Lu Huabing in Song Dynasty
"Lu" is the same name episode and theme song of Taiwan Province film "Lu". Although it has been nearly 10 years since the film was released, many people will still like the song "Lu" as soon as it starts. Because the pure children's chorus, with Jenny Tseng's sentimental tone, is like the call from hometown, childhood and mother, which makes people feel kind and warm. At the beginning of the film, there are small yellow flowers all over the mountains, and the children's voice outside the words introduces that this nameless flower called "Lu" was originally planted by tea farmers as fertilizer. Although in the eyes of outsiders, Lu is very humble, but for tea farmers who can't afford fertilizer, he is very respectable. Because she died, she got "sweet and fragrant tea". In order to express their love for Lu, tea farmers used it to pin their thoughts on their mothers in folk songs. This is the song Lu Huabing that we are very familiar with. It was sung many times in different forms in the film, which strongly set off the tragic atmosphere of the film. Jenny Tseng's opening song: Open the memory of childhood: "Ah ~ the stars in the sky don't talk, the dolls on the ground miss their mother, and they think of their mother's words every night, tears for you." Anyone who has heard the song Lu will be moved by the children's chorus at the beginning. It can always evoke the childhood memories of every homeless person in an instant. At the beginning of the film, the song was sung entirely by singer Jenny Tseng. The song moved slowly with Mr. Guo's bamboo raft, and the beautiful mountains and rivers of Chashan came into view. The main characters in the play-Amin and her sister, Milk Tea, appeared in the scene of picking tea. Music and scenery complement each other and arouse the audience's deep homesickness. The story begins with Guo Lai's sketch of Chashan. He happened to meet Amin and his sister with milk tea who were collecting firewood on the mountain. When he learned that Amin also likes painting, he generously gave his paintings to Amin, who claimed to love painting, and signed a "fool" with self-deprecation. Amin didn't expect that the new big city art expert in the school is this person called "fool". In Zhongshan Primary School, where Amin and Sister Milk Tea are located, the principal and director focus on the intrigue of promotion, and the education of children is cold and dogmatic. Amin is a well-known naughty boy. He is often regarded by teachers as mentally retarded and mentally retarded because of causing trouble, and is subjected to various corporal punishments. Nevertheless, Amin continued to play and draw without any frustration. After Mr. Guo came, Amin felt unprecedented happiness and confidence in painting with his unique kindness and tolerance. The chorus of tea sister and Amin's brother and sister: Let you feel deeply sorry. Perhaps it is because of naughty and unrestrained that Amin's imagination is not bound by rigid education. In his paintings, he has a vivid expression of the scenery in his hometown and the life around him. When Teacher Guo discovered Amin's talent, he began to do his best to help the child. Amin's sister Cha Mei didn't attend art class, which made Mr. Guo have a strong curiosity about these two brothers and sisters who can't even afford crayons but love painting. Later, through home visits, I learned that Amin's family was particularly poor. His mother died a long time ago, and his father was a kind and simple tea farmer. In order to manage several tea farms, Amin's father is busy in the mountains day and night. Nevertheless, we still can't afford expensive land rent, fertilizers and pesticides. His heavy life courage makes him very grumpy and often hits naughty Amin. Sister milk tea is very sensible. In order to make Amin feel at ease in painting, she quit the painting competition and went home to help her father catch tea bugs. When Amin was young, her mother liked to hold him and sing the song Lu. So, after my mother died, my sister often hummed this song. Let Mr. Guo sing to him what he overheard during his home visit. Here, the children's singing of the two people, coupled with the scene where Teacher Guo took them to their mother's grave, played together and told their wishes, made the audience have a strong resonance with Amin's life experience, and also had sincere expectations for his painting dream. Such a gifted child, born in such a poor family, deserves more attention from the school. But only Mr. Guo bought a crayon for Amin, took the students to help Amin catch tea bugs and encouraged him to learn to draw well. In the eyes of other teachers, this poor child without any political background does not deserve their attention at all. The echo of Chashan: The tearful questioning and calling in the film shows that the township head is the richest and most powerful person in the local area. Teachers in the school tried their best to curry favor with the son Lin Zhihong and daughter Lin Xuefen of the township head for their own benefit. Lin Xuefen is already a teacher in Zhongshan Primary School, while Lin Zhihong is still in primary school. She is Amin's classmate. He is clever, but his painting is rigid, lacking imagination and expressiveness. In the list recommended by Mr. Guo to participate in the painting competition, your name did not exist originally, but in order to please the township head, the teachers worked together to squeeze Amin out of the limited quota. This incident is undoubtedly a fatal blow to Amin, who loves painting. He was born with liver disease, and his condition worsened under grief. In order to get Mr. Guo to help him draw a proud self-portrait, the township head, who was eager to stand for election, accepted Mr. Guo's plea and sent pesticides to Amin's family. However, Amin's father delayed voting for the township head because Amin was ill, which made the township head very angry. In retaliation, he urged Amin's father to pay off all his previous debts. Amin's father is a backbone tea farmer. He sold the pig and returned the money to the township head. However, in this way, Amin has no money to treat the disease. Because Amin lost the election, Mr. Guo left Chashan indignantly after hitting the director in a rage. His departure is another heavy blow to Amin's already weak body. Soon after, Amin died beside the colored paper by the river. The death of a poor child and the broken dream were soon forgotten by everyone in Chashan. However, Teacher Guo has not forgotten Amin's painting dream. He took Amin's paintings and won the gold medal in the international competition. The news came that the township head, as well as the directors and principals who thought Amin was a "moron", gathered in the whole school and stood in the scorching sun to hold an award ceremony for Amin. Compared with the empty and hypocritical speech of the township head, the words of the milk tea sister are simple and make people cry. "My father can't speak Mandarin. He said that it was really embarrassing to let everyone stand in the sun for so long for a dead child. If my brother were still alive, he would feel embarrassed, too. ……"。 The sanctimonious expressions of the township head, principal and director are in sharp contrast with the simplicity and kindness of Amin's father and sister with milk tea. Is Amin's death only because of illness? Seeing this, in addition to sadness, there is grief and indignation! At the end of the film, accompanied by Mr. Guo and the villagers, the tea girl burned all the paintings in front of Amin. Amin's father cried and threw the certificate into the fire. In his simple heart, he is mostly blaming himself and fate. At the end, in the tears of tea sister's confusion, the echo of tea farmers singing "Lu" came from Chashan. The song is mixed with tears, grievances and incomprehension. The song "Lu", in the eyes of tea farmers, is a call and inquiry for the warmth and redemption of human nature in poverty and hardship. At the end of the story, the tragic color of the film has been greatly enhanced and rendered again. So when the tea farmers finished singing, they immediately remembered the children's chorus, which made the audience feel deeply hurt inadvertently in the sparkling tears. However, because the film does not fully depict the reason why Mr. Guo came to Chashan and the tacit understanding between him and his teacher Wen Xiu, the film still leaves some doubts and regrets.