Calabash Brothers (葫芦娃). dir. Hu Jinqing (胡进庆). 1986.Director Hu Jingqing passed away recently on Ma
Calabash Brothers (葫芦娃). dir. Hu Jinqing (胡进庆). 1986.Director Hu Jingqing passed away recently on May 13, 2019, at the age of 83. Hu was born in Jiangsu province and early in his career he joined the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, and assisted in creating Pigsy Eats Watermelon, the first ever Chinese paper cutting animation film. Since then he won many awards throughout his career, which he continued through the late 1990s, including the 1984 Golden Rooster Award for Best Animation for his film The Fight Between the Snipe and the Clam.Among his most well-known works is the cartoon series Calabash Brothers. Their story is as follows: there were two demons banished in the Calabash mountains, and one day a pangolin accidentally made a hole in the mountain, releasing the two demons. Since then the common people suffered, and many left the hometown. The pangolin rushed to tell an old man, that in order to stop the demons, he was to grow seven calabashes, one in each colour. The old man follows suit, and after the calabashes ripen, they fall off the stem and turn into seven boys, each possessing a different super power as well as incredible strength. Together they journey to fight off the demons. The Calabash Brothers remain one of the most famous Chinese animated characters today. Follow sinθ magazine for more daily posts about Sino arts and culture. -- source link
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