The TV series "Going to a Windy Place" puts the narrative background in the Windy Courtyard in Yunmiao Village, Dali, Yunnan. It tells the story of Xu Hongdou, the front office manager of a five-star hotel in Beijing, who went to the Windy Courtyard to relieve depression. Xie Zhiyao, his peer, and the simple and sincere rural laborers around him.
The work is like a "breeze" blowing into people's hearts, and it has made great efforts in healing the pastoral psychology.
The creators still describe the pastoral healing process under the horn of rural revitalization, fully consider the difficulties on the road to rural revitalization, and express the truth that "the way to heal the countryside is not to escape, but to open up".
The Yunmiao Village in the play brings idyllic relaxation and joy to people.
The mirror-like Erhai Lake, delicious rural delicacies, beautiful mountains and rivers and simple folk customs left a good impression on the heroine Xu Hongdou.
However, the creator did not idealize rural life, but truthfully exposed its real situation: Xie Zhiyao was forced to return to his hometown to start a business to make up for the lack of exodus of young and middle-aged people in his hometown and the desolation of the countryside, there was a gap between him and his father, and his brother rebelled; After her divorce, Xie Xiaochun took her child back to her hometown alone to work as a homestay manager, but her younger brother was lucky to be ambitious.
Several foreign tenants came here to escape with their own unsatisfactory lives: Internet celebrity anchor Nana was depressed after encountering cyber violence; bar singer Hu Youyu wanted to be an original singer but couldn't find the feeling; Internet writer Damai suffered from writing There is no way to break through the bottleneck; and so on.
This setting tells the audience that in order to obtain the life they yearn for, they must face various problems in life and seek solutions to achieve continuous improvement of living conditions.
From this perspective, on the surface, the central clue of the play is that Xie Zhiyao tried to get Xu Hongdou to stay, but in fact it is whether the rural society can maintain the tranquility of rural life, and at the same time obtain continuous improvement in the quality of life and realize the realization of rural life. A strange dialogue between the pastoral laid-back mood and the entrepreneurial trumpet-like impassioned melody.
The windy courtyard builds a peach blossom garden in the reinforced concrete jungle, and heals the contemporary urban diseases marked by impetuousness, fear, and anxiety with the tranquil, leisurely, and tranquil pastoral.
At the beginning of the play, Xu Hongdou was hit by the sudden death of his best friend and felt depressed.
She has long been accustomed to seeing all kinds of people in the lobby of Beijing hotels. In Yunmiao Village, she felt the simplicity, sincerity, kindness and pragmatism of rural youths such as Xie Zhiyao and Xie Xiaochun, as well as the kindness of elders such as Xie A Nai, A Gui and Aunt Bao Ping. Gentle, kind and tolerant, relieve mood and adjust emotions in simple life, simple interpersonal relationship and warm emotional transmission.
The value of the creation is that it does not stop at the static imagination of the idyllic life, but focuses the narrative on the continuous improvement of rural life with entrepreneurial labor, giving this idyllic life a sustainable future.
This is exactly the narrative function undertaken by the hero Xie Zhiyao.
He had already changed his destiny by going to university, but he resolutely chose to resign from Beijing and return to his hometown to start a business.
Opening online stores, engaging in logistics, and promoting intangible cultural heritage culture not only promote the sales of special products, but also drive local tourism.
Huang Xinxin, the cadre stationed in the village, consults with him on all major matters such as entrepreneurship and development in the village.
It can be said that his return has given the village a new backbone.
The encounter between him and Xu Hongdou provided the latter with a realistic possibility to realize the integration of psychological healing and rural development.
At the same time, the play spares no effort to narrate Xie Zhiyao to explain to the villagers his rational rural development and civilized entrepreneurial ideas, so as to dispel their concerns.
The selection of the Yang family's old house for the brand bookstore was first rejected by the owner, Grandpa Yang, and then hindered by his son, Deqing, who raised the price.
Xie Zhiyao's father, Xie Siping, made a special trip to Yang's grandfather's house to work, which solved the problem of choosing a location for the bookstore, and also solved the problem of high-quality environmental support for Xu Hongdou's planned homestay business.
The psychological healing problems of other characters are also intertwined with the rural entrepreneurship problem. For example, Nana defeated the inner demon with the help of everyone, restarted the live broadcast, and completed a leap in the trough of life; Gathered the courage to be an original singer; Damai had the urge to write again.
These stories tell us that freedom is not a product of empty fantasy, but comes from people's solid pursuit of a free life.
That is to say, in the rapidly changing contemporary life, people will always have various psychological symptoms, and the effective way of psychological healing is not to escape to the fairyland of Taoyuan far away from the hustle and bustle, but to create a new realm of life with a proactive attitude towards life , to enjoy its gift of leisure and tranquility.
In the current era of major changes unseen in a century, people feel strange and confused about the rapidly changing international and domestic situation. Coupled with the many uncertainties in lifestyle, employment status and future prospects under the new crown epidemic, it is inevitable that many emotions will settle in their hearts.
The leisurely tranquility and aggressiveness in the play can produce an empathy effect, allowing the audience to obtain psychological catharsis and comforting satisfaction, as well as fresh and effective motivation to face future life.
This is an important social and psychological reason for the show to produce the current ratings effect.
By a higher standard, though, the show could have improved.
One is that if there is a deeper excavation and a clearer explanation of the spiritual power source of Xu Hongdou and Xie Zhiyao, it will make the two characters more plump and solid, and more credible.
What kind of geocultural influence Xu Hongdou's hometown in Shandong gave her, and what kind of ideological enlightenment Xie Zhiyao received before he voluntarily gave up his high-paying job in a big city, resigned and returned to his hometown to start a business.
The second is that if the branches are appropriately reduced at the end to make the plot more compact, the effect will be better.
But the shortcomings do not conceal the advantages, and the expressiveness of the play has reached expectations.
This play plays the melody of pastoral healing and rural entrepreneurship. It can be called a double variation of pastoral pastoral and entrepreneurial horn, and provides a new path for the current film and television drama creation.
Guangming Daily Author: Wang Yichuan, Professor of Literary Research Center of Beijing Normal University, Vice Chairman of China Literary Critics Association