I have to say that compared with the original, some key things in the play are not clearly explained, and the ins and outs of some plots are still somewhat vague after reading. For example, the life experiences of Hu Bayi and Yang Ping, why are their skills and ability to enter the ancient tomb to deal with disasters so strong, and where did their skills come from? What is the source and content of Hu Bayi's sixteen-character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret? Can the hero and heroine finally get together? Take a look at the answers given in the original text with these mysteries.
The origin of Hu Bayi's name
According to the original records, Hu Bayi was born in August of 1 year, which happened to be Army Day. His father was a soldier, so he was named Hu Jianjun. But when I was in kindergarten, there were seven or eight children in a class called Jianjun. It seems that people at that time worshipped the PLA very much. But imagine what an embarrassing scene it would be if the kindergarten teacher shouted "Jianjun" and then seven or eight children responded at the same time. Later, his father simply renamed him: Hu Bayi. It's nice and easy to remember, and it's full of military flavor.
However, Grandpa's understanding of this name is unique: 81,000 barrels of mountains and (Hu). It seems that the old man understands it as playing mahjong and gambling.
When Hu Bayi's grandfather was young, he ate, drank, whored and gambled on five poisons. He smoked opium and squandered all the property left by his ancestors. At that time, it was during the period of warlord scuffle in the Republic of China. He is also mixed in the melee between warlords, which is full of legend.
Hu Bayi's grandfather Hu Guohua.
In the play, after Hu Bayi entered the ancient tomb, he always turned the tide in many organs and disasters, and led everyone out of the predicament, which mostly benefited from the knowledge he had learned in The Mystery of Yin and Yang in Sixteen Characters. And this half of the book has to start from his grandfather's time;
Hu Bayi's ancestors were famous local landlords in the Qing Dynasty, but they passed on to his grandfather's generation. It was the last year of the Qing Dynasty.
Hu Bayi's grandfather's name is Hu Guohua. When he was young, he was addicted to eating, drinking, gambling and smoking opium. After his parents died, Hu Guohua sold all his excellent ancestral property.
Once he was too poor to smoke opium, so he went to borrow money from his uncle. My uncle knows all about the virtue of his black sheep, so he doesn't give any money. However, Hu Guohua's psychological tactics of deception are quite pertinent. He lied to his uncle that he took money to marry his wife. You don't have to give anything else, but it's important to bring a daughter-in-law Moreover, if this unworthy nephew can find a daughter-in-law to take care of him, that would be great. If he is allowed to do business, he will be worthy of his dead sister. So he charged him 20 yuan and said that he would go to his house in a few days to see if it was true or not.
After returning home with 20 yuan, in order to cope with his uncle's inspection, he found a shop specializing in making paper men (the kind of paper men who burned people) and made him a paper man. Very realistic, and then he went home and put it on the kang, covered with a quilt. A few days later, my uncle came. He said that his wife was ill and couldn't get up to see him. He just opened the curtains for him to see. There is a man sleeping on the kang.
My uncle knows that my nephew can't be trusted, so I have to see it clearly. However, Hu Guohua refused to see me anyway. The more he refused to see my uncle, the more suspicious he became, so my uncle and nephews got entangled at the door.
At this moment, the curtain was suddenly opened and a young woman came out to say hello to my uncle. Paper men have become real people!
Besides, my uncle was overjoyed to see his nephew's "married daughter-in-law", and he happily ate the rice cooked by his nephew's daughter-in-law before being sent home by Hu Guohua and gave it to him 10 yuan.
Things were fooled, but Hu Guohua was too scared to go home. He knew that he had met a ghost. Later, when things were revealed, my uncle was so angry.
After my uncle died, Hu Guohua continued to smoke and wander around. In the end, he was so poor that others protected him like thieves. I was going to dig a grave, but after digging it out, I was entangled by a female corpse demon, which scared me to death.
But fortunately, he met Mr. Sun, a famous mage in the province at that time, and saw that he was haunted by evil spirits. Later, Hu Guohua took Mr. Sun to destroy the female corpse demon and took him as an apprentice. I taught him some fortune-telling and word-judging skills and cured him of his addiction to cigarettes.
Under the guidance of Master, Hu Guohua began to follow the rules and started his own business. Hu Bayi's father, Hu Yunxuan, made a living by telling fortune, and married and had children. Hu Yunxuan received a good education from an early age. Later, he joined the revolution and went to Yan 'an. After liberation, he became the head of the army and was criticized during the Cultural Revolution.
A few years later, Mr. Sun passed away and passed on the half-volume "The Secret of Sixteen Characters of Yin and Yang Feng Shui".
The origin of the mystery of sixteen-character yin-yang geomantic omen
The origin of the sixteen-character yin-yang geomantic mystery can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty. A captain who touches gold is called Zhang Sanlian. It is said that the 16-character Tianbu map was excavated from an ancient tomb, and the 16-character Yin-Yang geomantic mystery was written in combination with the patented product "Seeking Dragons" of Captain Mo Jin. But this book stole the secrets of heaven and earth, fearing that it would harm longevity, so it destroyed half of Yin and Yang, and the remaining half was passed on to Sun, a disciple who touched gold. He was a master.
Sixteen-character yin-yang geomantic hermeneutics is called sixteen characters, or sixteen volumes to be exact. Each volume is represented by one character in "Ancient Gua on Sunday", and * * * counts sixteen characters, so it is called sixteen characters.
These sixteen words are: heaven, earth, man, ghost, god, Buddha, magic, livestock, fear, town, escape, affairs, culture, yin and yang, and emptiness. This ancient book, which mainly records the geomantic omen of Yin and Yang, covers everything, including not only geomantic omen and Yin and Yang, but also a large number of descriptions of the shape, structure and layout of ancient tombs in various dynasties and generations, as well as all kinds of difficulties and obstacles encountered by the master of gold.
At the age of eighteen, during the Wen period, my parents were knocked down and my home was robbed. Grandpa asked Hu Bayi to wrap the 16-character Yin-Yang Fengshui Jiejing with tarpaulin and hide it on the roof of a public place, so that half of the book was not copied. After grandpa's death, Hu Bayi had the half book "Sixteen-character Collection of Yin and Yang Feng Shui", which he took everywhere and took out from time to time to study. As a result, Hu Bayi learned a lot of professional knowledge about gold, and later played a huge role in every ancient tomb exploration.
Hu Bayi's Early Experience in the Original Works
When his home was copied, his parents were knocked down, and his grandfather was criticized to death, Hu Bayi chose to jump the queue in the countryside of Inner Mongolia and play with his grown-up buddy Wang Kaixuan (fatty).
To say that it seems destined to meet strange and ancient tombs constantly, he met the supernatural Queen Mother of Liao in half a year. Six months later, Hu Bayi's parents were rehabilitated. Under the arrangement of one of his father's comrades, Hu Bayi became a soldier.
Later, his troops were sent to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for civil air defense construction. When he walked to Kunlun Mountain Pass, he met a strange fire ladybug. Several comrades-in-arms, with no bones left, survived an avalanche during their escape. Later, they entered the nine-story demon tower. But he can always turn the tide, use courage and wisdom to resolve crises again and again, and walk out of the predicament with his comrades. I have to say that the half book "Sixteen-character Yin and Yang Feng Shui Mystery" has played a huge role.
In 79, the troops took part in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. At that time, Hu Bayi was already the company commander. On the way home, he was ambushed by Vietnamese agents, and seven or eight comrades were killed. Hu Bayi captured two enemy militiamen. Later, he heard from his comrades that one of the women disguised the explosive charge as a baby and killed the soldiers. Angry Hu Bayi couldn't control it for a moment, and got into a fight. He violated the army's policy of giving preferential treatment to prisoners and had to retire early. Otherwise, with his conditions at that time, it would be no problem to mix a bigger officer in the army.
Can Yang Ping and Hu Bayi finally get together?
For Yang Ping's life experience, the play only shows that he is a descendant of Zagrama tribe, but the original book shows that she graduated from the United States Naval Academy and inherited the secret skill of moving mountains and dividing armour in the family.
According to the above explanation, it is not difficult to understand that in Yang Ping's plays, a woman can have such great ability, but she keeps her face intact and high-spirited in the face of great danger. Critical moments often show extraordinary wisdom and skills.
Many people are very concerned about whether Hu Bayi and Yang Ping have come together.
After returning from the ancient city of Gyeonggi, Hu Bayi got the financial support from Yang Ping, set up a stall in Panjiayuan, and scoured some antiques and funerary wares. Although I occasionally think of my days with Yang Ping, I always feel that they are not the same person, so I don't think about it any more.
But later, after going through the hardships of life and death in Longling Cave, it was different. Together, they escaped from the brink of death many times. You saved me, and I saved you. Both sides are admiring each other. They are in love. Besides, it is understandable that they are unmarried and unmarried. However, it was not mentioned in the play, and it was not specifically explained in the original work, only that they finally went to the United States. But from the two descriptions in the original work, it can be roughly inferred that Hu Bayi and Yang Ping finally came together.
In the original book, in the pool next to the coffin, there is a description of Heyi's loquacious mouth:
When Hu Bayi escaped from the deep pool and was ready to go up again, he said to Yang Ping, "Don't worry, I'll go up again. If I fall into the water again, remember to give me artificial respiration quickly. It is too late. "
Shirley glanced at Bai Yang, pointed to the militia platoon leader and said to me, "What are you thinking? I will also ask those militiamen to give you artificial respiration. "
He said to Yang Ping, "How can you be such a stranger? If you fall into the water and hold your breath and need to give you artificial respiration, then I am absolutely duty-bound ... "
It seems that he inherited a lot of glib things from his grandfather.
In the fourth part of Ghost Blowing Lights, there is a description of Kunlun Temple before going to America. Hu Bayi said to Yang Ping:
In China, the words' I love you' may not be said several times in a lifetime, but it is said that when couples live in the United States, saying' I love you' once a day means that they are estranged and will soon divorce. It is enough to say it once in the morning, once in the evening and twice when you get up and go to bed. Even if you say it ten times a day, no one can have too many. Sometimes I make a long-distance call just to say this, and ramble so much. I think this legend is probably true, because I also heard that American soldiers were seriously injured on the battlefield. On my deathbed, I should tell my comrades-in-arms to tell his wife this sentence ... "I pretended to be out of breath and then said," Captain ... promised to tell my wife ... that I ... loved her. "After that, I laughed myself and my stomach hurt.
Yang Ping was also amused by me, but said, "Khufu, you really can't be serious. What can you laugh at? This sentence can be used not only between lovers or lovers, but also for parents of children. It is normal and necessary to love someone and let them know how important they are to them. You have to say it ten times a day. "