Ministry of Finance: Impose a 10% consumption tax on ultra-luxury cars in retail.

  The industry believes that a consumption tax on luxury cars in the retail sector will not only reasonably guide consumption, but also increase fiscal revenue.

  The Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation issued a notice yesterday, saying that in order to guide rational consumption and promote energy conservation and emission reduction, with the approval of the State Council, consumption tax will be imposed on ultra-luxury cars. This regulation will be implemented as of December 1, 2016.

  Tax will be increased by 10% on the sales of ultra-luxury cars.

  The notice pointed out that the sub-tax item of "super luxury cars" will be added under the tax item of "cars". The scope of collection is passenger cars and light commercial buses with a retail price of 1.3 million yuan (excluding value-added tax) and above, that is, ultra-luxury cars in the sub-tax items of passenger cars and light commercial buses. For ultra-luxury cars, on the basis of the consumption tax levied at the current tax rate in the production (import) link, the consumption tax is levied at the retail link, and the tax rate is 10%. The notice makes it clear that the units and individuals that sell ultra-luxury cars to consumers are taxpayers in the retail link of ultra-luxury cars.

  10% consumption tax will not be levied on the sold vehicles for filing within 5 days.

  For distribution channels, will the vehicles that have signed automobile sales contracts before November 30 be affected by the adjustment of the consumption tax on ultra-luxury cars? It is understood that for ultra-luxury cars that have signed automobile sales contracts before November 30 (inclusive), but have not delivered the real thing, taxpayers will file the signed automobile sales contracts with their competent tax authorities within 5 working days from December 1 (inclusive). According to the notice information, the retail consumption tax with the tax rate of 10% will not be levied for those who are filed according to the regulations, and the retail consumption tax will be levied if they are not filed and not filed within the prescribed time limit.

  It is difficult to manage the tax after tax collection.

  According to the information, when the consumption tax was implemented in 1994, it included automobile tax items. In the consumption tax reform in 2006, the automobile consumption tax was adjusted. It is understood that the current car tax items are divided into two categories: passenger cars and medium and light commercial buses. Among them, the larger the cylinder capacity of passenger cars, the higher the tax rate of consumption tax, and the tax rate ranges from 1% to 40%. Passenger cars with a cylinder capacity of more than 4 liters will be subject to a consumption tax rate of up to 40%. The consumption tax rate of 5% is applicable to medium and light commercial buses. The taxation link is in the production and import links.

  According to industry analysts, a consumption tax will be levied on luxury cars in the retail sector, with the aim of reasonably guiding consumption and increasing fiscal revenue.

  "The consumption tax collection link is changed to the retail link. The advantage is that the final selling price of goods can be taxed, and the tax base is obviously expanded, which can increase fiscal revenue and reasonably guide consumption, but the challenge is that the collection and management are difficult." The above analysis pointed out that the relevant departments took luxury cars as a breakthrough and imposed a consumption tax on the retail sector, which is also based on the fact that there are not many 4S retail stores in China compared with retail stores such as tobacco and alcohol, and it is relatively easy to control. This will provide experience for the next stage of other tax items to move back.

  Text/reporter Ren Xiaoyuan

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  The actual impact on car buyers will not be great.

  At present, the models with more than 1.3 million yuan are basically ultra-luxury car brands such as Bentley, Maserati and Porsche. In addition, some brands such as BMW X6, BMW 7 Series, Mercedes-Benz GL Series and Audi A8 have reached this level. Therefore, the influence of the new consumption tax policy is relatively small and fixed. But at present, it should not have much impact on the sales in this market.

  China’s automobile consumption tax was established in 1994, and the latest automobile consumption tax reform was in 2008. The tax rate for passenge cars with displacement of 3.0L to 4.0L is raise from 15% to 25%, and that for passenger cars with displacement of 4.0L is raised to 40%. Reduce the consumption tax rate of small-displacement passenger cars, and reduce the tax rate from 3% to 1% for passenger cars with displacement below 1.0L This time, the tax rate will be increased by 10% for ultra-luxury cars with a price of more than 1.3 million yuan. This adjustment mainly affects the sales of imported vehicles.

  According to the previous consumption tax policy, the tax rate of ultra-luxury cars is basically 40% high-end. Compared with the consumption tax of 40%, the current 25% tariff and 17% value-added tax have become small heads, so for luxury cars with a price of several million yuan, the consumption tax itself is an important factor to increase the difference between domestic and foreign car prices. Judging from the new policy introduced this time, an additional 10% consumption tax will be imposed on ultra-luxury cars with a price of more than 1.3 million yuan, which will not have a great impact on car buyers. In fact, many 4S shops will basically increase the price of ultra-luxury cars by 100 thousand to several hundred thousand yuan above the manufacturer’s guide price before they can pick up the car, and most car buyers also acquiesce to this.

  Text/reporter zhangqin

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  Whether the purchase tax on small-displacement vehicles will continue to be halved is inconclusive.

  In fact, in the automobile consumption, there is also an essential expenditure, which is the purchase tax. China’s automobile purchase tax rate is set at 10%, which accounts for a large proportion in the cost of car purchase. However, at present, China has adopted a preferential policy of halving the purchase tax for small-displacement vehicles of 1.6 liters or less, that is, it is levied at 5% of the vehicle price, which has played a significant role in promoting the consumption of small-displacement vehicles.

  The preferential policy of halving the purchase tax on small-displacement vehicles has been implemented since October 1, 2015. According to the plan at that time, the policy will expire on December 31, 2016, which means that there is still a whole month left. Up to now, there is no official explanation on whether the preferential policy of halving the purchase tax will continue, and more is speculation from outside. It is also reported that various departments at the government level have different opinions on whether to continue this policy. Earlier, some media reported that on November 1, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Finance and other ministries and commissions held departmental meetings to study whether to continue this policy, but no news came out since then.

  The data shows that the prices of 1.6-liter and below displacement models are mostly concentrated below 200,000 yuan. According to the current preferential policies, the purchase tax for bicycles ranges from 3,000 to 10,000 yuan. Once this policy is cancelled next year, it is likely to drive the sales ratio of models above 1.6 liters to increase in a short time. According to the data of China Automobile Association, in 2015, the sales of passenger cars of 1.6 liters and below reached 14,508,600, an increase of 10.38% over the same period of last year, which was higher than the overall growth rate of passenger cars and accounted for 68.6% of the sales of passenger cars.

  Text/reporter zhangqin for the picture/vision china

How to stop the "two high" projects from going against the wind? Detailed explanation of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment

  On September 6th, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced the typical cases of the fourth batch of central eco-environmental protection inspectors in the second round, pointing out that in some places, there are some problems such as coal substitution fraud and illegal construction of "high energy consumption" and "high emission" projects. Previously, in the first three batches of feedback from the central eco-environmental protection inspectors in the second round, there were also "two high" projects launched in some places in violation of laws and regulations.

  The blind development of "two high" projects not only affects the improvement of regional environmental quality, but also seriously affects the realization of carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions. When the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader presided over the 21st meeting of the Central Committee for Deep Reform, he stressed that the "two high" projects should be strictly controlled, the resource conservation and efficient utilization should be promoted, and new green and low-carbon kinetic energy should be cultivated.

  Why do some areas want to launch the "two high" projects against the wind? How to contain and control? How to rectify? The reporter interviewed Yan Gang, vice president of the Environmental Planning Institute of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

  Resolutely curbing the blind development of the "two high" projects is an important measure to implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively.

  Reporter: What are the main projects of "high energy consumption" and "high emission" and what harm will they cause to the ecological environment?

  Yan Gang: "High energy consumption" and "high emission" projects, also known as "two high" projects, involve many industries and cover a wide range. Specifically, the "two high" projects generally refer to projects in coal-fired power, petrochemical, chemical, steel, non-ferrous smelting, building materials and other industries. These industries are all key industries that emit pollutants and carbon dioxide. It is estimated that they account for more than 70% of the national carbon dioxide emissions and about 50% of the major air pollutants.

  At present, there are some problems in some "two high" projects, such as incomplete procedures, capacity replacement of "one woman marries more", false coal replacement, ineffective implementation of approval requirements, and inadequate energy-saving review. Because of its high energy consumption and high emission, the blind development of the "two high" projects will lead to excessive consumption of resources and energy, environmental pollution and carbon emission problems, which will put great pressure on the continuous improvement of ecological environment quality and pollution reduction and carbon reduction. If the blind launching of the "two high" projects is not effectively curbed, it will not only increase China’s carbon emission level, increase the pressure of pollution control and ecological protection and restoration, but also have obvious high-carbon lock-in, which may lead to the risk of "shelving assets" and investment and financing, aggravate the contradiction between economic development and ecological environmental protection, and seriously affect the construction of beautiful China and the realization of peak carbon dioxide emissions’s carbon-neutral goal.

  Reporter: From the perspective of optimizing and adjusting the industrial structure and promoting economic and social development, what is the practical significance of curbing the "two high" projects?

  Yan Gang: The CPC Central Committee attaches great importance to resolutely curbing the blind development of the "two high" projects. The 14th Five-Year Plan and the outline of the long-term goal in 2035 put forward that it is necessary to resolutely curb the blind development of the "two high" projects and promote the green transformation to achieve positive development. When presiding over the 29th collective study in the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed: "Projects with high energy consumption and high emissions that do not meet the requirements must be resolutely taken down." From the perspective of optimizing the industrial structure and promoting economic and social development, resolutely curbing the blind development of the "two high" projects is an important measure to implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively, which provides an important starting point for deepening the supply-side structural reform in the new development stage and brings important opportunities for changing the mode and adjusting the structure.

  It is conducive to promoting the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries and promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of industries. In the process of curbing the blind development of "two high" projects, by strictly controlling the increment of "two high" projects and optimizing the stock, we can fundamentally solve the problems of low overall local industrial level, biased structure, unreasonable layout and low-level redundant construction, and force backward production capacity to be eliminated, transform and upgrade the green level of traditional industries, and promote the development of "two high" industries in the direction of green, environmental protection, low carbon and recycling.

  Make room for the development of strategic emerging industries and accelerate the transformation of old and new kinetic energy in economic development. Curbing the blind development of "two high" projects, making more room for the development of strategic emerging industries such as digital economy and high-tech industries, and creating more opportunities for the development of green low-carbon products and green environmental protection equipment will help accelerate the conversion of old and new kinetic energy, promote the optimization and adjustment of industrial structure, and promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.

  Reduce pollutants and carbon emissions from the source and promote the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction. Curbing the blind development of the "two high" projects has cut off the sources of "three wastes" and carbon emissions from the source, reduced the pressure of environmental pollution terminal treatment and carbon emission reduction, and opened up the key blocking points for optimizing the front-end industrial structure to promote pollution reduction and carbon reduction, which is helpful to accurately and efficiently promote the continuous improvement of ecological environment quality and the realization of "double carbon" goals.

  Lack of subjective understanding, lack of control action and the fact that the concept of development has not been fundamentally changed are the main reasons for launching the "two high" projects against the wind in some areas.

  Reporter: According to the person in charge of the relevant departments of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, at the beginning of the 14 th Five-Year Plan, projects with high energy consumption and high emissions were launched in some areas. Why do some areas want to launch the "two high" projects against the wind?

  Yan Gang: The "14th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for China to transform its development mode, optimize its economic structure and transform its growth momentum, and it is also a critical period and window period for realizing peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030. Under the situation that the state resolutely curbs the development of the "two high" projects, some areas are still launching the "two high" projects against the wind. The reasons can be summarized as three aspects:

  Insufficient subjective understanding. Some localities and leading cadres have not fully understood the great significance of promoting carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions and accelerating the overall green transformation of economic and social development with pollution reduction and carbon reduction as the bull’s nose, and they are not ready for green and low-carbon development subjectively. Some places even regard peak carbon dioxide emissions as a "carbon charge" and "climbing the peak", and think that 2030 is a "window period" to improve the use of fossil energy. They fail to clearly understand the pressure brought by the local high-level peak carbon dioxide emissions on carbon neutrality, which leads to the ideological misunderstanding that peak carbon dioxide emissions can seize some high-energy-consuming and high-emission projects before 2030 and continue to greatly increase the use of fossil energy.

  Weak control action. In some places, the authority for examination and approval of the "two high" projects has been decentralized and released, and there is a serious shortage of supervision after the event. At the same time, the top-level design scheme of carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions has not been formally promulgated, and a clear timetable, road map and construction drawing for promoting carbon neutrality in peak carbon dioxide emissions have not been formed, and an effective incentive and restraint and assessment mechanism has not been established, which makes some areas lack clear requirements, resulting in weak action to curb the "two high" projects and the absence of government supervision.

  The concept of development has not been fundamentally changed. In some areas, the concept of one-sided pursuit of GDP growth and GDP-led development has not been fundamentally changed, especially due to the downward pressure of the economy and the COVID-19 epidemic, there has been a swing in promoting green development. In the choice of development mode, it is easy to be influenced by the dependence of traditional development path, and it adheres to the extensive development mode of high investment and high consumption at the expense of resources and environment in the past.

  If the local government fails to implement the prevention and control measures of the "two high" projects and the problems are outstanding, it will implement regional approval restrictions and be included in the central ecological environmental protection inspector.

  Reporter: how to control the "two highs" project from the source, and where is the focus of control?

  Yan Gang: Source prevention and control is the fundamental solution to curb the blind development of the "two high" projects. On May 31st, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Prevention and Control of Eco-environmental Sources of Construction Projects with High Energy Consumption and High Emission, which defined the requirements of eco-environmental management in macro, meso and project levels, and guided the transformation and development of "two high" projects in low-carbon life. Specifically:

  At the macro level, strengthen the control and restraint of ecological environment zoning, accelerate the application of the achievements of "three lines and one order" (red line of ecological protection, bottom line of environmental quality, online utilization of resources and access list of ecological environment) in the industrial layout and structural adjustment of "two high" industries and the site selection of major projects, and give full play to the role of "three lines and one order" in leading the rational layout and orderly development of "two high" projects. More stringent measures should be taken to strictly control the development of "two high" projects in areas such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas where "two high" projects are intensive and the task of improving ambient air quality is arduous.

  At the meso level, strengthen the effectiveness of planning environmental impact assessment, and strictly review the comprehensive planning, special planning such as industry and energy, and industrial park planning involving "two high" industries. The environmental impact assessment of park planning with "two high" industries as the leading industries should increase the analysis of carbon emissions and emission reduction potential, and promote the green and low-carbon development of the park. Promote coal-fired energy bases, modern coal chemical demonstration zones, petrochemical industrial bases, etc. to carry out planning environmental impact tracking assessment, improve ecological environmental protection measures and optimize and adjust plans in a timely manner.

  At the project level, it is necessary to strictly examine and approve the environmental impact assessment of the "two high" projects, improve the level of clean production and pollution prevention, and promote the coordinated control of pollution reduction and carbon reduction. Strictly control the environmental access of the newly renovated and expanded "two high" projects, strictly implement industrial policies, and strictly and strictly control the "two high" projects. It is necessary to strictly implement policies such as industrial planning, capacity substitution of "two high" projects, pollutant reduction and substitution, and coal consumption reduction and substitution. Improve the requirements of clean production and low-carbon development of the "two high" projects, incorporate carbon emission impact assessment into the environmental impact assessment system, control carbon emissions from industrial sources, and promote the micro-level strengthening of pollution reduction and carbon reduction source control and whole process management.

  Reporter: How to rectify the completed "two high" projects that do not meet the requirements?

  Yan Gang: The completed "two high" projects that do not meet the requirements must be resolutely rectified, and classified disposal and dynamic monitoring should be carried out according to specific conditions. For the "two high" projects that do not implement the requirements of environmental assessment and energy rating, they should be ordered to rectify immediately. Those who cause serious environmental pollution or ecological damage shall be ordered to stop production or use according to law, or reported to the people’s government with the right to approve and ordered to close down. The examination and approval and supervision department staff do not perform their duties according to law, lax, shall be punished according to law; For the "two high" projects that do not strictly implement the requirements of capacity replacement, coal consumption reduction replacement and regional pollutant reduction replacement, the accountability will be strengthened, and the construction unit and related responsible persons will be blacklisted in the industry and exposed to the public. If the local government fails to implement the prevention and control measures of the "two high" projects and the problems are outstanding, it will implement regional approval restrictions and be included in the central ecological environmental protection inspector.

  Establish a system and supervision system that strictly guards against the source, strictly controls the process and severely punishes the consequences, and carry out the normal supervision of the "two high" projects.

  Reporter: How to carry out normalized supervision and build an effective system and supervision system?

  Yan Gang: To build a system and supervision system that strictly guards against the source, strictly controls the process and severely punishes the consequences, and to carry out the normal supervision of the "two high" projects, we need to do the following work well:

  Establish a unified management ledger. Normalization supervision of the "two high" projects involves many departments, such as development and reform, ecological environment and industrial information. On the basis of the dynamic management list of each department, a unified management ledger can be promoted to record basic information such as project name, construction site, industry, construction status, energy-saving review and environmental impact assessment approval. In case of capacity replacement, information such as replacement equipment and capacity should also be recorded.

  Strengthen supervision and inspection. Including strictly carrying out energy-saving review, establishing the working mechanism of environmental assessment and sewage permit supervision and inspection of "two high" projects, strengthening law enforcement supervision based on sewage permit, and bringing "two high" enterprises into "double random and one open" daily law enforcement supervision.

  Strict accountability. It is necessary to establish working mechanisms such as informed criticism, early warning of energy use, and accountability for interviews, and strictly investigate and deal with areas where work is not carried out effectively and access to the "two high" projects is not strict. Incorporate the development of the "two high" projects into the scope of the central ecological environmental protection inspector, and compact the local government to implement the main responsibility of curbing the blind development of the "two high" projects, dual control of energy consumption and pollution control.

  Improve the incentive policy. We will improve fiscal, taxation, price, finance, land and government procurement policies that are conducive to green and low-carbon development, establish different types of total carbon emission control systems, and promote the construction of the national carbon market. Strictly implement the differential electricity price policy, and implement the punitive electricity price policy for the "two high" industries whose energy consumption and pollutant discharge exceed the quota requirements.

  Take the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction as the general starting point to promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and vigorously promote energy conservation and carbon reduction in the four major fields of industry, electricity, transportation and construction.

  Reporter: While curbing the development of the "two high" projects, how should we carry out energy conservation and carbon reduction to ensure that peak carbon dioxide emissions will be carbon neutral by 2030 and 2060 as scheduled?

  Yan Gang: China’s efforts to achieve peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 is a major strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee after careful consideration, which provides direction for accelerating the development of green, low-carbon and high-quality in China, and also puts forward new requirements for energy conservation and carbon reduction. Realizing peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality is a broad and profound economic and social change, which requires the joint efforts of all localities, fields and industries. It is necessary to take the synergy of pollution reduction and carbon reduction as the general starting point to promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, and make an integrated plan, deployment, promotion and assessment. Since last year, our institute, together with 14 industry associations and scientific research institutions, has carried out carbon emission modeling, scenario analysis and peak path research in six key industries, such as electric power, steel, cement, aluminum smelting, petrochemical and chemical industry, and coal chemical industry, and in two major fields, such as transportation and construction, and put forward a national carbon emission peak road map based on key industries and fields. According to the research results, while curbing the development of the "two high" projects, we should also take the overall green and low-carbon transformation of production and lifestyle as the direction, and vigorously promote energy conservation and carbon reduction in the four major fields of industry, electricity, transportation and construction.

  The industrial sector has long been the largest field of energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission in China, and it is the key to affect the carbon neutrality of peak carbon dioxide emissions as a whole. While strictly controlling the blind growth of "two high" production capacity, we should focus on the adjustment of industrial structure and the improvement of resource and energy utilization efficiency, accelerate the green and low-carbon transformation of industrial production methods, vigorously promote industrial energy conservation and consumption reduction, and build a low-carbon circular industrial system.

  Electric power is the largest carbon emission industry in China, and it is also the main body of China’s energy consumption increment in the next 10 years. It is necessary to vigorously promote the development of non-fossil energy, comprehensively speed up the layout of wind and light power sources, and build a new power system with new energy as the main body.

  In the transportation field, we should vigorously improve the development speed of new energy vehicles and continuously reduce the carbon emission intensity of newly produced fuel vehicles; Continue to promote the structural adjustment of bulk cargo transportation and accelerate the formation of a pattern of medium and long-distance transportation mainly by rail and water; Promote green and low-carbon travel and form a green and low-carbon transportation mode.

  In the construction field, it is necessary to adhere to the improvement of energy efficiency and the optimization of energy consumption structure. By reasonably controlling the building scale, vigorously promoting clean heating in the northern region, improving the energy-saving standards of new buildings, popularizing ultra-low energy-consuming buildings, intensifying the energy-saving renovation of existing buildings, and actively promoting the application of renewable energy in the construction field, carbon emissions in the construction field are controlled by various measures.

  Our reporter Wu Jing

Science and Technology 0530 last night and this morning: the State Council: Gradually cancel the purchase restrictions of new energy vehicles in various places.

Hi, everyone, it’s Thursday, May 30th, 2024. Today’s important scientific and technological information includes:

1. Huawei HarmonyOS Zhixing’s first executive-class luxury flagship car, enjoying the official announcement of S9 on May 31st.

The company officially announced that "HarmonyOS Zhixing’s first executive luxury flagship car" will debut on May 31st, when there will be a brand-new version of M7 Max. > > view details

2. the State Council: Gradually cancel the purchase restrictions of new energy vehicles in various places.

The State Council issued the Action Plan for Energy Conservation and Carbon Reduction for 2024-2025, which mentioned that it is necessary to speed up the elimination of old motor vehicles and improve the access standards for energy consumption limits of operating vehicles. Gradually cancel the restrictions on the purchase of new energy vehicles in various places. Implement support policies such as facilitating the passage of new energy vehicles. Promote the electrification of vehicles in the public domain, promote medium and heavy trucks with new energy in an orderly manner, and develop a zero-emission freight fleet. We will promote the scrapping and renewal of old transport ships and promote the pilot project of electrification transformation of coastal inland rivers. By the end of 2025, the intensity of carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector will be reduced by 5% compared with 2020. > > view details

3. JD.COM’s Jingxi brand upgrade: launched a full hosting model and renamed it "Jingxi Self-operated".

Jingxi announced that Jingxi brand ushered in a comprehensive upgrade, launched a full hosting model, and changed its name to "Jingxi self-operated". Search for "Jingxi Self-operated Store" in JD.COM App, and you can jump to the Jingxi Self-operated Store page. Most of the commodity prices on the page are below 10 yuan, which is similar to Taobao’s "Amoy Factory". > > view details

4. Starting from 59,900 yuan, 2024 Chery Arrizo 5 Huimin version cars will be launched.

The 2024 Chery Arrizo 5 car was launched in October last year, and the market guidance price range was 59,900 yuan-75,900 yuan. After more than half a year, Chery announced the new 2024 Arrizo 5 Huimin Edition. The pricing changes are as follows:

  • 1.5L manual urban type is 59,900 yuan, and Huimin version cancels this configuration.
  • 1.5L manual fashion model is 65,900 yuan, and Huimin version is reduced to 59,900 yuan, with a price reduction of 6,000 yuan.
  • 1.5L CVT fashion model is 75,900 yuan, Huimin version is reduced to 69,900 yuan, and the price is reduced by 6,000 yuan > > See details.

5. Audi was exposed that the new car had just been driven for seven months, and the roadside spontaneously burned down. The 4S shop said that it could only pay according to three guarantees.

According to The Paper, Ms. Chen from Hubei recently reported that in August 2023, she bought an Audi A6L car in Wuhan Hengxin Handi Automobile Sales & Service Co., Ltd. On March 3 this year, only seven months after picking up the car, Ms. Chen’s new car spontaneously ignited and burned when she stopped at the roadside.

Entrusted by Wuhan Branch of Taiping Property Insurance Co., Ltd., the relevant technical center investigated the vehicle condition.It is identified as spontaneous combustion caused by internal electrical failure of the automobile and quality defects of the accessories themselves.Therefore, the insurance company refused to pay compensation and thought that the manufacturer should bear the responsibility for the quality problems.

After the accident, Ms. Chen went to the 4S shop several times to negotiate with the after-sales manager.The other party refused to pay the top model of the original car (2024 A6L 55 four-wheel drive flagship) and compensate the related mental loss expenses..

Mr. Jin, after-sales manager of Wuhan Hengxin Handi 4S store, said that the spontaneous combustion of related vehicles was a case, which was the first accident in his own 4S store in the past five or six years, so it was handled according to a single case.According to the three-guarantee policy, the car can be returned or changed.. > > view details

6. Chery X Hua started large-scale delivery for the first car intelligence S7, and Yin Tongyue, chairman of Chery, delivered the car personally.

As the first car that Chery cooperated with Huawei, Zhijie S7 started large-scale delivery last month. On the afternoon of May 25th, Zhijie Automobile held a centralized delivery ceremony in Wuhu. Yin Tongyue, Party Secretary and Chairman of Chery Group, visited the site personally.And personally deliver the new car to the owner.. > > view details

7. China consumer v. Apple’s antitrust case was pronounced in the first instance: Apple has a dominant market position, but it has not abused it.

According to the First Financial Report, on May 29th, the Shanghai Intellectual Property Court announced the first-instance judgment of China’s first case of consumers suing Apple for monopoly. The court found that Apple had a dominant position in the China software market, but it did not abuse this position, and dismissed the plaintiff Kim’s claim.

IT house search learned that in early 2021, when Shanghai user Jin bought an App in Apple’s mobile app store, he found that he could only choose Apple Pay, the only payment method, and could not choose common mobile payment methods such as WeChat payment and Alipay. At the same time, the user found that because the developer needs to pay a commission of 30% of the transaction amount to Apple (that is, "Apple tax"), the purchase price of consumers in the Apple App Store is higher than that in the Android App Store for the same application. > > view details

8. The new functions of GPT-4o, such as custom GPT, are now open to all ChatGPT users free of charge.

ChatGPT free users can now try to customize GPT models, analysis charts and other new GPT-4o functions. Of course, when OpenAI launched GPT-4o, it promised that it would be open to all users free of charge, and the advantage of paying users lies in "having five times the capacity limit of free users". > > view details

9. The performance of mobile phones has reached a new level: Arm released Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU.

Chip design company Arm5 released the next generation CPU and GPU designs for flagship smartphones on May 29th: Cortex-X925 CPU and Immortalis G925 GPU. These two chips are the successors of Cortex-X4 and Immortalis G720 currently used in MediaTek Tianji 9300 processor.

IT House noticed that Arm changed the naming of Cortex-X CPU series to highlight its significant performance improvement. The company claims that the single-core performance of X925 is 36% higher than that of X4 (based on Geekbench test). Thanks to the private L2 cache of up to 3MB, Arm said that the performance of the X925′ s AI workload (measured by "time to token") has improved by 41%. > > view details

10. In the first quarter, Didi’s total revenue was 49.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.9%, and the average daily travel volume in China was 32.5 million.

Didi released its first quarter financial report as of the end of March on May 29th. In the first quarter of 2024, Didi’s total revenue was 49.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.9%; The net loss in the first quarter was 1.35 billion yuan. In the first quarter, the total transaction volume (GTV) of core platforms reached 92.2 billion yuan, up 26.9% year-on-year. > > view details

11. Geely Automobile: The highest thermal efficiency of Raytheon engine is 46.1%, and the highest fact in the world has the final say.

On the evening of May 28th, the fifth-generation DM hybrid was released, and the official said that it had achieved three "best in the world", one of which was the highest engine thermal efficiency of 46.06%. However, on the morning of May 29th, Xu Dongwei, general manager of brand user communication center of Geely Automobile Group and deputy general manager of Geely Automobile Sales Company, issued a certificate of certification of China Automobile Center, saying: "In 2023, Geely Raytheon engine has been certified by China Automobile Center with the highest thermal efficiency of 46.1%! The highest facts in the world have the final say! " After that, the official account of Geely Automobile forwarded this Weibo, saying that "the highest facts in the world have the final say". > > view details

Let’s stop here for today. Technology last night and this morning, let’s see you tomorrow.

Red Flag H5 Red Flag is no longer low-key.

When young people buy a car, they often consider many factors. In addition to the high value, the configuration and control can not be less, and the price should be within their tolerance. I don’t know what you think of domestic cars, but what I want to introduce to you today is domestic cars. Let’s take a good look at it.

Let’s take a look at the appearance of the red flag H5 first. The whole front of the red flag H5 looks more individual and lively. Then the fashionable headlight design is adopted, and the overall look is very simple. The car is equipped with LED daytime running lights, front fog lights, automatic opening and closing, adaptive far and near light, delayed closing and so on. Coming to the side of the car body, the size of the car body is 4988 mm * 1875 mm * 1470 mm. The car adopts fashionable and generous lines, giving people a very domineering and stylish feeling. With large-sized thick-walled tires, the overall visual effect is very simple. In the rear part, the rear looks simple and fashionable, the taillight style is more stable and atmospheric, and with the unique exhaust pipe, the shape is more fashionable and concise.

Arriving in the Hongqi H5 car, the interior design of Hongqi H5 is very fashionable and dynamic, giving people a very cool feeling. The shape of the steering wheel of the car is eye-catching, and it is equipped with the functions of manual steering wheel up and down+front and rear adjustment, steering wheel heating, etc., showing a sense of atmosphere. Let’s take a look at the central control. The car is equipped with a touch-sensitive LCD central control screen, which makes the interior style impressive and dynamic. Finally, let’s look at the dashboard and seats. The car is equipped with an eye-catching dashboard, which gives people a very unique feeling. The car uses leather seats, and the seats are wrapped in place, which is basically enough for daily use.

The car is equipped with car networking, driving mode selection, remote control key, interior ambient light, traction control (ASR/TCS, etc.) and other configurations. The configuration performance is quite good, bringing drivers and passengers a comfortable car experience.

The car introduced today is remarkable in terms of space, configuration and power, and home travel is also a good helper. If you think so, today’s car is still worth recommending.

In the past five years, "Ghost Blowing Lights" and "Raquel" have attracted the most money.

In recent years, domestic online movies have developed rapidly, especially in 2020, both the number of productions and the box office performance of online movies have shown a blowout state. According to the data of Lighthouse Professional Edition, from 2018 to 2021 (this paper only counts online movies with separate box office, and some online movies with on-demand payment have not announced the box office, so they are not included in the statistics), the number of online movies with separate box office exceeding 10 million is: 20, 28, 79 and 70 respectively. Just after a quarter in 2022, there were 13 online movies with a box office of over 10 million. The Beijing News combed these 210 online movies with box office exceeding 10 million, and found that "Ghost Blowing Lights" IP was the most popular, with 8 related online movies, and the action type was the most popular among the audience, accounting for 44.8%. Raquel and Xie Miao starred in the largest number of films, each with eight films, with a cumulative box office of 147 million yuan and 121 million yuan, respectively, and became the most attractive actors in "Net University".  
[IP adaptation]
There are 25 ghost blowing lanterns, Di Renjie, Fengshen and Journey to the West.
Many online movies are adapted from IP, on the one hand, because IP has its own traffic and has a certain audience, on the other hand, IP has set a basic story frame or characters, which brings great convenience to creation.
According to the statistics of the Beijing News, from 2018 to April 1, 2022, among the online movies with a box office of over 10 million yuan, "Ghost Blowing Lights" IP was the most popular among the audience. Ghost-Blowing Lantern in Wuxia Guanshan (34.702 million yuan), Ghost-Blowing Lantern in Xiangxi (56.827 million yuan), Ghost-Blowing Lantern in Longling Cave (35.115 million yuan), Ghost-Blowing Lantern in Longling Shrine (21.564 million yuan), Legend of the King of Yunnan Worm Valley (11.56 million yuan) The Guardian of Touching Jin Jun (16.56 million yuan), eight IP online movies of Ghost Blowing Lights, the cumulative sub-account box office was 241 million yuan, among which the National Day of 2020, the Secret Collection of Ghost Blowing Lights in Xiangxi, which was broadcast by Tencent Video alone, ranked first in the current online movie sub-account box office list with 56.827 million yuan.
Poster of "Di Renjie’s Ghost Road". "Di Renjie" has become the busiest costume figure in online movies.
Di Renjie IP followed closely, followed by Di Renjie’s Eye of Death (32.52 million yuan), The Headless God of Di Renjie (18.455 million yuan), The Blood Vine of Chiyou in Di Renjie (17.115 million yuan), The Ghost Road of Di Renjie (11.846 million yuan) and The Flying Head of Di Renjie.
In terms of traditional classical mythology IP, there are five online movies about "Goddess Bestow", namely, Su Daji the Fox, Jiang Ziya the New Goddess Bestow, Where is the New Goddess Bestow the Sea, List of Gods Bestow: Demon Extinction, List of Gods Bestow: Final Battle of Wanxian Array. There are also five works in Journey to the West, namely, The City of the Great Sage in the Monkey King, The Four Volts Demon of the Great Dream Journey to the West, The Great Sage in the Monkey King’s Heavenly Palace, The Flame Mountain of the Great Sage in the Monkey King, and The Big Canopy. The cumulative box office of the two IP accounts did not exceed 100 million yuan.
"Hao Ge Love Story" poster.
In recent years, some grassroots IP have sprung up and gained a share in the online movie market. For example, "Erlong Lake Haoge" and "Erlong Lake Haoge Siping Youth" were launched in 2012, and this online movie created by grassroots youth gained huge traffic. Since then, works have been published every year, and they will all gain a good box office. Since 2018, seven related online movies have been launched, namely, Driving Crazy in Erlong Lake, Wyndell Dichinson and Bangkok for Siping Youth, Siping Fengyun, Three Silly Crimes of Siping Youth, the Rush Hour of Siping Police Affairs, The Past of Erlong Lake: fright night and Hao Ge Love Story, with a cumulative box office of 138 million yuan. In addition, "Chen Xiang 6: 30", which attracted much attention from netizens because of shooting short videos, also moved to online movies, and the box office of "Chen Xiang’s steel-toed at 6: 30", "Chen Xiang’s heavy building at 6: 30" and "Chen Xiang’s boxing champion mother at 6: 30" also exceeded 10 million yuan.
[Playing platform]
Nearly half of the works are broadcast alone in iQiyi.
According to the data of Lighthouse Professional Edition, from 2018 to April 1, 2022, a total of 210 online movies earned more than 10 million yuan at the box office, of which 35 were solo broadcast on Tencent video, 53 were solo broadcast on Youku, 101 were solo broadcast on iQiyi, and the others were broadcast on two or three platforms.
[Type distribution]
Action and fantasy are popular.
According to the data of Lighthouse Professional Edition, from 2018 to April 1, 2022, among 210 online movies with box office exceeding 10 million yuan, the action type was the most popular among the audience, with 94 movies, accounting for 44.8%. Followed by fantasy and comedy types, there are 45 and 42 respectively, in addition, there are 32 suspense types and 28 romance films.
(Note: Some of the 210 films overlap in genre. )
[Signature Actor]
Raquel and Xie Miao attract the most gold.
According to statistics, from 2018 to April 1, 2022, among 210 online movies with box office over 10 million yuan, Raquel and Xie Miao starred in the largest number of films, with cumulative box office of 147 million yuan and 121 million yuan respectively, making them the most attractive actors and actresses. In addition, Benny Chan and Siu-ho Chin each have 7 and 6 works with box office receipts exceeding 10 million yuan, and their cumulative box office receipts have also exceeded 100 million yuan.
Senior reporter of Beijing News Teng Chao Drawing Beijing News Ni Ping
Senior editor Huang Jialing proofreads Zhai Yongjun.

Ford is out of power again, taking 1.5T power.

I’ll bring this one to you today. The following small series will tell you in detail.

Let’s take a look at the appearance of the plug-in hybrid of Lingrui. The overall appearance of the plug-in hybrid front of Lingrui looks very elegant and looks more spiritual. The headlights are steady and the shape is quite solid. The car is equipped with LED daytime running lights, automatic opening and closing, adaptive far and near light, delayed closing and so on. Coming to the side of the car body, the size of the car body is 4685 mm * 1935 mm * 1710 mm. The car adopts round and lovely lines, which gives people a very simple feeling. With large-sized thick-walled tires, it looks full of movement. In the rear part, the overall shape of the rear echoes the front of the car, and the taillights are very clean and refreshing, and the sense of neatness is vivid.

When I came to the car, the plug-in hybrid interior of Lingrui enhanced the visual roundness and cuteness, which better improved the clean and refreshing feeling. The steering wheel of the car is eye-catching, equipped with the functions of manual steering wheel up and down+front and rear adjustment, steering wheel heating, etc., which looks a bit more solid. From the central control point of view, the car is equipped with an eye-catching touch-sensitive LCD central control screen, which makes the interior style impressive and sharp. Let’s take a look at the dashboard and seats again. The car is equipped with a stylish and simple dashboard, which is full of technology. The car uses leather seats, equipped with functions such as auxiliary seat electric adjustment, seat electric adjustment, seat proportion down, etc., which is basically enough for daily use.

The car is equipped with car networking, driving mode selection, remote control key, Bluetooth key, NFC/RFID key, rear wiper, interior atmosphere light and other configurations, which is quite rich in functions, which is undoubtedly very friendly to drivers.

After reading the above description, Xiaobian will make a summary. Such a car with the right price is enough to meet the daily practical needs, and it doesn’t take much thought to maintain it at ordinary times, and the cost performance is good.

Hongqi Guoya’s new model offers both V6 and V8, with a price of 1.4 million.

During the Guangzhou Auto Show in 2024, the sunflower brand officially announced that its new car was available in V6 and V8 versions, and the official guide prices were 1.4 million yuan and 1.86 million yuan respectively.

In terms of appearance, the front face of the new car adopts a family design style, and the grille is decorated with a straight waterfall structure inside, which has a strong sense of momentum; The headlight group adopts a blackened horseshoe-shaped design, which is internally integrated and has excellent texture performance. There is no absence of the standard, which highlights the identity of luxury models.

The lower enclosing part adopts a three-stage design, and the size of the diversion grooves on both sides is relatively large, and the interior is decorated with scattered chrome strips, which has a strong recognition; The middle part is equipped with an inverted trapezoidal air inlet, and the interior is decorated with a black honeycomb structure, which highlights the sporty atmosphere.

In terms of side shape, the roof adopts the traditional sedan shape, which is more stable in style, and the generous C-pillar brings a strong sense of strength; The waistline adopts a penetrating design, extending from the front to the rear of the car, which makes the visual effect look slender and atmospheric, and also provides a two-color body version to further enhance the sense of momentum; The wheel hub adopts multi-frame modeling, and the style is more atmospheric.

In terms of tail modeling, the top of the trunk is designed with a duckling tail, and the blackened taillight group adopts a vertical layout, which has a feeling of echoing the headlight group; The license plate frame area adopts a concave design, which embellishes the layering of the rear of the car; The lower enclosure part is equipped with penetrating chrome-plated strips, and both sides also create the shape of exhaust decorative covers, which makes the whole rear of the car feel more layered.

In terms of dimensions, the length, width and height of Hongqi Guoya are 5353/1998/1511mm and the wheelbase is 3260mm respectively. The positioning is that the V6 version adopts a five-seat layout, while the V8 version adopts a four-seat layout.

The design language of the interior is not complicated. There are double-frame, full-LCD instrument panel, floating central control panel and electronic arms. The center console has a strong sense of hierarchy, and it is decorated with leather and solid wood structure, which highlights the sense of grade.

In terms of configuration, Hongqi Guoya comes standard with,, rear wheel steering, front and panoramic images, L2-level assisted driving, electric induction trunk,, keyless entry, one-button start, matrix automatic,, automatic wiper, leather electric steering wheel, steering wheel heating, electric adjustment/ventilation/heating/massage of front and rear seats, automatic air conditioning and rear independent air conditioning.

In terms of power, the new car offers a 3.0T V6 hybrid version and a 4.0T V8 hybrid version, in which the maximum power of 3.0T is 280kW and the peak value is 570N·m;; The maximum power of 4.0T is 350kW and the peak torque is 680N·m;; The maximum power is 160kW, the peak torque is 281N·m, and the matching gear box is 8AT, and the acceleration time is 4.8 seconds and 4.3 meters respectively. Oh, the comprehensive fuel consumption of WLTC is 8.2L/100km and 8.8L/100km respectively.

Analysis of Ruifeng M3 Train System 1.8L Front Rear Drive+Manual (MT)

In fact, the fuel consumption or battery life of the same class models are not much different now, so the high configuration is often more attractive to consumers. Today, Xiaobian picked a car in the car and introduced it to everyone. It is. Let’s look down with Xiaobian.

First of all, from the appearance, Ruifeng M3 front presents a simple design style and looks very domineering. Combined with the headlights, it has a great visual impact. The car is equipped with LED daytime running lights, automatic opening and closing, etc. Coming to the side of the car body, the size of the car body is 5145 mm * 1765 mm * 1900 mm. The car adopts angular lines, which gives people a very flamboyant feeling. With large-sized thick-walled tires, it looks full of movement. In the design of the rear end, the rear end looks very comfortable, and the taillights show a simple and fashionable design style. Together with the unique exhaust pipe, it is very fashionable and simple.

Sitting in the car, the interior style is very cold, reflecting the sense of design. The steering wheel shape of the car is eye-catching, made of plastic, and the shape is clean and refreshing. Let’s take a look at the central control. The design of the center console is reasonable, which makes the interior style impressive. The overall design of the central control is very good. Let’s take a look at the dashboard and seats again. The dashboard design is remarkable, and the shape takes the movement route. The car uses a fabric seat, which is wrapped in place and very comfortable to ride.

The car is equipped with traction control (ASR/TCS, etc.), cruise control, sun visor mirror, USB interface, rear reversing radar and other configurations, and the configuration performance is passable and basically satisfactory.

Such a car with the right price is enough to meet the daily practical needs, and it doesn’t take much thought to maintain it at ordinary times, and the cost performance is good. Today, you can go to the 4S shop to experience this car.

"Lady General Yang" released behind- the-scene Ren Xianqi interprets the Yang family’s "God of War"


Ren Xianqi died twice in the play


Ren Xianqi plays Yang Zongbao

    A few days ago, the ancient costume legendary war masterpiece directed by Chen Xunqi exposed the behind- the-scene video of Yang Zongbao (played by Ren Xianqi), the only strong member of the Yang family, and reproduced the scene of the heroic battle of the Yang family general. Going behind the scenes, Ren Xianqi carefully analyzed Yang Zongbao’s character characteristics, and director Chen Xunqi also said that "Ren Xianqi has grasped the essence of Yang Zongbao’s god of war".

Yang Zongbao behind- the-scene video exposure, leading troops into battle

    As the only strong man in the film, Yang Zongbao is under heavy pressure as the main story of the film "Yang Family Women General" is adapted from the classic part of "Twelve Widows’ Journey to the West".

    Unlike the female generals who were on standby in danger, as the leader of the Yang family, in the face of internal and external troubles, Yang Zongbao led the troops into battle and did his best to reverse the war. The video of the bed-the-scene exposed this time opened with Yang Zongbao’s impassioned sentence "Even if a soldier dies in battle, he must move forward bravely". In a short few minutes, it basically showed the fighting scenes or war scenes shot by Ren Xianqi in different scenes. Director Chen Chengqi also explained that "almost all of Yang Zongbao’s scenes are related to’fighting ‘. On the battlefield, he was heroic, and off the battlefield, he called for a marriage with Mu Guiying."

Ren Xianqi interprets "God of War" and joins hands with Cecilia Cheung to go to the battlefield

    Judging from the stills and trailers exposed earlier, the Yang family is very skilled. Whether it is the might of the uniformed leader or the chic practice of the plain clothes, the stories of the generals of the Yang family have been passed down to this day, and they have also become a major attraction in the film.

    The bed-the-scene video revealed this time shows the front and back scenes of Ren Xianqi’s shooting. When talking about the plot of the martial arts, Ren Xianqi analyzed that "the Yang family will use the Yang family gun, which is a long weapon. Its range is larger than that of close combat, and there will be targeted training before. But when you really shoot, you will put on the armor, and the joints will be very restricted, so you need to do more practice." Regarding the choice of characters, Director Chen said that "Yang Zongbao is the god of war in the Yang family, which can bring a lot of honor to the Yang family. Ren Xianqi gave me a feeling of not only elegance, but also roughness. At that time, his sentence’I must do my best ‘made me feel that Yang Zongbao was Ren Xianqi."

    In the exposed behind- the-scene video, there are also several interactive scenes between Ren Xianqi and Cecilia Cheung, and in the trailer, Cecilia Cheung leads the battle, which makes people think about the plot.

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"Embroidery Spring Sword 2": Asura Battlefield, Maya Shakes the Tree

[Shanghai literature and art review special project fund special publication]

In Pu Songling’s "Strange Stories from Liaozhai", there is a short story called "Promoting Weaving", which is meaningful and ironic.

The story was about during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Xuande liked to watch crickets fight. As the saying goes, "what is good on the top is very good on the bottom". For a while, the top and bottom were trying to find crickets, and finally the disaster fell on a person named Cheng.

In order to find a good cricket to offer, Fame was beaten to pieces, and his son committed suicide by jumping into a well. Finally, he found a cricket that could defeat a rooster, and Fame’s family was thus exchanged for prosperity and wealth.

As Pu Songling explained the story, "Therefore, every step of the Son of Heaven is related to the lives of the people and cannot be ignored."

"Embroidered Spring Knife: Asura Battlefield" (hereinafter referred to as "Embroidered Spring Knife 2") actually tells the story of such a fighting rooster. In the film, Shen Lian, played by Zhang Zhen, is thoughtful about a painting of a bug fighting a rooster, and in the character poster, Shen Lian is behind a cricket. (Note: The film says that the painting is a grasshopper. But the aggressive insect is a cricket, not a grasshopper…)

"Embroidery Spring Knife 2" was originally scheduled to be released in August, but was later moved to July 19.

Regardless of whether there is a cricket that can fight down a rooster, the world is often "a bear shakes a big tree, ridiculously overconfident".

First, the big trees

The story of "Embroidery Spring Blade 2" begins with an unofficial history. In "Jiashen Dynasty Events" there is an article "Wanzhong Stab Ship": "On May 18, the fifth year of the Xi Temple, on the altar of sacrifice to Fangze, that is, Xingxi Garden, I rode a boat with Baba, the upper body was from the stab boat, and an inner minister accompanied it, rippling with the waves, Fang looked at each other and laughed, as if he had ascended to immortality, suddenly the wind was steep, the boat was covered, and the upper body and the two inner ministers fell to the bottom of the water, and the two inner ministers on both sides exclaimed in shock, and the followers were all colorless. The inner official Tan Jing rushed into the water in a hurry, lost the emperor and came out, the second minister has died in the

According to the inference, maybe the Emperor of Heaven Awakening died because of this accident and falling into the water. If this inference holds true, then an interesting thing is that there were two emperors in the Ming Dynasty who died because of falling into the water. At the same time, neither of them had any children, so the inheritors were their younger brothers.

The death of Zhengde triggered a great ceremony in the Jiajing Dynasty, which directly affected the career of Jiajing for decades. The political landscape of the Ming Dynasty changed from then on, and civil officials began to officially enter the stage and become important figures.

The death of the apocalypse brought Chongzhen, "my brother is Yao Shun", a headstrong emperor who made repeated mistakes in the face of wars in the northwest and northeast, and finally lost the city of Beijing in his hands.

Of course, the question of who killed the Ming Dynasty is divided, and there is no conclusion so far. In the first part of "Embroidery Spring Knife", the answer is also given. The second part is not about the end of Ming Dynasty politics, but the political turmoil.

The background of the second part is that the Emperor of the Apocalypse fell into the water, which may be just a coincidence in history, but the story begins with this unofficial history and opens a conspiracy theory.

Analyze the situation at that time. Five years after the apocalypse, the emasculate arrested Yang Lian for taking bribes of 20,000 taels and let him die in prison. The day before, Zuo Guangdou had died. Subsequently, Yuan Huazhong, Wei Dazhong, Zhou Chaorui, Gu Dazhang and other six people were martyred, and the Donglin Party was suppressed by the emasculate. Six years after the apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian compiled the "Three Dynasties" and characterized the Donglin Party members as anti-party. From then on, Wei Zhongxian’s family was dominant and no one could control them.

However, Wei Zhongxian was a eunuch. In that era, although future generations often said that Wei Zhongxian wanted to usurp the throne, Wei Zhongxian himself must have known that he did not have the legitimacy to be an emperor. All his power came from the emperor himself rather than the system.

And history also proves this point. After Emperor Chongzhen came to power, he quickly eradicated Wei Zhongxian’s power. Such a story is told in the first part of "Embroidery Spring Knife".

So in such a time when Wei Zhongxian’s family was dominant, "Embroidery Spring Knife 2" launched a conspiracy theory, designing the apocalypse into the water as a conspiracy, a big conspiracy to change the dynasty.

Only Zhu Youxiao, Wei Zhongxian and Zhu Youjian were qualified to appear on the stage. As for Xu Xianchun beside Wei Zhongxian and Lu Wenzhao beside Zhu Youjian, they could only stand on the edge of the stage, thinking that they could appear on the stage.

Therefore, unlike Wei Zhongxian, who went crazy after losing power in the first "Embroidery Spring Knife", Wei Zhongxian here has always been the power-oriented and complacent No. 1 in the world. In this film, he is still played by Jin Shijie, but because the role does not have as many thoughts and changes as in the first one, he has lost his unique charm.

Jin Shijie plays Wei Zhongxian

The opposite is Zhu Youjian. In this film, Zhu Youjian is just the younger brother of the apocalypse, Xin Wang. The young Xin Wang is played by the young actor Liu Duanduan. Liu Duanduan has starred in many high-quality plays such as "Escort", "Hey, Old Man" and "Young Marshal". Now he plays Zhu Youjian, which gives him a space to play – Zhu Youjian’s role in this film is not much, probably only three scenes, but each time there are different changes. One is the mastermind behind the strategy, the other is the weak and cowardly letter king who is afraid of death, and the other is the calm emperor Chongzhen.

Although there is a gap between such Zhu Youjian and the headstrong, bloody but desperate image of Chongzhen in history, it is deviated from the historical point of view, but in this film, as a letter king who only appeared a few times, he can stand as an artistic image in this film, and Liu Duanduan’s performance can also support such a three-time change of letter king – it can even be said that this actor is the biggest surprise in this film.

Faced with such a Zhu Youjian, Wei Zhongxian finally made mistakes and made mistakes step by step. Every step was buried by Zhu Youjian and then recruited, and finally failed miserably. On the poster of "Embroidery Spring Blade 2", Wei Zhongxian is represented by a yellow bird, while the picture behind Zhu Youjian is a snake.

The so-called "Mantis catches cicadas, the yellow sparrow is behind", Wei Zhongxian thought he was the last yellow sparrow, but what he never thought was that behind him, there was a snake staring at him.

In the familiar middle school text "The Tombstone of the Five", there is such a sentence: "The castral is also afraid of righteousness, and it is difficult to make a sudden plan. When the saint comes out, he will throw himself into the road: it can be said that it is not the power of the five!" The "castral" here is Wei Zhongxian, and the "saint" is Zhu Youjian.

The author of this article is Zhang Pu, the founder of Fushe, so this article discusses Wei Zhongxian and Emperor Chongzhen from the standpoint of the Donglin Party. However, after hundreds of years, people began to have different attitudes towards the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party, and the different historical faces of the two factions were revealed from various historical materials. The historians also began to argue endlessly, which directly affected the film and television works.

In Hu Jinquan’s movie "Chivalrous Girl", there is a clear distinction between good and evil. The protagonist, Gu Shengzhai, and Yang Huizhen, the daughter of Yang Lian, together fought off Ouyang Nian, a thousand households in the East Factory, and Xu Xianchun, the president of Jinyiwei North Town. In that movie, the Donglin party members were completely persecuted and heroic and unyielding people, while the emasculated party members were the unyielding evildoers.

In the "Embroidery Spring Knife", the situation began to shift slightly.

In "Embroidery Spring Blade 2", they did not show that Donglin Party members and Zhu Youjian were completely good people. Because the biggest conspiracy in the whole film was started by them, which caused a series of things, and these people would also ignore the lives of the little people, and anyone could sacrifice when necessary, as long as it was for "righteousness".

From here, we can see that "Embroidery Spring Knife 2" did not deliberately express the political spectrum, nor did it stand between the emasculation and the Donglin Party. Therefore, Shen Lian is the first male protagonist of this series.

Second, the mayfly

Since the poster represented by Wei Zhongxian is the oriole, mantises and cicadas will naturally appear in this food chain.

Let’s talk about Shen Lian first, Shen Lian’s identity setting is very interesting. Only with this setting can he express the theme of the story that the main creator wants to express, that is, the ambition of the movie must be realized through such a character.

This is a historical film.

In the days of fierce partisanship in the late Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party first prevailed, and the parties of Zhejiang, Qi, Chu, Xuan and Kun and the Donglin Party criticized each other. Later, during the Apocalypse period, the eunuchs led by Wei Zhongxian cleared all obstacles and stood at the top of the food chain. Then, during the Chongzhen period, the Donglin Party rose again, followed by the struggle between the Donglin Party, the Fushe Party and the remnants of the eunuchs during the Hongguang period, until the Wu-Chu partisanship in the final Yongli period. Some people say that it is not unreasonable for the Ming Dynasty to die in the partisanship. Even Huang Zongxi, a great scholar, would inevitably write such a clear-cut and emotional work on partisanship as "Records of Existence and Discernment".

Therefore, in order to truthfully demonstrate the partisan struggles of that era, it is necessary to choose an outsider’s perspective.

Zhang Zhen plays Shen Lian

Shen Lian is such an outsider. Whether it is the first or the second film, he is a small person who walks between various parties. In the first film, he is first sent by Zhao Jingzhong played by Nie Yuan, and then by Han Kuang (a member of the Donglin Party) played by Zhao Lixin. In this film, he is inadvertently involved in a shocking case, and then used by both sides. Both sides want to step on him as a stepping stone and climb to a higher position.

Therefore, only in this perspective can the audience see the essence of the struggle.

At the same time, this is still a martial arts movie.

In the "Chivalrous Girl" mentioned above, the heroes are in the rivers and lakes, and they are chivalrous and always have a hard time with the "eagle and dog" in the court; in "Three Heroes and Five Righteousness", the heroes are in the temple, such as Nan Xia Zhan Zhao, who was named "Imperial Cat" by the emperor and entered the official orthodox discourse system.

When choosing a faction, the problem is always not true. "Embroidery Spring Blade" is a martial arts story with a historical theme, so if the protagonist is a person in the rivers and lakes, he can only watch the fire from the shore, and if he is in the temple, it is easy to "not know the true face of Mount Lu, only because he is in this mountain".

But Shen Lian was different. He was an ordinary person who wandered between rivers and lakes and temples. Although he was a well-dressed guard, his actions were not entirely based on obeying orders.

Therefore, in this perspective, as a person in a gray area, he has the potential to become a protagonist.

This was the reason why the main creator chose Shen Lian, and it was also Shen Lian’s tragedy. Because Shen Lian was always a chess piece and a mayfly. Anyone could kill him, and no one wanted to kill him.

From a thematic point of view, this was the same as the first one. In Embroidery Spring Blade 2, Shen Lian was in troubled times and couldn’t help himself. He was asked to set fire to the file warehouse, was asked to take the "Treasure Ship Supervision Minutes" in exchange for glory and wealth, and was asked… All of this was helplessly moved by the actions of others, just because he was moved by compassion at the beginning.

Because Shen Lian’s compassion saved a human performers of virtual idols, he was forced to be involved in all the troubles and became everyone’s pawn. Of course, it is not only Zhu Youjian and Wei Zhongxian who use Shen Lian as pawns (even the two of them have not looked at Shen Lian in the eye), but also Lu Wenzhao and Pei Lun who think they are chess players.

Lu Wenzhao and Wei Zhongxian

Lu Wenzhao is played by Zhang Yi, who is a good actor. As his first costume performance, his performance this time is not bad, and the acting is quite good, but it can be seen from his portrayal of Lu Wenzhao’s role that he rarely shoots costume films. Because his style of reading lines and his limbs are relatively modern, if it is a costume stage drama, he may be more suitable, but in film and television works, his style is a bit abrupt.

He thought he would be the victorious chess player, but he didn’t expect that he would still be the meat on the chopping board, at the mercy of others.

The same goes for Pei Lun, played by Lei Jiayin. This year is a bumper year for Lei Jiayin. He just played Lu Zhaopeng in the "White Deer Plain", and then starred in the hit drama "The First Half of My Life". Then he played a very likable (no less than Ding Xiu in the first) character Pei Lun in "Embroidery Spring Knife 2".

Pei Lun’s character poster is a spider, which is even more interesting. He thinks he can network everything and become the final big winner, but he doesn’t know that he is still a bug, no matter how powerful he is in the food chain, he can’t beat the yellow bird, let alone… what about snakes?

In the first one, there were only a series of characters. Everyone knew their position very well, but these two were not clear about their position. They thought they would be chess players, but in fact, they were still the same chess pieces, but they were responsible for eating the other pieces.

In short, they were all mayflies. Wanting to climb up and shake the big tree was laughable.

This was the theme of Embroidery Blade of Spring, and it was also the common theme of the first and second installments. If one had to rate it, then the second installment might be slightly lower than the first, because the main creator did not go deeper into the discussion, but replicated the depths that could be dug on the basis of the first installment, and the protagonist was also forced to get involved, the story changed, and the core remained the same.

In addition, there are some logical problems in this film. For example, Zhu Youjian’s character in history, such as why the people of Dongchang did not take the "Minutes of Treasure Ship Supervision" in advance, such as why did they not escape together when they escaped to the bridge and then cut the bridge? Some such problems show that "Embroidery Spring Blade 2" is not perfect, there are still many logical vulnerabilities, and the story turns in many places are slightly deliberate, but this is still flawed. The martial arts drama is more exciting than the first one, and the core can still exude despair and hope. From this point of view, this movie is quite good, and the success of two consecutive films is enough to make the audience look forward to whether the third film can show greater ambition.

Back to compassion above. Yes, what can compassion change? The apocalypse is still dead, Zhu Youjian is still on the throne, Wei Zhongxian is still notorious, and…

And the Ming Dynasty eventually died.

No matter whether there was Shen Lian in history, whether there was Shen Lian to catch Beizhai, or whether there was Shen Lian’s compassion at the moment of catching Beizhai, the final result did not change. All historical trends were not determined by Shen Lian, he was just a small person.

But remember, compassion at least changed Hokusai’s fate.

Yang Mi plays Hokusai

[Author Kong Li, WeChat official account "Shulinzhai" (WeChat: Kongli 1996), Weibo @Kong Li]