The TV series "Daming Dynasty 1566" is a TV series starring Chen Baoguo and Huang Zhizhong that reflects some events during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. After watching a few episodes, I was deeply amazed by this classic drama with great depth, thickness, and at the same time a particularly wonderful artistic image. Personally, I think that the drama can be compared with the CCTV version of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Kangxi Dynasty", "Han Wu Emperor" and other historical dramas, and should be able to rank in the top 10 of the best TV series.
The play is very deep and reflects a profound historical reality. Although the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was said to be an extremely intelligent emperor with first-class intelligence and imperial power skills, due to his long-term indulgence in cultivation and alchemy, the large expenditure on the use of money in the palace, coupled with the salaries of border guards, the corruption of officials, etc., the financial deficit problem of the Ming Dynasty became a troublesome matter that had to be solved and was difficult to solve.
This reality is reflected in the series, around filling the financial deficit, whether it is Yan Song, Yan Shifan's father and son, or Gao Gong, Xu Jie, zhang Juzheng, there are struggles and attacks between them, but it is obvious that they are all consistent in solving this problem, and there is no way to avoid it. The problem they face is that it seems that whether it is in the past, now or in the past, it is a very real problem, it is good to do things when there is money, and it is difficult to do things when there is no money.
Moreover, there is thickness, reflecting the complex social and human relations. The play reflects the intricate, intertwined, and bottomless relationships between the emperor and the ministers and princes, between the ministers, between the officials and the merchants and peasants in the Ming Dynasty officialdom. It reflects the choices made by the emperor and ministers, the bureaucrats at all levels, and the ordinary merchants and people in the face of the crisis. Some of these choices are normal reactions, but more often out of the protection of their own vital interests, the interests of the group class they represent, and they have to make seemingly the best and somewhat helpless choices.
For example, in the play, Hai Rui, as a Qing official, his way of doing things is to act in accordance with the law and be selfless, and his righteousness makes the Jiajing Emperor both angry and helpless, and can only put him in a big prison cell, but does not dare to kill him easily. Others, such as Hu Zongxian as Yan Song's student, Shen Yishi as a businessman, and Zhao Zhenji as the inspector of Jiangsu, all seemed forward-looking and cautious in their work, striving to achieve the goal of saving themselves without making things worse. It shows their shrewdness and helplessness as well-versed official and eunuch figures.
In addition, in terms of artistic image, the play has created a lot of flesh-and-blood artistic images with distinct personalities. In the play, whether it is Chen Baoguo, who plays the Jiajing Emperor, Huang Zhizhong, who plays Hai Rui, Ni Dahong, who plays Yan Song, or even some other small roles that are not famous, such as Li Shizhen and The County Clerk of Chun'an County.
Their performances are quite in place, quite wonderful, every move, every word and deed matches their status, coincides with their status, people are amazing, and it is difficult to forget after watching it again.