Study on the Image Variation of Nezha in the Movie Nezha*

Abstract

As one of the representatives of Chinese traditional culture, Nezha is very familiar to Chinese people of many generations. Nezha’s image is varied during this process of cultural transportation or heritage, and his image variation reflects the contemporary social and cultural modes. This image in the movie Nezha in 2019 is reconstructed as a child who bears heavy social prejudice due to his birth and longs for social identification to be a real hero. The image variation of this Nezha is the reflection of the present social context and this is also the value to research the image variation of Nezha