Jing Wei
Dec, 2020
Instructed by Jason Arena
My Second After Effect Project. The style references shadow play.
BGM: 野孩子 - 小马过河 (Wild Children - A Pony Passes the River)
Under the influence of long-standing patriarchy, many parents in China prefer boys - a phenomenon you can see in the increasingly absurd sex ratio data. Some parents may even abandon their baby girls in orphanages or kill them.
在长久的父权制影响下，中国有许多父母偏好男婴——你可以在越来越荒诞的性别比数据中看见这一现象。一些父母甚至会选择将女婴抛弃在福利院，或者杀死她们。
Some girls are lucky enough to survive, be adopted by families in better conditions, get a good education, go to a better environment, and earn a good income... The biological parents who abandoned them saw the girl's situation, took it upon themselves to identify themselves and seek their support. This is reported in the news from time to time, and I often feel angry about it.
有些女孩很幸运，她们活了下来，被条件更好的家庭收养，获得良好的教育，去到更好的环境，挣到良好的收入。那些抛弃她们的亲生父母，此时见到她们的境遇，却又主动贴上去认亲，以求她们的赡养。新闻中时不时有这样的报道，而我常常对此感到很生气。
Jingwei is a character in the classical Chinese mythology "Shanhaijing." She followed her father, a god, on a boat trip to the sea, but accidentally fell into the sea, and her father did nothing about it. But instead of dying, she turns into a bird. She did not return to her chosen family, but day by day from elsewhere to bring rocks into the sea, trying to fill the sea.
精卫是中国古典神话《山海经》中的一个角色。她跟随身为神的父亲乘船出海，却不小心掉入海中，而她的父亲对此却什么都没做。但她没有死，而是变成了一只鸟。她没有回到选择家人身边，而是日日从别处衔来石头扔进海中，想要把这片海填平。
I see the metaphor and connection between these two stories. I hope that the women who are fortunate enough to survive will get out of this mess and never look back.
我看见这两个故事的隐喻与联系。我期盼有幸活下来的女性，能走出这种困境，再也不要回头。