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<< review queue entry 67209 - submitted by 'richwarm' >> "lit. dress up as God, play the devil" makes it sound like it's a Christian saying. Actually, Chinese dicts say it means 假扮鬼神. In other words 神 is not God and 鬼 is not the devil. Rather, it's about pretending to be (or be in contact with) 鬼神 (ghosts; spirits). Nothing to do with Christianity. ----------------------- A 哎，我最近啊，真是诸事不顺。我妈说下次要带我去龙王菩萨那求个签，拜个佛，好去去晦气。 Ai-yi-yi, nothing has been going right for me lately. My mom said she's going to take me to Long Wang temple to pray that my bad luck goes away. B 啊？你也信这个啊？你好歹也算新世纪的大学生了，怎么还相信这些装神弄鬼的东西。 Oh really? You also believe in that stuff? How can a college student in modern times also believe in hocus-pocus like that? 影響所及，到了清朝，有個叫姜三莽的懶鬼，聽人說起宋定伯賣鬼的故事，打起了「鬼主意」，天天帶著棍棒、繩子到野墳去「守墳待鬼」，想靠賣鬼來換酒吃。雖然姜三莽守了一個月仍是空手而回，不過今天靠「裝神弄鬼」討生活的依然找得著。 Many centuries later, during the Qing dynasty, there was a lazy man called Jiang Sanmang, who heard the story of Song Dingbo and conceived a crafty little plan. Every day he went to the graveyard carrying a stick and a rope, and waited to snare himself a gui, which he intended to sell to fund his drinking. He tried for a whole month before giving up, empty-handed. Even today, however, there are still those who make their living out of "pretending to rouse the gui." 研究民間信仰，並在各教學醫院作死亡及鬼魂專題演講的李豐楙覺得，我們不僅不應該遠鬼神，還應該有專門的研究機構，在各個領域中，以求真求知的態度來面對鬼的問題。迴避問題只會造成模糊曖昧的縫隙，使得一大堆神棍有機得以「裝神弄鬼」。 The Academia Sinica's Li Feng-mao, who has lectured on death and ghosts at many teaching hospitals, feels that we should not only keep a distance from ghosts, but should also set up a series of research institutes to tackle the issue from a scientific standpoint. In his view, avoiding the issue only muddies matters, and leaves the door open for religious con-artists to take advantage of people's superstition. 裝神弄鬼 ──台灣靈異電影新浪潮 Dressed to Kill-- Taiwan's New Wave of Horror Films 而從2002年陳國富執導的靈異驚悚片《雙瞳》寫下新台幣八千多萬票房，到今年小兵立大功拿下二千多萬票房的《宅變》，以及目前正在籌備階段的幾部「裝神弄鬼」國片，都顯示一股台灣電影的新靈異陰風，已蓄勢待發。 We are seeing the emergence of an eerie new trend in Taiwanese cinema--the rise of the horror genre. It began with Chen Kuo-fu's Double Vision, a 2002 film that raked in more than NT$80 million at the domestic box office. Next came 2005's The Heirloom, a low-budget project that has hit it big with over NT$20 million in domestic ticket sales. Several more supernatural horror-fests are now in production. 華人社會裡具有豐富的靈異傳統，香港電影圈在這方面已耕耘多年，中國電影近年來雖頗受國際矚目，但因官方禁止「怪力亂神」而缺乏靈異電影。台灣鬼片才剛起步，未來如何持續深耕庶民文化裡的靈異傳統，賦予這些豐富的「搞鬼資產」一套現代風貌，並在國際市場裡表現出台灣鬼片的「神鬼特色」，將是這群努力「裝神弄鬼」的電影人最大的挑戰。 The Hong Kong film industry has been mining China's rich tradition of the supernatural for many years. Surprisingly, the mainland Chinese industry has done very little with it because supernatural subject matter is officially taboo. In Taiwan, where the local industry is just beginning to explore the horror genre, the biggest challenges these devoted monster-movie makers are facing are: How do you put a modern face on the abundant ghostly resources that our folk tradition provides? And how can Taiwan bring the unique character of its monster films to the international market? 最後RPM發展至兩千、三千，鄭惠中笑說那是一個裝神弄鬼的時代，台灣紡織業追著西方工業跑，最後只有遭受淘汰的命運， Loom speeds later rose to 2,000–3,000 ppm. Taiwanese textile makers, following in the footsteps of the West, flourished for a good long time, but most of them eventually had to close up shop. |
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- 裝神弄鬼 装神弄鬼 [zhuang1 shen2 nong4 gui3] /lit. dress up as God, play the devil (idiom); fig. to mystify/to deceive people/to scam/ + 裝神弄鬼 装神弄鬼 [zhuang1 shen2 nong4 gui3] /lit. to pretend to be in contact with supernatural beings (idiom)/fig. to engage in hocus-pocus/ |