Coquettish Rebirth

In "The Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" written by Tang Seng's classmate, he really recorded the Bamiyan Buddhas that Jia Hongjian and the others saw.Even according to his description, in addition to these few big Buddhas, there is also a giant reclining Buddha that is said to be about 300 meters long in the eastern part of the city!However, the reclining Buddha may have been damaged in the historical Afghan earthquake. Anyway, at least now, if you go to the east of the city, you will not see any reclining Buddha.

Around the statues of the Buddha group headed by the East Buddha and the West Buddha in the Bamiyan Buddha, stone caves are also carved on the mountain wall.According to Tang Seng's classmate, thousands of monks live in caves here all the year round, in order to get close to the Buddha nature.Even according to the "Da Tang Western Regions", will there be eminent monks who will come to live in the stone cave of the Great Buddha, and then will talk to the monks who also live in the cave, and the monks will walk out of their stone caves? It is said that the structure of this Buddha is still very magical. It seems that the nose is a natural "amplifier". The voice of the speaker can pass through the Buddha and the stone cave behind the Buddha. After this kind of reflection, the level of the sound wave is enhanced. Anyway, it can be directional in the end, so that the sound can spread in one direction, and it will be much louder than the speaker's original voice!

More than a dozen centuries ago, Tang Seng described that thousands of people often lived here to study Buddhism, and even today in the 21st century, Buddhists from all over the world come here every year to travel, worship and even practice meditation for a period of time. According to Afghanistan The tour guide here said that about 500 people will come every year!This incident made Jia Hongjian feel very strange - because the tour guide said that when there are many people coming every year.One more thing by the way, that is, after the Taliban took over the country in the past few years, they welcome foreigners to visit Afghanistan to see the Buddha, which is why so many people come every year.Even, half a year ago, the Taliban regime announced a new law - a decree to protect Bamiyan Buddha statues and prohibit illegal excavation and smuggling of cultural relics. Local religious fanatics are not allowed to go to the Buddha because the Buddha is not a popular religion in their local area. Harassing the Buddha and tourists who come to see the Buddha.

From this perspective, the Taliban regime is actually quite enlightened, right?You must know that according to Islam, their prophets said that idol worship is not allowed.So there are no portraits or statues of gods or prophets in Islam until now.So for a regime like the Taliban that claims to establish the purest Muslim country on earth.In fact, the Bamiyan Buddha violated the prohibition against idol worship in Islam, and it is still a pagan thing!According to Jia Hongjian's understanding of the Taliban in later generations, how could these extremists blow up such stuff as soon as they took control of the national power?As a result, they also declared protection.Foreigners are also very welcome to visit Afghanistan.Even to see pagan idol worship stuff!But what.They welcomed them with their front feet, then turned around and blew up the Buddha with their back feet, this kind of behavior of slapping themselves in the face... Is there something behind it that outsiders don't know?

Of course.What outsiders don't know, Jia Hongjian will certainly not know, after all, he is not an Afghan.Now, as the boss of the film company, what he wants to do is to preserve the three-dimensional data of these few Buddhas as much as possible, so that after the Buddhas disappear in the future, they can be restored in the film as much as possible.Jia Hongjian carefully applied to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and even expressed their willingness to pay a small amount of money, such as 100 million US dollars, in exchange for such a power.

Such an application was approved quickly. It seems that in a way, these Afghans nodded and agreed to let foreigners come to see the Buddha near their capital. Some people are willing to pay so much money, for them this should be a good business.After the Taliban agreed, Jia Hongjian of course quickly ordered Pixar in the United States to send employees over to collect various materials.

To be honest, it is really not good to collect the data of these big Buddhas now. Although these big Buddhas are more magical, it is not like those big Buddhas in China are all sitting. What about the big Buddhas in Afghanistan here? , Several of them are standing!Is this amazing enough?Even from some aspects of sculpture art, Jia Hongjian felt that they really had a European, especially Greek, sculpture style.From this point of view, this is also a place where human civilizations blend together—in fact, from the European sculptures to the Afghan sculptures, and finally to the Chinese sculptures, we can see how a culture gradually After influencing another culture, and then another culture enters a third country, how is it gradually localized.

So why is it said that the data of this Buddha is not easy to collect? Because after the Hui civilization occupied Afghanistan in the 12th century in history, although the official did not do anything to the Buddha at the beginning, but later all kinds of fanatical believers secretly hands on.So now, the Bamiyan Buddha is actually just as flawed as the Sphinx Sphinx in Egypt.As for the Sphinx, the nose was knocked off, so it revealed a slightly weird face.On the Afghan side, the damage was even greater—for example, the biggest Li Buddha standing upright had his head cut off in half, and it was absolutely impossible to tell what the Buddha looked like from the front.

Even, apart from the big Buddha's face accident, the hands have also suffered a lot of damage, which is a bit in the shape of no hands!Does this increase the difficulty of data collection?After all, the data collection in this era does not say that it directly scans all the information in with the laser in the movie, it requires point by point measurement and statistics!On the other hand, even the data of the Buddha itself has been collected, and then the caves where various monks live will start to be collected.Of course, few people live in this kind of cave now, but there are many people living in it in history, and there are many Buddhist murals, just like the grotto in Northwest China, where there are wonderful murals everywhere - of course it was back then .Now, the mural has been exposed to the sun for so many centuries, and now there is not much to see.

At the same time, it is also said that after Afghanistan was occupied by Muslim civilization in the 12th century, people would not be allowed to believe in Buddhism, and gradually no one believed in it.As a result, these grottoes sometimes became resting places for shepherds, so after such a toss, there were not many murals left.However, Nolan is very interested in these murals. A conservative like him used digital special effects to restore the scenes of such a group of magnificent Buddhas and beautiful murals in a group of grottoes at this time!

Of course, Jia Hongjian supports this, but there are too few people studying Buddhism in Afghanistan, and there are no systematic historical documents in Afghanistan to record their history, so we have to rely on It is also impossible for their scholars to restore it. If you don’t say anything else, just say that India is also one of the four ancient civilizations. Before the British conquered them, India did not form a relatively comprehensive coverage of the Indian peninsula. s country!There have always been dozens of hundreds of countries scattered, so it is even more impossible to have a unified document record in this way-don’t forget that the high castes in India are all from Iran in history conqueror!And the lowly commoners are all kinds of native races, and how long did the lowly commoners have to learn to read and write?Under such circumstances, sometimes India, one of the four ancient countries, wants to study the history of its own country, and it has to ask China for help. It has to find traces of India in Chinese history books, which is similar to that of Japan— —When Japan studies their relatively long history, they have no records at all, and basically rely on Chinese history books for help!

Therefore, at the end, Jia Hongjian discussed with Nolan—if it is not possible, let’s take the murals in various grottoes in China as prototypes, add a little bit of Greek style, and then change the day and put on the crown and wear it directly. Did you get it in the caves in Afghanistan in the movie?After all, from an archaeological point of view, it seems that the murals in Northwest China are all based on Afghanistan!

In addition to the murals and other things, what needs to be done is to rely on the style of the reclining Buddha recorded in "The Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" to create such an image in the computer.What about the specific features—then change the reclining Buddha in China a little bit according to the European style, isn’t that almost the same?There are also several reclining Buddhas in China. The largest one is about 30 meters long. Although in terms of size, it seems to be only one-tenth of the size of the reclining Buddha in Afghanistan recorded by Tang Seng, but in the movie we can rely on the computer Come and wait for the scale to enlarge!Keep the general style, modify some details, isn't that enough?

Even the standing Buddhas, that is, the few big Buddhas on the Bamiyan side, can be transformed a little according to methods such as reclining Buddhas.Even if there are no reclining Buddhas in China, we can look to Buddhist researchers in Japan and Buddhist-believing countries in Southeast Asia to see if they have anything to learn from or give advice!In this way, the scene that can be restored should not be too attractive, not too beautiful and shocking! (to be continued..)