Official submission of China for the Best International Feature Film of the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020.
The scene when Ne Zha is born of fire is similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger's scene in the Terminator. You can hear the band play the Terminator theme song till they are silenced.
The story can be recognized as a rewritten tale based on the 16th-century Chinese novel "Investiture of the Gods" (Fengshen yanyi). This novel tells the stories of Chinese gods from thousands of years before. The novel itself is based on Chinese folk legends.