The pursuit of the aesthetic values ????of wonder, interest, and beauty in "The Legend of the Book of Heaven" completely broke away from the trend of shaping the "Gao Daquan" character image that was popular at that time, and exuded a sense of humor everywhere. Suitable for all ages, both refined and popular.
"Tales from the Heavenly Book" is an animated feature film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio in China in 1983, adapted from some chapters of "The Legend of the Demon". It is directed by Wang Shuchen and Qian Yunda, written by Bao Lei and Wang Shuchen, and styled by Ke Ming.
The film tells the story of Mr. Yuan in the Heavenly Palace who stole the Heavenly Book, carved it in a cave, and later learned it secretly from three foxes. After practicing the magic of the Book of Heaven, the fox endangers the people. In the end, Dansheng, who was transformed from a swan egg into a human form, learned magic and destroyed the fox demon with Mr. Yuan. However, Mr. Yuan was captured back to heaven for leaking the secret.
In early 1980, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) provided a script of a Chinese mythology story, saying that they would invest in co-producing an animated feature film with Shanghai Film Studio. Shanghai Animation Film Studio proposed that the Chinese side be responsible for rewriting the script. Bao Lei and Wang Shuchen wrote the script for the co-production. They found that the story of the vixen in "The Legend of the Fairy" accounted for about 10% of the plot of the script.
"Ping Yao Zhuan" is not very successful among Chinese classical mythological novels, but several characters in it are very interesting. Wang Shuchen and Bao Lei retained three of the vixens, and the Danzi and the monk were The character was changed to Dan Sheng, a kid, and the script was re-created. Many of the plots can almost be found in traditional Chinese folk tales.