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Time Editorial Department | Zhen Zi, Ba Bu Ban, Yin Yin

In 2009, when the first Avatar appeared, the audience was amazed by the Pandora planet created by director James Cameron.

Thirteen years later, we finally waited for the release of his long-overdue sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water.

This time, the focus of the story of the Na ‘vi people has shifted from the lush forests and mountains on Pandora to the clear water surging in the undercurrent.

The hero Jack Sally and his wife Neytiri also ushered in a new life in the family in the new film.

Time Jun watched Avatar: The Way of Water for the first time, and the three-hour viewing experience was like being wrapped in the warm and deep seawater in the film.

People seem to dive to the bottom of the water in one breath, want to enjoy the wonders with their eyes wide open, and are reluctant to emerge from the water and return to the real world.

Today, Time Jun sent a super full movie guide.

Let’s talk about the new story, new technology, ticket version and new marine life of the film.

New story

Before getting to the point, Time Jun will talk a few more words about the intuitive feelings of the film.

"Avatar: The Way of Water", which took 13 years, can really stand the praise of "the ceiling of the film industry".

Thanks to the new technology format of 3D/4K/48 frames, everything in the picture becomes silky, clear, novel and vivid.

When sitting in the cinema smoothly, this unique sense of ceremony in the cinema made Time Jun even a little tearful.

This year, the epidemic situation has been volatile, and cinemas have been opened and closed. Many people have forgotten what it is like to watch movies in cinemas.

But it doesn’t matter, the new film of Ka Shen can let us deeply appreciate the charm of the big screen again.

Back to the story of the new film. At that time, the story of Avatar was not complicated. Jack Sally, a disabled white soldier, fell in love with nature after some soul baptism, helping the Na ‘vi people resist human aggression, protect their homes and gain love.

Even in the end, Jack succeeded in getting rid of his human body and officially became a member of the Na ‘vi people.

It can be said that Avatar is a film about life and survival.

In Avatar: The Way of Water, the theme becomes life and life, which emphasizes the concept of "family" and the importance of "children".

In the new film, Jack and Nami tribe princess Nadiri have children, and they have four children, including the adopted human son Spider.

Spider’s biological parents were human beings who were forced to leave Pandora. Every day, he painted his body blue and lived with Nami.

The first stills exposed in Avatar: The Way of Water is him, which shows its importance in the sequel.

With the threat of survival approaching again, coupled with the departure of the younger daughter. Jack, Nadiri and their four children had to flee to the territory of Mette Cajina clan.

This film introduces the perspectives of several children, and tells the story of family and growth in the new environment from their perspectives.

"Children are our weakness and our armor." This line points out the core of the story.

In the whole story, Jack is no longer a brave leader, but a father full of weaknesses.

This is a mysterious tribe living on the bottom of the sea, from which the underwater world with Avatar: The Way of Water as the main scene is launched.

Another highlight of the plot has also emerged, that is, the sea battle scene between Jack’s family and human beings, which is very worth looking forward to.

Before watching the film, Time Jun was curious. Did it matter if he hadn’t seen the first one?

After all, it’s been thirteen years since the last film was released, and many viewers have forgotten the plot.

How can this film skillfully transfer the story from the forest to the ocean?

It turns out that Cameron skillfully solved these problems in less than an hour at the beginning of the film.

Even if you don’t have time to relive the story of the first film, it won’t affect watching this new film.

The way of water

Thirteen years ago, Avatar was born, which opened a new era of film 3D technology innovation.

Now Avatar: The Way of Water still represents the highest standard of film technology.

The title of the film is "The Way of Water", in which "water" is not only the background of the story, but also the technical key word.

As long as it is related to "water" in filming, the technical difficulty will suddenly rise, not to mention this story, which is placed in Pandora’s ocean world.

The fluidity of water and the reflective characteristics of the surface all pose one problem after another for real shooting and post-production.

How was this underwater visual feast made?

First of all, the crew specially prepared a huge water tank that can hold 900,000 gallons of seawater, so as to simulate ocean currents as realistically as possible, and cooperate with the fluid special effects generated by CG.

In order to ensure realistic visual effects, Ka Shen also made a crazy deep-sea real shooting exploration.

The crew moved some of the real-life shooting work to the Mariana Trench, about 11,000 meters deep.

It is said that in order to shoot underwater scenes this time, Cameron specially asked the actors to learn to dive freely without breathing equipment and hold their breath to complete the performance.

Kate winslet, the leading actor, was specially trained and held his breath underwater for an astonishing 7 minutes and 14 seconds, breaking the crew record.

Cameron and Vita team have carried out numerous technical experiments for this purpose, and created a brand-new water simulation technology.

Because the traditional optical motion capture can’t cope with the reflection of the water surface, it took Ka Shen a year and a half to develop an underwater motion capture system.

This system includes moving clothes and cameras suitable for underwater, both of which are the first time in film history.

He also said that he was very satisfied with the results of capturing data, saying that "the password of underwater motion capture was basically cracked".

Different from the "land-catching+post-special effects" used in Aquaman and other films, Avatar: The Way of Water uses underwater catching on a large scale for the first time. These two methods can be said to be worlds apart in terms of realism.

In the previously exposed studio photos, the small white balls covered with water are hidden.

These balls are mainly used to block light and avoid affecting the accuracy of underwater motion capture system.

But no matter how dazzling the technology is, it will ultimately serve the art and emotion of the film.

As Ka Shen said, "People’s tears when watching Titanic are not for special effects. In Avatar: The Way of Water, we should also strive to achieve a balance between technology and emotion."

How to buy a ticket?

Avatar: The Way of Water has three different film source qualities. According to the mainland release notice of the film, the high frame rate version including 3D/4K/48 frames will be released this time.

Facing all kinds of dazzling screening versions, how to buy tickets has also become a very concerned issue for fans.

By comparison, it is found that there are only CINITY, IMAX Second Generation Laser Hall and Dolby Cinema which fully support 3D/4K/48 frames at present.

If the audience expects to fully enjoy the audio-visual effect of the film, the above three types of cinemas are the first choice.

The most important indicator here is whether the cinema supports "48 frames" and "4K".

Among them, "48 frames" refers to fluency, and "4K" refers to clarity.

Only in such a high-speed and smooth image can the audience experience a completely different visual impact and immersion effect from the traditional 24-frame movie.

CINITY is a high-end projection system independently developed by China.

It is the exclusive domestic screening technology partner of Avatar: The Way of Water, and it is also the viewing choice recommended by director Cameron himself.

If you like bigger and brighter screens, you can choose IMAX first.

Because the most distinctive feature of IMAX is the huge screen, the IMAX standard screen is 22 meters wide and 16 meters high, which has the effect of "standing on the ground".

However, it should be noted that this version of 48 frames needs IMAX laser hall to be perfectly compatible. If the visual effect is more perfect, please pay attention to choosing IMAX laser hall.

If you have requirements for the fineness of the picture, you can choose Dolby Cinema.

When buying tickets, it is necessary to distinguish that "Dolby Cinema" and "Dolby Atmos" are different concepts. Simply put, Dolby Cinema = Dolby Panoramic Sound+Dolby Vision+Dolby 3D+ Cinema Design.

Hard core science popularization of marine life

The last one went to heaven, and this one went to sea.

In the first Avatar, the land mount of the Na ‘vi people, the heavily armored horse with six legs, and the flying mount Banxi Beast, which is loyal to only one Na ‘vi people all his life, are impressive.

In Avatar: The Way of Water, we will also see Tulkun, a super-intelligent beast like a whale in the ocean of Pandora, and Ilu, a flying fish in the water, which carries the functions similar to those in the first installment of the Banxi beast.

Time Jun simply gives you the magical marine life in Avatar: The Way of Water under the popular science.

1. Ilu Yilu

Yilu is a Pandora’s sea creature similar to plesiosaur. Just as the heavily armored horse is the mount of the forest Na ‘vi people, Yilu also undertakes the mount function of the marine Na ‘vi people (such as the Mekayi tribe).

It is an amphibian with a length of 7 meters, a long neck, six fins, four eyes, a rubber-like tail and two long tentacles on its head.

Yilu is smart and friendly, and is easily tamed and domesticated.

2. Akula Akula

It is very ferocious and has important cultural significance for the marine tribe Metkayina. The serrated knife of the aborigines is imitating Akula’s teeth.

The necklace worn on the chest by Tonowari (cliff curtis), the leader of the Mekayi tribe, is an Akula’s tooth.

3. Skimwing Gliding Fish

Gliding fish live in Pandora’s ocean, their bodies are gray, and their huge fins are orange, which allows people to glide on the water, while their tails need to be pushed forward all the time.

They breathe through their gills when they are underwater, but they breathe in oxygen through two nostrils on their heads when flying, mainly eating fish and small birds. Meikai and other marine tribes use gliding fish to hunt and also use them as mounts in war.

Only the most skilled Mekay hunter can tame a gliding fish. They are moody and it is difficult to form a connection with their riders. In the film, Jack Sally (sam worthington) will ride his own gliding fish.

4. Tulkun Tukun

Tukun, like a whale, is more than 90 meters long and is the largest animal in Pandora.

They are very clever, forming a culture in their own population-absolutely prohibiting all forms of killing, and also making great achievements in mathematics and music.

Tukun has a good language function, can communicate with the Na ‘vi people, and is very close to the Mekayi tribe.

They will share their families, the arrival of new babies and mourn for the lost family members with the Mekai people. Tukun can store memories and share them with the Na ‘vi people.

In Avatar: The Way of Water, Jack’s youngest son, Lohac (Brittan Dalton), will become close friends with a Tukun named Payakan and play an important role in the film.

Finally, Avatar: The Way of Water scored as high as 8.7 points on Time. Have you seen it? When are you going to see it?

Let’s leave a message and chat together!

Bud bud, listen

Sell cute again and I’ll eat you!

In spring, everything revives and plants sprout. In Shuo Wen Jie Zi, this "sprout" is "bud". From Saibei to Lingnan, from Shuomo to the seashore, as long as there is a spring breeze, there are traces of "buds". As the initial embryonic form of plant stems, leaves or flowers, "bud" is pregnant with life and hope, and embodies the creation and imagination of nature.

You see, the word "bud" means "grass" with the word "tooth" under it. The ancestors who created the word used the way of knowing and pictophonetic to represent the toothed larvae of vegetation germination. What an image! And spring is the child who "shoots and learns rain". Buds, like green "raindrops", "landed" on the earth before the first spring rain came. Falling on the branches, "splashing" flowers, falling into the mouth, into a series of delicious food.

Spring is really the season to eat buds!

People in China eat buds incompletely, and they are hungry for life.

Cartography/Shao Tianrui

People in China eat buds, which is the "spring limit" in home cooking.

Spring is always late in Saibei snowfield, but the new green is the first to appear on the plate. The tender thorn buds with soft burrs were blanched by hot water and turned into the "CP" of sauce dish, dumpling stuffing and scrambled eggs … Northeasters eat buds in spring, and what they want is that "thorn" shock.

Thorn bud is the bud of Acanthopanax senticosus. Also called thorn old bud, thorn dragon bud. The bark of Acanthopanax senticosus can be soaked in wine, and the seed is the well-known Schisandra chinensis. The tender thorn bud has high nutritional value and is called "the king of wild vegetables". It is sweet, refreshing and mellow, and has a unique fragrance similar to Toona sinensis bud.

The tender buds in the vegetable market: with the morning dew in spring.

Photography/Wanrui

Speaking of Toona sinensis bud, it is the most beautiful spring "top card" in North China and even the whole country. As the tender bud of Toona sinensis, it can be cold-mixed, fried eggs, and even chopped into noodles, so that every "snow strip" is hung with "broken gold" in spring, and its mouth is full of spring.

Toona sinensis bud is a "literary youth" in spring bud. "Zhuangzi’s Happy Travel" said: "In ancient times, there were big toons, taking 8,000 years as spring and 8,000 years as autumn." Modern congratulations to the elderly also say "Chunshou". Taking a bite of Toona sinensis is also blessed by nature with good luck. When I attended the birthday party for my elders, I once ate a "Longevity is better than Nanshan Mountain", which is a rockery made of potato chips and sprinkled with fresh Toona sinensis. The taste is fresh and unforgettable.

Cold Toona sinensis buds, the light of spring in home cooking.

Photography/Wanrui

There is also a "female literary youth" in the spring bud, that is, Lycium barbarum bud. When I was a child, my relatives had a Lycium barbarum tree. I used to pick fresh Lycium barbarum fruit on it. I watched A Dream of Red Mansions during the holidays, and found that there was a description of Baochai eating fried Lycium barbarum buds, and it was also pestering adults to follow suit and fry a plate. The taste was a little bitter, and it was probably elegant.

Later, when I went to college, Ningxia students also took us to bask in Lycium barbarum buds, and it was quite interesting to boil water to drink. In fact, eating Lycium barbarum buds has a long history in China. In the Ming Dynasty, Xu Guangqi’s "Agricultural Administration Complete Book" said that Lycium barbarum buds "go out of Ganzhou, but they will not be harvested for two years." Wang Zengqi, a writer from Jianghuai, is also in Amway in Eating in My Hometown. The medlar buds are "very fragrant" with soy sauce and vinegar, which makes the medlar buds "salty".

Lycium barbarum bud and Lycium barbarum flower: Daiyu enjoys flowers and Baochai eats buds.

Photography/Li Zhentai

If Lycium barbarum buds eat elegance, then pepper buds make your tongue "win hemp". In Longnan, Gansu province, which is rich in pepper, pepper buds are the "group pets" of home-cooked dining tables and farmhouses. The bright bud tip on the plate, with a touch of pepper and sesame, makes every taste bud "stand up".

Pepper buds can be cold and stir-fried. I once ate a different way of eating: stewed fish with pepper buds, and stewed it together with pepper stalks. The pepper buds are tender and the stalks are soft, which is similar to the taste of reed stalks. If you bite the fibers of the stalks and suck the juice inside, the pepper will smell like Shan Ye. This is also the "dream linkage" of buds and stems on the tip of the tongue.

Deep-fried pepper buds make your tongue "win hemp".

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Spring is the season when catkins fly. In Shandong and Henan, there is also the habit of eating willow buds. Next to the sharp buds of willow leaves, pinch out a small handful, blanch it to remove bitterness, mix it with sesame oil, and put it in a white porcelain plate, which feels like a weak willow supporting the embankment. Pick up a pinch lightly, sip it gently with your tongue, and it will be crisp and rotten.

As a "pancake province" in Shandong, willow buds naturally spread pancakes. Beat two eggs on a pancake covered with broken willow buds, and it will become "two orioles singing green willows". When the egg liquid is evenly spread, the pancake is crisp, the yolk is fragrant, and the willow buds are tender. Under the triple blessing, it seems to swallow the spring day in one gulp. It is said that Tomb-Sweeping Day ate willow bud pancakes to commemorate Jietui. According to legend, the old willow tree that he held a tree to celebrate the festival later came back from the dead and was named "Qingming Willow" by Jin Wengong. From this point of view, there are cultural similarities between Liu Ya Pancake and Youth League in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

Green shoots in the plate, waiting for you to "flop".

Cartography/Jiuyang

In Guangdong, which pays attention to health, mulberry buds must be eaten in spring. The lavender mulberry buds and lanterns-like mulberries set each other off and become interesting, and mulberry bud is as soft as mulberries, which melts in the mouth, tender and slag-free. I once ate a cold mulberry bud in a restaurant in Guangdong, surrounded by a circle of mulberries and purple fruit buds, adding softness to the softness, giving the beauty of spring an image.

Guangdong locals will also use mulberry buds to make sliced meat soup, which is also smooth, tender and fragrant. Pink pieces of meat wrapped in glutinous rice are "dead" in mulberry bud, like the cartoon "Ha ha Jing Hua Yuan" (adapted from Li Ruzhen’s novel in the late Qing Dynasty) that I watched when I was very young, and the scene of a silkworm girl lying drunk on mulberry leaves in the silk country.

Mulberry buds and mulberries: small hands holding lanterns.

Photography/Li Zhentai

The story background of "Jing Hua Yuan" took place in the Tang Dynasty. There is a "Dahuanguo" in the legendary biography of Nan Ke Taishou, which is an ant hill under a locust tree. In reality, the buds of Sophora japonica are really edible, and they are very common in Shaanxi. The buds of Sophora japonica are slightly bitter, not as sweet as Sophora japonica. They can be served cold or fried, but they are slightly toxic. You should not overeat because of your appetite.

However, the Tang Dynasty gourmets more than 1000 years ago didn’t think so much. When Li Gongzuo wrote the biography of the satrap of Nanke, he should have eaten a lot of Sophora japonica buds before he had a dream of Nanke. Otherwise, how could there be a magical imagination of "enjoying a great country in Huai"? Although Sophora bud is a "spring-limited" side dish of human beings, it is indeed a feast for small ants!

Fried locust tree buds with eggs, the "dream of Nanke" in the plate.

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People in China eat buds in spring. Where are the most exotic food customs?

In spring, the sprouts in the home-cooked dishes are full of freshness, which also solves the trouble of "lack of appetite in spring and autumn". In some places, the buds can not only stimulate your appetite, but also refresh your spirit. It seems to remind you that spring is coming!

I have eaten mango buds in Yunnan. Just picked from the tree, sour green mango buds, simply cut a few petals and mix them with heavy spices such as Chili powder and garlic paste, which makes your taste buds bloom first. Once the acid enters the soul, it stays between the teeth, and spring can be so vigorous.

Green Mango Bud: Get excited, spring is coming!

Photography/Li Zhentai

In Guizhou, which is adjacent to Yunnan, eating buds is a "knife edge licking blood". In Pu ‘an, Guizhou, there is a poisonous Polygonum multiflorum Thunb, but the tender bud is a local delicacy. For local people, eating Polygonum multiflorum buds is as common as eating Toona sinensis buds. The cold Polygonum multiflorum buds in the small restaurant are the "hard currency" on the tip of the tongue in spring.

In Guangdong and Guangxi, bud and wenwan can also be related. The sandalwood with a string of hands can also be "coiled" on the tip of the tongue. Sandalwood buds are slightly bitter, so they should not be eaten raw directly. They need to be blanched with hot water, and then added with oil and salt for cold salad or stir-frying. The buds of the sandalwood tree are tender and smooth, which seems to coat the tip of the tongue with a layer of "patina" when eating.

Stir-fried qu qu bud, oily with high light.

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Sandalwood buds can be eaten, and the "neighbors" of sandalwood trees also have something to say. There is a tree in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, which appears in the Book of Songs together with the sandalwood tree: "There is a sandalwood tree, and its lower dimension is slim." This "peach" is also called "peach", and the scientific name is Broussonetia papyrifera. When the buds grow to the length of the little finger, it is the best time to enjoy the taste. As soon as the hot water is boiled, it will not lose its fragrance. When it is wrapped in flour and steamed in the pot, the children next door will cry. Broussonetia papyrifera shoots have a high appearance rate in the Book of Songs. "Yellow birds and yellow birds are not gathered in Yi", which means the "spring outing picnic" of yellow birds on Broussonetia papyrifera.

In Tongchuan, Shaanxi Province, in spring, the cypress trees all over the mountains spread branches like "Panlong", and the green "Long Lin" on it is the cypress bud called "tender and pretty bud" by the locals. This kind of magical bud, which looks like a myth from Game of Thrones, is a local specialty dish, even included in the Herbal Medicine for the Relief of Famine in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty. Longbai buds can be stewed, fried, steamed and mixed, and can be made into cans to permanently "seal" the perishable spring scenery.

Peanut bud, stir-fried in the pot, is crisp and shiny.

Photography/Liu Zhong

In Henan province, a kind of lilac strip-shaped floret is often opened in the wild and on the roadside, and its leaves are a bit like dandelion leaves, so it is also named echinacea. Its tender buds can also be eaten, called thorn buds, and its scientific name is thistle. Fresh spiny buds can be eaten without blanching, and the cool taste is a bit special, and the taste is quite like "dark drink" black pine root beer.

In my hometown, Heilongjiang, there is a kind of Artemisia bud growing in the Daur nationality gathering area. Although it bears the word willow, it has nothing to do with willow. This kind of fresh bud can be dipped in sauce and mixed with cold dishes, while the dried Artemisia buds can stew fish. I used to be a guest at a friend’s house of Daur nationality. The secret of their delicious pot-stewed river fish is to put dried tarragon buds into the pot when using it.

Stewed spareribs with Artemisia argyrophylla with Daur characteristics are simple and bold.

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The Daur language of Artemisia scoparia is called "Kumule". The Daur people also have the "Kumule Festival", which specially set up a festival for Artemisia annua, because it is said that Artemisia annua helped Daur ancestors through the famine years. As far away as the snow country in Saibei, the Artemisia selengensis bud has also had a dream linkage with the lush south of the Yangtze River. According to historians’ research, Su Dongpo’s "Artemisia selengensis" is the "Artemisia selengensis" in the puffer fish’s desire to go up, which is Artemisia selengensis bud. The ancestors of ancient Yue, Jiangsu and Zhejiang also used Artemisia selengensis bud to detoxify puffer fish. If Su Dongpo knew that Daur people thousands of miles away stewed river fish with Artemisia buds, what kind of poem would Su Dongpo write?

China people’s survival wisdom is concentrated in the dishes made by Bud Bud.

If the survival laws of nature are concentrated in buds, then the survival wisdom of China people is concentrated in the dishes made of buds. Take the most common bean sprouts as an example, there are also different "genres" such as mung bean sprouts, soybean sprouts, pea sprouts and black bean sprouts.

Bean sprouts: Give me some color and give you a delicious meal.

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Black bean sprouts are "heterogeneous" in bean sprouts, and there is even a "dark dish" of "black bean sprouts and sauerkraut stewed with blood sausage" in Northeast China. I once ate it in middle school. Needless to say, the thick sauerkraut and the bloody sausage were really endowed with the finishing touch by the crisp and fresh black bean sprouts.

In Jingmai Mountain, Yunnan, one of the tea tree hometowns in China, there is a tradition of eating tea tree buds directly. On the tea mountain in the spring night, the lush tea forest is like a miniature universe, each tea tree is like a "space station" and the tea bud is like a pocket-sized "space shuttle". The locals directly fry the eggs with tea buds. When the golden eggs are spread out, it is the "space shuttle" version of tea buds "flying over the solar system".

Stir-fried sunflower buds in oyster sauce, spring version of "sea and land fresh"

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Along the land of China, we can also eat peanut bud in Jiangxi, walnut buds in Gansu, alfalfa buds in Gansu, poplar buds in Henan, cattail buds in Shandong, magnolia buds in Beijing, buckwheat buds in Shanxi, radish buds in Anhui, Rhus chinensis buds in Guangxi, and twin buds in Yunnan …

China people eat buds, eat fresh fireworks in spring, and eat a portrait of their hometown. One bud after another makes spring returns, and one bud after another makes people full of vitality. However, the practice of budding or homely or novel also reflects the simple but vigorous creativity of China people.

Every slender bud is a beautiful stroke. People use plates as manuscript paper and "read" it in spring gourmet prose …

People who choose Toona sinensis buds and thorn buds in the vegetable market.

Photography/Wanrui

Text | Luming Literature Valley

Photo Editor | Binglingdu

Map Editor | Shao Tianrui

Cartography | Jiuyang

First picture of the article | Liu Zhong

Article Cover | Picture Worm Creativity