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The Six (2020)
Cannot stopping tearing
As mentioned, the shipwreck is just a bumpy road to Fang Lang's life. The story of Mr. Fang at anti-Chinese decades is layed out in front of me. I read briefly on the history of exclusion of Chinese but would never understand how it falls heavily on individuals. Thank you so much for the brilliant work of research and documentary.
From the poem of Fang Lang, I read his sadness and condolence to his friends' death. They have planned a hell of a future ahead while the shipwreck and exclusion have changed everything. Sending letters/money back to his friends' families is a common way in traditional Chinese values that survivors take care of victim friends' families. No wonder he was trying all to make his track close to his original plan and live a humble life ever since.
In my opinion, both Lang and Rongshan are his names. Lang could be the given name, MING, it is a name generally given by parents and generally only called by parents while Rongshan is his another set of name ZI, which, I guess, given by the teacher/elders and used more in daily life.
There was a kinda famous person's name is similar, YE BILANG(lang as part of the given name) ZI RONGSHAN (Rongshan as more commonly used name). Re: why he changed his name from Lang to Rongshan, I vaguely remember my grandpa (born in 1920) did something similar when both his parents died (no one would call his MING since then).