figure like Nezha will emerge to reverse Gan Kun and shake the social order at that time.

Of course, this is definitely unrealistic.

1979, The Noisy Sea by Shanghai Art Studio was released.

Where is the climax of the film? Suicide wrote before closing the door:

"Dad, I'll give you back my flesh and blood. I won't bother you. "

From this time on, this dead boy became one with the bottom people, rebelled against patriarchy and authoritarianism, and began to take root in people's hearts.

So few people realize that Nezha, who is full of heroic romantic feelings, is a "new story" character.

On the contrary, Nezha gave the protagonist an ugly and mixed black history, and inadvertently returned to the origin of the characters.

A classic that continues to this day.

The reason why the classics are handed down is mainly because the vitality of the times is constantly added in the historical inheritance.

For example, Nezha's settings in early Buddhism, middle folk and late literary works.

They all involuntarily integrated into the factors of that society or that era.

So "Who moved Nezha in our hearts" is not a problem at all.

In the transformation and reporting of classics, the role of contextual atmosphere is far greater than that of stories.

"The sea was born from this" is strong evidence.

After a series of twists and turns in modern times, China society no longer needs an arrogant and rude "macho man" and is no longer obsessed with the choice between religion and Confucianism.

The society has entered another stage of development, and Nezha has been given a new meaning.

In order to reflect the general trend in the historical period at that time, Nezha became an elite representative who divorced from his family, stood on the side of the masses and opposed extravagance and extravagance.

All the hardships and twists and turns he experienced were to draw a clear line with his hypocritical family and break off relations.

Therefore, Nezha, a charming teenager with lovely painting style and romantic feelings, is the one who really subverts the prototype.

At present, Nezha, the reincarnation of this ugly magic pill, is the "evil star" who left for half a century and came back. He restored the original "ferocity" in the history of Nezha and brought back the traditional proposition of filial piety.

The propositions "My fate depends on me", "If my fate is unfair, I will fight with him to the end" and "My choice determines what kind of person I become" are the mainstream cultures of today's times and have been integrated into movies.