I read some of the netizen's comments before, and they were all praise. Indeed, this movie is excellent from the subject matter to the shooting, and then to the post-production. In fact, I think the more valuable thing is that it gives this fickle film and television circle with a new feeling, he told the audience that this is the original can move the heart of the real simple good TV, this is to give people a good edification of the good works.
Seeing that we talk more about this movie brings people the stimulation of taste and nostalgia, my feelings must be the same as everyone else's: when you see that familiar hometown dishes, you are bound to nod your head in delight: "That's it, that's it!" Can not help but surging inside, and even want to shout out, so that people around me are gathered around and I feel the same discovery and surprise; when seeing unfamiliar delicacies of other regions, the heart of the admiration of this wisdom, and unconsciously flow out of the hala, secretly resolved that in the future, we must go to this place to feel this original flavor of the wonderful. That's as it should be, and what's a food-based movie if it doesn't whet the appetite.
So I won't dwell on that, but rather some thoughts beyond the association.
Seven episodes to watch down, in fact, the deepest feeling is not a certain region of a certain dish, but the Chinese people's hard-working and simple character and resilience and optimism of wisdom. It is not a film about food, nor is it a gimmick to publicize local flavors, but rather a spirit of purity and simplicity. I think these producers not only traveled all over the world, but also had to face all kinds of complicated environments, and even stayed behind to film and record the New Year's Eve, the driving force behind was not just the power of food, but an eager desire to explore and discover the spirituality of the Chinese people. I can't help but be in awe.
China's working people are the bedrock of Chinese society, a population of 1.3 billion that depends on nature and the land for its sustenance. No matter how advanced today's industrial technology is, Chinese society can't be separated from the land, from the farmers, from the simple spirit and aspirations. From a small individual point of view, his idea is just to work hard to have a good harvest, the whole family can be reunited and happy; from a large national point of view, it is the hundreds of millions of ordinary wishes to support the backbone of Chinese society.
In fact, after watching each episode, I always feel ashamed when I think about the content. I've been reciting the poem "Who knows what's on the plate?" since I was a kid, but I'm afraid I'll never be able to understand the meaning of the phrase without experiencing the hard work of laboring in the fields. At the very least, the movie tells us that we must eat with a sense of reverence. When you taste sea cucumbers and other seafood, you have to know the danger of the work of divers, when you eat lotus root, you have to think of the hard work of the lotus root diggers, when you eat fish, you also have to understand that this may be the fishermen waiting for months for the fruits of a stroke of luck.
In fact, it is a blessing to have the experience of living in contact with nature. When I was young, my father always wanted me to go to the countryside to live for a while to experience life. At that time, I didn't know what life was, and I mistakenly thought that TV, clean toilets, and mosquito-free nights were a beautiful life. At a young age, I was captured by these modern things, and even more pitifully, I mistook this captivity as a kind of enjoyment. Now I realize my father's good intentions, but it was too late. I did not have a contact with nature in my childhood, destined to be a kind of unsound life. Although my father was not highly educated, he grew up in the countryside and y understood what the leg-deep soil meant.
Our generation, at least those like me, is beyond redemption, but what about our next generation, who don't even have a dad who tells them to go to the countryside and experience life? We were born among the high-rise buildings, do not know the warmth of the neighbors, do not know the fragrance of the soil, do not know the spirit of collaboration, not to mention understand the wisdom of trade-offs. Possessing the desire to fill our brains, selfish thoughts all the time not in the destruction of our hearts, we can still have the father's kind of back towards the yellow sky facing the soil of the simplicity of it, we can still have the joy of harvesting and thankful heart.
I think of the Pritzker Prize winner Wang Shu questioned, "In another twenty years, we can still call ourselves Chinese, we are surrounded by everything is not Chinese." Yes, we even abandoned the land that nurtured us for thousands of years, and captive ourselves in a "colony" of reinforced concrete. You and I in the cage of the steel monster even have no courage to find our own original face.
I was a student with a dream of becoming a master designer, but I had to think about it and try to find the answer.
The end of the whole show says it all: "Whether they bury their heads in the fields or eat with their heads down, they never forget to look up at the sky." When watching the natural and genuine smiles of those lovely people at the end of each episode, I truly felt the greatness and wisdom of the Chinese people. Suffering is a kind of training, a gift from God, while harvest is more of a joy, a gift from nature.
Zhang Guichun in the last episode also left me a deep impression, he seems to provide an answer. Can't we really get back to our true selves when we live in high-rise buildings. Nature is always selfless, as long as you are willing to throw yourself into her arms, she will inevitably open her bosom to give you the warmest embrace.
I'm reminded of a quote I wrote before, "If the land is the mother, then the Chinese nation is the collective oedipal nation, a gentle and kind heart in a strong male shell." Such character runs in our blood, and if we are willing to pick it up, there will be a tomorrow that belongs to us. There is no greater sorrow than the death of the heart, and I motivate myself to move forward