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中国人的未来史学:《流浪地球2》 Future Historiography of the Chinese: The Wandering Earth II

March 10, 2023 张一珊 

If you remove the Great Wall, Confucius, the First Emperor of Qin, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the Forbidden City, the Records of the Shih Tzu and the giant panda, what will become the symbol of China and the Chinese nation in the future?

如果把长城、孔子、秦始皇、黄河长江、故宫、史记、大熊猫这些能够代表中国的元素都去掉,在未来,有什么能够成为中国和中华民族的象征?


The Great Wall, Confucius, the First Emperor of Qin, the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, the Forbidden City, the Records of the Historian, gunpowder and printing represent China in the past.

长城、孔子、秦始皇、黄河长江、故宫、史记、火药、印刷术代表的是过去的中国。


The high-speed rail, the giant panda, the Bird's Nest, the Oriental Pearl, the base station represent the present China.

高铁、大熊猫、鸟巢、东方明珠、基站代表的是现在的中国。


So what will represent China in the future?

那么,什么能代表未来的中国?


What elements can we use to make the China of the future consistent with the China of the present and the China of the past?

我们可以用什么样的元素来让未来中国与当下的中国、过去的中国一脉相承?


It is an epic of the human future based on thousands of years of past Chinese history.

它是一部立足于过往中国数千年历史的人类未来史诗。


It is a human epic, but at its core it is Chinese.

它构建的是人类史诗,但内核是中国的。


What it refers to and carries forward is not only the spirit of the golden age of science fiction literature more than 60 years ago, nor is it only a masterpiece like Kubrick and Clark's "2001: A Space Odyssey". It is an extension of the history created by the Chinese people in the past thousands of years, and also a projection of the indomitable and arduous spirit of the Chinese people in the 200 years of modern history into the future.

它参考和发扬继承的,绝不仅仅是60多年前科幻文学黄金年代的精神,也绝不仅仅是库布里克和克拉克《2001太空漫游》这样的殿堂级影片,它是过往几千年中国人民创造的历史的延伸体现,也是200年近代史中中国人民不屈不挠艰苦奋斗精神在未来的投射


The core of The Wandering Earth 2 comes from modern Chinese history, where Yu the Great controls the flood, Yu Gong moves mountains, and is full of suffering.

《流浪地球2》的内核来自于大禹治水、愚公移山、充满苦难的中国近代史。它与《尚书》、《左传》、《史记》、杜甫诗、《毛选》这些中国文化中最有力量感的作品一脉相承。



The Wandering Earth 2 answers three important questions:

《流浪地球2》解答了以下3个重要问题:


1. National and national level: How will the Chinese nation face the world problems in the future? How will the Chinese nation get along with other nations in the human world, what role will it play, and what historical mission will it fulfill?

1.民族和国家层面:未来的中华民族如何面对世界性问题。中华民族在人类世界中将如何与其他民族相处,又担任怎样的角色,要完成怎样的历史使命。


2. Personal level: How will an ordinary person survive and cope with a serious crisis together with other people and organizations in China in the future?

2.个人层面:一个普通人,在未来的中国,遭遇到了严重的危机时,将如何生存,与其他国民、组织如何一同应对。


3. Historical level: How to maintain coherence between past Chinese history and future Chinese development. Where the past Chinese history will take China and where the human world will go because of China.

3.历史层面:过往的中国历史,和未来的中国发展,如何保持连贯一致性。过往的中国历史,将把中国带向何处,又会让人类世界因中国走向何处。


Only from such a height can we see the value of the Wandering Earth 2 on different levels, from the historical inheritance, national spirit, culture, film industry, film, science fiction film, visual effects, narrative, character construction, science fiction ideas and world setting.

只有站在这样的高度,我们才能够一层一层往下,看到《流浪地球2》在不同层次上的价值——历史传承上的、民族精神上的、文化上的、电影工业上的、电影上的、科幻电影上、视觉特效上的、故事叙述上的、人物构建上的、科幻点子和世界设定上的。




Date: March 10, 2023

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