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After entering March, the first new films are argyle: Secret Agent and Mrs Spider: Super Sensual Awakening. These two "cannon fodder-like" imported films have collapsed at the box office in overseas markets, and today’s China film market is not very enthusiastic about imported films. Sure enough, the two films are silent, and Mrs Spider: Super Sensory Awakening has been released for four days and even less than 5 million box office.

The crime action film "Eliminating Three Harms in Weeks" released on the same day as "Mrs Spider: Super Feeling Awakening" successfully overwhelmed the Spring Festival heroes and became the first new Japanese crown film after the holiday, with a box office of over 180 million in five days. The professional edition of Lighthouse shows that the pre-screening media forecast of "Eliminating Three Harms in Weeks" was between 80 million and 200 million, and now the total box office predicted by AI has exceeded 400 million, and the results far exceed expectations.

Not only that, "Eliminating Three Harms in Weeks" also succeeded in the popularity of online platforms, which triggered the spread of topics from multiple angles on social platforms. The turbulent public opinion about "Eliminating Three Harms in the Week" is very complicated, from the scale, performance, story, cult to the off-site plagiarism, which is very different from the spread of the Spring Festival movies with their own distinctive selling points.

However, starting from the film itself, the first impression of "Eliminating Three Harms in Weeks" to many audiences is relatively unified: a crime film that "fights violence with violence". At the same time, the background color of gangster movies from Hong Kong and Taiwan, coupled with the fable of "eliminating three evils around" and the metaphor of the cult massacre bridge, provides a rare cult temperament and bloody scene for mainland audiences. Generally speaking, it is a movie with cool films and curiosity as its core selling points.

The propaganda introduces that the allusion of "eliminating three evils in Zhou" quoted in the film can be found in The Book of Jin Zhou Chu Zhuan and Shi Shuo Xin Yu. According to records, the young man was burly and powerful, but he ran wild in the village and was hated by his neighbors. After Zhou Chu killed the tiger Nie Jiao alone, he himself turned back and reformed, so far all three evils have been eliminated.

The most wanted criminal Chen Guilin (Ehan Juan) is dying, only to find that he is only ranked third on the most wanted list. He is determined to find out the whereabouts of the first two most wanted criminals and get rid of them one by one. Chen Guilin thought that he had become a contemporary Zhou Chu in addition to the three evils, but he did not expect that greed and ignorance, which he could never understand, was the crime and punishment that life would eventually face.

The most wonderful thing about the story of the movie "Eliminating Three Harms Around" is that it provides too many allegorical plots, which brings great interpretable space. This is a rare movie-watching experience in domestic cinemas in recent years. This is not only a type crime movie that makes you "cool", but also provides enough metaphors for you to remember, so that you can find enough in the social memes spread by famous scenes and the interpretation of Douban long film reviews.

This versatility may be the internal main reason why "Eliminating Three Harms in Weeks" can exceed the box office expectation. In terms of scale or curiosity, in fact, quite a few Hong Kong and Taiwan cast films have made many attempts in the past two years, but the so-called scale often stays in the action and form and the ferocity of the crime film style itself, while "Eliminating Three Harms Around" conveys a certain sense of absurdity through metaphor and counter-routine, and then constitutes a contemporary fable that every audience can have a aftertaste, which is an important reason why the film temperament can "shock" many audiences.

The first interpretation space of the film story is obvious. (There are spoilers below) The three poisons "greed and ignorance" in Buddhism appear in the film with the intention of pigeon, snake and pig respectively, especially referring to Lin Luhe, Aberdeen and Chen Guilin, who rank the top three in the most wanted list in the film. The first two are easy to understand. Pigeons are regarded as representatives of greed because of excessive eating, while the venerable Lin Lu and others are advised to put everything down but they are searching for everything in the dark. Aberdeen was so jealous that he beat his men violently and threatened Chen Guilin when he visited the hair salon. His hatred was very direct.

And "chi" is relatively obscure. In Buddhism, "chi" is also translated as "ignorance", which means ignorance and ignorance. To put it simply, I am confused. I don’t know what good and evil are, what greed is, what cause and effect are, and I don’t understand right and wrong, so I act upside down. Chen Guilin’s life track is just like this-when he was a young gangster, he shot the leader with his head fever to make a name for himself. With his youth and luck, he escaped the police attack. When he was in his thirties and forties, he was confused by the doctor and had to turn himself in after praying to God. However, he became famous by imitating the idea of "eliminating three evils around" because he was behind in the rankings. As a result, he was once again confused by the venerable man, thinking that he could make amends and become a new person.

Chen Guilin is not a born villain, but more like a junior high school student who always stays in the stage of "chopping people with a knife without knowing the consequences", and is a person who "stays in his original idea". The process of "eliminating the three evils" is also the process of Chen Guilin’s "awakening" after "breaking his delusion". Therefore, the cult plot focusing on breaking the "delusion" will become the climax of the whole film, and Chen Guilin will just return after killing the venerable one and hearing the singing again.

On the other hand, just like Chen Guilin in the past, he casually became a criminal who harmed one side for his imaginary name. Chen Guilin once believed in his imaginary fame story so much, and believed in the theoretical disguise of the venerable when he thought his life was near. Perhaps he finally realized that the harm of "delusion" was hidden, but it was often the root of everything. Only people could begin to objectively ask about the nature of "belief" in themselves. It was not until the last moment of his life that perhaps Chen Guilin finally understood what he wanted to be "famous around".

Therefore, although this scene is not a profound depiction of cults, it is definitely a scene that can leave traces in China’s film history.

On the other hand, "Eliminating Three Harms in Zhou Chu" tells an ironic story of a marginal person who wants to enter the mainstream in vain. Obviously, Chen Guilin came from a defective and broken family, and was raised by his ancestors. All his capital was just himself, but he was born with the idea of making a name for himself. Therefore, he first became a wanted man by extreme means, and then he was lost in the collective atmosphere created by cults. But from beginning to end, he never really entered the mainstream of society.

In the past, many Taiwan Province film classics were famous for their multiple interpretations of "youth". In addition to those youth love movies, those movies with a sharper appearance are actually explaining the core of youth. In monga, also starring Ehan Juan, this kind of youth is hidden in the arrogance and extravagance under shouting and killing. In brighter summer day, a classic by Yang Dechang, youth may be Hani’s tall, fearless and fragile short life, and it is also the end of the inner world of Grade Four from purity to chaos.

So from another point of view, Chen Guilin, played by Ehan Juan, is also a "teenager" role in "Eliminating Three Harms in Weeks". Although he is not a teenager in the film, his "infatuation" from beginning to end is not only the ignorance and confusion mentioned above, but also the straightforward wildness unique to teenagers-he is fierce and dangerous with his minions exposed, but also vulnerable and defenseless inside. Ehan Juan is absolutely a match made in heaven for this role. You can’t think of anyone who can replace the "innocence" in his eyes.

In addition, there are quite a few film defects in "Eliminating Three Harms in Zhou Chu". The incompetence of the police role and the appearance of it, Chen Guilin was stabbed and buried alive in the coffin, but he just broke through the ground. Many plots were quite rough and unreasonable. However, the presentation of female characters and the complexity of the plot after the arrest have more or less hindered the upper limit of this film.

"Eliminating Three Harms in the Week" provides enough angles for social networks to talk about, and its communication logic is extremely prominent in favor of interpretation and discussion, rather than the common marketing communication mode in the past year. For example, on the popularity of the platform, "Eliminating Three Harms in Weeks" is actually not prominent on the vibrato platform where film and television are widely publicized. The cumulative number of topics played is nearly 1.2 billion, which is only similar to the recently popular online movie Anacondas’s "Arrogant 2", which is far from the data of the Spring Festival.

However, according to the data on platforms such as Weibo, Zhihu and Douban, the popularity of "Eliminating Three Harms in Weeks" basically far exceeds that of all other films:

Judging from the scores of Weibo searchers counted by Dengta Data, it has been the first since the second day of the release;

On the hot list of Zhihu, until March 6th, there were still two topics named "Eliminating Three Harms in Weeks" ranked third and fourth. There are tens of millions of questions about "How to evaluate" Three Harms in Weeks ",which even exceeds the discussion volume of all Spring Festival explosions in Zhihu, including YOLO’s Article 20 and Pegasus 2.

On Douban, more than 420,000 people have watched "Eliminating Three Harms at Weeks", which is basically equivalent to "Article 20" and "Pegasus 2", and the box office receipts of the last two films are more than ten times that of "Eliminating Three Harms at Weeks".

Therefore, the communication route of "Eliminating Three Harms in Zhou Chu" has largely returned to the discussion of the film content itself. Of course, many second-generation contents and more network memes about cult scenes have also played a role, but that is not the core driving force for the continuous destruction of "Eliminating Three Harms in Zhou Chu".

However, in the process of breaking the circle and spreading the topic of "Eliminating Three Harms around", there are indeed several enlarged nodes that have little to do with the movie plot itself, which are worth recording:

The first is the discussion of "scale". The change of the disk of "Eliminating Three Harms in Zhou Chu" has once again triggered the discussion about deletion. The topic is not new, but it has not been discussed for a long time.

The second is the "famous scene". The visual impact of Chen Guilin’s shooting of cultists is extremely strong, which leads to the crazy spread of relevant screenshots on the Internet, and promotes the spread of a large number of second-generation content of Chen Guilin, Venerable, Guitar and cult brainwashing theme songs;

The third is "plagiarism". Joe Chien, director of Taiwan Province, issued a document pointing out that "Eliminating Three Harms in Weeks" plagiarized his own script "lawless", from the core idea of the story to the name and plot, of course, both sides are arguing for their own words. The rave reviews of the content and plagiarism have become more popular together, with nearly 100,000 praises from Weibo in Joe Chien.

Therefore, combining the content and communication situation, we may be able to better understand why this film can arouse a lot of discussions from different angles in today’s Jane-Chinese Internet, given that the publicity budget is flat. A real classic of film history may not be a hit, but most of the films that can make a hit today must have "points", at least let the public have enough space for discussion and interpretation, and enough motivation to participate in communication.

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Zhang Hanzhi and Qiao Guanhua.

　　Zhang Hanzhi and his daughter Hong Huang.

　　Hong Huang quoted Zhang Mingtian’s elegiac couplet written for Zhang Hanzhi to summarize his mother’s life:

　　Have a deep feeling in your chest and never regret it after the storm.

　　The treasure of the country, a generation of celebrities laughed and talked about the spring and autumn period.

　　● Life of Zhang Hanzhi

　　Zhang Hanzhi is the adopted daughter of Zhang Shizhao, a famous patriotic Democrat in China, an English translator in Mao Zedong and the wife of Qiao Guanhua, a former diplomat. Born in Shanghai in 1935, he graduated from the English Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1960.

　　In 1971, Zhang Hanzhi ended his 14-year teaching career and was personally assigned by Mao Zedong to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He said: "China needs female diplomats. I think you can, speak and write, and you are very courageous." In the diplomatic circles of China in 1970s, Zhang Hanzhi’s name was very resounding. She started as a clerk, climbed up the stairs through the section chief, deputy director and director, and climbed to the deputy director of the Asia Department-this was Zhang Hanzhi’s highest and last post in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Throughout the mid-1970s, Zhang Hanzhi, who was unusually active, made his mark in the diplomatic arena, and was praised by insiders as one of the "five golden flowers" in China’s diplomatic circles, which made him famous for a while. He has served as Director and Deputy Director of the Asia Department, and served as Deputy Representative of the China delegation at the United Nations General Assembly.

　　Zhang Hanzhi and Qiao Guanhua finally got married at the end of 1973, when Qiao Guanhua was 60 and Zhang Hanzhi was 38.

　　According to Zhang Hanzhi’s collection of recollections "Crossing the Thick Dahongmen", she was one of the outstanding diplomats in China in the 1970s. In the early 1970s, she participated in the talks on establishing diplomatic relations between China and the United States, and participated in Nixon’s visit to China, Shanghai Communique negotiations and a series of major activities. He was a member of China’s delegation to the UN General Assembly for the first time in 1971, and one of China’s deputy representatives to the UN General Assembly from 1973 to 1975. Zhang Hanzhi, together with her husband Qiao Guanhua, was active in the diplomatic arena of the United Nations. In 1983, he served as the executive director of the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. In 1987, he was transferred to the post of Director of International Department of the State Council Rural Development Research Center, and in 1990, he was transferred to the post of Director of International Department of the State Council Development Research Center. Finishing: Tan Renwei

Editor: Wang Yuxi

　　Beijing, June 23 (Reporter Li Jinlei) In 2021, the pension rose 17 times, and all localities are cashing in.

　　As of June 21st, more than 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have announced the pension adjustment plan for 2021, which has started the increase of pensions. Many provinces have reissued their rising pensions. How much have you increased?

　　Pensions rose by 4.5% overall this year.

　　According to the notice of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance on adjusting the basic pension for retirees in 2021, the overall national adjustment ratio is determined according to 4.5% of the monthly basic pension for retirees in 2020. Each province takes the national overall adjustment ratio as the upper limit, and determines the adjustment ratio and level of the province.

　　This is the 17th consecutive year that pensions have risen, and it is also the 6th consecutive year that retirees from enterprises, institutions and institutions have raised their pensions simultaneously.

　　More than 20 provinces announced pension adjustment plans.

　　According to the incomplete statistics of the reporters of Zhongxin. com, as of June 21st, at least more than 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China, including Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Ningxia, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, Gansu, Fujian, Tibet, Shanxi and Hainan, have announced specific plans for pension adjustment.

　　Who can participate in the pension adjustment this year? Retirees who have gone through retirement procedures before December 31, 2020 and received a basic pension on a monthly basis can enjoy this year’s pension increase.

　　Pensions are raised in the form of "three combinations"

　　Many people think that a 4.5% increase in pensions means a 4.5% increase in their own pension base, but this is not the case. In terms of specific adjustment methods, all localities have adopted the "three-in-one" method of combining quota adjustment, hook adjustment and appropriate inclination.

　　Among them, quota adjustment refers to the unified increase of the same amount of pensions for all types of retirees in the same area, reflecting social equity; Hook adjustment means that the increased pension is linked to the individual payment period and pension level, which embodies the incentive mechanism of "paying more and getting more" and "paying more for a long time", so that people who pay more and pay more for a long time can get more pensions; Appropriate tilt reflects the key concern, mainly for the elderly retirees and other groups to take care of.

　　Tibet has the highest amount of quota adjustment.

　　In terms of quota adjustment, at present, the quota adjustment amount in Tibet reaches 113 yuan per person per month, which is far higher than that in other regions, and it is the only region that has broken through the 100 yuan mark at present.

　　According to the pension adjustment schemes in various places, Shanghai quota adjustment will increase 70 yuan, Beijing quota adjustment will increase 50 yuan, Shanxi quota will increase 51 yuan, Anhui quota will increase 35 yuan, Jiangxi quota will increase 40 yuan, Henan quota will increase 50 yuan, Hubei quota will increase 37 yuan and Hunan quota will increase 45 yuan.

　　Hook adjustment "double hook" is the mainstream

　　In terms of the adjustment of the link, Shanghai is a single link, that is, this year, it is only linked to the pension level by 3%, and it is not linked to the payment period. The remaining provinces are linked to the payment period and pension level.

　　For example, Anhui has made it clear that the 2 yuan will be increased every year of payment. Increase by 1% based on my basic pension in December 2020.

　　Tilt adjustment These people can raise more money.

　　In terms of tilt adjustment, mainly senior retirees, retirees in hard and remote areas, and retired military cadres from enterprises have enjoyed extra care and can increase their money.

　　For example, Ningxia is clear. First, those who are 70 years old and under 75 years old will add 10 yuan, those who are 75 years old and under 80 years old will add 15 yuan, and those who are over 80 years old will add 20 yuan; Second, 20 yuan will be added to the hard and remote areas, and 25 yuan will be added to the hard and remote areas; Third, the adjustment of the enterprise’s demobilized cadres below 4407 yuan to 4407 yuan.

　　Can everyone go up by 4.5%?

　　4.5% is the overall per capita level of basic pension adjustment for all retirees. The People’s Social Welfare Department of many places explained that for each retiree, due to different payment years and pension levels, the actual increase in the absolute amount of pension is different, and the corresponding proportion of personal pension is also different.

　　Generally speaking, the absolute amount of the basic pension will be relatively high for those who have a long service life and a high level of payment wages.

　　For example, Shanxi enterprise retirees are 65 years old, with a pension of 3,000 yuan and a payment period of 30 years. This year, the quota can be increased and adjusted. 51 yuan+payment period is adjusted for 30 years ×2 yuan+pension is adjusted for 3,000 yuan ×1.2%=147 yuan, with an increase of 4.9%.

　　When will the rising pension be reissued?

　　When will this year’s rising pension be reissued to retirees? Judging from the current clear timetable for the replacement of pensions in various places, it is basically no later than July 1.

　　Among them, on May 18th, Shanghai has reissued the pension for retired employees, and on June 15th, Beijing reissued the pension for retired employees. Tianjin, Jiangsu, Henan, Hebei and other provinces clearly reissued their accounts before the end of June. Anhui, Gansu, Liaoning, Ningxia, Xinjiang, etc. are clearly required to reissue their accounts before July 1.

　　It is worth noting that the distribution time may vary from place to place, but for retirees, no matter when they start to organize distribution, they will be reissued from January 1, 2021.