The Forbidden City in Beijing is haunted (the incident of the Forbidden City being haunted was made into a movie)

There have always been many strange and eccentric legends circulating among the people about the "Forbidden City", which also adds a lot of mystery to this palace that has been built for several generations of dynasties.

Internet writer Liu Yeqing once wrote a novel called "Supernatural Incidents in the Forbidden City".

Among them, the haunting incident of the "Phantom of the Palace Lady" reflected on the red wall of the Forbidden City is quite legendary.

In fact, as early as 1981, Guangxi Film Studio had created the movie "Latent Shadow" based on the "Phantom of the Palace Maid" incident. The film was co-written by Ji Hongxu and Ji Sanmeng. Directed by Guo Baochang and Huang Ling.

However, in the movie story, the place where the legend took place was changed from the Forbidden City to Prince Ning’s Mansion.

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Prince Ning’s Mansion is where Prince Ning lived, but this character is actually fictional. There was no such person as Prince Ning in the history of the Qing Dynasty.

In the movie, there is Shuiyuexuan in Prince Ning’s Mansion, where there lives the Nayan family of Fujin Province. She is a talented woman who is proficient in poetry and music.

But the marriage between Yan and Prince Ning was not happy, so she had an affair with Prince Ning's nephew Chang Rong (played by Li Xiaowen).

Chang Rong was a reformist who supported the Reform Movement of 1898. He often came to Prince Ning's Mansion to have private meetings with the Yan family, and the two secretly gave birth to a son.

Later, the reform failed, and the affair between Chang Rong and Na Yan was discovered by Prince Ning. Na Yan was executed by Prince Ning. After that, Shuiyue Xuan in Prince Ning's Mansion was often haunted by rumors.

By the 1980s, Prince Ning’s Mansion had become a museum and a bustling tourist attraction, receiving a large number of domestic and foreign tourists every day.

Lu Yihua (played by Han Yueqiao) and Luo Min (played by Li Ping) are staff members of the Prince Ning's Mansion Museum.

On a rainy night with thunder and lightning, Lu Yihua, who was on night shift, witnessed an unknown figure appearing in Shuiyuexuan.

Lu Yihua told Luo Min about the matter. Of course, Luo Min did not believe that Shuiyuexuan was haunted. In order to find out the truth, she told her brother Luo Jie (played by Chi Zhiqiang) about the matter. .

Luo Jie is a staunch materialist. He suspects that Shuiyuexuan is not haunted, but someone has broken into it. With the keen sense of smell of a public security officer, he decides to start an investigation.

Luo Min hopes that Lu Yihua can become her sister-in-law, so she looks for an opportunity to connect her brother Luo Jie with Lu Yihua and invites Lu Yihua to have dinner at home. But Lu Yihua already had a crush on her. She fell in love with Xiao Ling, the administrator of the local library.

Although Xiao Ling, a poor boy who loves running, only has a junior high school education, he has learned English, French and German by himself and is extremely talented.

Xiao Ling is a fanatic who engages in scientific research, which is what we now call "civilian science".

He was working on a mysterious instrument that could detect "ghosts" in Shuiyuexuan. In order to raise money to buy parts to make this instrument, he sold his watch.

After getting to know Lu Yihua, Xiao Ling often entered the museum in the name of Lu Yihua, and even climbed over the wall directly into Shuiyuexuan to study the terrain, which aroused the vigilance of Luo Min and Luo Jie.

Xiao Ling is also accompanied by a man named Chang Wenhu (played by Jiang Yishou), who is his assistant and the person who often supports him.

In order to conduct an experiment to detect "ghosts", Xiao Ling sneaked into Shuiyuexuan with instruments on another rainy night, but was discovered by Luo Min and called the police.

When Luo Jie arrived, Xiao Ling had already escaped with the instrument. Lu Yihua took Luo Jie to Xiao Ling's home, only to find that Chang Wenhu had been killed on Xiao Ling's bed. Xiao Ling became a suspect and was quickly arrested by Luo Jie.

Both Luo Jie and his follower Liang Bao (played by Hao Yiping) believe that the haunting incident in Prince Ning's Mansion should be investigated first.

They came to the library and wanted to borrow a history book called "The Secret History of Shuiyuexuan", but they met Lu Yihua's father Lu Yi (played by Ren Yi).

Lu Yi is a famous historian. He told Luo Jie the story of what happened to the Yan family.

When Na Yan was executed by King Ning, she gave her son to Chang Rong and told him that she had buried half of her life savings in Shuiyue Xuan.

In order to avoid the pursuit of King Ning, Chang Rong fled to Guangxi with his son incognito, and settled there to take root. His fifth generation descendant was Chang Wenhu, who was raised by his uncle Feng Jie.

The case is close to the truth at this point. Luo Jie believes that Chang Wenhu funded and became Xiao Ling's assistant precisely to use Xiao Ling's research on the topography of Shuiyuexuan to find the Yan family's burial. A place for treasure.

But when Chang Wenhu determined the location of the treasure, Feng Jie, who wanted to keep the treasure for himself, killed him.

Luo Jie decided to lure the snake out of the hole. On the one hand, he helped Xiao Ling with his research, and on the other hand, he posted a notice at the Ningwangfu Museum that Shuiyuexuan would be renovated.

After seeing the notice, Feng Jie was afraid that the treasure in Shuiyuexuan would be discovered by others, so he chose to sneak into Shuiyuexuan to steal the treasure on the last thunderstorm night of summer.

This rainy night was also the time when Xiao Ling was testing his instrument. Although his whimsical invention did not succeed in the end, Luo Jie laid a dragnet in Shuiyuexuan and successfully arrested the murderer of Chang Wen. Feng Jie from Tiger.

At the end of the movie, Xiao Ling, who loves running, also cultivates his girlfriend Lu Yihua to become a running partner. The scene of the two walking away side by side makes Pi Ge, who also loves running, filled with emotion.

In that era, a man who was so poor that he only had a dream succeeded in capturing the heart of a beautiful woman just because of his hobby of running, and the beautiful woman’s intellectual father did not dislike him. This makes today’s human relationship so embarrassing. ?

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What is the reality of "Phantom of the Red Wall"?

Xiao Ling is set up in the film as a relatively ideal character. He only has a junior high school education, but has mastered three foreign languages ??through self-study. This is actually difficult to achieve in reality.

Xiao Ling's character is quite cynical, he is not an easy person to get along with, and he is a poor boy, but he can make Lu Yihua fall in love with him at first sight. This is also very unrealistic.

In the film, Xiao Ling has been tinkering with his detection equipment, but he did not succeed until the end of the film.

From the current perspective, Xiao Ling's scientific research level is at best a "civilian scientist", also known as a "crazy scientist", and the level is far lower than that of "Baoding Edison" manual Geng (Brother Pi) Also a fan of handicrafts).

The movie attempts to explain the phenomenon of "ghosts" in ancient buildings like the Forbidden City from a scientific perspective through the "research" of the character Xiao Ling, but due to the lack of substantial evidence, until the movie In the end, these explanations are just speculation -

He believes that during thunderstorms, a magnetic field is formed around the red wall of the Forbidden City, and this magnetic field can record the images of people who happen to pass by.

Just like the instrument Xiao Ling tested, it still failed to succeed until the end.

Let’s not delve into the technical feasibility of this statement. This is at least an attempt to explain some superstitious rumors from a scientific perspective.

Spirit of exploration But according to the working principle of the camera, it is difficult to form imaging conditions like camera negatives in the natural environment.

The theory that magnetic fields can record images of people and objects that happen to be passing by has still not been proven.

In fact, based on Pig's understanding and research over the years, he has already made his own conclusions about these so-called "supernatural events".

Pigeon believes that most of the legends that are widely circulated in the world are lies fabricated by people with ulterior motives; while the rest are rumors that are spread and are phenomena that cannot be explained by science. Just a handful.

The so-called "ghost on the red wall of the Forbidden City" is a typical rumor. One of the photos of the palace maids actually came from the photography of photographer William Wynd Chaplin.

Some people who like to create rumors made up such a story, and it was passed down by word of mouth and became an unsolved urban legend. There is even a story in Jing Xufeng's novel "The Treasure Box of the Eye of the Sky" Related description.

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It caused a nationwide scolding war because it was too avant-garde

Shortly after its release, "Latent Shadow" caused controversy because its theme was too avant-garde. A nationwide war of words.

Director Guo Baochang received a large number of letters from fans, which criticized him verbally, which put him under tremendous pressure at the time. He had no new films for more than two years, and almost ruined his career as a director. .

The 1980s was the initial stage of reform and opening up. The political and cultural environment was relatively relaxed, and seeking truth from facts was the popular trend at that time.

"Latent Shadow", which has a gloomy and gloomy tone and suspense and absurd themes, seemed out of place in such an environment because of its avant-garde style. This was one of the things that aroused the anger of the audience at the time. aspect.

Fortunately, as the film was forced to be released, the audience's confusion and anger gradually subsided.

Later, the movie was released on DVD, and it is still one of the favorite mainland movies of the 1980s among audiences to this day.

The main creators of the film, including directors and actors, have also developed very well in the film and television industry since then.

Director Guo Baochang, whose real name was Li Baochang, had an extremely tragic life experience. His father froze to death on the street, and he was sold by his mother when he was two years old. He was later adopted by Master Le Si of Tong Ren Tang Le Family.

He lived in Tongrentang for 26 years and wrote the novel "The Mansion Gate" based on his own experience. It was made into a classic TV series in 2001, which was a sensation.

Chi Zhiqiang, who played Luo Jie, also had a bad fate. He was already a popular movie star in the early 1980s, but in October 1983, he was sentenced to four years in prison for "hooliganism." Later, because of his good behavior, he was released from prison early in October 1985.

In 1987, he created the album "Tears of Regret", which became popular nationwide, with a circulation of 10 million copies.

Other starring actors such as Yuan Yuan, Han Yueqiao, Hao Yiping, Li Ping, etc. are still very familiar stars in the film and television industry.

Comparing their current images with their appearance in this movie more than 30 years ago, they were all young boys and girls with outstanding looks. It makes people lament that the passage of time has made people sad, and no one has been spared.

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