Recently, the online drama "Longling Mystery" is currently on the air, and its ratings on Douban are also very high. The web drama is adapted from the "Ghost Blowing Lamp" series of novels written by Tian Xia Ba Chang. Judging from the broadcast effect, the adapted web drama is even more exciting. The entire drama is compressed into 18 episodes, the content is very compact, the plots are interlocking, and it is full of thrills and expectations. But unfortunately, only 3 episodes are unlocked and played every week, which really whets the appetite.
I have to say that compared to the original work, some key things in the play are not explained clearly, and the ins and outs of some plots are still a little vague after watching it. For example: the life experiences of Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang, why are their skills and ability to enter ancient tombs to deal with dangers so powerful, and where do their abilities come from? What is the source and content of Hu Bayi's "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique"? Can the male and female protagonists get together in the end? Take these mysteries and look at the answers given in the original work.
The origin of Hu Bayi’s name
According to the original work, Hu Bayi was born on August 1, which happened to be Army Day. His father was a soldier, so he was named Name: Hu Jianjun. But when I entered kindergarten, there were actually seven or eight children in one class named Jianjun. It seemed that people at that time admired the People's Liberation Army very much. But think about how embarrassing it would be if the kindergarten teacher called "Jianjun" and seven or eight children responded at the same time. Later, his father simply changed his name to Hu Bayi. It sounds nice and easy to remember, and is full of military atmosphere
But Grandpa Hu Bayi’s understanding of this name is unique: Shanhe (Hu) 80,000 barrels, it seems that the old man understood it as playing mahjong and gambling. .
When Hu Bayi's grandfather was young, he was addicted to eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling, and smoking, and squandered all the family property left by his ancestors. At that time, it was during the warlord war in the Republic of China. He has also been among warlords and is full of legends.
Hu Bayi’s grandfather, Hu Guohua
In the play, after Hu Bayi enters the ancient tomb, he is always able to turn danger into danger when faced with numerous mechanisms and dangers. Leading everyone out of the predicament, and most of this comes from the knowledge learned in "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique". And this half of the book must start from his grandfather's time;
Hu Bayi's ancestor was a famous local landowner in the Qing Dynasty, but when it came to his grandfather's generation, the family fell into decline. It was the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Hu Bayi’s grandfather was named Hu Guohua. When he was young, he was addicted to eating, drinking, prostitution, gambling, and smoking opium. After his parents passed away, Hu Guohua sold out all his ancestral property.
Once he was so poor that he had no money to smoke, so he went to borrow money from his uncle. The uncle knew very well what kind of virtue his prodigal nephew was, so he didn't give him a cent. But Hu Guohua is very good at this psychological strategy of deception. He lied to his uncle that he wanted to use money to get a wife. You don't have to give me anything else, but getting a wife is of great importance. Besides, it would be best if this useless nephew could get a wife to take care of him. If he can calm down and do his job properly, it would be considered worthy. His dead sister. So I collected 20 yuan and gave it to him, and said I would go to his house in a few days to see if it was genuine.
After returning home with 20 yuan, in order to cope with his uncle's inspection, he went to a shop that specialized in making paper figures (the kind of paper figures that were burned to the dead) to have a paper figure made for him. Realistically, then go home and put it on the kang and cover it with a quilt. A few days later, the uncle came. He said that his wife was ill and could not get up to see him. He just opened the door curtain and let him see that there was a vague person sleeping on the kang.
The uncle knew that his nephew’s words could not be trusted, so he insisted on seeing clearly. However, Hu Guohua tried his best to prevent him from seeing. The more he refused to see, the more suspicious his uncle became, so the two uncles and nephews were entangled at the door. clear.
At this moment, the door curtain was suddenly opened, and a young woman came out and said hello to her uncle. The paper man turned into a real person!
Besides, my uncle was very happy when he saw that his nephew had indeed "got a wife". It was not until he happily finished the dinner cooked by the "nephew's wife" that Hu Guohua sent it home and gave him another 10 yuan. Ocean.
The matter was concealed, but Hu Guohua was too frightened to go home because he knew he had encountered a ghost. Later, the incident was revealed, and my uncle was furious to death.
After his uncle died, Hu Guohua continued to smoke and do nothing. Later, he was so poor that he could no longer survive, and others guarded him like a thief. As a last resort, he thought of digging a grave, but when he dug it out, he was haunted by a female corpse demon, who scared him half to death.
But luckily 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 eliminate the female corpse demon and accepted him as his disciple. He taught him some fortune-telling and calligraphy skills, and cured his addiction to smoking.
Under the guidance of his master, Hu Guohua began to become law-abiding and started a legitimate business. He made a living by reading people's fortunes and married a wife and gave birth to a son, Hu Bayi's father, Hu Yunxuan. Hu Yunxuan received a good education since childhood, and later participated in the revolution and went to Yan'an. He became the commander of the army during the liberation, and was criticized during the Cultural Revolution.
Mr. Sun passed away a few years later and passed half a volume of "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret" to Hu Guohua.
The origin of "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique"
The origin of "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" can be traced back to the late Qing Dynasty. There was a gold-touching school captain named Zhang San Lian Zi is said to have dug up the full image of the Sixteen-Character Tian Gua from an ancient tomb, and combined it with Mojin Xiaowei's patented product "Xunlong Jue" to write "The Secret of Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui". However, this book held the secrets of heaven and earth and was afraid of damaging Yang's life, so he destroyed the half of the book on Yin and Yang, and the remaining half was passed on to Sun Guofu, the apprentice of Mojin School Captain with Yin and Yang Eyes, who was Hu Guohua's master.
"Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" is called "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", which is exactly sixteen volumes. Each volume is represented by a character in the ancient hexagram of Zhou Tian, ??totaling sixteen characters, so they are called sixteen characters.
The sixteen characters are: heaven, earth, human, ghost, god, Buddha, demon, animal, deterrence, suppression, escape, object, transformation, yin, yang, and emptiness. This ancient book mainly records Yin and Yang Feng Shui. It can be said to be all-encompassing. It not only covers Feng Shui and Yin Yang, but also covers a large number of ancient tombs of various dynasties and generations because it was written by a master who touched gold. Descriptions of the shape, structure, and layout, as well as the various difficulties and dangers encountered by the captains of Mojin during the fight.
When Hu Bayi was eighteen years old and in his literary period, Hu Bayi's parents were beaten down and his home was ransacked. His grandfather asked Hu Bayi to wrap the "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" in oilcloth. , hidden on the roof of the public place, so that half of the book was not copied. After his grandfather died, half of the "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" belonged to Hu Bayi. He took it with him wherever he went and took it out from time to time to study. From this, Hu Bayi learned a lot of the professional knowledge of Captain Mojin, which later played a huge role in every adventure in the ancient tomb.
Hu Bayi’s early experience in the original work
His home was confiscated, his parents were knocked down, and his grandfather was criticized to death. Hu Bayi chose When I went to work in the countryside in Inner Mongolia, my friend Wang Kaixuan (Fat Man), who had been playing since childhood, was also there.
It seems that Hu Bayi is destined to constantly encounter strange things and ancient tombs. During more than half a year of jumping in line, he encountered supernatural events in the ancient tomb of the Queen Mother of Liao Kingdom. Half a year later, Hu Bayi's parents were rehabilitated. Hu Bayi became a soldier under the arrangement of one of his father's life and death comrades.
Later, the unit was sent to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for civil defense construction. When they walked to the Kunlun Pass, they encountered strange fire ladybugs. Several comrades were burned until their bones were left, and they encountered an avalanche while escaping. , survived the catastrophe, and later entered the nine-story demon tower, but he was always able to turn danger into good fortune, using bravery and wisdom to resolve crises time and time again, and led his comrades out of difficulties. I have to say that half of the "Ten" The Six-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique plays a huge role.
In 1979, the troops participated in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam. Hu Bayi was already a company commander at that time. On the way back to the country, he was ambushed by Vietnamese agents. Seventy-eight comrades were killed. Hu Bayi captured Two enemy militiamen later heard from their comrades that it was one of the women who disguised the explosive package as a baby and killed the soldiers. The angry Hu Bayi couldn't control it for a moment and started fighting. This violated the army's policy of preferential treatment of prisoners and had to be discharged early. Otherwise, given his conditions at the time, there would be no problem in getting a bigger officer in the army.
Can Shirley Yang and Hu Bayi get together in the end
Regarding Shirley Yang’s life experience, the drama only explains that he is a descendant of the Zagrama tribe, but there is an explanation in the original work : She graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and inherited the secret skill of moving mountains and dividing armor.
Based on the above explanation, it is not difficult to understand that in the play Shirley Yang, a woman can have such great abilities, remain calm and strong in the face of extreme danger. Critical moments often reveal extraordinary wisdom and ability.
Many people are very concerned about whether Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang get together.
After returning from the exquisite ancient city, Hu Bayi received financial support from Shirley Yang and set up a stall in Panjiayuan, Beijing, where he made some antiques and artifacts. Although I occasionally thought of Shirley Yang and the days they spent together, I always felt that the two were not the same person, so I didn't think about it any further.
But it was different after the life and death crisis in Longling Labyrinth. The two of them escaped from the edge of being shattered to pieces many times. You saved me, I saved you, and both of them felt sympathy for each other. , admiration arose, and since the man is not married and the woman is not married, it is reasonable for them to get together. But it’s not said in the play, and there’s no specific explanation in the original book. It’s just that they ended up in the United States. But from the two descriptions in the original work, we can roughly infer that Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang finally got together.
In the original work, there is a poor description between Hu Bayi and Shirley Yang in the pool under the coffin:
When Hu Bayi escaped from the deep pool and came ashore, he was preparing to return to the beach. When he went up, he said to Shirley Yang, "Don't worry, I'll go up again and have a look. If I fall into the water again, remember to give me artificial respiration as soon as possible. It's too late."
Shirley Yang rolled his eyes, pointed at the militia platoon leader and said to me: "What are you thinking? If you need artificial respiration, I will also ask the militiamen to do it for you."
Said to Shirley Yang: " Why are you so unreasonable? If you fell into the water and held your breath, I would have to give you artificial respiration..."
It seems that he is quite smooth-talking like his grandfather. genetics.
In the fourth part of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", there is a description at the end of "Kunlun Temple" before going to the United States. Hu Bayi said to Shirley Yang:
I love you' In China, you may not be able to say it several times in a lifetime, but I heard that when a couple lives in the United States, saying "I love you" once a day means that the couple is separated and about to separate and divorce. They say it in the morning, noon and evening. One time is just enough, it’s best to say it twice more when you get up and go to bed. Even if you say it ten times a day, no one is too much. Sometimes, just to say this sentence during a long-distance call, I don’t get tired of saying it so many times, but It's really strange.
I think this legend is probably true, because I also heard that when an American soldier is seriously injured on the battlefield and is about to die before dying, he will tell his comrades to tell his wife this sentence..." I pretended Tsukuru looked like he was dying and out of breath and continued, "Lieutenant... promised me... to help me tell my wife... that I... I love her. "After saying that, I laughed so hard that my stomach hurt.
Shirley Yang was also amused by me, but she said: "Lao Hu, you are really unserious. What can you laugh at? This sentence The words can be used not only between lovers or couples, but also to children and parents. When you love someone, you need to let them know how important they are to you. This is normal and necessary. You have to say it ten times a day from now on. ”