Wandering Earth 2 is a science fiction disaster film directed by Guo Fan, starring Wu Jing, Li Xuejian, Sha Yi, Ning Li, Wang Zhi and Zhu Yanmanzi, and specially performed by Andy Lau.The film will be released simultaneously in mainland China and North America on January 22, 2023;It will be released in Hong Kong and Macao on February 9, 2023. The film takes the era when the plan to build 10000 planetary engines as the story background, and tells the story that the "solar crisis" is coming, the world is in a panic, 10000 planetary engines are being built, and mankind will face the double challenges of doomsday disaster and survival of life.The article originates from a two-day blog-https://2days.org/show/85467.html
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Bailing, I'll take you to see the real value of Wandering Earth 2.
1、 What can represent China in the future?
Before commenting on Wandering Earth 2, I want to ask you a question: If we remove the elements that can represent China, such as the Great Wall, Confucius, the First Emperor of Qin, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Forbidden City, historical records and giant pandas, what will become the symbols of China and the Chinese nation in the future?
The Great Wall, Confucius, the First Emperor of Qin, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Forbidden City, historical records, gunpowder, and printing represent the past of China.
High speed railway, giant panda, bird's nest, oriental pearl and base station represent China today.
So, what can represent China in the future?
What elements can we use to make the future China come down in one continuous line with the present China and the past China?
In the past 70 years, the answer to this question is missing.
In the past 70 years, few literary works have explored this issue;Even if there is some discussion, it is not accepted and recognized by most people.
In the official propaganda, there are five year plans, conference documents of the two sessions, and a hundred year revival. The official has a rigorous and full imagination of China's future, but these plans are too abstract and macro. It is difficult for ordinary people to grasp the details and build a complete blueprint.
Most people do not imagine and think about "future China".
Furthermore, the imagination of the "future human world" is also missing.
Furthermore, the imagination of "how the Chinese nation will stand in the future human world" is also missing.
Then the people of the world are also missing "what role China will play in the future of human history".
So the Chinese people's imagination of "future China" is just a reproduction of the Han and Tang Dynasties, or another version of the United States.
The world's people's imagination of China in the future is more like a tool factory of the world and a follower of the protagonist.
So, the question remains:
What elements can represent China in the future?
How will China in the future come down in one continuous line with the current China and the past China?
Wandering Earth 2 completely answers this question on the basis of 1.
It is a human future epic based on the past thousands of years of Chinese history.
It constructs human epic, but its core is Chinese.
It is very different from conventional science fiction movies. It is not just to repeat an old story in a future time, nor to decorate an old paradigm with new science fiction ideas for repeated sales.
It not only refers to and carries forward the spirit of the golden age of science fiction more than 60 years ago, nor is it just a palace movie like Kubrick and Clark's 2001 Space Odyssey. It is an extension of the history created by the Chinese people in the past several thousand years, and also a projection of the Chinese people's indomitable and hard struggle spirit in the modern history of 200 years in the future.
If we say that the core of Star Trek comes from the prophets, voters, God, Ten Disasters, Ten Commandments, Fenhai, Canaan in Exodus.
Then the core of Wandering Earth 2 comes from the modern Chinese history of Dayu's flood control, Yugong's mountain removal and suffering.
It comes down in one continuous line with the most powerful works in Chinese culture, such as Shangshu, Zuo Zhuan, Shiji, Du Fu's poems and Mao Xuan.
People may not understand Shangshu, Zuozhuan and Shiji,
People may not read Mao's Selections, the Communist Manifesto and the documents of the two sessions,
But people can understand Wandering Earth 2, and can also build a future imagination community through Wandering Earth 2.
Wandering Earth 2 answers the following three important questions:
1. National and national level: how the future Chinese nation will face global problems.How the Chinese nation will get along with other nations in the human world, what role it will play, and what historical mission it will accomplish.
2. Personal level: how an ordinary person will survive and cope with other citizens and organizations when encountering a serious crisis in China in the future.
3. Historical level: how to maintain consistency between the past Chinese history and the future development of China.Where the past Chinese history will lead China and where the human world will go due to China.
Only from this height can we see the value of Wandering Earth 2 at different levels - historical inheritance, national spirit, culture, film industry, film, science fiction film, visual effects, story narration, character construction, science fiction ideas and world setting.
As time goes by, the value of Wandering Earth 2 at different levels will gradually highlight.
If jade is uncut, it will not become useful.
Wandering Earth 2 is such a Heshi Bi.
It will not fade because of any criticism, but will be sharpened to be more brilliant because of all kinds of criticism.
2、 What kind of form is used to describe China in the future?
After talking about the first topic, let's talk about the second question: When we have built the imagination of [future China] and [future human world], how can Chinese people tell them?What is the form of narration?
At present, there are several options for Chinese people to choose from:
First, use conventional personal heroism stories to complete the construction of the future picture in a disaster environment.Typical examples are 2012, Star Trek, and Moon Fall.
The advantage of this scheme is that we have already laid the foundation for watching science fiction films in Hollywood for decades. The audience has adapted to this form and structure, and the market acceptance is high.We just need to follow the example.
Wandering Earth 1 adopts such a structure, but on the basis of such a structure, details such as "saturation rescue" are used as embellishments to convey different ideological cores and more real world situations.
China has not lacked heroic stories since ancient times, such as Mozi, Yue Fei, Wen Tianxiang, Qiu Shaoyun, Dong Cunrui, Lei Feng... There is no difficulty in telling a heroic story.
But the problem with such a scheme is that in such a narrative structure, there is a lack of depiction of the organizational structure of the hero, which is easy to make the future picture of the whole China incomplete.For example, when we talk about Mozi, we must mention the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and the contention of a hundred schools of thought. When we mention Yue Fei, we must mention the confrontation between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, the historical evolution and political structure of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, and when we mention Qiu Shaoyun, we must mention the context of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the organizational structure of our Party, and modern history.
If we simply complete a science fiction film about a personal hero story, we will not really build the future of China.
The United States does not need to face such a problem. In the past hundred years of science fiction animation, comics, movies, and TV dramas, American citizens have completed the construction of this picture. After that, every time they complete an uninspiring personal heroism film, they are contributing to this picture.
Therefore, Wandering Earth 1 answers "what will China be like in the future, what role it will play in the world, and how to deal with global problems", but it is not complete and sufficient. It lacks narrative at the organizational and national levels, so we can only glimpse inside.
The second plan is to use the logic of war movies to depict the competition between different forces.Typical examples are "The Avengers Alliance" and "The Rise of the Scarlet Ball".
This scheme is obviously more difficult than the previous one.
Under such a structure, Chinese people still face difficulties when they want to tell stories about the future of China: stories from such a perspective are usually military rather than ordinary people, and stories are usually about war rather than daily life.
Ordinary people are absent, and daily life is also absent.
The perspective of Wandering Earth 2 is similar, but the whole series is different.
Guo Fan's team has adopted a third plan for Wandering Earth 2: Chronicles, based on Liu Cixin's text.
Chronicles are characterized by taking time as longitude and events as latitude to record historical events.It is beneficial for readers to understand historical events in the order of their development, so as to understand the interrelationship between historical events;However, it is not convenient to focus on the description of characters and events. A character and event are scattered in different times, and it is difficult for readers to understand their full picture.
In the text, this is a common narrative logic, such as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is typical;But in science fiction, this is a new narrative structure.
Liu Cixin's many novel texts adopt such narrative logic, such as Three Body 2: Dark Forest and Three Body 3: Immortal Death, such as Wandering Earth, such as Supernova Era.
On the premise of the great success of Wandering Earth 1, Guo Fan's team boldly adopted such a narrative structure in Wandering Earth 2.The advantage of this structure is, on the one hand, its extensibility is very strong, and it has more operation space for the plot and content of the sequel;On the other hand, it can fully show the situation of different people, different organizations and different events from different perspectives.From point to line, from line to surface.But the defect of this narrative structure is that it weakens the single character and single event. It is difficult to describe a single character in a large length like other films.However, this is also the feature of Liu Cixin's novels.
People will generate a fixed "film expectation" based on their past experience of watching films.For example, film narration should be based on the growth of characters or the advancement of events. Films that do not meet this standard are easy to be evaluated as bad films.
For readers who are very familiar with chronological history books and Chinese history, Wandering Earth 2 appropriately displays its content information.Some people evaluate it as "narrative chaos" and "easy to fall asleep", because such a narrative structure breaks their expectations of the film, and they are not familiar with this common narrative structure.
The common film structure is to show according to the cause, process and result. The audience's expectation of watching the film is to pursue the logical but possibly unexpected plot.The narrative structure of the chronicle is to show the results first, and then to see the causes and the changes that led to the results.The final viewing experience focuses on what factors lead to the final results.
From the perspective of personal viewing experience, the narration of Wandering Earth 2 is very clear, with huge amount of information in just 173 minutes. If you want to use a conventional narrative structure, you should make at least 2-3 films.
In the process of watching the film, I have a sense of pleasure in facing the real history, as well as a sense of infinite surprise.
3、 Future historiography
I call the narrative structure and content of Wandering Earth 2 "future historiography". The concept of "future historiography" comes from the "future historiography school" in Liu Cixin's "Three Body" novel. Here I borrow this concept to make a different connotation supplement.
China has a wealth of historical texts.Such as biographical general history, such as Shiji.There are general chronicles, such as Spring and Autumn Annals and Zizhi Tongjian.There is a chronological history, such as Hanshu.There are romance novels, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Historical narration involves people, events, environment, structure and organization.This is the most common way for Chinese people to understand the past world.For thousands of years, the Chinese people have known the world in this way.
"Historiography" is one of China's most prominent schools.
It is natural for Chinese people to accept history and historical stories.It can be said that "the way of saints is used by the common people but they don't know it".
Why is science fiction always in the minority——Because it does not match the aesthetic experience of ordinary people, the content of such works is overhead and the form is not conventional.
But what if "history telling" and "future world" are combined?
China's rich historical tradition can be used to conceive the future world of mankind, and China's science fiction works can strengthen themselves from the historical form.
It is no longer a kind of castle in the air assumption, but can really be based on history and the present.
Wandering the Earth 2 has moved this narrative mode from the text to the screen, from the "past vision" to the "future vision", and combined the historical traditional narrative mode with modern artistic expression.
The plot of Wandering Earth 2 is not difficult to understand. My parents 60+are easy to understand, and the surrounding 10 year old children also feel wonderful. So there is not much intellectual threshold to understand its plot.
This is very suitable for Chinese people.It comes down in one continuous line with the historical texts in the past in the form of expression and the national spirit in the spirit and spirit.
But this is not suitable for people who don't like China.It is very different from the previous science fiction films in terms of expression form and ideological core.Even its main character is Chinese.All of these are too strange: the narrative structure is chaotic, the collectivism neglecting life, the special effects of the upstart who overestimates his power
If we have to argue on this basis, it means that we have been robbed of the standard of film evaluation again.Is the chronological narrative structure chaotic?Is the perspective of multiple actors overestimated?Is the perspective of group heroes collectivism?Altruism is ignoring life——If we have to argue on this basis, it means that we argue with the nitpickers on some minor points and ignore the real value of Wandering Earth 2.
I will respond to these insincere and superficial comments one by one, so I hope you can go back to the main line to see the real value of Wandering Earth 2.
Wandering Earth 2 is a kind of future historiography. In the form of "historical narration", it is the first time for the general public in China to move from the perspective of past history to thinking about "future history".
We are not facing a future story, but the whole future history.
We face the future history as we face the past history.
Wandering the Earth 2 did not advocate some very specific values, but integrated the overall concept with the spirit of the Chinese nation.
Why do modern Chinese people stand on their feet?It comes from the hard and remarkable struggle of the modern people and the indomitable spirit of the democratic revolution.
Why did Chinese people struggle in modern times?It originates from the love of the Chinese nation for their homeland and the desire for self-reliance since ancient times, as well as the endless inheritance.
How can the future Chinese people base themselves?It must inherit the spirit of the contemporary Chinese people, and must continue the spiritual core of the Chinese nation for thousands of years.
Wandering Earth 2 tells you in the way of history, where China will go and what Chinese people will do if modern China encounters such a situation!What is the relationship between China and modern China in the future!
Wandering Earth 2 is no longer an end of life rescue structure under the monotheistic religion like Star Trek and 2012, nor is it an individual heroism story of unemployed, divorced, drunken middle-aged white men who save the world like Pacific Rim and Tomorrow's War Records, nor is it a comedy covered with scientific fantasy like Yangtze River 7 and Walking Alone on the Moon.These stories have no foundation in China.
For the Chinese, they are just stories, almost irrelevant to reality.
The values of Wandering Earth 2 are based on thousands of years of Chinese history, and express the core spirit of Chinese history in a modern and futuristic way.
Let me give you an example: The interpretation of the concept of "inheritance" in Wandering Earth 2 is rare in almost all science fiction movies.
You can't see the continuation of civilization, biological genes and cultural genes consciously or unconsciously in other movies.
The whole story structure of Wandering Earth is built on the framework of 2500 years and 100 generations.
Every person with a name and surname in the film reflects this inheritance:
Ma Zhao said: "Civilization without human beings is meaningless. It is about the inheritance form of civilization.".
Ma Zhao's inheritance of Tu Hengyu is a kind of technical inheritance.
Figure Hengyu's continuation of Yaya's life is a kind of inheritance in life form.
Zhang Peng's inheritance of Liu Peiqiang is a kind of relationship between master and apprentice and between father and son.
Liu Peiqiang and Han Duoduo showed their blood inheritance to their son Liu Qi.
Zhou Zhezhi's treatment of Hao Xiaoxi and Hao Xiaoxi's treatment of new male officials are a kind of inheritance of politics and the relationship between master and apprentice.
Including the last part of the film, the old astronauts entrusted the new astronauts with life, which is a kind of inheritance that affects life with life and protects life with life.Such different interpretations of values can be found everywhere in the film.
Such a huge difference in values can only be summed up in terms of "collectivism", "self sacrifice" and "family and country feelings", which is superficial and narrow.
The reason why Wandering Earth 2 will shine more and more in various criticisms and will be evaluated more and more highly in the future is that its foundation is not science fiction, but in the spiritual core of China for thousands of years.
As long as such a spiritual core does not collapse, Wandering Earth 2 can stand.
The narrative structure of Wandering Earth 2 is "future historiography", not a simple science fiction story.
4、 Responses to some criticisms
As time goes by, the value of Wandering Earth 2, whether in film, art, culture, and the core of national spirit, will be further explored.
The longer the time and the more discussions, the deeper the value of this film will be excavated and the higher people's evaluation of it will be.Finally, its value is increasingly highlighted.
Bai Ling, I'm here to briefly respond to the common film criticism.It can be regarded as a way to attract jade from the latecomers.
In my opinion, most of the criticisms are caused by the insufficient input of the intellectual resources of the critics, as well as the high level of film completion and information content of Wandering Earth 2. A small part of the criticisms are caused by the deviation of the critics from the spiritual core of the Chinese nation at the bottom.
1. The evaluation of "sleeping" and "disordered narrative structure"
Sleeping is actually a very subjective and simple judgment.It can be applied to all works of artistic and practical value, such as Dream of the Red Chamber, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Analects of Confucius, Mao Xuan, The Book of Songs According to the standard of conventional cinema films, such films as 2001 Space Odyssey can only be rated as "asleep", "narrative chaos" and "too ambitious". When they were released that year, many people commented that they could not understand and disliked them.However, many space science fiction films after it are just poor imitations of 2001 Space Odyssey.
In my opinion, the narrative structure of Wandering Earth 2 is not disordered at all. There is no waste of a second in the whole film. The degree of completion is extremely high and the information density is extremely high.The story on the surface is meticulous, and the hidden story is messy. The story is completely embedded with the visual effects and the ideological core.
It's terrible.
When such content is translated into novel text, at least 300000 words should be used as the background.According to the standard of low density narration and simple structure of most commercial films, this can be made into at least 2-3 films.
The transcendence of Wandering Earth 2 has become a problem in the eyes of some people.
2. Criticism of values
I have seen that many criticisms based on the values of Wandering Earth 2 come from individualism and liberalism, which are concentrated in the plot of "over 50".Some critics' aversion to this episode comes from the transfer of civil rights to the government in reality and the abuse of public power in various public events in recent years.The foothold of his criticism lies in the structural relationship between ordinary people and public power.This foothold is problematic.
In the episode of "Going out at the age of 50 or above", the focus is not on ordinary people, but on astronauts who are human elites.The spiritual core of China since ancient times requires social elites to "rule the country and the world" and "sacrifice life for righteousness". If you want to become an elite and a gentleman, this is the way you must go.Chinese society naturally has more moral requirements for the social elites who undertake certain special posts.If you want to have other options, then you should not go to that position and take on the corresponding work.
"Going out at the age of 50 or above" is an event with a high probability in China's reality. It has repeatedly appeared in the War of Liberation, flood relief and emergency rescue, and epidemic prevention in recent years.
To take reality as an example, I used to be a police officer, and the police itself is a profession that needs to bear more social responsibilities and moral requirements. I don't want to bear such moral requirements, so I chose to resign.I have the freedom to choose whether to continue in this position.But I don't have the freedom to not participate in the police work at any time.
As a person who also advocates individual rights and individual freedom, I think most critics are unable to build the same set of future historiography, or even to think about how the values supported by their side survive, where they come from, and how they stand in this future oriented world environment.This kind of criticism delivered by the pseudo liberalists makes me feel that his values are more like castles in the air, more like a kind of propaganda of "fake big empty".
In the "Future Historiography" constructed by the "Wandering Earth" series, as an ordinary person who hopes to gain more freedom and individual rights, I will think:
How could individualism and liberalism stand in such an eschatological environment?Where is its boundary?
Where will individualism and liberalism survive in China's future history?How to develop from today to the future?What are the real benefits that people can bring by adhering to such values?Who are the beneficiary groups?Does anyone suffer from such values?
In an extreme environment, when my own values are challenged, how can I deal with such an environment as a defender of values?
Will my values cause serious losses to some groups?Who are these groups?Should I give corresponding compensation?What is the remedy plan?
Unfortunately, I have not seen enough in-depth discussion, only fragmented dissatisfaction and "false big empty" criticism.
Wandering Earth 2 is not the enemy of freedom in terms of values. It just gives real liberals more space to think.
3. The crude concept of "collectivism"
Some critics will roughly summarize the values of Wandering Earth 2 as "collectivism", which is a kind of intellectual laziness.
It turns the rich signifier of the film into a single signifier, and abstracts the complex brilliance of human nature into a literal concept that can be simply defined.
Those who make such criticisms, on the contrary, conceptually understand personal values and the meaning of life.If you have respected life from the bottom of your heart and had a deep understanding of human nature itself, you will never simply make such a generalization.
Under the narrative structure of "future historiography", Wandering Earth 2 constructs a new concept of heroes in the film art. It is not simply "collectivism", nor is it simply "the plural superposition of individuals".
The difficulty, depth and authenticity of this narrative style are higher than those of common personal heroism films.
Heroes are no longer one, but a group, or even all.
Zhang Peng, Liu Peiqiang, Zhou Zhezhi, Ma Zhao, Nov, Tu Hengyu
It not only shows the brilliance of human nature at the individual level, but also shows how these people are organized together, and also tells the group heroes the source of strength and belief.
This makes the narration of the film form a net rather than a line.It is a network displayed by different individuals, different organizations, different countries and different nationalities.
Some people are too far away to see the net. They only see a small dot in the distance, so they use the concept of "collectivism" to make a rough generalization.This approach is too conceptual and too urgent.
Those who respect life enough and respect history enough can see this web.Can see an individual, not the so-called "collectivism".
5、 Wandering Earth 2 needs more sincere criticism
Facing the audience, Wandering Earth 2 showed enough sincerity. In the face of "Wandering Earth 2", most critics have no such sincerity.
I see that most of the criticisms of Wandering Earth 2 are carried out in a fixed and old paradigm.If we can only use the old paradigm as the standard for film evaluation, then we have no ability to identify the truly outstanding films.
Wandering Earth 2 will never be afraid of criticism. It needs more solid, professional and sharp criticism to point out its shortcomings and room for progress.Criticism will only make it more dazzling.
Wandering Earth 2 is a film with transcendence.The online reviews I have seen so far, no matter those who praise or criticize, almost underestimate the value of Wandering Earth 2.
Those who praised it only praised its advantages in the science fiction film category.But such praise is too limited.This makes praise too simple.We should not only focus on science fiction films, but also extend our praise to the film industry, even beyond films.
This is the modern expression of the spirit core of the whole Chinese history of thousands of years, and also the future continuation of the 200 year Chinese modern history.Its imagination at the level of human community is also very real.
Critics, because they cannot understand its transcendence, point fingers at its transcendence.The standard on which critics rely is instead a fixed and outdated paradigm.In most of the criticisms, I can't see the value fulcrum of the critics, which is more like a hollow turnip.This makes most criticism seem cheap.
6、 The Transcendence of Wandering the Earth 2
Wandering Earth 2 has surpassed most Hollywood films.Its transcendence in film art is rare.If you have the opportunity, you must go to the cinema.
Movies like Avatar and Star Trek are innovative in film art. Although I like them very much and they are also very excellent, they do not give me the feeling of transcendence.
To me, they are the top science fiction movies in the world.But it's just a movie.
Wandering Earth 2 is somewhat different. Whether its high-density information, group image heroes, or the narrative logic of different values, it has brought a new paradigm in science fiction films, and at the same time it has spiritual transcendence.
The last one that gave me this sense of transcendence was Ang Lee's "Billy Lynn's Battle in the Field".It not only has transcendence in the film, updating the film paradigm, but also transcends the film itself.This is also a film that has been greatly underestimated.Such films are rare in cinemas.
In recent years, there are also two science fiction movies that I have seen in cinemas. One is Nolan's Credo, and the other is his Dark Knight.However, it is a pity that Yan Lan's "Credo" has made a transcendental frame, and there is no spirit within the core.This makes it very beautiful at the film level, but it also stops at the film level.On the contrary, the Dark Knight has transcendence in its spiritual core, but it has no framework of transcendence.
I think "Wandering Earth 2" is more than one level higher than Chinese films at the same stage, and has reached the world's top film level.
It has made major breakthroughs in at least the following three aspects:
First, its narrative structure is brand new and can become a brand new paradigm of world science fiction movies.It is narrated by the logic of "chronicles". The form of narration is consistent with the way of "historical narration" that Chinese people like.
Second, its ideological core is brand new to the world, and it is based on the display of the spirit core of the Chinese nation.It shows the value orientation, organizational form and thinking perspective of another civilization in the face of future world problems, and also shows the relationship between this civilization and the overall human civilization.
Third, it is the first time for the public to respond to such questions as "what can represent the future of China" and "what form to tell about the future of China", and it is possible for the first time to consciously or unconsciously carry out thinking about the future of China at the level of Chinese people, and reach consensus.
7、 Witness history
I think people's evaluation of Wandering Earth 2 is still too conservative.At present, we can only evaluate it at the level of special effects, pictures, narration, science fiction and realism.More deeply, it is just the world science fiction film and the Chinese film industry.These dimensions are still too low.
As time goes by, the value of Wandering Earth 2 at all levels will be fully explored - the value in film, art, culture, and the value in the core of national spirit.
The longer the time and the more discussions, the deeper the value of this film will be excavated and the higher people's evaluation of it will be.
In my opinion, "Wandering Earth 2" is the bottom line of the foundation to retain its reputation in the history of Chinese film. It is very likely to become a world-class film and eventually a representative work of China's modernization. Like Hong Kong in the financial and commercial fields, it will become an intermediary between China and the world. Its value is even higher than the Confucius Institute.
This year, as the most bizarre Spring Festival show ever, Wandering Earth 2 has encountered many strange attacks and doubts.
But it doesn't matter. As time goes by, the value of Wandering Earth 2 will gradually become more prominent, and the attacks and doubts will make it more brilliant.
In fact, it is hard to have one such film even in ten years.It's worth going to the cinema whether you can understand it or not.Besides, the movie is not difficult to understand (my parents are 60+easy to understand, and the surrounding 10 year old children also feel wonderful).
Those who can read this article are absolutely capable of understanding it and shouting its wonderful.
It is a lucky thing that such a movie can be born today and we can go to the cinema to watch it.It's worth going to the cinema and seeing it once, twice, three times
8、 Responses to questions
Back to the question at the beginning:
1. What elements can represent China in the future?
I believe that this wandering earth will become a symbol of China in the future. It comes down in one continuous line with Dayu's flood control, the democratic revolution, and the construction of the Qinghai Tibet railway. It is a historical embodiment of the indomitable and enduring national spirit.
2. What kind of form is used to describe the future of China?
Facing the future of China, what kind of form is most likely to be accepted by Chinese citizens, trigger their thinking and reach consensus? In my opinion, describing the future in the form of history telling is the easiest way for Chinese people to accept, think and reach consensus.
The most authentic and powerful descriptions of the future must be in line with Zuo Zhuan, Shiji, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Mao Xuan, and other works about Chinese history.
This is the "future historiography" belonging to the Chinese people.
Chen Bailing 2023.01.29
Personal public account: Chen Bailing's soy sauce platform.
Wandering Earth 2
In the not too distant future, the sun will age and expand rapidly, and the entire solar system will be devoured and destroyed by it in a few hundred years.In order to deal with this unprecedented crisis, all countries on earth put aside their bad feelings and set up a coalition government to try to find a way for human survival.Through exploration and consideration, the "mountain moving plan" that pushed the earth out of the solar system finally won an overwhelming victory.People started to build tens of thousands of giant planetary engines to take the earth on a long journey.Liu Peiqiang (Wu Jing) and Han Duoduo (Wang Zhi), who are full of sincerity, become members of the crew of astronauts after many tests, and thus know each other and fall in love.But in front of the long journey, it seems that there is a mysterious force that constantly destroys the human self rescue plan.The seemingly insignificant Liu Peiqiang, quantum scientist Tu Hengyu (Liu Dehua), Chinese representative of the coalition government Zhou Zhezhi (Li Xuejian) and countless ordinary people on the earth constitute an important part of this great plan