716 Seven lowly descended Tianshan, one lowly is selling

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"Seven lowly down the Tianshan Mountains" originated from "Seven Swords Down the Tianshan Mountains" that I read when I was young, but I didn't know the story behind it until I searched for information for the writing article yesterday. As one of the seven lowly, I claim to read the lowly, and I will sell it here on a regular basis in the future.

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Liang Yusheng (April 5, 1924 - January 22, 2009), whose real name was Chen Wentong, was a native of Guangxi and a famous martial arts novelist in Hong Kong. Moved to Sydney, Australia in 1987. Died in Sydney on January 22, 2009. Liang Yusheng is known as the founder of the "new school of martial arts novels".

On January 20, 1954, Hong Kong's "New Evening News" published the "wedge" of "Dragon Tiger Fighting Jinghua" with the Boxer Incident as the background, signed "Liang Yusheng". The words in the front of the volume say: "Weak water flies, lotus leaves gather, who can complain about my heart in 30 years? Sword light, sword, shadow, candle shakes red, Zen heart is not allowed to be stained with mud. It's a mistake, I look back on the past with emotion, and the dragons and tigers fight against the capital." The opening words of this volume can be regarded as the cornerstone of the new school of martial arts. Since then, Liang Yusheng's martial arts novels have become popular and received rave reviews. He originally planned to write only one book and then stopped writing, but he couldn't stop, and his reputation grew. Liang Yusheng never imagined that after writing like this, he actually wrote thirty-five martial arts novels, one hundred and sixty volumes, about 10 million words, and became the founder of the new school of martial arts novels!

Liang Yusheng recommended Jin Yong to write martial arts novels. After the publication of "Dragon Tiger Fighting Jinghua" in 1954, martial arts novels became very popular, and Liang Yusheng was even reported for more drafts. Jin Yong is also a quick hand, can write, and has the same liking as Liang. One day in 1955, Rover went to Jin Yong. As a result, a year and a half after the publication of "Dragon Tiger Fighting Jinghua", Jin Yong's debut novel "Book and Sword Enemy and Enmity" was also published, and it attracted readers with a more mature charm. With the combination of two swords, the two have strengthened the momentum of the new school of martial arts novels and established its status in the history of Chinese literature.

On a Saturday afternoon in February 1951, Liang Yusheng's father, Chen Xinyu (Chen Pinrui), was executed by the local government on trumped-up charges. Liang Yusheng's second brother, Chen Wenqi, was also arrested. Liang Yusheng did not set foot in his hometown in Mengshan, Guangxi for 37 years after his father was arrested and killed. When he returned to his hometown for the first time in 1987, he couldn't help feeling sad. This year, he left Hong Kong, where he was made, and immigrated to Australia, which is farther away. Jin Yong's biological father was also "suppressed". He converted to Buddhism in the later period, while Liang Yusheng believed in Christ in his later years. Many researchers feel that this has nothing to do with their own experiences of losing their fathers.

The researchers also found that the complex of "the revenge of killing the father" often appears in Liang Yusheng's novels, and many stories begin with the revenge of killing the father. For example, Zhuo Yihang, the hero of "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", received the bad news that his father was framed to death at the very beginning. "Seven Swords Down the Tianshan Mountains" begins with a sentence: Looking at the sword sadly, there is nowhere to turn to the boat. People also said that Liang Yusheng's life in Australia in his later years seemed to be comfortable and leisurely, but some of his deep thoughts were difficult to communicate with outsiders. At the end of 1999, everyone was busy celebrating the turn of the century, but he came up with a poem: "As soon as I go to Xiaoxiao for dozens of autumns, I will see each other in a rut. I am also crazy and also a real celebrity, how can I cry and sing? Female Liu? Who sent dragons and snakes back to the grass? I shed tears and weeping in China. Self-pity for so many sad things, and my country is gone."

Now, in the Macquarie Park Cemetery (Macquarie Park Cemetery) in North Sydney, Australia, the heroic soul of Master Liang Yusheng rests in peace. On his tombstone is engraved: "Laugh at Yunxiao Piao Yiyu's life once in the sea". This sentence comes from a couplet written and revised by Liang Yusheng: "The heart of a chivalrous man, laughing at a feather in the sky; looking at it alone, once in the sea."

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Han Meng used to be a photojournalist for a well-known media in the mainland. In 2017, she produced her first documentary "Daughter of Jiangnan". This work originated in 2014 when Han Meng quit her media job and went to study in the United States. She visited 20 families in 11 states who had adopted Chinese orphans, and completed the photographic work "Orphans in Beauty". Later, on this basis, she completed a documentary with Cai Fengxia as the protagonist, telling the story of Chinese outcasts who were adopted by American families and returned to China to find relatives.

After the completion of this work, Han Meng started the creation of "Watching the Stars" non-stop. This work focuses on the smog control work in Langfang, Hebei Province, and shows in detail the difficulties encountered by government officials, business owners and ordinary people in the process. and predicament. This film not only focuses on environmental protection issues in China, but also shows the entire chain behind environmental protection issues, and finally points out the theme that everyone is paying for environmental governance.

Han Meng's observation of China's grass-roots environmental protection bureaus revealed the operation logic of government agencies. Environmental protection is closely related to people's livelihood, but economic development is also related to the interests of everyone. "No matter what you do, you must first consider politics." The environmental protection director's understanding is the experience accumulated in the officialdom for many years, and he always considers political balance in his work. Although he has a typical bureaucratic mentality, he is very dedicated, works overtime every day, and cares about environmental protection from the bottom of his heart, for fear of being interviewed for failing to complete KPIs. As the "culprit" of creating smog, the local large enterprises are also big taxpayers, so they can only start from small enterprises, small workshops and self-employed individuals, so that everyone is caught in a predicament.

No wonder some people say that this is a rare documentary focusing on officials within the Chinese system, apart from Zhou Hao's "Datong". It uncovers a corner of China's vast bureaucracy, giving ordinary viewers a glimpse into the sophistication of its operations and its indifference and consumption of individuals.

It should be said that it is not easy to show the complexity of smog management in only 90 minutes of film. Unfortunately, the film was called off after only one screening at the FIRST Film Festival. It is reported that this work has been produced as early as 2020, and one of the reasons for the delay in seeing it in China is the director's many practical concerns. The author has noticed that in the first half of the year, Han Meng was attacked by a "little pink" on Sina Weibo because this work reflected the so-called "dark side" of society. The good people not only insulted her with her violent words, but even fleshed her past experience and regarded her as a "traitor".

What is touching and admirable is that, as a wife and mother, Han Meng, while taking care of her family, still insists on presenting the truth she sees to the audience without fear. She responded on Weibo after being abused by the Internet: "It is rare to be understood. Along the way, I will still be lonely after all. Such an old-fashioned sigh will still be made when I am misunderstood. Although I feel like a clown, But I still want to try my best to communicate. Therefore, one of the meanings and values of making a film is that we need to understand each other, eliminate prejudice, and finally have a little consensus, even a little bit. Otherwise, cracks and estrangement will be more and more."

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American social psychologist Philip Zimbardo warns the world in his book "The Lucifer Effect: How Good Guys Become Demons" that human beings have an inherently dark side, and that totalitarian rule induces and exploits human nature. The dark side completely erodes the beautiful and noble side of human beings, so that almost everyone can act as a vassal and evil machine of evil forces at any time. Zimbardo calls it "situational evil." Even if the evil is not directly committed, the control of the person's mind, conscience, and moral judgment by the evil situation can cause serious and long-term damage.

In Zimbardo's words, man's weakness, vacillation, abandonment, and obedience in the context of evil, "as the poet Milton called the 'visible darkness' leads us to see evil, Definition, many meanings are derived. Many people who have committed evil acts against others are usually strong-willed, adherents of the best ideology and morality. People are warned to be careful of bad people on the road, but these bad people are often as mediocre as neighbor".

Exploiting officials' selfish desires and exchanging their loyalty to satisfy such selfish desires is the unchanging law of autocratic rule to consolidate the power base. American political scientists Bruce Mesquita and Alastair Smith pointed out in the book "The Dictator's Handbook" that officials who work for autocratic regimes are often "hard labor" because they do things that many people don't like matter. They are the regime's "loyal alliance", the footholds of power.

When they are on duty, of course, it is useless. "Just as money turns the earth, money also turns loyal alliances. The key to maintaining a loyal alliance is indeed money. If a leader wants to contain, suppress, oppress the people, and even kill He needs people who can do the dirty work for him. This kind of brutality can be expensive. That’s why successful leaders spend the most money for these purposes.” Rewarding loyalty and rewarding errands can be done directly with money, but also with position benefits and prestige that can be converted into value, both of which are “private goods” that act as a lubricant for corruption.

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