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　　The Monkey King, the Great Sage of Qitian, with his foot on the lotus platform, wearing colorful golden armour and holding a golden hoop, would have been hard to associate this lifelike sculpture with the food cake if it were not for the English introduction marked below. Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned that the team of "SK Tang Wang Zhou Yi" from China recently won 3 gold medals and 2 bronze medals at the World Cake Conference held in Britain. Contestant Zhou Yi told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that one of the cakes was made after seven days and nights, and the characters on the other cake were redone seven or eight times just by hand.

　　"the Monkey King Cake" costs 10,000 yuan.

　　For people who like dessert, one of the hardest things to accept is that you can’t bear to eat a beautiful cake when there is one in front of you. Recently, many netizens in Weibo were "amazed" by a group of photos of cakes. Weibo netizen "sk Sugar King Zhou Yi" posted a group of photos on Weibo. In the photos, cakes made with "sugar-turning" technology were made, some of which were made into the image of the Monkey King, the great sage of Qitian, and another cake was a woman costume dressed in green, with pictures and screens around him that were lifelike.

　　Zhou Yi, the founder of the cake, introduced in Weibo that the cakes in these photos were the works of his team participating in the international cake competition held in the UK recently, and five cakes finally won three gold medals and two bronze medals. Award-winning cakes with the shapes of "the Monkey King" and "Wu Zetian" triggered a heated discussion among many netizens. Some netizens commented that these cakes were "too beautiful to eat", while others said that "I didn’t expect a cake to contain craftsman spirit".

　　According to the official website of the International Cake Competition, it is the largest cake competition in the world and is considered as an arena of cake making technology and creativity.

　　In an interview with the reporter of Beiqing Daily, Zhou Yi said that the five cakes won this time were made by four members of his team. Although the characters made were like sculptures, their raw materials were mainly sugar and flour, which were edible. "Can make such a vivid effect, mainly using a cake decoration called ‘ Fancy sugar ’ Technology and materials. "

　　It is understood that Zhou Yi has opened a fondant cake training school in Suzhou. According to Ji Jinjun, who is in charge of the brand operation of the training school, fondant cake is made of sugar, water and glucose, which belongs to the cake industry, and its shape is completely made by hand. Although it is mainly decorative, all parts are edible. The materials used to make fondant cakes are almost the same as those of ordinary cakes, but it takes about a week to make a fondant cake, and the labor cost is much higher than that of ordinary cakes. The reporter of Beiqing Daily learned that the predetermined price of this kind of fondant cake, which can participate in international competitions, reaches 10,000 yuan.

　　In addition, the fondant cake has been preserved for a long time, and a fondant cake in Britain has even been preserved for a hundred years. As long as it is not in direct contact with water, oil and humid air, fondant cakes can always survive. If you want to eat it for a long time, you can keep it by freezing it. "The fondant cake is completely edible. But the cakes we usually make during training will not be used for eating, but will be placed outside the classroom as a souvenir. Now, there is a row of cakes outside our classroom. " Ji Jinjun said.

　　Ji Jinjun told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that Zhou Yi is good at making fondant cake dolls, and his style prefers China ancient style. In this British International Cake Competition, Zhou Yi teamed up with friends and apprentices to participate. In the end, Zhou Yi’s "Wu Zetian" won the gold medal, and "Drunk and Forgetting the Worries" won the bronze medal.

　　Seven days and nights of "fighting against Buddha"

　　Zhou Yi said that the cake in this competition was first made into a cake-shaped large structure in China, and then brought to the UK, and some details of the work were supplemented three days before the competition. In particular, some fragile things, such as very small wine glasses and belts, were brought to Britain to be reassembled, and the big frames were basically completed in China.

　　"Usually we all have our own things. For example, I am busy taking care of my own company. Many of the works this time are made by everyone." Zhou Yi took the the Monkey King cake "Fighting over Buddha", which was hotly discussed by many netizens, as an example. "The golden armor and golden hoop on this cake are very fine, which was made by the author after seven nights." In order to participate in the competition, they used a lot of raw materials. "At present, these entries use about 60 kilograms of sugar alone."

　　Du Chaojing, the author of Fight Against Buddha, told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that in order to express the Monkey King’s solemnity, cleverness and ferocity with her works, she looked through a large number of stills of six-year-old children and finally decided to adopt the shape of Fight Against Buddha. "Fight against Buddha has a high realm. He is a Buddha, with both the ferocity of monkeys and the solemnity of Buddha." After determining the design blueprint, Du Chaojing started to make the doll’s head, and it took three days to make the hair on the Monkey King’s head alone.

　　In order to show the best effect of the cake in the competition, a detail in the shape may be overturned many times. In Zhou Yi’s work "Drunken Sleeping and Forgetting Worries", a beautiful woman dressed in China’s ancient costume was prone on the ground. "I made this beautiful woman many times, and I was particularly tired. The first time I made her head small, the second time she made it big, which was out of proportion to the figure’s body. Later, the proportion was right, and I felt that there was something wrong with her expression, so I still had to do it again. Including this beautiful woman’s hand, when I started to do it, my finger was broken several times and I had to stick it again, but later I felt that there should still be no traces of adhesion, so I cut off my hand and did it again, and I did it seven or eight times with one hand. "

　　Attentive netizens noticed that there was a bunch of flowers in the prone beauty’s hair, which was composed of dozens of small flowers. The detailed pictures that Zhou Yi showed to the reporters of Beiqing Daily showed that subtle lines could be seen on the flowers. Zhou Yi said that the total length of the cake "Sleeping Drunk and Forgetting Worry" is only over 40 centimeters, and the flowers on the beautiful women’s heads are only a few millimeters in size, and they are made one by one when they are made.

　　I used to learn from dough modeling and sugar blower technology.

　　Du Chaojing, another contestant, is a certified cake baking trainer in Britain. She has a fondant cake training room in Beijing. This time, she went to Britain with her good friend Zhou Yi. In the competition, Du Chaojing’s work "Fighting over Buddha" won the gold medal.

　　On the afternoon of November 5, Du Chaojing, who just attended the award ceremony, told the reporter of Beiqing Daily: "The British International Cake Competition is the biggest competition in the cake industry and belongs to an international competition. I was really happy to win the gold medal for the first time, and I didn’t waste my time creating works day and night. "

　　Zhou Yi said that China’s traditional food arts and crafts such as dough sculpture and sugar blower provided him with a lot of inspiration in creating fondant cakes: "For example, the palace lanterns in Wu Zetian were blown out by sugar blowers, and these effects surprised many foreign counterparts."

　　Du Chaojing told the reporter of Beiqing Daily that she and Zhou Yi are developing fondant cakes that suit the taste of China people.

　　Text/reporter Qu Chang Zhang Xi

　　With the acceleration of urbanization in China at the end of last century and the beginning of this century, a large number of rural surplus labor force gathered in cities. However, influenced by various social factors, it is difficult for most migrant workers to realize their dream of family migration from rural areas to cities in a short time. In the dilemma of family livelihood and children’s growth, many migrant farmers choose to leave their children in rural areas, and rural left-behind children begin to emerge in large numbers.

　　With the passage of time, a large number of left-behind children in rural areas born at the end of last century and the beginning of this century have grown up. Some of them continue to go out to work and become "new generation migrant workers", some choose to start businesses to benefit their hometown and society, and some of them have successfully passed the university exam, even the "key universities" in China in 211 and 985 with their own efforts and family support, and successfully achieved the counterattack of children from poor rural areas.

　　As the "poor elite" who grew up in the rural left-behind children group, college students who have left-behind experience in rural areas (hereinafter referred to as rural left-behind college students) undoubtedly have the most excellent qualities in the rural left-behind children group. The development of rural left-behind college students is not only related to the success or failure of the existing practical path to solve the problem of rural left-behind children, but also related to the direction of the national policy for rural left-behind children.

　　What is the development status of rural left-behind college students in universities? Will the influence of the experience of staying behind in rural areas disappear naturally with the passage of time? Therefore, the research team of the School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences, Wuhan University of Technology (hereinafter referred to as the research team), based on a questionnaire survey of 4,596 full-time undergraduate students from four 211 engineering universities (key universities) and four ordinary universities in China, selected 1,147 students who had left-behind experience in rural areas (referring to the rural living conditions in which one or both parents went out to work for more than six months under the age of 16 — — The author’s note) undergraduates have made a retrospective investigation and research on their development.

　　There is no difference in academic performance with other groups.

　　In order to understand the overall academic level of rural left-behind college students, the research team compared with other college students from three aspects: academic performance, ability development and self-concept development, and found that the academic achievements of rural left-behind children were both surprising and insufficient.

　　Considering the comparability of academic performance in different classes and disciplines, the research team first understands the current situation of academic performance of college students through their relative grades in the class. The research team found that 52.6% of the rural left-behind college students ranked in the top 30% of the total sample, and less than 20% of the samples ranked in the bottom 30% of the class. According to the 5-point scoring system, after the conversion of class scores, the academic scores of rural left-behind college students in the class are all worth scoring 3.52, which is in the upper-middle level as a whole, while the scores of non-rural left-behind college students are 3.53, and there is no significant difference in academic scores between the two groups.

　　In the case of the same school education environment, academic performance mainly reflects the difference of individual efforts and course learning ability. The research team believes that rural left-behind college students can successfully enter the university, which shows that their previous study efforts and course learning ability are not bad. They can improve their course learning performance and eliminate the differences with other college students through their own efforts.

　　Low ability development but good at cooperation.

　　After data comparison and statistical analysis, the research team found that the scores of academic ability development of rural left-behind college students were relatively low.

　　It is found that the average score of comprehensive ability of rural left-behind college students is 3.55, which is at the upper-middle level on the whole; The average comprehensive ability score of non-left-behind college students is 3.66, and the average comprehensive ability score of non-left-behind college students in rural household registration is 3.63. The comprehensive ability score of rural left-behind college students is not only significantly lower than that of other non-left-behind college students, but also significantly lower than that of non-left-behind college students with rural household registration.

　　The research team further investigated the sub-item ability of 1147 rural left-behind college students, and found that the average score of effective cooperation ability of this group was the highest, reaching 3.82, and the average score of organizational leadership ability was the lowest, with an average of 3.36. The average scores of other abilities were from high to low, followed by problem solving ability, communication and coordination ability and information technology application ability. The research team believes that the left-behind college students in rural areas need to be strengthened in organizational leadership, information technology application, communication and coordination, and problem solving.

　　The level of self-concept development is weak.

　　As a cognitive system, self-concept is a reflection of the "subjective self" that individuals perceive and recognize. It usually consists of three parts: reflection evaluation, social comparison and self-feeling. Self-concept is based on the objective self, and its development level represents the individual’s self-evaluation and orientation, and plays a role in self-guidance, explanation and attribution of his own behavior. When individuals experience relatively many setbacks, the development of self-concept will be relatively weak.

　　After statistical analysis, the research team found that the average self-concept score of rural left-behind college students was 3.82, which was significantly lower than the average of 3.92 for non-left-behind college students and 3.93 for rural registered non-left-behind college students.

　　After concrete analysis, it is found that the left-behind college students in rural areas have the highest self-evaluation score of ideology and morality, with an average of 4.10, the average self-evaluation score of mental health is 3.9, the score of facing up to themselves is 3.83, and the satisfaction score of study and life status is the lowest, with an average of 3.46. The overall development level of self-concept of rural left-behind college students is relatively weak, especially in the evaluation of mental health and satisfaction with the status quo.

　　The chances of left-behind boys receiving higher education are low.

　　According to the classification of key universities and ordinary universities, there are 339 rural left-behind college students in key universities in this survey, accounting for 21.3% of the sample of 1593 key college students; There are 808 rural left-behind college students in non-key universities, accounting for 26.9% of the sample of non-key college students. In the survey of the research team, the distribution rate of rural left-behind college students in key universities is lower than that in non-key universities.

　　The research team also found that the gender distribution of rural left-behind college students is quite different. Among the 339 rural left-behind college students in key universities, there are 198 boys and 141 girls, accounting for 58.4% and 41.6% respectively. Among the 808 rural left-behind college students in ordinary universities, there are 196 boys and 612 girls, accounting for 24.3% and 75.7% respectively, and the proportion of boys is significantly lower than that of girls.

　　According to the investigation of the research team, the chances of rural left-behind boys entering ordinary universities are obviously worse than those of girls, and the overall success rate is low compared with girls.

　　Have difficulty in role identification

　　When asked, "Can you identify yourself as a left-behind child in adolescence?", among 1,147 rural left-behind college students, 934 chose to identify themselves as a left-behind child, while 213 chose not to. It can be seen that a considerable number of left-behind college students still find it difficult to accept their status as left-behind children.

　　Left-behind in rural areas is a helpless choice made by parents in the dilemma of family survival and children’s development. In the face of the living arrangements imposed on them by their parents, can adult rural left-behind college students understand their parents’ helplessness? Among the 1,147 rural left-behind college students, 815 chose to understand their parents all the time, 7 clearly expressed their hatred for their parents, while 148 and 177 said "I can understand now, but I’m still upset" and "I didn’t understand beforehand, but now I’m slowly letting go" respectively.

　　The research team concluded that nearly 30% of the rural left-behind college students in the sample could not fully accept their parents’ arrangement to stay in the countryside. This reflects the contradictory state that rural left-behind college students can understand rationally but cannot fully accept the experience of staying in rural areas emotionally. They still have difficulties in role identification, and the trauma and shadow brought by the experience of staying behind in rural areas have not disappeared or been smoothed away automatically with the growth of age and the successful acquisition of university education opportunities.

　　Early stay-at-home experience has both positive and negative effects on school and life.

　　As an unfavorable environment for growth, the left-behind experience in rural areas tends to describe its adverse effects. However, the research team found that the experience of staying in rural areas has brought both positive and negative effects on the study and life of rural left-behind college students.

　　The 1147 rural left-behind college students surveyed by the research team believe that the left-behind experience in rural areas has brought them many positive effects, which include, in descending order: independent and strong life, mature and sensible, knowing how to cherish gratitude, diligence and thrift, clearer learning motivation, easy to meet open-mindedness, loving and empathetic, etc. Among them, more than 50% of the samples choose to live independently, be mature and sensible, and know how to cherish gratitude, and rank among the top three in the positive influence of left-behind experience.

　　However, there are quite a few students who think that the experience of staying behind has not only brought positive effects on their studies and life, but also brought negative effects, mainly in personality characteristics and psychological status. Among them, 32.3% of the students said that the experience of staying in rural areas made their personality insecure and very sensitive; 20.5% students think that this experience makes their personality pessimistic and easy to feel inferior; 18.2% of the students answered that the experience made them cautious and timid; 17.9% of the students stressed that the experience made them have low requirements for life and low self-expectation; 16.5% students made it clear that they were often in a state of loneliness and anxiety; There are also 9.2%, 7.4% and 6.7% students who confirm that they are easy to compromise, paranoid and willful. Among the above negative effects, pessimism, easy inferiority, paranoid thinking, compromise and willful rebellion are all common personality factors that easily induce mental health problems, while loneliness, anxiety, insecurity and sensitivity are common manifestations of mental health obstacles.

　　The further comparative analysis of the research team found that the mental health of the rural left-behind college students was still negatively affected by the early rural left-behind experience: their loneliness, timidity and lack of affection were significantly higher than those of the non-left-behind college students.

　　Left-behind college students in rural areas urgently need care and help.

　　The research team believes that left-behind children in rural areas have lived in a split family life environment for a long time, and they lack complete and timely care and support from their parents during their growth and development. In such a relatively unfavorable development situation, it is not easy for them to successfully enter the university by their own efforts. As children of poor families in rural areas, the left-behind college students in rural areas obviously have to pay more hardships and efforts than other college students along the way. Therefore, they are worthy of the title of "poor elite".

　　However, getting the opportunity of university education is only the first step to change their own destiny. After winning the temporary academic success, the negative impact of the early experience of staying in rural areas on them did not disappear completely because children became adults, and the previous experience of staying in rural areas still quietly affected their life and development in universities.

　　Although the adversity experienced by rural left-behind college students makes them strong and independent, and their academic performance is not inferior to other students because of their own efforts, the realistic development problems they face can not be ignored: the lack of family support has caused their one-sided academic development, resulting in their relatively low comprehensive ability and weak self-concept development; The lack of affection in childhood leads to some lingering shadows in their psychology, forming personality defects in their personality development and increasing the risk of mental health problems.

　　Although left-behind college students in rural areas belong to the elite among teenagers who have left-behind experience in rural areas, they are a special group with relatively unfavorable development situation and the largest scale in the whole group of college students. The research team believes that the aura of college students can easily cover up the existing problems in the development of rural left-behind college students, and the identity of adults also makes them lose the policy care and social concern that only rural left-behind children can have. If the development problems of rural left-behind college students in universities are not actively concerned and effectively solved, all kinds of negative problems caused by left-behind experience will inevitably continue to deteriorate in their adulthood, and the best healing environment and opportunities will be lost, and their studies and lives will be immeasurably negatively affected.

　　The research team believes that from the social responsibility of "helping the weak" and the educational concept of "educational fairness", the left-behind college students in rural areas belong to the disadvantaged groups with poor origins and difficulties in development, and should be fully cared for and helped; Judging from the potential value of elite students’ contribution to the future of society and the efficiency of social assistance, their excellent quality of self-reliance and self-improvement is more worthy of social care.

　　Of course, although the left-behind college students in rural areas are special, they are by no means problem college students. Their existing problems are still developing problems, and as adults, they already have a relatively sound mind and independent ability. In the relatively superior university environment, most of them can achieve reconciliation with their left-behind experience with the help of university teachers and students and their own efforts, and then gradually eliminate their negative effects.

　　Fortunately, some colleges and universities have realized this problem and taken corresponding measures to help these left-behind children. The research team suggested that relevant departments and more colleges and universities should learn from these colleges and universities: when dealing with rural left-behind college students, they should neither let themselves go, ignore them, ignore them, nor label them indiscriminately, and treat them as problem students in a simple and rude way. They should give them necessary care and help according to different problems of different students in their natural study and living conditions, so as to promote their independent development and vigorous growth during their college years.

　　(Associate Professor, Wuhan University of Technology, Jia Yonghong)

Our reporter Meng Ke

On January 12th, the National Bureau of Statistics will release December 2022 CPI (Consumer Price Index) and PPI (Industrial Producer Ex-factory Price Index) data. The "Securities Daily" reporter interviewed the five chief executives, and most of them predicted that in December 2022, the CPI would increase slightly year-on-year, and the PPI decline would be narrowed. Looking forward to 2023, driven by the recovery of consumption, the inflation level will continue to rise, and the CPI growth center may be higher than last year, but the growth trend may be moderate.

The year-on-year growth rate of CPI may rise slightly

Wang Qing, chief macro analyst of Oriental Jincheng, predicted that the CPI in December 2022 will be around 1.8% year-on-year, with a slight increase of 0.2% compared with the previous month.

Wen Bin, chief economist of Minsheng Bank, said that in terms of food, the most flexible pork and fresh vegetables went out of the opposite market. Among them, due to the epidemic, the demand for pork prices weakened significantly, and the previous reluctance to sell turned to centralized slaughter, and pork prices fell. The price of fresh vegetables rose in advance, and fresh vegetables and fresh fruits rose greatly in the middle and late December. It is estimated that food prices will increase slightly in December 2022.

"In terms of non-food, the price of refined oil has been continuously lowered since the end of November 2022, and it is expected that the price of energy will drop significantly. The prices of various services, including housing rent, tourism, entertainment, education and family services, will be weak; In terms of consumer goods, it is expected that only clothing and drug prices will increase due to seasonality and epidemic demand respectively, and both fast-moving and durable categories will be weak. " Wen Bin said that overall, it is estimated that the CPI will decrease by 0.1% in December 2022, and the year-on-year growth rate will slightly increase to 1.8%. In 2022, the CPI will increase by 2.0% year-on-year, which is basically in a reasonable range.

Chen Li, chief economist and director of the research institute of Chuancai Securities, said that the CPI is expected to be around 1.8% in December 2022.

"In terms of CPI, the price of food items rose slightly in December 2022, and the price of non-food items increased seasonally at the end of the year. The CPI rebounded slightly to around 1.9% year-on-year." The chief economist of CITIC Securities clearly judged.

Deng Haiqing, chief economist of AVIC Fund, believes that overseas countries are still plagued by high inflation, and the inflation level in Europe and America is still at a high level in recent decades. Relatively speaking, the overall inflation situation in China is moderate, which is inseparable from China’s implementation of a prudent monetary policy and not engaging in "flood irrigation".

In terms of PPI, Wen Bin predicted that in December 2022, the year-on-year decline of PPI was significantly narrowed, and international commodity prices were mixed. Among them, crude oil prices rebounded slightly after stabilizing at a low level, and the supply and demand situation of natural gas was better than expected, which led to the price decline, and the prices of major metals rebounded slightly. Faced with the weakening of imported inflationary pressure and insufficient demand, the overall price of domestic industrial products is weaker than that of the international market.

"In terms of upstream energy, the price of refined oil has been continuously lowered, and the price of coal has continued to weaken, but the price of natural gas has rebounded, and the spot price of metals has risen as a whole; In the middle and lower reaches, the prices of building materials and chemical products all declined, and the prices of live pigs and feed dropped sharply. " Wen Bin said that in December 2022, the manufacturing PMI ex-factory price index was 49.0%, which was still below the critical line of 50%, but it was higher than that in November 2022. It is estimated that the PPI will decrease by 0.1% in December 2022, and the year-on-year decline will be significantly narrowed to 0.2%.

Chen Wei said that in December 2022, the international crude oil price was less than expected and affected by the Russian oil price limit, and the PPI continued to decline, about -0.3%.

It is clearly predicted that "in December 2022, the purchasing price of PMI raw materials and the ex-factory price index of industrial products all increased slightly, while the prices of coal, crude oil, cement, black and non-ferrous metals all increased to a certain extent, driving the PPI to increase slightly from the previous month, and the PPI will rebound to near 0% year-on-year."

According to Wang Qing’s analysis, the PPI in December 2022 will be around -0.5% year-on-year, with a decrease of 0.8 percentage points from last month. Affected by factors such as epidemic fluctuation affecting production and high infrastructure investment driving market demand, domestic steel and coal prices generally rose in December 2022, with the former’s year-on-year decline narrowing and the latter’s year-on-year increase expanding. This will drive the PPI deflation in the month to ease.

In 2023, the domestic inflation situation is controllable as a whole.

"Looking back on 2022, the year-on-year peak of CPI appeared in September, but the increase was only 2.8%. The year-on-year central probability of CPI was around 2.0%, which was in a moderate state, in sharp contrast to high inflation overseas. In terms of PPI, in 2022, PPI showed obvious characteristics of’ high before and low after’. At the beginning of the year, the PPI was as high as 9.1% year-on-year, and it turned into deflation in the fourth quarter. " Wang Qing said that China’s fiscal and monetary policies were flexible and moderate in the early stage; At the same time, in 2022, the consumer demand of residents is weak, the supply is relatively sufficient, and the market supply balance does not support a large increase in prices. To sum up, it is estimated that CPI will continue the moderate trend of 2.0% in 2023.

Wang Qing said that although the PPI trend is weak at present and in the future, both the international crude oil price and the domestic prices of major industrial raw materials such as coal and steel are still at a high level. At present, the regulatory authorities are deploying and releasing advanced production capacity, and there is still some room for downward price in the later period.

Looking forward to 2023, Deng Haiqing predicted that with the "great recovery of consumption" and the low base of pork prices, domestic inflation may reverse the downward trend in 2023, and CPI may go up by 5% in some months. However, unlike inflation in Europe and America, China’s economic growth rate is in the process of recovering to the potential economic growth rate, not overheating. Therefore, the domestic inflation situation will be controllable as a whole in 2023.

In addition, Wang Qing said that in 2023, with the recovery of consumption, financial institutions will also develop more marketable financial products around key areas such as education, culture, sports and entertainment, and strengthen comprehensive financial support for service consumption. Employment and income are the basis of residents’ consumption. In the short term, the policy will further stabilize the basic employment by reducing and exempting corporate taxes and fees and granting employment subsidies. The urgent task is to reduce the obviously high youth unemployment rate as soon as possible, so the effect of promoting consumption will be more obvious.

In Ming Ming’s view, in terms of consumer demand, as the previous epidemic repeatedly led to twists and turns in consumption repair, affecting residents’ willingness to spend, more policies can be deployed from two aspects to promote consumption and expand domestic demand. First, the peak of new purchases at the end of the year and the beginning of the year can further promote the implementation of a series of policies and measures to expand automobile consumption, support the purchase and use of new energy vehicles, accelerate the activation of the used car market, and at the same time implement policies and measures to promote the consumption of green smart home appliances, carry out trade-in of home appliances, and promote green smart home appliances to the countryside. The second is to use consumer vouchers to incite the consumer market, support the issuance of consumer financial loans, boost confidence and guide consumption.

　　2020 is an extraordinary and extremely special year, with COVID-19 epidemic, new infrastructure policy, deterioration of international trade environment, acceleration of domestic substitution, and vigorous development of 5G. Many events converge into this "magic" year, and under this background, many innovative technologies emerge as the times require.

　　Six Prisms selected ten innovative patented new technologies in 2020 to feel the scientific and technological changes brought by this year from the perspective of innovation.

　　The first COVID-19 vaccine ran out of China.

　　Patent number: CN202010193587.8

　　Patent name: A recombinant novel coronavirus vaccine with human replication-defective adenovirus as the vector.

　　Applicant: Military Medical Research Institute of PLA Academy of Military Sciences, Kangxinuo Biological Co., Ltd. (600201, stock bar).

　　Reason for listing: Academician Chen Wei led a team to develop China’s first COVID-19 vaccine patent.

　　The COVID-19 vaccine patent application jointly filed by Academician Chen Wei and Kangxinuo Bio has been granted the patent right, which is the first COVID-19 vaccine patent in China. The vaccine has good immunogenicity in mouse and guinea pig models, and can induce strong cellular and humoral immune responses in a short time. In addition, the vaccine is fast and simple to prepare, and can be produced on a large scale in a short period of time to deal with sudden outbreaks.

　　The second place only needs a drop of blood to observe with the naked eye for 15 minutes to get the test results.

　　Patent number: CN202010451090.1

　　Patent name: SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19 antibody detection kit.

　　Applicants: The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University (Guangzhou Respiratory Center) and Suzhou Institute of Nanotechnology and Nanobionics, China Academy of Sciences.

　　Reason for listing: the test is sensitive and can be used clinically.

　　The sensitivity and specificity of the kit can meet the needs of epidemic prevention and clinical work, especially the needs of epidemiological investigation and general inspection. novel coronavirus SARS? CoV? Antibody detection kit.

　　Third place quantum drone

　　Patent number: CN201911265585.9

　　Patent Name: Three-dimensional cooperative positioning method of multi-UAV TDOA based on quantum wind driving mechanism

　　Applicant: Harbin Engineering University.

　　Reason for listing: the world’s first "quantum drone"

　　The three-dimensional cooperative positioning model of multi-UAV TDOA in UAV cluster is established, and the single-chain quantum coding quantum wind-driven evolution strategy is designed. Combined with Chan method, the wind-driven mechanism, quantum mechanism and chaos equation are used to update the speed and quantum rotation angle of quantum air particles, and then the simulated quantum revolving door is used to update the quantum position, which makes the UAV have the advantages of fast convergence, high positioning accuracy, easy operation and rapid acquisition of high-precision three-dimensional position information.

　　The fourth place does not rely on mask aligner’s new chip to refuse to get stuck.

　　Patent number: CN201910750038.3

　　Patent Name: Optical Computing Chip, System and Data Processing Technology

　　Applicant: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

　　Reason for listing: Photonic chip performance far exceeds electronic chip.

　　At present, the chips used in our mobile phones are called electronic chips. Photonic chips use silicon and silicon-based materials as optical media, which are integrated in a certain space through fusion and transmitted instead of electronic chips. Photon transmission mode has much higher computing power and lower power consumption than electronic transmission mode. This chip can complete the OEM of high-end chips without mask aligner, and solve the bottleneck problem of chip technology in China at present.

　　The fifth place, Chang ‘e V, successfully retrieved the lunar soil.

　　Patent number: CN201110012824.7

　　Patent name: lunar soil sampler coring execution device

　　Applicant: Beijing Satellite Factory.

　　Reason for listing: to achieve "digging on the moon"

　　The device is simple in structure, and can reliably realize the functions of taking and sealing lunar samples, unlocking and separating drilling tools.

　　Sixth place quantum operating system

　　Patent number: CN202011058770.3

　　Patent name: quantum subtraction method, device, electronic device and storage medium.

　　Applicant: Hefei Benyuan Quantum Computing Technology Co., Ltd.

　　Reason for listing: the first domestic quantum operating system

　　The realization of subtraction operation can be used in quantum circuits, which fills the gap in related technologies. It can improve the operating efficiency of the existing quantum technology computer several times and effectively improve the overall utilization rate of quantum chips.

　　Seventh place automatic driving

　　Patent number: CN202011009087.0

　　Patent name: automatic driving function control method, device, electronic equipment and storage medium.

　　Applicant: Beijing Baidu Netcom Technology Co., Ltd.

　　Reason for listing: the hottest experience in 2020

　　The problem that the automatic driving system in the prior art only controls the automatic driving function according to a single vehicle automatic driving decision unit is solved, and the accuracy and rationality of the automatic driving function control are improved.

　　The eighth "blockchain" key project was included in the "14 th Five-Year Plan" national key research and development plan.

　　Patent number: CN202010194113.5

　　Patent Name: Blockchain-based data processing method, device and participating nodes for new energy consumption.

　　Applicant: State Grid Electronic Commerce Co., Ltd., State Grid Ningxia Electric Power Co., Ltd. and State Grid Blockchain Technology Beijing Co., Ltd.

　　Reason for listing: China’s first "blockchain-new energy" patent was authorized.

　　For the first time, a trading model based on blockchain technology and new energy output characteristics was built to serve the high proportion of new energy consumption and output. Through the transmission and verification of new energy power data on the blockchain, the data can be prevented from being tampered with during transmission and verification, and the data security can be effectively guaranteed. It is an important breakthrough in the independent innovation of the core technology of blockchain in the energy and power industry.

　　The ninth place is like a sci-fi movie, realizing charging from a distance.

　　Patent number: CN201610112902.3

　　Patent Name: Wireless Charging System and Method

　　Applicant: Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.

　　Reason for listing: charging from a distance like magic

　　A charging pile is placed in the living room, and the mobile phone can be charged at home, so that the intelligent management equipment can control the wireless charging transmitter to transmit wireless energy waves to the mobile terminal that sends the wireless charging request according to the transmission direction, thus achieving the effect of directional real-time and long-distance wireless charging for the mobile terminal.

　　Tenth smart hotel

　　Patent number: CN201821392086.7

　　Patent name: self-service hotel registration equipment and hotel registration management system

　　Applicant: Alibaba Group Holdings Limited.

　　Reason for listing: unmanned hotels with full artificial intelligence

　　By comparing whether the user image information collected by the collection module matches with the user certificate information identified by the identification module, the correctness of the identities of the actual check-in users and the users to be checked-in is ensured, and the hotel check-in safety is ensured. Then the corresponding payment information is received by the cashier module to realize automatic cashier, and the room card is thrown out of the delivery port by the delivery module to realize automatic card issuance, thus realizing the unmanned and fully automatic hotel registration mode and optimizing the hotel registration experience of users.

　　Zhang junzhen

　　Master of Engineering, patent agent, former intellectual property consultant of the National Research Center for Industrial Information Security Development, has eight years of experience in intellectual property consulting services for government enterprises, and is good at providing services such as intellectual property consulting for enterprises’ listing, patent layout planning, patent analysis consulting, FTO investigation, park industrial planning, enterprise intellectual property management, etc., and has consulting experience for more than ten listed enterprises in science and technology innovation board, with representative customers including Chengdu Zongheng and Qinchuan IOT.

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CCTV News:The reporter learned from the Ministry of Commerce that the Ministry of Commerce and other 14 departments announced the Action Plan for Promoting Trade-in of Consumer Goods on April 12. The plan makes specific arrangements for the replacement of household appliances, automobiles, homes and other consumer goods that are generally concerned by the society.

The plan proposes to give fixed subsidies to consumers who scrap high-emission passenger cars or qualified new energy passenger cars and buy energy-saving or new energy vehicles; Financial institutions can independently determine the down payment ratio of self-use car loans; Improve infrastructure such as charging (replacing) electricity, parking and intelligent transportation; Implement the reverse invoicing policy for used car transactions; Promote the door-to-door car collection service model.

The central government arranges funds such as the construction of modern commercial circulation system and county commercial system to support the construction of recycling system of renewable resources such as used household appliances; Encourage qualified places to subsidize consumers to buy green smart home appliances; Support home appliance enterprises to give preferential treatment to consumers who exchange old home appliances for energy-saving home appliances. Encourage all localities to support local upgrading and renovation of old houses, kitchens and bathrooms, and aging renovation of homes to promote smart home consumption.

Xu Dongsheng, vice chairman of China Household Electrical Appliances Association, said: "This plan is driven by improving the standards of technology, energy consumption and emission, encouraged by policies, driven by smooth circulation, and gradually established on the basis of fully respecting the wishes of consumers. ‘ It’s easier to get rid of the old and more willing to get a new one ’ An effective mechanism to improve the recycling system of used household appliances and encourage the replacement of smart, green and low-carbon consumer goods. "

Next year, we will strive to increase the recycling of scrapped cars by 50% compared with 2023.

The Action Plan for Promoting Trade-in of Consumer Goods (hereinafter referred to as the Action Plan) issued this time proposes to increase financial and monetary policy support and carry out trade-in of automobiles and household appliances and "rejuvenation" of home improvement and kitchen and bathroom throughout the country.

The "Action Plan" proposes that by increasing policy guidance and support, we will strive to accelerate the elimination of passenger cars with emission standards of National III and below by 2025, and the recycling volume of scrapped cars will increase by 50% compared with 2023; By 2027, the recycling volume of scrapped cars will double compared with 2023, and the trading volume of used cars will increase by 45% compared with 2023.

The "Action Plan" clearly puts forward that fiscal and financial policy support should be strengthened, and the central government and local governments should work together to arrange funds to support the scrapping and renewal of automobiles and encourage qualified places to support the replacement and renewal of automobiles. Highlight the standard traction in the automotive field, improve the recycling and dismantling system of scrapped cars, promote the safe and convenient trading of used cars, cultivate and expand the main business entities of used cars, and promote the innovative development of automobile circulation consumption.

In addition, the reporter learned from China Automobile Industry Association that by the end of 2023, the number of cars in China had reached 340 million, and the number of scrapped cars was 7.56 million. The scheme involves all aspects of automobile circulation and will play an important role in promoting the management of automobile life cycle. Smooth automobile circulation will better promote the consumption of new cars and promote the high-quality development in the field of automobile circulation.

The whole chain of waste household appliances recycling is expected to be further unblocked.

The "Action Plan for Promoting Trade-in of Consumer Goods" also proposes to study and introduce a fund policy related to the disposal of waste electrical and electronic products, and smooth the whole chain of waste household appliances recycling. Experts said that this will effectively promote the trade-in process of home appliances and promote the sustained prosperity and development of the home appliance market.

The Action Plan proposes to give play to the guiding role of fiscal and taxation policies. Encourage qualified places to make overall use of the funds related to the modern commercial and trade circulation system arranged by the central government, make full use of existing capital channels such as the construction of county-level commercial systems, transform and upgrade the household appliance recycling network, improve the efficiency of recycling, transit and distribution of used household appliances, and support the exchange of old appliances for new ones. We will study and introduce a fund policy related to the disposal of waste electrical and electronic products, and smooth the whole chain of recycling and disposal of waste household appliances. Strive to increase the recycling of used household appliances by 15% by 2025 compared with 2023; By 2027, the recycling of used household appliances will increase by 30% compared with 2023.

The reporter learned from China Materials Recycling Association that China is currently at the peak of household appliances scrapping, and the number of discarded household appliances is over 100 million every year. Upgrading and upgrading has become an inevitable trend in the household appliances market. The rapid upgrading of household appliances also brings the problem of recycling waste household appliances.

Xu Junxiang, president of China Materials Recycling Association, said that by strengthening the construction of recycling system, increasing recycling sites, optimizing recycling processes and improving recycling efficiency, it will not only provide residents with more convenient and safe recycling services for used household appliances, but also ensure that used household appliances are properly disposed of, and effectively promote the process of replacing old household appliances with new ones, and promote the sustained prosperity and development of the household appliance market.

　　[Global Network reporter Yang Feifei Wei Yue] South Korean President Moon Jae in paid a four-day state visit to China from December 13th to 16th. He not only started diplomatic activities in China, tasted Chinese breakfast, but also experienced a mobile payment. On the 18th, just the second day after returning to China, Moon Jae in decided to rapidly innovate its public network and cancel the unnecessary security plug-in activeX in electronic transactions.

　　South Korea’s "Central Daily News" reported on December 18th that Park Soo-hyun, spokesman of South Korea’s Presidential Palace Cheongwadae, said on the 18th that South Korean President Moon Jae in said that when using public networks, the goal should be to cancel some unnecessary plug-ins during installation procedures, and quickly change administrative procedures and improve relevant legal systems before 2018.

　　It is reported that South Korea’s active X is a security program installed during electronic transaction settlement, but there have been criticisms that activeX has slowed down the transaction. Although active X has disappeared in other countries, 44 of the top 100 websites in Korea still use Active X.. Previously, in March 2014, when former South Korean President park geun-hye held a seminar on system reform in Cheongwadae, he said that the "Chien Yong Yi Coat" in the Korean drama "You from the Stars" caused a wave of buying in China, but it could not be bought because of active X, so the government needed to start the work of eliminating Active X.

　　When Moon Jae in had breakfast at Yonghe Soymilk in Beijing, he really felt the necessity of canceling unnecessary plug-ins.

　　Moon Jae in scanned the QR code on the table for settlement after ordering. At that time, Moon Jae in showed interest in China’s mobile phone checkout system and asked, "Is this enough to pay the money?" Lu Yingmin, the South Korean ambassador to China, also said that "most of China uses mobile phones to settle accounts."

　　This is not the first time that foreign leaders have been "circled" by China’s mobile payment.

　　We are like "hillbillies"!

　　On August 20th, the Straits Times published an article entitled "2017 National Day Mass Meeting: When lim swee say felt like a" hillbilly "in the smart city of Shanghai".

　　At the beginning, the article tells the story of Singapore’s Minister of Manpower Lin Ruisheng buying chestnuts in Shanghai a few years ago. A few years ago, lim swee say saw people queuing up to buy chestnuts. They just shook their mobile phones and left without paying cash. Lim swee say thought it was a special discount, so when it was his turn, he told the vendor that I didn’t need a discount, and I would pay the full price. But the result is that people are using WeChat to pay for scanning the QR code of vendors. Mr. Lin feels like a hillbilly.

　　The person who tells this story is none other than Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

　　Lee Hsien Loong used this story to tell Singaporeans that Singapore’s development has fallen behind some smart cities in China. In terms of electronic payment, China has been at the forefront.

　　Lee Hsien Loong said, so when China tourists find it necessary to use cash in Singapore, they will ask, "Why is Singapore so backward?" Therefore, Singapore also plans to build a smart country to enhance the overall economic productivity and make life more convenient. Lee Hsien Loong said that all kinds of systems in Singapore must be simplified and integrated, and the relevant financial management departments have already begun to implement them.

　　China Mobile Payment has long caused envy among many foreigners.

　　In fact, the development of mobile payment not only in Singapore but also in China has long aroused the envy of many foreigners.

　　In February this year, the Financial Times published an article entitled "Compared with China, the mobile payment market in the United States looks like a dwarf". Forrester described the payment scene in the United States in his report: "Old habits are hard to disappear. In front of the checkout counter, people are still more willing to take out their credit cards instead of taking out their mobile phones to sweep them."

　　"China’s rapid push for near-end payment is largely based on its late-comer advantage — — Unlike the United States and other countries and regions, China does not have a solid credit card culture. It is precisely because of this that China has jumped directly from the cash payment stage to the mobile payment stage, "market research institute eMarketer said in a research report.

　　After experiencing mobile payment in China, many foreign netizens said that it was very easy to use!

　　Netizen: Although WeChat started as a communication application, it has now integrated the functions of 15 applications, which is very powerful. In China, you don’t need a wallet at all, just a mobile phone. You can buy anything anytime and anywhere by scanning the code. You can check your salary, make friends, call a car, send files, and do anything.

　　User Jasmine HR: Is no one shocked by mobile payment? In China, you can buy anything as long as you have a mobile phone. You don’t need cash at all. Even if you buy a roadside stall, you can use your mobile phone for only half a cent. China is the first country in Asia to open Apple Payment, but Apple Payment is still not popular in China. Because China’s Alipay is so convenient, its function is more powerful than Apple’s payment.

　　Do you think China is the most successful country in mobile payment?

　　Netizen Vital Khali: It must be! So far, China is the country with the strongest mobile payment, and there is no one. In China, mobile payment has become a part of people’s lives: transferring money, shopping, eating, watching movies, paying rent and paying bills. Only unexpected things can’t be done without mobile payment. (Global Network Comprehensive China Journal, Singapore Straits Times, etc.)

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The ending of the cartoon is like a great satire on the real world. Just like what we know about reality and human history, it is a world full of hostility, hatred and fear.

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Although the animation is still being updated, on April 9, the original comic book "The Attacking Giant", with a leading plot, ushered in the final words. The ending conceived by the author Lushan Chuang has caused phenomenal controversy.

Some people think that this is a continuation of Lushan Chuang’s consistent "darkness, cruelty and reversal", while others think that this turning point is too blunt. However, the controversy is not only focused on whether the plot trend is "unfinished"; There are more people out of anger, thinking that this is Lushan Chuang’s "deliberately disgusting readers" and "a major malignant event in the history of animation".

Today, starting from the controversial ending of Giant, we not only want to discuss whether it is "unfinished", but also want to see whether this ending is the author’s own way or the necessity under a certain thinking and creative mode. Why are there always so many "unfinished" works? We want to see a good ending. Why is it so difficult?

* This article contains a large number of spoilers of The Attack Giant and Game of Thrones.

01.

Why does Giant make so many people angry?

In this controversy, many people refer to The Aggressive Giant (hereinafter referred to as "Giant") as "Game of Thrones in the animation industry". Interestingly, there are many similarities between the two works in the development form, and even the collapse trend of the ending is strikingly similar.

In the original fire and ice of Game of Thrones (hereinafter referred to as Journey of Thrones), in addition to western fantasy settings, the author george martin introduced a very special POV(Point of View) writing method, and each chapter was described in detail from the perspective of a character.

Therefore, from the POV perspective, no one is the absolute protagonist, and even the "protagonists" can die one after another. This is a story based on the cruel and dark history of the Middle Ages. With the constant "reversal" of the perspective and plot of the characters, the boundaries between the traditional villains and villains become blurred, leaving only the struggle for power.

In The Giant, there is also a similar perspective shift: as the story unfolds, what was originally thought to be just the setting of the world inside and outside the wall, the contradiction between man and giant soon turned to the real setting: the tear between people. The contradiction between the two camps (Malay Empire and Erdia Empire) started from ancient times and continued to the era when the protagonist Allen lived. The giant is the continuation of this curse.

Compared with the feud between medieval aristocrats in Quan You, The Giant is more special in that for us living in the world after the establishment of a modern nation-state, the feud between ethnic groups and the helplessness of individuals at the mercy of fate reflected in it are real enough, political enough, cruel enough and deconstructive enough.

For example, after the protagonist turned into a giant and won the battle, he was not loved by the masses like a hero, but was regarded as a monster, tried and swept through the struggle of political forces. The collapsed house in the giant melee is not just a background board like the superhero movie, and people die innocently every time. Not to mention the decision-making figures in the political center need to abandon human nature from time to time, and one move can affect the joys and sorrows of countless people.

As ordinary people, the protagonists inherited the fate of giants, shouldered the mission, and had to be involved in the torrent of struggle with fate. The constantly emerging truth and doubt broke the bottom line of this group of idealists again and again. People die for the freedom they yearn for, but the cruel fate can’t change the slightest.

The attacking giant

If "Quan You" is a magnificent epic legend, the plot has the color of classical romanticism. Then the Giant is more like a metaphor: ordinary people who are caught in the disputes between modern nation-states and have the übermensch mission in Nietzsche’s conception, even if they become heroes, have no choice but to face the tragedy.

By the time Quan You was filmed in the sixth season, the progress of the series had caught up with the unfinished novel, and as we all know, Martin was a king of procrastination, so the writers could only create the story according to the general direction authorized by Martin. They didn’t have Martin’s profound skill in building characters, and they kept changing the direction of the story because of the possible leakage of the story.

In 2019, "Quan You" entered the final season, but in the last four episodes, it completely collapsed. In the whole process, all the characters forcibly "degraded their intelligence (reduced their intelligence) and ran away", and finally ended up with a unconvincing "constitutional monarchy". Many people believe that if Martin writes the ending of the novel, he can lay out the connection and character changes more reasonably, instead of the hasty ending now.

If the bad ending of Quan You is due to the writer’s lack of pen power, the bad ending of Giant looks even worse. Judging from the previous plot trend and characterization, it is generally believed that Lushan Chuang is capable of making a good ending that may not make everyone exclaim.

However, from the beginning of the 138 words in the cartoon, just like the last few episodes of Quan You, almost all the characters of the leading group took a 180-degree turn, ending the story in the same way of losing their wits and going wild. (I won’t describe the ending in detail here)

The ending of the giant is not anticlimactic like the ordinary "unfinished tail", and it is not only the character ooc (the contradiction between the former and the latter). It can be said that in the first 99% of the plot, Lushan Chuang portrayed a cruel story from the perspective of the growth of the three protagonists (which is also a common perspective in the Japanese), but it was still mixed with the struggle of human nature, the righteous act of kindness, the tragic sacrifice and the reflection on the war.

In the last two sentences, all these disappeared, and the author chose the simplest forced violence to lead to the ending. Whether the so-called balance between the two sides or the resentment of the giants dissipates because the lover can kill the "bad guys" he loves, the solution logic behind it is "killing to stop killing" and "killing for freedom".

People can’t help but wonder, if killing is effective, where did the feud for two thousand years come from? What is the value of all the struggles of this generation in the giant story line? Is it shocking or another bad custom to force deconstruction for deconstruction and reverse for reversal?

In this discussion, some people take Death and Naruto, which are also criticized as "rotten tails", as a comparison. If other "rotten tails" are still traceable, Giant comics maintained a very good level before 137 words, until the last two words, suddenly the plot came to such a big dive.

In the comments at the end, a word used by many people is "I’m desperate to see". In the first 99% of the plot, we are presented with an in-depth story of a young man who breaks the tradition, which makes many readers bring emotion and infinite empathy for the characters (and therefore spend a lot of money). In the last 1% of the time, all the past bedding was overturned, and "killing" people was caught off guard.

After the final words of "Giant" caused an uproar, many people turned over the words of Lushan Chuang in an interview in the past. In the conversation, he said that he could accept the ending of "Quan You" and would not consider the expectations of readers. Like a "crime forecast", it predicted the ending he wanted to create.

Iris published an article called "The Giant", which wrote: "The real bad thing about the finale is that the author undoubtedly knows what the readers want to see and how to satisfy them, but he chose to destroy every bundle accurately. Just as the designer of a building falls into the dark side and decides to install a bomb in his designed building, he will certainly be able to complete the task of bombing the building in the most streamlined and effective way. "

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We want to see a happy ending. Why is it so difficult?

In past interviews, Lushan Chuang has repeatedly mentioned the pain of being restricted and insisted on "maintaining creative freedom". On the other hand, we will also feel confused. Why do the long serials we chase often seem to be "unfinished"? Is it so difficult to see a good ending?

This has to mention the Japanese cartoon creation system. The Attacking Giant is serialized in Another Book Junior MAGAZINE, which is a special book of Weekly Junior Magazine, one of Japan’s three major juvenile comic magazines. Japanese teenagers tend to pay attention to "friendship", "hard work" and "victory", and serialized cartoons are not limited by these big frameworks.

Different magazines have different requirements. For example, Weekly Youth JUMP strictly implements the voting mechanism for readers, and those with low popularity may be halved and end in a hurry. The works with high popularity will be asked by the editor to continue serializing. This system does inspire the author, but it also brings other problems.

Generally, when creating cartoons, the general story frame and world outlook are set. If it is extended indefinitely for the sake of popularity, it will violate the basic law of works creation, and there will be more story patterns of the same theme, which will become more and more "routine", and the initial setting will become boring after getting tired of it.

In this kind of partial industrial work creation, it becomes very difficult to end in the place where it should end; Only a few authors take the initiative to ask the ending works to have a good ending, such as You You Bai Shu and Dunk Master. And every time a long work is discussed as "unfinished", "The Alchemist of Steel" will be pulled out for "praise".

A Zhihu netizen summed up the four major performances of "Steel Refining": First, the quality of the whole process remained online; Second, the beginning and the end: the pits are filled in, and the characters have also explained the ending; Third, the logic is strong, and the whole article focuses on the core value: equivalent exchange; Fourth, consistency: the characterization is always logical and reasonable, and there is no big contradiction between the setting before and after.

In fact, this kind of unfinished problem often occurs not only in the spread of the sun, but also in the long serial/broadcast film and television works all over the world A number of American dramas, such as House of Cards, Lost, Prison Break, etc., are all high and low, and there are many kinds of bad endings. No wonder some people joke, if you discuss the bad drama you have seen, everyone can talk endlessly.

In addition to the problems brought about by the production mechanism, there are also some difficulties in the nature of creation. The creation of serial mode itself has a structural dilemma, especially when it is necessary to carry out the story in a brand-new background that is different from ordinary people’s daily life experience.

Of course, this may also be the limitation of the long theme itself. Especially for these "super-expanded" and "high-concept" works, they are more like a large-scale human nature experiment and exploration, which puts characters in extreme environments for thinking and exploration.

In "high-concept" fantasy works, short stories usually impact readers instantly through very specific and extreme scenes, and the ending does not need to be finished as a whole after the big expansion, so the ending of these stories is easier and more interesting, and it can also lead to thinking by leaving blank space, such as Love, Death, Robot, Black Mirror and Mermaid’s Forest.

And long stories usually have to design the lives of the characters and their emotions, in other words, let the characters enter the world life for a long time, and once they imagine life, they can’t get away from the shackles of the existing social structure of human beings, or more and more people see the shadow of real life in the stories. If the long story is more social modeling and "over-expanded", it will be more difficult to give a reasonable ending.

Just like "westworld", which entered a weak stage in the later period, the first three episodes went into chaos in a hurry. How can we expand rich plots around the protagonists under the huge setting beyond the framework of daily life, so that the protagonists can conform to emotional logic and have credible behavioral motives when dealing with various contradictions, and finally solve the pit buried by the setting? This is a great challenge for all creators.

Photo: "westworld", which is what many people once expected for "Giant"

As the story progresses, the creator will always face such a difficult problem: how to set the story and difficult problem under the framework for himself, give a convincing solution, or a reasonable ending. In order to solve these problems, creators must have enough thinking and accumulation on the "bottom logic" of knowledge structures such as history, sociology and psychology, otherwise they will easily fall into a mediocre pattern.

On the other hand, for dramas with narrative tricks, such as westworld, Alien Catastrophe and Attack Giant, works based on surreal settings with suspense, reversal and human nature experiments as their selling points must not only make the basic emotions of the characters acceptable to the audience, but also make the behavioral motives of the characters conform to various logics in the constantly updated storyline, so it is very easy to lose sight of one thing and lose sight of the other.

These "brain-burning" interests are a powerful attraction element for the current audience, and drama creation often falls into such a cycle: readers guess, seek novelty excessively, and leak secrets, which leads to not pursuing convention excessively and being more "over-expanded". In the future, because there are too many story clues, it is actually more difficult to write a reasonable ending.

Today, if a long work is only a simple happy ending, it is obvious that it can’t satisfy today’s audience. And a slightly ambitious creator will try to make some "reversals" that break the routine.

From this point of view, The Giant really continues "darkness, cruelty and reversal", but apart from Lushan Chuang’s possible malicious and blunt reaction, there are still many contents that can be further discussed about the handling method and historical trend behind the giant’s ending.

03.

History may be such a stalemate.

As for the ending of Giant, some people think that it is a manifestation of Lushan Chuang’s hidden militarism or destructive desire; Some people think that this is a deconstructive expression that he simply doesn’t want to solve the fate metaphor of the giant curse he set himself; Others complain that Lushan Chuang lacks real enthusiasm and creative desire to solve historical grievances, and can only respond to camp conflicts with "balance of power/balance of power diplomacy" that has long been proved invalid by history.

We can’t completely restore Lushan Chuang’s motivation for making this decision, or easily define him and The Giant in one or two words. In the huge controversy about the outcome, different people see different angles, and also have various discussions about history, humanity and social form. From this point of view, "Giant" is worthy of its own pit.

Taking Quan You as an example, it is also a fantasy work with some fantasy settings (dragons and ghosts). Finally, it chose to let the monarch who owns dragons die and the ghosts completely perish, and became the ending of human constitutional monarchy which is most in line with the historical trend.

It is really difficult to imagine how a monarch with the power of the dragon can unite various human forces full of cracks and continue to fight against alien ghosts, which is beyond the current social conception of mankind. In the ending of Quan You, the laziest way was adopted, and the influence of all fantasy settings on the ending was deleted by forced death, which also skipped all the possibilities of the entanglement between theocracy and secular regime, and made the story of medieval aristocratic struggle fast forward to the period of "constitutional monarchy", forcibly shrinking all clues and ending abruptly.

Looking at The Giant with the same mode, it also uses the simplest and rudest way to return the story to the historical track without "magic".

Originally, in the thousand-year feud war between two countries, we saw that there was more than a simple confrontation between countries. There are geographical considerations, intertwined economic and resource replacement, not to mention the flirting between power figures; In these complicated situations, the people’s confrontation with the righteous cause and the simple enemy and ourselves is often just a tool instigated by the rulers.

However, after constructing the moral dilemma and social dilemma, the author adopts such a solution: let the protagonist Allen play the tyrant and kill 80% of mankind, and then let others kill Allen, and the resentment will be solved.

At first glance, it looks like a moral paradox experiment like a tram track, but it actually embodies a kind of "balance of power" thinking. Apart from the rigid transformation of the characters in the plot, the practical benefits of this kind of experiment have been proved to be invalid many times in the past history.

"Balance of power" is a concept in international relations. Since the Victorian era, Britain has long implemented the balance of power among countries in the European continent. After the Vienna Peace Treaty in the 19th century, the European continent maintained a balance for about 50 years. Finally, with the strong rise of the German Empire and the weakness of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it completely failed, and inevitably there were two world wars in the 20th century.

If we use the experience of human history to shine into the story of Giant, the ending of temporary peace is undoubtedly an ironic "hypocritical" peace.

Of course, from another angle, it can also be interpreted as follows: the author Lushan Chuang has no intention of giving a possible solution, he is full of disappointment with human history, and the peace given in the story is bound to be short-lived.

The Giant was once regarded as a serious anti-war theme in its early days, and its final ending "collapse" also symbolizes the difficulties encountered by human existing political thoughts in resolving disputes.

In the 276th issue of Eight Points, Liang Wendao looked at the ending of The Giant in this way: "When the comics progressed all the way, I couldn’t help touching these’ classic’ theme discussions-centralization and freedom, fairness and class, obedience and loyalty, independence, national interests and personal interests, and how should all this end?

Does the maintenance, establishment and balance of the world depend on the guarantee of mutual destruction in the cold war era? In other words, the foundation of peace is a mutual fear?

From this point of view, I think this ending is just right. This ending is very similar to the real world. The whole world has entered a temporary state of compromise. This compromise is not a compromise formed through negotiation, but an ending that is glued through war and delays the final outbreak of contradictions.

In the end, nothing has been solved, and there may be a lot of problems left. We all know that this state will not last long, but isn’t this the road we have taken in human history? "

Head picture: "The Attacking Giant"

Written by Su Xiaoqi and Su Youruo

Original title: "The Attacking Giant" and "Unfinished Tail", is it revenge on society? 》

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