Detailed explanation of "Big Fish and Begonia": What you receive is the love of God
1. Their world
First of all, let’s talk about the world where the protagonist of the film lives.
At the beginning of the film, according to the account of the elderly Chun voiced by Pan Shulan's grandmother, they live under the sea and the sky. The ocean of the human world is connected to the sky of their world. They are neither gods nor humans, they are other people. So what kind of world do they live in?
I believe that whether you like this movie or not, you have to admit that its references to Chinese classical culture are the most in Chinese animation so far. It includes architecture, mythology, poetry, ancient prose, customs, etc. Thinking along this line of thinking, it is not difficult to deduce that the world where the protagonist lives draws lessons from the "Return to Ruins" in classical Chinese mythology.
Guixu, "Liezi·Tangwen" records: "East of the Bohai Sea, hundreds of millions of miles away, there is a large ravine. It is actually a bottomless valley with no bottom below it. It is called Guixu." .” He represents returning to the original place, a metaphor for the end and destination of things. Just like what is said in the narration at the beginning of the film, "All living humans are like giant fish in the sea. When they are born, they set out from this shore of the sea. Life is like crossing the sea, sometimes meeting and sometimes separated. When they die, they Then they arrived at the shore, and everyone went to their own worlds.
This is why after Kun died, his body turned into clay (suggesting that "Nuwa created humans", from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"), and his soul returned to Guixu, and his final income was guarded by the Lingpo The Rusheng Tower Tongtian Pavilion. Therefore, the "others" mentioned by Lao Chun can be called "Guixu people".
Where do the "returners" come from? Judging from the worldview shown to us in the film, most of the characters and their backgrounds come from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", so they can be completely regarded as "people of mountains and seas". Based on the above speculations, "Big Fish and Begonia" actually depicts to the audience the appearance of all living beings in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas".