Get on the bus from the Western Xia King's Mausoleum and go straight to the next scenic spot---- Western Film and TELEVISION City.
Located 35 kilometers from Yinchuan City, the Western Cinema was built on the basis of a primitive castle. Here to maintain and make use of the original strange, majestic, desolate, tragic, dilapidated, decaying and undefeated scene of the ancient castle, highlighting its sense of desolation, loess taste and primitive, folk aesthetic connotations, as far as possible to retain its special aesthetic value, so that film artists in this western scenery center to exert their imagination and creativity.
Western Film and Television City is a joint-stock limited liability company, with the famous writer Zhang Xianliang as the chairman. Because it is located in the western suburbs of Yinchuan, ZhenbeiBao, the original site is the border defense castle of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the two abandoned forts of the ancient Tunbing are the bases, so it is commonly known as "Zhenbei Fort West Cinema". With its simple, primitive, rugged, desolate and folk characteristics, it is the only famous film and television city in western China. The number of films filmed here, the number of stars rising, and the number of international and domestic film and television awards are all in the forefront of film and television cities across China.
I really admire the famous writer Mr. Zhang Xianliang, who has read his novels such as "Half of a Man is a Woman" and "Zhang Blacksmith Norman History", vivid language, fascinating stories, and profound thoughts, which have fascinated me and have always been one of the characters I admire. His life was originally a vivid work.
Born in Nanjing in 1936, he began writing literature as early as the 1950s when he was in middle school, and immigrated to Ningxia from Beijing in 1955, working first as a farmer and then as a teacher. In 1957, he was classified as a "rightist" in the "Anti-Rightist Movement" for publishing a poem "Song of the Great Wind" and escorted to the farm for "labor reform" for 22 years. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee in 1979, he was rehabilitated and restored to his reputation, and after re-writing, he wrote novels, essays, reviews, and film scripts, becoming one of the important contemporary Writers of China.
With his unique vision and advanced thinking, Mr. Zhang Xianliang turned a dilapidated abandoned ancient castle into a Chinese film from here to the world, so that the world can understand the best tourist attractions in Ningxia. Starting from 780,000 yuan, it has developed into a cultural enterprise with billions of tangible assets and a daily scenic income of up to 800,000. This is what the down-and-out student who was polite and was beaten into the right wing did, can you not admire his talent and boldness?
In the Western China Film and Television City, known as the "Hollywood of the East", many film and television dramas including "Red Sorghum", "Journey to the West", "New Dragon Gate Inn", "Against the Cold Water" and many other film and television dramas have been filmed, and it has become a large-scale cultural industry enterprise integrating film and television production, catering and entertainment.
It's not a short drive, about an hour away, first eat at the scenic spot, and then walk towards the scenic gate. Here traffic shuttle, tourists, bought a ticket to enter the scenic spot, from the Ming Dynasty ancient city swimming, through a long corridor, both sides are filmed here film and television stills, the number is indeed quite a lot, through a small bridge, it will enter the Ming City scenic spot, broken, loess, desolate is its main tone, really admire Mr. Zhang's shrewdness, these desolate loess, dilapidated huts and courtyards, horizontal and vertical broken cars, should not be worth a few dollars, but in the film and television value increased sharply, not only suspect film and television money, Also let these things earn so much willingly, admiring the silver of tourists, it is indeed unique!
Coming to the "Horse Herder" filming spot, the low earthen wall house, the corn and pepper hanging on the wall, the earth pit in the house, the old newspaper pasted next to it, it really reminds people of the past years, in fact, the movie is a false truth.
Seeing the scene of the commune canteen, the huge iron pot, the big stove, the big vat, the big steamer, the realistic fake buns, the worn bench and the table, I can't help but evoke the sweet and bitter memories of childhood.
Coming to the shooting scene of the Cultural Revolution, loudspeakers and broadcasts, large posters on the wall, large photos of the criticism of the ruling faction, the stage where the Red Guards fought against the bourgeoisie and propaganda performances, and even the old-fashioned rifles engaged in martial arts were truly displayed in front of their eyes. Thanks to the fact that this era has passed, it is fortunate to have a visit here today.
The sun is hot, we still insist on watching each shooting scene one by one, the spider silk cave of the big talk westward journey, the ancient street of the Three Kingdoms, the inn of the New Dragon Gate Inn, the old street of Yinchuan in the Ming And Qing Dynasty, and simply experienced the activities of filming and television, such as eating fake meat and drinking fake wine in front of the ancient shop, dancing a giant knife in front of the Slaughter dragon gang, dancing a sword in the cow devil cave and so on. I experienced the scenes of film and television shooting, experienced the life of film and television shooting, triggered some enlightenment of life, and can be regarded as a harvest of three or four hours under the scorching sun.
At 4:30, we left the film and television base by car and headed for Yinchuan, which was our accommodation for the day. Car into Yinchuan city, buildings, clean streets, continuous traffic, bustling crowds, a prosperous scene, really worthy of the reputation of "plugged in Jiangnan". After dinner, settling down, thinking that tomorrow I would leave the city, in any case, I should go around the street, leave our figures, and print our footprints here, so I went shopping with my wife.