{"id":2929,"date":"2011-08-24T16:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T08:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/2011\/08\/24\/lan_jing_ling_20110824\/"},"modified":"2011-08-24T16:05:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T08:05:54","slug":"lan_jing_ling_20110824","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ajia.site\/blog\/en\/2011\/08\/24\/lan_jing_ling_20110824\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smurfs: Beau\u00adti\u00adful mem\u00ado\u00adries woven from mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstand\u00adings and long\u00adings"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\n\"\u84dd\u7cbe\u7075\uff1a\u8bef\u4f1a\u548c\u5411\u5f80\u7f16\u7ec7\u800c\u6210\u7684\u7f8e\u597d\u56de\u5fc6\"<\/a>
\n   
\nAfter watch\u00ading the film ver\u00adsion of The Smurfs with my daugh\u00adter, I was both amused and sur\u00adprised. While we laughed from begin\u00adning to end, I could\u00adn\u2019t help but feel like this was\u00adn\u2019t the Smurfs I remem\u00adbered from my child\u00adhood! I under\u00adstand the shift in focus when the film\u2019s set\u00adting shifts from a mys\u00adte\u00adri\u00adous vil\u00adlage to the metrop\u00ado\u00adlis of New York, but the shift is quite dra\u00admat\u00adic.
\n 
\n   
\nCome to think of it, per\u00adhaps what I am most uncom\u00adfort\u00adable with is not being able to hear the famil\u00adiar \u201cSong of the Smurfs\u201d: \u201cOn the oth\u00ader side of the mountain\/on the oth\u00ader side of the sea\/there is a group of Smurfs\/They are live\u00adly and smart\/They are naughty and agile\/They live freely in the big green for\u00adest\u2026\u201d \u2014 This song left such a deep impres\u00adsion. It almost per\u00adfect\u00adly inter\u00adprets the joy and yearn\u00ading that those cute blue elves brought to our gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion. 
\n 
\n   
\nHere\u2019s a fun\u00adny sto\u00adry. When the Hong\u00adni\u00adba Vil\u00adlage web\u00adsite was first launched in 2000, every\u00adone urged Inspec\u00adtor Car\u00adrot to write a vil\u00adlage song. He woke up in the morn\u00ading, not even brush\u00ading his teeth, and scrib\u00adbled away, \u201cBeyond the mountains\/Beyond the clouds\/There\u2019s a green field\/There\u2019s a small village\/In that small village\/In that fairy\u00adtale paradise\/There are gold\u00aden roofs\/There are glow\u00ading red walls\/And me and my close friends\u2026\u201d Clear\u00adly, this vil\u00adlage song was heav\u00adi\u00adly influ\u00adenced by the Chi\u00adnese cul\u00adture, but it also reflects the shared dream of the young peo\u00adple who found\u00aded Hong\u00adni\u00adba Vil\u00adlage.Red Mud Vil\u00adlage Song Web\u00adsite\u00bb><\/a>)
\n 
\n   
\nBut I soon dis\u00adcov\u00adered the rea\u00adson I did\u00adn\u2019t hear that song in the film: inter\u00adest\u00ading\u00adly enough, \u201cThe Smurfs\u2019 Song\u201d was orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly com\u00adposed by a Chi\u00adnese artist! It\u2019s said that when the Smurfs car\u00adtoons were import\u00aded into Hong Kong, they com\u00admis\u00adsioned a Chi\u00adnese song\u00adwriter to cre\u00adate the theme song, fol\u00adlow\u00ading Hong Kong\u2019s cus\u00adtom\u00adary prac\u00adtice. No won\u00adder I ini\u00adtial\u00adly found the song so relat\u00adable! With that in mind, the film\u2019s strong \u201cAmer\u00adi\u00adcan\u201d fla\u00advor seems unsur\u00adpris\u00ading. 
\n 
\n\"\u84dd\u7cbe\u7075\uff1a\u8bef\u4f1a\u548c\u5411\u5f80\u7f16\u7ec7\u800c\u6210\u7684\u7f8e\u597d\u56de\u5fc6\"
\n \"\u84dd\u7cbe\u7075\uff1a\u8bef\u4f1a\u548c\u5411\u5f80\u7f16\u7ec7\u800c\u6210\u7684\u7f8e\u597d\u56de\u5fc6\"<\/p>\n

    
\nSo my daugh\u00adter and I rem\u00adi\u00adnisced about our fond child\u00adhood mem\u00ado\u00adries of watch\u00ading The Smurfs: the Smurf vil\u00adlage, the entrance of which out\u00adsiders could nev\u00ader find, the all-pow\u00ader\u00adful Papa Smurf, the adorable Smur\u00adfette, the play\u00adful Lele, the quirky Yen\u2026and, of course, the most amus\u00ading char\u00adac\u00adters: the ever-unlucky Gargamel, and the per\u00adpet\u00adu\u00adal\u00adly bul\u00adlied Azrael (by the way, we had a class\u00admate nick\u00adnamed Azrael)\u2026 Our con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion ram\u00adbled on until my daugh\u00adter sud\u00adden\u00adly asked, \u201cWhen did you watch this car\u00adtoon as a kid?\u201d \u201cYes, when exact\u00adly did you watch it?\u201d I asked myself the same ques\u00adtion, only to find a strange gap in my mem\u00ado\u00adry. I sim\u00adply could\u00adn\u2019t remem\u00adber. I searched online for the ori\u00adgins of The Smurfs and dis\u00adcov\u00adered that the pop\u00adu\u00adlar Amer\u00adi\u00adcan ver\u00adsion debuted in 1981, while main\u00adland Chi\u00adna did\u00adn\u2019t intro\u00adduce it until 1986. In oth\u00ader words, I was near\u00ading high school grad\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion when I first encoun\u00adtered the Smurfs, an age when old\u00ader kids were fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00aded by youth lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture and Twi\u00adlight. Yet, I kept telling my daugh\u00adter, \u201cThis is the car\u00adtoon I watched as a kid!\u201d 
\n 
\n   
\nSome\u00adtimes mem\u00ado\u00adry is real\u00adly unre\u00adli\u00adable. A series of mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstand\u00adings made me extreme\u00adly curi\u00adous about the ori\u00adgin of the Smurfs. I start\u00aded search\u00ading for rel\u00ade\u00advant infor\u00adma\u00adtion every\u00adwhere and was even lucky enough to get an Eng\u00adlish ver\u00adsion of the Smurfs com\u00adic book \u201cThe Mag\u00adic Flute\u201d.
\nSmurfs and the Mag\u00adic
\nFlute, which is like\u00adly the com\u00adic book sto\u00adry that first gave rise to the Smurfs. The orig\u00adi\u00adnal sto\u00adry was a French ver\u00adsion pub\u00adlished in Bel\u00adgium in 1958, called \u201cThe Six-Hole Flute\u201d. It is actu\u00adal\u00adly a very long sto\u00adry, a 64-page com\u00adic nov\u00adel, sim\u00adi\u00adlar in length and dif\u00adfi\u00adcul\u00adty to \u201cThe Adven\u00adtures of Tintin\u201d, but set in the medieval cas\u00adtle age when witch\u00adcraft was preva\u00adlent. The pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnists of that sto\u00adry are actu\u00adal\u00adly a pair of human clowns: Johan and Pee-wee.
\n&
\nPee\u00adwit), the Smurfs only show up briefly on page 24, and they don\u2019t make their grand entrance until page 40. 
\n\"\u84dd\u7cbe\u7075\uff1a\u8bef\u4f1a\u548c\u5411\u5f80\u7f16\u7ec7\u800c\u6210\u7684\u7f8e\u597d\u56de\u5fc6\"
\nJohan and Pee-wee
\n \"\u84dd\u7cbe\u7075\uff1a\u8bef\u4f1a\u548c\u5411\u5f80\u7f16\u7ec7\u800c\u6210\u7684\u7f8e\u597d\u56de\u5fc6\"<\/p>\n

    
\nThe sto\u00adry of Johan and Pee\u00adwee is a com\u00adic series that Bel\u00adgian car\u00adtoon\u00adist Pee\u00adwee has been work\u00ading on since 1952. Its slight\u00adly mag\u00adi\u00adcal yet hilar\u00adi\u00adous adven\u00adture sto\u00adries have cap\u00adti\u00advat\u00aded read\u00aders and have been quite suc\u00adcess\u00adful. The idea of the Smurfs orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly came from a slip of the tongue by Pee\u00adwee and his friends while on vaca\u00adtion. They thought it was fun\u00adny, so they used the word they acci\u00adden\u00adtal\u00adly said (French: schtroumpf; lat\u00ader trans\u00adlat\u00aded into Eng\u00adlish: smurf) to cre\u00adate a fun\u00adny lan\u00adguage, using the gram\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal rules unique to alpha\u00adbet\u00adic writ\u00ading: for exam\u00adple, smurf is used as a noun and a verb, to
\n\u201cSmurf\u201d and \u201csmurf\u00ading\u201d denote actions, while \u201csmurfy\u201d is an adjec\u00adtive. The most inter\u00adest\u00ading thing about \u201csmurf\u201d is that its mean\u00ading is not fixed and can be used to express any\u00adthing, depend\u00ading on the con\u00adtext and the empha\u00adsis of the pro\u00adnun\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtion. There\u00adfore, using this unique smurf lan\u00adguage often leads to a series of mis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstand\u00adings, which is also what makes it so fun\u00adny. 
\n 
\n\"\u84dd\u7cbe\u7075\uff1a\u8bef\u4f1a\u548c\u5411\u5f80\u7f16\u7ec7\u800c\u6210\u7684\u7f8e\u597d\u56de\u5fc6\"
\nhttp:\/\/landaishu.zhongwenlink.com\/home\/upload20083\/201182405310800.jpg<\/a>
\nFun Smurfs lan\u00adguage!
\n 
\n   
\nFor this inad\u00adver\u00adtent joke, Peyo cre\u00adat\u00aded a very sim\u00adple image sys\u00adtem: a group of blue elves, only three apples in size, liv\u00ading in a mag\u00adi\u00adcal elf vil\u00adlage. All the elves are male (Smur\u00adfette was born many years lat\u00ader), and they all look the same on the sur\u00adface, with the excep\u00adtion of Papa Smurf, who looks a bit like a lit\u00adtle San\u00adta Claus. And these lit\u00adtle guys speak to each oth\u00ader in the Smurf lan\u00adguage, which seems child\u00adish and ridicu\u00adlous to out\u00adsiders.
\n 
\n\"\u84dd\u7cbe\u7075\uff1a\u8bef\u4f1a\u548c\u5411\u5f80\u7f16\u7ec7\u800c\u6210\u7684\u7f8e\u597d\u56de\u5fc6\"
\n 
\n   
\nThe appear\u00adance of these blue elves actu\u00adal\u00adly made Peyo a huge suc\u00adcess. Read\u00aders loved these sup\u00adport\u00ading char\u00adac\u00adters and want\u00aded to know more about them. How\u00adev\u00ader, this also made the duo, who were orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly the pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnists, lose their lus\u00adter. Peyo even had no time to con\u00adtin\u00adue their sto\u00adry for a long time because greedy read\u00aders kept ask\u00ading Peyo for sto\u00adries about the Smurfs. 
\n 
\n   
\nHow many com\u00adic books are there in the Smurfs series? I haven\u2019t been able to find any infor\u00adma\u00adtion on this. How\u00adev\u00ader, there is a rough esti\u00admate of the Smurfs car\u00adtoons, which began in 1981. It\u2019s said there are 420 episodes, mean\u00ading there are over 400 sep\u00ada\u00adrate Smurf sto\u00adries, both long and short. Peyo lat\u00ader had to assem\u00adble a team to com\u00adplete this incred\u00adi\u00adble under\u00adtak\u00ading. How\u00adev\u00ader, for a long time, only the Smurfs car\u00adtoons were avail\u00adable in Chi\u00adna, and most peo\u00adple were unaware of the exis\u00adtence of the Smurfs comics. 
\n 
\n<\/a>http:\/\/www.hongniba.com.cn\/bookclub\/images\/books\/book_10005616_b.gif<\/a>
\nChi\u00adnese ver\u00adsion of the Smurfs com\u00adic sto\u00adry
\n 
\n   
\nRelay Press has been pub\u00adlish\u00ading The Smurfs comics since 2008, and to date, at least 32 vol\u00adumes have been released in Chi\u00adnese. Recent\u00adly, with the release of the film, they\u2019ve re-edit\u00aded the series into a 16-vol\u00adume \u201cThe Smurfs Clas\u00adsic Comics Series.\u201d This new, more refined, small\u00ader-for\u00admat edi\u00adtion includes some of the most clas\u00adsic Smurf sto\u00adries. 
\n 
\n   
\nIt\u2019s worth not\u00ading that while Euro\u00adpean-style comics are par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlar with chil\u00addren, they\u2019re not exclu\u00adsive\u00adly for them. Judg\u00ading by their con\u00adtent and engag\u00ading sto\u00adry\u00adtelling, they\u2019re essen\u00adtial\u00adly relax\u00ading read\u00ading mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal for the home, suit\u00adable for all ages. Like \u201cThe Adven\u00adtures of Tintin\u201d and \u201cLit\u00adtle Naughty Nico\u00adla,\u201d \u201cThe Smurfs\u201d is also suit\u00adable for adults who have a non\u00adjudg\u00admen\u00adtal view of comics. Some sto\u00adries, such as \u201cThe Gold Coins of Elf Vil\u00adlage,\u201d offer a degree of satire on the mate\u00adri\u00adal\u00adis\u00adtic world of adult\u00adhood. Per\u00adhaps because of this, some crit\u00adics have crit\u00adi\u00adcized the Smurfs from a polit\u00adi\u00adcal per\u00adspec\u00adtive, argu\u00ading that their world is utopi\u00adan, left-wing, or tinged with sex\u00adism or racism. While more sta\u00adble read\u00aders can eas\u00adi\u00adly dis\u00admiss such crit\u00adi\u00adcisms (and chil\u00addren, nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adly, are even less like\u00adly to take them seri\u00adous\u00adly), this also demon\u00adstrates the poten\u00adtial for diverse inter\u00adpre\u00adta\u00adtions of the Smurfs\u2019 sto\u00adry. 
\n 
\n   
\nIn fact, peo\u00adple around the world share a uni\u00adver\u00adsal love for these strange lit\u00adtle elves. Every year, June 25th (Pey\u00adote\u2019s birth\u00adday) is des\u00adig\u00adnat\u00aded \u201cWorld Smurfs Day,\u201d and Smurf fans every\u00adwhere express their admi\u00adra\u00adtion in var\u00adi\u00adous ways. Dif\u00adfer\u00adent cul\u00adtures, aspi\u00adra\u00adtions, and taboos exist, but this does\u00adn\u2019t hin\u00adder the Smurfs. The Chi\u00adnese have com\u00adposed their own unique\u00adly inno\u00adcent \u201cSmurf Song,\u201d while Amer\u00adi\u00adcans have giv\u00aden the Smurfs a wild, rock-and-roll spin in their films. A book titled \u201cBlack Smurf\u201d was nev\u00ader pub\u00adlished in Eng\u00adlish because it might touch on sen\u00adsi\u00adtive top\u00adics of racial dis\u00adcrim\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion. Final\u00adly, a clever ani\u00adma\u00adtion direc\u00adtor and book edi\u00adtor replaced the black with pur\u00adple, renam\u00ading it \u201cPur\u00adple Smurf,\u201d and every\u00adone was hap\u00adpy. 
\n 
\n\"\u84dd\u7cbe\u7075\uff1a\u8bef\u4f1a\u548c\u5411\u5f80\u7f16\u7ec7\u800c\u6210\u7684\u7f8e\u597d\u56de\u5fc6\"
\nDark Elf
\n\"\u84dd\u7cbe\u7075\uff1a\u8bef\u4f1a\u548c\u5411\u5f80\u7f16\u7ec7\u800c\u6210\u7684\u7f8e\u597d\u56de\u5fc6\"
\n\"\u84dd\u7cbe\u7075\uff1a\u8bef\u4f1a\u548c\u5411\u5f80\u7f16\u7ec7\u800c\u6210\u7684\u7f8e\u597d\u56de\u5fc6\"<\/a>
\nPur\u00adple Elf
\n 
\n   
\nThink\u00ading of this, I\u2019ve com\u00adplete\u00adly let go of all the \u201cmis\u00adun\u00adder\u00adstand\u00adings\u201d I once had about the Smurfs. I still deeply love the Smurf car\u00adtoons and songs I watched and sang as a child. I also adore the Smurf comics my daugh\u00adter is cur\u00adrent\u00adly devour\u00ading, and I\u2019m equal\u00adly drawn to the Smurfs in today\u2019s Amer\u00adi\u00adcan block\u00adbusters. I think I\u2019ll even devel\u00adop a fond\u00adness for all my fel\u00adlow Smurf-lov\u00ading friends. Our love may dif\u00adfer, but our long\u00ading for inno\u00adcence is so sim\u00adi\u00adlar. All of this is thanks to the cre\u00adator of the Smurf world\u2014Peyo! 
\n 
\n    The smurf
\nis so smurf\u00ading. I real\u00adly smurf it!
\n(Smurf lan\u00adguage, rough\u00adly mean\u00ading \u201cThis world is so beau\u00adti\u00adful, I real\u00adly love it!\u201d) 
\n 
\nBei\u00adjing, August 2011<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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