What level does the historical drama Ming Dynasty belong to?

I stayed at home and had to watch a play. Unfortunately, too many dramas are abandoned after watching a few episodes, and too few dramas are stopped without watching an episode. I walked around and finally finished watching the old drama.

Looking back suddenly, I found that in front of this TV series, most of the domestic historical dramas in recent years have not even touched the edge of history, and they are just "costume dramas."

Historical drama, a category that has almost disappeared in domestic dramas-of course, if the scope of historical drama is expanded to only take historical themes as the background, its incense will never end.

However, in this antique bottle of "history", most stories are full of modern meaning.

Whether it is overhead or palace fighting, or digging up an ancient figure from a pile of old paper to make a fuss, it is far from the true historical spirit and feelings.

Over the past year, there have been countless domestic dramas closely related to history, and only the longest day in Chang 'an has won a good reputation. Others, such as Daming Fenghua and Lotus Pavilion, are obviously not very satisfied.

The popular stars are the main ones, supplemented by the old opera bones, and the color matching of the filters is the escort. The protagonist, who is born beautiful and kind-hearted, walks around the doors and courts like a curtain, avoiding all dangers and getting countless favors. After all, this story is more like an ancient version of career promotion.

They have a fixed audience, but for more audiences, what they perceive is not the "historical warmth" mentioned by scholar Qian Mu, but full of sitcoms and fornication.

When you can't bear to type the word "drama shortage" on the Internet, the name "Daming Dynasty 1566" must be indispensable in the intensive recommendation of netizens.

How amazing is the play?

Ming Dynasty 1566 has a long history as the title of "divine drama".

If you just look at the scores, it's really amazing. On Douban, which is famous for its harsh culture, this drama ranks first among domestic dramas with an astonishing 9.7 points.

If you look at the lineup, it is reassuring enough. Chen plays Emperor Jiajing, Hu Zongxian, Dahong Ni plays Yan Song, and plays.

Although Zhang Zhijian who played Harry, Huang Zhizhong who played Princess Jade were not as famous as they are today, after a lapse of 12 years, their original team still stood out.

Judging from the plot, although the plot of "turning rice into mulberry" and many characters in the play are fictional, the heavy history and subtle people's feelings it shows reflect the universal laws of ancient China society in subtle ways, giving the audience a space for repeated reading and deep thinking.

As the author of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" commented: "As long as it is not a joke, historical dramas can tell things other than the truth, or if they are meaningful, they have the value of existence and praise."

If you look at the director and screenwriter, then its success is more natural-director Zhang Li, the photographer of the movie "The Banquet" and the director of the TV series "Towards * * * and the Right Way on Earth" is a vicissitudes; Screenwriter Liu Heping, a famous ace screenwriter, is the author of Yongzheng Dynasty and No War in Peiping.

Dating back to the last year of the 20th century, China audience's enthusiasm for historical drama has not been completely consumed by the story of dog blood.

The two popular dramas before, which joked about Gan Long and Prime Minister Liu, were too immersed in unofficial history, and their horizons were too small, so people in the streets had to toss and turn with the trilogy of Emperor February River.

1999 1 month, the TV series "Yongzheng Dynasty" was born at the right time, and in the impassioned singing of Liu Huan, it boarded the TV screens of thousands of families, and since then it has set a peak for domestic historical dramas.

"I have a preference for Yong Zhengdi, and Liu Heping (the screenwriter of Yongzheng Dynasty) went further than me, and he turned his preference into doting. This kind of doting is unfair. "

This is the evaluation of the TV series Yongzheng Dynasty by the original author of yongzheng emperor, Er Yuehe. Obviously, February River has reservations about the fierce adaptation of screenwriter Liu Heping.

Different from February River, Zhang Li, the art planner of Yongzheng Dynasty, took a fancy to Liu Heping's talent because of this play. Many years later, Zhang Li recalled their initial cooperation in the interview: "My harvest is to know Liu Heping."

Yongzheng dynasty, a household name at the end of the century, became the first voice of the Ming dynasty seven years later 1566.

"China is the best at acting.

It's all in this play. "

A play can be mentioned repeatedly in more than ten years, and good-looking is the primary factor.

The length of 46 episodes, in 2007, when water injection was not popular, has surpassed most domestic dramas. It is precisely the compact plot and the online acting skills of all the members that support these 46 episodes.

Compared with the Yongzheng dynasty before Liu Heping, whether the right path after Zhang Li is vicissitudes or whether there will be no war in Beiping in the future, Ming Dynasty 1566 is a greater challenge for the audience.

In other plays, it is easy for us to find a main line: whether it is Yong Zhengdi who has gone through difficulties and carried out reforms, or Yang Liqing who has grown into a bright future all the way, and Fang Mengao who made his own choice in the tide of the times, all can play a positive role in the traditional sense.

It is relatively easy for the audience to observe the core spirit of a TV series from their perspective and along the plot.

But Ming Dynasty 1566 is not the case. Pure black and white, good and evil can't tell the characters inside, and there is not even an absolute protagonist-

Yan Song, a corrupt official, looks more like an old, weak and sick person most of the time. Emperor Jiaqing devoted himself to monasticism, but secretly controlled the balance between courtiers;

The world-famous honest official Hai Rui, however, has many inhumanity and owes a lot to his wife and daughter.

Zhang, Gao Gong and Xu Jie are the three great masters, and they also have their own abacus. After Yan Song was overthrown, the bad blood between Zhang and Gao Gong became more and more obvious. Yu Wang reluctantly found that the businessmen who participated in Daming's finance and taxation changed from strict old cronies to old squires in Xu Ge;

Eunuchs sent to all parts of the palace, on the one hand, extort money, on the other hand, are particularly loyal to the emperor;

Shen, a businessman, is not only a tool of greed and wealth, but also a involuntarily literati. Finally, in the sigh of "Faye Wong princes rode thousands of horses to Mangshan", they went to a raging fire;

Even the small county magistrate under Harry is an ordinary person in have it both ways, and he is also an audience of ordinary people. You can blame him, but you can't blame him too much

The only nearly perfect character in the play, Hu Zongxian, is Yan Song's favorite pupil. ...

This play is very complicated. If you take traditional thinking, the audience may be confused by all kinds of characters and plots and don't know who to support. And this complexity may be closer to the true face of history.

For example, the scene of Yan Song admonishing his son in the heavy rain shows the subtle relationship between Yan Song and Jiajing, and points out the reason why the Yan Party has stood for many years-everyone scolds Yan and his son for their insatiable greed, but they are also the "Yellow River" in Jiajing's mouth to maintain balance and irrigate the fields, and coexist with the "Yangtze River" composed of clean streams.

After reading this passage, who can guess that Zhang Zhijian, who plays his son, is five years older than Dahongni, who plays his father?

It is no wonder that when interviewed by Huang Zhizhong, Dapeng, then the host of the website, couldn't help but conclude: "The best actors in China have entered this play."

A strange TV play

Ming Dynasty 1566 is also a very strange TV series, and its high evaluation is the result of being late after being broadcast for many years.

If measured by the initial response and word of mouth, it is likely to be a "mediocre work"-in 2007, as the opening drama of Hunan Satellite TV, "Daming Dynasty 1566" with average ratings hardly aroused any splash among the audience, let alone the expectation of the "transformation" of Mango Taiwan.

This TV series, which is highly praised by creators, scholars and history lovers, has puzzled many ordinary viewers. When it was broadcast for the second time, some media had to give an explanation that "cultural connotation is far more important than ratings".

In 2002, Haikou, as Harry's hometown, prepared to shoot a TV series with Harry as the theme. When the first edition of the script came out, people were generally dissatisfied, so they invited the screenwriter Liu Heping. On this script, Liu Heping spent three years and another year filming this TV series.

Such creative efficiency is unimaginable in today's domestic dramas.

At first, "Ming Dynasty 1566" was intended to be broadcast on CCTV, and was later bought out exclusively by Hunan Satellite TV. Prior to this, in 2005, Mango Taiwan, which had done Super Girl and filmed Princess Huanzhu, ranked first in TV with advertising revenue of 2.5 billion yuan.

At that time, Hunan Satellite TV also released news that it was going to make a sequel "Ming Dynasty 1587", which is the famous fifteen years of Wanli, and the screenwriter also invited Liu Heping.

Unfortunately, the sequel was poured cold water by the dull ratings. Without the following, "Ming Dynasty 1566" has also become the pinnacle of domestic historical drama.

Since then, the entertainment staff of Hunan Satellite TV has become more and more stable, so many years later, in the drama review page of "Daming Dynasty 1566", a sentence "You would never expect that such a well-made historical drama was shot by Hunan Satellite TV!" Was praised by more than 8,000 people.

Later, in an interview, Liu Heping once said a grandiose sentence: "Today is an era when literature is marginalized. I have an ambition to lead a literary army into the territory of TV dramas, set up camps and expand the territory. " His position on this painstaking work is "marking the maturity of China's long TV series".

Sadly, as an audience, in the distant year of 2007, our creative thinking and performance skills are not yet mature.

Fortunately, the audience, as a judge, gave the play a fair evaluation through rating and word of mouth in the later period.

If you feel bad, please watch it again.

For a long time, around all historical dramas, historical novels and historical films, there will be a debate about "the degree of restoration": to what extent can this work restore the historical truth?

Quite a few viewers seem to have long acquiesced in the bottom of their hearts that a high degree of historical restoration means a high level of art, but this standard just can't stand scrutiny.

Even the most knowledgeable historian can never really get in touch with history. Literary and artistic works have a historical spirit if they can stand on a high level, observe the grand history, care about the family, the country and the world, and show the law of social ups and downs.

And "Ming Dynasty 1566" undoubtedly has such a heavy tone.

For example, Fang Lu, the old eunuch, was banished to Nanking to bid farewell to Feng Bao, the adopted son and little eunuch. He told Feng Bao that if he returned to the palace in the future, other eunuchs would rely on his protection. After that, the father and son bowed to each other in front of the abandoned house.

If we don't feel warm about the history of China, how can we understand this feeling?

For example, after the fall of Yan Song, the national treasury was still empty. Facing the officials who came to ask for salaries, Emperor Jiajing told the little eunuchs around him that his parents died young, and he ascended the throne alone and came to the huge Forbidden City alone, just like today, against the officials.

If we understand the historical contribution to Zhang's political reform in the Wanli period in the future and the historical reasons for Jiajing's struggle with civilian groups in the early years, how can we not feel sorry for such pictures on the screen?

No matter how great a man is, he sometimes shows his feelings. Personal destiny is intertwined with the torrent of the times, and the past and the future are vaguely connected. Micro-life and macro-history are more vivid in repeated contrast. Just like the sentence in The Scholars, "Some people quit their jobs and go back to their hometowns, and some people rush to the examination room at night", this kind of questioning of time is the ultimate theme of China people lamenting history.

Of course, all of the above also make Daming Dynasty 1566 a TV series with a threshold, which puts high demands on the audience's knowledge reserve and cognitive level. If you don't feel anything after watching it again, you might as well watch it again at a suitable time in the future.

As Jiang Wen said, "You can only say that you didn't understand it, but you can't say that you didn't see it." There will be a moment when you will understand why it is "drama".

If you have to find two protagonists for this play, it should be "Jia Jing and Hai Rui" in the title of the play, but they didn't really meet until the last episode. In an interview, the confrontation between the monarch and the minister was replayed on the screen. Huang Zhizhong, the actor of Hai Rui, tearfully asked Chen Guobao, the actor of Jiajing, "Is that okay?"

"Very good." The latter replied.