The first major revolutionary historical theme TV series "Xiangshan Ye Zhenghong", which takes Xiangshan as the incision and gives a bird's eye view of the process of the founding of New China, recently ended successfully on CCTV. Around the successful experience of the drama and the creation of high-quality film and television dramas. The seminar on the works of "Fragrant Mountain Leaves Zhenghong" was recently held in Beijing.
Since the launch of CCTV-1 Prime Time, "Fragrant Mountain Leaves Are Red" has steadily ranked at the top of the popularity list of CCTV,Tencent Video, iQiyi, and Today's Headlines. China's audiovisual big data shows that the show's ratings have ranked first in the country for three consecutive weeks, repeatedly reaching new highs. Hundreds of mainstream media such as People's Daily, Guangming Daily, Guangming Network, Learning to Strengthen the Country, CCTV Set, CCTV News Client, CCTV TV Series and other mainstream media reported the drama, causing strong social repercussions. With innovative historical narratives, vivid characters, touching stories, and a moving "spirit of catching up with the examination", "Xiangshan Ye Zhenghong" is loved by young audiences, and is evaluated by netizens as a "masterpiece of major revolutionary historical themes that is full of ground, deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and sees the general trend of history in details", "Xiangshan Ye Zhenghong" uses 'happening' historical events to make the history in the textbook come alive and narrow the distance between the audience and history. ”
At the seminar, Wang Jiequn, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and director of the Beijing Municipal Film Bureau, highly affirmed the creative intention and artistic value of "Xiangshan Ye Zhenghong". She said that on the occasion of the celebration of the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China this year, and at the time of the successful conclusion of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, she focused on the major revolutionary historical drama "Xiangshan Ye Zhenghong" in the glorious years when the CPC Central Committee was preparing to establish a new China in Xiangshan, which echoed the great historical moment and issued the echo of Huang Zhong Dalu, adding another heavy stroke of color to the implementation of the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the Nineteenth Central Committee of the CPC.
As a key TV series in Beijing to present the centenary of the founding of the party, the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Radio, Film and Television Bureau have paid great attention to and supported "Fragrant Mountain Leaf Zhenghong". Zhang Su, member of the party group and deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Radio and Television Bureau, said: "From the beginning of the project, the Municipal Radio, Film and Television Bureau has included "Xiangshan Ye Zhenghong" in the seed bank of key TV series, and the third batch of key TV series topic selection planning and the list of key TV series in Beijing from 2020 to 2022. From organizing script seminars to providing comprehensive guidance and services during the filming and production review stages, the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Bureau of Radio, Film and Television participated in witnessing the growth of the play. The successful conclusion of "Fragrant Mountain Leaves Zhenghong" has drawn a satisfactory end to the creation and production of Beijing film and television products this year. ”
Looking back on the creative process, the main creative team of "Fragrant Mountain Leaf Zhenghong" has a lot of feelings and has gained a lot of creative experience. Sheng Heyu, screenwriter of "Fragrant Mountain Leaf Zhenghong", admitted that in the creative process, Shouzheng innovation is the artistic pursuit of this drama. "To be upright is to maintain the political, serious, and authoritative nature of major revolutionary historical themes. Innovation is mainly reflected in three aspects: one is to change the summary and retrospective style to make the narrative more real and deeper when it is underway; second, whether it is high in the temple or far away from the rivers and lakes, it is through emotion to express and shape the characters. Feelings can make major themes warm; three major revolutionary historical themes are grand narratives. But the grander the narrative, the more attention should be paid to details, and as many details as possible should be written to make people feel warm and vivid. ”
The director of the play, Battle, bluntly said that the process of filming "Fragrant Mountain Leaves Zhenghong" is a process of revisiting the history of the Communist Party of China, the military history and the history of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The play shows the history of China from March to October 1949, with a distinct pattern and epic, drawing a panoramic blueprint for the founding of the country. "The theme of this drama is very clear, that is, Chairman Mao said 'entering Beijing to catch the examination'. Just as the lyrics of the TV series "A lifetime of questionnaires to catch up with people, all the way to the present" sing, all the content in the play is actually in the examination, showing that the Chinese Communist Party is accepting the people's examination and is working hard to make answers. ”
"'Fragrant Mountain Leaves are Red' has a distinct theme and a major theme, and has fulfilled a historical mission." In the view of Huang Rujun, a researcher at the Central Institute of Party History and Documentation and former director of the Scientific Research And Management Department of the Central Party History Research Office, this drama follows the creative principle of "big things are not vain, small things are not informal", with prominent focus, clear clues, and attention to details, and better handles the relationship between big things and small things, key points and general. "This drama involves many characters, and in the process of showing historical development, more attention is paid to portraying the character of the character, and reflects the historical development context by telling the characters. It can be said that in addition to historical narratives, telling stories and portraying characters will be a direction for the development of major revolutionary historical dramas in the future. ”