Chinanews client, Beijing, January 20th (Reporter Ren Siyu) Recently, there was a "earth-flavored drama" that made many viewers want to stop.
"The Love of Mountains and Seas? Does it have anything to do with "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"?" "Like the love drama of the last century that my parents used to chase."
When I first heard the title of this play, some people had such doubts.
As a poverty alleviation theme drama, it does not seem to have any hot search potential, but it is on the hot search, and it has made people who have watched it outright: "I was brainwashed by the Northwest dialect!" "I'm broken for poverty all day long!" "Unexpectedly, one day, I would burst into tears because of the poverty alleviation drama."
Source: Stills of "Mountain and Sea Situation".
Such a "rough
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TV series, long time no see
As soon as "The Love of Mountains and Seas" opens, the "earth" reaches its extreme.
As far as the scenery is concerned, there are only endless yellow land and nests in the mountains; watching the actors, Huang Xuan, Zhang Jiayi, Yan Ni, You Yongzhi, Zu Feng, Reyiza, Hu Ming, Wang Shasha... each one is more ashamed.
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The story starts from the Xihaigu area of Ningxia in the 1990s, which is known as "the barren and barren world" in history, and was named "one of the most unsuitable areas for human survival" by UN experts.
In the village, the three brothers only have a pair of trousers, and whoever has to go out wears them; for a donkey and a water cellar, father can marry his daughter.
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The mountains and seas in "Mountain and Sea" refer to Ningxia and Fujian respectively.
It tells the story that under the guidance of the national poverty alleviation policy and the counterpart assistance of Fujian, the impoverished people in the Xihaigu area of Ningxia have relocated and overcome all difficulties to build the "dry beach" into a "golden beach".
Ma Defu, who had just graduated from an agricultural school, reported that his first task was to persuade him to return to his hometown: seven immigrants from Diaozhuang Village in Yongquan Village had just moved to Yuquan Camp and fled back the next day.
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The so-called Diaozhuang is to mobilize villagers from poor areas deep in the mountains to emigrate to the plains near Yinchuan, and then divide a piece of land for them to develop production and rebuild their homes.
It sounds like the relocation destination Yuquanying is closer to the city, railway, and state-owned farm. Everything is beautiful.
But in fact, there is still a desolate Gobi Desert, with nothing but sandstorms.
The escaping villagers said they would not go again: "There is a wind a year, from spring to winter, strong winds are three or sixty-nine, small winds occur every day", "Improve food for mosquitoes", "I'm so hungry to come back sour Water, the core of my throat is almost vomiting out."
No matter how poor the family is, there are still a few houses to shelter from the wind and rain, but when it comes to that, how many years will it take to have hope?
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As soon as the adults came back, the dolls ran away again.
Because he didn't want to eat potato all over, Ma Defu's younger brother Debao ran away with a few children in the village. There was also the blessed childhood sweetheart Li Shuihua who ran together. His father forced her to marry to Kushui Village for the bride price.
But when people from Kushui Village hit his father's door twice, the escaped water splash came back crying and knelt: "I'm married."
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Both times ran away because of poverty.
Too poor to withstand more toss, too poor to keep young people.
"No matter how poor we are, we can't lose our bones, right." Under the leadership of the old party secretary and the acting village director, the first batch of squatters went to the Gobi Desert and started a new life.
The original dialect version is more exciting
At first glance, the story to be told in "The Love of Mountains and Seas" is very bitter.
But in the play, the life of the villagers is not bitter or bitter, but lively, and there are all kinds of jokes every day.
The cadres went to the village to mobilize poverty alleviation and found that a batch of poverty alleviation guinea fowls had been stolen and there was only one left; his son ran away, and his father shouted in the village: "You come back to me, come back and interrupt your legs"; The meeting is just like a vegetable market...
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Due to the vast territory of the Northwest region, "ten li with different accents", the crew used local dialects such as Ningxia and Xi'an to form the pan-Northwestern dialect in the play.
For TV viewers who do not watch subtitles, the creative team spent another 10 days to prepare the Mandarin version.
But the audience said that watching "Mountain and Sea Love", the dialect version is more exciting.
One side of water and soil nurtures one side, and the yellow land has a simple Northwestern dialect. Whether it is joking or cursing, it seems that there is a soul at once.
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And when Guo Jingfei played Chen Jinshan, a cadre of Fujian aid to Ningxia, when the hot-mouthed Fujian Mandarin and Northwest dialect met, they contributed countless jokes:
"It's not easy for the old professor to run around in the Yellow River basin zi sha (sand control)."
"Suicide? Who committed suicide?"
"Professor! That is his task!"
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Director Kong Sheng once said that at the stage of script creation, they caught an interesting thing back then: Hokkiens did not understand the local dialect after they came, and the locals did not understand Hokkien dialect.
Therefore, the first thing the poverty alleviation workers had to pass was the language barrier.
Poverty alleviation dramas can also make people "on the top"
When mentioning poverty alleviation dramas in the past, everyone always felt that they were too ambitious and far away from the current life.
The producer Hou Hongliang once said that unlike "Dajiang Dahe", which has had nearly ten years of fermentation and polishing, the filming of "Mountain and Sea" can really be described as "time tight and heavy task".
However, this drama in a hurry is not superficial. The stories and characters in the drama have real backgrounds; the villagers in Jintan Village want to grow mushrooms, and the crew built a greenhouse on the shooting site, and they really planted them. mushroom.
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Also because of the down-to-earth interpretation, many audience members became the "spiritual people of Jintan Cong", and they were really worried about the poverty alleviation work every day: "One household can't be powered on, and it's too hungry to see it." I was excited and crying when I was hungry", "Yesterday I was happy for Depot to grow mushrooms, but today I am worried about what if the mushrooms are not selling well"...
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Some netizens said that watching "Mountains and Seas", they really feel the difficulty of helping the poor and making villages.
Diao villagers hugged their babies, drove sheep, and pulled all their belongings to their new homes. They encountered a sandstorm halfway through, and the yellow sand that could not be seen was rolling in. A few tens of seconds would be desperate enough.
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The poverty alleviation cadre, Ma Defu, rode a bicycle around every day. He opened up wasteland for five years. The village finally managed to get 59 households, but one household was still short of electricity. After paying the water station, he took angry villagers to ask for explanation; I heard that growing mushrooms can make money, but everyone can’t afford the two thousand dollars for building a shed...
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But at the same time, it makes people feel a kind of passion. It is not the slogan-like enthusiasm, but the resilience and vitality of people desperately trying to live a good life on the loess land.
Shui Hua married someone at his father's words, but before she could live a good life, her husband became disabled because the water cellar collapsed.
When Ma Defu was unable to turn on electricity due to a lack of power, he only saw someone dragging a cart from the end of Huangshapo...
This unbelieving northwest woman just used a cart to drag her disabled husband and young daughter on the Gobi Desert for seven days and seven nights, and became the 60th household in Jintan Village.
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There are some details in the play that also left a deep impression on the audience:
An unfamiliar foreigner died beside the train tracks. The villagers of Jintan Village paid out their own pockets and slapped a coffin to bury this unknown young man. Nearby villagers also came, and the funeral procession grew longer and longer. The new immigrants and original residents from various villages have come together because of their simple goodwill.
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In the first few episodes of "Mountain and Sea", a word that often appeared was "future".
The villagers said: "The future is good, the future is good, what the future is, the future is not coming yet. When can I come, who will know?" The old branch secretary said: "If you have a head, it is not hard. Bentou is really bitter."
Hearing "Small Jiangnan" and the east-west cooperation policy, Ma Defu's eyes beamed with excitement: "Then the future is really coming!"
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Benefiting from the poverty alleviation cooperation between Fujian and Ningxia, more than 60,000 farmers who once lived in the impoverished mountainous areas of Xihaigu have moved from Dashan to Minning Town, embarking on the road to poverty alleviation and prosperity.
On November 16, 2020, all Xihaigu areas "take off their hats" and bid farewell to absolute poverty in a historic way.
In this land with nothing, the poverty alleviation cadres and villagers rely on the hope for a good life, turning a ditch, and another hurdle to make the impossible future a little bit reality.
Source: Screenshot of "Aerial China" video.
In May last year, Gao Mantang, the script planner of "Mountains and Seas" and a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said that a good theme work must be interesting first and then meaningful, rather than very meaningful and meaningless.
"If the main theme of the TV series is like this, then I am willing to use the TV series to understand how we came to this era." A netizen commented.
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