When did Chinese movies first appear?

China's first film - "Dingjun Mountain"

In 1905, China's first film "Dingjun Mountain" was born in Fengtai Photo Studio in Beijing. The famous Peking Opera Laosheng performance artist Tan Xinpei performed some of his best parts in front of the camera. The film was then shown to the bustling crowd at the Qianmen Grand View Building, which turned out to be an empty house. This is the first recorded film produced by the Chinese themselves, marking the birth of Chinese cinema. At the beginning of entering China, movies have become the carrier and extension of local commercial culture. Traditional tastes have found the latest and most fashionable expression methods. Later facts will prove that this combination will prove its necessity in deviation and torture. sex.

1905 coincided with Tan Xinpei’s 60th birthday. Ren Qingtai, owner of Fengtai Photo Studio in Beijing, was inspired to make a movie about the Chinese themselves. This year marks 16 years since Dixon invented the movie projector, and 10 years since the Lumière brothers screened "Arrival des Trains" in Paris.

[Edit this paragraph] Contents of the play

"Dingjun Mountain" is based on Chapters 70 and 71 of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It tells the story of the military use of Shu and Wei during the Three Kingdoms period. In the 20th year of Jian'an, that is, 215 AD, Cao Cao defeated Hanzhong and sent generals Xia Houyuan, Zhang He and others to stay and garrison troops at the passes of Dingjun Mountain and Tiandang Mountain. Liu Bei took advantage of Cao Cao's undecided foothold and led his troops into Hanzhong in the same year. After the veteran general Huang Zhong defeated Zhang He who was stationed at Tiandang Mountain, he bravely took Dingjun Mountain. With Fa Zheng's guidance, he captured the top of Shijianpai Mountain to the west of Dingjun Mountain and occupied the position. Condescending, he went straight to Xia Houyuan. Xia was caught off guard and was cut in half by Huang Zhong, thereby capturing Dingjun Mountain. Dingjunshan stills

A "Taking Dongchuan", also known as "Success in the First World War". The plots vary. Han Opera, Sichuan Opera, Yunnan Opera, Anhui Opera, Qin Opera, Jin Opera, Tongzhou Bangzi, and Cantonese Opera all have this play, and Hebei Bangzi has "Jiamengguan".

[Edit this paragraph] Plot synopsis

In 1905 AD, at this time, China had already encountered disastrous attacks by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces and the great powers of various countries, and a series of clauses that were humiliating and humiliating the country were still being signed. This land and the Chinese people recuperating here patiently accepted the bossy foreigners and everything they brought.

Foreigners have regarded this land as their own paradise and are happy to forget about Shu.

Cixi is still hanging the curtains in the Dongnuan Pavilion...

But the country is already experiencing internal and external disturbances, and the people are in dire straits...

Our story happened in l00 China years ago.

Beijing, Tianqiao, is extremely lively. Western movie theaters opened by foreigners are bustling with people. The new gadgets brought by advanced technology are quickly accepted by the people. Although the years are bleak, people still have to survive. Enjoy suffering. On the same street, the Western movie theater opened by Ren Jingtai's family, a Chinese, is empty. There is only one reason. It is a foreign machine and a foreign film source. They will not sell you new movies, and they will let you show a few old movies to the end of the world without anyone paying attention.

Ren Jingtai, an insightful man who once studied photography technology in Japan, is a famous photographer in Beijing. Ever since he bought a camera, Jingtai has had an unstoppable idea in his mind - to make Western movies made by Chinese people! Use the skills of foreigners to record the essence of your own country. By chance, Ren Jingtai attended the birthday party of Tan Xinpei, the famous Peking opera actor "Tan Jingtian" who was famous both inside and outside the capital, and he came up with the idea of ??making Tan Xinpei's Peking opera into a Western movie. However, just when Ren Jingtai wanted to realize his dream, a series of things happened one after another...

In the story, Ren Jingtai was filming a Western movie with a childlike feeling, showing his patriotism and patriotism. heart and spirit of justice.

Ren Jingtai’s favorite apprentice Liu Zhonglun understands his master’s feelings best. After the camera was destroyed for no reason, he almost tried his best to find a way out. However, things did not always go as expected. Zhonglun found the person who crashed the camera. The woman found out that she was also in bad luck. From resentment to misunderstanding, the virginal Zhong Lun secretly fell in love with the woman. However, a fire in the Daguanlou Theater blocked the news of the woman's life and death. Zhong Lun was in unstoppable pain. He had no interest in life. After admitting that he was the one who set the fire, the master and apprentice, who loved each other like father and son, suddenly became strangers. Zhonglun was imprisoned and sentenced to hard labor. Just when Zhong Lun had given up his thoughts, the palace specially recalled Zhong Lun to take pictures of Princess, who was about to go to Mongolia to marry her relatives. Zhong Lun arrived at the palace in the capital and saw in the palace garden that the woman he mistakenly thought was dead was Yaqi Gege, who was about to marry far away. Although Yaqi Gege was deeply in love, she could not violate the national destiny, so when she was getting married, she called Zhonglun to say goodbye and left a valuable jade plaque for Zhonglun. When Ge Ge married far away, Zhong Lun turned his grief around and pawned the jade token in exchange for a camera and brought it to his master. The master finally understood Zhong Lun's hardship and the old grudges between master and apprentice were cleared. Working hand in hand with each other, we filmed several classic clips of the Peking Opera "Dingjun Mountain" and "Inviting the Miao".

That year, on a certain day, on a certain month, in a certain open space in the capital, the film "Dingjun Mountain" shot by Ren Jingtai and Liu Zhonglun was screened for free for the public. For a time, the streets were empty, and everyone gathered together to watch "Dingjun Mountain". At the peak of love, there was a touching scene of everyone singing "Dingjun Mountain" in unison for Tan Xinpei's film. While singing, Master Ren Jingtai and Liu Zhonglun finally felt relieved and burst into tears...

At this point, China's first movie was produced.