I finished the first six episodes of "Storm Chaser" in one go, and it was so enjoyable.
Wei Ruolai, a young man from Jiangxi, got his wish and got into the central bank, but his career experience was not a fun drama about fighting monsters and upgrading.
In the sixth episode, the landlord Aunt Zhou asked Wei Ruolai for inside information: "Commercial Bank is going to be acquired by the central bank. Is it true?"
Wei Ruolai said: "We have regulations and we cannot discuss business outside."
Wei Ruolai abides by professional ethics, but It’s easy to come across as impersonal.
is inhumane, which is simply the most serious accusation against the Chinese.
By not helping Aunt Zhou, Wei Ruolai violated the principle of repaying kindness with drops of water and springs of spring. Think about it, on the day Wei Ruolai comes for the interview, Aunt Zhou will give her a coat without any old grudges.
Aunt Zhou couldn't get the information she wanted, so she made another request, hoping that Wei Ruolai could help her cousin find a way.
The positions of two people, one high and one low, imply social status.
In Aunt Zhou's eyes, as long as Wei Ruolai is willing, he can help her change her destiny.
Hearing that Wei Ruolai did not reject her as she did just now, Aunt Zhou said with a smile: "Aunt Zhou owes you a favor."
This plot can be regarded as a spare part of "The Storm Chaser" and can also be watched A wonderful way to create flowers.
Because human relationships are the key to "Storm Chaser".
1. Chinese favor
favor is a high-frequency word in the first six episodes.
In addition to the favor mentioned above, there are many other places where it is mentioned in the play.
Example 1: Wei Ruolai finished the accounts for Uncle Liang, and Uncle Liang gave him money. After the money and goods were cleared and the transaction was completed, Uncle Liang took the initiative to give him his business card and said, "I owe you a favor."
Case 2: Wei Ruolai rescued Shen Jinzhen. When they parted, Shen Jinzhen said: "I owe you a favor."
Case 3: Wei Ruolai was frustrated when she joined the central bank and asked Shen Jinzhen for help so that she could return the favor.
In Example 4, Shen Tunan called someone and said, "I owe you a favor."
In addition to these explicit words, there are many hidden threads in the play, showing the impact of favors on the fate of the characters.
Shen Jinzhen frequently appeared at crime scenes and successfully helped Lone Star and Wei Ruolai to rescue them. Her ability to do this is inseparable from Lin Qiaosong's concept of human relations.
Lin Qiaosong understood that Shen Jin really had a high-ranking brother Shen Tunan. He didn't dare to offend Shen Tunan for work. He gave Shen Yuan real face and wanted Shen Tunan to owe him a favor.
Understanding this, we can understand why Lin Qiaosong opposed Biaozi's suspicion of Shen Jinzhen.
Favors give "Storm Chaser" its strong bones. Why does
say this?
"The Storm Chaser" focuses on the year 1930. The Qing Dynasty has been dead for nearly twenty years, but whether they are those in power or ordinary people, the vast majority of Chinese people still work and live according to the behavioral logic of farming civilization.
Thousands of years of farming civilization have greatly shaped our national character.
We know that farming civilization has the characteristic of settling down and relocating. Generation after generation, people live in a self-sufficient family of farmers. Interpersonal communication has the characteristics of long-term and continuity. If you want to live your life successfully, you must emphasize stability and harmony.
Therefore, the emotional society emphasizes emphasizing emotion over reason, and emotion is greater than reason.
The intimate communities built by the Chinese during the agricultural civilization period relied heavily on owed favors to each other. In the hearts of the Chinese people, "favors should be incalculable and endless, so that they can continue for a long time (Zhai Xuewei's words)".
Chinese people like to talk about favors, because favors provide the possibility for exchange behavior.
The euphemism and roundaboutness of the favor exchange process may enable the giver of favors to obtain greater results than rational budgeting, and more benefits than naked (impersonal) interest negotiations. Otherwise the massive human investment seen in the Chinese market would not be necessary.
In the first episode of "Wind Chaser", Uncle Liang paid Wei Ruolai for his labor and still emphasized that he owed Wei Ruolai a favor.
This is a way of building relationships that Chinese people understand very well.
Uncle Liang understood that Wei Ruolai was a genius and might be useful in the future, so he took out his business card as a favor that Wei Ruolai owed him.
The relationship between the two is not over yet, so they can continue to date.
However, Chinese human relations are not Mozi-style universal love. Because it involves exchange, when doing favors, you will inevitably wonder whether the other person is worthy of the favor.
Secretary Huang bullies others and always gives Wei Ruolai shoes to wear. Because he got the information from the details that Wei Ruolai lived in Qi (pin) Bao (min) Street (ku), Wei Ruolai had a poor background and no background.
It is common human logic for villains to criticize someone who is inferior and support someone who is superior.
However, Secretary Huang did not expect that Shen Tunan admired Wei Ruolai very much.
2. Ideal Personality
Shen Tunan is one of the most complex characters in "Storm Chaser". It is easy for us to believe that he has an ideal personality.
is very capable, and he can make Yu Shiqing give up on protecting the Commercial Bank with one move. He has great ambitions and works alone in Shanghai as a consultant. He has the lofty ideal that there will no longer be poor families in the world.
Shen Tunan knows that talent is not a sexually transmitted disease and cannot be transmitted through the body. What the central bank needs is financial talents, and the position cannot be used as a favor transaction.
Therefore, he opposed the formality of the new admissions examination and hoped that through the new test, he would find people with no background but only ability. Why does
emphasize that there is no background?
Because Shen Tunan wanted to reform, he was worried that the second generation with background would be more likely to use their power to transfer benefits to the family.
However, there were not so many Wei Ruolai who came from a poor family for Shen Tunan to use. Therefore, Shen Tunan will still accept a large number of rich second generations.
We don’t know their names, but we should be able to guess that these people are most likely children of aristocratic families with backgrounds.
Shen Tunan emphasized that the central bank should recruit newcomers regardless of their background, only based on ability and character.
The ideal is full of pride, but the real hero is short of breath.
Shen Tunan is facing a huge emotional society. The new policies adopted by other central banks can reveal Shen Tunan's plight.
Therefore, Shen Tunan will bow to a reasonable society.
The most intriguing detail in the drama is that Shen Tunan himself wants to promote reforms and does so without any moral baggage when it comes to giving favors.
For example, Shen Tunan won the peak of bending the law for favoritism, but he could not be brought to justice, because Kong Yongzhi on the peak was a big shot. By letting Gao Feng go, Shen Tunan was giving a favor to Kong Yongzhi.
For another example, Shen Jin really needed to approve the payment, but Shen Tunan did not follow the rules and applied for it for his sister immediately.
There are people in the government who are easy to get things done, and there are people above who are more tolerant of mistakes. This is inevitable in a reasonable society.
What’s interesting is that when relationships become the primary productive force, it is easy for society to fall into a vicious cycle in which the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This is completely different from Shen Tunan's ideal of making the world no longer poor.
The one who truly has an ideal personality is Wei Ruolai.
There is no doubt that Wei Ruolai has established a harmonious and intimate relationship with the folks on Qibao Street. In the second episode of
, Wei Ruolai went to the Central Bank for an interview. Aunt Zhou gave him a coat, Awen escorted him in a car, and other neighbors also came to see him off.
Behind their heart-warming behavior, there is also a request to "never forget each other even if we are rich and noble". This appeal is quite normal, because in the ethical society bred by the farming civilization, it is a routine practice for a person to achieve enlightenment, a chicken or a dog, and ascend to heaven.
In the sixth episode, the conversation between Wei Ruolai and Aunt Zhou tells us that he has extremely high workplace ethics and does not follow the behavioral logic of rational society.
China's favor exchange can be roughly divided into three types: one is the gratitude type, the other is the favor investment type, and the other is the courtesy type.
Among them, the most difficult type is the grateful type. Aunt Zhou’s gift of coat to Wei Ruolai falls into this category.
According to the logic of emotion and society, if Wei Ruolai repays Aunt Zhou, he can become a good person praised by everyone. To refuse him is to be a white-eyed wolf who knows a favor but does not repay it.
Wei Ruolai upholds professional ethics and refuses the exchange of favors. He is a rebel in a reasonable society - the same is true for Shen Jinzhen. Due to space limitations, I will not analyze it.
Conclusion:
The background of the story of "The Storm Chaser" is Shanghai in the 1930s. Shanghai was the representative metropolis of that era. However, human relations still have a major influence on the interactions between Chinese people.
The fierce collision between farming civilization and urban environment allows us to see that what is hidden under the suit is an old soul with pigtails and small feet.
There is no denying the importance of human relationships in a civilized farming society. However, times have changed. If human feelings still dominate contemporary society, this is a disregard for laws, systems and rationality.
In the past, emotion was more important than reason in the sensible society. Now, if we want to build a society ruled by law, reason should be more important than emotion.
"The Storm Chaser" has a good ideological level and the details of the text are also impressive.
The display of poverty in the play is real and touching.
For example, Wei Ruolai would cover his upper body with a cotton coat. Because the upper body has a larger body surface area and dissipates more heat, the upper body is more sensitive to cold than the lower body.
Covering the upper body with a cotton coat is a wonderful detail of a poor man trying to keep out the cold.
For another example, Shen Tunan went to Qibao Street for the first time. After getting off the bus, he wrinkled his nose. It was obvious that the smell of Qibao Street was very bad. Wei Ruolai never wrinkles his nose, "When you enter an abalone house, you won't smell the smell for a long time."
"The Storm Chaser" shows Wei Ruolai's poverty from the perspective and smell level. However, living in a shabby house, he has two drinking glasses with different prints.
Wei Ruolai used a blue printed cup, but his brother used a red printed cup. The red printed cup not only highlights his brother’s bloodshed and sacrifice, but also fits his party membership.
I boldly speculate that Wei Ruolai will also use red printed cups in the future.
All in all, judging from the quality of the first six episodes, "Storm Chaser" is worth looking forward to.
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