The plot synopsis of The Boatman

Tan Bangwu's four sons are all immigrants from the Three Gorges area. After the reservoir area is impounded in June 2003, most of their mountainous areas will be flooded, and their source of livelihood is a big problem. Therefore, before and after the Three Gorges Dam impounded water, this old man who was over 90 years old became busy with two major events. One was to build a wooden boat for his second son and engage in special tourism after the water was impounded; the other was to build a wooden boat for his wife and himself who had passed away almost a year ago. Set up a joint tombstone and prepare your own funeral arrangements. With a time span of ten years, this film records the historical process of the great relocation of immigrants from the Three Gorges and the emergence of Gaoxia Pinghu; it records the living conditions and emotional oscillations of the old boatmen and their children and grandchildren during the great changes; it records the arduous history and tenacity of the Three Gorges boatmen. will to survive.

Ordinary life is coming. The sun is setting in the west, and the sun is level in the west. I grab a handful of straw to feed the chickens. The roosters are eating and croaking, and the hens are eating happily. In a quaint cave courtyard in Shijiazhuang Village, Shanhua Township, Yanshi City, the first thing the 89-year-old Cheng Mancang said was such a boatman's name. We lamented that at his 90-year-old age, he could actually make the name of a boatman from decades ago. I remember this chant clearly, and we also marveled at the vividness and image of the chant itself, "The rooster croaked while eating", what a description of the mood of life! While writing this article, I recalled more than once the simple and peaceful rural life I experienced in my childhood. A long-lost touch and kindness came to me. In the small farmyard, the narrow countryside On the street, the scenes of farmers feeding chickens danced in my mind, like a movie, and the sweet memories repeated themselves, lingering. And this "Qiao Didi", how come it is such a divine word! The personification was so accurate that many beautiful adjectives were eclipsed in front of her. This shy hen turns out to be very charming when you imagine her pecking. As the sun sets in the western mountains, Hei Xiao drove a black horsefly cow, planted two acres of black slope land, and made a two-liter black black bucket. Looking at a temple in Nanshan from a distance, the sister-in-law went to drop incense. The sister-in-law dropped incense to pray for her children, and the sister-in-law dropped incense to pray for the merchant. If the incense was not dropped for three days, her mother packed up her bags and left. When the old boatmen sing these songs, they always have an intoxicated and peaceful expression on their faces, as if what they are saying is not a short boatman's song, but something that happened to them when they were young. Something that makes people envious and makes people happy. They don't say it, but I can understand that no matter how many years have passed, deep in their hearts, the boatman's song that they once worried about has settled into an eternal concern. Once they talk about it, they will put themselves aside. In the past ups and downs, the long and short sentences soaked in the thick juice of life fascinated them and made them intoxicated. Look at the following song again: The sun comes out and looks up, shining on the Marco Polo Bridge in Beijing. On the Marco Polo Bridge, there are big trees with deep and strong roots. Small trees grow under the big trees, and branches grow on the small trees. As if it is its biological brother or sister, the old boatmen also said this saying: The sun rises and looks upward, illuminating the Dongzhai Wife kiln. There is a big tree in front of the Wife kiln. Divide the branches into branches, and put branches on the heads of the branches. It's just a jingle, and it really doesn't have any big meaning or significance. It's simple, clear, and straightforward, with just a little rhyme. You may think that this is a word solitaire game played by a boatman or a group of boatmen. Let's say there are multiple people. Someone first struck the scene and wrote the first sentence, and the creative passion of others was aroused, and then they matched up. Because they have no writing skills and literary literacy, all they can do is colloquial slang and idioms, and the objects they can express can only be things or life scenes that they are familiar with. What you say, what I say, may be something you have thought about for a long time, or it may be blurted out. In this way, a simple and straightforward boatman's song, full of dew of life and exuding the breath of life, was born. They shouted such chants, walked through the rivers and valleys, fought against the wind and waves, and tempered their lives. There is also a kind of boatman's chant, which is very philosophical. It is an explosion after the boatmen's years of life experience. It is a thorough understanding and understanding of the world, and it is a summary of experience and understanding. Look at the green pines on the mountain and the flowers below. The flowers are smiling more than the green pines. One day there will be a severe frost, and the green pines will be visible but the flowers will not be visible. Also, it rains from the sky and the earth soaks. People leave descendants and grass leaves roots. People leave descendants to guard against old age. Grass leaves fibrous roots to prepare for spring. Life on the water is of course an important part of the boatman's chants. These chants may describe the scenes seen and heard, or describe specific boating actions or specific boating scenes.

I went down once and came back again to build a carp playing lotus platform. The carp playing lotus and the lotus are still there, and the lotus playing with the carp comes along with the water. This is a description of the scene. At noon, the sun was due south, and Guanyin's mother came to sail the boat. The boat flew into the South China Sea, and twelve beauties pulled the oars. This is a longing for beauty, which is even more fascinating because of the added color of myth. The first thing to say is "add force", and then follow up with "increase force", "increase force", "increase force", just like a bee picking flowers indiscriminately. Picking flowers on the left, picking flowers on the right, who is working hard for? This chant is reminiscent of "Bee" by Luo Yin of the Tang Dynasty, "No matter the plains or mountains, the infinite scenery is occupied. After collecting hundreds of flowers into honey, for whom does it work hard and for whom is it sweet?" Luo Yin wrote about bees and said this They are human beings. What the boatmen sing is about bees and what they sigh is about themselves. It is a complaint against their experiences and a cry for injustice. When the situation cannot be changed, they can only seek food, clothing, and safety as much as possible. Compared with food and drink, they value safety during the boating process and as little hardship as possible. See the slogan below. Time after time, the stonemason carried a grinding hammer and forged a chastity plaque in Dongzhuang, and a public moral stele in Xizhuang. The large characters on the stone stele were forged, and the high characters on the lintel were so large that they attracted people. Knocking on the sky and on the ground, knocking on the ghosts and gods, just asking for the wind to blow up the boat. In the process of communicating with the old boatmen, we also got a chant to express patriotic feelings. In terms of concept, compared to the large number of descriptions of production and life scenes, this chant makes people's eyes brighten and make people's blood boil. There is a tung tree on a high mountain, and an ax is struck down in two halves. One half goes to Nanjing, and the other half goes to Beijing. Cannons are made in Beijing, bells are made in Nanjing, and cannons and bells are made. What a "solo foreign soldier" sounds heart-warming and inspiring. This chant was either born when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing, or during the eight-year war of resistance, or in other eras when China was invaded and humiliated. But the age is no longer important. What is important is that the Yellow River boatmen, Chinese men, passionate men, their simple patriotic sentiments are admirable and admirable. They can be recorded in the annals of history and can be remembered for generations.