The TV series "Xuanwumen", which presents the inheritance of traditional culture in modern times, is launched.

　　China News Service, Beijing, March 5 (Reporter Gao Kai) Directed by Wang Xiaokang, it brings together Ren Zhong, Tong Lei, Zhang Fengyi, Siqin Gaowa, Wang Zijian, Li Yixiao, Li Chengru, Wang Jinsheng, Li Jinrong, Zhao Yi, Yu Bin, etc. The TV series "Xuanwumen" with powerful actors started airing on Beijing Satellite TV, iQiyi, and Tencent Video on the 5th.

The play is based on the Xuanwu Gate and uses the jade carving family Li Tianshun as a clue to guarding the jade national treasure. It shows the changes in Chinese history and the fate of the family and the country in recent years.

The TV series "Xuanwumen" is launched.

Photo courtesy of the film crew

　　The TV series "Xuanwumen" tells the story from the 24th year of Guangxu in 1898 to Japan's unconditional surrender in 1945. It magnificently shows many historical events such as the Reform Movement of 1898, the Eight-Power Allied Forces' invasion of China, warlords' melee, and the Anti-Japanese War.

According to director Wang Xiaokang, the narrative focus of "Xuanwumen" is not on the big figures who shine in the annals of history, but on an ordinary family in Beijing who makes jade, and tells the history of Beijing through the changes in fate of one family. Changes, using the history of resistance and protection of a jade carving national treasure to show the light and craftsmanship of traditional Chinese culture in the ever-changing situation.

The play is an innovative practice of the main melody, using a new historical narrative method to tell the story of the century-old Chinese dream.

　　"The large span of time, showing the fate of the family in China's most important historical nodes, and staring into the depths of history with a realistic perspective, is the highlight and uniqueness of "Xuanwumen"." Wang Xiaokang said, in It unearths small figures in the torrent of history and closely connects personal destiny with the changes of the times, thus telling a legendary epic of "seeing the big from the small".

　　In the TV series "Xuanwumen", jade carving artist Li Yunmian (played by Zhang Fengyi) is ordered to carve the Kunlun jade into a unique jade pomegranate in the world, which is completely natural.

According to legend, this dragon eye jade is implicated in China's national destiny. Whoever becomes the owner of this jade can dominate the country.

In order to protect a jade pomegranate that symbolizes the prosperity of the country, Beijing old street jade carving artist Li Tianshun (played by Ren Zhong), with the help of his neighbors, dealt with many forces, experienced countless hardships, twists and disasters, and even faced the destruction of his family. .

But he never gave in and backed down.

He believes that evil will not prevail against good, and that the day when the country will be prosperous will come sooner or later...

　　From the ingenuity of the craftsmen who carved the national jade to the social cry of the Six Gentlemen of 1898; from the humiliation of the country when the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing and burned the Old Summer Palace to the secrets and legends of the disappearance of the national treasure; from the blood-stained flames of the Anti-Japanese War of Xuanwu in the neighborhood to protect the treasures to the streets of old Beijing In terms of plot, "Xuanwumen" has a lot of highlights and exciting scenes.

　　It is understood that "Xuanwumen" is Wang Xiaokang's first directing historical drama after modern dramas such as "Chinese Family", "Happiness No. 9", "The New Son-in-Law Era", "Spring for My Husband" and "Qian Duoduo Marry".

Wang Xiaokang said that as a main theme work, the script of "Xuanwumen" took three years to create and was created in three stages: establishing cultural inheritance (jade culture, Chinese quintessence of Peking Opera), establishing character portrayal, and establishing key props.

The key prop of "jade pomegranate" means "China's 56 ethnic groups must be closely united like pomegranate seeds."

　　According to reports, in order to reproduce the historical style and cultural customs of Xuanwumen, the director led the crew to build a 1:1 Xuanwumen Old Street.

"Xuanwumen" is the title of the play and a landmark building in Beijing. During the historical changes, its shape has undergone five changes. These changes will be shown in the play and are deeply connected with the turning point of the protagonist's fate.

Since the play shows the history of the Eight-Power Allied Forces' invasion of Beijing for the first time, the combat uniforms of the Eight-Power Allied Forces and the costumes of Cixi and other Qing people in this battle needed to be newly produced.

Wang Xiaokang said, "It took 20 days to try out the clothes, and there were 15,000 sets of newly customized clothes alone."

　　The lively Xuanwu Old Street, the cries of old Beijing, the hawking of bean juice, the quintessence of Beijing opera and other Beijing-style people's livelihood are vividly displayed on the screen... Wang Xiaokang said: "All the customs I saw today, including funerals, weddings, including hawking , including soldiers and governments in various historical periods, all these stories that happened under the Xuanwu Gate are to restore the truest appearance of history. We hope to use our efforts and our understanding of history to tell everyone that the Xuanwu Gate period What is the real history like?" (End)