The main creator of "The Age of Awakening" re-walks the Red Chamber of Peking University In the drama, the drama overlaps for a hundred years of time and space

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Beijing, 28 Jul (Xinhua) -- A few days ago, the Red Building of Peking University, located at No. 29 Wusi Avenue in Beijing, welcomed a special group of visitors -- 16 main creators from the hit drama "The Age of Awakening". At the original site of the Marxist Theory Research Society of Peking University in Hall 31 on the third floor, when "Li Dazhao" and "Chen Duxiu" discuss where China's future and destiny will go, the time and space of a hundred years seem to "overlap" here.

"Very nice, very nice!" Walking through the "newsprint reading room" where Mao Zedong struggled and stepping into the old site of Li Dazhao's office, Ma Shaohua, the actor who played Cai Yuanpei, the president of Peking University, in "The Age of Awakening", constantly sighed. Other actors have also said that they are "too crossed" and "came to the real Peking University Red Chamber, and our memories of "The Age of Awakening" and the Peking University Red Chamber in the play are awakened again." ”

In the "newsprint reading room" where Mao Zedong once struggled, Hou Jingjian, an actor who plays Mao Zedong, and Zhang Tong, an actor who plays Li Dazhao, can't help but start "playing against each other". The two recreate the classic scene in which Mao Zedong and Li Dazhao talk about democratic science and "New Youth" in the play.

This is not the first time that "The Age of Awakening" screenwriter Long Pingping and director Zhang Yongxin have come to the Red Chamber. As early as the beginning of the creation of "The Age of Awakening", the main creative team discussed the creative direction of the play with experts and scholars from the Red Chamber of Peking University in the philosophy classroom on the fourth floor.

In the view of screenwriter Long Pingping, when it comes to the founding of the party, people will always think of the two landmarks of Shanghai Shikumen and the Red Boat in South Lake. The Red Chamber of Peking University is a place that many literary and artistic works ignore. The original intention of the creation of "The Age of Awakening" is to clearly explain the history of the Red Chamber of Peking University.

"'The Age of Awakening' was 'urged' by young people, and I am very happy that our original intention was achieved, and the Peking University Red Chamber finally got its rightful place." Long Pingping said.

Director Zhang Yongxin introduced that the story told in "The Age of Awakening" took place between 1915 and 1921, and three-quarters of the plot of the play was also set in the Red Chamber of Peking University. For the purpose of protecting cultural relics and buildings, the crew rebuilt the Red House of Peking University through a 1:1.2 off-site scenery.

"Today I returned to the Red House of Peking University, where every brick and tile is extremely familiar, and I have a feeling of returning home after a long time. After more than a hundred years, it feels like time has 'folded'. "He sighed that this time to return to the Red Chamber of Peking University is not only a collective visit by the crew, but also a remembrance of looking back at the ancestors a hundred years later." We see these displays, the offices and manuscripts used by these predecessors, and we can feel what the real spirit of the Red Chamber is, and how they can continue to the present, and we see the spirit of a hundred years ago. Party history education has never been so vivid. Zhang Yongxin said.

Liu Guohua, chief producer of "The Age of Awakening," believes that one of the important reasons why this drama has won the love of many young people is that it vividly "reproduces" the history in this textbook to the audience a hundred years later: from the beginning of the new cultural movement, the leadership of "New Youth" magazine, the development of the May Fourth patriotic movement in Beijing, the formation of Li Dazhao's Marxist concept, the young Mao Zedong established Marxist beliefs in Beijing, and talked about the "Southern Chen and Northern Li" meeting to establish the party.

The narrative sequence of the play coincides with the context of the "Theme Exhibition of the Red Chamber of Peking University and the Early Revolutionary Activities of the Communist Party of China" being exhibited in the Red Chamber of Peking University.

Xia Dejun, an actor who plays Zhou Enlai in the play, said that when he saw the original historical documents that were preserved in the exhibition hall, especially the first edition of the "Communist Manifesto", it was like reading a living history textbook, "When I came to the Red Chamber of Peking University, I realized that it was precisely because of the efforts of a group of idealistic and faith-believing sages who had gathered here that we had today's happy life."

The influence of literary and artistic works is huge, and after the broadcast of "The Age of Awakening", the Red Chamber of Peking University has become a "net red punch card". Chen Zhilin, deputy director of the Party History Research Office of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and the Beijing Municipal Local History Office, introduced that the historical status of the Red Chamber of Peking University has received universal attention from people today, and it shows that Beijing, as the center of the new cultural movement, the birthplace of the May Fourth Movement, the main front for the early spread of Marxism in China, one of the main breeding places of the Communist Party of China, and the unique status, unique contribution, and unique value in the history of the founding of the Communist Party of China.

Yang Jiayi, executive deputy director of the Early Beijing Revolutionary Activities Memorial Hall of the Communist Party of China, introduced that the Red House of Peking University is also the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, the museum has been repaired by cultural relics, since june 29, since its opening on June 29, mainly for group appointment visits, as of now a total of 608 batches of various organs, enterprises and institutions, troops, schools, communities and other groups, a total of nearly 30,000 people. "The Red Chamber of Peking University will open an appointment for individuals on August 1, and more audiences will be welcomed to enter the Red Chamber of Peking University to strengthen the study of party history and feel the revolutionary spirit." Yang Jiayi said.

"The hearts of creators and audiences are connected, and this intersection is that through this history, we will remember where we 'came from', we will remember the revolutionary martyrs, and their spirit will guide us and future generations." Zhang Yongxin said.