Historical Drama: Connecting History to Reality
In 2021, the creation of party history-themed TV dramas represented by "The Age of Awakening" has set off a wave of climax, which deeply depicts the magnificent and colorful historical picture of the party's founding century; and this year, starting from the historical drama "Mountains, Rivers and Moonlight", a group of well-made Historical dramas will bring a new light to the TV screen.
Recently, "Mountains, Rivers and Moonlight", which tells the history of the Ming Dynasty based on the growth of Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, is on the air; "The Long River in the World", which tells the story of the famous Qing Dynasty officials Chen Huang and Jin Fu partnering to manage the Yellow River, writes about Emperor Wu of Han, Han Guang A number of historical dramas such as "Fu of the Great Han", a story of the two generations of emperors of Emperor Wu, will also meet the audience soon.
Carving details to enhance artistic appeal
Historical dramas have always been a popular literary style among audiences. Over the years, they have accumulated a number of excellent drama series such as "Da Ming Dynasty 1566", "The Granary of the World", "Zhenguan Long Song" and "Han Wu Emperor".
With exquisite artistic depiction and vivid historical stories, these works promote excellent traditional culture, observe social reality, and nourish the audience's artistic aesthetics.
"Mountains, Rivers and Moonlight" not only reproduces the political situation and the magnificent wars of gold and iron horses, but also devotes the pen and ink to the delicate and warm family narration, creating a new face of narration in the torrent of history.
The play is full of life-like scenes such as Queen Ma's pancakes and shoe soles, the witty daily dialogues between the father and son of the Zhu family, and the ruler and ministers, as well as interesting dramas such as Zhu Yuanzhang who "protects the calf" and Xu Da who "controls the daughter". Historical figures, such content full of historical details and artistic emotional expression, make the ancient and magnificent Ming history more real and palpable.
The TV series "Age of Awakening" also has rich historical imagination. When telling the story of Chen Duxiu's father and son's running for the people and devoting themselves to the revolution, it also depicts interesting stories such as Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian playing tricks on Chen Duxiu, sharing vegetable buns and meat buns, etc. Let the audience see the greatness of Chen Duxiu's father's love, the youthful vigor of the Chen brothers, and the warmth of the flesh-and-blood family outside the revolutionary history, thus bringing a strong emotional impact and spirit to the audience when they flash back to the fate of the heroic sacrifice of Chen Yannian and Chen Qiaonian. Infect.
It is the warm historical details in the play that make the audience deeply remember and love this pair of revolutionary hero brothers.
After the broadcast of "Age of Awakening", many viewers spontaneously went to "Yan Qiao Road" to mourn Chen Yannian and Chen Qiao Nian.
"It is necessary to break down barriers, embrace all rivers, develop rich historical imagination, and enhance artistic appeal." Zhu Yonglei, deputy director of the State Administration of Radio and Television, once put forward at the "Symposium on the Creation of Historical TV Dramas", "'The big things are true and the small things are not limited' is the big thing. On this basis, the creator should fully develop the artistic imagination in line with the historical logic, historical spirit and historical atmosphere in the historical space, and find the artistic balance between the real and the fictional in the historical story. It is also necessary to write poetry, not only to be realistic, but also to write the artistic conception and meaning.”
Reproduce the aesthetic style of China
The screen was once full of historical TV dramas with suspended plots, rough aesthetics, and redundant stacking. After some policy corrections and market precipitation, more and more historical themed works began to pursue "dramatic style", in addition to scrutinizing the plot. , began to focus on the exquisite restoration of historical scenes and the refined presentation of clothing and utensils.
In the restoration of historical details, "Mountains, Rivers and Moonlight" refers to a large number of historical materials, showing the distinctive characteristics of the Ming Dynasty and the beauty of strong history and culture.
Whether it's Zhaiyi's battle armor or crown headdress, the characters in the play are all well-documented. At the same time, the use of a large number of low-saturation traditional Chinese colors makes the picture full of elegant beauty and heavy texture.
Countless splendid cultures and aesthetic styles have been born in the long history of the Chinese nation, which is an inexhaustible treasure trove of inspiration for historical dramas.
The historical drama "Han Wu the Great" reproduces the grand and gorgeous halls of the Han Dynasty, the heavy and dignified court dresses, and the majestic Qin and Han styles are refreshing; "Chang'an Twelve Hours" highly restores the costumes and prosperous streets of the Tang Dynasty. It allows the audience to peek at the scene and grace of the prosperous Tang Dynasty 1300 years ago. From the small makeup of women with wine dizziness makeup and peach blossom makeup, to the 108th Square of Chang'an City, they have been meticulously studied and restored.
Zhou Kui, an associate professor at Communication University of China, said: "For a period of time, historical TV dramas will focus on artistically reproducing history on the basis of correctly expressing history, and constantly improving the level of artistic production and artistic aesthetics of the drama."
Constructing the national spirit in observing reality
Historical TV dramas are based on looking back at history today, writing the history of the past with the pen of today, and taking care of the facts of today with historical events.
Looking back at the past masterpieces of historical themes, all of them contain reflections on social reality.
Not long ago, the historical drama "The World's Long River", which was "finished", took the Yellow River governance project during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty as a clue, told the spirit of Chinese craftsmen "the world is for the public", and presented the historical view of "the people are the creators of history".
Zhang Ting, chief director and screenwriter of "The World's Long River", said: "I hope that by telling a story of selfless dedication and protecting the country and the country, this magnificent epic of Yellow River governance can be reproduced, and the audience can feel the Chinese nation's unremitting character and perseverance. "
"Knowing the past and learning from the present, and using history to be wise, is an important part of China's excellent traditional culture, and it also provides the purpose for the creation of current historical dramas. To create fine works of art in such themes, it is especially necessary to find the relationship between history and reality. Only by means of dialogue and adhering to the people-centered creative concept can we better observe reality in the historical context and build the spiritual home of the Chinese nation.” said Liang Junjian, associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University.
(Newspaper reporter Niu Mengdi)