"After reading all the beautiful flowers and thousands of trees, I hope you will remember this one." It does not appear in the poem, but in the movie "Yong Mei".
When Mei Niang said goodbye to Zhou Hao, she handed a plum blossom into his hand, hoping that he would not forget her sincerity.
The theme this time is based on "Yong Mei" and combined with the deeds of the bamboo carving master Zhou Hao during the Jiading period. Although the content is similar to today's animation routines, the story of Zhou Hao and Mei Niang touches people's hearts and lingers in their minds all the time, making people guess the beginning, regret and ending.
Historical records
In ancient books, the original text records that "(Zhou Hao) suffered from sores when he was young. He came home drunk one night and met an old man with strange clothes. He took a pill and tasted it, and the five internal organs were affected. Everything is warm, and the old man is suddenly missing. There is still a strange fragrance in the evening, and the long-standing illness has gone away, and there will be no trace of ashes in his life."
It was originally a story of "meeting an immortal and giving medicine" that was common in ancient notebooks, but under the screenwriter's pen, it was adapted into a love legend between a man and a plum tree. Zhou Hao, a young man who is as upright as bamboo, once protected a plum tree whose branches were broken by a naughty boy when he was a child. As a result, the plum tree had a spirit and transformed into a human being, called "Mei Niang".
Spring turns to winter, it is cold and snowy, and love blooms like plum blossoms. Amidst the falling plum blossoms, the young Mei Niang, accompanied by the fragrance of hazelnut, drops the cinnabar dots on her fingers on Zhou Hao's. Between the eyebrows, Zhou Hao told Mei Niang that this is called "beauty finger"; or when the two of them were arguing about the "most beautiful" things in the world while cooking snow and making tea, Zhou Hao told Mei Niang about the beautiful scenery of the West Lake that he saw.
For a long time, the protagonist prototypes in "Chinese Ancient Poetry Animation" came from real people in history, but "Mei Niang" is a completely fictitious image. But it is worth mentioning that throughout the film, it is not clearly stated that Mei Niang is Mei Jing, but it can be vaguely felt through some details. "This unique elegance and hazy feeling in Chinese culture is also one of the forms of expression in this animation." Peng Qingzheng said.